Claude AkinsFilmography

Falling From Grace

Actors: John Mellencamp, Joe Mellencamp, Kay Lenz, Mariel Hemingway, Claude Akins, Larry Crane, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: Rocker John Mellencamp both directed and starred in this drama about a well-known musician who returns to his old home town, opening a number of old wounds in the process. Bud Parks (Mellencamp) is a country-rock star who's feeling burned out after a long stretch on the road and heads back to his Read More

Grass Roots

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls

Synopsis: In this mystery, an aging Sherlock Holmes allows King Edward to persuade him to bring a precious diamond back from South Africa. Along the way, Holmes meets Teddy Roosevelt and finds himself involved in intrigue and adventure. The story was originally a four-hour TV mini-series and was heavily Read More

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Actors: Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Rick Rossovich, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

Actors: Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Jenny Seagrove, Claude Akins, Richard Todd

Synopsis: Four countries--Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg--were in on the financing of 1991's Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. At first glance, Christopher Lee seems too old to play Conan Doyle's master detective, but the script allows for this by having the story takes place on the Read More

Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

Actors: Perrey Reeves, Helen Shaver, Marcianne Warman

Synopsis: Evil land developers, those most ubiquitous of 1980s movie villains, are the chief antagonists in the made-for-TV Mothers, Daughters and Lovers. Helen Shaver plays a truckstop/motel owner in the rural Northwest. She manages her business with the help of her two budding teenaged daughters--one Read More

Hunter: The Legion, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) teams up with her retired mentor, former police officer Andy Polanski (Claude Akins), to track down Frank Lassiter (Richard Lynch), the fugitive head of the neo-Nazi Aryan Legion. On the verge of finding out who provided inside Read More

Hunter: The Legion, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) quits the force in the wake of the suicide of her friend and mentor Andy Polanski (Claude Akins). But try though she might, McCall cannot keep herself out of the center of the storm surrounding the crime wave perpetrated by Aryan Read More

The Curse

Actors: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcom Danare, Cooper Huckabee, John Schneider

Synopsis: This awful horror film, the directing debut of actor David Keith, is the second major adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space, first brought to the screen in Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die. Wil Wheaton stars as Zack, eternal whipping-boy of a rural farm family headed by his Read More

Monster in the Closet

Actors: Donald Grant, Denise Du Barry, Claude Akins, Howard Duff, Henry Gibson, Donald Moffat, Kevin Peter Hall

Synopsis: A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's horror films, this monster movie is set in California, where closets can be large and quite important. The monster (Kevin Peter Hall) is straight out of Alien, if not quite as gruesome. It hides out in closets and wait for Read More

If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium

Synopsis: When a tour bus driver plans to save his daughter from her captors, a Belgian circus performer, the Americans on his European bus tour lend a help hand. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dream West

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

Manhunt for Claude Dallas

Actors: Matt Salinger

Synopsis: On March 30, 1986, Claude Dallas, an Ohio-born trapper serving a 30-year sentence for a double murder, escaped from prison. He was still at large at the time the made-for-TV Manhunt for Claude Dallas first aired on October 28, 1986. Matt Salinger stars as Dallas in this gritty, Colorado-filmed Read More

Return of the Monster Trucks

Actors: Claude Akins

Synopsis: See the ultimate in car crushing action in this televised monster truck competition. Back in 1986, when Monster Trucks were just getting big in America, the organizers of Return of the Monster Trucks decided to pit some of the most well-known trucks and their drivers against each other for the Read More

Pecos Bill

Synopsis: This entertaining version of Pecos Bill is from the Tall Tales and Legends series by Shelley Duvall and features more adventures from the wild man who was raised by coyotes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Celebrity

Synopsis: After twenty-five years, a trio of old high school friends are held responsible for a rape incident they have, until now, kept secret in this television miniseries based on Thomas Thompson's novel. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Baron and the Kid

Actors: Johnny Cash, Greg Webb, Tracy Pollan

Synopsis: The "Baron", played by Johnny Cash, is a legendary pool shark. The "Cajun Kid", played by Greg Webb, is the Baron's long-lost son. Once they're reunited, the Baron and the Kid embark upon numerous adventures, each exploit bringing them closer. Based on Johnny Cash's hit song "The Baron", this Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadly Lady

Synopsis: In the first hour-long episode of Murder She Wrote (the debut episode had run two hours), mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is back in her home town of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she makes the acquaintance of a seedy-looking gentleman named Ralph (Howard Duff), who has shown up in Read More

The Master: Max

Synopsis: The only American ever to earn the distinction of becoming a true ninja attempts to mentor his protégé and fend off some greedy land developers in this installment of the popular series starring Lee Van Cleef. After World War II, John Peter McAllister (Van Cleef) remained in Japan to train in the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury's former MGM colleagues Van Johnson and June Allyson are prominently featured in this episode. A double-dealing businessman is killed when he is run over by a remote-controlled station wagon. Suspicion immediately falls upon the victim's disgruntled former partner, an oddball Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Hooray for Homicide

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) arrives in Hollywood, where her first mystery novel "The Corpse Danced at Midnight" is being made into a movie. Unfortunately, Jessica is displeased by the decision of film producer Jerry Lydecker (John Saxon) to "juice up" her novel with heavy doses of sex and violence Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Curtain Call

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury is reunited with her onetime The Picture of Dorian Gray costar Hurd Hatfield in this episode, in which Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury) attends a special performance by a Soviet ballet troupe. Just as two of the dancers decide to defect, the KGB official assigned to the troupe is Read More

Desperate Intruder

Synopsis: In the early 1980s, Procter and Gamble teamed with Commworld Productions for a series of taped two-hour TV movies, to be syndicated throughout the US. The Commworld Prime Time Showcase yielded only two efforts: Emergency Room and Desperate Intruder. The latter film was the old chestnut about a Read More

Ebony, Ivory and Jade

Synopsis: A scientist hunted by terrorists receives assistance from an unexpected source: two Las Vegas showgirls and their promoter who pretend to be detectives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Country Music Murders

Synopsis: In this murder mystery a married couple goes to Nashville to look into the murder of a private eye. They are involved because his body was found in their apartment. The film is also titled "Murder in Music City." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder in Music City

Synopsis: A couple find the body of a detective in their apartment, and follow the trail of his killer to Nashville. The film is also known as Country Music Murders. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

B.J. and the Bear: Season 01

Actors: Greg Evigan, Claude Akins, Mills Watson, Richard Deacon, Ed Lauter, Slim Pickens

The Concrete Cowboys

Actors: Roy Acuff, Claude Akins, Lucille Benson, Joseph Burke, Gene Evans

Synopsis: Two Montana saddletramps head for bustling Music City and open up a detective agency in this comical adventure that was originally the pilot of a television series. Not only do the two have to accustom themselves to strange big-city ways, they have to learn to become less inept at the gumshoe game Read More

Little Mo

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biopic covers the life of teenaged tennis star Maureen Catherine Connolly (Glynnis O'Connor), better known as "Little Mo." Making a spectacular debut during the 1951 US Open, 16-year-old Maureen goes on to become the first female ever to win the Grand Slam of Tennis. But in 1953 Read More

The Broken Badge

Synopsis: Broken Badge was one of several 2-hour Police Story specials telecast during the 1977-78 TV season. Claude Akins stars as a no-nonsense cop with a bad rep. A prostitute charges Akins with harassing her; shortly afterward, she turns up dead. The rest of the drama concerns Akins' straw-grasping Read More

B.J. and the Bear: Pilot Episode

Actors: Greg Evigan, Penny Peyser, Julius Harris

Synopsis: The TV adventure series B. J. and the Bear premiered as a midseason replacement on February 10, 1979. Greg Evigan starred as B.J. McCay, a wildcat trucker who'd do anything for a price, as long as it was honest. He travelled the length and breadth of the country in the company of his pet chimp Read More

I Tentacoli

Actors: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Ovidio Assonitis, who had ripped off The Exorcist with his successful Chi Sei? (1974) here turns his attentions to the post-Jaws ecokill film with silly results. The titular beast kills swimmers and divers before attacking a sailing regatta (an idea which, paradoxically, was Read More

Killer on Board

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a group of tourists aboard a cruise ship must be quarantined after they become afflicted with a lethal virus. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rhinemann Exchange

Actors: Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of Read More

Yesterday's Child

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Synopsis: After a plane crash, killer tarantulas escape from the cargo, threatening orange groves and scaring the crop out of the locals in this arachnorama. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Kiss Me Kill Me

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Pat O'Brien, Robert Vaughn, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: Originally titled D.A.'s Investigator, Kiss Me Kill Me stars Stella Stevens as Stella Stafford, "leg woman" for the LA district attorney's office. The case at hand is the murder of a young, highly respected schoolteacher. Stella is certain that she has the killer dead to rights--but this is before Read More

Eric

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-TV tearjerker, the promising life of a talented teenage athlete is suddenly destroyed when he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Despite the bad news, the boy does all he can to fight the disease. His devoted mother supports him to the bitter, inevitable end. The story Read More

Medical Story

Synopsis: In this pilot film for the NBC TV series Medical Story, idealistic young intern Dr. Steve Drucker (Beau Bridges) clashes with three of his superiors over whether a prominent actress should have a hysterectomy. The woman in question is played by Harriet Karr, who had undergone a similar experience Read More

The Big Push

Synopsis: When a couple of ruthless businessmen threaten her logging camp, a defenseless widow is aided by a group of Alaskan lumberjacks. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

In Tandem

Synopsis: In Tandem was the pilot film for the TV series Movin' On, and has since borne that title in syndication. Created by Barry Weitz and Philip D'Antoni, the concept was an update of the obscure U.S./Canadian TV weekly Cannonball, with a bit of Route 66 and The Streets of San Francisco thrown in. Claude Akins Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A String of Puppets

Synopsis: A robbery gang comes to the attention of homicide detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) when the crooks murder a fellow gang member. Going undercover, Keller tries to determine if there is a link between the criminals' activities and a sultry nightclub singer. Lola Falana Read More

Shadow of Fear

Actors: Anjanette Comer, Claude Akins, Tom Selleck

Synopsis: A former schizophrenic finds herself stalked by a mysterious foe in this thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston

Synopsis: The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey Planet, this science fiction film was the least-liked by the series' legion of fans. Roddy McDowall returns as Caesar, the rebellious intelligent chimp of the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Read More

Mission: Impossible: Speed

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Three tons of narcotics are stolen by dealer Sam Hibbing (Claude Akins). To recover the drugs, and to ruin both Hibbing and his higher-ups, the IMF concoct an undermining scheme that once again requires agent Casey to pose as a criminal's daughter. Filmed on location in San Francisco, this episode Read More

The Death Squad

Synopsis: Made for television, Death Squad focuses on a group of renegade police responsible for the murder of shady crooks--especially the ones who have avoided conviction on small technicalities. The commissioner decides to hire an ex-cop to bring the vigilantes to justice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Norliss Tapes

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Author William F. Nolan and producer/director Dan (Dark Shadows) Curtis combined forces for the made-for-TV The Norliss Tapes. Roy Thinnes stars as Dan Norliss, an investigative reporter specializing the supernatural. Norliss' tapes consist of his observations when tracking down a report about a Read More

The Night Stalker

Actors: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Seedy newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is assigned the Las Vegas police beat by his boss Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). A series of murders has been plaguing the Glitter Capital; the victims, all beautiful showgirls, have had the blood drained from their bodies. Kolchak can't Read More

Skyjacked

Actors: Kelley Miles, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain

Synopsis: Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin Read More

The F.B.I.: Dark Journey

Synopsis: Claude Akins appears as Jason Peale, a glib con artist with an ego as big as all outdoors. Peale's latest scam involves poses as an elusive, Howard Hughes-like tycoon in order to sell bogus stock. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) makes it his mission to nip Peale in the bud, with or without Read More

A Man Called Sledge

Actors: Lorenzo Fineschi, Herman Reynoso, Mario Valgoi, John Marley, James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins

Synopsis: In this Italian western, an outlaw enlists the aid of his pal and a robber gang to pull off a gold heist. Later, the gang argues about how the loot should be split. The robber gang then absconds with the gold leaving the other pair in the dust. The outlaw and friend set off to capture the Read More

Flap

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Flap is marginally significant as the only western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as Flapping Eagle, a modern-day Native American stuck on a squalid reservation. Though liquored up most of the time, Flapping Eagle undergoes an eleventh-hour social awakening. Read More

Lock, Stock and Barrel

Actors: Claude Akins

Synopsis: This TV movie is set in the old Northwest. Belinda J. Montgomery wants to marry young Tim Matheson, but her father (Claude Akins) is against it. Matheson takes matters in his own hands by "kidnapping" Belinda and heading for Oregon. With Montgomery's daddy and her goonish brothers in hot pursuit Read More

River of Mystery

Synopsis: In this action drama, a diamond hunter and a revolutionary leader look for demolitions experts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Bank Robbery

Actors: Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's purportedly most unrobbable bank. Unfortunately, they are not the only bandits planning to rob the bank. Their rivals in robbery include a Mexican bandido and his dullard son. Read More

The Devil's Brigade

Actors: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins

Synopsis: During the early days of World War II, while the United States was massing its forces for the war, England hastily plans commando raids against the German forces to keep them at bay until America's troops enter the war. As a part of this plan, the Allies create the 1st Special Service Force to Read More

Waterhole #3

Actors: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Maggie Blye, Claude Akins, Timothy Carey

Synopsis: "A rootin', tootin', but sincere picture" was the advertising tag for the comedy western Waterhole No. 3. James Coburn plays the likeably amoral hero, who'll go to any lengths to get his mitts on a treasure map. Like his principal rival, renegade confederate cavalryman Claude Akins, Coburn knows Read More

Combat!: Nightmare on the Red Ball Run

Synopsis: Kirby (Jack Hogan) and Littlejohn (Dick Peabody) volunteer as relief drivers for a "Red Ball Express" squadron headed by an overbearing sergeant (Claude Akins). In an extended sequence reminiscent of the French "new wave" classic The Wages of Fear, the two soldiers find themselves maneuvering a Read More

First to Fight

Actors: Chad Everett, Marilyn Devin, Claude Akins, Dean Jagger, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a tough-as-steel Medal of Honor-winning Marine finds himself training recruits on a stateside base and waiting for his wife to bear their first child. Unfortunately, he feels bad about being home when so many other soldiers are dying in the Pacific Theater and so asks to be Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Meets the Law

Actors: Mary Jane Croft, Claude Akins, Iris Adrian, Kenny Lynch, Joe Perry

Synopsis: Through a series of misunderstandings, Lucy (Lucille Ball) is assumed to be a notorious jewel thief called "The Red Flash" and is arrested by a zealous police lieutenant (Claude Akins). Assuming that she has been jailed merely for throwing a candy wrapper on the street, Lucy is not only surprised Read More

Combat!: Ollie Joe

Synopsis: King Company's two newest replacements are as different as night and day. Slovenly Charlie Pelton (Claude Akins is a self-admitted goldbrick; conversely, clean-cut Ollie Joe Brown (Robert Walker Jr.) is doggedly determined to be what he calls "G.I. Perfect." Having grown up an orphan, Ollie Joe Read More

Ride Beyond Vengeance

Actors: Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Told via flashback by a saloon keeper to a census taker in a tiny Texas town, this brutal, adult-oriented western offers the tale of a drifter who settles down to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can get at her inheritance. When that is exposed, the drifter flees and does not return for eleven Read More

Incident at Phantom Hill

Actors: Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash the gold in a cave near Phantom Hill, Texas. They are subsequently captured. The ring leader bargains with his captors offering to reveal the loot's location in exchange for Read More

Combat!: Ask Me No Questions

Synopsis: The Germans capture Saunders (Vic Morrow) and place him in a makeshift prison compound along with three other newly acquired American prisoners: Sgt. Mike Martin (Claude Akins) and privates Coker (Ed Peck) and Murray (Carl Reindel). What Saunders doesn't know is that one of his three fellow POWs Read More

Return of the Magnificent Seven

Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Jordan Christopher, Claude Akins

Synopsis: The first of two sequels to The Magnificent Seven (1960), this bloody western featured only Yul Brynner from the original picture's all-star cast. Once again, the residents of a pastoral Mexican village become enslaved by a maniacal brute, this time the insane rancher Lorca (Emilio Fernandez), who Read More

The F.B.I.: How to Murder an Iron Horse

Synopsis: Though he would frequently be cast in later FBI episodes as a crime victim, David Macklinis here seen as a the heavy of the piece, a deranged teenager named Howard "Howdy" Collier. After blowing up a freight train with a homemade time bomb, Howdy threatens to destroy a passenger train if he isn't Read More

Branded: The Vindicator

Synopsis: New York newspaperman Ned Travis (Claude Akins) tracks down Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) in hopes of getting the "real story" of what happened at Bitter Creek. Under normal circumstances, McCord would like nothing better than to reveal the truth and clear himself of the charge of cowardice. But Read More

The Killers

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak's 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. As the story opens two professional looking men in business suits -- Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) -- push their way into a school Read More

A Distant Trumpet

Actors: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Troy Donahue stars in this drive-in quality "B"-Western from the Warner Brothers backlot, directed by veteran director Raoul Walsh. Donahue is U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Matt Hazard, who arrives at Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona for a new assignment. Kitty Mainwaring (Suzanne Pleshette Read More

The Fugitive: Never Stop Running

Synopsis: Now working as an ambulance driver and using the handle "Doc", Kimble (David Janssen) is approached by a desperate married couple (Wright King, Joanna Moore) seeking help for their ailing son (Michel Petit). It soon develops that the "couple" are actually the brother and wife of kidnapper Ralph Read More

The Untouchables: The Spoiler

Synopsis: Federal agent Elliot Ness ($Robert Stack}) and gangster boss Vince Majeski (Claude Akins) are both very interested when fugitive hoodlum Johnny Meizo (Rip Torn) returns from Brazil. It seems that just before leaving the States, Meizo had stolen $200,000 of Majeski's money. On the lam from both the Read More

Black Gold

Actors: Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins

Synopsis: A group of wildcatting oil drillers battle an Oklahoma oil baron for the rights of a potentially high yield field. The roughnecks fight on the job and in the saloons while hoping for the big gusher that will make them all rich. A catastrophic accident threatens to wipe out the hard work of the Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Little People

Actors: Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael D. Ford

Synopsis: Though it casts all known laws of physics to the four winds, this Rod Serling-scripted Twilight Zone episode scores points on an "important message" level. Arriving on a strange planet, Earth astronauts Peter Craig (Joe Maross) and William Fletcher (Claude Akins) stumble upon a microscopic city Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Day of Reckoning

Synopsis: When the faithless wife of architect Paul Sampson (Barry Sullivan) demands a divorce, he goes berserk and kills her. The police rule that the death was an accident, but it isn't long before Paul is tortured by the pangs of conscience. He decides to confess to the murder and take the consequences Read More

The Untouchables: The Monkey Wrench

Synopsis: To improve the taste of his beer, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) brings several expert German "braumeisters" into the country. This doesn't rest well with Nitti's rival Joe Kulak (Oscar Beregi), whose own revenue from bootleg beer takes a big hit. Caught in the crossfire are the hapless brewers Read More

Merrill's Marauders

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Andrew Duggan, Luz Valdez, Will Hutchins

Synopsis: Jeff Chandler stars as American brigadier-general Merrill, commanding a regiment in Burma during World War II. Surrounded on all sides by the Japanese, Merrill's Marauders nonetheless accomplish their objective-only to be ordered into another mission with barely a chance to breathe. Again and Read More

Bonanza: The Deserter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: The Cartwrights are visited by Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody (Claude Akins), who is searching for an Army deserter. The fugitive turns out to be Bill Winters (Robert Sampson), the Cartwrights' well-liked neighbor-and, as it happens, Colonel Dunwoody's son. Meanwhile, the Shoshones plan to wreak Read More

Claudelle Inglish

Actors: Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford, Claude Akins

Synopsis: In this sleazy melodrama a defiant Southern farm girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner her mother picked out. After her new husband is drafted and leaves, the girl descends into a life of cheap thrills, moving from man to man. She is beautiful and the men fight over her Read More

Bonanza: Sam Hill

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Claude Akins guest-stars as the titular Sam Hill, a blacksmith of extraordinary strength. Pressured to give up the land on which his mother is buried, Sam discovers that he has been sold out by his own father, an irresponsible drunkard-and that the new owner of the property is a self-styled Read More

Gunfight in Black Horse Canyon

Actors: Dale Robertson, Ellen Burstyn, George Kennedy

Synopsis: Bounty hunters hired by an ex-con focus on the Wells Fargo agent who placed the ex-con in prison. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Untouchables: The Unhired Assassin, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Capone lieutenant Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) attempts to bribe Chicago mayor Anton Cermak (Robert Middleton) for a piece of the 1933 World's Fair. When Cermak tells him to get lost, Nitti growls "You're dead"--and he means it. As Federal agent Elliot Ness Read More

Bonanza: The Mill

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Crippled farmer Tom Edwards (Harry Townes) holds Ben Cartwright responsible for the accident which destroyed the use of his legs. Edwards' bitterness is fueled by his hired hand Ezekial (Claude Akins), who while plying Tom with liquor is also methodically cheating him out of his life savings. It Read More

Inherit the Wind

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Henry "Harry" Morgan

Synopsis: The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 "Monkey Trial," in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation Read More

Comanche Station

Actors: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust

Synopsis: The last of the Randolph Scott/ Budd Boetticher collaborations, Comanche Station stars Scott as another "lone rider" who takes on a highly dangerous job. Scott must rescue Nancy Gates from her Comanche captors and return the woman to her husband. He is assisted by a trio of criminals, who are out Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Actors: Claude Akins, Jack Weston, Barry Atwater, Jan Handzlik, Mary Gregory

Synopsis: A neighborhood full of friendly people degenerates into a mob when Maple Street is suddenly plagued by strange and seemingly pre-planned power outages. Steve Brand (Claude Akins) tries to act as the voice of reason, but he is shouted down by his hotheaded neighbor Charlie (Jack Weston). Meanwhile Read More

Bonanza: Desert Justice

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Young Billy Walker (Wesley Lau) is accused of murdering the wife of Marshal Dowd (Claude Akins). Walker's employers, the Cartwrights, hope that Billy will get a fair trial, but it soon becomes obvious that Dowd intends to kill the boy before the case can be heard. Thus it is that Adam and Hoss Read More

Rio Bravo

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that Read More

Yellowstone Kelly

Actors: Clint Walker, Edward Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Based on a book by Clay Fisher, this 1959 western has a cast loaded with television stars of the era. Clint Walker of TV's Cheyenne appears as the title character, a trapper who befriends the American Indian tribes in his hunting territory in 1867. When the U.S. cavalry is attacked by Kelly's Read More

Porgy and Bess

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

Synopsis: A stellar line-up of African-American actors and musical stars helped to bring DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's classic operetta to this screen in this lavishly-produced adaptation. Porgy (Sidney Poitier) is a crippled man living in the shantytown of Catfish Row who has fallen in love with Bess (Dorothy Dandridge Read More

Don't Give up the Ship

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert Middleton, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Don't Give Up the Ship stars Jerry Lewis as a navy officer who is whisked away from his honeymoon by a senate investigating committee. The committee would like to know what happened to the U.S.S. Kornblatt, the battleship Lewis had commandeered during the War; the crew arrived home safely, but the Read More

Hound-Dog Man

Actors: Fabian, Carol Lynley, Stuart Whitman, Arthur O'Connell, Dodie Stevens, Betty Field

Synopsis: A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney (Dennis Holmes) constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother (Betty Field). The lad should be watching the family farm, but he falls in with his older brother, Clint (pop music's teen Read More

Onionhead

Actors: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants and the hotheaded truculence of Lonesome Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd. Griffith is cast as Al Woods, a college student majoring in Read More

The Defiant Ones

Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Cara Williams, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John "Joker" Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy Read More

Maverick: Burial Ground of the Gods

Synopsis: Cheated by con artist Paisley Briggs (Claude Akins), Bart trails the man to Denver, where Briggs is preparing to fleece a young widow named Nancy Gates (Laura Stunton), whose husband may or may not have been killed by Indians. Persuading Nancy that her husband is still alive, Briggs talks her into Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) receives an urgent telegram from Frank Lawton (Stewart Bradley), an old Army buddy who apparently is in trouble. Not long afterward, Frank is charged with the murder of his boss, Scott Shelby (Tom Shelby). Offering to defend Frank, Perry is shocked to learn that his friend Read More

Joe Dakota

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Luana Patten, Charles McGraw, Barbara Lawrence, Claude Akins

Synopsis: A tall horseman (Jock Mahoney) rides into the small town of Arborville, deserted except for redheaded Jody (Luana Patten), who's uncomfortable about it. Outside town, the rider finds all the townspeople working on an oil rig on a small ranch. They're led by Cal Moore (Charles McGraw), and include Read More

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

Actors: Marjorie Main, Parker Fennelly, Gloria Talbott, John Smith, George Dunn

Synopsis: The 8-year-old "Ma and Pa Kettle Series" came to an end with The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. In her last screen appearance, Marjorie Main is back as Ma Kettle, while Parker Fennelly replaces the defecting Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. This time, Ma and Pa try to smooth the path of romance for Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Great Mojave Chase

Synopsis: Crooked "sportsman" Billy Joe Kane (Lawrence Dobkin) is promoting a race in the Mojave desert, in which he is wagering that his posse will be able to track down any contestant before reaching the finish line. Accepting the challenge, Paladin (Richard Boone) enters the race--and, confirming his Read More

The Lonely Man

Actors: Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Robert Middleton, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on a 1941 movie entitled Shepherd of the Hills, this is the story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17 years to make amends with his son. The son blames him for his mother's death and the reconciliation is difficult. Although there are many side action lines -- old enemies Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Reward to Finder

Synopsis: Miserly janitor John Gaminsky (Oscar Homolka) finds a wallet containing 5,000 dollars. John's nagging wife Anna (Jo Van Fleet) insists that he return the wallet and the money to the rightful owner, who has placed an ad in the paper. Though John claims to do so, Anna catches him in his lie and Read More

Hot Summer Night

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, Edward Andrews, Jay C. Flippen, James Best

Synopsis: Hot Summer Night is an out-of-the-ordinary crime yarn from the TV/radio production team of Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Unemployed journalist William Joel Pertain (Leslie Nielsen) hopes to reestablish himself by capitalizing on a recent wave of bank robberies. Pertain has a "lead" to the gang's Read More

The Burning Hills

Actors: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: The plot of The Burning Hills is motivated by revenge, which only a few years earlier had been on the Motion Picture Code's no-no list. Cattleman Trace Jordan (Tab Hunter) seeks retribution for the murder of his brother, killed at the behest of cattle baron Joe Sutton (Ray Teal). Before long Read More

Gunsmoke: Greater Love

Synopsis: Sick of working himself to death for next to no money, and convinced that no one appreciates him, Doc (Milburn Stone) is on the verge of leaving Dodge City forever. All this changes when Doc is kidnapped by stagecoach robbers Jed (Claude Akins) and Rod (Ray Bennett), who threaten to kill him if he Read More

Battle Stations

Actors: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone, William Leslie

Synopsis: Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches. John Lund plays Father Joe McIntyre, who is assigned as chaplain of an Essex-class aircraft carrier. Father Joe finds himself in conflict with the carrier's Captain (Richard Boone Read More

The Proud and Profane

Actors: William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield

Synopsis: In this war romance, set during WW II, a widow falls for a Marine colonel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Johnny Concho

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Keenan Wynn, William Conrad, Phyllis Kirk, Wallace Ford, Christopher Dark

Synopsis: Coadapted by David Harmon from his own TV play, the psychological western Johnny Concho stars Frank Sinatra as the title character, a callow young punk who lives off the reputation of his gunslinger brother. Most of the townsfolk consider Johnny to be nothing more than a cowardly bully; only Mary Read More

The Sharkfighters

Actors: Victor Mature, Karen Steele, James Olson, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins

Synopsis: In this adventure, Navy researchers team up with marine biologists to create an effective shark repellent for WW II pilots who must fly over oceans. Unfortunately, the project is supervised by an unscrupulous scientist who wants to get the project finished and endeavors to have an inferior product Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Peril by Sea

Synopsis: "Daily Planet" editor Perry White (John Hamilton) decides to flex his scientific muscles and develops "Formula U183", which will enable him to extract uranium from sea water. Villainous submarine commander Ace Miller (Claude Akins) decides to steal the formula and eliminate not only White but also Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Place of Shadows

Synopsis: Hoping to murder the man who has swindled him, Ray Clements (Mark Damon) worms his way into the remote monastery where his intended victim is convalescing after a serious car accident. Father Vincent (Everett Sloane), head of the monastery, senses that Ray is up to no good, and tries to persuade Read More

I Love Lucy: Desert Island

Actors: Claude Akins, Joi Lansing, Jill Jarmyn

Synopsis: Intent upon preventing Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and Fred (William Frawley) from judging a bathing beauty contest in Miami Beach, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) arrange for the foursome to "accidentally" run out of gas while taking a boat cruise. Unfortunately, the backup gas tank planted Read More

The Sea Chase

Actors: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post WWII. Though staunchly opposed to the Nazi regime, Karl (Wayne) feels it would nevertheless be unpatriotic should he refuse to save his ship from destruction. His ship--an old Read More

Gunsmoke: Word of Honor

Synopsis: Kidnapers Harry (Claude Akins) and Rudy (Dick Paxton) summon Doc (Milburn Stone) to their shack to tend the wounds of their victim Hank Worth, the son of a wealthy rancher. When Hank dies, the outlaws are prepared to kill Doc, but he gives his word of honor not to reveal their whereabouts if they Read More

Bitter Creek

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Carleton Young, Beverly Garland, Claude Akins, Jim Hayward

Synopsis: Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by Wild Bill Elliot. Though officially prohibited to do so by the Production Code, the film is motivated by revenge. Elliot arrives in Bitter Creek seeking retribution for the Read More

Down Three Dark Streets

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan, Casey Adams

Synopsis: Coadapted by The Gordons from their novel Case File FBI, Down Three Dark Streets stars Broderick Crawford as a no-nonsense FBI agent. Hoping to avenge the death of his partner Kenneth Tobey, Crawford almost single-handedly takes on the three investigations which Tobey had been pursuing. One Read More

The Caine Mutiny

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn

Synopsis: Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries Read More

Shield for Murder

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Marla English, Emile G. Meyer

Synopsis: A corrupt cop creates all kinds of problems in this crime drama. The trouble begins when he kills a bookie and then grabs $25,000. Later he tells his chiefs that he did it because he had to, but as no one was there to witness the killing, they are forced to take his word for it. Unfortunately for Read More

The Raid

Actors: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, Richard Boone, Tommy Rettig

Synopsis: Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison head for Canada and begin planning to distract Union forces by looting and pillaging a Vermont town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dragnet: The Big Mattress

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the Nevada Hotel, where tenant Theodore Benham (James Bell) claims that he took a shot at a burglar who then killed Benham's wife. A witness across the hall confirms that she saw an apparently wounded man was fleeing the scene of the Read More

The Human Jungle

Actors: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Paula Raymond, Emile G. Meyer, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: In the tradition of Dragnet and The Lineup, this is devoted to a typically busy day at a police precinct station house. Despite the presence of such recognizable actors as Gary Merrill and Regis Toomey, the film successfully adopts a documentary approach. The plot concerns a new police chief (Gary Merrill Read More

Dragnet: The Big Drink

Synopsis: Claude Akins is cast as Mr. Ellis, whose wife's dead body has been found in a vacant lot. As Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) try to get "just the facts", the grieving Ellis tries to drown his sorrows in liquor. But the more Ellis drinks, the more convinced the detectives become that Read More

From Here to Eternity

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an Read More