Dom DeLuiseFilmography

The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond

Synopsis: This documentary takes an in-depth look at the cultural phenomenon of The Wizard of Oz, following the original L. Frank Baum story from its initial publication, through a number of adaptations to both the stage and screen, including the classic 1939 film starring Judy Garland, and the wildly Read More

Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm

Girl Play

Actors: Robin Greenspan, Lacie Harmon

Synopsis: Actresses Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon used the ups and downs of their real-life romance as the inspiration for this comedy drama about two performers whose real lives are beginning to mirror their latest roles. Robin (Greenspan) is an actress who has been in a deeply committed relationship Read More

Instant Karma

Actors: The Rock

The Brainiacs.com

Actors: Michael Angarano, Dom DeLuise, Kevin Kilner

Synopsis: This family-themed comedy produced for the Disney Channel concerns a group of young computer experts who use their Internet skills to take over a toy company. The cast includes Rich Little, Dom DeLuise, Alexandra Paul, Michael Angarano, and Kevin Kilner. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lion of Oz

Actors: Jason Priestley, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry

Synopsis: In this animated adventure inspired by the well-loved characters created by Frank L. Baum, a performing lion from a circus (Jason Priestley) is given a special prize for courage and is sent out to visit the fabled Land of Oz to claim his reward. En route, the lion encounters the Wicked Witch of Read More

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

Actors: Thomas Dekker, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, Lacey Chabert

Synopsis: Fievel, Tony, Tanya, Tiger, and their new friend, hot-shot reporter Nelly Brie, are on the trail of an alleged mouse-nabbing monster, rumors of which have made Manhattan's rodent population tremble. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Stargate SG-1: Urgo

Synopsis: En route to a paradise planet, the SG-1 passes through the Stargate--and unexpectedly ends up at Stargate Command. A barrage of curious and contradictory events leads to the realization that each of the SG-1 team members has been given an alien brain implant. As Dr. Frasier (Teryl Rothery) Read More

Baby Geniuses

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is the highly visible chief executive of BABYCO, the world's largest manufacturer of baby products. The company funds orphanages across the world and just opened an indoor theme park for children adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst Read More

My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception

Actors: Deborah Gibson, Joey Scherr, Martin Guigui, Kelly Bishop, Les Shenkel

Synopsis: One-time musician Martin Guigui, who played more than his share of weddings, wrote, directed and stars in this comedy based on his experiences. Guigui portrays Max Tune, whose band is playing the wedding reception of his former girlfriend, Lisa Weinstein (Deborah Gibson, better known as one-time Read More

The Godson

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Kevin McDonald, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: This satire on mafia pictures tells the story of the Calzones, a mob family having some troubles (including a serious lack of smarts). Guiseppe Calzone, aka "The Guppy," has taken over the family business after his older brother dies, but his aging father realizes he's not the right man for the Read More

An All Dogs Christmas Carol

Actors: Steven Weber, Dom DeLuise, Sheena Easton

Synopsis: The characters from the animated family favorite All Dogs Go to Heaven return for this yuletide story. The pooches at the Flea Bite Cafe are trying to make this Christmas a special one for Timmy, a puppy in need of an operation. But when the mean-spirited Carface decides to spoil Christmas for Read More

The Secret of NIMH II: Timmy to the Rescue

Actors: Harvey Korman, Peter MacNicol, Ralph Macchio, William H. Macy, Arthur Malet, Andrea Martin, Meshach Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Eric Idle, Andrew Ducote

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Don Bluth's 1982 animated adventure The Secret of NIMH, Timmy (voice of Ralph Macchio) is the son of two courageous mice who helped save the day for the animals of Thorn Valley. While the wise Nicodemus has predicted that Timmy will some day be a great hero -- and Read More

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

Actors: Thomas Dekker, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, Lacey Chabert

Synopsis: Fievel the Mouse returns in this direct-to-video release, the third installment in the An American Tail series. Fievel (voice of Thomas Dekker) and his friend Tony Toponi find a map that they believe points to a treasure buried somewhere beneath Old New York, and the plucky rodent is determined to Read More

Boys Will Be Boys

Crew: Director

Actors: Randy Travis, Julie Hagerty, Jon Voight, Michael DeLuise, Catherine Oxenberg

Synopsis: In this family-oriented action adventure, two bickering brothers settle their differences long enough to stop the crooked business rivals who are trying to destroy their father's career. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shari Lewis: Shari's Passover Surprise

Synopsis: Along with Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and Lamb Chop, Shari Lewis offers children an introduction to the history and traditions of the Jewish holiday Passover in Shari Lewis: Shari's Passover Surprise. Guest star Dom DeLuise cooks the traditional Seder per Charlie Horse's request, while Lamb Chop Read More

Red Line

Actors: Chad McQueen, Michael Madsen, Corey Feldman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: Car chases and double-dealing highlight this action-adventure drama. Jim (Chad McQueen) is a struggling race car driver who, after losing sponsorship for his racing team, falls into a life of crime as he struggles to pay off his debts as a mechanic. A brush with auto theft causes Jim to come under Read More

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton, Dom DeLuise, Ernest Borgnine, George Hearn

Synopsis: In this tuneful animated sequel, that angelic ol' dog Charlie Barkin returns to create chaos in heaven and on earth. The trouble begins when Charlie gets bored with the peaceful bliss of life in doggy heaven and begins dreaming of returning to Earth. Even the arrival of his former best pal Itchy Read More

Squanderers

Actors: Chad McQueen, Michael Madsen, Corey Feldman, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: This high-speed actioner features real-life champion stock-car racer Chad McQueen as a thief who specializes in stealing luxury cars. His troubles begin on the day he steals a car and ends up in the midst of a ferocious gang war. This leads to his being blackmailed into stealing a particularly Read More

Tin Soldier

Actors: Jon Voight, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Jon Voight directed and stars in this fantasy about a young boy who begins hanging out with the wrong crowd until he's given a gift of a tin soldier. The soldier comes to life, and uses his steely principles to set the boy back on the straight and narrow. However, the soldier also has a few Read More

Murphy Brown: Dick and Dottie

Synopsis: Shelley Long makes her first appearance as Dottie Wilcox, one-half of the hosting team of the popular daytime talk show "Dick and Dottie" (based on guess-which syndicated talkfest). Unable to hide her disdain for the lightweight Dottie, Murphy (Candice Bergen) makes a catty comment about the woman Read More

A Troll in Central Park

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman, Philip Glasser, Hayley Mills

Synopsis: This animated feature from Don Bluth is aimed toward very young children. It follows the exploits of Stanley, the nicest troll in Troll Land. Unfortunately, the other trolls do not like too much niceness, and Stanley is banished from his homeland by the nasty Gnorga. He is sent to live in New York Read More

The Silence of the Hams

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Ezio Greggio, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula, Charlene Tilton, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film includes cameos from several stars including Mel Brooks, John Astin, Larry Storch, Phyllis Diller, John Carpenter, and John Landis. The story begins as director Ezio Greggio Read More

Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner, Woody Allen, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made-for-television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself. The fish-out-of-water premise remains the same: Allen plays Walter Hollander Read More

The Magic Voyage

Synopsis: This animated feature tells the story of Christopher Columbus, who set out to find a better route to China but instead stumbled upon a "new world," which came to be called America. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Skateboard Kid

Synopsis: When his father's job forces the family to relocate, Zack Tyler (Trevor Lissauer) finds himself friendless and unhappy in a strange new town ruled by skateboarding cretins. However, when he purchases a used skateboard, Zack discovers that his new set of wheels has strange and unusual powers that Read More

Married... With Children: Change for a Buck

Synopsis: Feeling neglected, the Bundys' dog Buck (voiced by Cheech Martin) runs away from home--only to end up in the pound. If no one claims him within a week, Buck is going to be taken through the "little green door" and gassed to death. Unfortunately, no one in the Bundy family is aware that Buck is Read More

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Actors: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Tracey Ullman, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble Read More

Tribute to the Boys

Synopsis: A Tribute to the Boys is a well-intentioned salute to the comedy genius of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Dom DeLuise hosts this 90-minute gushfest, while celebrities ranging from John Landis to Johnny Carson offer their affectionate memories of Stan and Ollie's best films. The team's silent work Read More

Munchie

Actors: Loni Anderson, Dom DeLuise, Andrew Stevens, Jaime McEnnan, Arte Johnson

Synopsis: A loose sequel of the 1987 Munchies film, this movie turns the tables by offering the travails of a good Munchie (voice by Dom DeLuise). Found in an abandoned mine by a young boy (Jaime McEnnan), the creature offers to make all of his dreams come true, including help with bullies and bad grades. Read More

Laurel & Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

Synopsis: Dom DeLuise hosts this star-studded homage to the comedy genius of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Actors: Philip Glasser, James Stewart, Dom DeLuise, John Cleese, Cathy Cavadini, Erica Yohn, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: In this animated sequel to An American Tale, Fievel Mousekewitz strikes out from not-so-enthralling New York City in a wagon train headed West. Helping propel the departure is a crafty cat named Cat R. Waul who tells our Fievel that out West the cats and mice get along just fine. Once on the Read More

Driving Me Crazy

Actors: Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Michelle Johnson, James Tolkan, Steve Kanaly, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: It probably takes an intimate acquaintance with East Germany's famously awful car, a smoky, noisy two-cylinder lawnmower on wheels, the Trabant 601, to fully appreciate the jokes in this extremely popular, celebrity-filled comedy. In the story, Gunther (German television star Thomas Gotttschalk) Read More

Almost Pregnant

Actors: Tanya Roberts, Jeff Conaway, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: Dom DeLuise's son Michael holds the directorial reins in the direct-to-video Almost Pregnant. Onetime "Charlie's Angel" Tanya Roberts plays a woman who'll do anything to become pregnant. Since her hubby Jeff Conaway can't deliver the goods, she decides to rely upon a surrogate. Her first new Read More

Loose Cannons

Actors: David Alan Grier, Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox, Nancy Travis

Synopsis: Loose Cannons may be a wacky buddy-cop comedy, but it starts with a chilling premise. It seems that a film is discovered that depicts the final moments of Adolf Hitler's life. The climax features young German officer Von Metz, who is seen putting Hitler to death. Von Metz (Robert Prosky) is now Read More

Happily Ever After

Actors: Irene Cara, Ed Asner, Carol Channing, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: In this unauthorized sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the animation is so bad that it makes Scooby Doo look like Fantasia. Disney's litigation against the film caused its theatrical release to be delayed for several years. But there was no need to worry -- there is no way that Happily Read More

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Judith Barsi, Dom DeLuise, Vic Tayback, Charles Nelson Reilly, Melba Moore, Loni Anderson

Synopsis: One of the most expensive of Don Bluth's animated cartoon features, All Dogs Go to Heaven was also among the most successful. Set in late-'30s New Orleans, the story centers upon a roguish German shepherd named Charlie B. Barkin (voice of Burt Reynolds), who is killed early in the proceedings by Read More

B.L. Stryker: Die Laughing

Oliver and Company

Actors: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Bette Midler

Synopsis: This animated musical retells Dickens's Oliver Twist amongst animals in New York City, with Oliver as an innocent kitten who joins a gang of law-breaking dogs. When Oliver is adopted by a wealthy young woman, the gang's evil human owner hatches a kidnapping scheme to tap into the girl's fortune. Read More

Going Bananas

Synopsis: When a disgruntled chimp escapes from his circus master, he leads a number of people on a wild and crazy chase across Africa. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Spaceballs

Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy Read More

Un Tassinaro a New York

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Anna Longhi, Dom DeLuise, George Gaynes, Giorgio Gobbi

Synopsis: In this comedy/thriller, starring writer/director Alberto Sordi, Pietro (Sordi) and his wife (Anna Longhi) are Romans through-and-through. In their whole lives, they have never traveled far from their beloved city, though once they traveled to Bologna. Somehow, their son, the apple of their eye Read More

My African Adventure

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Jimmie "J.J." Walker, David Mendenhall, Deep Roy, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: For all we know, there may be even more unknown and unseen Dom DeLuise films lurking around out there. Until we did the research, we didn't know My African Adventure existed. Based loosely on a comic novel by Tamar Burstein, the film concerns the son of an American ambassador who meets a steady Read More

An American Tail

Actors: Cathianne Blore, Dom DeLuise, John Finnegan, Philip Glasser, Amy Green

Synopsis: An American Tail is a beautifully rendered animated flim that tells an overly familiar story in terms children can easily understand. Fievel Mousekewitz and his family of Russian-Jewish mice escape from their homeland in the late 1800s, boarding a boat headed toward America to evade the Czarist Read More

Haunted Honeymoon

Actors: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L. Smith

Synopsis: Gene Wilder directed and wrote (along with Terence Marsh) this mild farce which is a pale reminder of Wilder's glory days in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Wilder plays ham radio actor Larry Abbot, who takes his fiancee Vickie Pearle (Gilda Radner) out to meet his relations on a gloomy country Read More

Johnny Dangerously

Actors: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of Johnny Dangerously (Byron Thames as the young Johnny, Michael Keaton as the older), a devoted son to his ailing mother (Maureen Stapleton), so ill that she needs money for several Read More

Cannonball Run II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

Happy

Actors: Jack Gilford

Synopsis: Roger Hanover (Dom DeLuise) once enjoyed TV stardom as "Happy the Clown." Now, however, Roger is a has-been, reduced to private parties and store openings. Even so, he remains a hero in the eyes of his adoring son Roger Jr. (played, appropriately enough, by David DeLuise). To prove his true worth Read More

Peter-No-Tail

The Secret of NIMH

Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley, Arthur Malet, Peter Strauss, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving Read More

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff, while Dolly Parton portrays the Chicken Ranch madam. While this film has its moments, it never reaches the entertainment heights of its stage Read More

The Cannonball Run

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

History of the World -- Part I

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

The Last Married Couple in America

Actors: George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Dom DeLuise, Arlene Golonka, Valerie Harper, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Natalie Wood and George Segal star in this labored and old-fashioned sex farce, directed by Gilbert Cates. Wood and Segal play Mari and Jeff Thompson, a happily married couple who are thunderstruck when they see all their friends and acquaintances are headed for divorce court. Eventually their own Read More

Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

Fatso

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Candice Azzara, Michael Lombard

Synopsis: In this dark and sometimes sad comedy, Dominick -- an extremely obese man -- is pushed by his sister Antoinette to shed a few pounds lest he end up dead like his cousin. To do so, she helps him enroll in the fanatical weight-loss group, the Chubby Checkers, who will do anything to keep fellow Read More

Smokey and the Bandit II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed

Synopsis: Former stuntman Hal Needham made his directorial debut with the first Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and repeated his success with the sequel, a virtual remake that substituted a live elephant for a truckload of beer. Burt Reynolds returns as law-defying anti-hero Bandit, now a washed-up alcoholic Read More

Hot Stuff

Crew: Director

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: In this comedy a trio of undercover government cops in Miami decide that it would be a good idea to open a bogus fencing operation so they can trap criminals. When the crooks find out, trouble ensues and the fun begins. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Diary of a Young Comic

Synopsis: The eponymous young comic is Richard Lewis, Mr. Jewish Angst himself. Lewis agonizes over moving from his native New York to Los Angeles. No matter how successful he becomes, he is never satisfied. Fortunately, he is able to channel his inner demons into his morbidly hilarious nightclub act. Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

The Cheap Detective

Actors: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason). Police Read More

Sextette

Actors: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr

Synopsis: Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she became a national sensation following her 1926 Broadway show Sex, which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in. She continued to outrage the sensibilities of her time on Read More

The World's Greatest Lover

Actors: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Carl Ballantine

Synopsis: After writing, directing, and starring in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Gene Wilder added the producer's hat to his three-headed beast in The World's Greatest Lover. Wilder plays Rudy Valentine, a Milwaukee baker who enters a talent search in the Hollywood of the 1920s Read More

Silent Movie

Actors: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by Read More

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Actors: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes, the older bother of famous detective Sherlock Holmes. For years, Sigerson has been living in his little brother's shadow, and he is convinced that he must constantly prove his Read More

Blazing Saddles

Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Alex Karras, Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have Read More

Only with Married Men

Synopsis: In this made-for-television comedy, a young woman gets herself into trouble when she begins fulfilling her man-craving with a string of married men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lotsa Luck [TV Series]

Actors: Dom DeLuise

Every Little Crook and Nanny

Actors: Phillip Graves, Katherine Victory, Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand, Maggie Byle, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman's dancing school is overrun by gangster's who begin using it for a betting parlor. As a result, she becomes the nanny for the mob boss's son. Soon she kidnaps him. Trouble and action ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

Actors: Gabriel Dell, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: Georgie Soloway (Dustin Hoffman) is an unbelievably successful composer of popular music. Just in the last year, he has written over 60 hit songs. That kind of output worries him, however. Now that he is getting to be middle-aged, he wonders if he will be able to keep the pace he has set. He also Read More

Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

Norwood

Actors: Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath, Carol Lynley, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: In this romance, an ex-Marine begins looking for a fellow Vietnam vet in hopes of making it as musicians in New York. He does not realize it, but he is driving in stolen cars. After being chased by the police, he ditches the cars and hitchhikes the New York. By the time he arrives, his pal has Read More

The Twelve Chairs

Actors: Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas, Vlada Petric

Synopsis: One of several film versions of the 1928 Russian novel The Twelve Chairs (one of the better-known adaptations was the 1945 Fred Allen vehicle It's in the Bag), Mel Brooks' movie is set in the years following the Bolshevik revolution. Onetime aristocrat Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody), now reduced to a Read More

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Actors: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Dom DeLuise, John McMartin, Nathaniel Frey

Synopsis: In this comedy, New York City undergoes a dramatic change when a toucan carrying a strange virus is smuggled through customs. In those it infects, the virus causes an intense euphoria and a desire to do good. The first man to receive the infected bird is a misanthropic, cynical artist who lives in Read More

The Busybody

Actors: Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan, Anne Baxter, Kay Medford, Jan Murray

Synopsis: A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while reading the Sunday paper. When she finds a dead body in the upstairs office, she calls the police. The detective (Ole Monty) is summoned, and he discovers the woman is his old Read More

The Glass Bottom Boat

Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde

Synopsis: The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a better-than-usual example of that pure-'60s genre, the "spy spoof." Day plays Jennifer Nelson, a PR worker at NASA in Florida. She also doubles as a "mermaid" for her father Read More

The Munsters: Just Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: A bolt of lightning from Grandpa's machinery causes Herman (Fred Gwynne) to become horribly "disfigured"--at least by Munster standards. Specifically, Herman now looks exactly like actor Fred Gwynne without his Munster makeup. Horrified at the prospect of going through life in this fashion, Herman Read More

Diary of a Bachelor

Actors: Dagne Crane, Joe Silver, Susan Dean

Synopsis: In this comedy, a reluctant groom gets into deep trouble when his fiancee accidentally finds one of his diaries. The book is chock full of detailed accounts of his previous sexploits and yet the mortified girl continues to read on. The entries unfold on screen via flashback. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Fail-Safe

Actors: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Dan O'Herlihy, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command headquarters, where a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling towards Russia, fully prepared to drop their atomic weaponry on Moscow. Air Force commander Frank Overton Read More

Tom Thumb

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Jessie Matthews

Synopsis: Producer/animator/special-effect maven George Pal made his feature-film directorial bow with the colorful MGM musical fantasy Tom Thumb (the title of the film was spelled in lower case in the opening credits, and in all studio publicity material). Russ Tamblyn stars as the teeny-tiny titular Read More

Star Shorts

Synopsis: Gallows humor abounds in this satirical compilation of skits. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

Lights of Freedom: Passover

Synopsis: This animated film introduces children to the story of Passover. Part of the Alef Bet Blastoff series, this film follows David and Rachel as they learn of the history behind the important traditions of their faith. To assist them in this particular journey is Talli, a young Russian immigrant who Read More