Lamont JohnsonFilmography

NYPD Blue: Ho Down

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: Season ten of NYPD Blue opens during the investigation of shooting suspect Lyle Dennison (Lahmard Tate). After getting into a rhubarb with an angry young woman near the shooting scene, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is marked for death by the woman's boyfriend, dangerous drug dealer Money T (Lamont Johnson Read More

American Virgin

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Robert Loggia, Mena Suvari, Sally Kellerman, Lamont Johnson

Synopsis: In this satirical farce, porn maven Ronny Bartolotti (Robert Loggia) has big plans for his daughter Katrina (Mena Suvari) to go to college and become a lawyer. Katrina, however, has other plans. An aspiring actress, she leaves her high school sex ed class early one day to appear on "The Quaint Read More

Winchell

Actors: Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer, Xander Berkeley

Synopsis: This powerful HBO biographical drama recounts the rise and fall of Walter Winchell, a gossip columnist and reporter who changed the face of news reporting. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

ER: Obstruction of Justice

Synopsis: Carter (Noah Wyle) is arrested after refusing to hand over confidential information in a domestic-abuse case. After seeking legal aid, Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) is allowed to return to work, precipitating another run-in with Weaver (Laura Innes) and an unexpected parting of the ways with Al (Michael Beach Read More

All the Winters That Have Been

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Karen Allen, Ben Cardinal, Sheila Tousey, Chris Martin

Synopsis: It has been 20 years since Federal agent Dane Corvin (Richard Chamberlain) left his home town of Raven Island -- and also 20 years since Dane's fiancée Helen (Karen Allen), a talented sculptor, bitterly broke off their engagement when he was forced to arrest her brother for poaching. Now Corvin Read More

The Great White Hype

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jon Lovitz, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Boxing is more than just a sport -- it's also a business and a con game in this satirical comedy. Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) is a shrewd boxing promoter and manager whose meal ticket is heavyweight champion James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans), a fighter whose skill and Read More

Jerry Maguire

Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Lipnicki, Regina King

Synopsis: Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic Read More

Waiting to Exhale

Actors: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed Read More

The Man Next Door

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Pamela Reed, Michael Ontkean, Annette O'Toole, Sam Anderson, Richard Gilliland

Synopsis: In this drama, a neighborhood community becomes tense and upset when they learn that a recently released convicted rapist is living amongst them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Broken Chain

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Graham Greene, Eric Schweig

Synopsis: This made-for-cable drama relates, via two Mohawk friends, the historic events that took place when the Iroquois Confederacy faced off with the French in the American Northeast during the wars of the 1700s. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Fear of a Black Hat

Actors: G. Smokey Campbell, Rusty Cundieff, Larry B. Scott, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Kasi Lemmons, Howie Gold

Synopsis: Writer/director Rusty Cundieff's satire of gangsta rappers, focusing on a hiphop trio who release a Christmas album called "Ho Ho 'Hos." ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Class Act

Actors: Christopher "Kid" Reid, Christopher "Play" Martin, Karyn Parsons, Alysia M. Rogers, Meshach Taylor

Synopsis: Kid N' Play (Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin) star in this role-reversal comedy that plays like a badly done sitcom without the laughs. The switcheroo occurs when two inner-city high school students -- one a straight-A whiz-kid and the other an angry criminal type -- have to switch Read More

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: On July 19, 1989, a DC-10 en route from Denver to Philadelphia lost all its hydraulics and broke apart just outside of the Sioux City, Iowa airport, killing 110 of the 285 passengers and a single crew member, and risking the lives of everyone else on board. At that point, the rescue crew, which Read More

The Five Heartbeats

Actors: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells

Synopsis: Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," Read More

Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase

Crew: Director

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

Desert Blades - The Escape from Iran

Crew: Director

Escape

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Canadian-financed Escape was directed by TV veteran Lamont Johnson. Brian Keith plays a deceptively happy-go-lucky Irish officer put in charge of a Scottish POW camp during World War II. The toughest and most fearsome of the prisoners (Helmut Griem), makes no secret of his escape plans. The Read More

Dangerous Company

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Johnson

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story and made for the video stores, Dangerous Company concerns convicted criminal Ray Johnson, who spent almost 30 years in prison before rehabilitating himself. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Gore Vidal's Lincoln

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally telecast in two parts on March 27 and 28 of 1988, Lincoln was adapted from the bestselling "factual fiction" by Gore Vidal. Sam Waterston stars as Abraham Lincoln, with Mary Tyler Moore frighteningly convincing as the tragic Mary Todd Lincoln. Predictably, Part One of Lincoln deals with Read More

Unnatural Causes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on several actual case histories, Unnatural Causes stars John Ritter as a Vietnam veteran dying of Agent Orange poisoning. Alfre Woodard co-stars as real-life V.A. administration benefits counselor Maude DeVictor. Battling against official denials and bureaucratic red tape, Ms. DeVictor is Read More

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a perfection-plus TV biopic, scripted by Gerald Green (Holocaust) and directed by Lamont Johnson (who won an Emmy for his efforts). Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian "Aryan," Read More

Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter

Crew: Director

Actors: Edie Adams, Melody Anderson, Jeff Goldblum, Cloris Leachman, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Physically, the gangling, long-necked Jeff Goldblum is all wrong for the role of fabled TV comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) but you tend to forget this as Goldblum expertly reenacts some of Kovacs' most famous comic bits. No Kovacs bio would be complete without such scenes as the mustachioed Read More

Jack and the Beanstalk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is one of many versions of the fairy tale about a boy who trades his family cow for magical beans and soon finds himself on an adventure in a magical land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In this weakly scripted, dull sci-fi adventure, three women have been shipwrecked somewhere in the galaxy on planet Terra Eleven and now Wolff (Peter Strauss), the pilot of a salvage ship, his friend Washington (Ernie Hudson), and the orphaned Niki (Molly Ringwald) are out to rescue them. Along Read More

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice is a fact-based TV movie starring Carol Burnett and Lloyd Bridges. Burnett plays Beatrice (emphasis on the second syllable: "Be-AT-trice") who compensates for her shyness and lack of self-respect by drinking heavily. Bridges plays Beatrice's husband, who Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Jack and the Beanstalk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An impressive cast drives this early episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Dennis Christopher -- best known from the 1979 sleeper hit Breaking Away -- is Jack, a boy who acquires a handful of magic beans in exchange for his poor family's cow. His mother, Soap's Katherine Helmond, is Read More

Death Wish 2

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia, J.D. Cannon, Anthony Franciosa

Synopsis: Paul Kersey's (Charles Bronson) self-appointed one-man vigilante squad goes bi-coastal in Michael Winner's sequel to his Death Wish. Kersey has taken up residence in Los Angeles, but lunatic violence follows him across the country like toilet paper sticking to his shoe. Kersey's Spanish cook is Read More

Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After the seizing of the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, six Americans manage to escape. They contact Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor (Gordon Pinsent), who keeps them hidden from the Iranian anti-US activists. For three grueling months, Taylor and his "guests" plan a daring escape. Read More

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Lancaster, John Savage, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: This offbeat and atmospheric western is set in 1893, as a gang led by longtime outlaws Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) and Bill Dalton (Scott Glenn) is on the verge of falling apart due to time and fatigue. A pair of teenage girls who long to be part of the outlaw mythos of the west meet up with Read More

Off the Minnesota Strip

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Rockford Files' Meta Rosenberg and David Chase respectively produced and wrote this intensely adult made-for-TV movie. Mare Winningham stars as 15-year-old Micki, who runs away from her Minnesota home and heads for New York. Alone and without money or shelter, Micki is taken in by a "friendly" Read More

Paul's Case

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This family oriented made-for-TV adaptation of a story by Willa Cather, tells the tale of a poor but ambitious young man living in the poor section of Pittsburgh in the early 19th century as he works his way to the highest levels of New York society. Henry Fonda introduces the story. ~ Sandra Read More

Shogun Assassin

Actors: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masahiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo

Synopsis: More a "greatest hits" movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, Shogun Assassin is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet that's sure to entertain the samurai-film enthusiast with a Read More

Crisis at Central High

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Crisis at Central High is the sort of film that fully justifies the existence of made-for-TV movies. This superior effort is a dramatization of the court-ordered integration of Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in 1957. With threats of violence mounting (and some carried out), it becomes Read More

Sunnyside

Actors: Joey Travolta, John Lansing, Stacey Pickren, Andrew Rubin, Michael Tucci

Synopsis: In this drama, a good-hearted, courageous boy from a poor New York neighborhood tries to rally his neighborhood together to stop the terrifying reign of the neighborhood street gang, the Savage Warlocks. He succeeds and begins planning to move uptown to live with his lady love. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Somebody Killed Her Husband

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes, John Glover

Synopsis: In this comic mystery, a department store clerk dreams of becoming a famous writer of children's books. He is also having an affair with a lovely patron of the store. The trouble begins when the lovers find that her husband, a pair of neighbors and a bogus detective have been murdered. The lovers Read More

One on One

Crew: Director

Actors: Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G.D. Spradlin, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Robby Benson plays a talented but naive high school basketball star who wins a scholarship to a perfection-driven college. Here he discovers that he's way out of his league, easily outclassed athletically by his opponents and by his own team. In addition, he runs up against the sort of Read More

Lipstick

Crew: Director

Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway), Chris kills him. She is Read More

Fear on Trial

Crew: Director

Actors: William Devane, George C. Scott, Dorothy Tristan, William Redfield

Synopsis: William Devane stars as John Henry Faulk, a popular radio and TV entertainer of the 1950s. In 1956, Faulk is blacklisted on the basis of an attack from the self-appointed anticommunist group AWARE. Fired by CBS, Faulk decides to sue AWARE for libel. His attorney Louis Nizer (George C. Scott) warns Read More

The Execution of Private Slovik

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Martin Sheen, Ned Beatty, Mariclare Costello, Gary Busey, Matt Clark

Synopsis: In 1945, private Eddie Slovik, a "born loser" who made no secret of his desire to escape the army in any way possible, became the first American to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. William Bradford Huie's chronicle of this unfortunate wartime episode, The Execution of Private Slovik Read More

Visit to a Chief's Son

Crew: Director

Actors: Jock Anderson, Jesse Kinaru, Chief Lomoiro

Synopsis: In this adventure, an anthropologist takes his son to Africa to chronicle the rituals performed by the Masai during a solar eclipse. When they first arrive, both father and son are terribly self-absorbed and aloof, but after spending time with the friendly tribe and making friends with the chief Read More

How Come Nobody's on Our Side?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Richard Michaels, who directed over 30 made-for-TV movies as well as episodes of The Brady Bunch and Love, American Style, gives an overly small-screen feel to this self-described "high-flying comedy caper" which remains hopelessly earthbound. Biker-movie refugees Adam Roarke and Larry Bishop Read More

The Last American Hero

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty, Art Lund

Synopsis: Lamont Johnson's subtle direction graces this true-life success story about racecar driver Junior Jackson (Jeff Bridges), based on stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a child in North Carolina, Jackson stays one step ahead of reform school until his father (Art Lund) is thrown in prison for Read More

That Certain Summer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Emmy-winning writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link was the creative forced behind the landmark TV movie That Certain Summer. Hal Holbrook stars as a middle-aged divorced man, whose son Scott Jacoby cannot fathom the reason for his parents' split. During a summer visit, Jacoby meets Read More

The Groundstar Conspiracy

Crew: Director

Actors: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, James Olson

Synopsis: Filmed in Canada, The Groundstar Conspiracy was adapted from L.P. Davies' novel The Alien. Michael Sarrazin plays a research scientist who is the sole survivor when his secret laboratory in Vancouver is destroyed by an explosion. Assuming that Sarrazin has engineered the explosion so that he can Read More

You'll Like My Mother

Crew: Director

Actors: James Neumann, Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Sian Barbara Allen, Dennis Rucker

Synopsis: Though it sometimes looks like a TV "Movie of the Week' deflected to big screen, You'll Like My Mother is all in all a neat little nailbiter with a strong cast. Pregnant army widow Francesca Kinsolving (Patty Duke), conditioned by her late husband to expect a warm welcome, visits her in-laws in Read More

A Gunfight

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: A Gunfight was the first mainstream American film to be produced by an Indian tribe -- specifically, the Jicarilla Apaches of New Mexico. Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash star as Will and Abe, two long-in-tooth gunfighters with nary a dime between them. Although Will and Abe are fast friends, they Read More

My Sweet Charlie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having tried and failed to produce the David Westheimer novel and play My Sweet Charlie as a theatrical film, Richard Levinson and William Link had to be content with making the property as a TV movie-which turned out to be one of the very best of its kind. Al Freeman, Jr. plays Charlie, a black Read More

The McKenzie Break

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Patrick O'Connell, Caroline Mortimer

Synopsis: The McKenzie Break is an unusual POW escape drama in that the would-be escapees are German prisoners, held in a Scottish camp. When a Luftwaffe pilot is murdered in the compound, British major Ian Hendrey investigates. He suspects that the killing is tied in with a complex escape plan, engineered Read More

Deadlock

Crew: Director

Actors: James McEachin, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen plays it straight). The white Danforth finds himself at ideological loggerheads with black district attorney Leslie Washburn (Hari Rhodes). Racial tensions are escalated when Read More

Kona Coast

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Read More

Cimarron Strip: The Roarer

Crew: Director

Actors: Stuart Whitman

A Covenant with Death

Crew: Director

Actors: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on execution day, he has a fight and kills the Read More

The Twilight Zone: Passage on the Lady Ann

Crew: Director

Actors: Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady." Hoping to save their tattered marriage, Alan and Eileen Ransome (Lee Philips and Joyce Van Patten) book passage on a luxury liner bound for England. Their first indication Read More

The Twilight Zone: Kick the Can

Crew: Director

Actors: Ernest Truex, Russell Collins, John Marley, Burt Mustin, Marjorie Bennett

Synopsis: Written by George Clayton Johnson, this elegiac Twilight Zone episode stars 72-year-old Ernest Truex as Charles Whitley, a reluctant resident of the Sunnyvale Rest Home. Becoming convinced that he'll never truly grow old so long as he "thinks young," Charlie begins indulging in such children's Read More

The Twilight Zone: Four O'Clock

Crew: Director

Actors: Theodore Bikel, Moyna MacGill, Phyllis Love, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: Rod Serling adapted the teleplay for this Twilight Zone episode from a short story by Price Day, which first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Decked out in coke-bottle glasses and greased-down hair, Theodore Bikel is malevolence personified as Oliver Crangle, a self-appointed Read More

The Twilight Zone: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

Crew: Director

Actors: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer

Synopsis: Andy Devine stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties. Despite his constant gas-bagging about his alleged past acts of heroism, no one believes Frisby's tall tales -- no one, that is, except a team of space aliens, who accept Frisby's lies at face value. On the verge of being whisked Read More

The Twilight Zone: One More Pallbearer

Crew: Director

Actors: Joseph Wiseman, Trevor Bardette, Ray Galvin

Synopsis: Hoping to get even with several old enemies, millionaire Paul Radin (Joseph Wiseman) stages an elaborate hoax in the bomb shelter of his own office building. Inviting three people -- the teacher who flunked him (Katherine Squire), the military officer who courtmartialed him (Trevor Bardette), the Read More

The Twilight Zone: Nothing in the Dark

Crew: Director

Actors: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Written by George Clayton Johnson, this low-key Twilight Zone episode stars Gladys Cooper as Wanda Dann, an old woman terrified at the prospect of death. Sequestering herself in a shabby basement apartment, Wanda refuses to let anyone past her door, fearful that one of her visitors might be Death Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Shelter

Crew: Director

Actors: Larry Gates, Jack Albertson, Joe Bernard, Sandy Kenyon, John McLiam

Synopsis: One of the few Twilight Zone episodes with virtually no sci-fi/fantasy trappings whatsoever, this is nonetheless a disturbing and unsettling half hour. In the midst of a surprise birthday party, the revellers are shocked to hear a Civil Defense announcement on the radio, declaring that America is Read More

The Twilight Zone: Five Characters in Search of An Exit

Crew: Director

Actors: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood

Synopsis: This episode was adapted by Rod Serling from Marvin Petal's short story "The Depository," but it could easily have been inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit. Five people from various and assorted walks of life -- an Army major (William Windom), a clown (Murray Matheson), a ballerina (Susan Harrison Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Chase

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) agrees to help a young bride named Helen Martin (Olive Sturgess), prove that her bank-clerk husband Paul (Lee Farr) is innocent of robbing the bank and killing a deputy. Unfortunately, a rather nasty posse is already on Paul's trail, and they are disinclined to allow Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Heritage of Anger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mr. and Mrs. Avery (Carol Hill and James Gavin) have been threatened with death by Mexican outlaw Manuel Garcia (Peter Coe). Asked to protect the Averys, Paladin (Richard Boone) discovers that they have adopted Garcia's son--and he wants the boy back at any cost. In the climax, the fate of Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Silver Convoy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While searching for a missing man named James Baker, Paladin stops for water at the lavish Mexican hacienda of wealthy Mexican silver miner Don Francisco (Donald Randolph). Impressed by Paladin's gunfighting credentials, Don Francisco hires him to escort a valuable silver shipment. But upon Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Silver Queen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Just before dropping dead, grizzled old prospector Leadhead Kane (Lita Milan) wills half the ownership of his valuable silver mine to the beauteous music-hall headliner Mlle. Annette (Lita Milan). Enter Leadhead's former partner, who will stop at nothing to claim the entire mine for himself. In Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Five Books of Owen Deaver

Crew: Director

Synopsis: During a stopover in Wyoming, Paladin saves the life of Sheriff Owen Deaver (James Olson)--only to be arrested by Deaver for gunfighting in public. Paladin soon learns that the idealistic young sheriff is the son of an old friend, a legendary lawman. Educated in Philadelphia, Owen Deaver has Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Young Gun

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Gunfighter-turned-rancher Roy Calvert (Robert F. Simon) has a deep-seated hatred for the citizens of the town of Benedict, whom he holds responsible for the death of his wife. Seeking vengeance, Calvert denies the neighboring cattlemen access to the water on his property. Hired to talk sense to Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: A Sense of Justice

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bing Russell, the father of film star Kurt Russell, is here cast as Andy Dawes, a mentally retarded man who is accused of murder. Hoping to save Andy from a lynching, the town's sheriff (Kurt Swenson) turns to Paladin (Richard Boone) from help. It soon develops that Andy has little idea why he has Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Deliver the Body

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Nevada, Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to guard Tom Nelson (James Franciscus), who is accused of killing a local sheriff. Upon learning that Nelson had previously been acquitted of another murder charge, and sensing the town's hositility against the prisoner, Paladin dedicates himself to Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Gun Shy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a jade chess set owned by the uncle of hotel bellhop Hey Boy (Kam Tong) is stolen, Paladin (Richard Boone) agrees to track down the thieves and reclaim the loot. Riding to a lonely Montana town in hopes of intercepting the outlaws, Paladin spends the night in a rundown boarding house owned Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Teacher

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) comes to the defense of a strong-willed schoolteacher named Molly Stanton (Marian Seldes). It seems that Molly has been instructing her pupils in the facts concerning an infamous band of Civil War vigilantes, incurring the wrath of several former members of the organization Read More

The Brothers Rico

Actors: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren

Synopsis: The Rico brothers are mobsters in the employ of syndicate head Sid Kubick. Richard Conte plays the one Rico brother who has forsaken crime. But the other Ricos (James Darren and Paul Picerni) haven't yet seen the light, causing a deep rift in the brothers' family bonds. Conte gets word that his Read More

Please Murder Me

Synopsis: In this thriller, an amorous attorney is appalled to realize that the lovely client (with whom he was smitten) he acquitted is indeed guilty of killing her husband. Now he too feels guilty for being so gullible and so arranges for the woman to murder him so she will get caught. The woman, now Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: You Got to Have Luck

Synopsis: Escaped criminal Sam Cobbett (John Cassavetes) breaks into a remote farmhouse and takes a young woman named Mary Schaffer (Marisa Pavan) hostage. At first, Sam has the upper hand in the situation, but as the night progresses, he becomes unnerved by Mary's peculiar behavior. Especially off-putting Read More

The Human Jungle

Actors: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Paula Raymond, Emile G. Meyer, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: In the tradition of Dragnet and The Lineup, this is devoted to a typically busy day at a police precinct station house. Despite the presence of such recognizable actors as Gary Merrill and Regis Toomey, the film successfully adopts a documentary approach. The plot concerns a new police chief (Gary Merrill Read More

The Glory Brigade

Actors: Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan, Nick Dennis

Synopsis: The Glory Brigade is a standard Korean War combat drama with a few interesting plot wrinkles. Victor Mature stars as Lt. Sam Prior, an American of Greek extraction. While trying to cross a bridge into Red territory, Prior loses most of his men, a fact he attributes to the seeming cowardice of the Read More

Sally and Saint Anne

Actors: Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Young Sally Moyne (Ann Blyth) seldom makes a move in life without first consulting Saint Anne, patron saint of all young girls. Sally's faith in the efficacy of St. Anne has a salutary affect on all those in her orbit. It can also be said that Sally's tight relationship with her patron saint is of Read More

Retreat, Hell!

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Russ Tamblyn, Anita Louise, Ned Young

Synopsis: Retreat, Hell! is out of favor with most disciples of director Joseph H. Lewis, partly because it was a major-studio release, whereas Lewis' cult classics were made on shoestring budgets for independent producers. Despite this "handicap," Retreat, Hell! holds up beautifully when seen today. The Read More