John VernonFilmography

Crusade of Vengeance

Actors: Joanna Pacula, Arnold Vosloo, Rutger Hauer, Molly Culver, John Vernon

Synopsis: A beautiful female warrior returns from fighting in the Crusades only to discover that her young son has been abducted by a vengeful ex-Lord in director Byron W. Thompson's violent medieval adventure. The year is 1190 A.D. and the valiant Elizabeth of Cooke (Joanna Pacula) has just returned from Read More

Stage Ghost

Actors: Edward Albert, Christopher Atkins

Synopsis: An empty stage coach pulls into a remote station where U.S. Marshal Coburn (Edward Albert) has brought his prisoner, a bank robber named Bronson (Christopher Atkins), for a meal with other would-be coach passengers. But before they can load up, the station master (John Vernon) and his wife are Read More

Malicious

Actors: Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: An up-and-coming baseball player has a fling with a woman who doesn't want it to be a one-night stand. She starts to obsess over him and move into his life until she finally becomes dangerous. This standard "psycho-chick" movie is one of the better of its kind, even though it's awfully hard to Read More

Hostage for a Day

Actors: George Wendt, Robin Duke, Christopher Templeton, John Candy, Peter Torokvei

Synopsis: The late comedian John Candy directed this made-for-television black comedy. George Wendt stars as Warren Kooey, a poor slob with a vicious wife and a nasty boss. Wooey wants to escape his miserable existence, so he decides to stage his own kidnapping to get away from his tormentors and find some Read More

Ray Bradbury's Chronicles - the Martian Episodes

Synopsis: This compilation tape consists of three episodes from the USA Network's Ray Bradbury Theater syndicated television series. All of the episodes have to do with Mars exploration or Martian beings. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Acapulco H.E.A.T.: Season 01

Actors: Catherine Oxenberg, Brendan Kelly, John Vernon, Spencer Rochfort

Wojeck: Out of the Fire

Synopsis: This drama was taken from the Wojeck television series and chronicles his return to his native Toronto after a 20-year absence. There he deals with culture shock; he also helps a family of illegal immigrants. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Woman Who Sinned

Actors: Susan Lucci, Tim Matheson, Michael Dudikoff, John Vernon, Christine Belford

Synopsis: She sure did. Susan Lucci brings her daytime-drama flailing gestures to the prime time TV-movie scene in this melodramatic farrago. She plays a married woman who for the first and only time in her life succumbs to the charms of another man. Accused of murder, Lucci's only alibi is her adulterous Read More

Mob Story

Actors: John Vernon, Kate Vernon, Margot Kidder, Robert Morelli, Brian Paul, Al Waxman

Synopsis: A gangster boss (John Vernon) is being pursued not only by the feds, but also by his girlfriend (Margot Kidder) and his old pal (Albert S. Waxman). With nowhere else to go, he heads north to Winnipeg to stay with relatives, and ends up teaching them a few things about the life of crime. ~ John Read More

War Bus Commando

Actors: Mark Gregory, John Vernon

Synopsis: Soldiers find themselves trapped and in mortal danger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Their only hope for survival is to board a specially-designed war bus and blast their way to safety. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bail Out

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Tony Brubaker, Thomas Rosales, Jr., John Vernon

Synopsis: David Hasselhoff plays one of three bounty hunters in search of a much-wanted criminal. The reward is astronomical, so it's understandable that the cops want Hasselhoff and company to make themselves scarce. No matter what the law throws in their path, however, the three heroes will not be Read More

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Jack Spade (Wayans) returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains, leaving his widow Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis Read More

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Actors: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Vernon, Royal Dano, John Allen Nelson

Synopsis: This low-budget cult classic horror spoof has one of the great movie titles of all time. Mike (Grant Cramer) and his sweetheart, Debbie (Suzanne Snyder), are smooching on lover's lane when they see what appears to be a meteorite crashing over the horizon. They loosen their liplock long enough to Read More

Hostile Takeover

Actors: John Vernon, David Warner, Michael Ironside, Kate Vernon, Jayne Eastwood, Will Lyman

Synopsis: Michael A. Gilbert's Office Party was the basis for the Canadian thriller Hostile Takeover (it also bears traces of "Wall to Wall War", an episode of the 1963 TV anthology The Richard Boone Show). David Warner plays a mild-mannered office worker who one morning kicks over protocol and pulls a gun Read More

Terminal Exposure

Actors: Mark Hennessy, Scott King, Hope-Marie Carlton, Steve Donmyer, Ted Lange

Synopsis: After discovering they have photographed an actual murder taking place, a couple of Venice Beachies attempt to solve the crime in this mystery-comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Two Men

Synopsis: In this drama, a well-respected Toronto businessman finds himself victimized by a vengeful Hungarian immigrant who believes that the entrepreneur killed his family at Auschwitz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dixie Lanes

Actors: Hoyt Axton, Karen Black, Art Hindle, John Vernon, Ruth Buzzi

Synopsis: This gentle comedy hearkens back to 1945, just after the war's end where a crazy small-town family awaits the return of one of their own. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Stranger

Actors: Darlanne Fluegel, Michael Moore, John Vernon, Taylor Lacher, Ted White

Synopsis: In this socially-conscious drama, a migrant worker finds a new job on a plantation. He isn't there very long before he discovers that the local union leader is in cahoots with the plantation owner in a scheme to mistreat the other workers. Upon hearing this, the newcomer helps the workers to stand Read More

Blue Monkey

Actors: Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, John Vernon, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: This slick throwback to the giant-mutant-insect movies of the 1950's has built a small reputation solely on its irrelevant title -- the film contains no monkeys, blue or otherwise -- which confused both reviewers and viewers alike. (This dilemma was solved in its second video incarnation, under Read More

Ernest Goes to Camp

Actors: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Ernest (Jim Varney) gets a job as a fix-it man at a summer camp for troubled boys, but what he really wants to be is a counselor. This juvenile comedy, filled with potty humor and slapstick, chronicles his campaign to get a promotion. A consummate bungler, he ends up causing all kinds of comical Read More

Nightstick

Actors: Bruce Fairbairn, Kerrie Keane, Robert Vaughn, John Vernon, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: A maverick Big Apple cop sets off on a deadly pursuit of his two murderous brothers after they bomb a series of banks. He must hurry, for they are threatening to explode more banks if they aren't paid a fortune in ransom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doin' Time

Actors: Jeff Altman, Dey Young, Richard Mulligan, John Vernon, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: This undistinguished comedy about life in prison features caricatures of inmates and law enforcement officers, as well as prison guards, in attempts at slapstick action. After Duke Jarrett (Jeff Altman) is put into prison because he had sex with the wife of a government VIP, he discovers that life Read More

Murder, She Wrote: School for Scandal

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury arrives at the campus of Crenshaw University to receive an honorary degree. Among the faculty members is Professor Joselyn Clover (Polly Bergen), whose daughter Daphne (Mary Kate McGeehan) has penned a notoriously lurid best-selling novel. When the campus "stud" is Read More

Fraternity Vacation

Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey, Tim Robbins, John Vernon

Synopsis: Delivering no more and no less than what its title suggests, this teen movie is about three frat brothers chasing down sex and women in Palm Springs for a long weekend escape from blizzard conditions at Iowa State. Wendall (Stephen Geoffreys) is the requisite nerd of the group whose heart throbs Read More

Louisiane

Actors: Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Victor Lanoux, Andréa Ferréol, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: This epic story about a Louisiana plantation owner trying to hold on to her estate before, during, and after the American Civil War, a place ironically called "Bagatelle," rides on the illustrious fame of Tara and its more famous mistress in another Southern state. Virginia Tregan (Margot Kidder) Read More

The Young at Heart Comedians

Synopsis: Comedian David Brenner hosts this appreciative look at some of America's funniest standup comics and how their careers unfolded. Several of the comedians share how they create their material and collaborate with others. All of the featured comedians perform in front of live audiences on this Read More

The Blood of Others

Actors: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Marie Bunel, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by Claude Chabrol. Set during World War II, the film stars Jodie Foster and Michael Ontkean as a pair of French resistance fighters. If you can swallow that, then you'll accept New Read More

Jungle Warriors

Actors: Paul L. Smith, John Vernon, Alex Cord, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: This routine actioner is about several models caught in a South American jungle battle between drug lords and drug busters. Cesar (Paul L. Smith) and Don Vito (John Vernon) are about to conclude a cocaine deal in Peru, and a drug enforcement agent is about to bust both men by sending a secret Read More

Curtains

Actors: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn, Lynne Griffin

Synopsis: This derivative Canadian thriller plays like a distaff version of Samuel Fuller's cult classic Shock Corridor fused rather crudely to a standard mad-slasher plot. The story takes place primarily at the country villa of a sleazy horror film director (scenery-chomping John Vernon), where auditions Read More

Savage Streets

Actors: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Robert Dryer, Johnny Venocur, Sal Landi

Synopsis: Heather (Linnea Quigley), the deaf-mute sister of Brenda (Linda Blair) is gang-raped in a drawn-out, violent scene at the beginning of this routine vengeance movie, a scene that provides the motivation for Brenda's rampage through the rest of the film. Dressed in a special outfit that bares enough Read More

Chained Heat

Actors: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: The B-grade genres of sexploitation, blaxploitation, and jailhouse flicks mixed with this grotesque sex- and violence-filled melodrama. Linda Blair stars as Carol Henderson, a naïve and inexperienced teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison after accidentally killing a man. Once Read More

The A-Team: Labor Pains

Synopsis: This time the A-Team takes up the cause of migrant workers who are being treated as slaves--and cheated out of their meager salaries in the bargain--by evil landowner Ted Jarrett (played by prison-movie perennial John Vernon). Once on the scene, the Team sets about to organize the beleagured Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Little Red Riding Hood

Synopsis: Little Red Riding Hood (Mary Steenburgen ) is en route to Grandma's house when she encounters a hungry stranger in the woods whose carnivorous appetite may lead him in the same direction. Malcolm McDowell is delightfully smarmy as the Big Bad Wolf who races to Grandma's house with plans to gobble Read More

Airplane II: The Sequel

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with 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 Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats

Actors: John Vernon, Norman Fell, Robert Forster

Synopsis: This comedy features the chaotic situations occurring between two high-school football teams. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Heartbreak High

Synopsis: Mark Warren's comedy Heartbreak High concerns the antics taken by students and faculty of rival high schools attempting to sabotage the other the week before their annual battle on the football field. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Heavy Metal

Actors: Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Don Francks, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: Inspired by stories from the fantasy graphics magazine Heavy Metal, this five-part animated feature combines the talents of hundreds of artists and animators from 17 different countries. A glowing green orb called Loc-Nar that contains the sum total of all evil in the universe travels Read More

Herbie Goes Bananas

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, Harvey Korman, John Vernon, Stephan W. Burns

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of the "Herbie" series of Volkswagen Bug fantasies, the magical car has lost a lot of its sheen as it is retreaded into a journey through Central America. D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) and Pete (Stephan W. Burns) want to enter their supernatural car in a special Read More

Fantastica

Actors: Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Serge Reggiani, Claudine Auger, John Vernon

Synopsis: In this drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest. The ecologist suddenly runs away Read More

The Sacketts

Synopsis: The made-for-television western The Sacketts combines the plotlines from two seperate Louis L'Amour novels, The Daybreakers and The Sacketts. In this film, the three Tennessee-raised Sackett brothers migrate to the West following the conclusion of the Civil War. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Requiem for the Living

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Sam (Robert Ito) are abducted by the minions of mob boss Vince DiNardi (John Vernon), who makes an offer that our hero can't refuse. DiNaldi has been poisoned, and the doctors have given him only 24 hours to live. With Sam's life being used as a bargaining chip, Quincy is Read More

National Lampoon's Animal House

Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The Read More

The Uncanny

Synopsis: In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by providing him with three different stories of kitty brutality in this anthology of horror. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Deux Affreux sur le Sable

Actors: Tony Curtis, Sally Kellerman, John Vernon

Synopsis: Two weapons dealers are ambushed in Africa, but their luck changes when a wealthy widow hires them. She blames the natives for her husband's death, so she uses her power to control the water in the arid region to ration the natives' water. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Una Giornata Particolare

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd

Synopsis: The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues Read More

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

Actors: Natasha Ryan

Synopsis: Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night stars Susan Dey as a young mother with a history of mistreating her 3 year old daughter. Ms. Dey's erratic behavior is rooted in her own unhappy childhood and her failed marriage. Tricia O'Neil plays the doctor who endeavors to help both Dey and her daughter Read More

Angela

Actors: Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Vernon, Luce Guilbault

Synopsis: In this subpar Canadian film, Sophia Loren is Angela, a prostitute who has decided to become a waitress after she gets pregnant by Ben Kincaid (John Vernon) and needs a better way to support her baby. When Ben gets back from service in the Korean War, he does not believe Angela's little boy is Read More

Golden Rendezvous

Actors: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith, John Vernon

Synopsis: Richard Harris dodges bullets from stem to stern in this middling thriller, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. The plot concerns high-sea hijinks aboard the Caribbean Star, a combination cargo ship and floating casino. In the midst of the high rollers and spinning roulette wheels appears Luis Read More

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the hero's violent journey westward after the Civil War. With fresh memoris of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney) Read More

The Virginia Hill Story

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Long before the Warren Beatty/Annette Bening vehicle Bugsy (92), Harvey Keitel portrayed gangster Bugsy Siegel and Dyan Cannon costarred as Siegel's mistress Virginia Hill in the made-for-TV The Virginia Hill Story. Told in flashback, the film traces Virginia's life from the time she takes up with Read More

Brannigan

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon

Synopsis: This offbeat John Wayne vehicle casts the Duke as Detective Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American detective at large in London. After the requisite culture-clash routines, it's down to business as Brannigan teams with Scotland Yard official Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough) to corral a crook who Read More

The Impostor

Synopsis: In this pilot film for a never-sold weekly series, Paul Hecht stars as Joe Tyler, a former Army intelligence officer turned private investigator. For a tidy fee of 5,000 dollars, Tyler agrees to impersonate a businessman who has been slated for assassination. Unearthing a vast conspiracy to Read More

Matt Helm

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Patrick Macnee, Ann Turkel, Gene Evans, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

Synopsis: In this detective adventure, the pilot episode for the short-livedTV series, suave Matt Helm gets involved with the smugglers who have been providing black market munitions to African mercenaries when he assigned to protect the life of a movie star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Swiss Family Robinson

Synopsis: This was the pilot for the 1975 TV series based on the novel by Johann Wyss. Martin Milner is the paterfamilias of the Robinsons, cast adrift on a tropical island and forced to forge their own society. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Vendetta

Synopsis: Syndicate chieftan Rudy Keppler (John Vernon) leaves the security of his Caribbean hideway and sneaks back into the States. He plans to kill Nick Thomas ({$Vic Mohica), the young hood who has murdered Keppler's brother in a Mob power play. Striking while the iron is hot, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Read More

Mousey

Synopsis: In Mousey a made-for-TV thriller, a disturbed and obsessed man seeks to regain his son from his overbearing, controlling wife. Kirk Douglas, nick-named "Mousey" by his high-school student, is left by his wife, Laura (Jean Seberg) who also takes her young son who "Mousey" has adopted. "Mousey" Read More

W

Actors: Twiggy

Synopsis: In this film, also released under the title I Want Her Dead, Katie Lewis (Twiggy) and her husband Ben (Michael Witney) discover that they are the targets of a mysterious killer who leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." While trying to avoid death, the couple must Read More

The Black Windmill

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill, John Vernon

Synopsis: Michael Caine stars as an espionage agent whose young son is kidnapped. Complicating matters is the fact that the kidnappers (John Vernon and Delphine Seyrig) are Caine's own colleagues. They want to secure Caine's aid in rounding up a diamond smuggling ring, and they don't care who they have to Read More

The Barbary Coast

Actors: Michael Ansara, Dennis Cole, Lynda Day George, William Shatner

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Barbary Coast is a tongue-in-cheek western in the Maverick tradition, produced by a former writer-director of that series, Douglas Heyes. Dennis Cole plays Cash Conover, a San Francisco saloonkeeper of the 1870s. William Shatner co-stars as Jeff Cable, an undercover policeman who Read More

Ironside: Set Up: Danger!

Synopsis: Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) is kidnapped by mobster Bruno Roman (Barry Sullivan), but not for the usual reasons of ransom or revenge. Roman orders Ironside to conduct an investigation that will prove that the son of his chief rival (John Vernon) was the murderer of Roman's niece. This puts Read More

Sweet Movie

Actors: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallet

Synopsis: Like his WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev's controversial 1974 feature Sweet Movie is firmly rooted in the principles of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. In cinematic terms, this means bombarding the audience with an onset of imagery so visceral, disgusting and repellent that it Read More

The Hunter

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV pilot, a government agent must stop a rogue operative from releasing a lethal virus. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Charley Varrick

Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a Read More

Fear Is the Key

Actors: Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: In this thriller based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, Barry Newman plays John Talbot, an underwater salvage expert who witnesses the murder of his wife and child. After working with the police, Talbot hatches his own scheme to bring the killers to justice; posing as a criminal, he stages the Read More

The Questor Tapes

Synopsis: This sci-fi film chronicles the exploits of an incredibly strong android that is totally devoid of emotion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Nightmare Step

Synopsis: Louise Sorel plays a mild-mannered young woman saddled with a cruel and overbearing husband (John Vernon). Her slow, methodical solution to the problem is anything but mild. In hopes of permanently eliminating her domestic irritation, the harried Ms. Sorel creates far deeper problems for herself Read More

Journey

Actors: John Vernon

Synopsis: Genevieve Bujold stars as a girl who is rescued from the brink of drowning by a Quebecois pioneer (John Vernon); after settling in his community, she brings bad luck to all those who cross her path. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission: Impossible: Movie

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Vernon, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Frequent Mission:Impossible villain John Vernon makes a return appearance in "Movie," this time as mob-connected Hollywood mogul Norman Shields. In order to wrest the Syndicate's financial records from Shields, Phelps poses as Theo Dane, the courier brother of mob financier Benjamin Dane (David Read More

Cool Million

Synopsis: Filmed in Greece and Italy, Cool Million was the pilot film for a shortlived 1972 TV series which ran as a recurring feature of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. James Farentino stars as private eye Jefferson Keays, who takes cases only on the proviso that he is to be paid $1 million if he Read More

Winter Comes Early

Synopsis: In this drama, a rising hockey star loses track of his career after he falls in love with a rambunctious rock star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: Escape to Nowhere

Synopsis: John Vernon, usually cast as a corrupt prison warden, plays a sympathetic (by default!) role in this episode. Escaping from Federal custody, second-echelon mobster Mike Durgom (Vernon) quickly learns that crime boss Nelson Wayland (Gene Lyons) has ordered him killed to keep him from testifying at Read More

One More Train to Rob

Synopsis: In this western, a train robber is framed by a fellow gang member and sent to prison. The gang member betrayed him so that he could marry the robber's love. To get his revenge, the robber helps out a gang of Chinese whose father, the other guy kidnapped. A showdown between the two leads ensues. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Catafalque

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: A seemingly benign nuclear arms treaty threatens to explode into another Cuban Missile Crisis. The IMF is assigned to squelch the treaty before any damage can be done. Their plan requires Paris to pose as both a fugitive and the fugitive's father--a tour de force that won an Emmy Award for makeup Read More

Seek and Destroy

Synopsis: In this mystery, detective Dan Farrell runs into many dead ends as he doggedly endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dirty Harry

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andy Robinson, John Larch

Synopsis: "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its "fascist" message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callahan (Eastwood Read More

Escape

Actors: Christopher George, Marlyn Mason, Avery Schreiber, John Vernon, William Windom

Synopsis: The first of two TV movies bearing the title Escape, this 1971 film was the pilot for a potential series. Christopher George stars as Cameron Steele, a famous escape artist who solves crimes on the side. Steele and his faithful assistant Nicholas Slye (Avery Schreiber) tackle the case of a Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Falcon, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Noel Harrison

Synopsis: In Part Two of the three-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Falcon", Willy poses as the Bishop who is to perform the marriage ceremony between General Sabattini (John Vernon), the pretender to a European throne, and the General's reluctant fiancee Princess Francesca (Diane Baker). Meanwhile Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Falcon, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Noel Harrison

Synopsis: The only three-part adventure in the history of Mission: Impossible, "The Falcon" was written by series stalwart Paul Playdon. The IMF's assignment is to restore the rightful heir to a European throne. The usurping General Ramon Sabattini (John Vernon) hopes to gain control of the monarchy by Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Falcon, Part Three

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Noel Harrison

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the three-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Falcon," Phelps manages to rescue Prince Stephan (Joseph Reale), who has been imprisoned to force a marriage between his fiancee Princess Francesca (Diane Baker) and royal usurper General Sabattini (John Vernon). Meanwhile, the Read More

Justine

Actors: Severn Darden, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Anna Karina, Philippe Noiret, Michael York

Synopsis: Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial minister, Justine works her way up from her beginnings as a hooker, but continues to use her sexual allure as a tool to win her and her husband's ends. Along the way, she Read More

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Actors: Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer/director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. The title character, played by Robert Blake, is a Paiute Indian living in 1909 California. After several years in the White Man's world, Willie Boy 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 F.B.I.: Journey Into Night

Synopsis: Escaping from federal prison, David Starret makes a beeline to Albany, New York, where he kidnaps his son Cliff (Michael Kearney) from the boy's foster parents. Upon discovering that Cliff is suffering from leukemia, Starret dedicates himself to acquiring the necessary medical attention for his Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Exchange

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

Synopsis: The focus in this Mission: Impossible episode is on Cinnamon Carter, who has been captured behind the Iron Curtain. Chief interrogator Strom (John Vernon) discovers that Cinnamon suffers from a mortal terror of small, confined spaces, and uses this knowledge as a means of breaking her cover and Read More

Topaz

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the Read More

The F.B.I.: Southwind

Synopsis: Heavily in debt to a homicidal gambler named Burton (John Vernon), San Francisco banker Lawrence Reynolds (Bradford Dillman) embezzles two million dollars and heads to Puerto Rico with his Bostonian fiancee Beverly Kingman (Davey Davison), who is unaware of Reynolds' crime and is convinced that Read More

Bonanza: Yonder Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, John Vernon

Synopsis: Beaudry (John Vernon), an old army buddy of Ben Cartwright, is just a man who wants to have fun. Unfortunately, his idea of fun is to steal Hoss' horse, pick fights with the townsfolk, and seriously injure Candy. But there may be even worse in store: Tired of a life as vagabond, Beaudry plans to Read More

Point Blank

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, John Vernon

Synopsis: Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Read More

Nobody Waved Goodbye

Actors: Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs, Claude Rae, Toby Tarnow, Charmion King-Pinsent

Synopsis: This downbeat, semi-improvised look at troubled youth was a landmark in Canadian filmmaking, and in 1984 it was named one of the ten best Canadian films of all time in a poll of the nation's film writers. Peter (Peter Kastner) is a confused and alienated teenager, bright and personable but also Read More

The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk

Synopsis: White settlers are protected by Hawkeye and his partner Chingachgook in this western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Naked Truth

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Your Past Is Showing, the British The Naked Truth is a wickedly funny satire of the tabloid-press industry. Dennis Price plays a scandal-sheet publisher named Nigel Dennis who lives high on the hog by blackmailing his wealthy targets. Several of Dennis' victims, including Read More