Brett HalseyFilmography

First Degree

Actors: Rob Lowe, Leslie Hope, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: In this suspenseful detective drama, a police detective's personal involvement with a beautiful widow takes a professional turn when she is accused of murdering her husband. The gumshoe feels it is his job to prove her innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Expect No Mercy

Synopsis: This cheesy martial arts flick has two government agents fighting to get out of a compound that trains assassins with virtual reality. Some good computer effects (for a film of this type) but still unable to achieve anything resembling entertainment. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, All Movie Guide Read More

Search for Diana

Actors: Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Diana (Diana Calenti) is a dancer/choreographer living in Toronto. She has a "thing" about Egypt, beginning with having haunting visions of a previous life during the reign of the rebellious monotheistic pharoh Akhenaton. She incorporates some of her uncanny memories in self-performed "ancient Read More

Beyond Justice

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Carol Alt, Omar Sharif, Elliott Gould, Kabir Bedi

Synopsis: In Beyond Justice-- an Italian-made action film directed by Tessari Duccio with an unusually fine cast -- Christine Sanders (Carol Alt), American millionairess and mother of the grandson of a fanatic Emir (Omar Sharif), hires mercenary Tom Burton (Rutger Hauer) to return her son after the Emir has Read More

To Catch a Killer

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder, Meg Foster, Martin Julien

Synopsis: John Wayne Gacy was a respected member of his suburban Illinois community -- he was an active member of several service organizations, ran his own business, and entertained children as Pogo the Clown in his spare time. But Gacy had a terrible secret, and before he was finally brought in by the Read More

Velvet Dreams

The Godfather Part III

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

A Cat In the Brain

Actors: Lucio Fulci

Synopsis: In this Italian splatter film, director Lucio Fulci plays a horror filmmaker who goes to a psychiatrist because the types of films he makes are starting to disturb him, he suspects that his German producers are Nazis, and he believes he may be a killer himself. Much of the movie consists of clips Read More

The Black Cat

Actors: Caroline Munro

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi (Starcrash) was a long-time collaborator of acclaimed director Dario Argento, and this amusing horror film was his homage to his mentor. It's about a director who plans to complete Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy, which began with Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980). Read More

Demonia

Synopsis: Italian cult favorite Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2) directed this atmospheric return to the Gothic themes which had brought him such success in the early '80s, and reminds the viewer of a pair of those early works in the opening scenes. Beginning with the horrifying torture, crucifixion, and flaming Read More

Free Fall

Synopsis: One year to the day after Trans-Regional Airline Flight 332 crashed and burned, the same airline's Flight 662 meets a similar grisly fate. Renee Brennan (Jaclyn Smith) of the National Transportation Safety Board investigates the tragedy, with the "assistance" of her FAA rival (and current Read More

Esmeralda Bay

When Alice Broke the Mirror

Actors: Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Lucio Fulci's gory, tongue-in-cheek horror film stars Brett Halsey as a gold-digging psycho preying on wealthy widows with physical handicaps. Woman are cut apart with chainsaws, cooked in microwaves, and so forth, courtesy of effects-man Angelo Mattei, before being immaculately disposed of by the Read More

Ratboy

Actors: Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Larry Hankin, Sidney Lassick

Synopsis: This drama follows an unlikely "ratboy" (S.L. Baird) after he is discovered living in a makeshift shelter in a garbage dump. Along comes Nikki Morrison (Sondra Locke, also the director) who meets the half-rodent, half-human creature and takes him over. She talks to a Hollywood producer and holds Read More

Kommando Leopard

Rose

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Yeung Fan writes and directs this melodrama about Rose (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a beautiful orphaned teenager who has boys pursuing her by the boatload. When she decides to study in France, her overly protective brother Charles (Chow Yun-fat) begs her to return to Hong Kong. Instead, she marries Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Dukes in Hollywood

Synopsis: The Duke boys save the life of movie star Brock Curtis (Barry Van Dyke), who narrowly escapes a fatal accident while making a film in Hazzard County. As a reward, the boys are offered parts in a Hollywood movie, obliging Boss (Sorrell Booke) and Roscoe (James Best) to accompany the family to Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Enos in Trouble

Synopsis: Accompanied by Coy (Byron Cherry) and Vance (Christopher Mayer), Enos picks up his footlocker at the bus depot. What Enos doesn't know is that the locker contains stolen emeralds--but a couple of crooks do know this, and they aren't above committing murder to get their hands on the gems. Boss Hogg Read More

Scruples

Synopsis: In this soapy drama based on Judith Krantz's novel,, a rather ordinary woman inherits a conglomerate and finds herself embroiled in the glittery but often sleazy world of big business. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Rustlers

Synopsis: Mel Tillis, who'd later show up as "himself" on Dukes of Hazzard, is here cast as horse-farm owner Burl Tolliver. Mr. Tolliver owns an extraordinarily fast stallion, which Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) plans to steal and enter in the "Mrs. J.D. Hogg Stake Race"--after framing Bo (John Schneider) and Read More

The Crash of Flight 401

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on true events from 1972, the story concerns an airline crash in the Everglades and the courageous adventures of the 73 survivors. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Magnificent Adventurer

Synopsis: This biopic chronicles the romantic life of noted Florentine sculptor and swordsman Benvenuto Cellini. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Four Times That Night

Actors: Daniela Giordano, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: In the tradition of Akira Kurosawa's classic tale Rashomon comes this wild sex farce from Italy's master of the macabre, Mario Bava. Last night was a wild one for Tina (Daniela Giordano) and Gianni (Brett Halsey), but for the life of her, the confused woman can't quite recall how she ended up in Read More

Where Does It Hurt?

Actors: Peter Sellers

Synopsis: Where Does It Hurt? is a hospital comedy which is carefully designed to leave no interest group unoffended. In the broadest of broad comic manners, it recounts its tale of greed, ignorance and corruption in the medical profession. Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel (Peter Sellers), a hospital administrator Read More

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Actors: Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, Marilù Tolo, Teodoro Corra, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: Genre specialist Mario Bava takes a rare trip out to the plains in this rousing comedy-Western that turns the work of iconic spaghetti Western specialist Sergio Leone on its head. When Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) fail to make a living at living dishonestly, Roy Read More

Una Sull'altra

Synopsis: Filmed in English, this Italian mystery thriller/melodrama explores the murder of a doctor's wife. The doctor himself (Jean Morel) has long since taken up with a mistress. His wife begged out of engagements as an asthmatic, all the while actually entertaining herself with her part-time job as a Read More

L'Ira Di Dio

Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!

Synopsis: After a rancher serves his prison sentence for a crime he did not commit, he contracts a gang of killers to hunt down the man who framed him. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Dolci Signore

Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More

Bang Bang

Actors: Sheila E., Brett Halsey, Jean Yanne, Franco Fabrizi

Web of Violence

Synopsis: In this mystery, a gang of drug smugglers kidnap the ex-girlfriend of a journalist. The journalist begins looking for her. When the woman is found dead, the journalist gets some help and eventually justice prevails. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Heure de la verite

Synopsis: Originally L'Heure de la Verte, the French Hour of Truth Stars Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand and Karl Boehm. At the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp victim. 20 years later, he is threatened with exposure. The only way out would seem to be Read More

Berlino - Appuntamento per le Spie

Actors: Brett Halsey, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Dana Andrews

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a leading American spy has a miniature camera surgically implanted in his eye, unbeknownst to him, and with it photographs secrets for the Russians, helping them gather information about a newly created death ray. The scientist who created it knew the secret could fall Read More

Il Ponte dei Sospiri

Espionage in Lisbon

Synopsis: A male and a female spy track down the murderers of a scientist, developer of an electronic vibration reduction formula. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Il Magnifico Cornuto

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michéle Girardon, Philippe Nicaud, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More

Jack and Jenny

Actors: Brett Halsey, Senta Berger, Michael Hinz, Marion Michael, Eckard Dux

Synopsis: Senta Berger plays retail clerk Jenny who falls for painter Jack (Brett Halsey). Between their quarrels and reconciliations, however, Jenny marries a wealthy businessman but eventually divorces him when the two go their own ways. It isn't until after a second marriage to a divorced playboy, that Read More

L'Aigle De Florence

Actors: Brett Halsey, Françoise Fabian, Jose Nieto

Il Magnifico avventuriero

Synopsis: This historical war drama follows the command of 16th-century artist Benvenuto Cellini as he and his troops defend Rome against the attack of Charles V and his armies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Twice Told Tales

Actors: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Mari Blanchard, Brett Halsey, Richard Denning

Synopsis: This three part horror story is taken from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vincent Price stars in all three tales starting with Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) attempts to restore the youth of four elderly friends. In a ghastly and ghoulish scene, a bride in her Read More

Le Sette Spade del Vendicatore

Synopsis: In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Peyton Place

Actors: Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor, Tuesday Weld, Robert Sterling

Synopsis: If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all the roles, combining several of them into existing characters. Carol Lynley is the heroine this time, and she leaves Peyton Place for New York to write a book about the Read More

Desire in the Dust

Actors: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the Dust. Burr, playing the patriarch of a Southern family, befriends the ex-convict (Ken Scott) who'd supposedly killed Burr's son in an auto accident. Actually the accident Read More

The Girl in Lover's Lane

Synopsis: TV star Brett Halsey is the lead in The Girl in Lover's Lane. While drifting through a small town, Bix (Halsey) becomes involved with local tease Carrie (Joyce Meadows). Shortly afterward, Carrie is murdered, and Bix is held responsible. The actual killer is feeble-minded Jesse (Jack Elam), but Read More

Blood and Steel

Actors: John Lupton, James Edwards, Brett Halsey, John Brinkley, Allen Jung

Synopsis: In this wartime adventure, four courageous Seabees infiltrate a Japanese-controlled island to find a place to build an air-strip. A beautiful jungle lass helps them navigate the dense forest and blow up an enemy transmitter. The flight back to their boat is not without casualties. ~ Sandra Read More

The Atomic Submarine

Actors: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Seasoned serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett helmed this story of a one-eyed, octopoidal space alien, wreaking havoc upon atomic subs at the North Pole. The monster is determined to take over the world, though it seems ill equipped for that purpose. Heroes Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, and Brett Halsey Read More

Jet over the Atlantic

Synopsis: A onetime pilot, now a convicted killer in the custody of the FBI, is the only hope of an overseas flight carrying a bomb. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Four Fast Guns

Actors: James Craig, Martha Vickers, Edgar Buchanan, Brett Halsey, Paul Richards

Synopsis: Set in a small Arizona town in the 1870s, Four Fast Guns is a subpar Western about Sabin (James Craig), a man who takes on an unlikely tyrant in an effort to restore normal life to the townspeople. Sabin himself has been falsely accused of murder, though misconduct runs in the family -- his Read More

Speed Crazy

Actors: Brett Halsey, Yvonne Lime, Slick Slavin

Synopsis: This undistinguished teen melodrama features Brett Halsey as Nick, a lowlife who is hiding out from the law because he killed a man in a mugging. He escapes to another town and starts working as a mechanic in an auto repair shop. Not one to keep a low profile for long, Nick alienates just about Read More

Submarine Seahawk

Actors: John Bentley, Brett Halsey, Wayne Heffley, Steve Mitchell, Henry McCann

Synopsis: In this WW II actioner, the crew of the Seahawk nearly mutinies when they discover that their new commander is a tactical instructor who has very little experience as a leader. They are quite angry because he refuses to allow them to sink the Japanese warships that are so close to them. Read More

The Return of the Fly

Actors: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton, David Frankham, Dan Seymour

Synopsis: This sequel to Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958) is peculiar, to say the least. Producer/director Neumann had passed away during the summer of 1958, and the studio needed a sequel. The resulting film, Return of the Fly, was directed by Edward L. Bernds, a filmmaker (and former sound man at Columbia Read More

The Best of Everything

Actors: Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker

Synopsis: A star-studded cast enlivens this glossy '50s soap opera, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe. The action unfolds at the Gotham-based Fabian Publishing, where numerous women work as typists under the aegis of power-wielding, shark-like editor Amanda Farrow (Joan Crawford). Farrow has achieved wealth Read More

Lafayette Escadrille

Actors: Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, William Wellman, Jr., Jody McCrea, Dennis Devine

Synopsis: Though director William Wellman was attached to the Lafayette Flying Corps during WW1, many people believed that he was actually with the celebrated Lafayette Escadrille, and this 1958 actioner does little to dispel that belief. The film concentrates on a group of courageous young American Read More

The Cry Baby Killer

Actors: Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Carolyn Mitchell, Brett Halsey, Lynn Cartwright

Synopsis: This odd drama features Jack Nicholson, then only 21-years old, in his first feature film. He plays a young delinquent who thinks he may have killed one of the two thugs who were pursuing him. He hides out in a local drive-in where he takes three hostages and barricades himself and them in a Read More

Smoke Jumpers

Synopsis: Smoke Jumpers stars Dan Duryea as the head man of a group of death-defying firefighters. Duryea and his crew are called upon to combat forest fires by parachuting into the various woodland conflagrations. One of Duryea's crew (Richard Jaeckel) accuses him of being a coward, but Duryea proves his Read More

The Last Blitzkrieg

Actors: Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, Dick York, Larry Storch, Lisa Bourdin

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Holland, The Last Blitzkrieg stars Van Johnson in the atypical role of WW2 German officer Kroner. The son of a high-ranking Nazi official, Kroner is called upon to lead a dangerous mission in the waning days of the war. He and several other English-speaking Germans are Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Cautious Coquette

Synopsis: On behalf of his current client, Perry (Raymond Burr) is endeavoring to reach an acceptable financial settlement for a hit-and-run accident. Somehow or other, this assignment leads to a morass of intrigue involving blackmail, a frameup, a missing witness, a secret marriage--and the murders of two Read More

I Want to Live!

Actors: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Wesley Lau

Synopsis: Grim, almost unbearably intense, I Want To Live is the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) a perjurer, prostitute, liar and drug addict. The product of a broken home, Graham works as a shill, luring gullible men into crooked card games. She attempts to go straight Read More

Gunman's Walk

Actors: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis: The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett, the son of gunslinger-turned-land baron Lee Hackett (Van Heflin). Out of respect (and fear) of his father, the hotheaded Ed is given a wide berth by the resentful Read More

High School Hellcats

Actors: Yvonne Lime, Brett Halsey, Jana Lund, Suzanne Sydney, Heather Ames

Synopsis: A good girl goes bad in the face of peer pressure in this exploitation outing from the late '50s. The girl is new in town and before her first day of school is over finds herself face-to-face with a scary group of juvenile delinquent girls with dangerously conical breasts, and bad attitudes to Read More

Hot Rod Rumble

Actors: Leigh Snowden, Richard Hartunian, Wright King, Joey Forman, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Hot rodder Richard Hartunian storms off after a spat with girlfriend Leigh Snowden. Shortly afterward, the car in which Leigh is driving is involved in a crack-up, injuring her and killing the driver. Since the car had been run off the road by a reckless driver, Hartunian is the Number One Read More

Gunsmoke: Helping Hands

Synopsis: Soft-hearted Kitty (Amanda Blake) is persuaded to hide handsome Steve Esler (Brett Halsey) from a lynch mob comprised of cattlemen. Steve insists he has been rustling cattle merely to avenge his father, who years earlier was brutally beaten by a trail crew. Matt (James Arness) is as sympathetic as Read More

The Girl He Left Behind

Actors: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jesse Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Henry Jones

Synopsis: The peacetime draft is given the teen-idol treatment in The Girl He Left Behind. Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter is starred as a spoiled young man who is whipped into shape--and humility--by his two years of compulsory military service. Natalie Wood plays the girl who...well, look at the title. Read More

Three Bad Sisters

Actors: Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield, Jess Barker

Synopsis: In this steamy drama, three sisters learn that their father has died in a plane crash, and they begin fighting over his enormous estate to see who is to be the principal heiress. One of the sisters is particularly wicked. Wanting it all for herself, she maims one of her siblings so badly that the Read More

Revenge of the Creature

Actors: Robert Hoy, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Robert B. Williams, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Revenge of the Creature is, of course, the sequel to Universal's fabulously successful The Creature from the Black Lagoon--and like its predecessor, the film was lensed in 3-D (though released "flat" in most theatres). Though the audience had seen the Gill-Man shot full of holes in the first Read More

To Hell and Back

Actors: Audie Murphy, Susan Kohner, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer

Synopsis: The highly variable Audie Murphy delivers his best screen performance as "himself" in Universal's To Hell and Back. Based on the star's autobiography, this is the story of how Murphy became America's most-decorated soldier during WW II. After dwelling a bit on Murphy's hard-scrabble Texas Read More

Johnny Dark

Actors: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical" notions, Johnny sets out to prove the efficiency of his cars on the racetrack. He is aided and abetted by pretty Piper Laurie and less pretty Paul Kelly, while motor mogul Sidney Blackmer Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance Read More

The Black Shield of Falworth

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of Falworth. Based on the robust novel Men of Iron by Howard Pyle, the film casts Curtis as Miles, the son of a disgraced knight. Through the sponsorship of the Earl of Mackworth Herbert Marshall Read More

All I Desire

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lori Nelson

Synopsis: All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband Richard Carlson, itinerant actress Barbara Stanwyck returns to her home town to watch her daughter perform in a high school play. Stanwyck decides to turn over a new leaf and Read More

The Glass Web

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Marcia Henderson, Richard Denning

Synopsis: John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell is being blackmailed by one of the program's actresses (Kathleen Hughes), who threatens to tell his wife of their clandestine affair. Arriving at the actress' apartment for Read More