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Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins
Synopsis: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two Read More
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman
Synopsis: Four of Tinseltown's greatest glamour queens came together for this tartly comic made-for-TV movie which pokes gentle (and not so gentle) fun at their histories and reputations. Kate Westburn (Shirley MacLaine), Addie Holden (Joan Collins), and Piper Grayson (Debbie Reynolds) are three legendary Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Rick Rossovich, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire
Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More
Synopsis: This telefilm remake of the 1947 suspense fantasy Repeat Performance stars Connie Sellecca as a fading TV star who commits a murder on New Year's Eve before being given a chance to relive the last year and prevent the murder from occurring. The script is tarted up with a high-gloss veneer and some Read More
Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is summoned to the island retreat of her friend Henry Reynard (Gene Barry), a millionaire lumberman. Someone has threatened Henry's life, and he is convinced that the "someone" is a relative anxious to get his or her hands on the old man's millions. Upon her arrival Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jean Simmons
Synopsis: The Case of the Lost Love was the fourth of the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s. Raymond Burr plays Mason (you're surprised?), who while out of town at a lawyer's conference is reunited with Jean Simmons, his lady friend of 30 years past. Simmons has come up in the world, and is about to be Read More
Actors: Carol Lawrence, Jerry Mathers
Synopsis: This made-for-TV follow-up to 1980's The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything stars Lee Purcell and Philip MacHale as Bonnie Lee Beaumont and Kirby Winter, roles created in the earlier film by Pam Dawber and Robert Hays. Once more, the hapless Kirby is the possessor of a magic watch that can stop Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, J.D. Cannon, Linda Purl, John Randolph
Synopsis: Linda Purl stars as Nellie Bly, famed 19th century female journalist, in this "Classics Illustrated" TV movie. A tireless crusader, Nellie exposes corruption amongst the rich of New York and miserable working conditions amongst the poor. In her most famous exploit, Nellie decides to emulate Jules Read More
Actors: Jennifer Dale, Winston Rekert, Gabriel Arcand, Ken Pogue, Michelle Rossignol
Synopsis: This drama is set in Montreal when in the mid-'50s a young woman is impregnated by a petty thief who is caught and given ten years in the slammer. In the meantime, the woman bears a son and marries another. The time passes quickly and the thief is eventually released. He immediately goes to her Read More
Actors: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Bradford Dillman
Synopsis: "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his Read More
Synopsis: Jill Robinson's Bed-Time-Story, inspired by actual events, was the source for the made-for-TV A Cry for Love. Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets Powers Boothe, an alcoholic and three-time loser in Read More
Synopsis: Originally titled Stories from the Bible, Greatest Heroes of the Bible was designed as a seven-part TV miniseries; evidently the specter of low ratings forced the network execs to telescope the presentation into four installments. The series began with the story of David (Roger Kern) and Read More
Actors: Sam Elliott, Perry King, Gene Barry, Martine Beswicke, Joseph Cotten
Synopsis: Ostensibly a six-hour miniseries adaptation of Bert Hirschfield's novel Aspen, the program actually used only the title of the Hirschfield work; the plot proper was lifted from another novel by a different author, Bart Spicer's The Adversary. Set in the titular Colorado ski resort in the 1960s Read More
Synopsis: Ransom for Alice was the pilot film for the unsold series The Busters. The protagonists are not narcotics agents as might be assumed, but instead a male-female team of government undercover agents (Gil Gerard, Yvette Mimieux) operating in Seattle in the 1890s. Their current assignment is to Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Gene Barry, Jared Martin, Paul Sand, Richard Dreyfuss, Sondra Locke
Synopsis: Based on a song by Leonard Cohen, this peculiar experimental film set in late-'60s San Francisco was executive-produced by game-show mogul Gene Barry, the director's father. It concerns Suzanne (Sondra Locke), who gets crucified in a film-within-a-film which receives much of the screen time. Read More
Synopsis: A famous gunfight is chronicled in this lively western. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The usually sobersided TV adventure series Name of the Game went comically wacko with the 90-minute episode Appointment in Palermo. Series regular Gene Barry plays Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard, who finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the Read More
Synopsis: Novelist Philip Wylie, well known for his pro-conservation stance, wrote the teleplay for the made-for-TV L.A. 2017. Publisher Glenn Howard (Gene Barry) is suddenly whisked away from his plush office in 1971. He finds himself in a world beneath the Earth's surface, circa 2017. The powers-that-be Read More
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
Synopsis: Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must convince the authorities that he's dead. He arranges to switch identities with Lloyd Bridges, who is terminally ill. Diane Baker plays Barry's wife, who must needs be willing to Read More
Synopsis: The results of a vicious practical jokes emerge during college. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: All the Old Familiar Faces premiered as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute adventure series Name of the Game. Gene Barry plays Glen Howard, owner and publisher of Crime magazine. Howard tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely Read More
Synopsis: Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon is a rare comic episode from the usually dead-serious TV series Name of the Game. Cynthia (Barbara Feldon) is an elusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidden in a rambling house on the island of Read More
Synopsis: The Broken Puzzle is a third-season installment of the weekly TV adventure series Name of the Game. Chuck Connors guest-stars as the governor of an unnamed state. Though popular with his constituents, Connors runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Read More
Synopsis: Aquarius Descending is a 90-minute episode of the TV weekly Name of the Game. Gene Barry plays Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard, who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician (Arthur Hill). Seeking revenge, the politico orders a young hard-case (Michael Callan) to romance Read More
Synopsis: A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as her publisher friend suspects. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Glenn Howard is charged with treason for warning the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs invasion. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The made-for-TV Perfect Image stars Gene Barry as Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard. Howard has recently been instrumental in getting Hal Holbrook elected as mayor of Chicago. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that Holbrook is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, the publisher of a magazine finds herself victimized by an a conniving industrialist. She also learns that one of her employees has a terrible crush upon her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, publisher Glenn Howard gets himself in hot water after he challenges an ancient Greek custom and ends up running for his life. He is accompanied by the woman involved. The film was taken from the Name of the Game television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Magazine publisher Glenn Howard tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches. The story comes from the Name of the Game TV series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a radical student and a college dean have a heated argument. The trouble really begins when afterward, the dean is found dead. The story was taken from the Name of the Game television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This 90-minute TV drama was lensed on location in Paris. Charles Boyer guest stars as an old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (series regular Gene Barry). Howard would like Boyer to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. Read More
Synopsis: The Incomparable Connie Walker was first broadcast as the January 24, 1969 episode of the TV series Name of the Game. Conway "Connie" Walker (Ivan Dixon) is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and arrows of racism, Walker is the target of accusations Read More
Synopsis: This 90-minute episode of TV's Name of the Game guest-stars Darren McGavin as roving reporter Sam Hardy. Sam's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell (Susan St. James) on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American Read More
Synopsis: Man of the People was first telecast as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV adventure series Name of the Game. Series regulars Gene Barry, Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa relinquish the spotlight to guest star Vera Miles, who plays journalist Hilary Vanderman. Jilted by "populist" tycoon Cesar Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, redneck rich boy tries to solve the national problem with racism by raising up a righteous army of followers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Actor Jon Voight and director Paul Williams, who'd previously collaborated on the campus-angst comedy Out of It (69), were reunited for The Revolutionary. Hans Konigsberger adapted his novel for this filmization of the life of a contemporary revolutionary (Jon Voight), known only as "A." He begins Read More
Synopsis: This episode of the weekly TV series Name of the Game was first telecast December 20, 1968. As in every 90-minute episode of Game, the story concentrates on the exploits of an employee of Crime magazine. This time the focus is on researcher Peggy Maxwell (Susan St. James), who is Read More
Synopsis: In this mystery, a former episode from the Name of the Game television series, Glenn Howard, a magazine publisher heads for Asia to find the leader of a recently overthrown country who mysteriously vanished. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Radicals kidnap a publisher so that they have a witness to their protest suicide. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, publisher Glenn Howard heads to Africa to find one of his missing editors. The story is taken from the "Name of the Game" television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: A made for TV movie, we follow an art dealer on the Istanbul Express across Turkey. The dealer is really on a secret mission for the government to buy some valuable and sensitive papers at an auction. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This suspenseful drama chronicles political upheaval in Czechoslovakia. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, Glen Howard, a magazine publisher, refuses to support a crooked political candidate and finds himself blackmailed. The story comes from an episode of the Name of the Game TV series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Joan Collins, Richard Todd, Tom Adams, Suzanna Leigh
Synopsis: CIA agent Donovan (Gene Barry) travels to Britain to untangle a web of international spies. He falls for the estranged wife of local secret agent Langley (Tom Adams). Anne (Joan Collins) starts a romance with Donovan before her son is kidnapped by rival agents. While any other mom would worry Read More
Synopsis: Witness was the second episode of the TV series Name of the Game. Robert Stack stars as Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime magazine. When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Farrell looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. That person is Joan Hackett, who allegedly committed Read More
Synopsis: When drugs start appearing in the hands of school children, magazine reporters investigate the source of the drugs. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Spies are exchanged when a magazine editor is arrested in East Germany in this espionage drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: A largely British cast appears in the 90-minute American TV drama Agent for the Plaintiff. Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), the publisher of Crime magazine, is the defendent in a libel suit. As the trial progresses, it appears as though Howard is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney Read More
Synopsis: Fear of High Places, first telecast September 20, 1968, was the opening episode of the weekly 90-minute TV adventure series Name of the Game. The series featured three stars: Gene Barry, Tony Franciosa and Robert Stack, each playing employees of Crime Magazine, and each appearing once every Read More
Actors: Nina Foch, Katherine Justice, Gene Barry, Peter Falk
Synopsis: Prescription: Murder, a 1967 TV movie, represents the first appearance of Peter Falk as the rumpled but crafty detective Columbo. Gene Barry plays a distinguished doctor whose happiness is thwarted by his drunken wife (Nina Foch). Barry is in love with a pretty actress (Katherine Justice), and to Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Cyd Charisse, Elsa Martinelli, Leslie Phillips, Denholm Elliott
Synopsis: It's Funny Face meets Rififi in Maroc 7, starring Cyd Charisse as Louise Henderson, an editor for a slick and chic fashion magazine who utilizes her jet-setting life style as a front for an international jewel-smuggling operation. Abetting her in the scheme is the magazine's top photographer and Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Carl Benton Reid
Actors: Gene Barry, Gary Conway, Regis Toomey, Eileen O'Neill, Leon Lontoc
Actors: Gene Barry, John Larkin, Patricia Donahue, Dabney Coleman, Lou Jacobi
Synopsis: Gene Barry stars as journalist John Chambers, who under the nom de plume "Uncle George" writes a daily newspaper advice column. One of John's readers is Mrs. Weatherley (Charity Grace), who sends a letter to "Uncle George" telling him that her next-door neighbor is cheating on her husband. Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Gary Conway, Regis Toomey, Leon Lontoc
Actors: Gene Barry
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith, Jacques Aubuchon, James Mitchum, Trevor Bardette
Synopsis: Robert Mitchum (who also wrote the story and served as executive producer) stars in Thunder Road as Lucas Doolin, a Korean War veteran who returns home and promptly rejoins the family's bootlegging business. His father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), runs the still and heads the family, while Lucas Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Beverly Tyler, Allison Hayes, Noel Drayton
Synopsis: Director Edward L. Cahn always knew how to make lemonade from a lemon; his B pictures of the late 1950s displayed a raw energy that many of his higher-budgeted films of the 1930s lacked. Hong Kong Confidential is a backlot cheapie starring Gene Barry and second-feature stalwarts Beverly Tyler and Allison Hayes Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel
Synopsis: A locked-in-the-fifties science fiction film, The 27th Day begins with five different people from five different countries suddenly disappearing from view. They have been gently abducted by the agent (Arnold Moss) of a faraway dying planet, who gives each of the five earthlings a "killing capsule" Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat "King" Cole, Lee Van Cleef, George Givot, Warren Hsieh, Paul Dubov
Synopsis: Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal with Vietnam. The film concerns the battle between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, through the efforts of a small band of soldiers to locate and destroy a hidden communist Read More
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry
Synopsis: Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law Read More
Synopsis: An American World War II officer is given a new mission -- take the invulnerable German fortress that is strategically key. Can he survive this suicide mission? ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Barbara Hale, Edward Arnold, Paul Richards, Jeanne Cooper
Synopsis: One of the many "exposes" of corporate corruption filmed in the 1950s, Houston Story was ground out with stingy efficiency by Columbia Pictures. Gene Barry plays Frank Duncan, a laborer who figures out a clever way to sneakily siphon gasoline and oil from major corporations and sell it as his own. Read More
Actors: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes
Synopsis: Director John Farrow's Back From Eternity is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Farrow's 1939 film Five Came Back. The earlier film is the better of the two, if only because it is 22 minutes shorter. The plot concerns a small passenger plane that crashlands in South America, square in the heart Read More
Synopsis: In a fleabitten Western town, gunslingers Dell Delaney (Gene Barry) and Red Hillman (Darren McGavin) challenge each other to a shootout. Local cook Maggie Flynn (Ellen Corby) does everything she can to talk the two cowpokes out of their challenge, but they are determined to slap leather the moment Read More
Synopsis: Upon his release from prison, gangster Dan Varrel (Gene Barry) vows to kill Lois Williams (Nancy Gates), the woman responsible for his brother's death. Catching up to Lois, Dan is surprised to find a lonely, impoverished, and thoroughly depressed young woman who all but begs him to put her out of Read More
Actors: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry, Alex D'Arcy
Synopsis: The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary, running a successful smuggling operation in and out of Hong Kong. Gable is hired by Susan Hayward, who hopes to locate her missing husband, photographer Gene Barry. Upon Read More
Actors: Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry, Dan O'Herlihy, Angela Lansbury
Synopsis: Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the awkwardness he'd displayed in his earlier swashbucklers. Curtis is cast as Rene, a foppish 18th century French nobleman who doubles as the Purple Mask, a Royalist supporter who Read More
Actors: Robert Ryan, Jan Sterling, Brian Keith, Gene Barry, Richard Shannon, Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.
Synopsis: Alaskan salmon fisherman Matt Kelly (Robert Ryan) doesn't care who he runs over in race to get ahead in life. He even manages to exploit his friendship with Jim Kimmerly (Brian Keith) so he can make time with Kimmerly's fiancee Nicky (Jan Sterling). As a capper to his many misdeeds, Kelly's Read More
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson, Casey Adams
Synopsis: Ross Hunter hadn't yet completely graduated to glossy, star-studded soap operas when he produced the taut crime meller Naked Alibi. Chief of detectives Joseph E. Conroy (Sterling Hayden) is busted after failing to prove that "solid citizen" Al Willis (Gene Barry) is a maniacal cop-killer. Despite Read More
Actors: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Gene Barry
Synopsis: On paper, Red Garters sounds like a wonderful idea: a raucous spoof of westerns, done up in the stylized fashion of a Broadway musical. Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell, both popular recording stars of the era, head the cast as Calaveras Kate and Reb Randall, while Jack Carson is on hand as Read More
Actors: Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer
Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit takes the plunge into the 3-D craze in Those Redheads from Seattle. The titular carrot-tops are played by Rhonda Fleming, Teresa Brewer and Cynthia and Kay Bell, as members of a singing-sister act. Arriving in the Yukon during the Gold Rush days in the Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin, Henry Brandon, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio
Synopsis: H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds had been on Paramount Pictures' docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a potential Cecil B. DeMille production. When Paramount finally got around to a filming the Wells novel, the property was firmly in the hands of special-effects maestro George Pal. Read More
Actors: Don Taylor, Leo Genn, Elsa Lanchester, Philip Ober, Joan Elan
Synopsis: Because of its misleadingly sensual title and the participation of screenwriter/director F. Hugh Herbert (author of the once-notorious "The Moon is Blue"), Girls of Pleasure Island was ballyhooed in 1953 as the ultimate in sex and sin. In truth, the film is an innocent, inconsequential WW II Read More
Actors: Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke, Michael Moore, Nancy Gates, Lee Aaker
Synopsis: The city of the title is Los Alamos, where nuclear physicist Gene Barry lives and works. Terrorists kidnap Barry's son and demand that the physicist turn over the H-bomb formula. It's cat-and-mouse for a while, but when the FBI gets on the case, the criminals haven't got a chance. Outdated almost Read More
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