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Synopsis: Niles (David Hyde Pierce) succeeds Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) as president of their wine club when Frasier finds himself swamped with work as resident wine expert on Gil Chesterton's (Edward Hibbert) gourmet talk show. Unfortunately, in the course of one broadcast, Frasier breaks the club's bylaws Read More
Synopsis: Peter Falk returns to the role of Lt. Columbo -- he of the grimy trenchcoat, dumb-like-a-fox interrogations, and the inevitable "Just one more question" -- in this two-hour TV-movie special. British comic actor Billy Connolly guest stars as famed movie composer/conductor Findlay Crawford, who Read More
Synopsis: When shady network suit Kenny Mitchell (Josh Malina) is appointed "Creative Liaison" and begins to implement drastic changes in the show's format, Larry (Garry Shandling) starts to sweat, but when his agent, Stevie (Bob Odenkirk), appears to be avoiding contract negotiations and ends up having Read More
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel, Linda Hamilton
Synopsis: Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the help of Chief-of-Staff Jake Conrad (Donald Sutherland) and the newspaper journalist Amanda (Linda Hamilton), he uncovers an assassination plot to kill the President and his Read More
Synopsis: The impending wedding of Joe (Tim Daly) and Helen (Crystal Bernard) hits a legal snag when Helen discovers that she is still married to Antonio (Tony Shalhoub), whom she'd temporarily wed a few seasons back to prevent Antonio from being deported. Roy (David Schramm) isn't worried about this Read More
Synopsis: Once again, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) finds herself immersed in the world of Grand Opera, this time during a visit to Genoa Italy. The plot is set in motion by a series of death threats leveled at an American opera diva poised to make her European debut. There are those who dismiss these threats Read More
Synopsis: The owner of a gay bar is killed and a suspect is hauled in. The pregnant wife of Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) goes into a very difficult labor. Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) investigates when a neighbor breaks out in a rash, ostensibly the result of a curse invoked by a crooked fortuneteller. And Dan Read More
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marcia Gay Harden
Synopsis: Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo balls. The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman (Shirley MacLaine) has just arrived back from the funeral of her husband. As her dysfunctional family Read More
Actors: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Ann-Margret, Max Casella, Ele Keats, Marty Belafsky
Synopsis: A failed effort to revive the big-budget movie musical, Newsies attempted to create toe-tapping, song-and-dance excitement out of the true story of an 1899 strike by newspaper boys against publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The "newsies" band together to protest a pay cut by Pulitzer (Robert Duvall Read More
Synopsis: Law & Order's first two-part episode begins with an assault on the owner of a candy store. Following the trail of clues, Greevey (George Dzundza) and Logan (Chris Noth) end up at the door of prominent gangster boss Frank Masucci (Charles Cioffi). The so-called "Dandy Don" has long eluded Read More
Synopsis: In this concluding episode of the first two-part Law & Order, the case against mob boss Frank Masucci (Charles Cioffi), aka "the Dandy Don," ignominiously collapses in a heap. Frustrated, assistant D.A. Stone (Michael Moriarty) vows to put Masucci in prison by whatever means necessary. Read More
Actors: Telly Savalas
Synopsis: A rich businessman, his wife and son are involved in illegal transactions as Kojak investigates. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Loggia, Kyle MacLachlan, Hal Linden, D.W. Moffett, Charles Cioffi
Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Dream Breakers harks back to all those Pat O'Brien and Spencer Tracy "fighting priest" films of the 1930s and 1940s. Kyle MacLachlan plays an idealistic young cleric who opposes a powerful real-estate broker (Hal Linden) with mob ties. Complication One: MacLachlan's father (Robert Loggia Read More
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
Actors: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston, Kate Mulgrew, George Coe
Synopsis: Adapted from the "Destroyer" series of novels and comic books (not exactly the level of Ian Fleming), Remo Williams (Fred Ward) is a New York cop who works for a top-secret government agency accountable directly to the President of the U.S. After his reluctant induction into this agency, Remo is Read More
Synopsis: Two college girls hire the A-Team to find their missing professor Bruce Warfel (Terry McGovern), who had gone to Las Vegas with a surefire "system" to beat the gaming tables, only to completely disappear. This operation requires Amy (Melinda Culea) and Face (Dirk Benedict) to pose as newlyweds Read More
Actors: Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Paul Carafotes
Synopsis: High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. Cruise's bullying coach Craig T. Nelson cajoles Cruise into seeking an athletic scholarship to a major university. Inevitably, the boy begins to question his goals in life, and soon his soul is the Read More
Synopsis: In the first episode of Taxi's two-part season-four finale, Elaine (Marilu Henner) mulls over the opportunity to leave the Sunshine Cab Company for a job in Seattle. This inspires the other cabbies to recall the pivotal moments in their own lives. Louie (Danny DeVito) remembers his ascension from Read More
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi
Synopsis: Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly Read More
Synopsis: Lee Cantrell (Joe Penny) is a half-Asian, half-Anglo assistant district attorney in San Francisco. By day he helps to prosecute criminals through the justice system, but at night he straps on his samurai sword and does battle with the underworld in his own way. His main enemy is a power-crazed Read More
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Patti D'Arbanville, Antonia Katsaros
Synopsis: It's H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) versus Jack the Ripper (David Warner) in the fanciful Time After Time -- and, per the film's title, the chase extends from the 19th century to the 20th. Wells has built a time machine in his cellar, which the Ripper uses as a means of escape. Both men find Read More
Actors: Michael Landon, Charles Cioffi, Jenny Sullivan, Bobby Rolofson, Kyle Richards
Synopsis: While staying with the family of Brett Harper (Charles Cioffi), from whom he hopes to purchase a horse, Charles (Michael Landon) is approached by Brett's two children. The younger Harpers beg Charles to help them prevent their parents from splitting up. But since Brett has become a drunken recluse Read More
Actors: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie
Synopsis: When the nuclear submarine he captains is rammed by a freighter while surfacing in Atlantic waters just off the coast of Rhode Island, Navy Captain Paul Blanchard (Charlton Heston) is able to radio for help. However, his sub's condition calls for urgent attention. Downed in extremely deep water Read More
Synopsis: Kojak returned to its familiar Sunday-night network berth for its fifth and final season. Things get off to a rousing start with this opening episode, with Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) determined to nail the murderer of a fellow cop. Unfortunately, the only witness to the crime, Janet Carlisle Read More
Actors: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager
Synopsis: One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In the midst of WWII, innocent French girl Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with dashing American pilot Larry Douglas (John Beck). When Larry is given new orders Read More
Actors: Jean Yanne, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Lonsdale
Synopsis: In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought Read More
Synopsis: Actor James Stacy, who in real life lost and arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident, won an Emmy award for his performance as double-amputee Kenny Briggs in this made-for-TV movie. Disabled in Vietnam, Kenny is not only embittered by his plight, but also holds his best friend and fellow soldier Read More
Synopsis: A wiseacre, world-wise gumshoe teams up with a greenhorn policewoman and begin investigating the murder of his partner in this crime drama that was a pilot for a TV series. Their search leads them into the darkest corners of the city's thriving porno industry. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Peter Boyle, Burgess Meredith
Synopsis: Told in flashback form, Tail Gunner Joe traces the rise and fall of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy (Peter Boyle). The story begins with McCarthy's judicial career, then progresses to his rise to the U.S. senate on the Republican ticket and his ultimate exploitation of the postwar "anti Read More
Synopsis: The readjustment of astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldren to life after triumphantly walking on the moon is chronicled in this drama based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi, Marco St. John
Synopsis: Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better to play a Saudi Arabian minister of state who wants to make peace with Israel during the Arab oil embargo of 1976 than Sean Connery? Connery plays Khalil Abdull-Muhsen, a peace-mongering diplomat who Read More
Synopsis: When his clothing company is burglarized, former mobster Burt Dresslor (Charles Cioffi) balks at cooperating with the police. But after a night watchman is murdered, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) take special interest in the situation whether Dresslor likes it or not. Read More
Synopsis: Anne Meara stars as Denver lawyer Kate McShane in this pilot film for the weekly CBS series of the same name. With the help of her two favorite "leg men" -- her ex-cop father, Pat (Sean McClory), and her Jesuit priest-law professor brother, Ed (Randy Quaid) -- Kate not only defends accused Read More
Actors: Mario Erpichini, Nella Dina, Timothy Holley
Synopsis: This graphically violent crime drama follows the relatively brief career of the notorious racketeer Crazy Joe Gallo, who formed an alliance with all of New York City's African-American gangs while serving time in Attica. Once he got out, he used that alliance to try and take over the Mafia, an act Read More
Synopsis: In this drama a family of Greek immigrants must deal with the aftermath of an arsonist's destruction of their bakery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Charles Cioffi and George DiCenzo are cast as brothers Vic and Dave, co-owners of a struggling trucking firm. Hoping for a quick financial turnover, the brothers make a deal with the Mob, offering to hijack their competitors' trucks for a share of the loot. Unfortunately, the Mob has a lengthy Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Rod Steiger, Charles Siragusa, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Gardenia
Synopsis: Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in this sensationalized account of the infamous gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Gian Maria Volonte). The film examines the life of Luciano after serving nine years of his Read More
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi
Synopsis: Bud Yorkin directed this middling comedy, written by Walter Hill from a novel by Terrence Lore Smith. Ryan O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins
Synopsis: In this organized crime drama (one of many that came in the wake of The Godfather, Tony (Frederic Forrest) and Vince (Al Lettieri) are two brothers whose father is a high-ranking Mafia kingpin; they've followed him into the family business, operating a profitable drug ring. While waiting for a Read More
Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas, Vince Conti
Synopsis: The character of tough, sarcastic, lollipop-sucking New York City police detective Theo Kojak was introduced in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, a 1973 TV movie based on the novel by Selwyn Raab, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Wylie-Hoffert murder case of 1963 that ultimately led to the Read More
Synopsis: Donna Mills guest stars as Bernice Rawson, a small-time crook with big-time aspirations. Latching onto an ex-convict who wants to go straight, Bernice talks him into pulling off one last heist--a jewelry robbery that is all but guaranteed to bring down the full wrath of the FBI. In the original TV Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Charles Cioffi
Synopsis: Charles Chioffi plays the title character in the thrill-packed Bonanza installment Shanklin. Hoss Cartwright is shot by a band of ex-rebel soldiers who want Ben Cartwright to finance the formation of a Second Confederacy. Only Shanklin, the man who pulled the trigger, can save Hoss' life-and he Read More
Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Gwen Mitchell, Christopher St. John, Charles Cioffi, Camille Yarbrough
Synopsis: Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, "the cat who won't cop out, when there's danger all about" in Gordon Parks' seminal action film, Shaft. John Shaft is a black private eye with a small office near Times Square. On his way there one day, he gets Read More
Synopsis: Joe Don Baker stars as Mongo Nash, a professional gunman and the brother of mob boss Mike Nash (Charles Cioffi). At the behest of his brother, Mongo packs up his heat and prepares to bump off a rival gangster. Meanwhile, relentless police lieutenant Pete Tolstad (Telly Savalas) dogs Mongo's trail Read More
Synopsis: Most of the "action" in See the Man Run takes place during tense telephone conversations. Robert Culp stars in this TV movie as a failed actor who accidentally intercepts a phoned-in ransom demand for a kidnapped teenage girl. Deciding to cash in on this happenstance, Culp and his wife (Angie Dickinson Read More
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan
Synopsis: The first part of his "paranoia trilogy," Alan J. Pakula's 1971 thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks. Investigating the disappearance of his friend Tom Gruneman (Robert Milli), rural Pennsylvania private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland) Read More
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