Joan CollinsFilmography

Intimate Portrait: Joan Collins

Joan Collins' London

Actors: Joan Collins

Synopsis: Actress Joan Collins is your guide for this extremely personal, and sometimes highly eccentric, tour of London. Though some of the "obvious" tourist spots are covered -- Buckingham Palace, Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, the Globe Playhouse -- Collins prefers to visit places that might have more Read More

These Old Broads

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Four of Tinseltown's greatest glamour queens came together for this tartly comic made-for-TV movie which pokes gentle (and not so gentle) fun at their histories and reputations. Kate Westburn (Shirley MacLaine), Addie Holden (Joan Collins), and Piper Grayson (Debbie Reynolds) are three legendary Read More

Ozzie

Actors: Spencer Breslin, Joan Collins, Ralf Moeller, Rachel Hunter, Peter Rowley

Synopsis: Eight-year-old Justin Morton (Spencer Breslin) gets a birthday present he never expected while visiting Australia with his mother (Rachel Hunter). Thanks to the work of two dimwitted thugs, Tank Emerson (Ralf Moeller) and Buzz Maroni (Peter Rowley), a walking, talking, sunglasses-clad koala named Read More

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

Actors: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, Joan Collins, Thomas Gibson

Synopsis: Before the Flintstones were everyone's favorite Stone Age family, Fred was just a regular guy looking for the girl of his dreams, and his romance with Wilma sets the stage for this prequel to the 1994 screen adaptation of the popular cartoon series. Fred Flintstone (Mark Addy), a working-class Read More

Hidden Hollywood, Vol. 2: More Treasures From the 20th Century Fox Vaults

Synopsis: 20th Century Fox was one of the world's biggest movie studios in the '30s and '40s, with an impressive roster including some of the greatest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. 20th Century Fox had so much talent on hand and produced so many memorable films that more than a few great moments managed Read More

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Actors: Donny Osmond, Maria Freidman, Richard Attenborough, Robert Torti, Ian McNeice, Joan Collins

Synopsis: Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical blockbuster comes to video in this production starring Donny Osmond, who racked up over 1,800 stage performances in the title role. Based on the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, Joseph (Osmond) is the favorite son of Jacob Read More

Sweet Deception

Actors: Kate Jackson, Joanna Pacula, Joan Collins, Jack Scalia, Rob Stewart

Synopsis: Although the police investigation is spotty at best and the evidence questionable, Risa Gallagher (Joanna Pacula) receives a life sentence for the murder of her philandering millionaire husband. Managing to escape from prison, Risa goes from friend to friend in hopes of finding out who might have Read More

The Clandestine Marriage

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Tom Hollander, Paul Nicholls

Synopsis: In this period piece set in England in 1776, Betsy, the eldest daughter of the 'nouveau riche' Sterling family from the city, is to wed Sir John, the son of the aristocratic but poor Ogleby family from the country. However, Betsy's sister Fanny, who has secretly married her father's clerk by whom Read More

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures From The 20th Century Fox Vaults

Actors: Joan Collins

Synopsis: Joan Collins is the host of these outtakes and clips deleted from 20th Century-Fox productions of decades past. Entertaining song selections in the compilation include Betty Grable sequences from Footlight Serenade (1942) and Pin Up Girl (1944), Carmen Miranda wearing a lighthouse on her head Read More

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond

In the Bleak Midwinter

Actors: Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Mark Hadfield, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard Horan

Synopsis: When his professional career hits a lull, an actor attempts to revitalize his career by staging a production of Hamlet, directed by and starring himself. Director and star Kenneth Branagh would in fact release his own film version of Shakespeare's classic play a year later, but this comedy Read More

Annie: A Royal Adventure

Actors: Ian McDiarmid, Emily Ann Lloyd, Ashley Johnson, George Hearn, Joan Collins

Synopsis: Ashley Johnson stars as everyone's favorite plucky orphan in this made-for-TV sequel to the 1982 musical hit Annie. This time, Annie and her new family travel to England, where they run afoul of evil-doers. George Hern co-stars as "Daddy" Warbucks, Joan Collins plays the dastardly Lady Edwina Read More

Decadence

Actors: Joan Collins, Steven Berkoff, Christopher Biggins, Michael Winner, Mark Sinden

Synopsis: Joan Collins camps it up in this pretentious art-house virago written, directed, and starring Steven Birkoff. In a satirical thrust at British upper-class values, in which the characters spout out dialogue in rhyming couplets, Collins and Birkoff portray snobbish British aristocrats and then, in Read More

Roseanne: First Cousin, Twice Removed

Synopsis: Joan Collins guest stars as Ronnie, Roseanne's wealthy long-lost cousin. Though she hasn't seen Roseanne for over 20 years, Ronnie tries to renew their friendship and encourages Darlene to get out of Lanford, which only sparks the old feud between them. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Dynasty: The Reunion

Actors: Joan Collins, Linda Evans, John Forsythe

Synopsis: When the two-part Dynasty: The Reunion first aired, it rated a cover on TV Guide. The photo depicted Dynasty regulars Linda Evans (Krystal) and Joan Collins (Alexis) grinning at one another, while their true feelings were conveyed in comic-strip thought balloons reading "Hussy" and "Hag." This Read More

An Orchestral Tribute to the Beatles

Dynasty: Season 09

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Heather Locklear, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Laid low by progressively weaker ratings, Dynasty discreetly left the scene at the end of its ninth season. But though viewership was down, the series' entertainment content was as high as ever, thanks in large part to a lengthy murder-investigation storyline. It all begins when the mummified body Read More

Dynasty: Season 08

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Heather Locklear, Jack Coleman

Synopsis: Season eight of Dynasty finds two of the series' former regulars, Emma Samms as the predatory Fallon Carrington and John James as Fallon's ex-husband Jeff, returning to the series full-time after a brief stint on the Dynasty spin-off The Colbys. The two prodigal actors have no trouble jumping Read More

In Conversation with Joan Collins

Synopsis: A sex symbol for several decades, actress Joan Collins chats with Paul Ryan in this 25-minute program from 1987. The sister of famed best-selling novelist Jackie Collins talks about her life and loves, her career as a vamp, and her notoriety. The star reveals herself to be a concerned mother. Born Read More

Dynasty: Season 07

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Heather Locklear, Jack Coleman

Synopsis: Although the ratings for Dynasty's seventh season were far below those of earlier years, the series still had plenty of "guilty pleasure" entertainment to offer its loyal fans. Much of the season's activities center around oil millionaire Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), who after thinking twice Read More

Monte Carlo

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Robert Carradine, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the French city. She moonlights, however, as an Allied spy to retaliate against the Nazis who murdered her husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Sins

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton, Marisa Berenson, Gene Kelly, James Farentino

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman struggles to rise to the top of the fashion industry, but as she does, her past business sins come back to haunt her. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Dynasty: Season 06

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Heather Locklear, Jack Coleman

Synopsis: Season five of Dynasty had famously concluded with the notorious "Moldavian Massacre," in which the entire cast was mowed down by machine-gun bullets at the wedding of Alexis' (Joan Collins) daughter Amanda (Catherine Oxenberg) to Prince Michael of Moldavia (Michael Praed). After keeping viewers Read More

The Making of Joan Collins

Dynasty: Season 05

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Jack Coleman, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Season four of Dynasty found the series enjoying the peak of its popularity; after that, things could only go downhill -- and alas, they did. On the docket for this season are the Herculean efforts by Denver oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) to regain his financial empire after being Read More

The Cartier Affair

Synopsis: Joan Collins and David Hasselhoff star in this made-for-TV comedy caper, in which a con artist who has just gotten out of jail. Curt Taylor (Hasselhoff) finds himself back in business when he becomes an assistant to glamorous film star Cartier Rand (Collins). Curt's primary interest in working Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Hansel and Gretel

Actors: Rick Schroder, Bridgette Andersen, Joan Collins, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: The Grimms' grim tale of two crafty children who cross paths with an evil, gingerbread cottage-dwelling crone is the subject of this episode from the made-for-TV series Faerie Tale Theatre. Abandoned in the forest by their penniless father (well-known character actor Paul Dooley) and his new wife Read More

Nutcracker Sweet

Synopsis: This drama offers a sordid behind-the-scenes look at the darker side of ballet as it chronicles the power struggle and deceit between the tyrannical owner of a prominent ballet company and a treacherous Russian ballerina. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Her Life As a Man

Synopsis: To land a job as a sports reporter, a young woman must disguise herself as a man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Making of a Male Model

Actors: Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum

Synopsis: Joan Collins tops the cast of the made-for-TV The Making of a Male Model. No, silly: Joan doesn't play the title role. Rather, she is cast as the barracudalike owner of a top modelling agency, while Jon-Erik Hexum (at the time, a real-life male model) costars as a Nevada rancher whom Joan selects Read More

Dynasty: Season 04

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Jack Coleman, Pamela Sue Martin

Synopsis: The ratings for Dynasty continued to soar as the nighttime soap opera pursued its fourth season on ABC. The big news this year is the return of Denver oil millionaire Blake Carrington's (John Forsythe) bisexual "black sheep" son Steven, formerly played by Al Corley but now portrayed by Jack Coleman Read More

Dynasty: Season 03

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Pamela Sue Martin, Heather Locklear

Synopsis: Ever climbing to the top of the ratings heap -- thanks largely to the introduction of the magnificently malevolent Alexis Carrington Colby (Joan Collins) in its second season -- Dynasty serves up even more soap opera skullduggery for its third year on the air. New to the proceedings is mysterious Read More

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

Synopsis: In this Civil-war era western set in a Missouri mining town, respectable women and floozies join forces to keep renegade Union soldiers from destroying their community. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Paper Dolls

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Alexandra Paul, Joan Hackett, Jennifer Warren, Joan Collins

Synopsis: The pilot film for the ABC series of the same name, Paper Dolls concentrates upon two pretty teenagers: Taryn Blake (Daryl Hannah) and Laurie Caswell (Alexandra Paul). Prodded on by their ambitious mothers (played by Joan Hackett and Jennifer Warren) and further exploited by a ruthless agent (Joan Collins Read More

Nutcracker

Actors: Joan Collins, Carol White, Paul Nicholas, Finola Hughes, William Franklyn

Synopsis: In this sudsy drama, a Russian dancer defects and joins a London ballet school headed by a manipulative madam who uses the school as a front for her call-girl business. All of her employees are students whom she has forced to become prostitutes for prominent politicians. Meanwhile the Read More

Homework

Actors: Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, Shell Kepler, Lanny Horn, Erin Donovan

Synopsis: Michael Morgan stars as a teen obsessed with losing his virginity, and who gets his wish with Joan Collins, the mother of one of his best friends. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dynasty: Season 02

Actors: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Pamela Sue Martin, Al Corley

Synopsis: Things really begin to percolate in the second season of Dynasty with the introduction of the delightfully despicable Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins), the ever-scheming, ever-vengeful ex-wife of Denver oil millionaire Blake Carrington (John Forsythe). Showing up from gosh knows where as a witness Read More

A Game for Vultures

Synopsis: In this drama, a black man fights for freedom from racial oppression in the troubled country of Rhodesia. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Sunburn

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local Read More

The Stud

Actors: Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Emma Jacobs, Sue Lloyd, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: Jackie Collins wrote the best-selling novel The Stud. Her sister Joan Collins starred in the 1978 film version of The Stud. The producer on the film was Joan Collins' then-husband Ron Kass. Need we say more? Well, there is a plot, involving the insatiable Joan's sexual hold over a handsome Read More

Fearless

Synopsis: In this Italian film, a private eye searches in Vienna for the clues to solve a case. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bitch

Actors: Joan Collins, Michael Coby, Kenneth Haigh, Ian Hendry, Carolyn Seymour

Synopsis: Joan Collins stars as Fontaine Khaled in this sleek and sleazy sequel to her sister Jackie Collins's The Stud. Fontaine is the owner of a high class London nightclub, but after having an extramarital affair, her marriage falls apart and she stands to lose her nightclub. As a result, she hits the Read More

Zero to Sixty

Synopsis: Mike Nolan (Darren McGavin) is a Beverly Hills resident whose divorce case -- blown by a hopelessly inept, possibly larcenous attorney (Dick Martin) -- has left him with no home, no job, and no assets, except for his car. And when the car is driven off by 16-year-old repo agent "Larry" (Denise Read More

The Big Sleep

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum reprises his role as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe from Farewell, My Lovely, in this misconceived remake of Howard Hawks's classic 1946 film -- transferring the setting from 1940s California to 1970s London. Marlowe is hired by a rich and dying General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More

Empire of the Ants

Actors: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott

Synopsis: In the '50s, Bert I. Gordon made a career out of sci-fi movies about gigantic mutated insects (Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Spider), lizards (King Dinosaur, Serpent Island), and even people (The Amazing Colossal Man), and in 1977, he was still up to his old tricks with this picture, loosely Read More

Baretta: Pay or Die

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Joan Collins guest stars as female undercover officer Lynn Stiles. Teaming up with Tony Baretta (Robert Blake), Stiles tries to nab a murderous pimp who covets full control of the city's prostitutes. In an incredibly suspenseful climax, Baretta is forced to place Stiles in grave danger for the Read More

The Moneychangers

Synopsis: "An unprecedented cast brings to life the blockbuster book"--or so said the add copy for The Moneychangers, a four-part TV miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's novel, first telecast Dec 4-19, 1976. The drama's starting point is a power play between two bank officers, played by Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer Read More

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

Actors: Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Georgia Brown

Synopsis: This is not the same kind of film as the 1962 production, Tom Jones. In fact, it is a "nudie musical", as evidenced by the presence of singing star Georgia Brown in the dual role of Jenny Jones and Mrs. Waters. The project originated as a Las Vegas stage presentation, with Nicky Henson in the Read More

Alfie Darling

Actors: Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Paul Copley, Sheila White, Annie Ross

Synopsis: Alfie is an incorrigible womanizer who uses his trucking job as a way to commute from tryst to tryst as he makes his way across the women of the nation. Then he meets Townsend, a magazine editor. They have a lot in common; that is, she's as callous and fond of one-night stands as he is. An 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

The Devil Within Her

Actors: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bates, Caroline Munro

Synopsis: This weird British hybrid of The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and It's Alive! stars Joan Collins as a stripper who spurns the advances of a lecherous dwarf and is subsequently cursed by a monstrous baby -- which emits horrifying demonic howls and attacks everyone within reach, including his parents Read More

L'Arbitro

Playing the Field

Actors: Joan Collins, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: The presence of Joan Collins in the cast to the contrary, the title of the Italian comedy Playing the Field is somewhat misleading. Lando Buzzanca plays a soccer referee, ever anxious to improve himself. This results in mucho slapstick on the soccer filed, with Buzzanca in the middle. Only Ms. Collins Read More

Dark Places

Actors: Carleton Hobbs, Jennifer Thanisch

Synopsis: This tepid supernatural melodrama involves the former director of a mental hospital (Robert Hardy) who inherits the estate of one of his patients -- a house which was once the site of multiple murders. He also stands to inherit a substantial sum of gold... if only he can locate the treasure, which Read More

Tales That Witness Madness

Actors: Joan Collins, Jack Hawkins, Peter McEnery, Kim Novak, Donald Pleasence, Mary Tamm, Russell Lewis

Synopsis: Essentially a reworking of their earlier omnibus Asylum, this is another anthology of pulp horror tales from Amicus, this one helmed by the ever-reliable Freddie Francis. It features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of psychiatrist Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence) Read More

The Persuaders!: Five Miles to Midnight

Synopsis: Originally telecast February 16, 1972, the 60-minute Five Miles to Midnight is an episode of the Anglo-American TV adventure series The Persuaders. Tony Curtis and Roger Moore star as Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair, two millionaire playboys who double as private detectives. Laurence Naismith Read More

Tales from the Crypt

Actors: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting ironic horror tales had its beginnings in William Gaine's E.C. comic series. At one time, outlandish E.C. Comics were at the heart of a national furor over the "evils" of Read More

Fear in the Night

Actors: Ralph Bates, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Judy Geeson

Synopsis: Peter Cushing took time off from his Frankenstein and Dracula duties to star in the standard-issue melodrama Fear in the Night. Cushing plays Michael Carmichael, the headmaster of a private school, where Robert Heller (Ralph Bates) is engaged as an instructor. Heller also indulges in Read More

The Aquarian

Synopsis: A man uses his own mental powers to control one of the largest fortunes known to man. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Quest for Love

Actors: Tom Bell, Joan Collins

Synopsis: This science fiction/fantasy is loosely based on a story by John Wyndham (best known for The Day of the Triffids). Scientist Collin (Tom Bell) stumbles across a parallel world in which President Kennedy is not shot, Vietnam hasn't happened, and Ottilie (Joan Collins), the woman he loves, dies Read More

Inn of the Frightened People

Synopsis: This dark drama unfolds in an unnamed community outside of London, where a beleaguered and grief-stricken tavern owner named Jim Radford (James Booth copes with the rape and murder of his young daughter. The remainder of his family shares his distress, and in time, it begins to rip the clan Read More

The Executioner

Actors: George Peppard, Joan Collins, Judy Geeson, Oscar Homolka, Charles Gray

Synopsis: Set in England, The Executioner stars American actor George Peppard as John Shay, a British spy. Shay is convinced that there's a double agent at large, and he's further convinced that it's his former colleague Adam Booth (Keith Michell). Having set himself up as judge and jury, Shay now intends Read More

Up in the Cellar

Actors: Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Wes Stern, Judy Pace, David Arkin

Synopsis: A light, almost beach-party atmosphere pervades this comedy, based on The Late Boy Wonder, a novel by Angus Hall. Larry Hagman plays a college president with political aspirations who flunks out a college student (Wes Stern) and then has the temerity to save the boy from committing suicide. In Read More

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Actors: Anthony Newley, Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jessel, Connie Kreski

Synopsis: Singer, songwriter, and actor Anthony Newley produced, directed, co-wrote, scored, and starred in this bizarre autobiographical musical in which a famous entertainer takes a look back at the circumstances of his life. Legendary singing star Heironymus Merkin (Newley) stands by the sea, surrounded Read More

Lo Stato D'Assedio

Actors: Joan Collins, Mathieu Carrière, Antonio Centa, Faith Domergue, Frank Wolff

Synopsis: A wealthy shipbuilding family falls apart in the wake of labor unrest and economic crisis. Lorenzo (Mathieu Carriere) is the son who returns home from college and falls in love with his mother, hates his father even more, and makes love to an older family friend Roberta (Joan Collins). After being 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: Nicole

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

Synopsis: Guest star Joan Collins plays the title character in this offbeat Mission: Impossible episode. While on a particularly delicate recovery mission, Phelps is shot, wounded and left for dead. Upon awakening, he finds that he has been nursed back to health by the beautiful Nicole. Despite being Read More

Subterfuge

Actors: Gene Barry, Joan Collins, Richard Todd, Tom Adams, Suzanna Leigh

Synopsis: CIA agent Donovan (Gene Barry) travels to Britain to untangle a web of international spies. He falls for the estranged wife of local secret agent Langley (Tom Adams). Anne (Joan Collins) starts a romance with Donovan before her son is kidnapped by rival agents. While any other mom would worry Read More

Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever

Synopsis: Acclaimed author Harlan Ellison scripted this time-travel episode of the enduringly popular science fiction series. On the surface of an unknown world, Dr. McCoy -- suffering from an accidental drug overdose -- enters a mysterious archway that announces itself as "the Guardian of Forever." In Read More

Warning Shot

Actors: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard luck lately -- his marriage is a wreck, and he hasn't fully recovered from a serious wound suffered in the line of duty a year ago. He and his partner, Sgt. Ed Musso (Keenan Wynn Read More

La Congiuntura

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Joan Collins, Jacques Bergerac, Hilda Barry

Synopsis: In this caper comedy designed for international distribution, Jane (Joan Collins) and Don Giuliano (Vittorio Gassman) are part of a group of currency smugglers who are trying to get their gang's money over the border into Swiss banks. They are following a plan designed by their crafty mastermind Read More

The Road to Hong Kong

Actors: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured Dorothy Lamour once made famous. In this road to Hong Kong and parts far beyond, Chester and Harry (Hope and Crosby) are a couple of failed vaudeville stars looking for a way to Read More

Esther and the King

Actors: Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea, Sergio Fantoni

Synopsis: Just over a decade before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington in television's Dynasty series, Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the 4th century BC, as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed Read More

Midnight Lace

Actors: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in the thick London fog. She then begins receiving Read More

Seven Thieves

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby

Synopsis: Discredited professor Edward G. Robinson organizes a seven-person criminal gang. Robinson plans to steal a fortune from the underground vaults of the Monte Carlo casino. Despite a few tense moments, the plot moves like clockwork. Alas, Robinson isn't around long enough to enjoy the fruits of his 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

Rally 'round the Flag, Boys!

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson, Dwayne Hickman, Joseph Holland

Synopsis: Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys; still, the film was a success, no small thanks to the star power of real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The scene is Putnam's Landing Read More

Sea Wife

Actors: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people survive. They are a nun, an RAF officer, a godless bigoted business magnate, and a black purser. The four drift for days before getting themselves washed up on a small desert Read More

The Wayward Bus

Actors: Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey, Rick Jason

Synopsis: John Steineck's novel The Wayward Bus was retranslated into pop-entertainment terms for the screen. Most of the story takes place on the charter bus owned by driver Rick Jason. Travelling slowly through a treacherous California mountain region, the passengers -- including Jason's spiteful Read More

Stopover Tokyo

Actors: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott, Reiko Oyama

Synopsis: Novelist John P. Marquand's soft-spoken Japanese detective Mr. Moto was brought to the screen in an entertaining 1930s B-picture series by 20th Century-Fox. But when the same studio purchased Marquand's novel Stopover Tokyo in 1957, Mr. Moto was totally excised from the screenplay. The film's main Read More

Island in the Sun

Actors: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie

Synopsis: Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid Caribbean community to the boiling point in this drama. Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) and David Boyeur (Harry Belafonte) are two men running for political office in a British-controlled island in the West Indies. Maxwell is the son Read More

The Opposite Sex

Actors: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Jeff Richards, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Harry James, Dick Shawn, Jim Backus

Synopsis: The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma Shearer role, playing the virtuous wife who loses her husband to scheming Joan Collins (as the Joan Crawford character). At first agreeing to a divorce, June decides to win Read More

Land of the Pharaohs

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alexis Minotis, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: "Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue exchanges in the William Faulkner-Harry Kurnitz-Harold Jack Bloom script for Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs. Extravagantly produced with a cast of seeming millions (actually there were Read More

The Virgin Queen

Actors: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Having previously portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I in 1939's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Bette Davis reprises the role in the Technicolor-and-Cinescope costumer The Virgin Queen. Harry Brown and Mindret Lord's screenplay proposes that Elizabeth's relationship with adventurer Sir Read More

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Actors: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern in Ragtime (1981), is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for the film, it isn't Read More

The Good Die Young

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, John Ireland

Synopsis: The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery. American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) hopes to use his share of the haul to bring his British wife to the US. Professional boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) finds himself unable to work Read More

The Adventures of Sadie

Actors: Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More, Robertson Hare, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: Sadie (Joan Collins) is marooned on a desert island. Stranded along with Sadie are three men; no, not Gilligan, the Skipper and the Professor, but instead Kenneth More, George Cole and Robertson Hare. The two least likely suitors (Cole and Hare) actively pursue Sadie, while the one she's truly Read More

Cosh Boy

Actors: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: The British Cosh Boy was unsubtly but appropriately retitled The Slasher in the U.S. James Kenney plays Roy Walsh, one of the most thoroughly unpleasant characters ever to appear on screen. When he's not busy beating and robbing the aged and infirm, Roy enjoys slapping around his lady friends. And Read More

Decameron Nights

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Binnie Barnes, Joan Collins, Godfrey Tearle, Mara Lane

Synopsis: Director Hugo Fregonese and writer George Oppenheimer do the unthinkable: they manage to transform Giovanni Boccaccio's bawdy -- and downright raunchy -- medieval tales of martial discontent and infidelity into harmless white-bread treacle. Louis Jourdan plays Boccaccio in a framing story set in a Read More

The Tough Guy

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the nasty exploits of a young London punk and his thuggish gang as they mug passersby and seduce innocent young girls. Their story is used to comment upon the state of London society and is based on Bruce Walker's play. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Square Ring

Actors: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed, George Rose

Synopsis: The contentious world of prizefighting provides the setting of this episodic drama that chronicles the lives of five different fighters. Each of the fighters explains their reasons for becoming professional pugilists. One of the fighters, Kid Curtis, ends up dead after a particularly brutal Read More

Turn the Key Softly

Actors: Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Morgan, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Based on a novel by John Brophy, Turn the Key Softly takes place within a single day. The film follows the exploits of three newly released female convicts. Monica (Yvonne Mitchell) is full of hatred for the man who led her into a life of crime. Stella (Joan Collins) is an impulsive streetwalker Read More

A Woman's Angle

I Believe in You

Actors: Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins, George Relph

Synopsis: Inspired by the recent success of The Blue Lamp, I Believe in You is a multiplotted British drama about parole officers. Several short character vignettes pass our way as the film studies the various methods employed by the officers in dealing with their charges. The film settles upon Cecil Read More

Judgment Deferred

Synopsis: In this drama, a reporter helps prove the innocence of a man wrongfully incarcerated for dealing drugs. The reporter learns of the situation when the convict's vagabond pals, with his influence and support, justice soon prevails. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Actors: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Henson, Pauline Stroud

Synopsis: Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests. Waitress Marjorie (Pauline Stroud) enters one competition after another, hoping for fame and fortune. She manages to make the finals of a "Lady Godiva" contest, never Read More