Henry SilvaFilmography

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Actors: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach de Bankolé, Frank Minucci

Synopsis: A surreal crime drama told as only Jim Jarmusch could, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai stars Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog, a hit man living in an unidentified but run-down city in what license plates call "The Industrialized State." Known for his gift of being able to come and go without people Read More

Unconditional Love

Actors: John Kennedy Horne, Tracey Ross, Henry Silva, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: Unconditional Love stars stand-up comic John Kennedy Horne as Joe Kirkman, an investigative reporter for an L.A. newspaper. When his best friend is murdered by underlings of Ted Markham (Henry Silva), a business executive with criminal ties, Kirkman decides to get revenge the best way he knows how Read More

Buddy Faro

Actors: Dennis Farina, Frank Whale, Allison Smith, Charlie Robinson, Felicity Waterman

Synopsis: In this TV drama-comedy, Julie Barber (Allison Smith) hires detective wannabe Bob Jones (Frank Whaley) to track down the legendary private eye Buddy Faro (Dennis Farina), who was once such a name that he was portrayed by an actor (George Hamilton) in a TV series. Now nearly forgotten, Faro has Read More

The End of Violence

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Udo Kier, Traci Lind, Samuel Fuller, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop of California's entertainment business. Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has earned a great deal of money and power in the film industry through his Read More

Mad Dog Time

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane

Synopsis: A group of mobsters fight for control in this satirical comedy-drama. Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a not-especially-stable crime boss who -- following a spell in a mental hospital after being diagnosed with schizophrenia -- is sent home and is ready to resume his place as supreme leader of the mob. Read More

Possessed by the Night

Actors: Sandahl Bergman, Turhan Bey, Shannon Tweed, Ted Prior, Fred Olen Ray, Frank Sivero, Kato Kaelin

Synopsis: Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray was well entrenched in his "Erotic Thriller" phase (typified by films like Inner Sanctum) when he turned out this oddball mix of salacious schemes and demonic possession. When creatively blocked horror writer Howard (Ted Prior) buys an oversized jar containing a Read More

The Silence of the Hams

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

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

The Harvest

Actors: Miguel Ferrer, Anthony John Denison, Leilani Sarelle, Henry Silva, Harvey Fierstein, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Based on a popular urban myth, The Harvest is about a screenwriter (Miguel Ferrer) who is seduced by a sexy dancer (Leilani Sarelle Ferrer) while he is researching and writing a script in Mexico. She leads him down to the beach, where a group of thugs knock him unconscious. When he wakes up, his Read More

South Beach

Actors: Gary Busey, Peter Fonda, Fred Williamson, Robert Forster

Synopsis: One of Fred Williamson's more unusual efforts as both actor and director, this one features the action star as a cigar-smoking detective named Mac Derringer. He is enlisted by his ex-wife (Vanity), a phone-sex operator, to catch the masked psychopath who murdered her co-worker. With the aid of Read More

Colombian Connection

Synopsis: A top-notch drug agent is sent to rout out Colombian drug lords operating deep in the jungles of the Amazon, where politicians dare not tread and slave labor is readily available. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Columbian Connection

Synopsis: The actioner Colombian Connection, set in guess what South American country, concerns one man's struggle against the drug trade, political corruption and slave labor. Henry Silva plays a bush-league emperor who rules the roost over a cocaine empire in the Amazon. Miles O'Keeffe, the unfortunate Read More

Three Days to a Kill

Synopsis: Fred Williamson directed and stars in this average action film as Col. Wright, who teams up with a paroled thief (Bo Svenson) and the former lover of a Colombian druglord to rescue the kidnapped World Security Ambassador. Henry Silva is the kingpin, and the film is full of nudity and violence, but Read More

Dick Tracy

Actors: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed and starred in this big-budget action comedy featuring Chester Gould's square-jawed, two-dimensional comic strip detective. Ruthless gangster Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) touches off a gang war against underworld boss Lips Manlis (Paul Sorvino), with Big Boy and his minions Read More

Above the Law

Actors: Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean, Daniel Faraldo

Synopsis: Martial arts hero Steven Seagal developed, co-wrote, co-produced, choreographed, and debuted in this thrill ride -- a cop film with more attitude, and more plot, than its star had duties on the set. Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist Read More

Bulletproof

Actors: Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: Frank McBain (Gary Busey) is a cop who earned the nickname of "bulletproof" from the dozens of shootings he has survived over his career. He is called on to retrieve a tank held by communists across the border of Mexico. The enemies are cardboard caricatures of Arabs, Russians, and Mexicans led by Read More

Amazon Women on the Moon

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg

Synopsis: The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a Read More

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva, Robert Donner

Synopsis: After receiving a mysterious gold piece, Quatermain travels to Africa to find his brother, who is searching for a lost white tribe. In his search, Quatermain discovers a lost civilization. This film is a follow-up to King Solomon's Mines. ~ All Movie Guide 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

Code of Silence

Actors: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Molly Hagan, Joe Guzaldo

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1960 film of the same name, this fast-paced karate action flick stars Chuck Norris, still riding high on his karate film successes of the early '80s, and several years away from starting his popular Walker: Texas Ranger TV series. In this story he plays Eddie Cusak, a Read More

Escape from the Bronx

Actors: Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici, Timothy Brent, Paolo Malco

Synopsis: In this routine sci-fi sequel, Trash (Mark Gregory) is back in action again after his introduction in 1990: The Bronx Warriors, to defend that much-maligned New York burrough from total extinction at the hands of a vicious corporate giant. The General Construction Corporation plans on building Read More

Razza Violenta

Actors: Henry Silva, Harrison Muller, Carole Andre, Deborah Keith

Synopsis: In a confusing plot that seems to skip a few vital points, three men fight together to rescue children in a region near the Lao-Thai-Cambodian border. Then Paolo (Woody Strode) turns against his two buddies and sets up shop running arms for the KGB and drugs for the Mafia. Eventually, one of the Read More

Lust in the Dust

Actors: Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan, Geoffrey Lewis, Henry Silva

Synopsis: A controversial spoof on the Spaghetti western (some love it, some hate it), Lust in the Dust features the 300-pound Divine as the inimitable Rosie Velez, riding into view in full drag on a poor donkey as solemn commentary muddles on about the passions that enslave men and women -- and then Rosie Read More

Cannonball Run II

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

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

Chained Heat

Actors: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: The B-grade genres of sexploitation, blaxploitation, and jailhouse flicks mixed with this grotesque sex- and violence-filled melodrama. Linda Blair stars as Carol Henderson, a naïve and inexperienced teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison after accidentally killing a man. Once Read More

Happy

Actors: Jack Gilford

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

Le Marginal

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Claude Brosset, Pierre Vernier, Tchéky Karyo

Synopsis: In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord (Henry Silva) who is essentially inaccessible -- but Read More

Megaforce

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Edward Mulhare, George Furth

Synopsis: A crack military team led by pilot Ace Hunter (Barry Bostwick) is called in to save democracy in a small nation threatened by tyranny. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Virus

Actors: Sonny Chiba, Chuck Connors, Stephanie Faulkner, Glenn Ford, Stuart Gillard

Synopsis: A double disaster film with both an American and a Japanese cast, Virus presents some pretty wild probabilities to viewers. First of all, a virus has been developed that gets loose and starts to destroy humanity on a grand scale. The only people who are remotely safe are a group of eight hundred Read More

Trapped

Actors: Henry Silva, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: Cult horror director William Fruet (Death Weekend, Spasms) teams with My Bloody Valentine screenwriter John Bearid for this backwoods shocker about a group of backpackers who do battle with a psychotic hillbilly. Four young university students are out camping in the woods when they witness an Read More

Wrong Is Right

Actors: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths (a significantly bigger stretch in 1982, when the film was released.) Star Sean Connery plays Read More

Deadly Sting

Synopsis: After a daring gold robbery, one man (Henry Silva) is jilted out of his share of the loot. He returns to avenge his loss. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Sharky's Machine

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

Synopsis: A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 Read More

Turkey Shoot

Actors: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier

Synopsis: This grim, violent Australian production is an artless mishmash incorporating elements of The Road Warrior, 1984 , and The Most Dangerous Game. The story is set in a dystopian future society where all "deviants" (i.e. anyone whose ideas don't jive with those of the government) are interred in Read More

Day of the Assassin

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a fortune in gold to the bottom of the ocean. An agent (Chuck Connors) must stop the ruthless fortune hunters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Alligator

Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Perry Lang, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Lewis Teague directed this sly horror-comedy from a script by John Sayles, which plays off the old urban legend about the dangers of flushing one's pet alligator down the toilet. One such unlucky reptile is "Ramon," who survives in the subterranean cesspool by feeding on the steroid-saturated Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Actors: Gil Gerard, Pamela Hensley, Erin Gray, Henry Silva, Tim O'Connor

Synopsis: Gil Gerard plays Buck Rogers, an American astronaut who awakens after 500 years in space to find a Draconian princess scheming to take over planet Earth. Of course, he is mistaken for a spy and must not only save himself but the galaxy as well. This sci-fi feature was intended as a pilot for the Read More

Love and Bullets

Actors: Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Bradford Dillman, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson is out for revenge (and doesn't that sound familiar) in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves in to protect Read More

Crimebusters

Synopsis: The reliable Henry Silva does his best to keep Crimebusters afloat. The plot shifts into gear when the hero's family is kidnapped. No, it isn't the mob who's responsible; it's the government. As the protagonist desperately searches for his loved ones, he unearths a Borgia-like conspiracy. Antonio Sabato Read More

Thirst

Actors: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Henry Silva, Max Phipps, Shirley Cameron

Synopsis: This cold-blooded, thinly wrought horror film has a warm-blooded theme -- the regular imbibing of said substance by a certifiably crazy cult. Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is slowly drawn into this cult against her (and everyone else's) better judgment. Once involved, she discovers that they have Read More

Contract on Cherry Street

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Verna Bloom, Harry Guardino, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Contract on Cherry Street represented Frank Sinatra's TV movie debut--an event deemed worthy of a TV Guide cover story. Sinatra plays NYPD veteran Deputy Inspector Frank Hovannes, in charge of a special unit set up to battle organized crime. The murder of Hovannes' partner, coupled with Read More

Foxbat

Actors: Rick van Nutter, James Yi Liu

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, this action-adventure thriller concerns the race to obtain the blueprints of a MIG-25 "Foxbat" Soviet fighter plane which has landed in Japan, complete with a pilot who is asking for asylum. Undercover U.S. spy Michael Saxon (Henry Silva) is trying to get the microfilms 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

Milano Odia: La Polizia non Può Sparare

Actors: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Anita Strindberg, Raymond Lovelock, Laura Belli

Synopsis: This melodramatic crime film concerns a petty thief named Julio (Tomas Milian) who kidnaps pretty Mary Lou (Laura Belli), the daughter of his girlfriend's rich employer, and holds her for ransom. Much of the film features Julio's hysterical populist rants targeting the wealthy elite, whom he both Read More

White Fang to the Rescue

Actors: Henry Silva, Maurizio Merli, Renzo Palmer, Gisella Hahn

Synopsis: Italian director Tonino Ricci helmed this 1974 snowbound adventure film about a young boy in danger and the courageous wolf who comes to his rescue. Originally called Zanna Bianca Alla Riscossa and later retitled White Fang to the Rescue, the film is the sequel to Lucio Fulci's Zanna Bianca, a Read More

The F.B.I.: The Two Million Dollar Hit

Synopsis: Taking time off from his villainous duties as "Wo Fat" on Hawaii Five-O, Khigh Deigh is no less sinister in this episode as a Hong-Kong based "fence" named John Chong. After a gang of hijackers led by Stan Chasen (Henry Silva) goes to a lot of trouble--including attempted murder--to steal an Read More

Hommes

Actors: Michel Constantin, Marcel Bozzuffi, Angelo Infanti, Nicole Calfan

Synopsis: Italians have Sicily, famous for having a criminal underground as a shadow government, and the French have Corsica which is much the same. In this film, Fanto (Michel Constantin) is a gang leader who feels compelled to enact his revenge on those who have betrayed him. This in turn leads to a gang Read More

Wipeout!

Synopsis: In this violent Italian crime drama, a Mafia capo hires an assassin to slay his rivals. The louse then plots to turn the hit-man in to the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hit Men

Synopsis: This crime film focuses on the verbal back stabbing and gun battles characteristic of inner city life. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Victims

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) cover the length and breadth of the Bay Area to track down three escaped convicts. The escapees have embarked on a murder spree, wiping out anyone who gets in their way at the behest of the sadistic outlaw leader who kills for the thrill of it. The Read More

La Mala Ordina

Actors: Woody Strode, Cyril Cusack, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must take matters into his own hands to have revenge. Manhunt was also re-titled The Italian Connection to steal thunder from its French counterpart. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Salopards En Enfer

Actors: Herbert Fleischmann, Henry Silva

Cry of the Prostitute

Actors: Henry Silva, Barbara Bouchet

Synopsis: Barbara Bouchet stars as a reformed hooker in this gang-war thriller. For reasons uniquely her own, Bouchet joins forces with professional assassin Henry Silva. Her aim is to put an end to an Italian gang war. Silva doubts that it can be done, but what the heck, the money's good. It's not for Read More

L'Insolent

Actors: Henry Silva, André Pousse, Philippe Clay, Robert Dalban

Man and Boy

Actors: Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster, George Spell, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his son (George Spell) have to track his stolen Read More

The F.B.I.: Dynasty of Hate

Synopsis: Rancher Drake Farron (Earl Holliman) has always considered his younger brother James (Bryan Montgomery) to be a thorn in his side. With this in mind, it is only natural that Drake should hire two-bit thug Lee Chard (Henry Silva) to murder his brother. When this scheme goes awry, Chard opts for a Read More

Five Savage Men

Actors: Michele Carey, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Abducted by a vicious band of outlaws and left for dead after being violated and tortured, a young teacher teams with the Apache chief who nursed her back to health to take revenge on her attackers in this violent western starring Michele Carey and Henry Silva. Alice (Carey) was an innocent Read More

Black Noon

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Yvette Mimieux, Ray Milland, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Black Noon is a witchcraft-on-the-prairie endeavor starring Roy Thinnes as a minister and Lyn Loring (Mrs. Roy Thinnes) as his wife. Newly arrived in a small western town, Thinnes finds his spirtual leadership challenged by a mysterious force that is causing misfortune to befall the settlers. Once Read More

Drive Hard, Drive Fast

Synopsis: Producer Roy Huggins and director Douglas Heyes, Maverick veterans both, reteamed for the made-for-TV Drive Hard, Drive Fast. Brian Kelly stars as a race car driver who would have been better off sticking to the track. Upon hopping out of his slicked-up auto, Kelly gets mixed up in an unsavory Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Interrogator

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by Paul Playdon, "The Interrogator" opens as enemy submarines converged off the Atlantic Coast, poised to launch a nuclear attack against the United States. Racing against time, the IMF agents must persuade captured spy Novan Kruger (Henry Silva) to reveal his country's war plans. Read More

Never a Dull Moment

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore

Synopsis: Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is an actor in a television series who is mistaken for a real-life murderer Ace Williams (Jack Elam). Comedy ensues when gangster Leo Smooth (Edward G. Robinson) goes after Jack. Robinson reprises the role of the gangster tough guy he made famous in the 1930s. He leads Read More

Frame-Up

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Synopsis: Like Cameron Mitchell and Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn spent an inordinate amount of time in obscure crime melodramas. In Falling Man, Wynn is second billed to the versatile Henry Silva. The plot concerns an ex-cop who goes after the men who ruined his career. The title refers to the hero's rapidly Read More

Assassination

Synopsis: Next to Orders to Kill, Assassination seems to be the most popular all-purpose title for espionage films. The 1967 edition of Assassination was financed in Italy and lensed in Germany. Fred Beir stars as a CIA agent investigating a murder. Muddying the waters are several double agents, whose Read More

Matchless

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Ira Furstenberg, Donald Pleasence, Henry Silva, Nicoletta Machiavelli

Synopsis: A suave, sophisticated journalist gets hold of a magic ring of invisibility and obtains a secret formula. As a result he finds himself pursued by Chinese agents in this spoof of James Bond thrillers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Fiume Di Dollari

Actors: Thomas Hunter, Henry Silva, Dan Duryea, Nando Gazzolo, Nicoletta Machiavelli

Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, two confederate soldiers survive the War and swipe an army payroll. To escape, one of them plays decoy while the other flees with the loot. The decoy is captured and sentenced to five years in prison. He is eventually freed. When he finally finds his partner, he is Read More

The F.B.I.: Line of Fire

Synopsis: Richard Macklin (Henry Silva), a criminal on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, has managed to elude capture in a spectacular shootout in a hospital parking lot. Worse still, Macklin has taken nurse Carol Grant (Lynda Day) hostage--and he has no intention of ever setting her free. This episode marks a Read More

The Plainsman

Synopsis: The Plainsman was a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille film, all about the fictional romantic triangle of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. DeMille had the advantage of a topnotch cast: Gary Cooper as Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity (complete with a Wally Westmore Read More

Je Vous Salue Mafia

Actors: Henry Silva, Jack Klugman, Micheline Presle, Eddie Constantine, Elsa Martinelli

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an American fugitive in France is pursued by two thugs for two different reasons. One of the pursuers has been engaged by a large, corrupt construction company that wants the fugitive killed to prevent him from giving damaging testimony. The other stalker has more personal Read More

The Reward

Actors: Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Gilbert Roland, Emilio Fernández

Synopsis: Director Serge Bourguignon coadapted the screenplay for The Reward from a novel by Michael Barrett. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., usually cast on the right side of the law, is here a fugitive from American justice hiding from a murder rap in Mexico. Zimbalist and his girlfriend Yvette Mimieux try to avoid Read More

The Return of Mr. Moto

Synopsis: The sagacious Oriental Interpol agent leaves his Hawaiian home to crack a case in London involving the evil Dargo, an ex-Nazi. During a skirmish between them, Dargo believes that he has killed Moto. Unfortunately for the villain it is not so and Moto stops the crook from getting his syndicate Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Enemies

Synopsis: When the submarine Angier is lost at sea, Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Crane (David Hedison) investigate and discover that the captain and first officer -- previously the best of friends -- turned on each other, after a few hours' stay on a mysterious island. They head to the same island and are Read More

The Outer Limits: Tourist Attraction

Synopsis: In Volume 13 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a prehistoric creature found encased in ice is thawed out to lead an army of cavemen. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: The Mice

Synopsis: When contact is established between Earth and the planet Chroma, located ten light years away, an exchange is proposed between inhabitants of the two worlds. This is to be done by matter-transmitter, using technology provided by the Chromoites -- as it is a dangerous experiment, the first Earth Read More

The Outer Limits: Moonstone

Synopsis: In Volume 24 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the researchers on a military base on the Moon find a living organism. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: A Feasability Study

Synopsis: In Volume 29 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a neighborhood is transported from Earth to an alien world that plans to use humankind as its slaves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret Invasion

Actors: Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney, Edward Byrnes, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war epic on a "B" budget. The story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five criminals are given a chance at a pardon by agreeing to participate in a suicide Read More

A Gathering of Eagles

Actors: Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as a colonel in the peacetime Strategic Air Command. His devotion to his duty as a wing commander takes a toll on his men, his marriage, and his own well-being. It is to Hudson's credit that he was willing to put his image on the line with this essentially Read More

Johnny Cool

Actors: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Marc Lawrence, Richard Anderson, Telly Savalas, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop

Synopsis: In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to his native Sicily. Colini is not at all happy about this, and after he saves the life of a young thug, Johnny Giordano (Henry Silva), he knows the perfect way for Giordano Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: An Out for Oscar

Actors: Larry Storch, Linda Christian, Henry Silva, Myron Healey, David White

Synopsis: Nerdy bank teller Oscar Blenny (Larry Storch) returns from a Vegas vacation with a new wife in tow: Eva Ashley (Linda Christian), who only wed Oscar because she was broke. Eventually, Oscar tries to divest himself of the faithless Eva by asking for a divorce, but she will only grant him one if he Read More

The Untouchables: The Whitey Steele Story

Synopsis: Robert Stack plays a dual role in this episode, as Federal agent Elliot Ness and his lookalike, two-bit bookie Whitey Steele. Posing as Whitey, Ness heads to San Francisco in hopes of smashing a heroine distribution ring operating out of a racetrack-infromation service run by hoodlums Joe Kulak Read More

The Manchurian Candidate

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva

Synopsis: An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War Read More

Sergeants 3

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop

Synopsis: The 1939 adventure classic Gunga Din is transferred from British India to the American West, courtesy of Frank Sinatra's "Clan." Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford play three cavalry officers, always ready for a brawl but willing to die for each other if need be. Sammy Davis Jr. a cavalry Read More

The Untouchables: The Mark of Cain

Synopsis: In this sequel to the first-season episode "Noise of Death", Henry Silva returns as drug kingpin Little Charlie Sebastino. After a little girl dies from an overdose, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) persuades the Chicago media to bear down on the city's illegal heroin traffic. Withering in the glare of Read More

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick Read More

The Untouchables: The Noise of Death

Synopsis: J. Carrol Naish guest stars as Mafia Don Giuseppe "Joe" Bucco, who is being pressured to step down from leadership by his associates. Stubbornly refusing to retire, Bucco suffers the consequences but still remains loyal to the Organization, balking at an invitation to cooperate with Federal agent Read More

Cinderfella

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Both director Frank Tashlin and his comic star Jerry Lewis dilute their comic talents to play for the kiddie crowd in this fractured fairy tale version of the Cinderella story. This simply-told tale lards over the fairy story with un-needed songs and production numbers, but the basic story is Read More

Green Mansions

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa, Henry Silva

Synopsis: This romantic drama set in a Venezuelan jungle is based on a novel by W.H. Hudson about Rima, a mythical "bird-woman" and her love for Abel, a man running from political assassination. In this adaptation, Rima (Audrey Hepburn) is a real woman living in the jungle with her adopted grandfather Nuflo Read More

The Jayhawkers

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva, Herbert Rudley

Synopsis: Set in the Kansas territory during the middle of the 19th century, this is a visually evocative but conventional western. The story deals with Darcy (Jeff Chandler), a ruthless man, one of the raiders known as "Jayhawkers" who wants more than what life is willing to offer. Starting out as Read More

The Law and Jake Wade

Actors: Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens, Robert Middleton, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Although reformed and a town marshal Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) has one thing more to do before he can settle down and marry Peggy Carter (Patricia Owens): spring former comrade-in-arms Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark) from jail. Clint had done the same for Jake way back and the latter now Read More

Ride a Crooked Trail

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore

Synopsis: Audie Murphy heads the cast of the better-than-usual oater Ride a Crooked Trail. It all begins when gunslinger Joe Maybe (Murphy) is mistaken for a famed U.S. marshal. This wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that Joe has already drawn up plans to rob the town's bank with his cohort Sam Teeler Read More

The Bravados

Actors: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant

Synopsis: Brooding Gregory Peck arrives in a small western town to witness the hanging of the men whom he holds responsible for the murder of his wife (they've been arrested for an unrelated crime). Through the help of a duplicitous executioner, the gang escapes--taking Kathleen Gallant as hostage. The Read More

The Tall T

Actors: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier

Synopsis: Perhaps the grittiest and grimmest of the Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher collaborations, The Tall T was adapted by Burt Kennedy from the Elmore Leonard short story The Captive. Scott plays a former ranch foreman who, along with newlyweds Maureen O'Sullivan and John Hubbard, is held hostage at a Read More

A Hatful of Rain

Actors: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva

Synopsis: A Hatful of Rain, based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, is the story of a drug addict's debilitating effect on his family. Don Murray has managed to keep his addiction secret from his pregnant wife Eva Marie Saint and his boorish father Lloyd Nolan, but Murray's brother Anthony Franciosa Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Better Bargain

Synopsis: Gangster Louis Koster (Robert Middleton) knows that his wife Marian (Kathleen Hughes) is cheating on him, but he doesn't know the name of her lover. In lieu of this information, Koster hires a hit man to bump off Marian. Things get out of hand for the unfortunate Mr. Koster when Marian strikes "a Read More

Crowded Paradise

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Nancy Kelly, Frank Silvera, Mario Alcalde

Synopsis: All but forgotten today, Crowded Paradise was one of the first in-depth studies of racial tensions in postwar New York City. Mario Alcade plays Juan Figueroa, a Puerto Rican youth who come to Manhattan for the purpose of marrying his sweetheart Felicia Diaz (Enid Rudd). Despite running up against Read More

Darkness At Noon

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Wiseman, Oscar Homolka, David Wayne, Keenan Wynn

Viva Zapata!

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Elia Kazan, this film follows the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death. The film presents an interesting but fictionalized picture of Read More

The Killer

Killing in the Sun

Synopsis: Some beautiful Mediterranean scenery is bloodied up in Killing in the Sun. The film's motivating factor is a smuggling operation that assumes gargantuan proportions. Crooks from three different countries are actively involved, resulting in the expected falling-outs and bump-offs. Henry Silva and Michael Constantine Read More