The detectives investigate when Richard Spiegel, chief financial officer for an upscale family owned department store, is...
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1996
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Soap opera queen Susan Lucci stars as an orphan adopted by a mobster family who grows up to be a star attorney, but still...
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1988
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The PBS series Great Performances first presented the made-for-TV feature Seize the Day. The time is the success-driven '50s;...
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Dr. Adler
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1986
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Crime Story was a valiant attempt by Miami Vice producer Michael Mann to present a compelling police drama series in a...
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1986
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The "Bells" are an all-female singing group who once attended St. Mary's Orphanage with Face (Dirk Benedict; in fact, the...
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1984
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Ghostwriter was based on the 1979 Philip Roth novel, part of his unofficial "Zuckerman trilogy". Based loosely on an incident...
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1984
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1983
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Sylvia Sidney guest stars as Elizabeth Barrett, the literary mentor of Magnum's boss Robin Masters. Elizabeth arrives in...
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1983
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Archival footage, old newsreels, home movies, and other material here provide a rich history of the unique geographic slice...
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1982
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Karate champion Joe Lewis stars as a special agent on a worldwide mission to put the skids on a drug cartel. ~ Jason Ankeny,...
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1979
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Gil Gerard plays Buck Rogers, an American astronaut who awakens after 500 years in space to find a Draconian princess...
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1979
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Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer...
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1978
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1977
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The two-part opener of Streets of San Francisco's fifth and final season marks a major transition, as SFPD homicide detective...
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1976
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An interesting study of a rabbi's struggle against religious persecution in post-Stalin Russia, this movie was based on an...
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1975
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This remake of the Orson Welles film stars Sam Waterston as a researcher who finds himself entangled in intrigue and danger...
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1974
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Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at...
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Uncle Benjy
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1974
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Filmed in Hong Kong, Men of the Dragon was the pilot film for a modern-day Kung Fu derivation. The leading characters are...
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1974
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Earl Holliman guest stars as Frank Otten, a Federal witness in a Mob trial. When the hired thugs representing the defendant...
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1973
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In this off-beat drama, a group of gamblers bet their lives that they will win the game. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1973
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This multiplotted (and unsold) TV pilot was inspired by the classic 1932 film of the same name. Like the earlier film, the...
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1973
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In this thriller, adapted from the novel Binary by John Lange and directed by Michael Crichton, a federal agent played by...
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1972
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This crime action movie is based on Peter Maas' best-selling book The Valachi Papers. That book, in turn, is based on prison...
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Salvatore Maranzano
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1972
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Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Colby (William Reynolds) go undercover as dockworkers during a bitter fisherman's strike....
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1971
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In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all...
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Lucas
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1971
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Cesare (Alex Cord) is the foreign car dealer who caters to the jet set. A previous favor by a mobster who saved his life has...
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Matteo
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1969
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1969
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Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell."...
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1968
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This action drama is adapted from a TV movie, The Faceless Man. The story centers around a secret service agent who goes...
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Rajeski
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1968
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Bye Bye Braverman is a bittersweet adaptation of Wallace Markfield's coldly cynical novel To an Early Grave. Braverman, an...
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Felix Ottensteen
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1968
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Charles Dickens' classic tale A Christmas Carol is revisited yet again in this made-for-television holiday drama. Told with a...
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1964
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Jean Marie Calbert
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1962
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Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service...
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Dr. No
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1962
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Hoping to get even with several old enemies, millionaire Paul Radin (Joseph Wiseman) stages an elaborate hoax in the bomb...
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Paul Radin
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1962
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Once a big shot in the criminal world, Tommy Karpeles (Harold J. Stones) cuts quite a pathetic figure as a jury convicts him...
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1961
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Now that the U.S. Government has come up with a method to denature industrial alcohol so that it cannot be used in the...
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1961
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One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of...
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1960
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The only thing genuinely brave about Three Brave Men is the second word in the title. The film is based on the true story of...
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1957
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1957
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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1955
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1955
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Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel...
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1954
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Based on William Fay's short story The Disappearance of Dolan, Champ for a Day stars Alex Nicol as young pugilist George...
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Dominic Guido
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1953
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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1952
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Fernando Aguirre
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1952
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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1951
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With These Hands is an entertaining 47-minute slice of propaganda, courtesy of the International Ladies Garment Workers...
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DeLeo
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1950
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