Arthur Malet Filmography

The Secret of NIMH II: Timmy to the Rescue

Actors: Harvey Korman, Peter MacNicol, Ralph Macchio, William H. Macy, Arthur Malet, Andrea Martin, Meshach Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Eric Idle, Andrew Ducote

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Don Bluth's 1982 animated adventure The Secret of NIMH, Timmy (voice of Ralph Macchio) is the son of two courageous mice who helped save the day for the animals of Thorn Valley. While the wise Nicodemus has predicted that Timmy will some day be a great hero -- and Read More

A Little Princess

Actors: Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews, Rusty Schwimmer, Arthur Malet

Synopsis: A privileged, free-spirited young girl tries to adapt to life in a strict boarding school in this charming, critically acclaimed children's fantasy. Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year-old Read More

Toys

Actors: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright Penn, LL Cool J

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this cautionary fantasy fable--a triumph of production design--concerning the clash between benevolent, funny toys and malevolent, violent war toys and video games. Donald O'Connor is the kindly, gentle Kenneth Zevo, founder of Zevo Toys. The workers love him and the love Read More

Stormy Weathers

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Beltran, Charlie Schlatter, Kurt Fuller, Diane Salinger

Synopsis: When a private detective takes on a missing person assignment trying to find an Italian aristocrat's uncle, she discovers a conspiracy of murder and drugs. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Hook

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

Actors: Marc Singer, Kari Wuhrer, Wings Hauser, Sarah Douglas, James Avery, Charles W. Young

Synopsis: The most fascinating thing about Beastmaster 2 is how well the cartoonish sword-and-sorcery characters blend in to contemporary Los Angeles -- it may as well be documentary. Marc Singer plays Dar, a muscle-headed barbarian whose main claim to fame is his ability to communicate with a wide array of Read More

The Runestone

Actors: Peter Riegert, Joan Severance, William Hickey, Tim Ryan, Mitchell Laurance

Synopsis: When an archaeologist uncovers an ancient Norse power stone, he returns with it to his New York City home. Too bad for the relic-digger, because it's not long before an evil spirit is projected from the stone into the archaeologist, turning him into a hairy beast. And too bad for the people of Read More

Dick Tracy

Actors: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed and starred in this big-budget action comedy featuring Chester Gould's square-jawed, two-dimensional comic strip detective. Ruthless gangster Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) touches off a gang war against underworld boss Lips Manlis (Paul Sorvino), with Big Boy and his minions Read More

Worth Winning

Actors: Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren, Maria Holvoe, Mark Blum

Synopsis: A self-centered womanizer makes a wager that he will be able to propose to three women in a three month time and have each one accept in this romantic Philadelphia-set comedy. His three victims are an icy concert pianist, an innocent blonde receptionist for the Philadelphia Eagles, and a rich Read More

Peter Gunn

Actors: Peter Jurasik, Peter Strauss, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Williams, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Peter Gunn was a one-shot TV movie revival of the classic detective series (1958-61) created by Blake Edwards. Edwards wrote and directed this pilot for a potential Gunn revival, with Peter Strauss stepping into Craig Stevens' gumshoes as private eye Peter Gunn. Peter Jurasik assumes Herschel Bernardi's Read More

Addicted to His Love - Sisterhood

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Linda Purl

Synopsis: When this seriocomic TV film first aired March 28, 1988, it was titled Addicted to His Love. Evidently to pacify certain feminist factions, the film was rechristened Sisterhood for syndication. Either way, this is the story of a smooth lothario, played by Barry Bostwick. In the course of 97 Read More

The Black Cauldron

Actors: Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Arthur Malet

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures produced this ambitious, animated tale of sorcery and swordfighting. Taran (voice of Grant Bardsley), is an assistant to Dallben (voice of Freddie Jones), a pigkeeper in the mythical land of Prydain. Taran longs to be a knight, and he's given his chance to live out his dream Read More

Oh, God! You Devil

Actors: George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton (Ted Wass) is a struggling musician who can't get a break, which bothers him all the more now that his wife, Wendy (Roxanne Hart), is about to have a baby. Desperate and depressed, Bobby announces that he'd sell his soul to get Read More

City Heat

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn

Synopsis: This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer's old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a 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

Savage Harvest

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Michelle Phillips, Shawn Stevens, Ann-Marie Martin, Derek Partridge

Synopsis: A drought in the savannas of Kenya provides the basis for this dramatic African adventure that centers on a family living on a desiccated plantation. Their lives are further endangered by a pride of starving lions. Just before the people are devoured, they are saved by a courageous guide. ~ Sandra Read More

WKRP in Cincinnati: Preacher

Synopsis: A group of religious leaders is up in arms over a WKRP program starring self-styled preacher Little Ed Pembrook (Michael Keenan). In additon to making a farce of all things spiritual, Little Ed insists upon promoting such questionable religious icons as "Baptist shower curtains." But inasmuch as Read More

Disaster on the Coastliner

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner

Synopsis: It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. He gets even by setting two passenger trains on an irrevocable collision course. Salvation comes from a most unexpected corner in Read More

Heaven Can Wait

Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Opting for light entertainment after the critical satire of Shampoo (1975), producer-director-writer-star Warren Beatty remade the 1941 comic fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Dimly amiable L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Beatty) is prematurely called to Heaven by an over-eager escort (Buck Henry Read More

Halloween

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers

Synopsis: It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's Read More

The Waltons: The Last Mustang

Synopsis: Sheriff Ep Bridges (John Crawford) is challenged in the upcoming election by Glen Oldfield (John Fink), a flashy, flamboyant candidate who has a way with the ladies. Oldfield also knows how to manipulate the media, and pretty soon he is granting "special favors" to the Waltons in hopes of getting Read More

Young Frankenstein

Actors: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name Read More

The Blue Knight

Actors: William Holden, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh, the ex-cop turned novelist whose Police Story began its TV run in 1973, was responsible for the like-vintage TV miniseries The Blue Knight. William Holden stars as Bumper Morgan, a 50 year old cop on the verge of mandatory retirement. Morgan's last four days with the LAPD are Read More

Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies

Actors: Eric Shea, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: When Cliff Robertson was toasted by Ralph Edwards on the TV series This is Your Life in 1972, Robertson was standing on the set of Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies. This production was announced as an "upcoming release"-though as it turned out, the film lay on the shef for several years thereafter. Robertson Read More

The Culpepper Cattle Company

Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting Read More

Vanishing Point

Actors: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Valerie Kairys, Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin

Synopsis: Richard Sarafian directed this minimalist chase film, starring Barry Newman as ex-marine, ex-race car driver and cop named Kowalski. He drives into Denver to deliver a car and pick up another vehicle to drive to San Francisco. To make the fifteen-hour drive to San Francisco bearable he pops a load Read More

Do You Take This Stranger?

Synopsis: Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must convince the authorities that he's dead. He arranges to switch identities with Lloyd Bridges, who is terminally ill. Diane Baker plays Barry's wife, who must needs be willing to Read More

Mission: Impossible: Decoy

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Assigned to assist in the defection of Anna Kerkoska (Julie Gregg), the daughter of a recently deceased IMF dictator, Phelps becomes aware that both he and Anna have been set up as "dead ducks" by the woman's government. With his usual professional aplomb, Phelps contacts his fellow IMF agents and Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Uncles A-Go-Go

Synopsis: Having learned of the upcoming wedding of Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and Tony (Larry Hagman), Jeannie's magical uncles Azmire (Ronald Long) and Vasmir (Arthur Malet) show up. According to family tradition, if only one of the uncles disapproves of Tony, the wedding is off. Unfortunately, Azmire and Read More

Bewitched: The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: When the Witches Council announces their intention to banish Aunt Clara for her misfire spells, Clara asks Samantha to defend her before a jury of her peers. A tense situation is made even more so when Clara's legal briefs get mixed up with important business papers belonging to Darrin's boss Read More

In the Heat of the Night

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his racial prejudices. When Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier Read More

The Scorpio Letters

Actors: Alex Cord, Shirley Eaton

Synopsis: A Victor Canning novel was the launching pad for this consummately produced TV spy movie. Alex Cord is an American secret agent reluctantly employed by British secret service for a life and death mission. Teamed with the beauteous Shirley Eaton (the "golden girl" of Goldfinger), Cord is expected Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Battle of Mayberry

Actors: Howard McNear

Synopsis: Entering an essay contest, Opie chooses to write a piece on the legendary Battle of Mayberry, wherein the town's earliest settlers ostensibly wrested control of the community from "savage" Indians. Before long, everyone in town is providing Opie with anecdotes, each person claiming to be descended Read More

The Fugitive: In a Plain Paper Wrapper

Synopsis: As "Bob Stoddard", Kimble (David Janssen) works as a bartender at the same restaurant where Susan Cartwright (Lois Nettelton) is a waitress. Recognizing Kimble from a police description, Susan's nephew Gary (Pat Cardi) and his pals decide to capture the fugitive and claim the reward, using a Read More

My Favorite Martian: Man From Uncle Martin

Synopsis: Mrs. Brown's ne'er-do-well brother Alvin (Gavin McLeod) persuades Martin (Ray Walston) to collaborate in the marketing of a "domestic" robot, the Wannamaker's Widdle Wife Saver. Unfortunately, the device turns out to be a worthless piece of junk, foisted on the gullible Alvin by con artist Dr. Read More

Munster, go Home!

Actors: Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick, Debbie Watson

Synopsis: Herman Munster and his ghoulish clan leave the confines of their 1960s television series The Munsters to try their luck on the big screen in this feature length comedy that chronicles their adventures in merry England where Herman has inherited a large estate. Unfortunately, the Munsters do not Read More

Penelope

Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Lost and Found

Actors: Jack Burns

Synopsis: When Aunt Bee loses a valuable brooch, deputy Warren surmizes that the item was stolen. As a result of Warren's suspicions, Bee receives a huge insurance settlement. You guessed it-no sooner has the check arrived than Bee finds the missing brooch. "Lost and Found" was written by John L. Greene and Paul David Read More

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff, Arthur Malet, Tyler McVey

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke stars as U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Robinson Crusoe in one of Disney's weakest comedies. Like in the Daniel Defoe story, Crusoe finds himself alone on a deserted island, but this time he arrives there after ejecting from his disabled plane on a mission in the South Pacific. He Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Never Bathe on Saturday

Actors: Ann Morgan Guilbert, Bernard Fox, Bill Idelson, Arthur Malet, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this classic episode, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) give their neighbor Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) the lowdown about their big weekend in New York, which was supposed to have involved a romantic getaway at a plush hotel and a fabulous night at a Broadway show. Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Golden Venom

Synopsis: Lucille Forrest (Frances Reid) is the wealthiest widow in Forrest Junction, but only as long as she obeys the condition in her husband's will which forbids her from reopening the investigation of her son's mysterious death. Not long after consulting with Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to have this Read More

King Rat

Actors: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Todd Armstrong

Synopsis: James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The McGregor Affair

Actors: Andrew Duggan, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Malet, Michael Pate, William Smith

Synopsis: The infamous story of 19th century grave robbers Burke and Hare is given a new slant in this episode, told from the point-of-view of dimwitted Scottish laborer John McGregor (Andrew Duggan). In order to provide gin money for his sodden wife, Aggie (Elsa Lanchester), McGregor takes a job hauling Read More

The Untouchables: The Giant Killer

Synopsis: The latest quarry of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is Ed "The Duke" Monte (Torin Thatcher), who has broken out of a Federal penitentiary to bump off the stoolie who turned him over to the Feds. Monte suspects that he might have been betrayed by his own son-in-law Lou Sultan (Paul Richards), but he Read More

The Man from Galveston

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Preston S. Foster, James Coburn, Joanna Moore, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: This western served as the pilot film for Warner Bros.' Temple Houston television series. It is the tale of a young, brash attorney (Jeffrey Hunter) in the Texas circuit court system. His old flame (Joanna Moore) is accused of murder. The case is resolved when Hunter reveals the real killer in Read More

Convicts Four

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks at the crucial years between 1931 and 1949 in the convict's life. That period begins when Resko is convicted of killing a store owner and is sentenced to life in prison. Read More

The Untouchables: Pressure

Synopsis: Drug kingpin Louie Madikoff (Harold J. Stone) ends up half a million dollars in the red when several of his dope shipments are intercepted by Elliot Ness (Robert Stack). In desperation, Louie warns Ness that if any more of his deliveries are stopped, he'll blow up a school full of children--and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Coming, Mama

Synopsis: Lucy Baldwin (Eileen Heckart) hopes to escape her domineering invalid mother (Madge Kennedy) by marrying her new beau, Arthur (Don DeFore). Assuming that Arthur is just a fortune hunter, Lucy's mom refuses to allow the marriage, prompting Lucy to commit murder. Ultimately, Lucy and Arthur are Read More

Du Pont Show of the Month: The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Rosemary Harris, Rex Thompson, John Washbrook, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: This second presentation of the classic dramatic anthology Du Pont Show of the Month is a lavishly mounted adaptation of Mark Twain's historical novel The Prince and the Pauper. Although virtually every film version of this work has either cast twin boys in the roles of young Prince Edward and his Read More