Ernest BorgnineFilmography

Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Robert Osborne

Synopsis: Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne sits down for an hour-long discussion with Academy Award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine to discuss a career that's still going strong after fifty years. After reflecting on his early years at Randall School of Dramatic Arts in Hartford, Borgnine reveals how Read More

Aces N' Eights

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner and Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine star in this action-packed western about a town of old west settlers beset by a ruthless group of trigger-happy gunmen. They knew they were taking a risk by settling in uncharted territory, but the land was bountiful and the future Read More

A Grandpa for Christmas

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Juliette Goglia, Jamie Farr, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A retired showman and twenty-five year divorcee connects with the granddaughter he never knew in this warmhearted holiday film starring Earnest Borgnine, Katherine Helmond, Tracy Nelson, and Jamie Farr. Ever since his divorce twenty-five years ago, eighty year old bachelor Bert O'Riley (Borgnine) Read More

Frozen Stupid

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joey Albright, Michelle Mountain, Kimberly Norris Guerrero

Renegade

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Eddie Izzard, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: From Jan Kounen, the French director of the violent cult actioner Dobermann, comes this loose adaptation of Jean "Mobius" Giraud's comic series Blueberry. Vincent Cassel stars as Mike Blueberry, a lawman whose past comes back to haunt him when his town is invaded by the nefarious Blount (Michael Madsen Read More

The Trail To Hope Rose

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

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

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Actors: Carroll Baker, Ernest Borgnine, Bruce Dern, Ricardo Montalban, John Ritter

Television: The First 50 Years

The Blue Light

Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Ernest Borgnine stars in this children's fantasy film about a young boy who suddenly finds himself playing his favorite videogame from the inside. After making a wish, young Max (Noah Poletiek) is surprised when a magical fairy (Borgnine) appears offering to grant the boy's Read More

Barn Red

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Kimberly Norris Guerrero, Wayne David Parker, Julie Kavner, Suzi Regan

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine stars as an underdog farmer who stands up to a land developer in the stirring drama Barn Red. He is joined by a Native American former employee named Lydia (Kimberly Norris Guerrero), and the two take on the town to keep the land untouched. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Blue Angel

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guest stars as veteran televsion director Max Blandish, a once-idealistic media pioneer who has become jaded and disillusioned during his 50 years in the business. If bitterness doesn't kill Max, his heavy smoking will, and thus there isn't a whole lot of time left for Monica (Roma Read More

Kiss of Debt

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Tyley Ross

Synopsis: An opera-obsessed Mafioso receives his comeuppance from the least likely of places in this crime comedy starring screen legend Ernest Borgnine. Godfather Mariano (Borgnine) is a mob boss accustomed to getting things his way, but when an indebted tenor, a widower, and a florist turn the tables on Read More

Hoover

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine stars in this one-man show as J. Edgar Hoover, the notorious former head of the F.B.I., who discusses his long and storied career on camera as he relives his triumphs and attempts to explain his career failings. Hoover discusses his battles against Communists, gangsters (especially Read More

Castle Rock

Synopsis: Alana Austin, Ernest Borgnine, and Frank Gorshin star in this action-packed adventure about a feisty teenage girl and a handsome young drifter on the run from the law in the Arizona desert. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island

Synopsis: Danny Quinn is determined to find the pirate treasure at the bottom of Lake Michigan, which his father told him about before he died. His will is so strong, in fact, that the ghost of Picaroon visits him to encourage him in his quest and warn him of the foe that he will meet on his journey. Danny Read More

Abilene

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Kim Hunter, James Morrison, Wendell Pierce, Park Overall

Synopsis: Reminiscent of David Lynch's acclaimed The Straight Story, this drama focuses on forgiveness, redemption, and a rider lawnmower. Ernest Borgnine stars as aging war veteran Hotis Brown, who learns that his brother -- to whom he has not talked in 50 years -- is dying. Too proud to accept a police 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

Last Great Ride

Actors: Jeffrey Sharmat, Stephanie Sawyer, Eileen Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, Jason Hervey, Bonnie Cahoon, Cris Borgnine

Synopsis: In this adventure story for the whole family, young Ian (Jeffrey Sharmat) has resigned himself to a boring vacation after he's told that he'll have to spend the summer with his Grandma Mimi (Eileen Brennan). After making friends with a neighborhood girl named Jules (Stephanie Sawyer), Ian and his Read More

BASEketball

Actors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: David Zucker directed this slapstick sports comedy starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Competing two-on-two against some basketball jocks, goofballs Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) attempt to win by devising new rules while they play. Thus is born the bizarre game Read More

12 Bucks

Actors: Scott Waugh, Sean Graham, Ming-Na Wen, Irene Bedard, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Johnny and Tanner are two brothers raised in a violently dysfunctional family, with a brutal psychopath for a father. One day, their father's abuse of their mother goes too far and tragedy strikes. Tanner winds up in jail, and Johnny is sent to a foster home, where he finally knows a stable life 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

Gattaca

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin, Xander Berkeley

Synopsis: New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with this science fiction drama, set in a future when one's life is determined by genetic engineering rather than education or experience. The wealthy can choose the genetic makeup of their descendants. Read More

McHale's Navy

Actors: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, Dean Stockwell, David Alan Grier, Debra Messing

Synopsis: The most disorganized crew in the Navy returns in this updated adaptation of the once-popular TV sitcom. Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale (Tom Arnold) has retired from the U.S. Navy and is living on the old PT boat he used to command. He spends his days making the rounds of the Caribbean Island of San Read More

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

The Single Guy: Season 02

Actors: Jonathan Silverman, Joey Slotnick, Ernest Borgnine

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Synopsis: When director Paul Seydor was researching the seminal Sam Peckinpah movie The Wild Bunch, he discovered the film which forms the basis for this short documentary (it is approximately 30 minutes long). Some unknown person, probably a cameraman, shot over 70 minutes of film showing how key scenes in The Wild Bunch Read More

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, George Milan, Bunny Summers

Synopsis: Merlin the wizard and his wife Zurella time-travel to the 20th century to set up a special magic shop. They bring with them some funny magical critters in hopes of inspiring his clients. Though many people believe he is indeed the Merlin the Magician, reporter Jonathan Cooper remains skeptical and 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

The Single Guy: Season 01

Actors: Jonathan Silverman, Joey Slotnick, Ernest Borgnine

Outlaws: The Legend Of O.B. Taggart

Mistress

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own Read More

Spirit of the Season

Synopsis: "A Thieves Christmas" and "The Gift" are read by a grandfather who finds his grandchildren lacking in the spirit of the Christmas season. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Appearances

Actors: Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Appearances began life as a 2-hour TV pilot film. A Midwestern family tries to carry on after the sudden death of the family's son. Everyone puts up a brave public front, but the artifice results in gradual erosion of family solidarity. Ernest Borgnine fares best as the clan's patriarch. Read More

Tides of War

Synopsis: After witnessing the cruelty of the dreaded SS, a German Naval officer begins to question his allegiance to the floundering Nazi party in this WW II drama set near the end of the war. He is stationed upon an island and is helping to prepare a missile attack on Washington, D.C. when the SS Read More

Any Man's Death

Actors: John Savage, William Hickey, Mia Sara, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: John Savage plays a roving reporter on assignment in Africa. While nosing around in the jungle, Savage stumbles upon an unregenerate Nazi war criminal. As he mulls over what do with this information, the Nazi continues laying the groundwork for a worldwide neofascist conspiracy. Despite the Read More

Laser Mission

Actors: Brandon Lee, Ernest Borgnine, Debi Monahan, Werner Pochath, Graham Clarke

Synopsis: In this action adventure tale, Professor Braun (Ernest Borgnine), an expert in weapons technology, is kidnapped by Soviet terrorists who intend to force him to make a high-tech laser cannon for them. Intelligence agents Michael Gold (Brandon Lee) and Alissa (Debi A. Monahan) are sent in by the CIA Read More

Moving Target

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: After witnessing her boyfriend's killing by gangsters, a woman escapes to Florida with the mob hot on her trail. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Jake Spanner: Private Eye

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ernest Borgnine, Laurie Latham

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on a novel by L.A. Morse, retired L.A. detective Jake Spanner enlists the aide of a group of senior citizens to help him find an ex-mobster's daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Oceano

Real Men Don't Eat Gummy Bears

Actors: Christopher Mitchum, Robi Rosa, John Hillerman, Angela Alvarado, Bentley Mitchum

Synopsis: In this comedy/drama, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can. Meanwhile, the twin brother of a Spanish priest has set out from where he lives in order to find his son Read More

Skeleton Coast

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed, Daniel Greene, Nancy Mulford

Synopsis: This action-adventure film is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. In the story, Colonel Smith (Ernest Borgnine) is an aging military man whose son is a CIA agent. His son has been captured by a bevy of iron-curtain bad-guys involved in a civil war in the African country of Angola, and Col. Smith is Read More

Spike of Bensonhurst

Actors: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne de Salvo, Sylvia Miles, Geraldine Smith

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, Spike Fumo (Sasha Mitchell) is a Brooklyn streetfighter with pugilistic aspirations. With Spike's mafioso father in Sing Sing, mobster and former fighter Baldo Cacetti (Ernest Borgnine) looks out for Spike by getting him some bouts and every once in a while convincing the Read More

The Big Turnaround

Synopsis: A small community must band together in order to oust the criminals running their town in Big Turn Around. Legion (Rick Le Fever) thinks he has a small South Western town under his thumb; he smuggles drugs, guns, and even people through it and over the border with Mexico. What he doesn't know is Read More

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

Synopsis: Made for television, this is the third sequel to the popular war adventure. This time, a group of rag-tag soldiers must somehow shape up and take on a group of Nazi soldiers who are riding the Orient Express to Istanbul to establish their latest empire. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Uppercut Man

Actors: Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis: An up-and-coming prizefighter inadvertently entangles himself with the mob after he saves a young woman's life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

Actors: Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: The second television film to capitalize on the classic original, The Deadly Mission concerns another team of convicts, this time assigned to rescue Nazi scientists working on a chemical-weapons project. Telly Savalas plays a different role than he did in the original (unlike Ernest Borgnine). Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Dive

Synopsis: Jerry Orbach makes a return appearance as Boston P.I. Harry McGraw, who in this episode has given up sleuthing to enter the world of professional boxing. No, Harry hasn't donned the gloves himself, but he is a suspect in the murder of a crooked boxing manager. Enter Jessica (Angela Lansbury), who Read More

Codename: Wildgeese

Actors: Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: In this commando action-adventure by Antonio Margheriti, Captain Wesley (Lewis Collins) has been charged with cleaning out some drug sites in Thailand and gathers up four of his mercenaries for the task. His superior is Fletcher (Ernest Borgnine), a drug enforcement officer with shady business Read More

The Manhunt

Actors: Ethan Wayne, Raimund Harmstorf, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: In this drama, a man who is unjustly imprisoned escapes, and soon the manhunt is on. After a stranger (John Ethan Wayne) buys two horses at an auction in Tucson, he stops to water them on the property of rancher Ben Robeson (Ernest Borgnine). The unscrupulous rancher sees an easy mark, so he Read More

Airwolf: Season 03

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott

Synopsis: The third season of Airwolf continues to spotlight its title "character," a state-of-the-art helicopter with a full arsenal of high-tech weaponry and the capability to fly anywhere at the fastest possible speed without the necessity of refuel. Still in charge of Airwolf are maverick pilot Read More

The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Larry Wilcox, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: The first of two full-length television sequels which reprise the 1967 original, finds two convicts (Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) again forced to lead a suicide mission behind enemy lines. This time, they head into Germany to thwart an unbelievable plot to assassinate Hitler. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Airwolf: Season 01

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, Deborah Pratt

Synopsis: The first season of the CBS action-adventure series Airwolf kicks off with its two-hour pilot, in which maverick flyboy String Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) agrees to retrieve a high-tech, extremely versatile new helicopter from the Libyans on behalf of the Firm, a top secret government agency. Upon Read More

Vengeance Is Mine

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Hollis McLaren, Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Listed as a 1984 release in most sources, Vengeance is Mine was filmed in 1976. As the leading character, a taciturn farmer, Ernest Borgnine offers something of an extension of his characterization in the 1955 melodrama Violent Saturday. The farmer's solitude is shattered when bank robbers invade Read More

Airwolf

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Airwolf stars Jan-Michael Vincent as Stringfellow Hawke, a reclusive helicopter pilot. Airwolf itself is a super-powered copter that has been stolen by its creator (David Hemmings) and sold to the Libyans. Hawke agrees to retrieve Airwolf on one condition: That the US government effect the release Read More

Airwolf: Season 02

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott

Synopsis: Season two of Airwolf finds the title "character" -- a high-tech helicopter equipped with remarkable sensing devices and a full complement of weaponry -- being used on behalf of the forces of good by maverick pilot String Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and String's partner/best buddy Dom Santini (Ernest Borgnine Read More

Love Leads the Way

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This made-for-Disney drama is the fact-based account of Morris Frank (Timothy Bottoms), who, during the 1930s, trained America's first seeing-eye dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Days of Pompeii

Synopsis: This three-part, seven-hour TV adaptation of Edgar Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 best-seller The Last Days of Pompeii was arguably more faithful to its source than any of the earlier film versions -- and inarguably the most expensive version of all, boasting a 19,000,000-dollar budget and a truly Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Donald O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world Read More

The Young Warriors

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Richard Roundtree, Lynda Day George, James Van Patten, Anne Lockhart

Synopsis: In a conventional teen movie that condemns violence in the dialogue then supplies it in the action sequences, a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin (James Van Patten) to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his Read More

Blood Feud

Actors: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello, Edward Albert, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly convincing as labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, engaged in a decade-long war of words with attorney (and later attorney general) Robert F. Kennedy. Cotter Smith makes his TV debut as Read More

Carpool

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, T.K. Carter, Stephanie Faracy, Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari

Synopsis: This made-for-TV comedy postulates that, someday, members of carpools will be selected by computer. The four so anointed herein are Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari, T.K. Carter and Stephanie Faracy. Their lives go along in their usual luckless fashion until the quarter of mismatched "poolers" find Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Mr. White Death

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guest stars as Earl Gianelli, a former boxing champ reduced to working the wrestling circuit. Gianelli hires Magnum to locate his long-lost son, who now goes by the name of Phil Lewis (James Edgcomb). But when Lewis insists that his father died in 1955, Magnum begins to suspect Read More

High Risk

Actors: James Brolin, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison, Chick Vennera, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Stewart Raffill directs the high-action comedy caper igh Risk about a four-man band of theives trying to pull off the perfect crime. Stone (James Brolin), Tony (Chick Venera), Dan (Bruce Davidson), and Rockney (Cleavon Little) hire two inept airplane pilots and plot a major heist. The plan is to Read More

Escape from New York

Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is Read More

Deadly Blessing

Actors: Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, Sharon Stone, Jeff East, Lisa Hartman

Synopsis: Deadly Blessing, a disappointing effort from famed horror-film director Wes Craven, tells the story of a woman's fight against a religious cult which will not stop at murder. Martha (Maren Jensen) lives alone near a conservative, repressive religious cult led by Isaiah (Ernest Borgnine). Martha's Read More

Super Fuzz

Actors: Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru, Julius Gordon

Synopsis: Dave Speed is no ordinary Miami cop--he is an irradiated Miami cop who has developed super powers. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite know how to use them and this gets him in trouble with his long-suffering partner. The film was also known as Supersnooper. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

When Time Ran Out

Actors: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons

Synopsis: After producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to fire again but this time it is within the earth, at least for awhile. This fairly routine disaster film is set on a resort island with a volcano that Read More

The Black Hole

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux

Synopsis: An ambitious sci-fier from the Disney folks, The Black Hole takes place in the future. A quintet of space travelers stumble across a "black hole." Not wishing to be sucked into the void, the crew prepares to flee, but stops long enough to investigate a mysterious space vessel near the entrance of Read More

The Ravagers

Actors: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Art Carney, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony James

Synopsis: Set in the ravaged post-WWIII world, this grim sci-fi fantasy centers on the vengeful quest of a bereaved husband whose wife was raped and murdered by a gang of leather-clad bikers. After getting his revenge, the fellow roars off on the other's bike and along the way encounters another survivor Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Little House Years

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

Synopsis: Telecast on Sunday evening rather than the series' customary Monday-night slot, "The Little House Years" is a three-hour compilation of highlights from the series' five previous seasons. Gathered together for Thanksgiving, the Ingalls family recalls the most memorable events of their lives, with Read More

The Double McGuffin

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Elke Sommer, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock fans need not be reminded that "The McGuffin" is Hitchcock's term for the gimmicks (missing papers, stolen gems, uranium deposits) that motivate the plots of his thrillers. This much is explained by narrator Orson Welles at the beginning of the family-oriented The Double McGuffin. Read More

All Quiet on the Western Front

Actors: Richard Thomas

Synopsis: Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front (1979). Richard Thomas stars as Paul Baumer, a teen who, at the urging of zealously patriotic teacher Kantorek (Donald Pleasence Read More

Convoy

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair

Synopsis: The CB (citizen's band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall's song "Convoy", a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They Read More

The Ghost of Flight 401

Actors: Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Based on a book by John C. Fuller, the made-for-TV Ghost of Flight 401 is predicated on the "actual events" surrounding a real-life plane crash. In December of 1972, Flight 401 nose-dived into the Florida Everglades, killing its flight officer (played herein by Ernest Borgnine). Though damaged Read More

The Cops and Robin

Actors: Natasha Ryan

Synopsis: Future Cop had been a disastrous 1977 TV series about a human cop and his "biosynthetic android" (or robot) partner. Not content to leave bad enough alone, Paramount Television attempted to revive the Future Cop concept under the title The Cops and Robin. As in the earlier TV series, Ernest Borgnine Read More

Fire

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Neville Brand, Alex Cord, Vera Miles, Donna Mills

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fire! is graced with a made-for-TV cast, including Ernest Borgnine, Patty Duke Astin, Vera Miles, Alex Cord and Donna Mills. It all begins when a convict (Neville Brand) escapes from an Oregon road gang. To cover his trail, the fugitive starts a forest fire. Need you be told at Read More

Jesus of Nazareth

Actors: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott

Synopsis: A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark Twain. Tom Canty (Mark Lester) is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward (also played by Lester), the son of King Henry Read More

The Greatest

Actors: Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes, Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: With Muhammad Ali cast as himself, The Greatest covers Ali's life from his "Cassius Clay" days to the celebrated Ali/George Foreman bout. Along the way, the film focuses on Ali's conversion to Islam and his potentially career-breaking decision not to serve in the Army. Ernest Borgnine palys Ali's Read More

Future Cop

Synopsis: Both Future Cop and Cops and Robin were feature-length pilots for TV series. Both starred Ernest Borgnine, Michael Shannon and John Amos. Both were tongue-in-cheek science-fiction efforts about a hard-nosed cop (Borgnine) who is teamed with an android (Shannon). And both died aborning before a Read More

Shoot

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, Henry Silva, James Blendick, Larry Reynolds

Synopsis: Derivative of the John Boorman action thriller Deliverance (1972), this grim, ostensibly socially-conscious parable is at its best moments disturbing, and at its worst, absurd. Cliff Robertson stars as Rex, a gun enthusiast and military veteran who, with his buddies Lou (Ernest Borgnine) and Zeke (Henry Silva Read More

Love by Appointment

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine and Robert Alda are the sole "name" actors in the Italian Love by Appointment. Ernie and Bob play a couple of oddball American businessmen who begin frequenting a busy suburban brothel. Spending more of their time enjoying the favors of the establishment's ladies and less on their Read More

Sunday in the Country

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Michael J. Pollard, Hollis McLaren, Louis Zorich, Cec Linder

Synopsis: In this grim Canadian drama a gentle farmer gets gruesome revenge against a group murderers by capturing and tormenting each of the culprits. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

The Devil's Rain

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This horror oddity tells the story of a well-networked throng of devil-worshipers populating a small Arizona town who possess a strange crystal icon which houses the captive souls of their sacrificial victims. The coven, led by the thick-browed Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine), are also Read More

Law and Disorder

Actors: Adam Lessuck, Ed Madsen, Bill Richert, Sydney Sherrif

Synopsis: Fed up with an escalating crime rate and an increasingly ineffective police force, blue-collar New Yorkers Willie and Cy (Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine) join a citizen's vigilante group. Their efforts to act as an auxiliary police force are comically inept, but director Ivan Passer lulls us Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Lord is My Shepherd

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guests stars as a mountain hermit named Jonathan in this two-hour episode. Though she is a bit jealous of her new baby brother, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is horror-stricken when the infant dies. Feeling somehow responsible for this tragedy, Laura runs away from home and climbs a Read More

Twice in a Lifetime

Synopsis: In this comedy, a retired Navy cook lives his dreams. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Neptune Factor

Actors: Ed McGibbon, Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggens

Synopsis: A research facility becomes a death trap, and only an untested Navy vessel can save the day in this adventure drama. A team of scientists led by Hal Hamilton (Michael J. Reynolds) is studying marine life in an underwater research station called Sealab. Shortly before the Sealab crew are scheduled Read More

Emperor of the North

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury

Synopsis: In this gritty and violent period drama set in the depths of the Great Depression, Lee Marvin stars as "A No. 1", the acknowledged King of the Hoboes. A No. 1 is famous among his fellow tramps for his ability to catch a ride on any train, no matter how risky the hop or dangerous the guards. He Read More

The Revengers

Actors: Raul Prieto

Synopsis: Despite the fact that most of the westerns made at this time (early '70s) were "deconstructionist" westerns, which either spoofed or subverted the themes of this genre, occasionally a traditional western got filmed. The Revengers is a traditional western. John Benedict (William Holden) returns to Read More

The Poseidon Adventure

Actors: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve. Just after midnight, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) spots the mother of all tidal waves. It is the last thing that Harrison and practically everyone Read More

Sam Hill: Who Killed Mr. Foster?

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine plays alcoholic vagabond Sam Hill in this pilot film for a potential western detective series. Sam Hill is appointed sheriff of a one-horse town, then promptly becomes mixed up in a murder case. The victim was a preacher who was collecting $10,000 to build a new church; the money Read More

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

Synopsis: This comedy murder mystery and pilot for a series that never materialized, has Ernest Borgnine as western sheriff Sam Hill, who has a whole lot of trouble on his hands when he discovers the dead body of the town's newly arrived minister. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Willard

Actors: Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante

Synopsis: This film is based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks, by Stephen Gilbert. Bruce Davison is Willard Stiles, a 27-year-old mama's boy whose repressions are bottled up inside and come to the fore in his nervous nail-biting. As one character describes Willard, "Willard is basically an extrovert, but Read More

The Trackers

Synopsis: A rancher sets out to find the party responsible for killing his son and kidnapping his daughter. He enlists an arrogant professional tracker to help him in his search. Ernest Borgnine and Sammy Davis, Jr. star in this made-for-television western. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Guns of the Revolution

Actors: Padre Humberto Almazan, Ernest Borgnine, Sancho Garcia

Synopsis: The Mexican Guns of the Revolution alternates between tension and all-out violence. It's a tight contest, but violence finally wins out towards the end. Ernest Borgnine plays a ruthless provincial governor who tyannizes a sizeable piece of Mexican territory. He is challenged by an outwardly Read More

Bunny O'Hare

Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy

Synopsis: Would you believe Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine as a pair of free-spirited hippies on a crime spree? That's the premise of this unlikely comedy starring the two Oscar-winning veterans. Bunny O'Hare (Bette Davis) is an elderly woman living in New Mexico who is trying to keep herself afloat Read More

The Boxer

Actors: Robert Blake, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: It was "tax shelter" time when Hollywood's Robert Blake and Ernest Borgnine headed to Italy to star in Counter Punch. Slimmer and lighter on his feet than he'd be in his Baretta days, Blake plays a young boxer, accused of murdering his crooked manager. Escaping from detective Borgnine, Blake sets Read More

Hannie Caulder

Actors: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, Jack Elam

Synopsis: It's hard to discern the filmmakers' true point of view on Hannie Caulder. On one hand, you've got the heavily somber story of Raquel Welch's efforts to exact vengeance on the men who raped her and killed her husband. On the other hand, you've got the leisurely-paced, lightly amusing sequences in Read More

The Adventurers

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Tommy Berggren

Synopsis: Based on Harold Robbins' bestseller, The Adventurers stars Yugoslav heartthrob Bekim Fehmiu as Porfirio Rubirosa clone Dax Xenos. Having suffered mightily as a child in a fictional South American country due to the political activities of his parents, Xenos grows up to become a sleazy, sexually Read More

A Bullet for Sandoval

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, George Hilton, Alberto de Mendoza, Leo Anchoriz, Antonio Pico

Synopsis: A Confederate deserter battles a Mexican bandit when the deserter's child dies for lack of milk. Warner (George Hilton) receives word his girlfriend is dying and about to give birth to the couple's child. The woman is the daughter of Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine), who hates all gringos and Read More

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Actors: Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: War Games is the streamlined reissue title for the satirical Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? The story is set in a sleepy Southern town, the site of a tranquil army base. Commanding officer Col. Flanders (Don Ameche), anxious to win the hearts and minds of the locals, invites the populace Read More

The Wild Bunch

Actors: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates

Synopsis: "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Read More

Vengeance Is Mine

Synopsis: The Italian-Spanish Vengeance is Mine should not be confused with the 1948 British film or the 1980 Japanese production of same name. Spaghetti-western veteran George Hilton plays a man who spends the early portions of the film seeking out the person who allowed his family to die of disease during Read More

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Actors: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer, Rossella Falk

Synopsis: Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann (Kim Novak), the living image of the late Lylah, to star in a film based on Ms. Clare's life. Barney hires director Lewis Zarkan (Peter Finch), Lylah's former husband, to Read More

Ice Station Zebra

Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill

Synopsis: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The Read More

The Split

Actors: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test of skill. Thanks to care and precise planning Read More

Chuka

Actors: Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, James Whitmore

Synopsis: The title character (Rod Taylor) is a drifting gunslinger, who enters a Southwestern fort and immediately becomes embroiled with its commander (John Mills). In the end, the wanderer helps the fort guard against attacks from Indians. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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 Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

The Flight of the Phoenix

Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for Read More

McHale's Navy: Season 04

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

The Blue-Eyed Horse

Synopsis: The Blue-Eyed Horse is an hour-long farce starring Joan Blondell as an inveterate horse player and Ernest Borgnine as her beleaguered husband. The film opens with Borgnine standing before judge Paul Lynde, trying to explain why his wife has disappeared. The police suspect foul play, offering as Read More

McHale's Navy

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine, George Kennedy, Gary Vinson

Synopsis: Captain Wallace Binghamton (Joe FLynn), St. Comdr. Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine) and Ensign Charles Parker (Tim Conway) brought their wacky antics to the big screen for this feature, spawned from the popular '60 television program of the same name. McHale and his crew get involved in a betting Read More

McHale's Navy: Season 03

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

McHale's Navy: Season 02

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

McHale's Navy: Season 01

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

Barabbas

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado, Jack Palance, Vittorio Gassman, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: This 1962 Biblical epic was adapted by Christopher Fry from the novel by Pär Lagerkvist. Anthony Quinn stars as Barabbas, the thief who was pardoned in place of Jesus. For the rest of his life, the guilt-ridden criminal tries to justify his existence and to determine his place in the scheme of Read More

Il Brigante

Actors: Serena Vergano

Synopsis: This uneven but interesting drama by director and writer Renato Castellani tells the tale of a brigand and the people who become involved with him. Michele Rende (Adelmo di Fraia) is both a town legend and a hot-tempered young man who is thrown in prison after being accused of a murder he did not Read More

Les Guerilleros

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Katy Jurado

Black City

II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

Go Naked in the World

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida plays a Lady of the Evening who is wooed by wealthy young Anthony Franciosa. She leaves him in the dark concerning her checkered past. Alas, Franciosa's father Ernest Borgnine knows everything about Lollobrigida, and breaks the bad news to his son. Aghast at first, Franciosa is Read More

Man on a String

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: An unexceptional spy drama by Andre De Toth, Man on a String is based on an autobiography by counterspy Boris Morros, here given the name of Boris Mitrov and played by Ernest Borgnine. Mitrov was born in Russia but had been a citizen of the U.S. for some time when he joins up with a Russian spy Read More

Pay or Die

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Renata Vanni

Synopsis: Based on real incidents in the life and death of Lt. Joseph Petrosino (Ernest Borgnine) of the New York police force, this tale set between 1906-1909 details the history of the lieutenant's fight to prove Sicilian Mafia involvement in crimes in his city. Lt. Petrosino has a series of dangerous Read More

The Rabbit Trap

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, David Brian, Bethel Leslie, Kevin Corcoran, June Blair

Synopsis: The Rabbit Trap was part of a cycle of 1950s films based on TV dramas; in this instance, the film was adapted from a teleplay by J.P. Miller. Ernest Borgnine plays a workaholic husband and father whose demanding job (the "rabbit trap" of the title) affords him little time for his wife (Bethel Leslie Read More

Season of Passion

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills, Angela Lansbury, Vincent Ball

Synopsis: Poignant and pointed, as well as funny, this love story by director Leslie Norman has a simple message: act your age. Since they were older teens, two buddies Barney (John Mills) and Roo (Ernest Borgnine) have gone to a summer rendezvous with the same two women, for fun in the sun in Sydney. They Read More

The Vikings

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter Read More

The Badlanders

Actors: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly, Nehemiah Persoff, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Peter Van Hook (Alan Ladd), alias The Dutchman, is nearing the end of a stretch in Yuma Territorial Prison for a gold robbery that he didn't commit. Released early with the unwitting -- and unwilling -- help of fellow inmate John McBain (Ernest Borgnine), he sets about getting even with the men Read More

Torpedo Run

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: In the psychological WW2 drama Torpedo Run, Glenn Ford plays submarine commander Barney Doyle, who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier. Several months earlier, the carrier had escaped destruction by shielding itself with a POW transport ship, which was sunk by Doyle's Read More

Wagon Train: The Willy Moran Story

Three Brave Men

Actors: Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: The only thing genuinely brave about Three Brave Men is the second word in the title. The film is based on the true story of a Navy employee who was fired as a security risk, then took the case to court to prove his loyalty to the United States. Ernest Borgnine plays the victimized employee, whose Read More

The Catered Affair

Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Bette Davis goes the "kitchen sink drama" route in The Catered Affair. As the frowsy wife of Bronx cabdriver Ernest Borgnine, Davis insists that her daughter Debbie Reynolds have a high-class wedding--caterers and all. Reynolds and future hubby Rod Taylor want a simple ceremony, but Davis' mind is Read More

The Best Things in Life Are Free

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Don Dailey, Sheree North, Ernest Borgnine, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: The Best Things in Life are Free is the tuneful if uninspired life story of popular composers DeSylva (Gordon MacRae), Brown (Ernest Borgnine) and Henderson (Dan Dailey). Pooling their talents, the trio rises from Tin Pan Alley to fame and fortune. The team's future is threatened when Buddy Read More

Jubal

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr

Synopsis: Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I. Wellman. The Othello counterpart is likable (and extremely gullible) ranch owner Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine). Horgan hires handsome drifter Cassioer, Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) Read More

Bad Day at Black Rock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for Read More

Violent Saturday

Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Lee Marvin, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Three bank robbers (J. Carroll Naish, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally) case a small Arizona mining town prior to pulling a holdup. The audience get to know the various townsfolk as they're scrutinized by the crooks. Victor Mature plays a man who is a disappointment to his son because he didn't serve Read More

Run for Cover

Actors: James Cagney, John Derek, Viveca Lindfors, Jean Hersholt, Ernest Borgnine, Grant Withers

Synopsis: In his first western since 1939's The Oklahoma Kid, James Cagney is a pillar of integrity in the Pine-Thomas production Run for Cover. Cagney plays Matt Dow, who at the beginning of the film has been released from prison after serving six years for a crime he didn't commit. Heading westward, Matt Read More

The Square Jungle

Actors: Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly, Jim Backus, Leigh Snowden

Synopsis: The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis plays Eddie Quaid, who turns to pugilism to bail his wino father (Jim Backus) out of jail. Gaining fame as "Packy Glennon," Quaid inevitably forgets the things in life that are Read More

Marty

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is a burly but gentle man, easing into middle age without much hope for romance or a career. He lives at home with his mother (Esther Minciotti), a kind Read More

The Last Command

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas the earlier film concerned itself with the exploits of Texas patriot Sam Houston, Last Command concentrates on Houston associate James Bowie, played by Sterling Hayden. When Read More

Vera Cruz

Actors: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Sarita Montiel

Synopsis: Produced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the Mexican revolution of 1866, casts Coop and Lancaster as Ben Trane and Joe Erin, two rival soldiers of fortune who team to fight for the highest bidder. The two men come to Read More

Johnny Guitar

Actors: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Cooper, Royal Dano, Paul Fix

Synopsis: One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title character, played by Sterling Hayden, is a guitar-strumming drifter who was once the lover of Arizona saloon-owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Though Read More

The Bounty Hunter

Actors: Randolph Scott, Marie Windsor, Howard Petrie, Harry Antrim

Synopsis: Randolph Scott once more contributes mightily to Warner Bros.' annual box-office gross in the well-mounted western The Bounty Hunter. Filmed in 3D but released "flat", the film casts Scott as the title character, who is hired by the Pinkertons to bring in three train robbers. Riding into the town Read More

Demetrius and the Gladiators

Actors: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft

Synopsis: Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were shot at the same time. Based on characters originally conceived by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Victor Mature as the title character, an ex-slave who embraced Read More

The Stranger Wore a Gun

Actors: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya

Synopsis: Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a former spy for Quantrill's Raiders. When he heads to Arizona to start life anew, Travis finds that his reputation has preceded him: crooked Jules Mourret (George Macready) Read More

From Here to Eternity

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an Read More

Philco Television Playhouse: January 13, 1952

Philco Television Playhouse: Without Fear or Favor

China Corsair

Actors: Jon Hall, Lisa Ferraday, Ron Randell, Douglas Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: In this exciting actioner a daring Eurasian woman gets involved with a shipwrecked engineer whom she rescues from a remote island. Together, they have many romantic and exciting adventures as they try to keep a crook from selling her uncle's priceless collection of antique jade. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

The Mob

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley, Neville Brand, Otto Hulett, Ernest Borgnine, Matt Crowley

Synopsis: Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on the line. Going home in the rain one night, he finds himself just a few feet from a shooting on a dark street, where the gunman claims to be a detective from another precinct Read More

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray Hamilton, James Westerfield

Synopsis: Produced by "March of Time" maven Louis de Rochemont, Whistle at Eaton Falls is docudrama concerning a labor dispute in a small New Hampshire town. Union leader Lloyd Bridges is reluctantly promoted to the presidency of Eaton Falls' plastics plant. Now in a management position, Bridges must lay Read More