Donald MoffatFilmography

Bull [TV Series]

Actors: George Newbern, Malik Yoba, Christopher Wiehl, Alicia Coppola

Synopsis: TNT's first dramatic series, Bull is set in the world of high-powered finance and IPOs. Robert "the Kaiser" Roberts (Donald Moffat) is the head of a business empire, and cannot comprehend why his identically named and ethically minded grandson (George Newbern) wants to break away and start his own Read More

Cookie's Fortune

Actors: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Robert Altman directed this bittersweet ensemble piece about an eccentric and entangled group of family and friends living in the Deep South. Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is the widowed matriarch of a small-town Mississippi family, which includes her nieces Camille (Glenn Close), a Read More

The Sleep Room

Actors: Leon Pownall, Eric Peterson, Nicola Cavendish, Marina Orsini, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: This fact-based four-hour miniseries is set in the 1950s, an era when the CIA was actively researching the possibilities of brainwashing and other forms of mind-control. The chilling tale takes place in a Montreal mental facility and centers on a ruthless CIA-funded experiment in which 150 Read More

A Smile Like Yours

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Holly, Joan Cusack, Jay Thomas, Jill Hennessy

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from the John Hughes school of domestic farce stars Greg Kinnear and Lauren Holly as Danny Robertson, an elevator installer, and his wife Jennifer, the owner of an aroma therapy products store. They have a great marriage until Jennifer, who desperately wants a child, secretly Read More

The Evening Star

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Shirley MacLaine reprises her award-winning performance as Aurora Greenway in this sequel to Terms of Endearment. Fifteen years after the death of her daughter Emma, Aurora is still keeping an eye on her three grandchildren and not having very good luck with it. Tommy (George Newbern) is currently Read More

Love, Cheat & Steal

Actors: John Lithgow, Eric Roberts, Mädchen Amick, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: A woman's greed wreaks havoc on those in her life in this made-for-cable movie. Madchen Amick stars as Lauren Harrington, the seemingly perfect and beautiful wife of Paul (John Lithgow). What Paul doesn't know is that Lauren set up a former boyfriend (Eric Roberts) and sent him to jail as part of Read More

Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Read More

Trapped in Paradise

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, John Ashton, Mädchen Amick

Synopsis: Three brothers who are inept criminals butcher one last attempt to pull off a big heist in this caper comedy. Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage) is sick of thievery and has retired from crime to run an upscale restaurant in New York. But when his two brothers, Alvin (Dana Carvey) and Dave (Jon Lovitz), get Read More

Is There Life Out There?

Actors: Reba McEntire, Keith Carradine, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: A brush with death leads a loving mother and housewife to follow her dream of pursuing a higher education in this family drama starring Reba McEntire and Keith Carradine, and directed by David Hugh Jones. Lily (McEntire) has lived a charmed life. Blessed with a loving husband (Carradine) and Read More

Tales of the City

Actors: Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Thomas Gibson

Synopsis: Author Armistead Maupin's serialized tale of sexual infidelity and identity in 1970s San Francisco becomes a sprawling comic melodrama in this much-acclaimed miniseries. Produced by PBS and Britain's Channel 4, Tales of the City covers in its five hours the interlocking stories of more than a Read More

Housesitter

Actors: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from director Frank Oz, Steve Martin plays Boston architect Newton Davis, an impulsive dreamer who builds a bucolic dream home for his girlfriend (Dana Delany) as a means of proposing to her -- only she turns him down. Three months later, the depressed Davis meets a Read More

Columbo: No Time to Die

Actors: Peter Falk, Joanna Going, Thomas Calabro, Donald Moffat, Daniel McDonald

Synopsis: This is one of the many made for TV movies revolving around the popular disheveled character created by Peter Falk - Lieutenant Columbo, of Homicide. In this one, the Lieutenant is called upon to use his expertise to help out the family when his nephew's new bride is kidnapped on their wedding Read More

Majority Rule

Synopsis: A U.S. general confronts the struggle of her lifetime when she decides to run for president in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Jeff Daniels, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story is a made-for-cable adaptation of James Neff's Mobbed Up, a real-life account about Teamster president Jackie Presser. Brian Dennehy plays Presser, who was Jimmy Hoffa's successor as president of the Teamsters. Like Hoffa, Presser was caught between the Read More

Regarding Henry

Actors: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Mikki Allen, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Combining elements of A Christmas Carol and Rain Man (1988), this modern-day parable of greed and redemption was crafted with generous helpings of sentimentality by director Mike Nicholas. Harrison Ford stars as Henry Turner, a slick, ruthless corporate attorney willing to spin any falsehood to Read More

Class Action

Actors: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: A pair of lawyers must balance their professional principles (such as they are) against family loyalties in this courtroom drama. Jedediah Ward (Gene Hackman) is a leftist lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; he's pursued Read More

When the Time Comes

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a woman suffering the ravages of terminal cancer desires, against the wishes of her husband, to permanently end her suffering. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Babe Ruth

Actors: Bruce Weitz, Lisa Zane, Donald Moffat, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford (Yvonne Suhor Read More

Dead End Brattigan

Synopsis: In this drama, also titled "Great Pretender," an award-winning reporter, who has been demoted to nowhere position at his paper, reveals a government backed and highly corrupt land deal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Kaleidoscope'

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Perry King, Claudia Christian, Patricia Kalember

Synopsis: Wealthy, but yearning for the family he lost after his parents' untimely deaths, a businessman hires a private eye to locate his three sisters, each of whom was sent to a different foster home following the mysterious accident. One particularly traumatized sister seems to know the truth about the Read More

A Son's Promise

Actors: Rick Schroder, Donald Moffat, Veronica Cartwright, Stephen Dorff, Andrew Lowery

Synopsis: The promise made by 15-year-old Georgia boy Ricky Schroder is to his dying mother (Veronica Cartwright). Schroder vows that he'll keep his parentless family--all seven brothers--together, no matter what. He keeps his word, through starvation, deprivation and natural disaster. It says in the ads Read More

Kojak: Flowers for Matty

Actors: Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Flowers for Matty was one of a smattering of 2-hour Kojak TV dramas presented on the 1989-90 series The ABC Saturday Mystery Movie. Theo Kojak, now a police inspector, takes on the case of a murdered author. The dead man was just about to publish an inflammatory book about mob activities. Read More

The Music Box

Actors: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: Jessica Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Read More

License to Kill

Actors: James Farentino, Penny Fuller, Millie Perkins, Don Murray

Synopsis: License to Kill is a serious TV movie dealing with the subject of drunken driving. The film begins when a popular high school girl is killed in a head-on collision by inebriated-businessman Don Murray. Though he's had a drinking problem for some time, Murray has dismissed it as a byproduct of the Read More

Cross of Fire

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Cross of Fire is set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in Indiana. Part One, originally telecast November 5, 1989, details the resurgence of the Klan (which had been created during the Reconstruction era) under the leadership of Read More

Far North

Actors: Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis: Writer/director Sam Shepard's jaundiced view of "Lake Woebegone" territory is essentially a vehicle for his lady fair Jessica Lange. Far North is set in rural Minnesota, at the home of a dour, curmudgeonly farm family. Only Kate (Lange) has been able to escape this repressive environment, but she Read More

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed Read More

Necessary Parties

Actors: Alan Arkin, Barbara Dana, Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Synopsis: Teenaged Chris Mills (Mark Paul Gosselaar) is aware that his argumentative parents (Julie Hagerty and Geoff Pierson) are about to divorce. He also catches on that he and younger sister Jenny (Taylor Fry) are going to be pawns in a bitter custody battle. To avoid this, Chris takes legal action to Read More

The Bourne Identity

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Yorgo Voyagis, Peter Vaughan, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Quayle

Synopsis: Roger Young's made-for-TV adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, The Bourne Identity stars Richard Chamberlain as Jason Bourne, who washes up on the beach and is cared for by a doctor. Bourne has no memories, but is intrigued enough to investigate why he has the number of a Swiss bank account on Read More

Monster in the Closet

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

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

Desperado

Actors: Alex McArthur, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Desperado was the first of several made-for-TV movies revolving around the exploits of itinerant cowboy Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). This time around, McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. As the only honest man in the territory (comparatively speaking), our Read More

Through Naked Eyes

Synopsis: When people begin to be murdered around them, two disparate voyeurs in apartment high-rises begin to suspect they are the objects of interest for yet another peeping tom. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Times

Actors: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial high-school football game. Likewise tainted for life is the team's star quarterback Kurt Russell, now a garage owner. Fed up with living his life under a cloud, Williams Read More

Houston: The Legend of Texas

Actors: Sam Elliott, Michael Beck, Devon Ericson, Bo Hopkins, Michael Gwynne

Synopsis: Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo (as if anyone could), Houston led the military in Texas' rebellion against Mexico. G.D. Spradlin co-stars as President Andrew Read More

Alamo Bay

Actors: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Nguyen Ho, Donald Moffat, Truyen V. Tran

Synopsis: Director Louis Malle scrutinizes modern-day racism in Alamo Bay. The scene is the Texas coast, where local fishermen resent the "intrusion" of Vietnam refugees. Fair-minded shrimp supplier Wally (Donald Moffat) hires several Vietnamese workers, which serves to further infuriate the locals. The Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Funeral at Fifty-Mile

Synopsis: In the final first-season episode of Murder She Wrote, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) travels to Wyoming to attend the funeral of an old family friend. At the same time, a wealthy Wyoming rancher draws up papers leaving his entire estate to a somewhat nasty stranger, completely disinheriting his Read More

The Right Stuff

Actors: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward

Synopsis: Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; and Ed Harris Read More

Who Will Love My Children?

Actors: Ann-Margret

Synopsis: Ann-Margret is beyond praise in her TV movie debut as the real-life Lucile Frey. A poor, minimally educated rural Iowa mother, Lucile learns on the occasion of the birth of her tenth child in 1952 that she is dying of cancer. Reasoning that her husband (Frederic Forest) is not responsible enough Read More

The Thing

Actors: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David

Synopsis: John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?" on which it was based. Carpenter's film is more faithful to Campbell's story than Hawks' version and also substantially more reliant on Read More

The White Lions

Actors: Michael York, Glynnis O'Connor, Donald Moffat, J.A. Preston, Roger E. Mosley

Synopsis: This easy-going television movie is about Chris McBride (Michael York), a real-life naturalist who brings his wife and daughter to an African wildlife preserve to join him in a research project. The area has a special meaning to him because he was born there. His wife is not as enthusiastic as he Read More

My Champion

Actors: Christopher Mitchum, Yoko Shimada, Andy Romano, Donald Moffat, Yoko Sugi

Synopsis: This film is based on the true story of a champion Japanese runner and the relationship that strengthened her career. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Actors: Donald Moffat, Claudette Nevins, Jaclyn Smith, Rod Taylor, James Franciscus

Synopsis: Jaclyn Smith trades the flimsy costumes of Charlie's Angels for the pink pillbox hat and white gloves of the former First Lady of the Land in the made-for-TV Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The daughter of socialites "Black Jack" Bouvier (Rod Taylor) and Janet Lee (Claudette Nevins), Jackie spends her Read More

The Land of No Return

Actors: Mel Tormé, William Shatner, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: A popular television animal trainer finds himself forced to rely on his furred and feathered friends after his private plane crash lands in a snow-covered Utah mountain wilderness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

On the Nickel

Actors: Ralph Waite, Donald Moffat, Hal Williams, Penelope Allen, Jack Kehoe, Dan Ades, Paul Weaver, Ina Gould, Jack O'Leary, Cano Graham, James Gammon, Arthur Space, Bert Conway, Jaime Sanchez

Synopsis: The Skid Row derelicts that occupy most of the screen time in this uneven drama about the effects of alcohol addiction do nothing to gain an audience's sympathy. Sam (Donald Moffat) has kicked his habit and picked himself up out of the gutter only to find that no avenues are open to take him away Read More

The Long Days of Summer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV sequel to When Every Day Was the Fourth of July, a Jewish family fights prejudice in their New England community in the years before World War II. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Popeye

Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in Read More

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and a Daughter

Synopsis: The made-for-television movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and a Daughter concerns a bitter widow (Bette Davis) who is upset about the unexpected return of her estranged daughter (Gena Rowlands). Davis won an Emmy for her performance. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Ebony, Ivory and Jade

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

Mrs. R's Daughter

Synopsis: An angry mother (Cloris Leachman) fights an ineffective judicial system to bring justice to her daughter's rapist. The film was based on a true story and made for television in 1979. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Promises in the Dark

Actors: Marsha Mason, Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty, Susan Clark, Michael Brandon

Synopsis: This is a tragic tale of the slow degeneration of a cancer patient that is filled with pathos and sorrow. Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller) is terminally ill with cancer and for the two-hour running time, she goes through several surgical procedures, suffers all the devastating side effects of Read More

Winter Kills

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Based on a novel by the iconoclastic Richard Condon (of Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor fame), Winter Kills was one of the vanguard efforts in the "JFK conspiracy" school of literature. Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the scion of a powerful Kennedyesque family, who has done his best to Read More

H.E.A.L.T.H.

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Carol Burnett, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Dick Cavett

Synopsis: Robert Altman, the director responsible for M*A*S*H, came up with another acronymic title for his 1979 comedy H.E.A.L.T.H The letter stand for Happiness, Energy And Longevity Through Health--the name given a health-food convention at a Florida luxury hotel. In the tradition of his earlier Nashville Read More

The Gift of Love

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Marie Osmond

Synopsis: For her dramatic acting debut, singer Marie Osmond chose this sentimental adaptation of the venerable Yuletide short story The Gift of the Magi, previously filmed in 1952 as a segment of the omnibus feature film O. Henry's Full House. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, The Gift of Love casts Osmond Read More

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie begins in 1975, when Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (Brad Dourif), a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, faces a court-martial and possible discharge. Matlovich's "offense:" He is an admitted homosexual. Knowing full well that the military has a long-standing ban on Read More

Tartuffe

Synopsis: Donald Moffat stars as the titular scoundrel in this 1978 Circle in the Square production of Moliere's classic comedy, co-starring Victor Gerber and Tony-winner Tammy Grimes and directed by Stephen Porter and Kirk Browning. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Be My Friend

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In search of the person who stuffed a note reading "Be My Friend" in a bottle, Charles (Michael Landon) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) come upon an abandoned baby. It soon develops that the child's unwed, teenaged parents were forced to part by the girl's resentful father. While Charles tries to Read More

The Waltons: John's Crossroad

Synopsis: Unable to pay Grandma's hospital bill, John (Ralph Waite) is forced to take a government job in Charlottesville. Not only does John have trouble adjusting to his new boss (Donald Moffat), a strict rules-are-rules taskmaster, but he also feels guilty over the fact that he has been hired merely to Read More

Mary White

Actors: Ed Flanders, Kathleen Beller

Synopsis: Journalist William Allen White, the Pulitzer Prize-winning sage of Emporia, Kansas, lost his beloved 16-year-old daughter Mary when she was killed in a horseback-riding accident in 1921. The grieving White then wrote a newspaper editorial celebrating his daughter's life, which he printed in his Read More

The Exo-Man

Synopsis: Exo-Man is a made-for-TV attempt to prolong the Six Million Dollar Man concept into yet another series. David Ackroyd stars as physics professor Nick Conrad, who is shot and crippled while trying to prevent a holdup. Returning to his lab, Conrad invents a superpowered suit that will enable him to Read More

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: First aired March 13, 1977, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years was the brilliant follow-up to the equally praiseworthy 1976 TV movie Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years. The film is framed in a flashback experienced by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Jane Alexander) while accompanying the Read More

The Call of the Wild

Actors: John Beck

Synopsis: Unlike the 1935 film version of Jack London's 1897 novel Call of the Wild, which devoted most of its running time to a romance between Clark Gable and Loretta Young, this 1976 TV-movie version wisely remains faithful to the source. The star is a magnificent dog--part St. Bernard, part German Read More

Forget-Me-Not Lane

Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Tom Hulce, Joseph Maher, Donald Moffat

A Touch of the Poet

Actors: Fritz Weaver

Synopsis: A Touch of the Poet is the only completed play in Eugene O'Neill's planned 11-part "American History" cycle. Set in a rundown tavern in 1820s Boston, Poet focuses on the relationships between tavern owner Cornelius Melody, his wife Nora, and daughter Sara. Born into wealth in the old country Read More

The Terminal Man

Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

Ironside: Close to the Heart

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley guest stars as Laura Keyes, who after suffering a heart attack crashes her car into Ironside's van. Laura is rushed to a hospital, where the doctors discover that the woman had had a bullet lodged near her heart for years. Ironside (Raymond Burr) is amazed to discover that, not Read More

Earthquake

Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and stars are tied together by the ongoing efforts of Read More

Showdown

Actors: Dan Boydston, Dean Martin, Rock Hudson, Susan Clark

Synopsis: In this Western comedy, Billy (Dean Martin) and Chuck (Rock Hudson) were the best of friends until Chuck married the girl they were both courting. Now they have drifted apart. Chuck has since become a sheriff and must hunt down Billy, now a robber. As the chase proceeds, each of them reminisces Read More

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Actors: Gwen Arner, Ed Flanders, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan, Nancy Malone

Synopsis: Father Daniel Berrigan, at the height of the Vietnam War, was arrested along with eight other protesters (including his brother Philip) in Baltimore in 1968, for burning draft records. Berrigan later penned a didactic play, based upon the incident, which was the basis for this film. The motives Read More

Ironside: Shadow Soldiers

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) head to London (courtesy of the Universal back lot), there to attend an international police convention. No sooner has he arrived than Ed witnesses the assassination of the British police official--and is subsequently targeted for death himself. To Read More

The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid

Actors: Bill Callaway, Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of Read More

Bonanza: Face of Fear

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Neta (Jewel Blanch), a teenaged friend of Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie, witnesses the murder of Mr. Trunkett, but is too frightened to say anything about it. Meanwhile, the murderer, a man named Bannon (Bradford Dillman), impersonates the dead man in order to inherit a fortune. The danger to Read More

The Devil and Miss Sarah

Synopsis: The notion of combining the western and horror genres was nothing new when The Devil and Miss Sarah was first telecast in 1971, nor does the film bring anything new to either genre. Gene Barry plays a demonic outlaw named Rankin, who after being captured is escorted to trial by a sheriff (James Drury Read More

Mission: Impossible: Mindbend

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Leonard Frey

Synopsis: Fresh from his Broadway triumph in The Boys in the Band, Leonard Frey guest-stars as Thomas Burke, a pscyhopathic doctor who brainwashes underworld fugitives into becoming political assassins, then committing suicide before the cops catch up with them. The IMF must not only put Burke out of Read More

R.P.M.

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: Set against the political turmoil of the late 60's, R.P.M. (Revolutions Per Minute) stars Anthony Quinn as "Paco" Perez, a free-thinking liberal college professor whom the campus leftists regard as an authority figure they can understand. Perez is also free-thinking enough to have a grad student Read More

Bonanza: The Trouble with Amy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jo Van Fleet, John Crawford

Synopsis: Jo Van Fleet guest-stars as Amy Wilder, one of those peppery old eccentrics who loves animals but despises people. Coveting Amy's property, land developer Barton Roberts (John Crawford) hauls her into court to prove that she is mentally incompetent. Ben Cartwright invites Amy's long-estranged Read More

Rachel, Rachel

Actors: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she's wasted her life. Rachel's best friend, Calla Mackie (Estelle Parsons), invites her to attend a religious revival meeting. Here Rachel Read More