Charles NapierFilmography

Shadowheart

Actors: Justin Ament, Angus MacFadyen, Tonantzin Carmelo, Michael Spears, Marnie Alton

Synopsis: Bounty hunter James Conners (Justin Ament) has his sights set on the evil rancher (Angus Macfadyen) who ruined his life. But when Conners's plan for vengeance goes horribly wrong, he discovers a different way to settle the scores of the past with the help of a Navajo mystic. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

One-Eyed Monster

Actors: Ron Jeremy, Veronica Hart, Carmen Hart, Amber Benson, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Director Adam Fields pays homage to such sci-fi classics as Alien and The Thing with this tongue-in-cheek horror comedy about a snowbound porno film crew being stalked by an evil, body-jumping alien. A blizzard has blown into town, leaving the crew of an adult film hopelessly stranded in the Read More

Suits on the Loose

Actors: Robert Prosky, Charles Napier, Reginald VelJohnson, Fred Dryer, Ty Hodges

Synopsis: A pair of escaped juvenile delinquents discovers that missionary life is just as restrictive as life in their state-sponsored correctional facility after posing as Mormon missionaries to elude detection in director Rodney Henson's religious-themed comedy. Justin (Brandon Beemer) and Ty (Ty Hodges) Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Bumps His Head

Synopsis: After a blow on the head, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) awakens in the tiny backwater town of Purnell, Wyoming, with both his memory and all traces of his identification gone. As Monk tries to figure out what's happened, a local woman named Cora (Laurie Metcalf) appears, declaring that he is her Read More

Lords of Dogtown

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed

Synopsis: The true story of the kids who created modern skateboard culture is recreated in this drama. In the early '70s, skateboards were seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, but in a rough-and-tumble Venice, CA, community known as "Dogtown," that was about to change. Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk Read More

Fielder's Choice

Actors: Chad Lowe, K'Sun Ray, Marin Hinkle, Bodhi Elfman, George Segal

Synopsis: Ambitious young advertising man Phillip Fielder (Chad Lowe) has no time for relationships, and seems to have affection only for his creature comforts -- a source of great dismay for his erstwhile girlfriend, Holly Ford (Marin Hinkle). When his orphaned nephew, an autistic eight-year-old named Read More

DinoCroc

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Jane Longenecker, Joanna Pacula, Max Perlich

Synopsis: "It feeds on fear!" read the advertising tagline for this Roger Corman-produced shocker. What could be scarier than a rogue crocodile, except maybe a rogue dinosaur? How about a combination thereof -- a DinoCroc? Hoping to create a cheap alternative to expensive prescription medicines, the greedy Read More

Justice League Unlimited: Fearful Symmetry

Actors: Nicholle Tom, Kin Shriner, Jeffrey Combs, Robert Foxworth, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Superman's cousin, Supergirl (aka Kara), has been having weird nightmares in which she appears to be cast in the role of an assassin. When J'onn J'onnz is unable to telepathically decipher these dreams, Green Arrow and The Question try to help Supergirl -- who soon tumbles to the possibility that Read More

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Actors: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Fusco returns to the Western themes of his previous films Young Guns and Thunderheart with this animated children's adventure from Dreamworks. Matt Damon supplies the voice of Spirit, a wild Mustang stallion living free in the Old West of the late 19th century, where he's Read More

Forgive Me Father

Actors: Ivan Rogers, Charles Napier, Alexander Hill, Chris Elbert, Stephen Jon Cohen

Synopsis: Former champion kickboxer Ivan Rogers directs and stars in the revenge martial arts film Forgive Me Father. Rogers portrays Father Virgil Garrett who has abandoned his former life as a hitman. He learns that his brother has been killed and decides to avenge the death. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

The Big Tease

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Chris Langham, Mary McCormack, Donal Logue

Synopsis: Craig Ferguson, best known to American audiences as Mr. Wick, the conniving boss who loves to fire people on The Drew Carey Show, co-wrote and starred in this mock-documentary about Crawford Mackenzie, Scotland's leading hairdresser. When Crawford receives an invitation to Los Angeles for the Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

Down 'n Dirty

Actors: Fred Williamson, Bubba Smith, Gary Busey, David Carradine

Synopsis: Blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson produced, directed, and stars in this action thriller as Dakota Smith, a hard-nosed but scrupulously honest cop who has more than a few questions when his partner is murdered. As Smith sets out to find who killed his sidekick and bring him to justice, he Read More

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Actors: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe, Seth Green

Synopsis: Austin Powers -- fashion photographer, denizen of Swingin' London, international espionage agent, and bane of dental hygienists everywhere -- returns in his second screen adventure. Powers (once again played by Mike Myers), a 1960s superspy stranded in the 1990s, discovers that his nemesis Read More

Cypress Edge

Actors: Damian Chapa, Brad Dourif, Ashley Laurence, Charles Napier, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Read More

Fatal Pursuit

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Shannon Whirry, L.P. Brown III

Synopsis: Two private eyes -- one a rugged ex-cop, the other a beautiful woman from England -- become warm for each other while hot on the trail of $8 million dollars in jewels -- the loot from a high-stakes robbery. However, as one might expect, the thieves aren't interested in giving up an $8 million Read More

Armstrong

Actors: Frank Zagarino, Kimberley Kates, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: A man becomes the unwitting last barrier between terrorists and nuclear holocaust in this action thriller. Rod Armstrong (Frank Zagarino) is a former Navy SEAL who travels to Moscow with his old friend Bob (Charles Napier) and Bob's wife Susan (Kimberly Kates) on a vacation. However, Armstrong Read More

Lima: Breaking The Silence

Synopsis: In late 1996, a group of armed revolutionaries invaded the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and took the staff (which included a number of high-echelon politicians) hostage in a bid to win freedom for 400 political prisoners being held in Peruvian jails. Lima: Breaking the Silence is a Read More

Final Reckoning

Steel

Actors: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal stars as John Henry Irons, a weapons designer Read More

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Actors: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Michael York, Mindy Sterling, Seth Green

Synopsis: Less a parody of the early James Bond film than a parody of the films that parodied the early James Bond films, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery stars Mike Myers as Austin Powers, by day a hipster fashion photographer in mid-'60s swingin' London and by night a crime-fighting secret Read More

Macon County Jail

Actors: Charles Napier, Ally Sheedy, David Carradine

Synopsis: This drama, which bears a certain resemblance to Jackson County Jail, also produced in part by Roger Corman, stars Ally Sheedy as a woman who ends up in a jail in the Deep South on trumped up charges, where she must fight to survive, with the unexpected help of fellow prisoner David Carradine. Read More

The Cable Guy

Actors: Eric Roberts, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker

Synopsis: Originally planned as a silly vehicle for Chris Farley, in the hands of director Ben Stiller and star Jim Carrey, The Cable Guy became an opportunity for Carrey to flex some of his darker comedic muscles as stalker Chip Douglas. Matthew Broderick plays Steven, an average Joe who is forlorn over Read More

Original Gangstas

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus. John Bookman (Fred Williamson) is a successful Read More

Riot

Actors: Gary Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard, Paige Rowland, Patrick Kilpatrick, Dex Elliott Sanders

Synopsis: This martial arts actioner moves on the premise that the LA riots were the dirty work of the Irish Republican Army. Okay. Sure. The hero in this low-budget outing is British Special Air Service officer Shane who flies out to the LA ghettos to rescue the daughter of the British ambassador who also Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Without a Trace

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie, Robert Foxworth, Rob Paulsen, Jennifer Hale

Synopsis: All-purpose villain Jeremiah Surd hijacks Air Force One and kidnaps the president. Unfortunately, Surd has planted evidence pointing the finger at Benton Quest and Race Bannon. With government agents hot on their heels, the Quest Team teenagers -- Jonny , Jessie, and Hadji -- endeavor to absolve Read More

Alien Species

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, huge alien spaceships from another galaxy circle the earth as UFO expert Edgar Chambers (Hoke Howell) tries to figure out who these visitors are -- and what they might want. As Sheriff Nate Bridges (Charles Napier) and his deputies are transporting prisoners to another Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Dream Team

Synopsis: Jessica's enterprising nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has become the partner of a pair of high-pressure land developers (John D'Aquino, Mary Gordon Murray) who have swept into Cabot Cove with grandiose plans of building an elaborate resort/marina complex. As local investors eagerly line up to get Read More

Max Is Missing

Actors: Toran Caudell, Victor Rojas, Rick Dean, Iris Peynado

Synopsis: In this youth-oriented made-for-cable adventure, 12-year-old Max accompanies his family on a vacation to ancient Incan ruins. While there he discovers an ancient and valuable mask. Suddenly the trip becomes lots more exciting, and dangerous. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jury Duty

Actors: Shelley Winters, Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: A goofy slacker wreaks havoc after worming his way onto the jury of a high-profile court case in this broad comedy. The extremely unmotivated Tommy Collins (Pauly Shore) has found himself homeless after being kicked out by his mother, and he needs a place to stay. After hearing how the juries of Read More

3 Ninjas Knuckle Up

Actors: Victor Wong, Charles Napier, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade, Chad Power, Crystle Lightning

Synopsis: In yet another sequel to the surprise family hit 3 Ninjas, the three young Ninja brothers, Rocky (Michael Treanor), Colt (Max Elliott Slade), and Tum Tum (Chad Power), are spending the summer with their grandfather (Victor Wong), who is tutoring them in the martial arts. However, there are foul Read More

Felony

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Leo Rossi, Joe Don Baker, Jeffrey Combs, David Warner

Synopsis: An eccentric police detective takes the case after a group of CIA agents go nuts and slaughter a dozen New Orleans cops during a drug bust. Somehow, a television cameraman managed to film the melee. Since then, the poor photo-journalist has been on the run with his damning tape. By the time the Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Little Green Men

Synopsis: A shuttle malfunction causes Quark, Rom, and Nog to crash-land on Earth. Normally, this would be a minor inconvenience: This time, however, the shuttle has passed through a timewarp, depositing the three travellers in Roswell, New Mexico, on that fateful day in 1947. As if the U.S. Air Force Read More

Hard Justice

Actors: Charles Napier, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: In this action thriller, Nick Adams, an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, goes undercover to enter a prison run by the tyrannical but efficient warden, Pike. He does this after his partner is killed doing undercover work in the same prison. The prison presents a harsh Read More

Skeeter

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/horror outing a polluted pool of water spawns a deadly strain of gigantic mosquitoes eager to quaff human blood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jailbreakers

Synopsis: A 15-year-old cheerleader named Angel (Shannon Doherty) falls for Tony, a dope-smoking, leather-clad punk (Antonio Sabato Jr.). He robs two stores, making her a local pariah. Her family moves to Bakersfield to make a new beginning, and she falls in love with a local jock. But Tony breaks out of Read More

Fist of Justice

Actors: Marjean Holden, Cory Everson, Joel Beeson, Sam Jones, Charles Napier

Synopsis: When crooks kill her partner and a protected witness, a vengeful policewoman becomes a vigilante who is hell-bent on bringing the wrong-doers to final justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frogtown 2

Synopsis: This bargain-basement budgeted sci-fi horror movie pays a kind of tribute to 1930s sci-fi serials such as "King of the Rocket Men." It is set just after the Frog Wars of the preceding film Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988). Following that terrible battle, the Froggie mutants were placed on the special Read More

Raw Justice

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Stacy Keach, Charles Napier, David Keith

Synopsis: Action genre veteran David A. Prior wrote and directed this thriller that unfolds like a B-movie version of Midnight Run (1988). David Keith stars as Mace, a former cop now working as a bounty hunter or "skip tracer." When his daughter is murdered, the mayor (Charles Napier) of a small Southern Read More

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland

Synopsis: The Lethal Weapon series and the rest of the buddy-cop genre receives the parody treatment in this low-brow comedy. Emilio Estevez stars as Jack Colt, the Mel Gibson-like loose cannon, while Samuel L. Jackson assumes the Danny Glover role as Wes Luger, his exasperated partner. Together, Colt and Read More

Body Bags

Actors: Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, David Warner, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Wes Craven, Deborah Harry, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode Read More

Philadelphia

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

Silk Degrees

Synopsis: Two federal agents are assigned to protect the beautiful star of a television series who was the witness to a terrorist murder. The agents decide to take her to a remote country lodge, but the terrorists find out where their hideout is and make plans to kill her, the agents, and any other Read More

Homicidal Impulse

Actors: Vanessa Angel, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: Scott Valentine stars as an assistant D.A. who has an affair with an office intern (Vanessa Angel), who is the homicidal niece of his ill-fated boss. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dragonfight

Actors: Paul Coufos

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, the controlling corporations of the world gain and lose power by competing with one another in one-on-one death matches. However when fighter Falchion (Paul Coufos) refuses to compete, he must run from the wrath of the big businessmen and his spurned opponent. ~ Iotis Read More

Treacherous Crossing

Synopsis: A rich woman's new husband vanishes soon after they board a cruiseboat on their honeymoon--at least that is what she claims. This made-for-television movie is based on John Dickson Carr's radio play, Cabin B-13. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Center of the Web

Actors: Robert Davi, Charlene Tilton, Ted Prior, Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Massey, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: In this thriller that begins with a case of mistaken identity, a man is abducted and thrown into a mysterious car; he is assumed to be a professional assassin--who happens to be dead. After he becomes more involved in an investigative effort by the CIA, he and his girlfriend find themselves in the Read More

Eyes of the Beholder

Actors: George Lazenby, Charles Napier, Lenny Von Dohlen

Synopsis: Institutionalized serial killer Janice Bickle (Lenny Von Dohlen) volunteers to undergo a radical medical experiment. If the operation is successful, he will be cured of his homicidal tendencies. Instead, the surgery goes horribly awry, turning him into a worse basket case than before. And then he Read More

The Silence of the Lambs

Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then Read More

Soldier's Fortune

Actors: Gil Gerard, Dan Haggerty, Charles Napier, P.J. Soles, Barbara Bingham

Synopsis: With the help of a few of his veteran friends, an ex-Green Beret soldier arrives in Los Angeles from Central America to find his kidnapped daughter. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Indio 2: La Rivolta

Actors: 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler, Frank Cuervo, Dirk Galuba, Tetchie Agbayani, Maurizio Fardo

Synopsis: Former boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler stars as a U.S. Marine sergeant who aids an Amazon rain forest tribe in their battle against land developers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Lonely Hearts

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Roberts, Joanna Cassidy, Herta Ware

Synopsis: Lonely Hearts is a modern film noir in which a lonely woman meets and falls for a man whom she refuses to let go. Alma (Beverly D'Angelo) is a wallflower who lives with her mother and works at a Social Security office. In her desperation to make some sort of social life for herself, she answers a Read More

The Grifters

Actors: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack Read More

Miami Blues

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely de-boarded his plane before he's killed a Hare Read More

Ernest Goes to Jail

Actors: Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge, Barbara Bush, Barry Scott

Synopsis: In Ernest Goes to Jail, Jim Varney returns as leering idiot savant Ernest P. Worrall, star of scores of TV commercials and feature films. Varney also takes on a second role in the film: an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer named Felix Nash. When Ernest serves on the jury for Nash's murder trial Read More

Future Zone

Actors: David Carradine, Ted Prior, Gail Jensen, Pat Culliton, Ron Taft

Synopsis: When a police officer's life is threatened by some murderous thugs, his son must travel back in time to attempt to alter the past and save his father's life. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Cop Target

Maniac Cop 2

Actors: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Synopsis: "You have the right to remain silent . . . Forever!" This sequel to Maniac Cop pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderous "Maniac Cop" of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder Read More

One Man Force

Actors: John Matuszak, Ronny Cox, Charles Napier, Sharon Farrell, Sam Jones

Synopsis: In this actioner, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hit List

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Lance Henriksen stars as hit man Chris Caleek, hired by the mob to off the prosecution's key witness. However, Caleek is given the wrong address, and instead kidnaps the child of innocent Jack Collins (Jan-Michael Vincent). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Future Force

Actors: David Carradine, Robert Tessier, Anna Rapagna, William Zipp, Pat Culliton

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, law and order are things of the past as cops are driven off of the crime-infested streets. It is up to a group of vigilantes to set things straight. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Married to the Mob

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More

The Incredible Hulk Returns

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Eric Allan Kramer, Steve Levitt, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Bill Bixby stars as physicist Dr. David Banner, the mild-mannered alter ego of the raging green mutant The Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), in this made-for-TV film based on the 1978 series (which was inspired by the Marvel Comics characters). In this outing, Dr. Banner teams with Thor, the Norse god of Read More

Camping del Terrore

Actors: Charles Napier

Synopsis: Italian director Ruggero Deodato is best known for his notorious Cannibal Holocaust and the brutal action film Inferno in Diretta. In this derivative slasher entry, Deodato shows very little of the vicious realism which distinguished those films. A group of average teenagers vacation at a Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: David Naughton, Barbara Crampton, Lance Le Gault, Chick Vennera, Kimberly Evenson

Synopsis: A syndicate of Los Angeles gangsters is kidnapping beautiful young women, drugging them, and forcing them to participate in the filming of pornographic movies. A young woman teams up with a vice cop to try to find her sister, whom she suspects of falling victim to this gang. ~ Brian Gusse, All Read More

Deep Space

Actors: Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson, Ron Glass, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: A surprisingly slick flick from Emperor of Exploitation Fred Olen Ray, the story (which Ray co-wrote with T.L. Lankford, borrowing heavily from the director's earlier Biohazard) begins when a satellite carrying top-secret bio-engineered mutants plummets to Earth and disgorges its slavering Read More

The Night Stalker

Actors: Charles Napier, Michelle Reese, Katherine Kelly Lang, Robert Viharo, Joey Gian

Synopsis: Sergeant J.J. Striker (Charles Napier) is a hard-drinking cop who tracks down a serial killer that can seemingly repel bullets in this routine crime drama made in 1985. Sommers (Robert Zdar) kills prostitutes and paints Chinese symbols on his victims. Rene (Michelle Reese) is the hooker who teems Read More

Something Wild

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive Read More

Instant Justice

Actors: Michael Paré, Tawny Kitaen, Peter Crook, Charles Napier, Eddie Avoth

Synopsis: Scott Youngblood (Michael Pare) is a vengeful marine who goes after the slimy crooks who murdered his sister Kim (Lynda Bridges) in this uneven action drama. Driven to a life of drugs and prostitution, Kim dies at the hands of the druglord's evil enforcer Silke (Eddie Avoth). With the help of his Read More

Outlaws

Synopsis: In this sci-fi western four bank robbers and the sheriff that pursues them find themselves suddenly transported from the Old West into modern Houston during a tremendous electrical storm. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Three of Murder She Wrote begins with the first episode of a two-part story, in which mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit to the Carmody Circus, an extremely small-time operation. It seems that Jessica has evidence that one of the circus' employees, a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second half of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Three opener, Jessica's long-missing brother in law Neil Fletcher (Jackie Cooper), who has been working under an alias with the Carmody Circus, has confessed to the murder of circus manager Hank Sutter. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is convinced Read More

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Julia Nickson, Steven Berkoff

Synopsis: The dark-horse box-office hit First Blood spawned this even more successful sequel in which Sylvester Stallone, reprising his role as ex-Green Beret loner John Rambo, is extricated from prison by his former superior Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) for a top-secret operation to bring back POWs Read More

The Outlaws

Synopsis: In this rather blatant "all-white" derivation of the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor starrer Stir Crazy, Christopher Lemmon and Charles Rocket are cast as pair of dimwitted innocents who suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law. While promoting a zany get-rich-quick scheme, uptight Read More

In Search of a Golden Sky

Synopsis: Three children, who fear being put into a foster home after the death of their parents, take flight into the wilderness with their uncle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The A-Team: Fire

Synopsis: The A-Team heads to the small town of Haleyville to aid female fire chief Annie Saunders (Stepfanie Kramer), whose job may be taken away from her by unscrupulous, mob-connected rival chief Roy Kelsey (Paul Gleason). In their efforts to help Annie and find out what Kelsey is REALLY up to, our Read More

Swing Shift

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme made one of his more conventional movies with Swing Shift, an examination of life on the American home front during WWII. Goldie Hawn, who also served as the film's producer, stars as Kay, a woman who takes a job on the line at a plant producing war planes after her husband Read More

The Cartier Affair

Synopsis: Joan Collins and David Hasselhoff star in this made-for-TV comedy caper, in which a con artist who has just gotten out of jail. Curt Taylor (Hasselhoff) finds himself back in business when he becomes an assistant to glamorous film star Cartier Rand (Collins). Curt's primary interest in working Read More

Night Court: Hi Honey, I'm Home

Synopsis: It's up to Harry (Harry Anderson) to sort out a truly messy situation when a woman (Marcia Rodd) who has recently married for a second time is confronted with Husband Number One, who'd been erroneously reported killed in Vietnam. D.D. Howard makes her second and final appearance as Charly Tracy Read More

The A-Team: Labor Pains

Synopsis: This time the A-Team takes up the cause of migrant workers who are being treated as slaves--and cheated out of their meager salaries in the bargain--by evil landowner Ted Jarrett (played by prison-movie perennial John Vernon). Once on the scene, the Team sets about to organize the beleagured Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Targets - Daisy and Lulu

Synopsis: Returning from a trip to New Orleans, Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) and Lulu Hogg (Peggy Rea) are unaware that they've brought back the wrong suitcase thanks to a mixup at the airport. They're also unaware that the suitcase contains a stolen necklace. Unfortunately, the crooks who stole the necklace Read More

Wacko

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy, Julia Duffy, Scott McGinnis

Synopsis: Designed as a spoof of slasher movies, this gory comedy is set in a town that more than a decade ago was home to the infamous lawnmower killer. Set just before the big Halloween soiree at the local high school, it follows officer Dick Harbinger as he desperately tries to convince the town that the Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Bye, Bye Boss

Synopsis: Convict Digger Jackson (Charles Napier) has escaped from prison, swearing revenge on Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). By and by, Jackson kidnaps Boss and holds him for ransom, but no one has any inclination to pay up--and the only people who could possibly rescue Boss, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Read More

Melvin and Howard

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. Read More

The Blues Brothers

Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, John Candy, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two white boys with black soul. Sporting cool shades and look-alike suits, Jake and Elwood are dispatched on a "mission from God" by their former teacher, Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman Read More

The Last Embrace

Actors: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, Sam Levene, John Glover

Synopsis: In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a Read More

Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus

Actors: Charles Napier, Robert Stoneman, William Daniels

Synopsis: Nice to see veteran hardcase character actor Charles Napier in a leading role, even if it's in something as eminently forgettable as Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus. The eponymous Big Bob (Napier) is head man of a spit-and-vinegar auto racing team. Bob's aggregation makes a brief Read More

The Rockford Files: New Life, Old Dragons

Synopsis: On behalf of Vietnamese refugee Mai (Irene Yah-Ling Sun), Jim (James Garner) searches for the girl's brother Vinh (Jim Ishida), who myseriously vanished after leaving a relocation center. It turns out that Vinh has been waylaid by a couple of war veterans (from the "Catering Corps") who want the Read More

Citizens Band

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Ann Wedgeworth, Bruce McGill, Marcia Rodd

Synopsis: CB radios provide a human connection between the lives of a collection of varied characters in Jonathan Demme's energizing film that exploits the CB radio craze of the mid-'70s. Chrome Angel (Charles Napier) is a truck driver who has an accident and is laid up recuperating at the home of Hot Read More

Ransom for Alice

Synopsis: Ransom for Alice was the pilot film for the unsold series The Busters. The protagonists are not narcotics agents as might be assumed, but instead a male-female team of government undercover agents (Gil Gerard, Yvette Mimieux) operating in Seattle in the 1890s. Their current assignment is to Read More

Thunder and Lightning

Actors: David Carradine, Kate Jackson, Roger C. Carmel, Sterling Holloway, Ed Barth

Synopsis: David Carradine and Kate Jackson spend most of their time peering over dashboards and revving up outboard motors in this extended chase film about moonshiners engaged in a frantic racing contest. Carradine is Harley Thomas, a Florida moonshiner who challenges Ralph Junior (Roger C. Carmel), the Read More

Kojak: My Brother, My Enemy

Synopsis: A pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone is prominently featured in this episode as young detective Rick Daley, who accidentally shoots a boy while on duty. Daley claims that shots were being fired all around him at the time of the tragedy, and that he is innocent. Pressured by the higher-ups to protect Read More

Baretta: Double Image

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) goes undercover as a stevedore to investigate a series of dockside murders. Unfortunately, a waitress with a long-standing grudge against Baretta recognizes him. Will she blow the whistle on his cover, thereby putting both Tony and herself in jeopardy? Susan Tyrrell Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: No Place to Hide

Synopsis: The convicts in a maximum-security prison have developed a diabolically clever method to smuggle drugs in and out of the institution, using as their "mules" the prisoners' wives who show up on visiting day. When one of the convicts resists getting involved in the drug traffic, his wife on the Read More

The Rockford Files: 2 into 5.56 Won't Go

Synopsis: Korean War veteran Jim Rockford (James Garner) is contacted by his former commanding officer Col. Daniel Hart-Bowie (Frank Maxwell), who turns up dead after leaving a very brief and uninformative message on Jim's answering machine. Before long, the Army is exerting pressure on Jim to reveal the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cocaine

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Shatner, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The IMF has only 72 hours to intercept a huge shipment of cocaine, which is being delivered to supplier Carl Reid (Stephen McNally) by smuggler Fernando Lorca (Gregory Sierra). In order to undermine the main villains, agents Phelps and Willy prey upon the gullibility of Reid's second-in-command Read More

The Seven Minutes

Actors: Robert Moloney, John Sarno, Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Edy Williams, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy Read More

Mission: Impossible: Run for the Money

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Forming an unholy alliance, mobsters Frank Mason (Frank Mason) and Edward Trask (Richard Jaeckel) have been successfully modernizing, computerizing and (violently) streamlining the Syndicate's gambling activities. The IMF is assigned to break up the relationship between the two master criminals. Read More

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Actors: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett

Synopsis: After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, legendary sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic cult favorite, once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first Read More

Moonfire

Actors: Sonny Liston

Synopsis: Moonfire was shot almost entirely out of doors, which was supposed to enhance the realism but which makes the film look all the more like a home movie. Charles Napier plays a trucker who is sucked into a blackmail plot by sinister forces. Ex-boxer Sonny Liston is given special billing as "The Read More

Star Trek: The Way to Eden

Synopsis: Captain Kirk and the Enterprise become unwitting parties to the quest for a legendary, utopian planet in this episode from the third season of the well-known science fiction series. When the starship Aurora is stolen, the Enterprise is ordered to capture the hijackers. When Read More

The Hanging of Jake Ellis

Actors: Charles Napier, Deborah Downey, Bambi Allen

Synopsis: Jake Ellis (Charles Napier) is a cowboy who arrives in a two-fisted cattle town looking for work. Frank Hall (Jim Lemp) and his gang frame Jake for a crime he didn't commit. Dance-hall girls and cowgirls, most notably Bambi Allen and Deborah Downey, are shown in various stages of undress in this Read More

The House Near the Prado

Love and Kisses