Janice RuleFilmography

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Rainy Day Friends

Actors: Chuck Bail, Janice Rule, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: This is a winning, upbeat story about a Hispanic kid from the streets who suffers through a battle against cancer and discrimination at the same time. When Neekos Valdez (Esai Morales) was swiping a radio from a pickup one night, he was accidentally dragged along the street behind the pickup. Read More

American Flyers

Actors: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, Janice Rule

Synopsis: It takes a fierce three-day bicycle race up in the mountains to reunite two formerly feuding brothers in this film written by Steve Tesich, the creator of another cycle movie, 1979's Breaking Away. This film will please the cycling lovers out there, as it includes actual footage taken from the Read More

Missing

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly Read More

The Word

Synopsis: Word is about the newly discovered text that is allegedly written by the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It the document is genuine, it would throw the world's theological community into chaos. David Janssen plays an archaeologist who travels to Italy to verify the document's origins. ~ Stephen Read More

3 Women

Actors: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson

Synopsis: Robert Altman's Three Women takes a surreal, improvisational and rather eerie look at the lives of three women in a western desert town. The plot centers around the youngest of the women, Pinky (Sissy Spacek), an eccentric, withdrawn woman trying to begin a new life. She finds work as an attendant Read More

Kid Blue

Synopsis: In this western set at the turn-of-the-century, an outlaw finds himself at one of life's crossroads as he must decide whether to go straight or continue a life of crime. After bungling a train robbery he decides he should go straight and settle down. He chooses the town of Dime Box, Texas. There Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The First Day of Forever

Synopsis: Janice Rule guest stars as prostitute Beverly Landau, who after leaving her latest "John" is attacked and knifed by a religious fanatic who preys on San Francisco's "working girls" in a perverse attempt to save their souls. Three women have already been murdered by the fanatic, and as the sole Read More

The Devil and Miss Sarah

Synopsis: The notion of combining the western and horror genres was nothing new when The Devil and Miss Sarah was first telecast in 1971, nor does the film bring anything new to either genre. Gene Barry plays a demonic outlaw named Rankin, who after being captured is escorted to trial by a sheriff (James Drury Read More

Dan August: The Jealousy Factor

Synopsis: Dan August: The Jealousy Factor relates two stories of two dead men, whose murders are passed off as crimes of random violence. In both instances, detective August (Burt Reynolds) deduces that jealousy rather than happenstance may have been at the bottom of the crime. The most suspicious case is Read More

Gumshoe

Actors: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour

Synopsis: Part spoof and part "straight," Gumshoe comes off as an affectionate tribute to the hard-boiled detective films of yore. Albert Finney stars as Eddie Ginley, a Liverpool bingo-caller and erstwhile comedian who has been weaned on the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett. Fancying himself Read More

Lady on the Rocks

Synopsis: A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as her publisher friend suspects. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Doctors' Wives

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Rachel Roberts, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: Among a cliquish set of country club doctors and surgeons, it seems that sleeping around is the norm. Early in the film, however, one husband murders his promiscuous wife (Dyan Cannon) while she is in bed with a rather unlikely adulterer. The various alliances and rivalries in this close-knit Read More

Trial Run

Synopsis: Made for television, Trial Run is a slick, cynical tale of blind ambition. James Franciscus plays a young attorney who'll do anything to reach the top. To this end, Franciscus uses not only his employer Leslie Nielsen, but his faithful secretary Diane Baker, who has long sacrificed her own Read More

The Swimmer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Diana Van Der Vlis, Tony Bickley, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry's The Swimmer, adapted for the screen by Perry's wife Eleanor, is a rare, and for the most part successful, attempt at offering a Cheever story in feature-length Read More

Shadow on the Land

Synopsis: America is no longer the home of the free in this futuristic drama. Now the country is ruled by a powerful, tyrant and his henchmen. The story centers on two brave underground rebels who work to usurp the dictator and restore democracy to the beleaguered land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fugitive: The Walls of Night

Synopsis: Now working as a trucker under the alias "Stan Dyson", Kimble (David Janssen) falls in love with his company's dispatcher Barbara Wells (Janice Rule). What Kimble doesn't know is that Barbara is a parolee who must return to her jail cell every evening. Nor is he aware of this arrangement when Read More

Welcome to Hard Times

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates

Synopsis: Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film is based. It was adapted for the screen by veteran western director Burt Kennedy. In a forlorn town called Hard Times in the Old West, a cowardly mayor, Will Blue (Henry Fonda) Read More

The Ambushers

Actors: Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, James Gregory, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: In this, the third in the Matt Helm special-agent series, Dean Martin plays Helm who's called to save those aboard a hijacked U.S. spacecraft. Ambushers is generally regarded as the weakest of the Helm films, lacking inspiration at most levels. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Chase

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, James Fox, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday Read More

Alvarez Kelly

Actors: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Victoria Shaw, Roger C. Carmel

Synopsis: William Holden stars as Alvarez Kelly in this Civil War actioner. While transporting 5,000 head of cattle to the Union forces, Holden is captured by Confederate officer Richard Widmark. Threatened with instant execution if he doesn't cooperate, Holden sets about the train the raw rebel troops to Read More

The Fugitive: Wife Killer

Synopsis: In Baker City, Ohio, newspaper reporter Barbara Webb (Janice Rule) publishes the photo of a murder suspect (Bill Raisch) whom fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) recognizes as Fred Johnson, the One-Armed Man who killed his wife. As a result, Kimble rushes to Baker City in hopes of collaring Read More

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Actors: Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter, Alfred Ryder, Mike Kellin

Synopsis: Matt Weaver (George Segal) returns home after fighting for the South in the Civil War to his home in the New Mexico territory. He discovers that in his absence his ancestral house and land have been sold by Sam Brewster (Pat Hingle), an unscrupulous land developer. Matt tries to kill Sam, but when Read More

The Twilight Zone: Nightmare as a Child

Actors: Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick, Terry Burnham, Michael Fox, Joe Perry

Synopsis: While visiting the apartment house where she grew up, schoolteacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) makes the acquaintance of a strange little girl named Markie (Terry Burnham). It gradually develops that Markie holds a clue as to the identity of the person who murdered Helen's mother many years Read More

The Subterraneans

Actors: Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Anne Seymour

Synopsis: Based rather loosely on a novel by Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans concerns a writer (played by George Peppard) who moves to San Francisco and falls in with a crowd of beatniks after falling in love with a French girl (Leslie Caron). The woman was black, not French, in Kerouac's novel, only the Read More

Bell, Book and Candle

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: John Van Druten's stage comedy Bell Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming in Hitchcock's Vertigo. Novak plays Gillian Holroyd, a genuine, bonafide witch. Falling in love with Read More

Gun for a Coward

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill Wills, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father, Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to his work and live in peace, but this is made impossible by the tense situation in his own household. Will's two younger brothers, Bless (Jeffrey Hunter) and Hade (Dean Stockwell Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Three Bells to Perdido

Synopsis: The premiere episode of Have Gun, Will Travel finds cultured gunslinger Paladin (Richard Boone) already headquartered at a fancy hotel in San Francisco, casually thumbing through a pile of newspapers in search of an assignment. Heading to New Mexico, he offers his services to wealthy rancher Jesse Read More

Playhouse 90: Four Women in Black

Actors: Helen Hayes, Ralph Meeker, Katy Jurado, Janice Rule, Narda Onyx

Synopsis: One of several filmed presentations seen on the otherwise "live" TV anthology Playhouse 90, "Four Women in Black" is a western story based on fact. Ralph Meeker plays outlaw Carbine Webb, who while fleeing a posse takes refuge in a covered wagon in the middle of the desert. But Carbine is not Read More

A Woman's Devotion

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Janice Rule, Paul Henreid, Rosenda Monteros, Fanny Schiller

Synopsis: Battle Shock and War Shock were the titles bestowed by British distributors upon the Paul Henreid-directed psychological drama A Woman's Devotion. Ralph Meeker stars as Trevor Stevenson, an emotionally scarred World War II veteran who has channelled his fears and phobias into his painting. At Read More

Holiday for Sinners

Actors: Gig Young, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, William Campbell, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: This minor MGM feature stars Gig Young, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn and Richard Anderson as diverse individuals caught up in New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebration. Young is cast in the leading role as a doctor, whose plans for the celebration are altered when punch drunk prizefighter Wynn commits Read More

Rogue's March

Actors: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll, John Abbott

Synopsis: Rogue's March was described by one observer as an eastern western. A mustachioed Peter Lawford stars as Capt. Dion Lenbridge of His Majesty's Service. Branded a traitor, Lenbridge is cashiered from the regiment. In fact, Lenbridge isn't a traitor, but he spends the next 84 minutes proving it. He Read More

Goodbye, My Fancy

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden, Janice Rule

Synopsis: Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma mater. When Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford) is offered an honorary degree at her former college, she is forced to remember the reason she was expelled to begin with. Nearly twenty Read More

Starlift

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II. The wisp of a plot concerns Mike Nolan (Dick Wesson) and Rick Williams (Ron Hagherty), San Francisco-based airmen who serve as crew members on a shuttle to Korea. To impress a Read More