Jack PalanceFilmography

Back When We Were Grownups

Actors: Blythe Danner, Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda, Jack Palance

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Anne Tyler, the made-for-TV "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation Back When We Were Grownups stars Blythe Danner as 53-year-old Baltimore widow Rebecca Davitch. Having long since given up her dreams of college to get married and raise a family, and also having abandoned Read More

Talking to Heaven

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Ladd, Queen Latifah, Jack Palance, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: This two-part CBS TV movie was filmed as Talking to Heaven, the title of the autobiographical book upon which it was based. Ted Danson stars as real-life psychic James Van Praagh, a man who spent much of his life ignoring or denying his clairvoyant gifts until it became impossible for him to Read More

Prancer Returns

Actors: John Corbett, Stacy Edwards, Michael O'Keefe, Jack Palance

Synopsis: This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer in the forest he is sure is Santa's beloved Prancer. Determined to return the creature to the North Pole and his rightful destiny, the child Read More

Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End

Actors: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell

Synopsis: This follow-up to the acclaimed made-for-TV movies Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark finds Sarah (Glenn Close) and her husband Jacob (Christopher Walken) dealing with the trials of life on their Kansas farm in 1918. Jacob must contend with the unexpected arrival of John (Jack Palance), his father Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Jack Palance, Kevin Zegers, Patrick Bergin, Walter Sparrow, David Robb

Synopsis: An adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel, featuring 1991 Academy Award winner Jack Palance as the salty pirate Long John Silver. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Marco Polo

Actors: Don Diamont, Oliver Reed, Jack Palance

Synopsis: In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer who sets out from Italy to find his missing father, and along the way finds danger, excitement, and amazing discoveries at every turn. The supporting cast includes Oliver Reed, Jack Palance, and Herbert Lom Read More

Ebenezer

Synopsis: Charles Dickens's classic holiday tale is given a Wild West twist in this family-oriented outing. This time, the famed miser is a tightwad saloon owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Monster Mania

Synopsis: Image Entertainment presents this collection of clips, tracing the history of monsters in film. Hosted by actor Jack Palance, Monster Mania features such legends as Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and compiles scenes from such classics as Nosferatu, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, The Phantom of the Read More

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Synopsis: The recent death of his wife is just one of several blows endured by big-city surgeon Michael (Robert Hays), who has lost confidence in his skills and his been going through the motions only for the sake of his daughter Jilly (Ashley Gorrell). Summoned by his crusty dad Bob (Jack Palance) to come Read More

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Angel's Revenge

Synopsis: Angel's Revenge is an inept late-'70's action flick about a group of half-bright (but full-busted) female crime fighters determined to stamp out a drug ring as they encounter a remarkable parade of past-prime actors, including Peter Lawford, Jack Palance, Jim Backus, Arthur Godfrey, and Pat Read More

Buffalo Girls

Actors: Jack Palance, Tracey Walter, Peter Coyote, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: A star-studded cast appears in this made-for-television movie about Calamity Jane and her cohorts. Anjelica Huston stars as the infamous cowgirl Calamity Jane, a colorful Western character who, among other things, starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The movie explores her unconventional Read More

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

Actors: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig

Synopsis: Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) returns in this sequel to the original City Slickers that attempts to recapture the first film's warmth and character comedy. Despite feeling re-invigorated when we last left him, Mitch again faces a few personal dilemmas: his radio station job is going nowhere and Read More

Cops and Robbersons

Actors: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest, Robert Davi, David Barry Gray, Jason James Richter

Synopsis: In this comedy, police detectives on the trail of a dangerous criminal are confronted with a new and unexpected danger: a typical suburban family. Osborn (Robert Davi) is a underworld figure with plenty of blood on his hands who, in hopes of keeping his dealings quiet, is operating out of an Read More

The Swan Princess

Actors: Jack Palance, Howard McGillian, Michelle Nicastro, John Cleese, Sandy Duncan, Steven Wright

Synopsis: The Swan Princess is an animated, musical adaption of the fairy tale, "Swan Lake." An aging king (Dakin Matthews) and a widowed queen (Sandy Duncan) arrange a marriage between his only daughter and her only son, despite the two children's initial dislike of one another. Eventually they fall in Read More

Natural Born Killers

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its mixture of over-the-top violence and bitter cultural satire. At the center of the film, written by Stone and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are Read More

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

Actors: Jack Palance, Amy Irving, Patrick Bergin

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie features two previously unproduced stories written by Rod Serling for his groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone, and adapted by Richard Matheson, one of Serling's frequent collaborators on the show. In "The Theater," a woman (Amy Irving) who frequents a Read More

Legends of the West

Cyborg 2

Actors: Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie

Synopsis: This sci-fi actioner is set in the year 2074. The story is framed by the war between the two international corporate giants, Pinwheel Robotics and Kobayashi, responsible for manufacturing the cyborgs that 21st century technology has become dependent upon. In fact, most of the world is being run by Read More

Keep the Change

Actors: Jack Palance, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas McGuane, this made-for-TV feature stars William Petersen as Joe Starling, a painter suffering from creative block. For inspiration, he returns to his family's Montana home, only to find the land coveted by a malevolent developer (Jack Palance). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

City Slickers

Actors: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater

Synopsis: City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Read More

Solar Crisis

Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Tetsuya Bessho

Synopsis: A group of scientists are sent to the sun in 2050 to stop a giant solar flare from destroying the Earth. As the team nears the sun, some members of the team begin to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage their mission. Solar Crisis has very strong special effects and fine acting, making it an Read More

Tango & Cash

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

Batman

Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne's secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The Read More

Outlaw of Gor

Actors: Urbano Barberini, Donna Denton, Jack Palance, Russel Savadier

Synopsis: In this sword and sorcery sequel to Gor, a bland professor again finds himself upon Gor, that planetary bastion of barbarous men and savage women. This time he must take on a vicious queen after he is accused of murder by her wicked priest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Imagine: John Lennon - The Definitive Film Portrait

Actors: Yoko Ono, John Lennon

Synopsis: The personal film archives of Yoko Ono were utilized for this feature-length documentary on the life of John Lennon. Predictably, it downplays Lennon's association with the Beatles and concentrates on his years with Ono. The film spends a lot of time recounting Lennon's anti-war activities Read More

Young Guns

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Palance

Synopsis: In this Western based loosely on actual events and people, Emilio Estevez stars as William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid). Sought for a petty crime in Lincoln County, Billy is taken in by John Tunstall (Terrence Stamp), a British ranch owner seeking to make it in the cattle business. Tunstall Read More

Bagdad Cafe

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun

Synopsis: This West German film is set in the California Desert. A husband-and-wife pair of Bavarian tourists become stranded when their car breaks down; after a quarrel, the wife, Marianne Sagebrecht, gathers her luggage and stalks off. She stops at the Bagdad Cafe, a fleapit truckstop run by outspoken Read More

The Last Contract

Synopsis: In this violent drama, an artistic hitman must kill his best friend and finds he cannot bring himself to do it. He is then ordered to kill a rival mobster. Unfortunately, he kills the wrong fellow thus beginning a deadly conflict. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales of the Haunted

Synopsis: This low-budget feature is actually comprised of re-edited installments from a syndicated television serial. Jack Palance stars as a self-serving, abusive boor who becomes stranded -- along with his two hapless children -- by a thunderstorm, forcing them to take shelter in an isolated country Read More

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Actors: George Stevens, Jr., George Stevens, Montgomery Clift, Brandon de Wilde, Fred Astaire, James Dean, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Sam Jaffe, Jean Arthur

Synopsis: The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject intimately: the film was written, produced and directed by George Stevens Jr. Utilizing pristine-quality filmclips and interviews, Stevens Jr. details Stevens Sr.'s rise Read More

Alone in the Dark

Actors: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, Erland Van Lidth

Synopsis: This is a very enjoyable tongue-in-cheek horror film about some homicidal maniacs who break out of an asylum and terrorize a psychiatrist's family on a dark and stormy night. Martin Landau and Jack Palance are particularly funny, but there are some genuine scares as well. One scene, in which a Read More

Evil Stalks This House

Synopsis: Jack Palance both hosts and stars in this "possession" thriller. The story, concerning an old dark house and a family curse, is nothing special. What is of interest is the origin of Evil Stalks This House. Though currently available to television as a two-hour TV movie, the film was initially Read More

Hawk the Slayer

Actors: Jack Palance, John Terry, Bernard Bresslaw, Ray Charleson, Peter O'Farrell

Synopsis: Hawk the Slayer will appeal most to undiscriminating fans of the sword-and-sorcery genre. The title character, played by John Terry, is on a lifelong quest for "The Power", an enchanted flying sword. Alas, Hawk's evil brother Voltan (Jack Palance) likewise covets The Power. A plethora of violence Read More

Bloody Avenger

Synopsis: Three investigators trail a killer in Philadelphia. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

Synopsis: Some sort of Bad Timing Award must surely be bestowed upon the otherwise worthwhile Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story. David Keith stars as American athlete Wayne Robinson, whose main goal in life is to win the Olympic Decathlon. His dream is compromised when he falls in love with Soviet Read More

Ripley's Believe It or Not! [TV Series]

The Ivory Ape

Synopsis: Set in Bermuda, this TV movie focuses on a hunt for a rare Albino gorilla, recently captured in Africa by ruthless big-game hunter Marc Kazarian (Jack Palance). Dedicated government agent Baxter Mapes (Steven Keats) and his ex-girlfriend, Lil Tyler (Cindy Pickett), conduct a humanitarian search Read More

Alien Warning

Actors: Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Tarah Nutter, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: This goofy sci-fi/horror nonsense plays like '50s-style alien-invasion schlock with a dollop of '80s-style blood and gore. The invasion -- such as it is -- is perpetrated on various backwoods hunters and campers by a scarcely-seen alien that looks like a menacing Star Trek guest star in a Read More

Hell's Brigade: The Final Assault

The Shape of Things to Come

Actors: Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, John Ireland, Barry Morse, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: This is a remake of a 1936 sci-fi, future dystopia tale by H.G. Wells, but the drama, as interpreted by director George McCowan and scripter Martin Lager is not altered to accommodate today's more demanding audiences. As a result, the story, characters, and dialogue are a little weak. After a Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Plot to Kill a City, Part 1

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

Actors: Cliff Potts, Larry Wilcox, Jack Palance, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Producer Dan Curtis also sat in the director's seat for The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang. Making no effort to whitewash its hooligan protagonists, the film recounts the wild-west exploits of the outlaw Dalton Brothers: Bob (Cliff Potts), Emmett (Larry Wilcox), Grat (Randy Quaid, who'd probably get Read More

Angel's Brigade

Synopsis: It's the ladies to the rescue in the low-budget actioner Angel's Brigade. Wearing form-fitting fatigues, the female stars play a team of highly trained avengers. Their mission: to wipe every drug dealer off the face of the earth. To accomplish this, they drive around in a custom-built van, decked Read More

Cocaine Cowboys

Synopsis: Cocaine Cowboys is an odd, simply dreadful little film which tries to be chic and innovative but merely succeeds in being confusing and tiresome. The film purports to tell the story of a rock group that supports itself between gigs by selling cocaine. This side business gets them into trouble with Read More

Seven from Heaven

Synopsis: In this action-packed drama, a beautiful singer decides to put her career on hold when her younger brother, who had a problem with drugs, is severely beaten by a gang of dope dealers. She assembles a group of seven beautiful crime fighters, and they hit the road in their customized van looking for Read More

The One Man Jury

Synopsis: In this extremely violent copy of Dirty Harry, a cynical cop tires of seeing guilty crooks get off scott-free and so decides to leave the force and become a one-man vigilante force. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cop in Blue Jeans

Synopsis: A detective (Tomas Milian) goes undercover to bring justice to a crimelord (Jack Palance) accused of stealing $5 million. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome to Blood City

Actors: Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse, Hollis McLaren

Synopsis: In this film, an unusual western town sports a population that awards status based on the number of people one can kill. When Lewis (Keir Dullea) is mysteriously transported there, he must struggle to stay alive and out of the way of Sheriff Frendlander (Jack Palance), the local hero who has Read More

Unknown Powers

Synopsis: In this special feature, a group of people examine a variety of unexplained powers, including ESP, astrology, and magic. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Portrait of a Hitman

Synopsis: A painter doubles as a hitman and is hired to kill Jim Buck (Jack Palance). But he can't do it: Palance once saved his life. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mister Scarface

Synopsis: This Italian feature is about an ambitious criminal who attempts upward mobility in the criminal world. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Squadra Antiscippo

Black Cobra Woman

Actors: Laura Gemser, Jack Palance, Gabriele Tinti

Synopsis: Aristide Massaccesi (aka Joe D'Amato) directed this strange sexploitation item starring Jack Palance as Judas, a hermit-like millionaire who keeps poisonous snakes. Judas falls for an exotic snake-dancer named Eva (Laura Gemser from the Black Emmanuelle movies) and pays her to come live with him. Read More

L'Infermiera

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, a wealthy, widowed count has a heart attack and must have bed rest and no stress to recover. His avaricious relatives would rather see him dead. Knowing that he is a lusty fellow unable to resist a woman's charms, they hire a bombshell of a sexy nurse to meet his every Read More

Safari Express

Synopsis: In this African adventure, a greedy fortune hunter endeavors to get his hands on the untold riches lying buried in Central Africa. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Four Deuces

Actors: Warren Berlinger, Carol Lynley, Jack Palance

Synopsis: TThough barely released to theaters, the tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama Four Deuces became a Late Late Show fixture in the '80s. Jack Palance plays Vic Morano, a high-ranking Prohibition-era mobster with a weakness for women. Vic's humanity begins surfacing when he falls for gorgeous blonde Wendy Read More

The Great Adventure

Synopsis: The real name of director "Paul Elliotts" is Gianfranco Baldanetto, indication enough that The Great Adventure is not a Hollywood product. Adapted from a story by Jack London, the film features Fred Romer (aka Fernando Romero) as a young boy exploring the wilds of Alaska in the company of a large Read More

God's Gun

Actors: Leif Garrett, Sybil Danning, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone

Synopsis: One of two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance was the other), this spaghetti Western stars Van Cleef in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, Father John, is gunned down by the ruthless Sam Clayton (Jack Read More

Bronk

Actors: Jack Palance

Synopsis: Jack Palance portrays undercover cop Lt. Alexander Bronkov, or "Bronk" for short. Bronk has a short fuse and an oversupply of compassion, which is not the best of all combinations when dealing with his rulebound higher-ups. In this made-for-TV movie, Bronk is assigned to bust up a drug ring, an Read More

The Hatfields and the McCoys

Synopsis: The long-standing blood feud between the Hatfield family of West Virginia and the McCoy clan of Kentucky is effectively dramatized in this made-for-TV movie. Jack Palance and Steve Forrest star as the family's respective patriarches, Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy. Remaining faithful to the Read More

Craze

Actors: Jack Palance

Synopsis: Another slice of processed cheese from Herman Cohen, producer of Trog and other such wonders. This cheap occult programmer (ostensibly based on the novel Infernal Idol by Henry Seymour) stars Jack Palance as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the Read More

The Godchild

Actors: Jack Palance, Jack Warden, Keith Carradine, Ed Lauter, Jose Perez

Synopsis: The Godchild is the seventh and (thus far) the last film version of Peter B. Kyne's Saturday Evening Post story "Three Godfathers." The threesome is herein played by Jack Palance, Jack Warden and Keith Carradine. Instead of bank robbers (as they were in most previous filmizations of the Kyne Read More

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Actors: Akihiko Hirata, Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima

Synopsis: This time, the overgrown-lizard hero is confronted by a mechanical doppelganger, courtesy of an army of extraterrestrial apes. Unable to best his metallic twin in combat, Godzilla seeks out the aid of Okinawan monster god King Seeser. The film is peppered with moments of humor; so much happens in Read More

The Con Men

Synopsis: Jack Palance and Lionel Stander, two familiar Hollywood faces in foreign films of the 1960s and 1970s, star in Con Men. Palance and Stander play a pair of frontier sharpsters who sell shares in a worthless gold mine. You guessed it: the mine begins to yield a fortune. Now our two anti-heroes must Read More

Oklahoma Crude

Actors: George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking

Synopsis: Taciturn Faye Dunaway insists upon drilling for oil in her small, unpromising patch of Oklahoma land. Drifter George C. Scott signs on to work the derrick, but only after Dunaway, who for unspecified reasons hates all men, warns him to stay at arm's length. Jack Palance, the strong-arm Read More

Dracula

Actors: Nigel Davenport, Jack Palance

Synopsis: This TV-movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel of the "undead" was adapted by Richard Matheson and photographed by Oswald Morris. As the titular count, Jack Palance is a reluctant victim of an unwelcome fate, rather than a grinning bloodsucker. Nigel Davenport co-stars as Van Helsing Read More

En el Oeste Se Puede Hacer... Amigo

Actors: Jack Palance, Dany Saval, Bud Spencer

Synopsis: Italian action hero Bud Spencer stars in Maurizio Lucidi's comedy Western The Big and the Bad. While wandering through the West (which looks a lot like Spain), Spencer becomes intimate with the gorgeous Dany Saval -- discovering, all too late, that she is the younger sister of vengeful gunslinger Jack Palance Read More

Amigo Mon Colt A Deux Mots A Te Dire

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestie

Sting of the West

Synopsis: In this western, an aspiring con artist learns the tricks of his chosen trade. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rulers of the City

Synopsis: Jack Palance must have been in 375 movies in the early 1970s. In Rulers of the City, Palance shares star billing with another "take the money and run" veteran Edmund Purdom. The two stars don't have as much screen time as the nominal male lead Al Cliver, however. The story is the old one about the Read More

Brothers Blue

Chato's Land

Actors: Sally Adez, Sonia Rangan, Rudy Ugland, Rebecca Wilson, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Charles Bronson stars in this revisionist western directed by Michael Winner. The film concerns an Apache half-breed, Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson), who finds himself pursued by a relentless posse, headed by Joshua Everette (Jack Palance), after Chato has killed a white sheriff. But when members Read More

Companeros

Synopsis: This politically oriented spaghetti western, chronicles the exploits of a mercenary who aligns himself with a revolutionary. Their goal is to liberate a peaceful professor and his students who are being held hostage in Texas. The mercenary's real reason for joining him is that the revolutionary Read More

The Horsemen

Actors: Aziz Resh, Sy Temple, Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Peter Jeffrey

Synopsis: Director John Frankenheimer, extrapolating from his earlier films The Gypsy Moths and Grand Prix, examines machismo and how men test themselves to the limits of endurance in The Horsemen. The film takes place in modern day Afghanistan. Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the Read More

Monte Walsh

Actors: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin ) and his pal Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) are two over the hill cowboys seeking work in the town of Harmony, Arizona in the final days of the Old West. They take a job at the ranch of Cal Brennan (Jim Davis) and meet an old friend Shorty (Mitch Ryan). Monte goes off to Read More

The McMasters

Actors: Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine, Nancy Kwan, Jack Palance

Synopsis: Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' Read More

La Legione dei dannati

Synopsis: In this exciting war drama, a hard-nosed army colonel helps to prepare French beaches for D-day using a band of convicted criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Las Vegas 500 Milliones

Actors: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance, Jean Servais

Synopsis: Gino (Jean Servais) breaks out of jail and visits his friend Tony (Gary Lockwood) with a plan to rob an armored car. Although both men are motivated by greed, Tony says no to the risky proposition. When Gino is killed by some trigger-happy cops, Tony decides to avenge his death by going ahead with Read More

Che!

Actors: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode

Synopsis: In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played -- also incredibly -- by Jack Palance. Guevara, a young Argentine doctor, proves Read More

The Desperados

Actors: Vince Edwards, Jack Palance, George Maharis, Neville Brand, Sylvia Syms

Synopsis: This violent western finds a son leaving his father and family behind in the wake of the elder's violent guerilla warfare against society at large. David Galt (Vince Edwards) leaves his Confederate war-veteran father Josiah (Jack Palance) behind and settles in Texas. The son changes his name Read More

A Professional Gun

Actors: Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Jack Palance, Giovanna Ralli, Eduardo Fajardo

Synopsis: This spaghetti western finds a despotic mine owner (Eduardo Fajardo) the target for revenge by the idealistic patriot Eufemio (Tony Musante). He hires Bill Douglas (Franco Nero) to incite a revolution that will oust the government and the greedy miner. Douglas agrees as long as his creature Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Synopsis: In this made-for-television version of Stevenson's classic tale of terror and suspense, a crazy doctor develops a formula that turns him into a madman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Hommes De Las Vegas

Actors: Jack Palance, Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb

Torture Garden

Actors: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate Read More

Kill a Dragon

Actors: Jack Palance, Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray, Alizia Gur, Kam Tong

Synopsis: In this actioner, a group of islanders begin claiming ownership of a load of nitroglycerin that has washed up on their beach. The chemical's owner, anxious for its return, threatens to blow up the island. Unbeknownst to him, an island hero sneaks off the island and head to nearby Hong Kong where Read More

The Professionals

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode

Synopsis: Grant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the desperado Raza (Jack Palance) in this Western adventure set in 1917. Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is a munitions expert who joins gunslinger Fardan (Lee Read More

The Spy in the Green Hat

Synopsis: In this episode from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, the two good guy spies must stop a criminal mastermind from altering the course of the Gulf Stream. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Actors: Robert Coote, Jimmy Durante, Nanette Fabray, Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Palance

Synopsis: No TV or movie producer has yet to resist the temptation of turning Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass into an all-star musical. Certainly the folks at ABC were unable to resist turning out the 1966 taped TV special Alice Through the Looking Glass, but the end result Read More

Once a Thief

Actors: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, John Chandler

Synopsis: Once a thief, always a thief. This is the sorry lot of Eddie (Alain Delon), an ex-convict who tries his best to go straight. He marries Kristine (Ann-Margret), who bears him a child. Seeking out a new start in San Francisco, Eddie is dogged by vengeful cop Vito (Van Heflin), who thinks that the Read More

Night Train to Milan

Contempt

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's film, Fritz Lang, says that The Read More

Warriors Five

Synopsis: In this WW II actioner, an American paratrooper lands behind enemy lines and begins an espionage assignment. He ends up captured and imprisoned. With four Italian POWs, he manages to escape. He then talks them into helping him blow up a strategically important bridge. Mayhem ensues until the only Read More

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

I Mongoli

Synopsis: Cast in the epic tragedy mold, this is the story of a thirteenth century romance. Jack Palance is the son of Genghis Khan and Anita Ekberg is his mistress. Battle between Khan's forces and those of the rebels rages around them but, when peace is finally achieved, Ekberg kills Khan so that her Read More

Rosmunda e Alboino

Actors: Jack Palance, Guy Madison, Carlo D'Angelo, Andrea Bosic

Synopsis: In this adventure set in 6th-century France, two warring tribes call a temporary truce so that the daughter of the Gepidaen king can marry the king of Lombard. Unfortunately, the willful princess doesn't want to marry the king because she is betrothed to another (she has also been impregnated by Read More

The Battle of Austerlitz

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais

Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More

Ten Seconds to Hell

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Martine Carol, Robert Cornthwaite, Wesley Addy, Dave Willock, Virginia Baker

Synopsis: This film is a 1959 WWII drama that focuses on members of a German bomb squad. The fatalistic soldiers pool part of their paychecks into a fund that the last surviving member of the squad will get to keep. One by one, the men meet their deaths until only two remain: Karl Wirtz (Jeff Chandler) and Read More

The Man Inside

Actors: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Nigel Patrick, Anthony Newley, Bonar Colleano, Sean Kelly

Synopsis: A stellar cast redeems the tawdry European-filmed melodrama 3DThe Man Inside3D. Nigel Patrick plays Sam Carter, a mild-mannered British clerk who spends half his life fantasizing about stealing a valuable diamond. When he is finally able to pull off this heist, it is at the cost of another Read More

The Lonely Man

Actors: Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Robert Middleton, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on a 1941 movie entitled Shepherd of the Hills, this is the story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17 years to make amends with his son. The son blames him for his mother's death and the reconciliation is difficult. Although there are many side action lines -- old enemies Read More

House of Numbers

Actors: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt

Synopsis: House of Numbers might have worked better as a farce comedy than a deadly serious melodrama, but everyone involved tries hard not to raise a chuckle. Jack Palance plays a dual role, as an imprisoned gangster and the gangster's twin brother. During a visit to the gangster, the brother switches Read More

Flor de Mayo

Actors: Jack Palance, Maria Felix, Pedro Armendáriz

Synopsis: This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman (Pedro Armendariz) lives with his wife (Maria Felix) and young son (Juanito Musquiz). Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality (Jack Palance) comes into town. The American Read More

Attack

Actors: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The Fragile Fox, this searing war film is a powerful indictment against a military system which protects even its most incompetent of officers. Eddie Albert plays a posturing but Read More

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Actors: Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Harlan "Mountain" McClintock (Jack Palance) has been a professional boxer for 14 years. He's been in the ring for over 110 bouts and was once ranked number five among the world's heavyweight fighters, but age and the physical punishment of his sport have taken their toll. Now McClintock is growing Read More

I Died a Thousand Times

Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Read More

The Big Knife

Actors: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the golden boy of the Group Theater in the '30s, when his plays were the toast of Broadway, his talent seemed to wither after a number of years in the screenwriting trenches, and a Read More

Kiss of Fire

Actors: Jack Palance, Barbara Rush, Rex Reason, Martha Hyer, Leslie E. Bradley

Synopsis: Barbara Rush is at her most exotically beautiful in the lush costumer Kiss of Fire. Based on Jonreed Lauritzen's novel The Rose and the Flame, the film stars Ms. Rush as Lucia, princess of Spain, who while residing in New Mexico discovers that the king is dying and that she must return home Read More

The Silver Chalice

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel by Thomas B. Costain, the film casts Newman as Basil, a first century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery by his wicked uncle. Transported to Rome, Basil manages to Read More

Sign of the Pagan

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Ludmilla Tcherina, Rita Gam, Jeff Morrow

Synopsis: Jeff Chandler may be the top-billed star of Sign of the Pagan, but the film belongs to Jack Palance, cast as no less than Attila the Hun. As Attila's hordes advance upon Rome, noble centurion Marcian (Chandler) mounts a counteroffensive. Alas, the Scourge of God cannot be stopped by weaponry or Read More

The Man in the Attic

Actors: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Man in the Attic is a sweat-stained remake of the oft-filmed Mary Belloc Lowndes suspense story The Lodger. Jack Palance plays a mild, secretive pathologist who rents an attic apartment in the heart of London. Palance falls in love with dancer Constance Smith, daughter of the landlady, but she Read More

Arrowhead

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith, Mary Sinclair

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by W.R. Burnett (which hadn't yet been published when the film was released), Arrowhead is a tough, uncompromising western dealing with the delicate issue of White-Indian relations. Charlton Heston is at his most truculent as Indian agent Ed Bannon, who though raised by Read More

Second Chance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance, Sandro Giglio

Synopsis: Even without its 3D/stereophonic sound gimmickry, Second Chance is a crackling good suspenser. Robert Mitchum plays Russ Lambert, a prizefighter who heads to South America to forget a recent tragedy in the ring. Here he meets Clare Shepard (Linda Darnell), who is likewise running away -- not from Read More

Flight to Tangier

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a group of strangers becomes acquainted as they wait for a plane to arrive at an airport in Tangier. Among those awaiting the flight are Susan (Joan Fontaine), an American who is dating the pilot; Gil Walker (Jack Palance), an expatriate who received the Congressional Medal Read More

Shane

Actors: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance

Synopsis: The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Read More

Sudden Fear

Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston

Synopsis: Joan Crawford stars as wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright who meets Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) while casting her new play in New York. They meet again on the train ride back, fall in love and marry. Unknown to Myra, Lester is seeing mistress Irene Neves (Gloria Grahame Read More

Studio One: Little Man, Big World

Halls of Montezuma

Actors: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Jack Webb, Karl Malden, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Hylton

Synopsis: In Halls of Montezuma, Richard Widmark stars as Lt. Carl Anderson, a former schoolteacher who serves as a no-nonsense Marine officer during WW II. Anderson leads his patrol to a Japanese-controlled island, where the enemy has set up an experimental rocket base. The patrol's mission is to capture Read More

Panic in the Streets

Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local Read More

Monstermania: A Celebration of the Scariest Monster Movies Ever!

Actors: Jack Palance

Synopsis: Actor Jack Palance hosts this program that takes a look at clips from some of the scariest monster movies ever made. Viewers will be treated to clips from such films as Alien, Predator, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Frankenstein, and Halloween. There are scenes of bloodthirsty vampires and frightening Read More