Junk Food Dinner

Junk Food Dinner is back... for the 700th time! That's right, this month JFD celebrates it's milestone 700th episode! And what better way to commemorate 700 episodes than with three movies from the 1970's? Alright, two movies from the 70's and one move from the early 80's but feels decidedly 70's.  Up first, Francis Ford Coppola directs Gene Hackman as a surveillance specialist who gets caught up in the intrigue of the couple he's spying on in 1974's The Conversation , with appearances from Harrison Ford , Frederic Forrest ,  Cindy Williams and Teri Garr . Next, a decorated WWII solider comes home to his struggling family farm, but soon gets entangled in a revenge plot at the behest of a wealthy gambler in The Farmer from 1977.  And finally, a colorful cast of celebrities, including Burt Reynolds , Dom DeLuise , Farrah Fawcett , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis Jr. , Adrienne Barbeau and Jackie Chan (among many others) compete in a cross-country road ra...