Albert Salmi Filmography

Mission: Impossible: The Fuhrer's Children

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: In another variation of a familiar Mission: Impossible theme, the IMF is assigned to prevent a neo-Nazi uprising. Making the task all the more difficult is the fact that several white-supremacist groups have melded into an international coalition. Posing as a pro-Nazi computer genius, Phelps Read More

Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid

Actors: Val Kilmer, Duncan Regehr

Synopsis: Gore Vidal's 1955 TV play and 1958 film The Left-Handed Gun discreetly explored the hitherto untapped homosexual subtext in the saga of gunslinger Billy the Kid. Vidal's 1989 reworking of the same material, the made-for-cable Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid, is just as discreet, but no less top-heavy Read More

Till We Meet Again

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Lucy Gutteridge, Mia Sara

Synopsis: Originally titled Judith Krantz' Till We Meet Again, this two-part soaper covers forty-three years in the lives of three women. In 1913, French chanteuse Lucy Gutteridge embarks upon a successful showbiz career. She marries a champaigne heir and bears two daughters, played by Courtney Cox and Mia Read More

Jesse

Actors: Lee Remick, Scott Wilson, Kevin Conway, Leon Rippy, Priscilla Lopez

Synopsis: This fact-based TV movie is an account of a small-town nurse who is arrested for caring for her desert neighbors without a medical license. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Born American

Actors: Mike Norris, Steve Durham, David Coburn, Thalmus Rasulala, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: In an anti-Russian film that is a hangover from Cold War polemics, three young Americans knowingly cross the Finno-Russian border while on a hunting trip and land in a grim Soviet prison. While U.S. diplomats work on the Americans' release, prisoners are dying in a macabre game of chess in which Read More

Dress Gray

Synopsis: A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film revolves around an upper classman who is falsely accused of responsibility for the death of a student when he begins to investigate the mysterious demise of the young gay cadet. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Takes the Bus

Synopsis: In one of the series' best episodes, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Sheriff Tupper (Tom Bosley) are taking a bus trip from Cabot Cove to Portland, Maine, when the vehicle makes a stopover at a roadside inn. Before long, one of the other passengers--a bank robber recently released from prison--turns Read More

Superstition

Actors: Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin, Larry Pennell, Maylo McCaslin

Synopsis: Flamboyant, giallo-style gore effects are the only highlight of this otherwise pedestrian supernatural horror film, which was originally filmed in 1981 as The Witch and shelved for four years, before it experienced a mild midnight-movie revival in the wake of The Evil Dead's success. The ghastly Read More

Fatal Vision

Actors: Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Gary Cole, Barry Newman, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Convicted murderer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald had hoped that, by telling his side of the story to investigative journalist Joe McGinniss, the authorities would be persuaded of MacDonald's innocence. Instead, McGinniss ended up unswerving in his belief of MacDonald's guilt, and the result was the Read More

Hard to Hold

Actors: Rick Springfield, Janet Eilber, Patti Hansen, Albert Salmi, Gregory Itzin

Synopsis: In Hard to Hold, pop singer Rick Springfield is cast as an immensely successful recording artist named James Roberts. As a result of a fender-bender accident, Roberts meets and falls in love with child psychologist Diana Lawson (Janet Eilber), who is not the least bit impressed with James' wealth Read More

Best Kept Secrets

Actors: Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: Patty Duke Astin plays the wife of police officer Frederic Forrest, who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance Read More

The A-Team: Diamonds 'N Dust

Synopsis: Season Two of A-Team begins with a nailbiting episode that owes more than a little to the French film classic The Wages of Fear. Though still officially outlaws and fugitives, the A-Team manages to avoid the American military authorities and make its way to Zulabwe, Africa, there to help Toby Read More

The Guns and the Fury

Actors: Peter Graves, Cameron Mitchell, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: In this period adventure, Cameron Mitchell and Peter Graves star as a pair of Americans seeking their fortune overseas at the dawn of the 20th century. When they discover valuable oil reserves in Persia, they attempt to claim them for themselves, but their plan is not received enthusiastically by Read More

Guns & Fury

Synopsis: An Arab sheik and his tribe wage war on 2 American oil riggers in the Middle East in this action adventure film set in 1908. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Love Child

Actors: Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, Mackenzie Phillips, Albert Salmi, Joanna Merlin

Synopsis: Based upon the true story of a woman's battle to raise her baby in prison after having become pregnant by a prison guard while serving a twenty-year stretch for robbery, Amy Madigan, in her debut film, delivers an impressive intensity and range as Terry Jean Moore, a wild young woman with a chip Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Synopsis: In this drama, an attorney tries to prove that his incarcerated client is indeed innocent of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

St. Helens

Actors: Art Carney, David Huffman, Cassie Yates, Ron O'Neal, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Ernest Pintoff--jazz trumpeter, painter, animated cartoonist, film theorist--directed his first dramatic feature, Harvey Middleman, Fireman, in 1965. Since that time, Pintoff has refused to be stylistically pigeonholed, turning out everything from comedy concerts (Dynamite Chicken) to spoofish T&A Read More

Dragonslayer

Actors: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre

Synopsis: A special-effects laden medieval fantasy adventure, Dragonslayer centers on the attempts of a young sorcerer's apprentice to defeat a vicious dragon and save a lovely young maiden. Peter MacNicol stars as the young Galen, an aspiring magician under the tutelage of the aging Ulrich (Ralph Richardson Read More

Burned at the Stake

Synopsis: Susan Swift plays the dual role of Loreen and Ann in The Coming (aka Burned at the Stake). The story takes place in modern-day Salem, Massachusetts. Demons who've been seeking revenge since the witch trials of 1692 have reemerged in the quiet New England community. The ghost of a sorceress Read More

Steel

Actors: Lee Majors, Jennifer O'Neill, Art Carney, George Kennedy, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: This action drama based around a construction site was a star vehicle for television actor Lee Majors between his two series gigs on The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-78) and The Fall Guy (1981-86). Majors stars as Mike Catton, a former well-regarded construction site foreman who became afraid of Read More

Cuba Crossing

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Raymond St. Jacques, Caren Kaye, Woody Strode

Synopsis: Assignment: Kill Castro was originally released as Cuba Crossing. Stuart Whitman stars as a mercenary hired to "off" the Cuban dictator. He soon discovers that he will be immediately expendable once the deed is done, and that co-stars like Robert Vaughn should not automatically be trusted. Raymond St. Jacques Read More

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

Synopsis: Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger was written by Blanche Hanalis, a specialist in turning out quality teleplays with a feminist slant. Bonnie Franklin stars as pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, who in the early part of the 20th century conducted a 25-year battle to Read More

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway

Actors: David Kyle

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Great Cash Giveaway Getaway offers a great deal of screen time to a brace of unknowns. David Kyle and Elissa Leeds play teenagers Jim and Hallie, who find themselves in possession of $250,000. The money belongs to drug kingpin Hightower (George Hamilton), who intends to reclaim the Read More

Cloud Dancer

Actors: David Carradine, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Bottoms, Colleen Camp, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: This is a routine story about Bradley (David Carradine), a stunt flyer who loves flying more than anything else, as apparently does the director, Barry Brown. Bradley is devoted to his brother who suffers from Downs syndrome and he helps a new flyer to ditch a potentially disastrous flirtation Read More

Brubaker

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

Caddyshack

Actors: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Michael O'Keefe, Ted Knight

Synopsis: The smash success Caddyshack became a prototype for countless other wacky T&A-tinged teen comedies of the early 1980s. At an exclusive country club for WASPish snobs, an ambitious young caddy (Michael O'Keefe) from an overpopulated home eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending Read More

Joseph and His Brothers

Synopsis: This episode of the series Greatest Heroes of the Bible recounts the Old Testament story of Joseph, who ascended from slavery to become the pharaoh's minister. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Love and Bullets

Actors: Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Bradford Dillman, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson is out for revenge (and doesn't that sound familiar) in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves in to protect Read More

The Sweet Creek County War

Actors: Richard Egan, Albert Salmi, Nita Talbot, Slim Pickens, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors from a corrupt Wyoming land grabber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Joseph in Egypt

Synopsis: The Old Testament comes alive in this dramatic retelling of Biblical history. The story of Joseph begins with the young man being sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. But Joseph's wisdom soon wins him a place of honor within the Pharaoh's palace. When he meets his family again, Joseph must Read More

Empire of the Ants

Actors: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott

Synopsis: In the '50s, Bert I. Gordon made a career out of sci-fi movies about gigantic mutated insects (Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Spider), lizards (King Dinosaur, Serpent Island), and even people (The Amazing Colossal Man), and in 1977, he was still up to his old tricks with this picture, loosely Read More

79 Park Avenue

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

Viva Knievel!

Actors: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Marjoe Gortner, Lauren Hutton, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Gordon M. Douglas' kitsch masterpiece starts as Evel Knievel (as himself) sneaks into an orphanage at midnight to distribute Evel Knievel action figures. Miraculously, one little boy casts aside his crutches and begins to walk. The plot kicks in as Evel, heading to a performance in Mexico, finds Read More

Moonshine County Express

Actors: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward, Claudia Jennings

Synopsis: Banking on his renewed "leading man" status vis-a-vis Enter the Dragon, John Saxon plays J. B. Johnson in Moonshine County Express. The villain is racketeer Starkey (William Conrad), who has bumped off likeable moonshiner Pap Hammer (Fred Foresman). Now Starkey must do away with Hammer's toothsome Read More

Black Oak Conspiracy

Actors: Jesse Vint, Karen Carlson, Albert Salmi, Seymour Cassel, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: In this Roger Corman production, co-producer Jesse Vint stars as Jingo Johnson, a stuntman who goes to work for a backwater mining company. Jingo unearths a hotbed of corruption, partially orchestrated by redneck sheriff, Grimes (Albert Salmi). The hero and heroine (Karen Carlson) are forced into Read More

Night Games

Synopsis: This suspense film is about a lawyer who defends a high-society woman charged with killing her husband. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

Actors: Michael Ivan Cristofer

Synopsis: In this drama, a Vietnam vet, living in the psycho ward of a V.A. hospital, has difficulty coping with the crazy world he returned home to. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Legend of Earl Durand

The Take

Actors: Frankie Avalon

Synopsis: In this action adventure, the trouble begins when a police lieutenant begins accepting bribes while simultaneously trying to impress his superiors by breaking up a big gang. Keep a sharp eye out for Frankie Avalon playing a sneaky crook. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Place without Parents

Female Artillery

Actors: Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: The made for TV Female Artillery is a comedy, just in case the title didn't tip you off. Set in the Old West, the film stars Dennis Weaver as Deke Chambers, an outlaw on the lam from his old gang. Joining a wagon train, Deke aligns himself with a group of tough, well-armed pioneer women. When the Read More

Ironside: Ollinger's Last Case

Synopsis: After receiving a strange, plaintive phone call from his old friend and colleague Ted Ollinger, Ironside (Raymond Burr) sends his assistant Ed Brown (Don Galloway) to the small town of Grant Bay to investigate. Upon arrival, Ed finds that Ollinger has disappeared, and that most of the local Read More

Ironside: The Double-Edged Corner

Synopsis: The wife and daughter of travelling salesman Baxter Flynn (Alllen Garfield) are unaware that he is carrying on a secret life as a compulsive gambler--and paid mob informant. When Flynn witnesses a double murder, Ironside (Raymond Burr) is determined to force the man to give testimony against the Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The House on Hyde Street

Synopsis: A forbidding old mansion in a residential San Francisco neighborhood is the centerpiece of this grim story. When a young boy disappears, and is subsequently found dead, the neighbors suspect the mysterious recluse residing within the walls of the mansion. It is up to Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller Read More

The F.B.I.: Canyon of No Return

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) dispatches his operatives to the Oregon wilderness, where a gang of jewel thieves have converged after pulling off their latest heist. Seeking an escape route, the thieves make a desperate effort to navigate the treacherous Rogue River rapids--and if this Read More

Bonanza: Search in Limbo

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Albert Salmi, Pamela Payton-Wright

Synopsis: Having suffered a blow to the head, Ben Cartwright awakens to discover that he has lost track of a whole day. During that period, Ben's longtime enemy Sid Langley (Lawrence Montaigne) was murdered. The local sheriff (Albert Salmi) arrests Ben-who doesn't know if he is guilty or not! Others in the Read More

Bonanza: Ambush at Rio Lobo

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Sian Barbara Allen, James Olson

Synopsis: Sian Barbara Allen guest-stars as the tenacious-and very pregnant-Teresa Burnside. Despite the imminent birth of her child, Teresa defiantly stands up to a gang of outlaws, who plan to use her as a pawn in a holdup scheme. As the crooks hold Teresa's husband Vance (James Olson) hostage, Ben Read More

Kung Fu

Actors: David Carradine, Barry Sullivan, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A Chinese/American priest, Caine must flee to the United States after he is forced to kill a royal nephew. He wanders the American West of the 1860s, keeping his cool until Read More

The F.B.I.: Three-Way Split

Synopsis: In a plot reminiscent of such "perfect crime" films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing, three strangers are brought together to commit a $900,000 bank robbery. Much of the preliminary footage is devoted to establishing the personalities and motives of the three crooks. Playboy Eliot Fielding Read More

Lawman

Actors: Bill Brimley, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all costs. Riding into a nearby town to pick up a group of local carousers who, during a drunken spree, killed an old man, Maddox meets up with Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb). Bronson Read More

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created by novelist Pierre Boulle. At the end of the second film, the centuries-in-the-future world colonized by simians was destroyed, but apes Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter Read More

Something Big

Synopsis: In this western, an outlaw anxiously awaits the arrival of his betrothed, who is under the false impression that her fiancé is worth a fortune. Unfortunately, the fellow has earned nothing during his stint in the West. Desperate to keep her, he begins plotting the theft of a Mexican bandit's loot. Read More

The Deserter

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu

Synopsis: A captain convicted of deserting his cavalry (Bekim Fehmiu) is released to lead a band of deputized renegades. Together, the force must defeat a band of Apache braves. The film was released to video as Ride to Glory. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Menace on the Mountain

Synopsis: A father-and-son team battle to protect their Southern farm from military deserters during the Civil War. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Guns for Texas

Actors: Neville Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith, Martin Milner, Philip Carey

Synopsis: Three Guns For Texas is a routine western. Taken from the television series "Laredo," three 30-minute episodes are strung together. The only continuity seems to be the plot of Texas Rangers fighting a renegade band of Indians led by Linda Little Trees (Shelley Morrison). Neville Brand, Peter Read More

Bonanza: The Thirteenth Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Albert Salmi, Richard Carlson

Synopsis: Over the protests of the Cartwrights, the Carttlemen's Association hires range detective Marcus Alley (Albert Salmi) to round up a gang of rustlers by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Alley is a psycho who shoots first and asks questions later-and as a result, several innocent people are Read More

Lost in Space: Treasure of the Lost Planet

Synopsis: Albert Salmi returns in the role of rascally space pirate Alonzo P. Tucker (you remember: the guy with the robot parrot on his shoulder). This time, Tucker and his crew are on an intergalactic search for the treasure of Billy Bones. Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) gets mixed up in the swashbuckling Read More

The Flim-Flam Man

Actors: George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson

Synopsis: Michael Sarrazin plays Curley, a young man gone AWOL from the Army who soon makes the acquaintance of Mordechai (George C. Scott), a veteran confidence man. Mordecai takes a liking to Curley, and offers to show him the tricks of the trade as they drift through the American South, pulling one scam Read More

The Ambushers

Actors: Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, James Gregory, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: In this, the third in the Matt Helm special-agent series, Dean Martin plays Helm who's called to save those aboard a hijacked U.S. spacecraft. Ambushers is generally regarded as the weakest of the Helm films, lacking inspiration at most levels. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hour of the Gun

Actors: James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James Garner) moral decline from a lawman with high Read More

Lost in Space: The Sky Pirate

Synopsis: Albert Salmi chews the scenery as space pirate Alonzo P. Tucker, self-styled "terror of the spaceways" who has been plundering the universe ever since he'd been abducted from his home planet Earth way back in 1876. Taken hostage by Tucker (who carries a robotic parrot on his shoulder!), Will (Bill Read More

The F.B.I.: The Plunderers

Synopsis: After meticulously planning a Baltimore bank robbery, four men--Hogan (Ralph Meeker) Collins (Don Quine), Cowboy (Albert Salmi and Breese (Paul Bryar)--steal only a few thousand dollars. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) wants to know why the thieves were willing to settle for so paltry a Read More

The Meanest Men in the West

Synopsis: Meanest Men in the West is basically a pair of episodes of The Virginian, chopped up by Universal Pictures' editing department and mashed together (with help from some voice doubles) into what could almost pass for a coherent plot. Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb), owner of Shiloh ranch, becomes Read More

I Spy: Weight of the World

Synopsis: Kelly and Scott are ordered to attend a medical convention in Japan, where it is rumored that a deadly bubonic plague developed by Communist Chinese scientists is about to be unleashed. The agents' task is complicated by the presence of overanxious, novice spy Vicki (Marlyn Mason), whose Read More

The Outrage

Actors: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner

Synopsis: Derived from the classic 1951 Japanese film Rashomon, director Martin Ritt's The Outrage attempts to modernize the original story of rape and murder, transporting from medieval Japan to the American Southwest of the 1870's. The story is told within the framework of three men waiting at a railway Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury

Actors: Peter Graves, Albert Salmi, Sarah Marshall, Ed Nelson, Rodolfo Hoyos

Synopsis: A Mexican honeymoon turns into a nightmare when Laura Needham (Eileen O'Neill), the young wife of tourist Mark Needham (