Aldo Ray Filmography

Shock 'em Dead

Actors: Traci Lords, Stephen Quadros

Synopsis: In this thriller, geek Martin (Stephen Quadros) makes his dream of becoming a famous rock musician come true when he sells his soul to the Devil. As Martin is rocketed to stardom as a performer known as Angel, he is also transformed into a ghoulish undead creature who must kill in order to Read More

Blood Red

Actors: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Siblings Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts appear in this old-fashioned saga about oppressed Sicilian wine-growers in 19th-century California. Giancarlo Giannini stars as Sebastian Collogero, the robust Italian patriarch who is battling with railroad mogul William Bradford Berrigan (Dennis Hopper) to Read More

The Shooters

Synopsis: When a war-training competition pits a group of tough recruits against a pathetic platoon of soldiers, confusion and chaos results. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Swift Justice

Synopsis: In this actioner, a small town mayor kills a young girl, stashes her corpse in a junk yard and figures that no one will be the wiser. He then continues his reign of terror on his town until a vengeful mercenary shows up to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sicilian

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Bauer

Synopsis: Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it Read More

Hollywood Cop

Actors: James Mitchum, Cameron Mitchell, David Goss, Julie Schoenhofer, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Synopsis: Turkey (David Goss) is a Hollywood cop who goes undercover against the mob in this routine crime adventure. With his partner Jaguar (Lincoln Kilpatrick), Turkey helps Rebecca Fresno (Julie Schoenhofer) find her young son kidnapped when her husband Joe (Larry Lawrence) stiffs the mob to the tune of Read More

Terror Night

Synopsis: The final directorial effort from the late filmmaker Andre De Toth, Terror Night is a schlocky horror flick featuring such B-list performers as Alan Hale Jr. of Gilligan's Island and Dan Haggerty of Grizzly Adams. Set in a creepy mansion, the film follows a cast of characters as each one enters Read More

Star Slammer

Actors: Ross Hagen, Sandy Brooke, Susan Stokey, John Carradine, Aldo Ray

Synopsis: Gorgeous space traveller Taura (Sandy Brooke) is captured on the planet Arous (as in "The Brain From..."?) Taura is accused of a murder she didn't commit by Bantor (Ross Hagen) , chief flunkey of the all-powerful Inquisitor (Aldo Ray). She is incarcerated in an intergalactic prison ship, populated Read More

Terror on Alcatraz

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an escaped convict, the only man ever to make it out of Alcatraz alive, is faced with the daunting prospect of having to sneak back to the dreaded island to find the key to the safety deposit box containing his loot. He will stop at nothing to get it back. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Flesh and Bullets

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo

Bio Hazard

Actors: Aldo Ray, Angelique Pettyjohn, William Fair

Synopsis: Florida shlockmeister Fred Olen Ray cranked out this ludicrous little charmer about a trans-dimensional mutant which "crosses over" via the annoying intervention of a busty psychic researcher of some sort (Anjelique Pettyjohn, who Star Trek fans may recognize as the green-haired female warrior who Read More

Evils of the Night

Synopsis: This uproariously bad sci-fi horror oddity plays like a modern version of a cheesy '50s alien invasion flick, only not as clever. The filmmakers deserve some credit for throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the plot (and perhaps even the sink's in there somewhere), which involves the Read More

Bog

Actors: Gloria de Haven, Aldo Ray, Marshall Thompson, Leo Gordon, Glen Voros

Synopsis: A cheesy rubber-suit monster flick from Wisconsin -- where they should know a thing or two about cheese. When a lazy local begins fishing with dynamite in scenic Bog Lake, something a bit larger pops to the surface: a green, bug-eyed mutant "were-fish," awakened from decades-long sleep, which Read More

Vultures in Paradise

The Executioner, Part 2

Actors: Christopher Mitchum, Aldo Ray, Antoine John Mottet, Renee Harmon, Dan Bradley

Synopsis: Just for the record, an Executioner, Part 1 never existed. That the filmmakers would be too lazy to bother changing the title of this film should provide viewers with ample warning that they are about to watch a low-budget stinker. Designed as a crime drama, it tells the tale of an L.A. homicide Read More

Mongrel

Synopsis: A youth (Terrence Evans) is terrorized by vicious nightmares that find him transformed into a bizarre weredog which kills people around town. When he wakes up, he is shocked to find out that the people who he killed in his dreams are actually dead. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Vultures

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: This peculiar thriller was directed by Paul Leder (I Dismember Mama) and features the husband-wife team of Greg Mullavey and Meredith MacRae, who appeared in several of his films. Another low-budget shocker concerning the murders of a greedy family gathering around the deathbed of a dying man Read More

To Kill a Stranger

Actors: Angélica María, Dean Stockwell, Donald Pleasence, Aldo Ray, Sergio Aragones

Synopsis: In this unexceptional thriller, not released theatrically, Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one Read More

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Yvonne Furneaux, June Wilkinson, Rod Colbin, Garnett Smith

Synopsis: In this horror spoof, after not paying his yearly taxes, Dr. Frankenstein is in danger of being kicked off of the family estate. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Sanity

Actors: Aldo Ray, Kory Clark, Chuck Jamison

Synopsis: This direct-to-video thriller involves a seriously unbalanced, former-alcoholic housewife who tries to make a clean start by moving into a new address after her release from therapy. What she finds there, however, are disturbing and violent visions which seem to be related to the brutal Read More

The Secret of NIMH

Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley, Arthur Malet, Peter Strauss, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving Read More

The Great Skycopter Rescue

Synopsis: When oil is discovered in a small town, greedy prospectors hire a bunch of wild bikers to drive the townsfolk away. However, when a group of teenage pilots stumble across the underhanded plot, they plan an effective retaliation. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

When I Am King

Synopsis: In this fantasy, two youths journey to an enigmatic but enchanting land and find themselves entangled in a battle between good and evil. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Houndcats, Vol. 1

Synopsis: The exploits of the heroic Houndcats are chronicled in this series of animated stories. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Box Office

Actors: Robin Clarke, Monica Lewis, Eddie Constantine, Aldo Ray, Edie Adams

Synopsis: Box Office tells the story of the road to success in Hollywood, and how once the destination is achieved, the journey can seem too treacherous to be worth the effort. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Don't Go Near the Park

Synopsis: Don't Go Near the Park begins in a cave 12,000 years ago, where an old crone with phony rubber hands curses her sinful children, Gar and Tre (Crackers Phinn, Barbara Monker). They will age ten years for every year of life and never die. To appear youthful, they must kill people by ripping their Read More

Human Experiments

Actors: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Aldo Ray, Jackie Coogan

Synopsis: Country singer Rachel Foster (Linda Haynes) stumbles across the scene of a mass murder in this routine horror feature. She is arrested and charged with the murders and placed in prison. Psychiatric sessions are run by the sadistic and misogynist Dr. Kline (Geoffrey Lewis). His idea of mental Read More

Samuel Fuller and the Big Red One

Actors: Samuel Fuller, Lee Marvin, Kelly Ward, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: The American novelist , screenwriter and film director Samuel Fuller was very highly regarded in European circles. Among Fuller's better-known films are I Shot Jesse James and The Big Red One. In this documentary, Fuller is shown during the shooting of the latter film, and is interviewed during Read More

The Glove

Actors: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell, Jack Carter

Synopsis: In this actioner, bounty hunter Sam Kellough, who is also an ex-cop, and an ex-ballplayer, is out to earn the $20,000 reward for the capture of Victor Hale, a psychotic killer wanted for beating a prison guard to death with a "riot glove." The villain is not as horrible as he seems. When the Read More

Death Dimension

Synopsis: Kill Factor was originally released as Death Dimension. Either way, the audience was hep to the fact that it wasn't a Disney picture. The presence of onetime James Bond George Lazenby and Harold "Oddjob" Sakata in the cast was enough to give this one away as a spy picture. And a spy picture it Read More

The Lucifer Complex

Synopsis: When a group of Nazi doctors plot world dominance by replacing global leaders with brainwashed clones, it's up to a lone U.N. employee to save the planet. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Haunts

Actors: May Britt, Aldo Ray, Cameron Mitchell, William Gray Espy, Susan Nohr

Synopsis: Despite bearing the earmarks of a cheap slasher outing, this quirky little thriller emerges a surprisingly original murder mystery with some well-executed twists. May Britt (formerly Mrs. Sammy Davis Jr.) plays a seemingly innocent farm girl (with more than a few toys rolling loose in the attic) Read More

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Synopsis: This adventure is based upon the true life exploits of 17th-century missionary, Father Francisco "Kino" Kin who was instrumental in developing the Southwest and fought hard to keep the murderous conquistadors from slaughtering the Apaches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Haunted

Actors: Virginia Mayo

Synopsis: The Haunted, a supernatural thriller concerning demonic possession, witchcraft and mysterious deaths, was produced, written and directed by Michael DeBaetano and filmed in Arizona. An average thriller, the film contains some good moments and a veteran cast including Aldo Ray and Virginia Mayo. Read More

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Seven Alone

Synopsis: A septet of settler's children find themselves orphaned and alone following a disaster on the Oregon trail. This fact-based, family-oriented adventure chronicles their cross-country odyssey as they make their way westward. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Inside Out

Actors: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray, Günter Meisner

Synopsis: Telly Savalas, James Mason and Robert Culp join together to discover a hidden cache of $6 million in Nazi gold in this action caper retitled both Hitler's Gold and The Golden Heist. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Would Not Die

Actors: Alex Sheafe, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: In this film based on a novel by Charles Williams, an inspector puzzling over a series of murders begins to realize that the victims are only a procession of aliases for a man involved in a multi-million dollar bond theft. The inspector (Alex Sheafe) must also deal with greedy mobsters. ~ John Read More

Psychic Killer

Actors: Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Nehemiah Persoff, Neville Brand

Synopsis: In this thriller, an innocent man is wrongfully committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While there he learns how to tap into his psychic powers and to affect the lives of others via astral projection. These skills come in mighty handy after he is released and he heads out for revenge Read More

Gone With the West

Synopsis: An all-star cast including James Caan, Stefanie Powers and Sammy Davis, Jr. headlines this shoestring-budget revisionist western from 1975. Caan stars as Jud McGraw, a cowboy unjustly framed for a crime he didn't commit; he partners up with an ethically wronged Native American woman named Little Read More

The Dynamite Brothers

Synopsis: Schlockmeister supreme Al Adamson taps the martial-arts market in The Dynamite Brothers. The unrelated "siblings" of the title are played by Alan Tang and Timothy Brown. One is a Hong Kong immigrant with kung-fu savvy, the other a street-smart Los Angeles homeboy. They join forces to squelch the Read More

The Centerfold Girls

Synopsis: A psychopathic killer administers a series of death sentences to various pornographic models. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Houndcats, Vol. 5

Synopsis: The exploits of the heroic Houndcats are chronicled in this series of animated stories. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bad Bunch

Actors: Aldo Ray, Greydon Clark

Synopsis: This early '70s effort from veteran exploitation director Greydon Clark attempts to create a more socially conscious variation on the blaxploitation genre, but devotes most of its time to thrills of the most lurid variety. The story begins with Jim (director and co-writer Clark), a liberal-minded Read More

La Course Du Lièvre à Travers les Champs

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: In this decidedly offbeat and rather arty crime drama, a French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of desperate criminals who have been plotting to kidnap a crimelord's retarded daughter. Things go well until she accidentally dies. Despite the unfortunate turn of events, the Read More

Houndcats, Vol. 3

Synopsis: The exploits of the heroic Houndcats are chronicled in this series of animated stories. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Houndcats, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The exploits of the heroic Houndcats are chronicled in this series of animated stories. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: Riot!

Actors: Michael Landon, David Canary, Aldo Ray, Marco St. John, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: The shadow of the recent Attica uprising looms large over the October 3, 1972 Bonanza episode "Riot!" While on a tour of the Nevada State Prison, Ben Cartwright and several other prominent men are taken hostage by rioting prisoners. Though some of the inmates hope to escape, most of the others Read More

Angel Unchained

Actors: Don Stroud, Luke Askew, Larry Bishop, Tyne Daly, Aldo Ray

Synopsis: Angel (Don Stroud) is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town out West. When the town rednecks attack them in a dune buggy convoy, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge. Tremaine (Luke Askew) is the commune leader targeted extermination by the looney Read More

Deadlock

Actors: James McEachin, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen plays it straight). The white Danforth finds himself at ideological loggerheads with black district attorney Leslie Washburn (Hari Rhodes). Racial tensions are escalated when Read More

Commando Suicida

Actors: Aldo Ray, Pamela Tudor

Synopsis: Gravel-voiced Aldo Ray stars as Sgt. Cloadec in the Italian-Spanish Suicide Commandos. As you've probably already guessed, the film takes place during World War 2. Cloadec is one of the many Allied guerilla fighters assigned to destroy an enemy airport deep within occupied territory. Pamela Tudor Read More

The Power

Actors: George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson, Yvonne De Carlo, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: A team of research scientists believe they have discovered a superior intelligence. Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) and his pretty partner Margery Lansing (Susan Pleshette) have discovered the entity through their work on human endurance. The Power is able to control the minds of others, but Jim Read More

The Green Berets

Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis: The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne's role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963), but it was evident to the worldwide public that the same bravado that flew well in World War II Read More

The Violent Ones

Actors: Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray, Tommy Sands, David Carradine, Lisa Gaye

Synopsis: When a young resident of a peaceful Mexican village is brutally raped to death, the evidence points to one of three strangers in town, all of whom are Mexican-hating Anglo-Americans. The father of the dead girl hates all whites and is eager to lynch all three to make sure they get the culprit, but Read More

Kill a Dragon

Actors: Jack Palance, Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray, Alizia Gur, Kam Tong

Synopsis: In this actioner, a group of islanders begin claiming ownership of a load of nitroglycerin that has washed up on their beach. The chemical's owner, anxious for its return, threatens to blow up the island. Unbeknownst to him, an island hero sneaks off the island and head to nearby Hong Kong where Read More

Riot on Sunset Strip

Actors: Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Laurie Mock, Tim Rooney

Synopsis: In this drama set during the real life riots of the mid-1960s, an LA police sergeant attempts to service the Strip businessmen who object to the hippie youths that hang out, by setting a curfew. Unfortunately, the cop also believes that the kids have a right to be there, until he discovers that Read More

Welcome to Hard Times

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates

Synopsis: Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film is based. It was adapted for the screen by veteran western director Burt Kennedy. In a forlorn town called Hard Times in the Old West, a cowardly mayor, Will Blue (Henry Fonda) Read More

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Actors: James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber, Marian Moses

Synopsis: James Coburn stars in this comedy-melodrama as Eli Kotch, who uses his charm to obtain a parole from prison by having an affair with a female psychologist. Eli's plan upon getting out of jail is to rob a bank at the L.A. International Airport. The date of the bank robbery coincides with the Read More

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Actors: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Aldo Ray, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: In this service comedy set during World War II, Capt. Cash (Dick Shawn) and Lt. Christian (James Coburn) are given orders to invade a small but strategically important village in Sicily. To their surprise, none of the natives offer the slightest resistance to the Americans taking over their town Read More

Sylvia

Actors: Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Joanne Dru, Peter Lawford, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: Carroll Baker, the Sharon Stone of the sixties, plays another classy-looking blonde with a sordid background in Sylvia. Millionaire Peter Lawford is about to marry the glamorous but secretive Sylvia (Baker). Before taking the plunge, he hires private eye George Maharis to do a background check on Read More

Nightmare in the Sun

Actors: John Derek, Aldo Ray, Arthur O'Connell, Ursula Andress, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a bored, but seductive wife of a wealthy old ranch goes cruising for trouble and finds it when she picks up a hapless hitchhiker who soon falls under her sexy spell. Like a fly to a spider's web, he is drawn to her bedroom. Unfortunately, the old rancher sees him leaving and Read More

Bonanza: The Wild One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Aldo Ray

Synopsis: "The Wild One" is ornery Lafe Jessup (Aldo Ray), a pugnacious horse wrangler who'd sooner pick a fight than eat or sleep. While trying to pummel Hoss Cartwright, Lafe is interrupted by Prudence (Kathryn Hays), the Quaker wife whom he'd deserted a few months back. Prudence announces that Lafe is Read More

Johnny Nobody

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Aldo Ray, William Bendix, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Father Carey (Nigel Patrick) is a priest who must decide whether or not an amnesia victim (Aldo Ray) is responsible for the murder of the alcoholic Irish writer Mulcahy (William Bendix) in this routine thriller. The question posed to Carey is whether or not the murderer acted on the word of God Read More

I Moschettieri del Mare

Synopsis: The Italian Musketeers of the Sea transports cast and crew to Maracaibo, then barely takes advantage of the attendant scenic wonders before settling into its creaky plot. The story has something to do with locating vast amounts of gold, and the greed and treachery resulting in the race for the Read More

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

Actors: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: This crime caper based on a legendary robbery stars Aldo Ray as Norgate, the ringleader of the thieves out to steal a bundle from the Bank of England. But it is a young Peter O'Toole as the guard Fitch who steals the show -- two years before Lawrence of Arabia would make him an internationally Read More

Four Desperate Men

Actors: Aldo Ray, Neil McCallum, Victor Maddern, Gerry Duggan