David CarradineFilmography

The Golden Boys

Actors: David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Adapted from Joseph C. Lincoln's best-selling novel Can'n Eri, this gentle tale of three retired sea captains living together and looking to get their house in order features an all-star cast including David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, and Mariel Hemingway. The story begins in turn of the Read More

Crank High Voltage

Actors: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins, Jr., Efren Ramirez, Bai Ling, Dwight Yoakam

Synopsis: The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off -- except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that Read More

My Suicide

Actors: Gabriel Sunday, Brooke Nevin, David Carradine, Joe Mantegna, Mariel Hemingway

Synopsis: A seventeen year old media geek becomes the most talked about student in his high school after announcing plans to kill himself on camera as part of his video class' final project. Upon announcing his grim plan, Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is beset by people seeking to save him, imitate him Read More

Kandisha

Actors: David Carradine, Saïd Taghmaoui, Hiam Abbass, Amira Casar, Michaël Cohen

Synopsis: A woman investigating a bloody killing discovers there might be a metaphysical solution to the crime in this horror story from director Jerome Cohen-Olivar. Nyla Jayde (Amira Casar) is a well-respected lawyer who has been emotionally devastated by the unexpected passing of her child. Trying to Read More

Bad Cop

Actors: Damian Chapa, David Carradine, Miguel Angel, Maricela Carmen, Peré Estefania

Synopsis: Screen legend David Carradine turns in one of his final screen performances in this low-budget, crime drama helmed by Mexican-American actor-director Damian Chapa. Chapa stars as honest but financially strapped cop Angel Alvarez, who makes some quick money -- but loses his soul -- when he goes to Read More

Break

Actors: Sarah Thompson, Chad Everett, Michael Madsen, Charles Durning, James Russo

Synopsis: An introverted hitman named Frank is contracted to carry out a most unusual contract in this stylish neo-noir drama featuring Charles Durning, Michael Madsen, James Russo, and David Carradine. "The Man" is the biggest crime boss in the city, and his rule is absolute. When "The Man" discovers that Read More

Hell Ride

Actors: Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Veteran AIP genre star Larry Bishop (son of famed Rat Packer Joey Bishop) directs and stars in this gritty revenge tale concerning a biker gang that rallies to avenge the violent murder of a fellow gang member. An homage to such classic biker films as Chrome and Hot Leather and Angel Unchained Read More

How to Rob a Bank

Actors: Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Terry Crews

Synopsis: Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, and Gavin Rossdale star in a high-stakes caper film in which the only thing for certain is that nothing is as it seems. Fed up with the manner in which super-sized corporations continually stack the deck against the common man, Jason "Jinx" Taylor (Stahl) reaches his Read More

National Lampoon's Stoned Age

Actors: Adam Rifkin, Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur, David Carradine, Gary Busey

Synopsis: A philosophical caveman discovers that there's more to life than sticks, stones, and brontosaurus burgers in this prehistoric comedy from cult director Adam Rifkin (The Dark Backward). Ishbo (Rifkin) isn't your average hunter/gatherer; in a world dominated by Neanderthals, his fellow tribe members Read More

Tattoos: A Scarred History

Absolute Evil

Actors: David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Rusty Joiner, Ulli Lommel

Synopsis: A woman escaping a violent past finds it unexpectedly catching up with her in this action drama from director Ulli Lommel. When she was a girl, Savannah (Carolyn Neff) was traumatized when she saw her father shot to death in front of his garage in Corpus Christi, Texas. Years later, Savannah feels Read More

Kung Fu Killer

Actors: David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lim Kay Tong, Osric Chau, Jimmy Taenaka

Synopsis: Kill Bill stars David Carradine and Daryl Hannah reunite for this two-part television mini-series set in late 1920s China, and following a Wudang monk and a vengeful lounge singer on their violent quest to assassinate the man responsible for killing their loved ones and destroying their lives. The Read More

Big Stan

Actors: Rob Schneider, David Carradine, Salvator Xuereb, Buddy Lewis, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Deuce Bigalow star Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways ultimately land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped while serving time, the diminutive convict-to-be enlists the aid of a respected kung-fu expert in Read More

Fuego

Actors: Damian Chapa, David Carradine, Elena Talan, Jorge Ramrer

Synopsis: An ex-convict and former spy embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue an ambassador's daughter from the clutches of the dangerous ETA terrorist group in this thriller starring Damian Chapa and David Carradine. Julio has just escaped from a Mexican prison, and he's making his way through the Read More

Epic Movie

Actors: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune Chambers

Synopsis: Scary Movie screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer join forces to parody the "biggest" movies ever to hit the silver screen in this comedy that gives such popular box-office hits as Pirates of the Caribbean and Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe the same treatment Read More

Buttermilk Sky

Actors: Michael Madsen, David Carradine

Treasure Raiders

Actors: Alexander Nevsky, Sherilyn Fenn, David Carradine, Robert Madrid, Olga Rodionova

Synopsis: A Russian street racer and his sly American nemesis attempt to put aside their differences and work together in tracking down a lost templar treasure before the police and the mafia get to it first. American professor Michael has two great passions in life - street racing and treasure hunting. Read More

National Lampoon's Homo Erectus

Actors: Adam Rifkin, Ali Larter, David Carradine, Talia Shire

Synopsis: Detroit Rock City's Adam Rifkin writes, directs, and stars in National Lampoon's Homo Erectus, a prehistoric comedy surrounding a caveman and his plight to find love while leading his clan. Ali Larter plays the love interest, with David Carradine and Talia Shire portraying Rifkin's parents. Cameos Read More

Fall Down Dead

Synopsis: In a city swallowed up by darkness, a group of seven strangers are stalked by a serial killer seeking the one woman who can identify him to the authorities. The lights are out due to rolling blackouts, and most of the locals are cowering in their homes as a homicidal maniac dubbed the Picasso Read More

The Trident

Actors: Aalok Mehta, Anisha Nagarajan, Anup Sugunan, David Carradine

Permanent Vacation

Actors: Frank Harper, Gina Bellman, David Carradine, Michael Bowen, Phoebe Thomas

Synopsis: Ordered by his boss to take a long overdue vacation, a mild mannered Englishmen and terminal workaholic takes his family to Florida on a camping trip that immediately devolves into a disaster of grotesque proportions. Eric Bury has been working so hard that he's forgotten what it means to have a Read More

Camille

Actors: James Franco, Sienna Miller, David Carradine, Scott Glenn, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Sienna Miller and James Franco star in first-time producer/director Gregory Mackenzie's twisted romance about a honeymooning couple who discovers that sometimes love is stronger than death. Recent parolee Silas (Franco) has just been blackmailed into marrying the beautiful Camille (Miller), and Read More

Son of the Dragon

Actors: John Reardon, David Carradine, Desiree Siahaan, Rupert Graves

Synopsis: A small time con artist and his loyal companion must fight to prove their innocent when they are accused of attempting to poison a princess in this adventure mini-series directed by David Wu (The Bride with White Hair) and starring David Carradine. D.B. (John Reardon) was abandoned at birth on the Read More

Hair High

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Zak Orth, Sarah Silverman, Justin Long, Eric Gilliland

Synopsis: As the prom draws near and the popular head cheerleader of Echo Lake High dumps her star quarterback boyfriend in favor of attending the dance with the biggest loser in school, the raging footballer plots murderous revenge in cult animation icon Bill Plympton's darkly satirical take on the teen Read More

The Last Hour

Actors: DMX, Michael Madsen, Kobé, Paul Sorvino, David Carradine

Synopsis: DMX, Michael Madsen, Paul Sorvino, and David Carradine star in first-time feature filmmaker Kobé's thriller concerning a man who is summoned to a remote house in China by his deceased father, only to discover upon arriving that he isn't the only person on the guest list. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

Miracle at Sage Creek

Actors: David Carradine, Wes Studi, Michael Parkes, Tim Abell, Sarah Aldrich

Synopsis: When disaster strikes and necessity dictates that the festering rivalry between the Franklin and Red Eagle families be set aside in the name of survival, the resulting tale of brotherhood gives testament to mankind's remarkable power for forgiveness in this family-oriented Western starring David Carradine Read More

Final Move

Actors: Matt Schulze, Lochlyn Munro, Rachel Hunter, Amanda Detmer, Daniel Baldwin, David Carradine

Synopsis: Directed by Joey Travolta, the thriller Final Move concerns a detective with extrasensory perception who is pulled out of his retirement in order to solve an unsolved murder. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

World War 1: American Legacy

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: The forgotten stories and selfless sacrifices made by the American men and women who valiantly served in the Great War come together to offer a lasting reminder of our brave heritage in this documentary from filmmaker Mark Bussler. In addition to such literary icons as e.e. cummings and Ernest Hemingway Read More

The Last Sect

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: Deborah Odell (Thrill Seekers, You Stupid Man) and newcomer Natalie Madison-Brown team up with Kung Fu's David Carradine for the direct-to-video goth frightfest The Last Sect. The picture unfolds at a point when the last vampire sect of the title sits perched on the rim of utter extinction, with Read More

Dead & Breakfast

Actors: Ever Carradine, Brent David Fraser, Bianca Lawson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Synopsis: A road trip rolls through a small town where the line between the dead and the living has become a bit problematic in this horror parody. A handful of twentysomethings are driving to Galveston, TX, in an RV to attend the wedding of a close friend. After a long day on the road, the travelers find Read More

Brothers in Arms

Actors: David Carradine, Gabriel Casseus, Antwon Tanner, Kurupt, Raymond Cruz

Synopsis: Principled gangsters take on a corrupt moneyman in this period Western. Robert Driscol (David Carradine) is a ruthless and power-hungry man who owns a small New Mexico town lock, stock, and barrel, and isn't shy about dealing with anyone who gets in his way. Linc Malone (Gabriel Casseus) and his Read More

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this continuation of 2003's ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her Read More

Last Goodbye

Actors: Clementine Ford, Chris Rydell, Liam Dunaway O'Neill, Sara Stanton, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: A handful of characters, each at emotional crossroads, find their paths leading to Atlanta in this independent drama. Agnes (Clementine Ford) is an actress currently starring in a successful television series. She was born and raised in Atlanta and has come back to town for a role in a film Read More

Samurai: The Last Warriors

Alias: Hourglass

Wild West Tech: Biggest Machines in the West

Actors: David Carradine

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Synopsis: Explore the influence of author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on modern popular culture in this revealing documentary narrated by Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan. For over fifty-years fans of Tolkien's literary masterpiece have bonded over tales of brave hobbits and evil wizards, and Read More

Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon

Actors: Mickey Hardt, Joanna Krupa, Richard Roundtree, David Carradine, Carmen Electra

Synopsis: A former kickboxer who has forsaken fighting to become a professional photographer finds that leaving his painful past behind isn't as simple as just walking away in an action-packed take of fight or flight starring Richard Roundtree, David Carradine, and Carmen Electra. Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt) Read More

Wild West Tech: Freak Show Tech

Actors: David Carradine

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus, David Carradine, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction, the film was originally the first half of what was to be a Read More

Alias: Countdown

Synopsis: Marshall (Kevin Weisman) explains the full significance of the Rambaldi manuscripts, thereby revealing a 500-year-old prophecy of the Apocalypse. To prevent this, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) and Dixon (Carl Lumbly) must track down a Panamanian named Di Regno (James Carraway) -- but Dixon, determined Read More

American Reel

Crew: Musical Performer, Songwriter

Actors: David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: A struggling singer/songwriter finds himself faced with the prospect of overnight success after languishing in the music industry for twenty years in this musical drama directed by In the Company of Men producer Mark Archer. James Lee Springer (David Carradine)'s talent is genuine - as genuine as Read More

The Outsider

Synopsis: The made-for-cable Western The Outsider would seem to have its roots in the classic John Wayne theatrical feature Angel and the Badman. In the Montana of the late 19th century, wounded outlaw Johnny Gault (Tim Daly) is given refuge by widowed sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder (Naomi Watts). This puts Read More

Crime School

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Actors: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, David Carradine, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, John Woo, Ang Lee

Synopsis: The Art of Action is a compilation film, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, that offers clips from various action films that featured martial arts action sequences. Among the films excepted for this collection are Rush Hour 2 with Jackie Chan, Charlie's Angels, and the multiple-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Read More

Warden of Red Rock

Actors: James Caan, David Carradine, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Jim Beaver

Synopsis: James Caan stars in this made-for-cable Western as John Flinders, a former outlaw who by the year 1910 has settled down as the warden of Arizona's Red Rock Prison. Priding himself on his fair and humane treatment of his prisoners, Flinders finds his values -- and his loyalties -- sorely tested Read More

Out of the Wilderness

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

The Monster Hunter

Actors: David Carradine, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: In this black comedy shot in mock documentary style, Willie Dickenson (Michael Bowen) is a serial killer on the lam in Texas, and a filmmaker heads down to the Lone Star State to find out more about him and his background. However, while the filmmaker tracks down the killer's friends and Read More

Nightfall

Actors: Jennifer Burns

Synopsis: Gwyneth Gibby directs the Roger Corman-produced release of Nightfall, a straight-to-video release based on the highly acclaimed science fiction story by Isaac Asimov. Filmed in India, the story takes place on a planet that lives in the constant light of six suns. Every thousand years, the suns Read More

Guaranteed on Delivery

Synopsis: The debut feature from writer/director Dean Rusu, Guaranteed on Delivery stars Jalal Merhi as Ray, an ex-cop whose life spirals out of control when his wife is caught in the crossfire of a bank robbery he was unable to prevent. With nothing left to lose, Ray figures out who was responsible and Read More

David Carradine: Shaolin Cardio Kick Box Workout for Beginners

Synopsis: In Northern China, the monks of the Shaolin temple developed a way to stay strong in body and spirit and in keeping with their spirit, David Carradine hosts a quiet, low-key yet powerful workout session free of the major flash factor. Learn the skills and states of mind named for animals: the Read More

David Carradine: Shaolin Strength Workout for Beginners

Actors: David Carradine, Donald Hamby, Mike Marshall

Synopsis: Power, balance, and fitness are the promised benefits of this beginner's introduction to Shaolin. Developed in the birthplace of martial arts, the Shaolin temple in Northern China, it is one of the most popular forms of the Hung style of martial arts and is based on the movements of the tiger and Read More

Code Name: Jaguar

Actors: Danny Nucci, David Carradine

Synopsis: Young professional Stuart Dempsey (Danny Nucci) begins his move from Chicago to New York City with a strange encounter with a pair of mysterious men on a train. Things don't get much more comfortable once he starts his job as an assistant to the demanding editor of a daily newspaper, Max Kaufman Read More

Dangerous Curves

Actors: Robert Carradine, Maxine Bahns, David Carradine

Synopsis: An attorney starts a search for an estranged former lover and finds she is immersed in a shady situation she can't break free from. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

David Carradine: AM & PM T'ai Chi Workouts for Beginners

Synopsis: Hosted by martial-arts expert David Carradine, this T'ai Chi workout offers a comprehensive introduction to the physical and spiritual benefits of T'ai Chi. In following with ancient Chinese tradition, the video is divided into two segments: a morning workout intended to invigorate the mind for Read More

Charmed: Deja Vu All Over Again

Synopsis: In a perverse spin on the classic comedy film Groundhog Day, the Halliwell girls have been cursed to relive the same day over and over again. It's all the handiwork of a sorcerer appropriately named Tempus (David Carradine), who has cast this spell for an extremely deadly purpose. At first unaware Read More

Cybercity

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Roddy Piper, Heidi von Palleske

Synopsis: In 2017, the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse do battle for supremacy in this sci-fi adventure. Most of the Earth has been reduced to ruins, and the pitiful few who have survived have moved underground and organized themselves into religious cults who wage war among themselves for dominion over Read More

The New Swiss Family Robinson

Actors: Jane Seymour, David Carradine, James Keach, John Asher, Blake Bashoff

Synopsis: James Keach and Jane Seymour, husband and wife in real life, are teamed in this direct-to-cable update of Johann David Wyss' classic adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson. While on a boat bound from Singapore to Sydney, the Robinson family is besieged by pirates, who set them adrift. Landing on Read More

Type O Negative: After Dark

Synopsis: This release contains seven videos from the metal band Type O Negative. The clips on this video include "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)", "Christian Woman", "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend", and "Love You to Death". The DVD release of this collection offers commentary tracks recorded by the band. Read More

Out of the Wilderness

Actors: David Carradine, Peter Jason

Synopsis: A young raven becomes a family pet after it saves the life of a lost little girl. Later on, the family repays the favor by saving the extraordinary black bird from their neighbors who have deemed the capricious rook a nuisance and demand its immediate destruction. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Defectors

Actors: David Carradine, Richard Moll

Synopsis: In this drama, an impressionable adolescent joins a gang that is being manipulated by several local crime lords. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Knocking on Death's Door

Actors: Brian Bloom, David Carradine

Synopsis: David Carradine and Brian Bloom star in this terror tale in which a pair of scientists investigating the paranormal are confronted by ghosts, including the spirit of a child who was killed years ago. The boy's spirit leads them to an investigation into his unsolved murder, but the more the Read More

The Rage

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, Gary Busey, Kristen Cloke, Roy Scheider, Brandon Smith

Synopsis: This silly, over-the-top action film has a great hammy performance by Gary Busey as the insane leader of a militia group intent on revenge against the government for doing psychotropic experiments on them after Vietnam. Busey also had his privates mutilated by a Viet-Cong prostitute, so he's a Read More

Last Stand at Saber River

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Suzy Amis, David Dukes

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as a Confederate soldier who finds himself at a crossroads, in this made-for-television adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel. Paul Cable (Selleck) who returns to his Arizona homestead after the end of the Civil War, only to find it taken over by Union-sympathizing pioneers. Cable Read More

David Carradine: T'ai Chi Workout for Beginners

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: A decade after releasing his original T'ai Chi workout video, David Carradine introduces another form of the ancient art. Accompanied by a certified T'ai Chi teacher, Carradine moves through the basic form called Chen Style. Consisting of nine exercises, the program showcases the original T'ai Chi 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

David Carradine: Chi Kung Beginners Workout

Actors: Arnold Tayam, David Carradine

Synopsis: David Carradine introduces the viewer to the ancient art of Chi Kung in this beginner's video. Over 5,000 years old, Chi Kung is a spiritual and meditative path to good health. Carradine moves through basic exercises designed to enhance energy, release tension, and tone muscles. His lesson is Read More

Dead Center

Actors: Justin Lazard

Synopsis: Justin Lazard plays a crack-cocaine dealer who is caught in a police dragnet. The cops cut a deal with Lazard: they'll let him off the hook if he agrees to be trained as a professional assassin. Not unexpectedly, Lazard finds the police no more trustworthy than his former drug cronies. The last Read More

Kill Zone

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: With the Philippines again standing in for Vietnam, this low-budget actioner stars David Carradine as a ruthless, renegade American army colonel who disobeys orders to sneak his crack team into Cambodia to destroy a Viet Cong supply train. But when he steps over the line and after much convoluted Read More

Karate Cop

Actors: Carrie Chambers, Ron Marchini, David Carradine

Synopsis: Here's the concept, boss: "Robocop Meets Bruce Lee." Set in the Future, Karate Cop stars Ron Marchini in the self-explanatory title role. Marchini is obliged to join forces with gorgeous scientist Carrie Chambers, who's also pretty good at taking care of herself. The two crimebusters scour the Read More

Ray Bradbury's Chronicles - the Martian Episodes

Synopsis: This compilation tape consists of three episodes from the USA Network's Ray Bradbury Theater syndicated television series. All of the episodes have to do with Mars exploration or Martian beings. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Roadside Prophets

Actors: John Doe, Adam Horowitz, David Carradine, Dr. Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie

Synopsis: Screenwriter/electrician Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with the offbeat road movie Roadside Prophets. Brooding factory worker Joe (X front man John Doe) takes a road trip in order to scatter the ashes of his co-worker Dave Coleman (David Anthony Marshall). Riding his vintage Harley Read More

Field of Fire

Actors: Jim Moss, Eb Lottimer

Synopsis: Sgt. Duncan (Eb Lottimer) and his special squad of soldiers are sent off into the jungles of Vietnam in a last-ditch effort to find stranded strategy-expert Major Wilson (Jim Moss). In a race against time, Duncan must stage his rescue before the enemy is able to capture Wilson and extract vital Read More

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Deadly Surveillance

Synopsis: A Canadian production from 1991, Deadly Surveillance concerns two police officers investigating a series of killings linked to drugs. The main suspect is the attractive lover of one of the cops, and the obvious tensions flare. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

That Teen Show 8: Martial Arts: Fun and Protection

Capital Punishment

Synopsis: The plot of David Hue's action film Capital Punishment begins when the DEA hires a martial-arts fighter to stage the death of a person who is set to testify against a powerful drug lord. The drug lord taught the fighter how to fight, making it difficult for the fighter to go through with his plan. Read More

Double Trouble

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Roddy McDowall, James Doohan, A.J. Johnson

Synopsis: Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian Brothers") operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key Read More

Dune Warriors

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, a drought-ridden Earth is besieged by bands of outlaws who prey upon the small cities in a hope to obtain any water they might possess. When the renegades attempt to take over the town of Chinle, a mysterious warrior named Michael (David Carradine) leads a band of fighters Read More

Waxwork II: Lost in Time

Actors: Zach Galligan, Alexander Godunov, Sophie Ward, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp, Bruce Campbell, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: In the sequel to Waxwork, young Mark Loftmore (Zach Galligan) and his girlfriend Sarah (Monika Schnarre) manage to escape the deadly wax museum before it is destroyed. However, one deadly wax hand escapes destruction and follows Sarah home, murdering her stepfather before she manages to destroy Read More

Project Eliminator

Synopsis: In this action thriller, Dr. Markson is a scientist working in weapons technology research, but he has grown disillusioned with his employers and the corruption within the defense industry -- so much so that he chooses to destroy his latest creation, a laser weapon employing state-of-the-art Read More

Brotherhood of the Gun

Actors: Brian Bloom, David Carradine, Jamie Rose

Synopsis: This western chronicles the exploits of former Civil War hero Zach Hollister, who became an outlaw after the war. He eventually became a deputy sheriff. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sonny Boy

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: David Carradine, Paul L. Smith, Brad Dourif, Conrad Janis, Sidney Lassick

Synopsis: The story contained in this bizarre psychological drama/horror movie adds a new dimension to the term "dysfunctional family." It is set in a small town in New Mexico and is told through the eyes of "Sonny Boy," a horribly abused child who was raised by the brutal giant Slue, who rules Harmony with Read More

Bird on a Wire

Actors: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Jeff Corey, Bill Duke, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: The can't-miss teaming of Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn is squandered on a clumsy, illogical romantic melodrama. Running across her old boyfriend Gibson at a Wisconsin gas station, Hawn is astounded that he seems not to recognize her. How could she have known that Gibson was put into the Witness Read More

Think Big

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Ari Meyers, Martin Mull, David Carradine

Synopsis: Professional wrestlers Peter Paul and David Paul star in this muscle-bound comedy about two slowwitted truck drivers who are hired to transport a heap of toxic waste across the country to Los Angeles. Along the way, the boys run into a 16-year-old girl genius who is on the run from a secret Read More

Sundown

Actors: David Carradine, Jim Metzler, Morgan Brittany, Maxwell Caulfield, M. Emmet Walsh, Bruce Campbell

Synopsis: Director Anthony Hickox (Waxwork) crafted this entertaining bit of horror-western fusion about the vampiric residents of a remote, dusty desert town who have chosen to derive their sustenance from a plasma-manufacturing plant in an attempt to put aside their monstrous nature and peacefully Read More

Evil Toons

Actors: Monique Gabrielle, Arte Johnson, David Carradine

Synopsis: Veteran schlock merchant Fred Olen Ray serves up this silly horror comedy with a hearty helping of gratuitous softcore skin, cheap monster effects, and walk-ons from assorted B-movie names, including David Carradine, Dick Miller, and Arte Johnson. The thin plot involves a group of curvaceous coeds Read More

Midnight Fear

Actors: Craig Wasson, Page Fletcher, David Carradine

Synopsis: Filmed for cable TV, Midnight Fear focuses on a down-and-out sheriff (David Carradine) who is investigating a murder and the two suspicious fugitives (Craig Wasson, Page Fletcher) who are linked to the killing. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

Martial Law

Actors: Chad McQueen, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: Martial Law is a no-brainer action flick starring Steven McQueen, the son of the late, great Steve McQueen. Buddy cop duo Sean Thompson and Billie Black are on the trail of a killer whose signature weapon is a punch that stops the heart. The bad guy, played by David Carradine, also runs a number Read More

Nowhere to Run

Actors: David Carradine, Jason Priestley, Kieran Mulroney, Jillian McWhirter, Henry Jones

Synopsis: This grim tale is based upon actual events and chronicles the coming-of-age of two high-school seniors living in gritty Caddo, Texas in 1960. The teens lose their innocence when they become involved in the corruption and seediness that exists about their town after its leading citizen, the town Read More

Crimen De Crimenes

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2

Actors: David Carradine, Bobby Jacoby, Lana Clarkson, Mel Welles, Susan Lee Hoffman

Synopsis: When a group of evil, power-hungry people take over a trio of kingdoms, it is up to a young magician to free his lands from their rule. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Children

Synopsis: In this violent L.A.-set police drama, a hard-boiled cop and a parole officer work together to bring a vicious gang leader to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Try This One for Size

Actors: Michael Brandon, David Carradine, Arielle Dombasle, Guy Marchand, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: In this spy spoof and thriller, director Guy Hamilton seeks to renew the success he had with the James Bond thriller Goldfinger. The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an insurance company Read More

Future Force

Crew: Associate Producer

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

Matlock: The Prisoner

Actors: Clarence Gilyard, Jr., David Carradine, Conor O'Farrell, Daniel Quinn

Synopsis: Inmates of a particularly violent prison stage a murder trial and hire Matlock to assist them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cover Girl and the Cop

Actors: Julia Duffy

Synopsis: Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance. When dim-witted model Duffy witnesses a murder, short-fused officer Manhoff is assigned to protect her. Would you be shocked if we informed you that the ladies drive each other crazy? But never fear: they Read More

The Misfit Brigade

Actors: David Carradine, D.W. Moffett, Keith Szarabajka, Bruce Davison, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: A motley group of routine German prisoners (including David Patrick Kelly, Jay Sanders and Bruce Davison) are enlisted by a Nazi colonel (David Carradine). The government, desperate for fighting men, promises them freedom if they can destroy a targeted train on the Russian front. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Warlords

Actors: David Carradine, Dawn Wildsmith, Sid Haig, Ross Hagen, Fox Harris

Synopsis: In a future where the planet Earth has been poisoned by radiation, a fearless warrior named Dow (David Carradine) stands as mankind's last hope against a tyrannical ruler known only as The Warlord (Sid Haig) and his murderous band of mutant warriors. Accompanied only by the beautiful but fierce Read More

I Saw What You Did

Synopsis: A telephone prank by 2 teenagers leads to their stalking by a psychotic killer, the person who answered the prank call. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tropical Snow

Actors: Nick Corri, Madeleine Stowe, David Carradine

Synopsis: Funny how neither David Carradine nor Madeleine Stowe list Tropical Snow on their resumes. The title refers to the Colombian drug trade, which looms large in the film's climactic scenes. Madeleine and Nick Cori play Maria and Tavo, a South American couple who can't seem to make an honest living. Read More

Crime Zone

Actors: David Carradine, Peter Nelson, Sherilyn Fenn, Michael Shaner, Orlando Sacha

Synopsis: Bone (Peter Nelson) and Helen (Sherilyn Fenn) are rebels who long to escape from the oppressive, futuristic society that keeps them down in this sci-fi actioner. Bone has been fired for being disgruntled, and Helen is a state-paid prostitute in a world where many things, even sex between Read More

David Carradine: T'ai Chi Workout

Synopsis: T'ai Chi has long been a meditative outlet in Eastern countries. The gentle practice is perfect for all ages and stresses a mind/body connection. Popular actor David Carradine expresses his fondness for the artful exercise in his original T'ai Chi Workout video. Considered one of the best-selling Read More

Six Against the Rock

Actors: Richard Dysart, Dennis Farina, Howard Hesseman, David Morse, Jan-Michael Vincent, David Carradine, Charles Haid

Synopsis: The "six" are played by David Carradine, Howard Hesseman, David Morse, Charles Haid, Jan-Michael Vincent and Richard Dysart. The "rock" is, of course, escape-proof Alcatraz Island. This TV movie dramatizes an actual 1946 breakout attempt--which was meticulously preplanned for eight years. And what Read More

David Carradine: Kung Fu Workout

Synopsis: Renowned martial artist David Carradine and kung fu Master Sifu Kam Yuen present a vigorously challenging workout for the beginning to intermediate martial arts practitioner in David Carradine: Kung Fu Workout. Considered by many to be among the most efficient exercise routines ever developed Read More

P.O.W.: The Escape

Actors: David Carradine, Charles R. Floyd, Mako, Steve James, Phil Brock

Synopsis: This is a very macho action film in which the good guys are just that "guys". Col. Cooper (David Carridine) has been captured by the North Vietnamese and wheels and deals his way out of this predicament with the sleazy Vietnamese commandant, Capt. Vinh (Mako). Vinh agrees to let Cooper and the Read More

Kung Fu: The Movie

Actors: David Carradine, Brandon Lee, Kerrie Keane, Mako, Martin Landau

Synopsis: This 2-hour revival of the old David Carradine TV series was originally titled simply Kung Fu. Set in the west of the late 19th century, the film stars Carradine as Caine, the mystical Chinese-American priest who wanders the countryside seeking spiritual fulfillment-and occasionally busting a few Read More

Oceans of Fire

Synopsis: This exciting disaster film chronicles the raw courage of five ex-cons and their leader when the South American off-shore oil rig they work upon suddenly explodes and only they can stop the ensuing fire. Unfortunately, they must not only deal with the elements, they must also cope with company Read More

Armed Response

Actors: David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Mako

Synopsis: Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception. The scene is Chinatown, where Yakuza boss Mako yearns to get his hands on a stolen jade statue. David Goss, son of retired cop Lee van Cleef and the brother of Vietnam Read More

David Carradine: T'ai Chi and Kung Fu

Synopsis: This martial arts workout video is demonstrated by David Carradine. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Film House Fever

Synopsis: This compilation tape is a collection of clips and trailers from low-budget, cult-type movies. The "framing" device of having two guys on a couch (one of whom is future cult-icon Steve Buscemi) watching TV and making cracks about the movies is fairly lame, and many of the films showcased have been Read More

Bad Girls in the Movies

Synopsis: This breezy compilation highlights the great villainesses, trollops and femme fatales of the American cinema. Special attention is given the film noir genre, as typified by Gloria Grahame, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Greer. There are also generous dollops from the "women's prison" flicks of Read More

North and South, Book II

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book II followed the fortunes of Read More

The Bad Seed

Actors: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, Carrie Wells, David Carradine

Synopsis: The 1985 TV movie The Bad Seed is the second film version of Maxwell Anderson's 1956 Broadway play. Carrie Wells plays Rachel Penmark, a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself--unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine (Blair Read More

North and South

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3 and 10, 1985. Four screenwriters--Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green--were called upon to fashion a workable script from John Jakes' sprawling Read More

Jealousy

Actors: Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, Angie Dickinson stars in three separate vignettes as a woman whose life is dramatically affected by the emotion that gives the film its name. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Distant Scream

Synopsis: On the verge of closing their doors in the mid-1980s, Britain's Hammer studios produced this passable supernatural thriller, which received its debut on American cable television. Hammer regular Stephanie Beacham stars as a woman vacationing with her photographer husband (David Carradine) at a Read More

The Warrior and the Sorceress

Actors: David Carradine, Luke Askew, Maria Socas, Anthony de Longis, Harry Townes

Synopsis: Borrowing themes established in Yojimbo and its Italian version A Fistful of Dollars, this action/fantasy film features the exploits of Kain (David Carradine), a drifter/holy-man/martial arts expert who comes upon a village divided into three parts: two clans fighting over control of a water well Read More

On the Line

Actors: David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: Essentially a tale of romance mixed in with a dash of politics, this engrossing story involves Engracia (Victoria Abril), a young Mexican prostitute working just south of the border with the U.S., and two American border guards who are among her clients: Mitch (Scott Wilson), a tough Read More

Lone Wolf McQuade

Actors: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Robert Beltran

Synopsis: In this Spaghetti-western-like martial arts actioner, Texas Ranger J. J. McQuade (Chuck Norris) is up against the weapons-dealer Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine) after Wilkes kidnaps McQuade's partner and daughter and takes them to Mexico. McQuade's personal vendetta is encouraged by the government Read More

Trick or Treats

Actors: Jackelyn Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: First, a crazed and fighting Malcolm (Peter Jason) is hauled off to an asylum by two men just that much tougher than he is, and then this film jumps ahead several years to Halloween at Malcolm's old home. His wife, Joan (Carrie Snodgress), and her live-in lover, Richard (David Carradine), are Read More

Safari 3000

Actors: David Carradine, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lee, Hamilton Camp, Ian Yule

Synopsis: In this often comical adventure, a retired stunt man goes to Africa to participate in a transcontinental road rally in hopes of winning a fabulous prize. Also involved is a photo-journalist for Playboy Magazine who has been assigned to accompany him. It is a dangerous 3,000 kilometer car race and Read More

Q: The Winged Serpent

Actors: Michael Moriarty, David Carradine, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree, Lee Louis, Malachy McCourt

Synopsis: Genre pioneer Larry Cohen, who broke new horror ground with the killer-baby hit It's Alive!, takes a stab at the giant-monster scenario with this enjoyable low-budget exercise. The title refers to the winged Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, represented here as a dragon-like flying lizard (thanks to some Read More

Americana

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Carradine, Barbara Hershey, Michael Greene

Synopsis: In Americana, David Carradine's feature-film directorial debut, the director casts himself as a softspoken Vietnam vet whose aimless wanderings bring him to a dusty Kansas village. At the center of town is a once-resplendant merry-go-round, now derelict due to neglect and disrepair. Sensing that Read More

High Noon, Part Two: The Return of Will Kane

Actors: Lee Majors

Synopsis: Taking over for Gary Cooper, Lee Majors stars as Marshal Will Kane in this made-for-TV movie set a year after the original High Noon ends. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cloud Dancer

Actors: David Carradine, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Bottoms, Colleen Camp, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: This is a routine story about Bradley (David Carradine), a stunt flyer who loves flying more than anything else, as apparently does the director, Barry Brown. Bradley is devoted to his brother who suffers from Downs syndrome and he helps a new flyer to ditch a potentially disastrous flirtation Read More

The Long Riders

Actors: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: The hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are played by a string of acting brothers, the Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the Read More

Saturday Night Live: David Carradine

Actors: David Carradine, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, George Rose

Synopsis: This 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by David Carradine and features musical guests Linda Ronstadt with Rex Smith, and George Rose. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Gauguin the Savage

Actors: David Carradine, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: The story of Paul Gaugin (1848-1903), the Parisian stockbroker who left his job, his wife and his five children for the life of an artist in Tahiti, was superbly fictionalized in Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence. Gaugin the Savage is the same story with no names changed, told in two Read More

Mr. Horn

Actors: John Malloy, David Carradine, Richard Widmark, Karen Black, Richard Masur, Clay Tanner

Synopsis: In this western, based on a William Goldman novel, the life of scout Tom Horn, an idealistic fellow whose life experiences turn him into a bitter bounty hunter, is chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Actors: David Carradine, Brenda Vaccaro, L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: In this exciting road comedy, a WW I veteran attempts to fulfill his dream of being the first to win a transnational motorcycle rally. To assist him, he hires former war buddies. These fellows have a quiet grudge against him because they believe he deserted them during a crucial battle. Still the Read More

Old Boyfriends

Actors: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Joan Tewksbury made her directorial debut with this bittersweet comedy-drama. Diane Cruise (Talia Shire), a psychologist going through a severe depression, takes a long look at her life after attempting to commit suicide. Diane decides to pay a visit to her former boyfriends in Read More

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood, whose previous subjects have included John Huston and Thelonious Monk, aims his sights at low-budget movie maven Roger Corman. Hollywood's Wild Angel traces Corman from his screenwriting days to his earliest directorial efforts at the newly-formed Read More

Death Sport

Actors: David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch, William Smithers, Will Walker

Synopsis: David Carradine romps around in a loin-cloth as Kaz Oshay, a good-guy biker who hops on his destructocycle to participate in a sport to the death, in Roger Corman's futuristic gladiator motorcycle film. The film takes place 1000 years after the "Neutron Wars" have decimated civilization, except Read More

Circle of Iron

Actors: David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Roddy McDowall, Eli Wallach, Erica Creer

Synopsis: This symbol-laden drama explores the inner mythology of martial arts practice and is based on a Bruce Lee story idea. The original screenplay was written by Bruce Lee, with help from actor James Coburn and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Lee was to take on the four-in-one role of guide in his Read More

Gray Lady Down

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

That's Action!

Synopsis: James R. Silke narrates this 1977 compilation of mayhem in the movies. This Rhino Video release features behind-the-scenes looks at how the stunts are done, and clips from 29 classic films that show heroes riding horses, falling off buildings, blowing up tanks, bare-knuckle fighting, and dodging Read More

The Serpent's Egg

Actors: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent, James Whitmore

Synopsis: The Serpent's Egg, or Das Schlangenei is director Ingmar Bergman's second English language production (The Touch was his first). It is, however, his first completely non-Swedish production, made after his voluntary self-exile from Sweden over taxation issues. Set in Berlin in the early 1920s, it Read More

A Look at Liv

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann

Synopsis: This 1977 documentary feature closely examines the person, views and life of Norwegian actress Liv Ullman, perhaps best known for her many appearances in the famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's films. Clips of her films are included, as well as numerous interviews granted by her especially for 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

Bound for Glory

Actors: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Hal Ashby's biopic portrays a few pivotal years in the life of the celebrated folk singer and social activist. In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter Read More

Cannonball

Actors: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerritt Graham, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill. The nominal storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York that promises the winner 100,000 dollars. David Carradine is Coy "Cannonball" Read More

Long Way Home

Synopsis: Long Way Home is comprised of the first two episodes of the 1975 TV series The Family Holvak. Glenn Ford plays the Reverend Tom Holvak, who lives with his family in a depression-era southern town. Holvak opens his doors to a charming vagabond, played by David Carradine. Only the Holvak son Ramey (Lance Kerwin Read More

Death Race 2000

Actors: David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins

Synopsis: Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violence, and sporting events are finally brought together in one convenient package. In the not-so-distant future, the United States has become a totalitarian regime overseen by the charming but sinister Read More

Kung Fu: Season 03

Synopsis: Season three of Kung Fu occasionally relieves the loneliness of Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), the ex-Shaolin priest who, escaping from his native China after the justifiable killing of a nobleman, has found his way to the American West of the 1860s in search of his long-lost American brother Read More

Mean Streets

Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a Read More

The Long Goodbye

Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell

Synopsis: "It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton Read More

Kung Fu: Season 02

Synopsis: As Kung Fu enters its second season, the mystical, mysterious Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), a half-Chinese, half-American who had once studied for a Shaolin priesthood in his native China, continues wandering through the American West of the 1860s, still in search of his long-lost brother Read More

Boxcar Bertha

Actors: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey, John Carradine

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. Read More

Kung Fu: Season 01

Synopsis: Season one of Kung Fu finds Chinese-American drifter Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) solemnly making his way across the Old West, escaping a murder charge (albeit justified murder) hanging over him from his native China. Having once studied for a Shaolin priesthood, Caine is a man of peace and Read More

You and Me

Crew: Director

Kung Fu

Actors: David Carradine, Barry Sullivan, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A Chinese/American priest, Caine must flee to the United States after he is forced to kill a royal nephew. He wanders the American West of the 1860s, keeping his cool until Read More

Ironside: The Quincunx

Synopsis: Eve (Barbara Anderson) investigates when an old friend, the female member of a folksinging trio consisting of two brothers and a sister, disappears during a San Francisco concert tour. Could this disappearance be linked with the murder of another girl--to say nothing of a sinister drug ring? The Read More

Ironside: License to Kill

Synopsis: The killer of police officer Randy Keating (Roger Perry) is himself killed by Keating's partner Frank Carlson (David Carradine)--whereupon Carlson finds himself facing a murder charge. Inasmuch as he attended police academy with both Keating and Carlson, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) takes a Read More

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Actors: Sally Field

Synopsis: Sally Field had her first significant dramatic role in this "generation gap" TV movie. After a year's time in the world of hippies and drugs, Field returns home to the parents who'd all but booted her out. Mom and Dad (Eleanor Parker and Jackie Cooper) try their best to understand their wayward Read More

Macho Callahan

Actors: David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, James Booth, Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

Synopsis: This violent western tale finds Macho (David Janssen) as a Union Army regular in a Confederate prison. He escapes by planting dynamite in the coffin of an executed officer, making his move when the coffin is being carried outside the gate. He returns to a small town where he waits for Duffy (Lee Read More

The McMasters

Actors: Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine, Nancy Kwan, Jack Palance

Synopsis: Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' Read More

Heaven with a Gun

Actors: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine

Synopsis: Jim Killian (Glenn Ford) is a reformed gunslinger who takes a job as a local preacher in Vinagaroon, Arizona. He arrives during a time of conflict between shepherds and cattlemen who are engaged in a bloody range war. When Coke Beck (David Carradine) hangs a local Indian, the victim's daughter Read More

Young Billy Young

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker, Jr., David Carradine, Jack Kelly

Synopsis: Veteran western director Burt Kennedy wrote the screenplay for this tale, based on the novel Who Rides with Wyatt? and also released under the title Who Rides with Kane? Robert Mitchum, who sings the title song, stars as Ben Kane, an ex-sheriff hunting for Frank Boone (John Anderson), the man who Read More

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Actors: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine, Martin Balsam, Tina Louise

Synopsis: In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger. The two combine forces to stop a young band of outlaws from robbing the train when it pulls into the station. Flagg warns Read More

The Violent Ones

Actors: Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray, Tommy Sands, David Carradine, Lisa Gaye

Synopsis: When a young resident of a peaceful Mexican village is brutally raped to death, the evidence points to one of three strangers in town, all of whom are Mexican-hating Anglo-Americans. The father of the dead girl hates all whites and is eager to lynch all three to make sure they get the culprit, but Read More

Ironside: Due Process of the Law

Synopsis: When his girlfriend is murdered in Golden Gate Park, Mark (Don Mitchell) is bound and determined to take the law in his own hands to catch the killer. As a result, Mark is himself held for murder when the chief suspect turns up dead. In his efforts to clear, Mark, Ironside (Raymond Burr) instills Read More

Too Many Thieves

Actors: Peter Falk, Britt Ekland, David Carradine

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama, a lawyer begins investigating the theft of some priceless Macedonian national treasures from a religious shrine. The film is made up of two episodes from the TV show Trials of O'Brien. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shane [TV Series]

Actors: David Carradine, Jill Ireland

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Actors: Ann-Margret, Michael Parks, Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter, Jocelyn Brando

Synopsis: William Inge co-wrote this story about a young man who may have outgrown the straight-laced boundaries of his home town. After a hitch in the Navy, Bus Riley (Michael Thomas Parks) comes home to the staid Midwestern town of his birth; however, home doesn't feel quite like it used to, and Riley is Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Thou Still Unravished Bride

Actors: Ron Randell, Sally Kellerman, David Carradine, Michael Pate, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Newly engaged to an American girl named Sally Benner (Sally Kellerman), London policeman Tommy Bonn (Ron Randell) brings his sweetheart back home, only to find that he has been assigned to track down a strangler. The situation gets personal when, while taking a nocturnal stroll in the London fog Read More

Taggart

Actors: Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cardenas

Synopsis: In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want his land. The son returns the favor and slaughters them. As the father lies dying, he manages to hire three gunslingers to track the boy down. The boy is a good shot though Read More

Bala Perdida

Actors: Carmen Bullejos, David Carradine, Pep Cortes, Antonio Aguilar

Synopsis: A small-town bullfighter finds his love for a beautiful girl but to the ultimate test in this romantic drama starring Antonio Aquilar and Miguel Aceves Mejia. Carmelo is a man renowned for his skills in the bullfighting ring. Alicia is the captivating adopted daughter of the town pharmacist. Read More