Joanna Pettet Filmography

Sweet Country

Actors: Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure, Franco Nero, Joanna Pettet

Synopsis: The Chilean Revolution of 1973 provides the framework of this propaganda drama that chronicles the aftermath of the assassination of President Salvador Allende. Much of the story centers on the effects the revolution has upon an American couple who lived there during the tumult. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Way to Dusty Death

Synopsis: Cornell Wilde guest stars as Duncan Barnett, the ruthless founder-CEO of Barnett Industries. Gathering his board of directors (and their wives and loved ones) to his lavish New York estage, Barnett seems poised to name his successor. Instead, he is killed in an accident--or, at least, it looks Read More

Othello

Actors: Max H. Boulois, Tony Curtis, Ramiro Oliveros, Joanna Pettet, Nadiuska

Synopsis: Producer, writer, director, and lead actor Max Boulois gives credit to William Shakespeare in the credits to this film, but Will's last name is misspelled. This is one of several oversights which tend to leave Othello's story a little disjointed in parts. In Boulois' incarnation, Othello is a Read More

Double Exposure

Synopsis: Double Exposure is a dull, predictable mystery thriller with a fine cast but hampered by a poor script and bad direction and production. A photographer (Michael Callan) begins to have a series of nightmares concerning bloody, gruesome murders. When those murders become reality, he is the prime Read More

The Return of Frank Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: As made obvious by its title, this TV movie was an attempt to revive the once-popular private eye series Cannon, which ran from 1971 to 1976. Emerging from self-imposed retirement, corpulent gumshoe Frank Cannon (William Conrad) investigates the death of an old friend who formely worked for the Read More

Cry of the Innocent

Synopsis: Filmed in Ireland, Cry of the Innocent stars Rod Taylor as an American insurance executive on a grim mission. A private plane has exploded, killing Taylor's wife and children. Also on board was a scientist who was the target of the criminals who engineered the tragedy. The "maguffin" is a secret Read More

For Heaven's Sake

Synopsis: An angel helps a struggling basketball team and especially one player who wishes to regain his former glory in order to earn the respect of his 9-year-old son. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Evil

Actors: Richard Crenna, Joanna Pettet, Andrew Prine, Cassie Yates

Synopsis: This superbly chilling haunted-house opus stars Richard Crenna as a therapist who, with wife Joanna Pettet, selects a lavish mansion for use as a drug rehab clinic. No sooner have the staff and their assistants set up housekeeping when a nightmarish force emerges from a trap door in the basement Read More

Sex and the Married Woman

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Sex and the Married Woman stars Joanna Pettet as a housewife and Barry Newman as her liberal-minded husband. Encouraging his wife to find her "inner self," Newman has no notion that Pettet will translate this invitation into writing a book based on the sex habits of her friends and neighbors. The Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

The Dark Side of Innocence

Synopsis: This pilot film for a TV series titled Hancock was initially telecast as The Dark Side of Innocence. The Hancocks are a tightly-knit, prosperous California family. Mom and Pop Hancock (John Anderson and Kim Hunter) oversee a thriving lumber business--when they're not refereeing the travails of Read More

Appointment with a Killer

Synopsis: Appointment with a Killer began life as a British TV movie, then took up residence in the US as part of ABC's Wide World Mystery anthology. As with most videotaped thrillers of this ilk, the cast is headed by a well-known American actor, in this case Joanna Pettet. The plot concerns a murder that Read More

A Midsummer Nightmare

Synopsis: When a killer leaves the body of an actress under a tree, a private detective's wife sets out to identify the killer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Desperate Miles

Synopsis: Tony Musante has the unenviable task of portraying the least appealing paraplegic hero in TV-movie history in Desperate Miles. Musante plays Joe Larkin, a disabled Vietnam vet who wants to prove to the world that neither he nor his incapacitated brethren are helpless. To do this, he takes to the Read More

A Cry in the Wilderness

Actors: George Kennedy

Synopsis: Gilbert Wright's novel Madman's Chain had already been adapted to television by Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre by the time that Cry in the Wilderness premiered March 26, 1974. While the first version, titled Chain and the River, was a moderately suspenseful half hour, Cry in the Wilderness manages to keep Read More

A Killer in Every Corner

Synopsis: This passable British TV movie (shot on video) stars Patrick Magee as a quirky psychology professor who invites three of his students (including the excellent Joanna Pettet) to participate in a little extra-credit research project at his home one weekend. Unbeknownst to the hapless trio, the Read More

Welcome to Arrow Beach

Synopsis: The consumption of human flesh is the main course of this off-beat horror movie that centers on a war veteran who returns to California a cannibal. His sister likes peopleburgers too. The trouble begins when a gentle hippie chick encounters the hungry duo enthusiastically eating their latest meal. Read More

Pioneer Woman

Actors: Joanna Pettet, William Shatner, David Janssen, Lance Le Gault, Helen Hunt

Synopsis: Though set in Wyoming, Pioneer Women was lensed in the unspoiled wilderness of Alberta, Canada. Joanna Pettet plays the title role, one of many Wyoming homesteaders of the post-Civil War era. Joanna endures the death of her husband (William Shatner), then must decide whether or not to make a go of Read More

Footsteps

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a small college, desperate for a grid iron win, hires an ultra tough new coach. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Banacek: Project Phoenix

Synopsis: In this crime drama, corporate thieves, plan to steal an experimental car that is being sent to Boston via rail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Delphi Bureau

Actors: Celeste Holm

Synopsis: Delphi Bureau was the pilot film for a short-lived TV espionage series. Lawrence Luckinbill plays an operative for a secret agency that answers only to the US President. His current mission is to locate an entire fleet of obsolete Air Force planes that have vanished without a trace. Very ordinary Read More

The Weekend Nun

Synopsis: Weekend Nun was an unsold TV pilot film based on the life and career of Louisiana nun Sister Fabian (real name: Joyce Duco). Joanna Pettet stars as Sister Mary Damien (aka: Marjorie Walker), who on weekdays holds down a job as a probation officer (she even packs a gun). The schism between the Read More

The Best House in London

Actors: David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Dany Robin, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This comedy chronicles what happens when secretary John Bird appoints Sir Francis Leybourne to run the place. Bird then has his lovely girlfriend Babbette act as the Madame. Sir Read More

Blue

Actors: Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, Anthony Costello

Synopsis: An international collection of second-string actors grace the cast of this bargain-basement Sergio Leone knock off. Terence Stamp stars as Azul, the son of evil Mexican bandit Ortega (Ricardo Montalban). Although Azul is a mean, low-down, varmint like Ortega's three other sons, there is a slight Read More

Casino Royale

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet

Synopsis: Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees Read More

Robbery

Actors: Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster

Synopsis: Based on the true story of the 1963 British Royal Mail robbery, this late '60s British caper film was directed by Peter Yates a year before he made the action classic Bullitt in the States. Opening with an extended jewel theft sequence followed by a action-packed car chase, Robbery details the Read More

The Night of the Generals

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray

Synopsis: Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery set during World War II. Grau's only clue is that the murderer was wearing the uniform of a Nazi general. The three suspects include Gabler (Charles Gray), who fears his Read More

The Fugitive: Shadow of the Swan

Synopsis: Now using the alias "Paul Keller", Kimble (David Janssen) gets a job at a carnival with the help of pretty Tina Andresen (Joanna Pettet). Unfortunately, Tina's uncle Harry (Andrew Duggan) is a retired detective with a very suspicious mind. . .and he's certain he's seen Kimble's face somewhere Read More

The Group

Actors: Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Mary McCarthy, The Group was one of the slickest, and most highly publicized, cinematic soap operas of the 1960s. Filmed largely in New York, the story charts the exploits of eight young women, all of whom graduate from an exclusive Vassar-ish college in the middle of the Read More