Jack SmightFilmography

The Favorite

Crew: Director

Actors: Amber O'Shea, F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams

Number One with a Bullet

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Carradine, Billy Dee Williams, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: Detective Berzak (Robert Carradine) and his suave partner Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) combine forces to track down a notorious drug lord in this routine action feature. Captain Ferris (Peter Graves) monitors the progress of the decidedly different detectives. The trail leads to Dacosta (Barry Sattels Read More

Holocaust Survivors... Remembrance of Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a widower travels to Israel for the 1981 World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in order to search for the woman he once loved when they were interred in a Nazi concentration camp. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Loving Couples

Crew: Director

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Sally Kellerman, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon gives a sprightly performance in this sex farce involving couples swapping mates. Shirley MacLaine is Evelyn, a doctor, who is spending some quality time horseback riding when she is spotted by Greg (Stephen Collins), who is driving his sports car. Greg looks at her a bit too long Read More

Fast Break

Crew: Director

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Mike Warren, Bernard King, Reb Brown

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of his Welcome Back Kotter success, Gabe Kaplan starred in this hastily assembled theatrical feature. Kaplan plays David Greene, the coach of a Nevada collegiate basketball team. Inasmuch as the local talent is pretty pathetic, Greene convinces a group of jive-talking New York Read More

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was a TV pilot film in the form of a three-part miniseries. Set in 1933 Mississippi, the story focuses on the Logans, a closely knit, fiercely independent African-American family. In Part One, the Logans spearhead a boycott against a bigoted merchant who clandestinely Read More

Damnation Alley

Crew: Director

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley

Synopsis: A small but hardy band of survivors traverses a post-apocalypse American landscape in this sci-fi thriller. A horrific nuclear assault leaves only three survivors at an underground military facility, so Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent), Denton (George Peppard), and Keegan (Paul Winfield) commandeer a Read More

Midway

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed Read More

Airport 1975

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

Partners in Crime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Partners in Crime was the second attempt by Richard Levinson and William Link to create a TV series featuring a female ex-judge and male ex-con: the first was 1971's The Judge and Jake Wyler. This time, Lee Grant is the former jurist turned sleuth, while Lou Antonio is the onetime prisoner turned Read More

Double Indemnity

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It goes without saying that the 1973 TV-movie version of Double Indemnity doesn't come within shouting distance of the classic 1944 theatrical-movie version. Still, the basic story is a solid one, and the actors are eager to please. Richard Crenna plays the old Fred MacMurray role of Walter Neff Read More

Frankenstein: The True Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Leonard Whiting, James Mason

Synopsis: Per its title, Jack Smight's Frankenstein: The True Story, strives for greater faithfulness to Mary Shelley's novel than prior versions. Thus, as in the book, Dr. Frankenstein's (Leonard Whiting) creation is no monster, but a handsome young man of high intelligence (Michael Sarrazin). In fact, the Read More

Linda

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bound to the ABC Saturday Suspense Movie 72-minute limitation, Linda could have benefitted from ten or twenty extra minutes' running time. The film, based on a novel by John D. McDonald, stars Stella Stevens as the woman scorned whom Hell hath no fury like. Stevens murders the wife (Mary Robin-Redd Read More

Banacek

Crew: Director

Actors: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson, Russell Wiggins

Synopsis: Banacek was the two-hour pilot film for the 1972-74 detective series starring George Peppard. The cigar-smoking, aphorism-spouting Peppard plays T. Banacek, Polish/American investigator for a major Boston insurance company. Independently wealthy, Banacek will only accept cases that have been Read More

The Screaming Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Olivia De Havilland plays a middle-aged woman who has recently been released from a mental institution after suffering a breakdown. She insists one evening that she can hear the muffled scream of a woman emanating from beneath the ground. Since no one else can hear these screams, De Havilland is Read More

The Longest Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Longest Night is a harrowing made-for-TV movie based on a real-life kidnapping. Sallie Shockley is abducted from the home of her parents and held for ransom. Her captors entomb her in a box buried several feet underground, with an air hose as her only conduit to the outside world. As the Read More

The Traveling Executioner

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Stacy Keach, Marianna Hill, Bud Cort, Graham Jarvis, James J. Sloyan

Synopsis: In this unusual black comedy, Stacy Keach plays Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman who roams the southern U.S. in 1918 with a portable electric chair. He offers his services as a freelance executioner for $100 a pop. He takes a job in a prison in Alabama, where he is supposed to execute a Read More

Rabbit, Run

Crew: Director

Actors: James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Jack Albertson, Carrie Snodgress, Melodie Johnson

Synopsis: A young married couple struggle with their personal problems and their union and the forthcoming birth oftheir unwanted child in this grim domestic drama. Much of the story centers on the husband, a former high school basketball star who is unable to leave the glory days behind and fashion a Read More

The Illustrated Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers

Synopsis: This science fiction fantasy is taken from the stories of Ray Bradbury. Carl (Rod Steiger) has a tattooed torso of bizarre illustrations done by his wife Felicia (Claire Bloom). Each one tells a story about the future, and when Will (Robert Drivas) meets The Illustrated Man in a hobo jungle en Read More

Strategy of Terror

Crew: Director

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Barbara Rush, Neil Hamilton, Frederick O'Neal, Will Corry

Synopsis: Strategy of Terror began life as "In Darkness Waiting," a two-part 1964 installment of TV's Kraft Suspense Theatre. Newswoman Barbara Rush discovers that a right-wing extremist plans to kill four UN employees. No one believes her at first, but when she herself is attacked, a police officer Hugh O'Brian Read More

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Tom Bosley, Andrew Duggan, John Williams

Synopsis: This World War II comedy finds Harry Frigg (Paul Newman) as the unwilling volunteer slated to rescue five generals from the clutches of the Germans and Italians. Frigg would rather spend his time goofing off than fighting the war, but his superiors make him a fake general and pack him off to Read More

No Way to Treat a Lady

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: New York detective Moe Brummell (George Segal) is assigned to track down a serial killer who has been preying on lonely middle-aged ladies. Each of the bodies is discovered with a lipstick kiss drawn on the forehead. We know (but Brummell doesn't) that the murderer is Christopher Gill (Rod Read More

Harper

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because he was working unhappily on Lady L. (1965) in Europe, and was looking for something as unlike that film as possible. He stars as Lew Harper, a hip Read More

Kaleidoscope

Crew: Director

Actors: Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter, Murray Melvin

Synopsis: A cardsharp comes up with the ultimate system for beating the casinos at their own game in this high-style caper comedy. Barney Lincoln (Warren Beatty) is a footloose playboy with a taste for gambling and an ingenious scheme for winning at the leading casinos in Europe. Barney discovers that Read More

The Third Day

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: George Peppard, Elizabeth Ashley, Roddy McDowall, Arthur O'Connell, Mona Washbourne

Synopsis: This quirky melodrama opens with an automobile crash. The driver, Steve Mallory (George Peppard), comes out of unconsciousness with amnesia. As his memory slowly returns, he learns that he is a wealthy manufacturer of table china. His wife Alexandria (Elizabeth Ashley) wants to leave him, and his Read More

I'd Rather Be Rich

Crew: Director

Actors: Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams, Maurice Chevalier, Charlie Ruggles

Synopsis: Maurice Chevalier plays Philip Dulaine, a supposedly dying millionaire, while Sandra Dee co-stars as Cynthia, the elderly man's granddaughter. To allow Dulaine to die happy, Cynthia promises to find a husband. Actually, Dulaine is only pretending to be at death's door to get Cynthia married off. Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: What Really Happened

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Francis, Ruth Roman, Gladys Cooper, Gene Lyons, Steve Dunn

Synopsis: This episode is based on a story by Marie Belloc Lowndes, the author of Alfred Hitchcock's 1926 "breakthrough" film, The Lodger. Tyrannical Howard Raydon (Gene Lyons) fires his maid, Addie (Ruth Roman), much to the dismay of Howard's wife, Eve (Anne Francis), who feels that Addie is her only ally Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Paragon

Crew: Director

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Gary Merrill, Virginia Vincent, William Sargent, Richard Carlyle

Synopsis: Joan Fontaine, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's first American film, Rebecca, and subsequently won an Oscar for her performance in Hitchcock's Suspicion, is here cast as Alice Pemberton, a well-meaning busybody. Unable to keep her nose out of other people's business, Alice has become a pariah in Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Lonely Hours

Crew: Director

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Gena Rowlands, Joyce Van Patten, Juanita Moore, Jesslyn Fax

Synopsis: A woman calling herself Vera (Nancy Kelly) displays a great deal of affection toward the baby son of her landlady, Louise Henderson (Gena Rowlands). Curiously, although the infant is named Lonnie, Vera insists upon referring to him as Michael. What seems innocent enough on the surface is quickly Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Dark Pool

Crew: Director

Actors: Lois Nettleton, Anthony George, Madlyn Rhue, Doris Lloyd, David White

Synopsis: While on a drinking binge, Dianne Castillejo (Lois Nettleton) accidentally caused the drowning death of her adopted son, but managed to persuade the child's governess to take the blame. Now a recovering alcoholic, Dianne is finally getting her life back in order when she is visited by Consuela Read More

The Twilight Zone: Twenty-Two

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Fredd Wayne, Arline Sax

Synopsis: This videotaped Twilight Zone episode is a variation on a most familiar theme. While in the hospital recovering from a nervous breakdown, dancer Liz Powell (Barbara Nichols) is tortured by a recurring nightmare. In this nocturnal vision, Liz is escorted by a mysterious nurse (Arline Sax) to "Room Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Lateness of the Hour

Crew: Director

Actors: Inger Stevens, John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Mary Gregory, Tom Palmer

Synopsis: The scene is the magnificent but isolated home of scientist Dr. Loren (John Hoyt), his wife (Irene Tedrow), and their attractive young daughter Jana (Inger Stevens). To insulate himself from the world, Dr. Loren has created a household staff of robots, who cater to the Lorens' every whim. Read More

The Twilight Zone: Night of the Meek

Crew: Director

Actors: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Burt Mustin, Robert Lieb, Meg Wylie

Synopsis: Twilight Zone's Yuletide offering for the 1960-61 season was this videotaped episode. Art Carney stars as Henry Corwin, a philosophical, booze-guzzling department store Santa Claus. Dismissed from his job, the disgruntled Corwin stumbles across a strange-looking bag, one that profoundly changes Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Lonely

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jean Marsh, Ted Knight, James Turley

Synopsis: Discounting the pilot "Where Is Everybody?", "The Lonely" was the first Twilight Zone episode to be produced, though not the first to be shown. Jack Warden stars as futuristic convicted murderer James Corry, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment on a lonely asteroid. Out of compassion for Read More

Sound of Jazz

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This television special, originally aired on December 8, 1957, offers performances from some of the greatest names in jazz history. Included are appearances by Billie Holiday, Count Basey, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Red Allen. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More