Dennis Quaid will portray a guard in...

Dennis Quaid will portray a guard in a native internment camp who falls in love with a Japanese woman in Tri-Star’s “Come See the Paradise.” Alan Parker wrote the original 1940s-set story and directs in Northern California next month. Robert Colesberry produces. . . Amy Irving portrays a journalist who discovers that the death of two Puerto Rican student activists was no accident in Golden Harvest’s “A Show of Force,” filming on location in June. Based on a true incident and adapted from the Anne Nelson book “Murder Under Two Flags,” it stars Robert Duvall as Irving’s boss, Alfre Woodard as a civil rights activist, and Lou Diamond Phillips, Erik Estrada and Andy Garcia as various officials. Brazilian director Bruno Baretto (“Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands”) makes his English directing debut for producer John Strong who co-wrote the screenplay with Evan Jones. . . .

Barbra Streisand will, in addition to directing the screen version of Pat Conroy’s “Prince of Tides,” play the role of Dr. Lowenstein, a New York psychiatrist. Andy Karsch produces the saga of Tom Wingo, a high school teacher, and his South Carolinian family. Lowenstein, Tom’s sister’s doctor, becomes adversary and lover to him. Production is slated for late summer through MGM. . . .

Daryl Hannah stars opposite John Malkovich in Paramount’s “Crazy People,” filming in Virginia in May. Mitch Markowitz (“Good Morning Vietnam”) wrote and makes his directing debut in the comedy about an ad executive who finds success--by telling the truth! Sydney Pollack, Tom Barad and Robert Weiss produce. . . .

Nicolas Cage portrays an Italian soldier separated from his column during the 1937 Ethiopian campaign in producer Luciano Martino’s “A Time to Kill.” Giuliano Montaldo directs the period drama filming in Kenya and Spain. Also in the cast are Giancarlo Giannini and Ricky Tognazzi. . . .

Harry Dean Stanton portrays a U.S. General embroiled in a smoldering international incident when commander Roy Scheider heats up a normally quiet border crossing patrolled by Soviet officer Jurgen Prochnow in Kodiak’s “The Fourth War.” John Frankenheimer directs in Calgary

Roger Corman produces a new version of “The Masque of the Red Death,” an Edgar Allan Poe story which he directed back in 1964. The new version, directed by Larry Brand and written by Darryl Haney, centers on satanism, the plague and obsessive love in 12th Century Italy. Patrick Macnee headlines with Adrian Paul, Claire Hoak and Tracy Reiner, Rob’s daughter. . . . Portuguese actor Joaquim De Almeida portrays “Sandino,” the Nicaraguan revolutionary general who led an uprising against American forces in the 1920s. The international production, to film next month, features Kris Kristofferson as a sympathetic American journalist and M. Emmet Walsh and Rita Taggart as the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua and his wife. Chilean film maker Miguel Littin wrote, produces and directs. . . .

Matt Adler plays a competition diver in Creative Edge’s “Diving In.” The “Rocky”-like saga of competition gets under way next month under the direction of Strath Hamilton. Jeff Newman produces and Eric Edson wrote the screenplay. . . .