John RubinsteinFilmography

House: The Mistake

Synopsis: Six months after the death of patient Kaya McGinley (Alison Smith), whose illness was misdiagnosed by Chase (Jesse Spencer), a disciplinary hearing is held to probe the situation. Prior to being grilled by a panel of his superiors, Chase is questioned about the incident by Stacy (Sela Ward), as Read More

Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution

Synopsis: This hastily assembled rehash of the infamous Laci Peterson murder case is based on Amber Frey's book Witness: For the Proseuction of Scott Peterson, which may explain why she comes off as the most sympathetic person in the film. Basically, the script adheres to the facts: The mistress of Scott Read More

Jane Doe: The Wrong Face

Synopsis: Jane Doe:The Wrong Face is one of several Hallmark Channel TV-movies starring Lea Thompson as Simi Valley housewife and mom Kathy Davis (Lea Thompson), who unbeknownst to her neighbors occasionally moonlights as an undercover special agent and "problem solver" for the NSA. Kathy is summoned by her Read More

Friends: The Last One, Part 1

Actors: Paul Rudd, Anna Faris, John Rubinstein, James Michael Tyler, Carole Gutierrez

Synopsis: Originally running 65 minutes (and later re-edited as two separate programs for syndication), the final episode of Friends finds Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) on the verge of leaving New York for her new job in Paris. Just before the big departure, stalwart "coffee guy" Gunther (James Michael Tyler) Read More

Charmed: Cat House

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Dorian Gregory, Una Damon, Jennifer Rhodes

Synopsis: Beset by domestic problems, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) finds herself unable to control her magical powers. In an effort to help her sister, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) consults a marriage counselor -- but when the counseling session proves to be too slow and laborious for Piper, she impulsively casts a Read More

Angel: Forgiving

Actors: John Rubinstein

Synopsis: As Angel (David Boreanaz) reels from the abduction of his son (see "Sleep Tight"), Wesley (Alexis Denisof) lies bleeding to death in the park where Justine (Laurel Holloman) left him. Gunn (J. August Richards) and Fred (Amy Acker) try desperately to find Wes before the vengeful Angel does. They Read More

Angel: Dad

Synopsis: Angel (David Boreanaz) and the gang hole up in the hotel, safe thanks to a protection spell cast by the Furies. A selfish new father, Angel refuses to let go of his son for even a moment. Elsewhere, Holtz (Keith Szarabajka) explains to Sahjhan (Jack Conley) that he spared Angel and his child so Read More

Angel: Lullaby

Synopsis: Holtz (Keith Szarabajka) imprisons Angel (David Boreanaz) in the hotel while the gang try to protect Darla (Julie Benz) in the alley out back as she suffers agonizing labor pains. Flashbacks reveal that not only did Darla and Angel kill Holtz's family, they also turned his young daughter into a Read More

The Hollywood Bowl: Music Under the Stars

Synopsis: This program takes an in-depth look at the legendary venue known as the Hollywood Bowl, home to countless famous performances by celebrated artists. In addition to info on the history of the structure, the program features numerous performances by people like Itzhak Perlman, Debbie Reynolds Read More

Angel: Quickening

Synopsis: As Angel (David Boreanaz) makes up his mind to protect rather than kill the unborn child he sired with Darla (Julie Benz), flashbacks chronicle the enjoyment the former lovers derived from killing the wife and family of Holtz (Keith Szarabajka). Back in the present, Holtz materializes -- the Read More

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Marg Helgenberger, Ronny Cox, Ken Howard

Synopsis: This made-for-TV miniseries recounts the muddled criminal investigation of the JonBenet Ramsey murder -- one of the most luridly publicized crimes in recent memory. As the crime unfolds, the Boulder police squad grow increasingly swamped by the elusive details of the crime and the unprecedented Read More

Norma Jean and Marilyn

Actors: Steven Culp, Peter Dobson, David Dukes, Ashley Judd, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) and was transformed into the screen persona that made her a legendary sex symbol. The movie Read More

Party of Five: Leap of Faith

Synopsis: Unable to deny his drinking problem any longer, Bailey (Scott Wolf) agrees to sign up with Alcoholics Anonymous. But his first AA meeting may be his last when Bailey comes face to face with Walter Alcott (John Rubenstein), the man who killed his parents in a drunk-driving accident. Meanwhile Read More

Mercy

Actors: John Rubinstein, Amber Kain, Sam Rockwell, Jane Lanier, Novella Nelson

Synopsis: A rich but bigoted man is forced to confront his ugliest prejudices face to face in this thriller. Frank Kramer (John Rubinstein) is a successful but narrow-minded attorney who comes home one day to discover that his daughter Nicole (Rhea Silver-Smith) is missing. Kramer shortly receives a Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: The 37's

NYPD Blue: Double Abandando

Synopsis: It's an evening of togetherness as Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence) move in together, and Donna Abandando's sister Dana (future Will & Grace star Debra Messing) moves in with Donna (Gail O'Grady) and Greg Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) -- whereupon Dana starts putting her Read More

Arthur Miller's The American Clock

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Loren Dean, Mary McDonnell, Joanna Miles, Kelly Preston, David Strathairn, Darren McGavin, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This made-for-cable version of Arthur Miller's play The American Clock was adapted for television by Frank Galati. Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Miller's own recollections, the film is set at the beginning of the Depression. When the stock market crashes Read More

Another Stakeout

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina, Marcia Strassman

Synopsis: In Stakeout, cop Richard Dreyfuss fell in love with Madeline Stowe, the woman he and his partner Emilio Estevez were watching during a police stakeout. Stowe's back in Another Stakeout, but her part is fleeting and unbilled. On the other hand, we get plenty of Dreyfuss and Estevez, still both as Read More

Frasier: The Crucible

Synopsis: Ever yearning to expand his cultural vistas, Frasier purchases a beautiful -- and very expensive -- painting from famed Seattle artist Martha Paxton (Rachel Rosenthal). To celebrate his acquisition he throws a lavish dinner party at his apartment and invites the artist to show up as the guest of Read More

In My Daughter's Name

Actors: Donna Mills, Lee Grant, John Rubinstein, Adam Storke, John Getz

Synopsis: Following an temporary insanity acquittal of her daughter's rapist and murderer, a mother goes after the criminal. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase

Synopsis: Like 1976's Sybil, Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase was a two-part TV movie based on the true story of a woman plagued with multiple personalities. Shelly Long stars as a woman whose abused childhood has resulted in the fragmentation of her psyche into 22 separate personalities. Before her Read More

Night Court: Heart of Stone

Synopsis: On this occasion, both Harry (Harry Anderson) and Dan (John Larroquette) are caught with their pants down. Dan's case should surprise no one who is aware of his smarmy reputation with the ladies, but Harry is de-pantsed as the result of a slight misunderstanding predicated by a lack of Read More

China Beach [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dana Delany, Marg Helgenberger, Concetta Tomei

Synopsis: China Beach was the second and more successful of two Vietnam-era TV dramas of 1987-88 (the other was Tour of Duty). Set at a Da Nang r-and-r center in 1967, China Beach recounts the era as seen through eyes of several women who served. The distaff stars are Dana Delany (the nurse), Nacy Giles Read More

Liberace

Actors: Andrew Robinson

Synopsis: One of two "dueling" TV biopics of 1988, Liberace stars Andrew Robinson (who'd once played the giggling killer in Dirty Harry!) as the titular flamboyant entertainer. The film recounts Liberace's rise to fame thanks to TV exposure during the 1950s, but does so with distressing disregard of the Read More

Shadow on the Sun

Actors: Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Beryl Markham: Shadow on the Sun was a two-part TV movie originally telecast in May of 1988. Stefanie Powers is right in her element as the real-life Beryl Markham, an Englishwoman living in Kenya with her family. Bucking the male-dominated Kenyan social structure, Beryl becomes the first woman in Read More

Someone to Watch over Me

Actors: Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Someone to Watch Over Me, a mystery thriller directed by Ridley Scott is the story of a police officer who falls in love with the woman he is hired to protect and the effect of this affair on his marriage and his life. Claire (Mimi Rogers) an extremely wealthy socialite is the sole witness to a Read More

A Conspiracy of Love

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this made-for-television movie, the stability of an extended family is threatened by divorce. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Still Crazy Like a Fox

Actors: Jack Warden, John Rubinstein, Penny Peyser

Synopsis: Still Crazy Like a Fox was a 1987 TV-movie effort to revive the lighthearted detective series originally telecast in 1984-86. Jack Warden is back as eccentric detective Harry Fox, with John Rubinstein as his conservative lawyer son Harrison. Father and son are lifted from their natural San Read More

Rubinstein Remembered

Synopsis: An episode of PBS's American Masters series, the hour-long documentary program Rubinstein Remembered paints a biographical portrait of one of the 20th century's musical giants -- Artur B. Rubinstein (1887-1982), the Lodz-born Polish classical pianist known for his interpretations of Granados and Villa Lobos Read More

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Actors: Ann-Margret, Claudette Colbert, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: Claudette Colbert made her first screen appearance in 25 years in the 2-part TV movie The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. The story involves social-climbing actress (read: "chorus girl") Ann-Margret, who marries American-aristocrat naval ensign Stephen Collins, the son of Ms. Colbert (the two female stars Read More

Alem Da Paixao

Actors: Regina Duarte, Paul Castelli, Patricio Bisso, Flavio Galvao, Flavio Sao Thiago

Synopsis: Released in Brazil as Alem Da Paixao, Happily Ever After is all about ostensibly happy housewife Regina Duarte. She has a dream one night in which she dances with a woman who "morphs" into a gorgeous hunk of man. While musing on this dream, Duarte hits a handsome young pedestrian with her car. Read More

The Dollmaker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Jane Fonda stars in this made-for-TV movie, which uses the backdrop of World War II and urbanization to tell the story of one woman's fight to keep her family together. Gertie Nevels (Fonda), the wife of a Kentucky sharecropper, wants nothing more than to one day own her own farm. Thriftily hiding Read More

City Killer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Originally made for television, a psychotic blackmails his beloved by demolishing areas of the city until she goes out with him. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

Actors: Mariette Hartley, Paula Prentiss, David Huddleston, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley portrays Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, in this made-for-television movie produced and written by Michael Braverman. After her daughter is killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident, Lightner forms M.A.D.D. to enact legislation curbing the Read More

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this drama, a mother and daughter become rivals for a single man's affections. The mother is a widowed movie star and the daughter is recently divorced. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Take These Men

Synopsis: I Take These Men is a variation on the 1941 Ginger Rogers theatrical feature Tom, Dick, and Harry. While being feted at a surprise 15th wedding anniversary party, Carol Sherwood (Susan St. James) startles the well-wishers by asking her dull dentist husband, Stuart (James Sherwood), for a divorce. Read More

Choices of the Heart

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Rene Enriquez, Pamela Bellwood

Synopsis: Choices of the Heart (aka In December the Roses Will Bloom Again) recounts the life and death of Irish lay missionary Jean Donovan. Together with three American nuns, the 27-year-old Donovan (here played by Melissa Gilbert) was murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Constructed in a complex Read More

Daniel

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Asner, Ellen Barkin

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this film version of E.L. Doctorow's novel The Book of Daniel (scripted by Doctorow) that deals in a thinly veiled (although dispassionate way) with the Rosenberg spy case of the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of their children. The Rosenbergs are the Isaacsons here, and the Read More

Johnny Belinda

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Thomas, Rosanna Arquette, Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: Rosanna Arquette stars in this TV remake about a young deaf mute who is befriended by the town doctor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Unreasonable Doubt

Synopsis: When a baby suffering from multiple disabilities is electrocuted, the child's father Gerald Preston (Jim Antonio) is suspected of murder. Quincy (Jack Klugman) cannot believe that his old friend Gerald is capable of so monstrous a crime, and says so publicly. But a new, politically ambitious Read More

Skokie

Actors: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie Read More

Who Murdered Joy Morgan?

Synopsis: Set in a city hospital, this film is essentially a whodunit -- with the resident pathologist investigating -- but was quite probably intended as a pilot for a possible series, so it plays more like a murderous version of E.R. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

To Race the Wind

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The autobiography of Harold Krent, Butterflies Are Free, is the basis for this made-for-television drama about a blind collegian and his struggle to be treated like any other law student. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Silent Lovers

Make Me an Offer

Synopsis: This TV movie, directed by Jerry Paris (a regular on The Dick Van Dyke Show), traces the rise of a young real-estate agent in southern California. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

In Search of Historic Jesus

Actors: John Rubinstein, John Anderson, Nehemiah Persoff, Brad Crandall, Andrew Bloch

Synopsis: This documentary presents biblical and non-biblical information about the birth of Christianity, and the mystery behind Jesus Christ. The four different versions of the gospels are recreated in dramatizations of Jesus' birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension. The video also investigates Read More

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Made quickly on videotape to capitalize on celebrated kidnap victim Patty Hearst's recent rescue, Ordeal of Patty Hearst stars Lisa Eilbacher as the beleagured newspaper heiress. Hearst's secure existence is shattered when she is seized by a tiny terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Read More

Champions: A Love Story

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco

Synopsis: Though top billing goes to Shirley Knight and Tony lo Bianco, the real stars of Champions: A Love Story are Jimmy McNicol and Joy Leduc. McNicol and Leduc play a pair of skaters who aspire to compete in the National Figure Skating Championships. As the two train together, their friendship blossoms Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

She's Dressed to Kill

Synopsis: As a once-famous fashion designer prepares to make her big comeback, a mysterious killer begins stalking the beautiful models who gather for the gala celebration in his made-for-television thriller starring Eleanor Parker, Clive Revill, and Jessica Walter. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Boys From Brazil

Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot Read More

Happily Ever After

Crew: Singer

Synopsis: Capitalizing on her sudden Three's Company-engendered superstardom, Suzanne Somers topped the cast of this innocuous made-for-TV comedy. Somers is cast as Mattie, a backwoods girl with big-city ambitions. Mattie is in love with fellow mountaineer Jack (Bruce Boxleitner), but she also craves Read More

Stickin' Together

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clu Gulager, Sean Thomas Roche, Lory Walsh, Sean Marshall, Randi Kiger

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie stars Clu Gulager as Cuda Weber, a seafaring loner who has settled down to the life of a beachcomber on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Weber's carefree, rootless existence is considerably altered when he finds himself in charge of five feisty orphan kids from the MacKenzie Read More

The New Maverick

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Garner, Jack Kelly, George Loros, Eugene Roche, Charles Frank

Synopsis: James Garner took time off from The Rockford Files to star in the "retro" TV movie The New Maverick, written by Rockford stalwart Juanita Bartlett. Garner steps into the role of western gambler Brett Maverick as though the 20 years since the original TV series had never passed; he is costarred, as Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Once a Con

Synopsis: John Rubinstein steals the focus in this episode as Walter J. Young, a prison inmate enrolled in a special college study program. When a coed turns up murdered on the campus, suspicion immediate falls upon Walter. Detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Robbins (Richard Hatch) try to cut through all Read More

Lou Grant: Henhouse

The Car

Actors: James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, R.G. Armstrong, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: A murderous car wreaks havoc on a small Western town in this thriller that has gone on to achieve a small degree of cult status in spite of its own silliness. After a pair of bikers and a horn-playing hitchhiker are viciously mowed down, local police realize they have a motoring maniac on their Read More

Corey: For the People

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Jon Rubinstein as a Nassau County assistant D.A. named Dan Corey. Yes, he's idealistic, and yes, he butts his head against (drum roll) THE SYSTEM. His current case involves a battered woman who claims to have killed her doctor husband in self defense. Corey, flying in the face Read More

The Killer Inside Me

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: Stacy Keach plays Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff whose brutal childhood experiences have left him emotionally warped. Ford is prized by his community for his no-mercy treatment of criminals. But the danger that he will snap and begin killing indiscriminately is ever-present. Based on the novel by Jim Thompson Read More

Stalk the Wild Child

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: An Americanized version of Truffaut's The Wild Child, this drama centers on the attempts of a behavioral psychologist to educate a boy, raised in the wilds by dogs, and teach him how to function in society. This film spawned a brief television series, Lucan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Longest Drive

Synopsis: The Longest Drive is the syndication title for the network TV movie The Quest, which first aired May 13, 1976. Evidently inspired by John Ford's The Searchers, this western concerns the search by two brothers, Quentin and Morgan Baudine (Tim Matheson, Kurt Russell), for their sister, who as an Read More

Mr. & Ms. and the Bandstand Mystery

Synopsis: "Mr." is David (John Rubinstein), a lawyer. "Mrs." is Mandy (Lee Kroeger), his wife. Together they solved mysteries, Nick-and-Nora fashion, in a brace of videotaped pilots for an unsold comedy/mystery TV series. Mr. & Mrs. and the Bandstand Mystery was the second of these 90-minute efforts. David Read More

Mr. & Ms. and the Magic Studio Mystery

Synopsis: On December 16, 1975, ABC's Wide World Mystery unveiled the first of two videotaped pilots for a never-sold detective series. Mr. & Mrs. and the Magic Studio Mystery stars John Rubinstein as David, a crimesolving attorney, and Lee Kroeger as Mandy, his overly inquisitive wife. The plot of this Read More

All Together Now

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Even though he was pushing thirty, John Rubinstein was still fresh-faced enough to pass for a college student in 1975's All Together Now. Rubinstein plays the oldest of four orphans, who wishes to be named legal guardian for his younger siblings. The court gives Rubinstein thirty days to prove Read More

Kid Blue

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

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

Actors: Kim Darby

Synopsis: The 2-hour pilot film for the long-running (1972-77) TV detective series first aired on September 16, 1972. Veteran police detective lieutenant Mike Stone (Karl Malden) and his young partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) try to solve the murder of runaway Holly Jean Berry (Kim Darby). By Read More

The Candidate

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Karen Carlson

Synopsis: "What do we do now?" Director Michael Ritchie and executive producer/star Robert Redford satirically explore the machinations and manipulations of media-age political campaigns in this cynical political drama. Rumpled left-wing California lawyer Bill McKay (Redford), the son of a former governor (Melvyn Douglas Read More

Jeremiah Johnson

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch, Allyn Ann McLerie, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Charles Tyner

Synopsis: Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson (Redford) decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. Read More

Whispering Death

Synopsis: In this drama, a troubled Vietnam vet sees a psychiatrist and engages in group therapy to help heal his terribly damaged psyche. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Howling in the Woods

Synopsis: Although advertised as a "reunion" of former I Dream of Jeannie stars Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman, the made-for-TV A Howling in the Woods is actually a vehicle for Eden, with Hagman contributing a glorified cameo role. The scene is a remote wooded area in Nevada, where disillusioned housewife Read More

Something Evil

Actors: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: A young Steven Spielberg helmed the made-for-TV Something Evil. Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair) is cast as Stevie Worden, an angelic child whose parents move into a foreboding Pennsylvania mansion. It isn't long before Stevie is possessed with the house's resident demonic spirit. In anticipation Read More

Paddy

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Milo O'Shea, Des Cave, Dearbhla Molloy, Peggy Cass

Synopsis: Paddy Maguire (Des Cave) is the wild Irish rogue who works as a butcher in Dublin. Harry (Milo O'Shea) is his good friend and drinking companion. He has an affair and his first sexual encounter with the attractive widow Mrs. Kearney (Maureen Toal). He eventually takes a job with an insurance Read More

Zachariah

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Don Johnson, Doug Kershaw, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This western is permeated with the culture of the early '70s; it features contributions by writers for the Firesign Theatre, a counter-culture comedy troupe of the period, as well as music from groups such as The James Gang, Doug Kershaw, White Lightening and others--a rock/folk/country fusion. Read More

Sandpit Generals

Synopsis: A girl orphaned at a young age becomes the spark for a violent confrontation between two street gangs. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Getting Straight

Actors: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Max Julien

Synopsis: "Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the once-relevant but now merely entertaining Getting Straight is not only tolerable, but downright user-friendly. Elliot Gould plays a Vietnam vet who decides to attend college Read More

The Trouble with Girls

Actors: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a chautauqua, a traveling show consisting of performances, lectures and entertainment. Along with manager Johnny (Edward Andrews), he helps some young kids break into show business and contends with the union-organizing Charlene (Marilyn Mason). Vincent Price Read More

Ironside: The Leaf in the Forest

Synopsis: A serial killer is on the loose in San Francisco, and five victims--all women--have already been claimed. Ironside (Raymond Burr) suspects that the most recent killing was not committed by the same maniac who bumped off the previous four victims, but by a different person who was using the murder Read More