David S. Cass, Sr.Filmography

Prairie Fever

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Sorbo

Synopsis: A drunken gunfighter, a female outlaw, and three deeply disturbed women discover just what it takes to survive in the wild west when they're targeted by a relentless killer and a jealous husband in this western adventure starring Kevin Sorbo, Lance Henriksen, and Dominique Swain. Preston Biggs Read More

Lone Rider

Crew: Director

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Vincent Spano, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: An honored soldier returns home attempting to pick up his life where he left off before the war, only to find that his oldest friend is his newest enemy in this western starring Lou Diamond Phillips. Bobby Hathaway (Phillips) served his country with pride; now all he wants is to rest easy while Read More

Avenging Angel

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Cynthia M. Watros, Nick Chinlund

Synopsis: A man of the cloth takes up arms to avenge the violent murder of his wife and child in this made for television western starring Kevin Sorbo, Wings Hauser, and Cynthia Watros. Preacher (Sorbo) has just watched helplessly as his wife and child are brutally gunned down by ruthless land baron Colonel Read More

Family Plan

Crew: Director

Actors: Tori Spelling, Greg Germann, Jordan Bridges, Abigail Breslin

Synopsis: The made-for-cable The Family Plan will probably seem a breath of fresh air to anyone who hasn't seen such movies as Picture Perfect and Good Neighbor Sam, or who can't remember the mid-1960s TV sitcom Occasional Wife. A longtime employee at Sugar Dot Bakeries, Ms. Charlie McKenzie (Tori Spelling) Read More

Thicker Than Water

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While going through the possessions left behind by her recently deceased father, a prominent and well-respected judge, High-powered attorney Natalie Jones (Melissa Gilbert) is shocked to come across a worn, yellowed snapshot showing her father in a warm embrace with famed rodeo trick rider Maggie Read More

Back to You and Me

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After too many years away, brittle big-city doctor Sydney Ludwick (Lisa Hartman Black) returns to her home town of Bloomfield for a high school reunion. She is mildly surprised to find out that her widowed mother Helen (Rue McLanahan), with whom she hasn't communicated since the death of her dad Read More

Mystery Woman: Game Time

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. This time out, Sam scores a coup when she manages to get reclusive mystery writer Donald Fiske (William Katt) to make a Read More

The Hollywood Mom's Mystery

Crew: Director

Actors: Justine Bateman, Elizabeth Peña, George Hamilton, Laura Johnson, David Gail

Synopsis: As the wife of fading Hollywood producer Kit Freers (Andrew McCarthy), children's book illustrator Holly Freers (Justine Bateman) would love to have some of the fame and fortune of her movie star neighbors rub off on her just once in a while. However, there is one aspect of living in Beverly Hills Read More

Life on Liberty Street

Crew: Director

Actors: Annabeth Gish, Ethan Embry, Wendy Phillips, Ed Begley, Jr., Brett Cullen

Synopsis: An altruistic divorcée learns that sometimes it takes a patient to heal the healer in a touching tale of forgiveness and compassion starring Annabeth Gish, Ethan Embry, and Ed Begley, Jr. Denise (Gish) has just been through an emotionally taxing divorce, and when the hospital she is employed at Read More

The Trail To Hope Rose

Crew: Director

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lee Majors, Marina Black, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: An epic-Western in the grand tradition, the made-for-cable The Trail to Hope Rose stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Keenan Deerfield, a half-Indian outlaw just released from prison. Determined to start life anew, Keenan takes a grueling rock-mining job in a town controlled by the odious Driggers Read More

Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain

Crew: Director

Actors: Dean Cain, Corbin Bernsen, Ashley Laurence, Reiley McClendon, Holly McClendon

Synopsis: The second of two made-for-cable films inspired by the old Ivan Tors series Gentle Ben, Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain was more blatantly a "pilot" for the revival of the series than its predecessor. Dean Cain stars as Jack Wedloe, overseer of a North California wilderness preserve which Read More

Straight from the Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Teri Polo, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Kalember, Greg Evigan, Christine Tucci

Synopsis: The old "wrong person answers the 'object-matrimony' ad" story device was refreshingly brought up to date in this made-for-TV romance. Jilted by her boyfriend, professional photographer Jordan Donovan (Teri Polo) decides that her problem is one of bad location; though a New Yorker for several Read More

Monster Makers

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Blair, Adam Baldwin, Tim McCallum, Ashley Edner, Brian Klugman

Synopsis: A long-lost fright flick with the power to unleash the silver screen's greatest terrors threatens to turn the ghouls loose once again after being re-discovered by a curious young monster fanatic in director David S. Cass' heartfelt tribute to 1950's-era sci-fi and horror films. Ageing film Read More

Hard Ground

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Unjustly arrested and sentenced to a 99-year-term, grizzled half-breed bounty hunter John McKay (Burt Reynolds) is serving hard time in Yuma Territorial Prison when he is swept up in a prison break engineered by sadistic vigilante leader Billy Bucklin (David Figlioli). Once on the outside, Bucklin Read More

Night of the Wolf

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Archer, Robert Urich

Synopsis: An avowed enemy of wildlife in general and wolves in particular, Claire McNichol (Anne Archer) heavily arms herself before venturing into the woods of Northern California. Injured in a fall, Claire finds herself face to face with another wounded creature -- a huge, snarling timber wolf. Read More

Gentle Ben

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This made-for-cable family film was inspired by the 1960s TV series after the same name. Following the (apparent) deaths of his parents, young Mark (Reiley McClendon) goes to live with his sheriff uncle Jack (Dean Cain) in the North Woods. Here Mark befriends a huge but lovable bear, whom he Read More

Hostage Hotel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Keith Carradine, Michael Blue, David Rasche

Synopsis: Produced for the TNT cable network, this is the last in a short series of TV movies starring Burt Reynolds as retired police detective Logan McQueen. Something of a bargain-basement Die Hard, the plot is set in motion when a disturbed, vengeance-seeking Vietnam veteran named Arlin Flynn (Keith Carradine Read More

Hard Time

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Michael Buie, Paco Prieto, Mia Sara

Synopsis: Former Evening Shade costars Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning are reunited in this made-for-TV action thriller, the first entry in a three-picture deal between star-director Reynolds and the TNT cable network. Framed for murder after a botch stakeout, maverick cop Logan McQueen (Reynolds) escapes Read More

Rio Diablo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt

Synopsis: Stars of country music fill out the cast of this made-for-TV western. Kenny Rogers plays a bounty hunter who sets off with his newlywed partner (Travis Tritt) to track down the kidnappers who ran off with Tritt's wife (Laura Harring). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Little Bit of Luck, A Little Bit of Grief

Synopsis: Much to the amazement of one and all, Rick (Larry Manetti) returns from vacation with a million dollars and a new fiancee. The money is the result of Rick winning a lottery, and the girlfriend, presumably, is the result of the money. Inevitably, the burden of instant wealth has a negative effect Read More

The Rockford Files: Chicken Little is a Little Chicken

Synopsis: In this light-hearted (and slightly light-headed) episode, Angel (Stuart Margolin) prevails upon Jim (James Garner) to recover some money from gambler Tom "Chicken" Little. When Little turns up dead, Jim finds out that the man was involved in an elaborate swindle, and that the money Angel had been Read More

The F.B.I.: The Last Job

Synopsis: John McIntire is cast as Michael "Doc" Lacy, a lifelong criminal whose career stretches back to the Dillinger era. Having never truly succeeded in his chosen profession, Lacy escapes from prison in hopes of pulling off one last "dream" robbery. Inasmuch as the old man's target is a huge military Read More