Alan AutryFilmography

In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Carl Weathers, Corbin Bernsen, John Calvin, Alan Autry

Synopsis: It's election time in Gillespie's hometown and once again he is running for sheriff. This time however, he's got competition and his rival isn't interested in playing fair. This feature-length episode of the long-running police series follows Gillespie as he solves the murder of one of his Read More

Intruders

Actors: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Daphne Ashbrook, Susan Blakely, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Hypnotic regression prompts a pair of sisters to recognize that they've been abducted by aliens. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

Synopsis: The superb, utterly convincing special effects in the two-part TV movie The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake cannot be faulted. Less convincing are the scenes in which the fictional TV reporters, demoralized and in tears, can't bring themselves to describe the extent of the destruction. Read More

World Gone Wild

Actors: Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Stewart, Adam Ant, Anthony James

Synopsis: In this post-apocalyptic film, a lack of rain has made water the most valuable thing in existence, and when an evil gang led by Derek Abernathy (Adam Ant) threatens to take over the spring-fed community of Lost Wells, the peaceful residents must find the means to protect themselves and their Read More

Street of Dreams

Synopsis: In this detective yarn, an amiable investigator finds himself entangled with mobsters after he tries to help a woman who is apparently having a run of bad luck. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous Company

Actors: Ray Johnson

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story and made for the video stores, Dangerous Company concerns convicted criminal Ray Johnson, who spent almost 30 years in prison before rehabilitating himself. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

O.C. and Stiggs

Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Jon Cryer, Ray Walston

Synopsis: In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry Read More

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English, Gregory Peck, William L. Petersen, Joshua Zuehlke

Synopsis: When young Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke) visits a nuclear missile site, he learns that one bomb would destroy the earth in less time than it would take a piece of silverware to drop from his hand to the floor. This information sends the sensitive boy into existential angst. Wondering why anybody Read More

Proud Men

Synopsis: Set in modern times, this western drama chronicles the reconciliation between a draft-dodging son and his ultra-conservative rancher father after the son realizes that his father is going to die soon. The film originally aired on cable television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Destination: America

Actors: Corinne Bohrer, Bruce Greenwood, Rip Torn

Synopsis: First telecast April 3, 1987,Destination: America is a "search for oneself" opus, spiced up with a bit of mystery and intrigue. Bruce Greenwood plays the disenfranchised son of billionaire Rip Torn. Unable to see eye to eye with his father, Greenwood takes to the road, hoping to find some purpose Read More

At Close Range

Actors: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins

Synopsis: Amazingly, At Close Range was based on a true story. Bored teenager Sean Penn meets his prodigal father (Christopher Walken) for the first time in years. Though Penn is vaguely aware that his father is a criminal, he is nonetheless impressed by his dad's high life style and creature comforts. But Walken Read More

Nomads

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Adam Ant, Hector Mercado

Synopsis: Nomads is a scary, supernatural horror movie without blood and guts and gore or bouts of eroticism. Pierce Brosnan is Pommier, an anthropologist who has spent years researching the nomads in some of the coldest and hottest parts of the globe. Apparently, his research went too far, because now he Read More

House

Actors: William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, Mary Stavin

Synopsis: A mild box-office hit for New World Pictures, this lightweight attempt at horror parody from Friday the 13th producer Sean S. Cunningham stars former Greatest American Hero William Katt as a best-selling pop-horror novelist (a la Stephen King) who suffers an insurmountable case of writer's block Read More

Blue De Ville

Actors: Mark Thomas Miller, Jennifer Runyon

Synopsis: Blue DeVille stars Jennifer Runyon as J.C. Swift, who never takes no for an answer. In search of her long-lost father, J.C. talks her yuppie chum Gus Valentine (Kimberly Pistone) into accompanying her on a Dos Passos-like journey across the continent. Their mode of transportation is a classic 1959 Read More

The A-Team: Quarterback Sneak

Synopsis: Now forced to follow the orders of General Stockwell (Robert Vaughn) if they hope to receive pardons, the A-Team is dispatched behind the Iron Curtain to rescue defecting chemical-warfare scientist Dr. Strasser (Bo Brudin). To cover their tracks, the Team organizes a football game in East Germany Read More

Brewster's Millions

Actors: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: The seventh cinema adaptation of the venerable stage farce Brewster's Millions stars Richard Pryor as Montgomery Brewster, a third-rate baseball player. Much to his amazement, Brewster discovers that he is related to deceased millionaire Rupert Horn (Hume Cronyn, who appears only in a videotaped Read More

Hunter: High Bleacher Man

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) has finally nabbed the sociopathic bandit he's been chasing after for weeks. So imagine the detective's dismay and disgust when he is forced to provide police protection for his prisoner, who has offered to turn states' evidence against a mob kingpin in exchange for immunity. Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke

Synopsis: Luke Duke (Tom Wopat) unknowingly drinks pond water that has been contaminated by a genetic-drug spill. As a result, Luke undergoes a total change in personality: He's unbelievably nasty to friends and family alike--and even worse, he becomes a "rat" with women. But the limit is reached when Bad Read More

Roadhouse 66

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold, Kaaren Lee, Kate Vernon, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: In this routine story for a teen audience, Beckman (Judge Reinhold) is a buttoned-down, upwardly-mobile type suddenly stranded in a small Arizona town when his car damaged by local youths. It is Labor Day weekend when Beckman and Johnny (Willem Dafoe), the streetwise hitchhiker who has with him Read More

The A-Team: Labor Pains

Synopsis: This time the A-Team takes up the cause of migrant workers who are being treated as slaves--and cheated out of their meager salaries in the bargain--by evil landowner Ted Jarrett (played by prison-movie perennial John Vernon). Once on the scene, the Team sets about to organize the beleagured Read More

Cheers: The Boys in the Bar

Synopsis: One of Sam's old teammates comes out of the closet during a TV interview. As a result, the gang at Cheers begins worrying that their favorite watering hole will soon be transformed into a gay bar. This somewhat skewered perception, fed by little "clues" here and there, is complicated by the fact Read More

Southern Comfort

Actors: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter

Synopsis: A handful of part time soldiers unwittingly turn a field exercise into a miniature war in this offbeat action drama from writer and director Walter Hill. A group of National Guard reservists are sent to Louisiana on a chilly weekend for war games exercises. None of these weekend warriors seem Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: 10 Million Dollar Sheriff, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally intended to air as Dukes of Hazzard's two-hour Season Four opener, but moved to a later airdate), Sheriff Roscoe (James Best) is still basking in the news that he has inherited $10,000,000. Sweetening the pot is the fact that, thanks to a rigged Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: 10 Million Dollar Sheriff, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally intended to air as Dukes of Hazzard's two-hour Season Four opener, but moved to a later airdate), Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best) is informed that he has inherited $10,000,000. Wasting no time, Roscoe goes on a lavish spending spree Read More

Popeye

Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in Read More

North Dallas Forty

Actors: Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced Sunday worship as the religion of choice, North Dallas Forty appears like a desecration at the altar. In this film, directed by Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), the National Football League is revealed to be more Read More

Remember My Name

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman. Anthony Perkins stars as Neil Curry, a construction worker living happily in suburbia with his wife Barbara (Berry Berenson) until their home becomes vandalized during the Read More