Dick MillerFilmography

Trapped Ashes

Actors: Henry Gibson, Jayce Bartok, Lara Harris, Scott Lowell, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier

Synopsis: The traditional horror anthology makes a triumphant comeback in this collection of four frightfully horrific tales from directors Monte Hellman, Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, John Gaeta, and Joe Dante. When seven strangers accept a mysterious invitation to tour a Hollywood studio lot, they Read More

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: In a land where cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood people work side by side, one little black duck lands in a big pot of trouble in this comedy, which brings the beloved Looney Tunes characters into the real world. Daffy Duck (voice of Joe Alaskey) has grown tired of his status as Warner Read More

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

Synopsis: Pauline Kael once wrote that since movies were so rarely great art, if one weren't interested in great trash, there wasn't much reason to pay attention to them, and one could reasonably argue that few periods brought us more top-quality cinematic trash than the 1950s and '60s. With drive-ins and Read More

ER: Double Blind

Synopsis: The hospital's future funding is jeopardized when Ross (George Clooney) bucks procedure, giving a sample of a new pain medication to young ALD patient Ricky Abbott (Kyle Chambers), the subject of government-backed "double blind" study. Elsewhere, Greene (Anthony Edwards) weighs an opportunity to Read More

NYPD Blue: I'll Draw You a Mapp

Synopsis: Worried that Andy (Dennis Franz) may be too emotionally strung out, Sylvia (Sharon Lawrence) considers using Danny (Rick Schroder) as the main witness against Cullinen. Meanwhile, defense attorney Sinclair (Daniel Benzali) begins cataloguing the dirty tricks he intends to use on Cullinen's behalf. Read More

Small Soldiers

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Passion

Synopsis: Angelus (David Boreanaz) continues to wreak havoc on Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), slipping into her home and leaving her threatening drawings. A frightened Buffy works with Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) to create a spell that would cancel Angel's invitation into her house and banish him forever Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense, Part I

Synopsis: On January 2, 1995, Deep Space Nine belatedly rang in the New Year with part one of this two-part adventure. A transporter accident sends Sisko, Bashir, and Dax hurtling back to 21st Century San Francisco. Upon their arrival, they are forced to confront the plight of the city's homeless and Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense, Part II

Synopsis: In part one of this episode, a freak accident transported Sisko, Bashir, and Dax back to San Francisco in the year 2024. Their visit occurs a few days before the Bell Riots, the outcome of which will profoundly effect the future, specifically, their future. When legendary homeless advocate Gabriel Read More

Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

Demon Knight

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

Pulp Fiction

Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious Read More

Mona Must Die

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Sheila Kelley, Debbie Allen

Synopsis: A wife finds herself highly expendable as her husband and his lover continually bungle their attempts at murder in this black comedy. Mona, the wife, is a woman of substance who is forever trying to coerce her husband Eddie, a selfish, shallow creep, into making love to her. He refuses. She goes Read More

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Mark Hamill

Synopsis: This stylish animated adventure is based on the '90s animated television series, which in turn is based on the original comics and Tim Burton's live action "Batman" films. Unlike the campy 1960s version of Batman, this version is half-mad from the superhero's obsession with justice. It is only his Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

Unlawful Entry

Actors: Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe, Roger E. Mosley, Ken Lerner

Synopsis: After their Los Angeles suburban house is burglarized, Karen and Michael Carr (Madeleine Stowe and Kurt Russell), are assisted by policeman Pete Davis (Ray Liotta). At first, Davis seems helpful and polite, even helping the Carrs when he is off duty. Soon, it becomes apparent that the policeman Read More

Matinee

Actors: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub

Synopsis: John Goodman's full-throttle performance as a William Castle-inspired schlockmeister propels Joe Dante's delightful and charming comedy Matinee. The film takes place during the fall 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when America's innocence began to crumble. Goodman plays film producer Lawrence Read More

Amityville 1992: It's About Time

Actors: Stephen Macht, Nita Talbot

Synopsis: Eschewing any connection with previous installments of the creatively strip-mined Amityville saga, this film is actually derived from one of a series of novels by John G. Jones and focuses on a mantle clock from the original Long Island horror-house which serves as a vessel of supernatural evil. A Read More

Quake

Synopsis: Set during the big San Francisco earthquake of 1990, this crime drama centers on an obsessed surveillance expert who uses the disaster to finally capture the beautiful woman he has been stalking. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Body Waves

Actors: Bill Calvert, Leah Lail, Larry Linville, Dick Miller, Jim Wise

Synopsis: A young stud has to raise $3,000 in three weeks if his father is to allow him to leave his company. He and his friend fail miserably at selling tanning cream but for some reason, are very successful at magnetizing bikinied babes. The two are offered big money by a few nerdly losers to teach them Read More

Motorama

Actors: Martha Quinn, Jordan Christopher Michael, John Diehl, Mary Woronov, Garrett Morris, Drew Barrymore, Meat Loaf, Flea

Synopsis: This black comedy offers a rather twisted version of the classic road movie, as it tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who is determined to win the "Motorama" road game, a promotional effort by a major gas station that promises winners 500 million dollars. In order to win, one simply has to Read More

The Woman Who Sinned

Actors: Susan Lucci, Tim Matheson, Michael Dudikoff, John Vernon, Christine Belford

Synopsis: She sure did. Susan Lucci brings her daytime-drama flailing gestures to the prime time TV-movie scene in this melodramatic farrago. She plays a married woman who for the first and only time in her life succumbs to the charms of another man. Accused of murder, Lucci's only alibi is her adulterous Read More

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

Mob Boss

Actors: Eddie Deezen, Morgan Fairchild, William Hickey, Stuart Whitman, Irwin Keyes

Synopsis: This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son (Eddie Deezen). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

Far from Home

Actors: Matt Frewer, Drew Barrymore, Richard Masur, Anthony Rapp, Karen Austin, Susan Tyrrell, Andras Jones

Synopsis: Former child star and one-time scandal magnet Drew Barrymore had her first teenage role in this offbeat thriller with comic overtones. Charlie Cross (Matt Frewer) is vacationing with his 15-year-old daughter Joleen (Barrymore). Charlie and Joleen are stranded in an Arizona trailer park when they Read More

Under the Boardwalk

Actors: Keith Coogan, Danielle von Zerneck, Richard Joseph Paul, Steve Monarque, Roxana Zal

Synopsis: When two rival groups of surfers face off on a Southern California beach prior to a big surfing contest, things get a little tense. However, when surfer Nick Rainwood (Richard Joseph Paul) meets up with a pretty girl, Allie (Danielle Von Zerneck), the two start off a romance, in spite of the fact Read More

The 'Burbs

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore and Courtney Gains begin evincing bizarre behavior, Hanks is slightly put out. Fisher Read More

The Hollywood Game

Ghost Writer

Actors: Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, Jeff Conaway, Anthony Franciosa, David F. Doyle

Synopsis: When a movie star's ghost takes to haunting a writer's home on the beach, the two put their heads together to uncover the truth behind her suspicious demise. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Angel III: The Final Chapter

Actors: Mitzi Kapture, Mark Blankfield, Emile Beaucard, Maud Adams, Kin Shriner

Synopsis: In this the third in the "Angel" series, former hooker Angel is reunited with her mom just long enough to make friends (her mom left when Angel was a baby) and learn that she has a half-sister somewhere. Mom is soon the victim of some sort of hit squad and Angel decides to find her half-sister and Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Big Good-Bye

Synopsis: The Enterprise's Holodeck malfunctions, trapping Captain Picard in a recreation of 1941 San Francisco. In the tradition of the earlier Star Trek episode A Piece of the Action, Picard finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a film noir-style gangster melodrama, with familiar movie stereotypes Read More

Amazon Women on the Moon

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg

Synopsis: The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a Read More

Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

Project X

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Bill Sadler, Johnny Ray McGhee, Jonathan Stark

Synopsis: Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation to test potential human endurance. Risking a Read More

Moonlighting: Cool Hand Dave, Part 2

Synopsis: In this conclusion of a two-part story, David (Bruce Willis) attempts to escape from a chain gang in order to be reunited with his pregnant sweetheart Maddie (Cybill Shepherd, who is represented only by her voice in this episode). It looks like David's only hope for freedom is to follow the Read More

Night of the Creeps

Actors: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Wally Taylor

Synopsis: Virtually unnoticed during its brief theatrical run, this wildly entertaining horror-comedy achieved healthy cult status following its home-video and cable TV releases. The directorial debut of Fred Dekker (writer of the successful horror parody House), this low-budget effort throws alien Read More

Chopping Mall

Actors: Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd, Karrie Emerson, Barbara Crampton

Synopsis: This high-tech spin on the slasher genre pits a group of sex-obsessed teens spending the night in a shopping mall against the mall's marauding robotic security guards -- whose programming turns homicidal after a bolt of lightning scrambles their control circuits. Director Jim Wynorski cut his 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

After Hours

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from uptown Manhattan who finds himself in the nightmarish and incomprehensible (to him) world of Soho after dark. The ordeal begins when Paul Hackett (Griffin Read More

Explorers

Actors: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson, Dick Miller

Synopsis: Explorers turns out to be much ado about nothing, but it's so sublimely assembled we're willing to overlook the sappy climax. Young sci-fi geek Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) (could he possibly be based on director Joe Dante?) would give anything to travel in space. Thanks to his computer-happy pal Read More

The Terminator

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: Endlessly imitated, The Terminator made the reputation of cowriter/director James Cameron -- who would go on to make 1997's titanic Titanic -- and solidified the stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie begins in a post-apocalyptic 2029, when Los Angeles has been largely reduced to rubble and Read More

Gremlins

Actors: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Phoebe Cates, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: "Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a Norman Rockwell-esque small town at Christmastime. Seeking a unique gift Read More

Heart Like a Wheel

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works hard to qualify for the major auto race competitions of America. Firmly in her cheering section is her dad (Hoyt Axton), and--at least at first--her husband Read More

Get Crazy

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Stern, Gail Edwards, Miles Chapin

Synopsis: Director Allan Arkush knew whereof he spoke in Get Crazy. A longtime employee of Fillmore East, a popular rock-concert locale of the 1960s and 1970s, Arkush brought a great deal of insider's savvy to this comedy about the concert circuit and its denizens. Malcolm McDowell stars as a Mick Read More

Space Raiders

Actors: Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease, Thom Christopher, Luca Bercovici

Synopsis: Low-budget and cheap, the sci-fi adventure Space Raiders liberally raided Star Wars and the previous Roger Corman film Battle Beyond the Stars for scenes of special effects once, twice, three times, and more. The story, also cribbed from Star Wars is about a Col. Hawkins or "Hawk" (Vince Edwards) Read More

All the Right Moves

Actors: Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Paul Carafotes

Synopsis: High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. Cruise's bullying coach Craig T. Nelson cajoles Cruise into seeking an athletic scholarship to a major university. Inevitably, the boy begins to question his goals in life, and soon his soul is the Read More

Lies

Actors: Anne Dusenberry, Gail Strickland, Bruce Davison, Clu Gulager, Terence Knox, Julie Philips

Synopsis: This thriller follows an heiress who is being driven insane so some unscrupulous thieves can get their hands on her fortune. Actress Robyn Wallace (Anne Dusenberry) looks a lot like heiress Elizabeth (Julie Philips), so Elizabeth's vile husband (Bruce Davison) and two psychiatrists (Gail Strickland Read More

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Bannister, Patricia Barry, Peter Brocco, Albert Brooks

Synopsis: Based on the popular television series created by Rod Serling, this film of horror and the supernatural tells four separate stories--each by a different director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller. In one, a bigot is taught a lesson when he is transported to experience the Read More

White Dog

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore Read More

Taxi: Travels with My Dad

Synopsis: Tony (Tony Danza) is apprehensive about his upcoming reunion with his father Angie (Donnelly Rhodes), a merchant seaman who was largely absent while his son was growing up; however, the meeting goes off quite well. In fact, Angie has magnanimously arranged for Tony to take a job aboard his ship Read More

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Actors: Peter Riegert, Diane Lane, Candy Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: Originally divided into four segments and now cut to three, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a story about a man who is determined to get in touch with himself and sends his wife away so she can do the same thing. The next tale features a female business magnate who wreaks appropriate Read More

Vortex

Actors: James Russo, Lydia Lunch, Bill Rice, Ann Magnuson, Brent Collins

Synopsis: Scott B and Beth B, successful makers of short, experimental films made The Vortex an attempt at a "camp" film with a pessimistic "noirish" atmosphere. The detective Lunch (Lydia Lunch, a popular underground musician and poet) investigates a band of corporate businessman who seek government Read More

The Howling

Actors: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski

Synopsis: This groundbreaking, darkly-comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways light-years distant from Universal's horror classic The Wolf Man. The story begins with television reporter/anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace) taking part in a dangerous police Read More

Heartbeeps

Actors: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

Actors: Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Mel Welles, Virgil Frye

Synopsis: This is a crazy horror-film spoof in which the enthusiastic leads provide laughs just by the strength of their characterizations alone -- and because they are obviously having fun. Oliver Reed is Dr. Heckyl whose lumpy face is so ugly it has kept women away in droves. He works at a podiatrist's Read More

Used Cars

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Frank McRae, Gerritt Graham, Deborah Harmon, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Read More

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood

Actors: Martine Beswicke, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Richard Deacon, Edie Adams

Synopsis: The notorious madam Xaviera Hollander travels to Tinseltown to film her illustrious autobiography in this comedy. The trouble begins when she encounters a few crooked producers looking to exploit her. Look for a variety of second-string and cult stars including Martine Beswick, Dick Miller, and Adam West Read More

The Aftermath

Actors: Steve Barkett, Lynne Margulies, Sid Haig, Christopher Barkett, Alfie Martin

Synopsis: B-movie specialist Steve Barkett directs this sci-fi shocker about a pair of astronauts who return from a mission in space to discover that the world has been decimated by a nuclear holocaust. Arriving back on terra firma, the two space travelers learn that sadistic despots have horded high-tech Read More

The Lady in Red

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher, Christopher Lloyd, Laurie Heineman, Robert Hogan

Synopsis: Escaping from her childhood life of poverty and abuse on the farm, in the 1930s, Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) sets her sights on Hollywood as the promised land and leaves home. However, she doesn't get that far - she lands in Chicago instead. Taking the low-paying jobs which are available to Read More

11th Victim

Actors: Bess Armstrong

Synopsis: The 11th Victim was partially based on the activities of California's Hillside Strangler. Bess Armstrong stars as a Des Moines TV journalist whose younger sister, an aspiring actress, has entered a life of prostitution in Los Angeles. When the sister becomes the eleventh victim of a sex murderer Read More

Rock 'n' Roll High School

Actors: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov

Synopsis: Rock 'n' Roll High School is a prime example of a 1970s movie phenomenon: a cult film that was deliberately designed to be a cult film. High-schooler Riff Randell's (P.J. Soles) efforts to meet the Ramones are continually thwarted by rock & roll-hating principal Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov). Ms. Read More

Piranha

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of Jaws (1977) features several chiller stars of yesteryear. Insurance investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is dispatched to find two missing teenage hikers near Lost Read More

Corvette Summer

Actors: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Kim Milford, Richard McKenzie

Synopsis: The Corvette Ken Dantley's (Mark Hamill) class has been restoring in their high-school shop class is nearly completely fixed up. One day, the students walk in and it is gone - apparently stolen. Ken is larking about in Las Vegas when he spies a car that looks suspiciously like the Corvette he Read More

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Actors: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana

Synopsis: The time is 1964, and the Beatles, already a hugely popular group, are about to go on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, an appearance that launched them into a worldwide phenomenon. Already, girls are fainting during their concerts from sheer excitement at being in the same theater with Read More

Starhops

Actors: Dorothy Buhrman, Sterling Frazier, Jillian Kesner, Anthony Mannino

Synopsis: Three mammarous carhops team up to save their fast-food drive-in from financial ruin in this low-budget exploitation outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. Billion

Actors: Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens, William Redfield

Synopsis: An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president (Jackie Gleason). ~ John Bush, All Read More

New York, New York

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) meets USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) at a Read More

Game Show Models

Synopsis: Game Show Models transcends its exploitational nature with some truly penetrating satire. A group of well-endowed young ladies go through a grueling audition procedure to be selected as "pointers" and "hand holders" on a popular (albeit fictional) TV game show. Those that are chosen must then run Read More

Hollywood Boulevard

Actors: Candice Rialson, Mary Woronov, Rita George, Jeffrey Kramer, Dick Miller

Synopsis: Allan Arkush and Joe Dante co-directed this campy spoof of exploitation films -- Roger Corman's schlock factory in particular. Candice Rialson stars as Candy Wednesday, a movie hopeful who wants to be a star. Her slimy agent Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) directs her to the portals of Miracle Read More

Moving Violation

Actors: Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz, Eddie Albert, Lonny Chapman, Will Geer

Synopsis: A young couple (Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz) witness the murder of a police officer by the local sheriff (Lonny Chapman). When the sheriff figures out that they have seen him commit the crime, he tries to frame them as terrorists and the murderers of his deputy. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

White Line Fever

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Don Porter

Synopsis: In this action film, trucker Carrol Jo Hummer (Jan-Michael Vincent) borrows money to purchase a truck of his own, only to discover that part of his "payment plan" includes smuggling goods on his trips. When Carrol refuses to participate in the underhanded scheme, a group of thugs threaten his Read More

Capone

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, Harry Guardino, John Cassavetes, Sylvester Stallone

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara stars in this low-level depiction of legendary gangster Al Capone, who rose to command the mob underworld in 1920's Chicago. Born in Brooklyn, Capone joins his first gang at the age of 11. From there, he graduates to the infamous "Five Points Gang" run by Johnny Torrio (Harry Read More

Hustle

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) re-unites with Burt Reynolds for this hard-edged neo-noir. Lieutenant Phil Gaines (Reynolds) is a cynical Los Angeles police detective amorously involved with an icewater-veined Parisian call girl, Nicole Britton (Catherine Deneuve). On the job, he begins Read More

Summer School Teachers

Synopsis: Barbara Peeters's Summer School Teachers concerns three gals from Idaho going to teach at Regency High in Southern California, where they have three interwoven adventures: gym teacher Conklin T. (Candice Rialson) battles hyper-macho coach Sam Johns (Dick Miller) to start a girls' football team; Read More

Crazy Mama

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her Read More

TNT Jackson

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanie Bell, Stan Shaw, Pat Anderson, Ken Metcalfe

Synopsis: Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell stars as T.N.T.. Jackson ("...she'll put you in traction!") in this popular blaxploitation film from Filipino director Cirio H. Santiago. Jackson leaves Harlem for Hong Kong to find her missing brother, who has run afoul of the Mob. Predictably, she must pose as a Read More

Big Bad Mama

Actors: Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee

Synopsis: Angie Dickinson essays the title role in Big Bad Mama. This Depression-era crime caper casts the future star of Police Woman as sexy Ma Barker type Wilma McClatchie, who forces her nubile daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee) into participating in a robbery/kidnapping/murder spree. Wilma seems to Read More

Truck Turner

Actors: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner, three years after composing the legendary score for Shaft (1971). Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when Read More

Darktown Strutters

Synopsis: A tough biker gang comprised of African-American women heads off to find a member's mother and her abductor in this exploitation comedy ostensibly designed to make fun of racial stereotypes. The film was later retitled Get Down and Boogie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Student Teachers

Synopsis: In this sexploitation film from Roger Corman's New World films, three buxom student teachers use alternative methods to instruct their handsome young students. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Slams

Actors: Frenchia Guizon

Synopsis: In this violent prison drama, an imprisoned criminal finds himself flooded with offers to spring him if only he will reveal the secret location of the $1.5 million he stole from the mob before he went to jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Executive Action

Actors: Deanna Darrin, James MacColl, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson

Synopsis: If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, the conspiracy theorist's bible, Executive Action perpetuates the popular urban legend that John F. Kennedy was assassinated at the behest of a Read More

The Young Nurses

Synopsis: This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers in a big city hospital expose a drug ring that is operating from inside the facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Call Nurses

Synopsis: A trio of toothsome psychiatric nurses tangle with a psycho killer and other travails in this third entry in Roger Corman's Nurses cycle of sex comedies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ulzana's Raid

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez

Synopsis: One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Set in Arizona during the late 1880s, the film begins with experienced scout McIntosh (Burt Lancaster) and idealistic U.S. Read More

The Grissom Gang

Actors: Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Irene Dailey, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of Read More

Which Way to the Front?

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Jerry Lewis, John Wood, Jan Murray, Steve Franken, Dack Rambo

Synopsis: Brendan (Jerry Lewis) is an eccentric multimillionaire who is rejected for military service in this misfired comedy. Eager to help the Allies, he gathers a quartet of offbeat irregulars and sails to Italy to join the conflict. Brendan captures a Nazi general and masquerades as the enemy. When Read More

The Wild Racers

Actors: Fabian, Mimsy Farmer, Judy Cornwell, David Landers, Warwick Sims

Synopsis: Jo-Jo (Fabian) is a racecar driver recruited to drive for a wealthy racing promoter. When he's not on the fast track, he moves in on female interests with equal speed. His main love interest is played by Mimsy Farmer in this dull feature plagued by a general feeling of boredom from the cast and Read More

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Clint Ritchie

Synopsis: Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era. Fred Steiner Read More

The Dirty Dozen

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman Read More

The Trip

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse

Synopsis: Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce Read More

A Time for Killing

Actors: Glenn Ford, George C. Scott, Michael Parks, Freddie Johnson, Inger Stevens, George Hamilton, Paul Petersen, Max Baer, Jr.

Synopsis: The Long Ride Home is the British title for the Columbia Civil War western A Time for Killing. The stars are Glenn Ford, a regular of sagebrushers, and Inger Stevens, a relative newcomer to the genre who between 1967-1970 made up for lost time with such films as Hang 'Em High and Firecreek. Ford Read More

Branded: Nice Day for a Hanging

Synopsis: Jason (Chuck Connors) rides into a small town to visit Frank Allison (John Anderson), who once saved his life. Unfortunately, the reunion is neither happy nor lengthy: Allison is scheduled to be hanged the next day. It now falls to Jason to prevent Allison's embittered son Lon (Beau Bridges) from Read More

The Wild Angels

Actors: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Lou Procopio, Michael J. Pollard, Coby Denton

Synopsis: This biker gang exploitation picture from director Roger Corman and co-writer and editor Peter Bogdanovich earned critical respect in Europe for its gritty documentary style. Peter Fonda stars as Heavenly Blues, the leader of a wild, roving band of leather-clad bikers. When his best friend Loser (Bruce Dern Read More

Combat!: The Outsider

Synopsis: Jason Evers guest stars as wounded GI Jim Cully, an ill-tempered Virginia hillbilly who trusts absolutely no one. While Kirby (Jack Hogan) visits Cully in the hospital, we flash back to the tumultuous events leading up to the present moment. Essential to the action (and its outcome) is Pvt. Read More

Wild, Wild Winter

Actors: Gary Clarke, Chris Noel, Steve Franken, Don Edmonds, Suzie Kaye

Synopsis: Directed by versatile standup comedian Lenny Weinrib, Wild Wild Winter is more palatable in its comic scenes than its musical interludes. Essentially a snowbound imitation of American-International's Beach Party series, the film stars such passing fancies of the 1960s as Gary Clarke, Chris Noel Read More

Ski Party

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley, Yvonne Craig, Robert Q. Lewis

Synopsis: Ski Party is essentially a beach-party flick with snow and capri pants replacing the surf and bikinis. Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman decide to crash a girls-only party at a skiing lodge. You know what happens next--and boy, are Avalon and Hickman a sight in lipstick and high heels. Avalon's Read More

The Girls on the Beach

Actors: Brian Wilson, Martin West, Noreen Corcoran, Peter Brooks, Michael Love

Synopsis: The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Or so the members of the Alpha Beta sorority who are trying to raise $10,000 during Spring Break to save their sorority house believe. When the Fab Four do not show, the ingenious girls must create a passable imitation by imitating them themselves. Read More

The Terror

Actors: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann

Synopsis: In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), and he is led to a castle where he finds an imposter of Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff). He becomes trapped in the ancient castle and tries to make sense Read More

Bonanza: A Woman Lost

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ruta Lee

Synopsis: The "lost woman" of the title is Rita Marlowe (Ruta Lee), an alcoholic singer whom Ben Cartwright hopes to rehabilitate. But Rita is desperate for drinking money, and as a result accepts an offer of $200 to lure ex-prizefighter Mase Sindell (Don Megowan) back into the ring. The plan hits a snag Read More

X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes

Actors: Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, Don Rickles, John Hoyt

Synopsis: Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an experimental chemical that may vastly increase the range of what we can see. Despite the misgivings and warnings of the two people closest to him, Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van Der Vlis Read More

The Premature Burial

Actors: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel, Alan Napier

Synopsis: Roger Corman's success with low-budget adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales continued with this third installment, the first to lack the commanding presence of Vincent Price. Instead, we have Ray Milland as tormented protagonist Guy Carrell, who is so traumatized by the death of his father -- whom Read More

Capture That Capsule

Actors: Dick Miller, Dick O'Neill, Richard Jordahl, Pat Bradley

Synopsis: A warmed-over relic of the Cold War, Capture That Capsule was produced, co-written and directed by Will Zens. Orson Welles he wasn't. Cult favorite Dick Miller (here billed rather formally as "Richard") plays a quick-witted American secret agent. Miller is sent to retrieve a valuable data capsule Read More

The Untouchables: Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll

Synopsis: Clu Gulager delivers a deliciously over-the-top performance as demented gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, who spends most of the episode settling scores with mob boss Dutch Schultz (Lawrence Dobkin), in his first series appearance. Kidnapping Schultz' lieutenant Lefty Gallagher (Richard Carlyle) Read More

Little Shop of Horrors

Actors: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Laiola Wendorff

Synopsis: Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to Roger Corman's black comedy A Bucket of Blood (1959). Jonathan Haze plays Seymour Krelboin, a schlemiel's schlemiel who works at the Skid Row flower shop of Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles). Read More

A Bucket of Blood

Actors: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson

Synopsis: A fine example -- perhaps the best available -- of "B"-movie overlord Roger Corman's "Weekend Wonders" from the producer/director's early career (see also the original Little Shop of Horrors), this horror-comedy was also the first of beloved actor Dick Miller's dozen-odd portrayals of the Read More

The Wasp Woman

Actors: Susan Cabot, Barboura Morris, William Roerick

Synopsis: This goofy but entertaining horror cheapie from producer-director Roger Corman and company involves the efforts of a questionable scientist working for cosmetics magnate Susan Cabot, who is developing a new rejuvenating beauty cream derived from an enzyme secreted by wasps, intended to make women Read More

Dragnet: The Big Perfume Bottle

Synopsis: Sometimes it pays to specialize, but not when you're a criminal pursued by police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander). The two detectives are on the trail of a bandit who steals only women's clothing and perfume. Circumstantial evidence would suggest that the thief is Read More

War of the Satellites

Actors: Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair, Michael Fox

Synopsis: Wanting to cash in on the launching of Russia's Sputnik satellite, director Roger Corman hastily made this Earthlings vs evil aliens space opera. The trouble begins when an extraterrestrial warns humans that any attempt to send a man into orbit will result in the destruction of the planet. Despite Read More

Naked Paradise

Actors: Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie E. Bradley, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The lurid title of this Roger Corman production refers to the Hawaiian Islands, where the film was shot in its entirety. Richard Denning stars as Duke, skipper of a Hawaii-based schooner. Duke's vessel is chartered by Zac (Leslie Bradley), who claims to be a toy manufacturer. In truth, Zac is the Read More

The Undead

Actors: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour, Mel Welles

Synopsis: Legendary shlockmeister Roger Corman and long-time collaborator Charles B. Griffith attempted to cash in on the popular 1950s surge in Bridey Murphy reincarnation mania with this confusing and throughly weird thriller. It begins with researcher Richard Garland hypnotizing streetwalker Pamela Duncan Read More

Rock All Night

Actors: Abby Dalton, Robin Morse

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, Roger Corman's Rock All Night is a tense little hostage melodrama. Corman regular Dick Miller stars as Shorty, a much-maligned hanger-on at the Cloud Nine tavern. Shorty's hotheaded pugnaciousness comes in handy when a pair of gunmen (played by Russell Johnson--yes, "The Read More

Not of This Earth

Actors: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards. Paul Birch stars as Johnson, a taciturn gentleman in a dark business suit who hires nurse Nadine (Beverly Garland) to care for him. Curious that Johnson needs constant Read More

Sorority Girl

Actors: Susan Cabot, June Kenney, Barbara Crane

Synopsis: Sabra Tanner (Susan Cabot) is a member of an exclusive sorority on a small California campus. Wealthy, attractive, and intelligent, she should be sitting on top of the world and feel like she is; but she's the product of an emotionally abusive upbringing, by an uncaring mother, and she's so Read More

Carnival Rock

Actors: Susan Cabot, Brian G. Hutton, David J. Stewart, Iris Adrian

Synopsis: Producer-director Roger Corman serves up another thinly plotted musicfest in Carnival Rock. Corman regular Susan Cabot stars as Natalie, a singer for an oceanside carnival. Smitten by Natalie, high-stakes gambler Stanley (Brian Hutton) wins the carnival in a poker game so that he can be near the Read More

The Oklahoma Woman

Actors: Richard Denning, Peggie Castle, Tudor Owen, Martin Kingsley, Cathy Downs

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter is finally released from prison and returns to his hometown only to discover that it is being torn apart by conflicting forces. He is even more upset to discover that his girl has become the leader of the "evil" side of town and is completely committed to achieving a Read More

It Conquered the World

Actors: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Though Roger Corman was still new to sci-fi in 1956, he made up for lost time with the above-average quickie It Conquered the World. Peter Graves heads the cast as Paul Nelson, who suspects that his best friend, eccentric genius Tom Anderson (Lee Van Cleef), is up to no good. Sure enough, Tom has Read More

The Gunslinger

Actors: John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Martin Kingsley, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman, Gunslinger stars Corman's then-sweetheart Beverly Garland as tough lady-marshal Rose Hood. Dance-hall girl Erica Page (Allison Hayes), Rose's bitterest enemy, hires gunslinger Cane Miro (John Ireland) to bump off the marshal. When he falls in love with Rose, Cane is faced Read More

Apache Woman

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, Morgan Jones, Paul Birch

Synopsis: In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother Armand (Lance Fuller). They're the children of a white French father and an Apache mother (the daughter of a chief, no less), and they find that they're equally despised by Read More