Gayle Hunnicutt Filmography

Zwei Frauen

Actors: Jami Gertz, Martha Plimpton, George Peppard, Rip Torn

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a ballet dancer discovers that she is suffering from cancer and must re-evaluate her life. When she meets up with another young woman who is also ill, the two strike up a friendship. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Brazilian Connection

Synopsis: Simon Dutton revived the character of, Simon Templar, AKA The Saint, in 1989, with a series of six two-hour action films, made for (and originally aired on) television in the UK. The first of these features, The Brazilian Connection, opens with the abduction of a baby from a pram in Knightsbridge Read More

Turn Around

Synopsis: After a malicious gang attacks the residents of a small town, a magician decides to use his trade to exact revenge. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Dream Lover

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters, Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, John McMartin

Synopsis: Director Alan J. Pakula does the best anyone can with this complicated tale of what happens when the dream state and the waking state are confused and intermingled. While at home alone one day, Kathy Gardner (Kristy McNichol) defends herself against an intruder by stabbing him in the back. Now Read More

Strong Medicine

Synopsis: This two-part, four-hour TV miniseries was adapted from the same-named 1984 novel by Arthur Hailey. Pamela Sue Martin headed the huge cast as Celia Gray, a young woman who rose from humble drug store clerk to become the head of a major pharmaceutical manufacturing firm during the 1950s and 1960s. Read More

Dream West

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

Two by Forsyth

Synopsis: A wealthy man attempts to keep his fortune from falling into the hands of his avaricious relatives upon his death, and a temperate man has had it with a gossip columnist in these two shorts adapted from stories by Frederick Forsyth. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Target

Actors: Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Victoria Fyodorova, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Arthur Penn takes a crack at subverting the espionage film genre in Target. Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman) is a quiet and unassuming lumberyard owner in Dallas, Texas. Chris (Matt Dillon) has dropped out of college to pursue a career as a race car driver. But all mundane tasks come to an end when Read More

No Comebacks

Synopsis: This British double-feature is comprised of mysteries based on Frederick Forsyth stories. The first, A Careful Man centers upon an ailing millionaire who bilks his greedy relatives out of their rightful inheritance. In Privilege, an ingenious stamp salesman uses the law to get revenge upon a Read More

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Scandal in Bohemia

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wolf Kahler, Max Faulkner

Synopsis: "A Scandal in Bohemia" is the title of the first of a series of episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- an excellent adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes mystery story, produced in Britain for Granada TV. In this episode, Jeremy Brett portrays the famed detective who, with the help of his Read More

Flashpoint Africa

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, James Faulkner, Siegfried Rauch

Synopsis: The role of media manipulation of the news is also the starring role in this political drama involving a female broadcast journalist who travels to Africa to cover a breaking story about a revolution, only to have her material cut and recast back in her London studios. Lisa Ford (Gayle Hunnicutt) Read More

The First Olympics: Athens 1896

Synopsis: Five Emmy nominations went to the two-part TV drama The First Olympics: Athens 1896. The story begins in 1894, when Baron Pierre de Courbetin (Louis Jourdan) announces his intention to stage the first Olympic games of the Modern Era within two years in Athens. The baron heads to the US to recruit Read More

Taxi: Louie Moves Uptown

Synopsis: Miracle of miracles! After years of being perfectly comfortable with his "gross and disgusting" self, Louie (Danny DeVito) is suddenly anxious to turn over a new leaf. The reason? He has the chance to move into a plush co-op apartment -- a chance bolstered by the 48,000-dollar down payment he has Read More

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Finger Man

Synopsis: "Powers Boothe recreates Bogart's famous sleuth" read the ad campaign for the five-part HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Hey, how about a little credit for Raymond Chandler, who only created the character of hard-bitten, eloquent gumshoe Marlowe? First telecast April 23, 1983 Read More

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Synopsis: Fifteen years after the cancellation of the tongue-in-cheek spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum were reunited in this made-for-TV movie. It all begins when Janus (Geoffrey Lewis), a former agent for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (aka Read More

The Million Dollar Face

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The expensive face of the title belongs to Sylvia Kristel, who actually levies a price of $2.5 million upon the fictional cosmetics firm of Glamour Inc. Ms. Kristel's story is but one of the many intrigues within the hallowed halls of Glamour. Tony Curtis stars as the company's CEO, beset with Read More

The Saint and the Brave Goose

Actors: Ian Ogilvy, Gayle Hunnicutt, Stratford Johns, Derren Nesbitt, Joe Lynch

Synopsis: Saint and the Brave Goose was culled from the revived Saint TV series of the late 1970s. Ian Ogilvy takes over from Roger Moore in the role of international adventurer Simon Templar, aka "The Saint." In this one, Templar comes to the aid of an imperiled young widow, played by Gale Hunnicutt. Stratford Johns Read More

The Martian Chronicles

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Everyone who tuned into The Martian Chronicles during its three-day run in January of 1980 sincerely hoped that it would be the ne plus ultra of televised sci-fi/fantasy. That it fell short of this goal was not the fault of the actors but of the script, which reduced Ray Bradbury's complex Read More

Once in Paris...

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jack Lenoir, Philippe March, Clement Harari

Synopsis: Playwright Frank D. Gilroy wrote and directed this subtle, down-to-earth and autobiographical depiction of an American screenwriter in Paris who befriends his chauffeur and has an affair with a British aristocrat. Wayne Rogers is Michael Moore, an American scenario writer who has traveled to Paris Read More

A Man Called Intrepid

Actors: David Niven, Michael York, Barbara Hershey, Paul Harding, Flora Robson

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book by William Stevenson, this three-part NBC miniseries begins in 1939, just before the outbreak of WWII. With his warnings of Hitler's treachery going ignored, out-of-power politician Winston Churchill (Nigel Stock) approaches patriotic Canadian industrialist Sir Read More

Fantômas

Actors: Helmut Berger, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Mallet, Gayle Hunnicutt

Blazing Magnum

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Carole Laure, Martin Landau, Jean Le Clerc, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: In this violent actioner, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his little sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for vengeance that he casts protocol to the winds and begins using his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon Read More

The Sell Out

Actors: Richard Widmark, Oliver Reed, Gayle Hunnicutt, Sam Wanamaker, Vladek Sheybal

Synopsis: In this action-packed spy drama, a retired CIA agent reluctantly returns to espionage at the request of his treacherous student, who messed up and went to the Soviet side. Now the agent wants out, causing both the US and the USSR to send out their best hit men to get him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Freelance

Synopsis: The eyewitness to a mob killing, a corrupt businessman, is pursued by the murderers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Spiral Staircase

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law

Synopsis: This made-for-television remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town psycho stalking disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nuits Rouges

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis: When a master thief (Jacques Champreux) sets his sights on the centuries-old treasure of the Knights Templar, he must struggle to outwit the devoted keepers of the fortune. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

K Is for Killing

Synopsis: When attempts have been made on a rich British industrialist, a husband-and-wife detective team is called in to investigate. (AKA Color Him Dead) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Color Him Dead

Synopsis: In this thriller, a two married detectives work together to nab the killer who stalks their client. The film is also titled "K Is for Killing." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Homme Sans Visage

Synopsis: The Man Without A Face is an archvillain, comic-book style, and in this French action movie, he proves to be a worthy foe. The villain has an extensive crime network, including a retreat under the streets of Paris. He has discovered that the Knights Templar, outlawed many hundreds of years before Read More

The Legend of Hell House

Actors: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, four people with alleged extrasensory powers are called upon to spend a weekend in a supposedly haunted house, to either prove or disprove the Read More

Scorpio

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt

Synopsis: This spy thriller from future Death Wish (1974) director Michael Winner stars Burt Lancaster as the enigmatic Cross, a CIA agent who has hired a government assassin, Jean Laurier (Alain Delon), to kill an Arab terrorist. Once they return home, Laurier is arrested by his superior, McLeod (John Colicos Read More

Voices

Synopsis: Offscreen husband and wife David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt star in this average British shocker from director Kevin Billington. After their son drowns, the woman loses her mind and is committed to a mental hospital. Upon her release, the couple moves into a remote mansion in the country, where Read More

The Golden Bowl

Actors: Barry Morse, Jill Townsend, Daniel Massey, Gayle Hunnicutt

Running Scared

Synopsis: In this grim drama, a college student remains passive as his friend commits suicide causing his friends to blame him for the death. Eventually he too, kills himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Love Machine

Actors: John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Based on the novel The Love Machine, by Jacqueline Susann, this movie concerns the machinations, in the boardroom and in the bedroom, of a group of people--from the chairman of the board down--who are involved in network television. Through his own guile and the sponsorship of his mistress (Dyan Cannon Read More

Fragment of Fear

Actors: David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: This chilling mystery begins when Lucy Dawson (Flora Robson) is found strangled in her apartment. Her nephew Tim (David Hemmings) is the former-drug-addict-turned-successful-author who wrote a book about his experiences. When Tim looks into his aunt's death, people give sketchy answers and the Read More

Eye of the Cat

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Tim Henry, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a Read More

Marlowe

Actors: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: James Garner is so good as Raymond Chandler's philosophical gumshoe Philip Marlowe that you forget he's totally wrong for the part. Based on Chandler's The Little Sister, Marlowe involves the detective's efforts to locate the missing brother of Orfamay Quest (Sharon Farrell). He follows the clues Read More

P.J.

Actors: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the Read More

The Smugglers

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Austria and Italy, the made-for-TV The Smugglers stars Shirley Booth as an American tourist and Carol Lynley as her stepdaughter/travelling companion. Attempting to sneak a few souvenirs past customs, the ladies inadvertently become the couriers for an international smuggling Read More

The Wild Angels

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

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

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Badger Game

Synopsis: Long before establishing herself as a top-rank actress of the British stage and screen, American-born Gayle Hunnicutt did starlet duty on The Beverly Hillbillies. In "The Badger Game," Hunnicutt and Leon Ames are cast as Emaline Foxhall and her "father" the Colonel , a pair of con artists posing Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Badgers Return

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, the police have arrested Colonel Foxhall (Leon Ames) for attempting to blackmail Jed. Undaunted, Foxhall's beautiful accomplice Emaline (Gayle Hunnicutt) is still intent upon getting her hands on the Clampett millions. To that end, the girl dons Read More