Larry CohenFilmography

It's Alive

Crew: From Screenplay by, Screenwriter

Actors: Bijou Phillips, James Murray

Synopsis: A happy young couple gives birth to a horrible monstrosity in this remake of Larry Cohen's 1974 killer baby classic. Graduate student Lenore (Bijou Phillips) has put her education on hold in order to have a child with her architect boyfriend Frank (James Murray). They're planning a new life Read More

Captivity

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Harney, Laz Alonso

Synopsis: Vatel director Roland Joffé teams with screenwriters Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura to adapt an original story by Cohen concerning a fashion model (Elisha Cuthbert) and her chauffeur, who are kidnapped and held captive by a sadistic serial killer. Jennifer Tree (Cuthbert) is America's sweetheart; a Read More

Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Q: The Winged Serpent and It's Alive! director Larry Cohen returns to the horror genre with this installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series concerning the collision of two bone-chilling urban myths. Tough-minded Stacia (Fairuza Balk) is caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse between Read More

Cellular

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, Eric Christian Olsen, Matt McColm, Noah Emmerich, William H. Macy

Synopsis: A thin thread of electronic data may be the only thing that can save a women and her family in this thriller. Jessica Martin (Kim Basinger) is a biology teacher who is kidnapped by Ethan (Jason Statham), a vicious criminal who has threatened to murder her husband and son if he doesn't get what he Read More

Phone Booth

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: One man's life is thrown into turmoil by picking up a telephone in this claustrophobic thriller. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a brash, cynical, and self-centered public relations man who juggles a busy career with both a wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), and a mistress, Pamela (Katie Holmes). Stu Read More

BaadAsssss Cinema

Synopsis: British director Isaac Julien takes on the Blaxploitation era of the '70s in the hour-long documentary Baadasssss Cinema. With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. Read More

New York, Episode 2: 1825-1865 - Order and Disorder

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: New York of the 19th century was already a haven of celebrities; showman P.T. Barnum's museum drew crowds on Broadway, and up the street the great photographer Mathew Brady stayed busy taking "likenesses" of the rich and famous. However, when British author Charles Dickens visited New York in Read More

New York, Episode 3: 1865-1898 - Sunshine and Shadow

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: With the Civil War settled, New York could focus solely on the business of business and getting rich. Central Park finally became a true park instead of a shantytown, and "Boss Tweed" ran the city like his own private fiefdom, ultimately leading to the rise of righteous reformers such as Theodore Read More

New York, Episode 5: 1919-1931 - Cosmopolis

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Calling Prohibition a "noble experiment," New York congressman Fiorello La Guardia then declared the law unenforceable. Throughout most of New York City, this was the correct assessment. This is the fifth episode of the epic PBS documentary series about the "Big Apple." Also covered in this Read More

New York, Episode 4: 1898-1918 - The Power and the People

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: It was the fire that sparked reform; after 146 people -- mostly women and girls -- died in the ferocious 1911 blaze that gutted the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, it was discovered that the exits had been locked by the management to prevent theft by the workers. At the time, there were no fire laws Read More

The Truth About Lying

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Ritter, Michele Scarabelli, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: Burned-out, boozing crime novelist Bruce Simon Barker (John Ritter) emerges from his doldrums long enough to involve himself in a bizarre missing-persons case. At the urging of his police inspector sister (Samantha Eggar), Bruce investigates the disappearance of a baby. There have been no ransom Read More

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Gross, Dale Midkiff, Erika Eleniak, Paul Johansson, Paul Ben-Victor

Synopsis: Not only is the teeming metropolis of Isola in the grips of its worst heat wave in history, but the city is also in the thrall of a serial rapist who is targeting his previous victims. Hoping to stop the predator in his tracks, police detective Eileen Burke (Erika Eleniak) goes undercover, posing Read More

The Ex

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Yasbeck, Yancy Butler, Nick Mancuso, Suzy Amis, Babs Chula

Synopsis: A Manhattan architect starts a new life with a new wife. All seems to be going well until the day when his friends and acquaintances start turning up murdered. The killer turns out to be his psycho ex-wife, and the architect realizes his new wife is next on her list. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice

Crew: Screenwriter, Teleplay By

Actors: Dale Midkiff, Joe Pantoliano, Paul Johansson, Andrea Parker, Dean McDermott

Synopsis: This made-for-TV cop drama was the second in a series of films inspired by the best-selling "87th Precinct" novels, written by Ed McBain under the nom de plume of Evan Hunter. The major American metropolis of Isola (it's actually Toronto, as indicated by several familiar landmarks) is in Read More

Original Gangstas

Crew: Director

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus. John Bookman (Fred Williamson) is a successful Read More

Invasion of Privacy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mili Avital, Johnathon Schaech, Naomi Campbell, David Keith, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: Cult hero Larry Cohen wrote this suspense thriller about a woman whose relationship with a sociopathic killer unwittingly makes her a political hot potato in the abortion rights movement. Theresa Barnes (Mili Avital) is a young woman working at a flower show who meets a handsome and charming young Read More

NYPD Blue: Dirty Socks

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Simone (Jimmy Smits) wonders if he can trust a breathless young woman (Susanna Thompson) who claims to have witnessed a double homicide. Sipowicz returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood when a family-owned candy store where he used to work is robbed and the owner's wife is killed. Martinez (Nicholas Turturro Read More

As Good as Dead

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Crystal Bernard, Judge Reinhold, Traci Lords, Carlos Carrasco, George Dickerson

Synopsis: This made-for-television mystery is a medical-thriller with a twist. Crystal Bernard stars as Susan, an L.A. newcomer who finds a new friend in ulcer-sufferer Nicole (Traci Lords). When Nicole (who has no medical insurance) needs emergency surgery for her ulcer, Susan comes to the rescue and Read More

Body Snatchers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Billy Wirth, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers is the third screen version of Jack Finney's cold war science fiction novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) is moving with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother to a military base where her father will investigate possible Read More

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Davi, Caitlin Dulany, Gretchen Becker

Synopsis: In Maniac Cop (1988), we were introduced to a disfigured psycho law enforcement officer. It wasn't enough that this revenge-driven fiend killed and mutilated his victims: he also kept their pelts and scalps as trophies. The part was play by Robert D'Zar in the first two Maniac Cop flicks; D'Zar is Read More

Guilty As Sin

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden, Dana Ivey

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this Larry Cohen-scripted courtroom procedural that owes more than it should to Jagged Edge. Jennifer Haines (Rebecca De Mornay), one of the top female lawyers in the country and flush from the success of defending a gangster, has a new client to defend. A suave ladies man in Read More

Delirious

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Robert Wagner, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Read More

The Phone Call

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this thriller, a businessman's private habit of calling a phone sex service nearly costs him his life and that of his family when the dream girl at the end of the line turns out to be a psychotic killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Maniac Cop 2

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Synopsis: "You have the right to remain silent . . . Forever!" This sequel to Maniac Cop pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderous "Maniac Cop" of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder Read More

The Ambulance

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Red Buttons, Megan Gallagher, Janine Turner

Synopsis: This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prisoner by Eric Braeden, a crazed doctor who kidnaps people and sells their bodies for spare parts. Roberts hooks up with pretty cop Megan Gallagher to Read More

Wicked Stepmother

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, David Rasche, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: In this film, Steve (David Rasche) and Jenny's (Colleen Camp) new stepmother, Miranda (Bette Davis), is truly a witch in every sense of the word. With their father (Lionel Stander) happily deceived by his new wife, it is up to the kids to stop Miranda's dastardly plans, before it is too late. This Read More

Maniac Cop

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith

Synopsis: A maniacal murderer is stalking New York City cops in this urban crime thriller. Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) is suspected of being the killer until Lieutenant McCrae (Tom Atkins) is found dead. Jack takes over the case after McCrae's death with help from undercover cop and sweetheart Theresa (Laurene Landon Read More

Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lise Cutter, Alex McArthur, Rod Steiger, Alice Adair

Synopsis: Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge was the third in a sporadic series of TV westerns centered around fugitive do-gooder Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). Falsely accused of a whole litany of crimes, McCall is forced to drift from town to town, spreading a little goodwill wherever he happens to Read More

Best Seller

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Allison Balson, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy plays a Wambaugh-type cop who has flourished as a novelist. At the moment, however, Dennehy is suffering from a profound case of writer's block. Coming to the rescue, as it were, is professional hit man James Woods. Recently dumped by his boss, above-suspicion business executive Paul Shenar Read More

A Return to Salem's Lot

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Rick Reed, June Havoc

Synopsis: A divorced dad and son attempt to build on their newly resurrected relationship by heading back to pop's hometown in up-state Maine. When he gets there, he finds that all the townspeople have turned into 300-year-old vampires. Some say that director Larry Cohen intended the vampire community to be Read More

It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, Gerritt Graham, James Dixon

Synopsis: Better known as It's Alive III, Island of the Alive details the further exploits of the murderous mutant infants introduced in director Larry Cohen's It's Alive! (1974). Said infants are shipped off to a desert island, where they are completely cut off from civilization. The government intends to Read More

Deadly Illusion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Vanity, Morgan Fairchild, John Beck, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: A gumshoe gets in deep kim-chi when he agrees to murder a fellow's wife in exchange for $25,000 up front. No sooner does he accept the money than he is running off to his intended victim to first warn her and then sleep with her. As soon as they finish making love, he learns that she was not the Read More

Spies Like Us

Actors: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent Read More

The Stuff

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Garrett Morris

Synopsis: When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white substance bubbling up from the earth, a conglomerate markets the gooey, addictive fluff as a dessert in this tongue-in-cheek horror spoof from former NBC scriptwriter Larry Cohen. When a new product called "The Stuff" begins eating Read More

Special Effects

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zoe Tamerlis, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn, Kevin O'Connor, Bill Oland

Synopsis: Unlike other films by this title, the subject matter of Larry Cohen's murder mystery is a dastardly film director whose last movie plummeted at the box office in spite of flashy special effects. He wants to climb back up from this failure, so when he murders an aspiring actress in a Soho Read More

Scandalous

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hays, John Gielgud, Pamela Stephenson, Jim Dale, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: In this superficial interpretation of an intended suspense story and comedy, Robert Hays plays a TV anchor man on a flight to London who is duped by his attractive co-passenger (Pamela Stephenson) into thinking he is onto secret spying activities. After the plane lands, the newsman is unexpectedly Read More

Perfect Strangers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn, John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley, Stephen Lack

Synopsis: In this violent, off-beat thriller, a toddler witnesses a gang murder. As a result, the hit man sets off in search of the hapless boy and his mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Q: The Winged Serpent

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moriarty, David Carradine, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree, Malachy McCourt, Lee Louis

Synopsis: Genre pioneer Larry Cohen, who broke new horror ground with the killer-baby hit It's Alive!, takes a stab at the giant-monster scenario with this enjoyable low-budget exercise. The title refers to the winged Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, represented here as a dragon-like flying lizard (thanks to some Read More

I, the Jury

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Larry Cohen wrote the screenplay to this updating of Mickey Spillane's notorious 1947 novel. Cohen was originally engaged to direct the film as well but was pulled from the director's chair after a week's worth of shooting because he had already run up the budget by $100,000; he was replaced by Read More

Full Moon High

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Elizabeth Hartman, Ed McMahon, Kenneth Mars

Synopsis: This oddball werewolf outing from hit-and-miss genre auteur Larry Cohen details the comic misadventures of Tony Walker (Adam Arkin, son of Alan), a former high-school jock who is transformed into a werewolf during a family visit to Transylvania. Cursed with immortality, Tony is able to return to Read More

Ghost Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who Read More

See China and Die

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this detective movie, a maid finally gets her greatest wish and gets to play detective after one of her bosses is murdered. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The American Success Company

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Bianca Jagger, Steven Keats

Synopsis: In mid-1978, the cult fantasy guru and comic book illustrator Bill Richert -- after months directing Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer in the scattergun carnival of a political satire, Winter Kills -- faced a real head-scratcher. With Winter yet to be completed, Richert's backer, Avco-Embassy, lopped Read More

It Lives Again

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John Ryan, John Marley, Andrew Duggan

Synopsis: Writer-director Larry Cohen followed his ragged but interesting horror hit It's Alive! with this sequel, which surpassed the original in both creativity and technical expertise. The story opens as another expectant couple, Eugene and Jody Scott (Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd), are paid a Read More

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer, Michael Parks, Ronee Blakely, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Larry Cohen's pseudo-biography of J. Edgar Hoover (Broderick Crawford) was virtually howled off the screens upon its release in 1977. Today, with the cross-dressing Hoover so much a matter of historical record that even Oliver Stone didn't bother to make too much of a point of it in Nixon, the Cohen Read More

Carrie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta

Synopsis: This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her Read More

The Big Bus

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More

God Told Me To

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Lynch, Sylvia Sidney

Synopsis: Released theatrically as God Told Me To, this inventive film from "B"-movie auteur Larry Cohen was later re-named Demon after television distributors refused to air it under the original title. The convoluted, tabloid-flavored storyline (predating the kind of stories frequently featured on The Read More

It's Alive!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell, James Dixon

Synopsis: Horror journeyman Larry Cohen, writer and director of numerous quirky horror projects, made his first foray into the genre with this low-budget cult favorite about a murderous mutant baby on a suburban rampage. The story opens with a delivery-room massacre as the newborn child of Frank and Lenore Read More

S*P*Y*S

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Shane Rimmer

Synopsis: In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and Sutherland Read More

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Alfred Lutter, Diane Ladd, Lelia Goldoni

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband's sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter) and Read More

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Crew: Screenwriter, Teleplay By

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Shootout in a One-Dog Town is a rare foray into straight-faced adventure by "comedy western" specialist Burt Kennedy. Richard Crenna stars as a banker in a heat-parched Southwestern town. Richard Egan and his gang mosey into town with the barely concealed intention of relieving the Read More

Hell Up in Harlem

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D'Urville Martin

Synopsis: This hastily assembled sequel to the blaxploitation hit Black Caesar downplays the gritty drama of that film to create a pure action tale with a comic book flavor. The story begins with badly wounded crimelord Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) escaping an assassination attempt masterminded by corrupt Read More

Black Caesar

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Omer Jeffrey

Synopsis: Cult director Larry Cohen (It's Alive) directed this violent blaxploitation film. Nasty racist John McKinney cripples a black shoeshine boy, who grows up to be Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), the Godfather of Harlem. The crimelord now has his tormentor McKinney (Art Lund) in his pocket, based on Read More

Cool Million

Crew: Screenwriter

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

Bone

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When their lavish home is invaded by a violent and unstable black criminal, a high-living white Beverly Hills couple is forced to confront their worst nightmares in filmmaker Larry Cohen's satirical black comedy. Famous car dealer Bill (Andrew Duggan) and his wife, Bernadette (Joyce Van Patten) Read More

In Broad Daylight

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: "Broad" is right. This gloriously overacted TV movie stars Richard Boone as a movie star who suffers an accident, leaving him totally blind. Boone's wife (Suzanne Pleshette) takes advantage of hubby's infirmity to plot an illicit romance with a local stud (Fred Beir). But remember that Boone's an Read More

Start the Revolution Without Me

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play the dual roles. Happy to be taken for nobles, the pair soon runs to escape the guillotine in the wake of the French Revolution's blood purge of the upper Read More

El Condor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Florencio Amarilla, Per Barclay, Carlos Bravo, Jim Brown, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef team up for this western set on the Mexican border. Brown is Luke, who escapes from a chain gang after learning that a fortune in gold is hidden in the Mexican fortress of El Condor. He joins up with the snake-eyed crook Jaroo (Lee Van Cleef) and together they round up Read More

Scream, Baby, Scream

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this gory thriller an artist goes mad from lack of success and decides to carve actual human faces instead of clay to create hideous models for his latest paintings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carol White, Scott Hylands, Paul Burke, Mala Powers, Rachel Ames

Synopsis: Kenneth Daly (Scott Hylands) is the right-wing anti-abortion fanatic who snaps when his girlfriend has an abortion. The couple naturally breaks up, but Kenneth remains bent for revenge against Cathy (Carol White). She goes on to marry a politician, but the vengeful Kenneth returns and subjects her Read More

I Deal in Danger

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Goulet, Christine Carère, Horst Frank, Donald Harron, Werner Peters

Synopsis: Robert Goulet plays David March, an American traitor living in Germany during World War II. Allowed to travel freely within the Nazi hierarchy, March is privy to secrets that would spell his doom were he on "our" side. What the Nazis don't know (but we do) is that March is on our side: he's a Read More

Return of the Magnificent Seven

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Jordan Christopher, Claude Akins

Synopsis: The first of two sequels to The Magnificent Seven (1960), this bloody western featured only Yul Brynner from the original picture's all-star cast. Once again, the residents of a pastoral Mexican village become enslaved by a maniacal brute, this time the insane rancher Lorca (Emilio Fernandez), who Read More

Branded: Taste of Poison

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: En route to a desert hospital, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) and woman doctor Evelyn Cole (Carole Rossen) rescue a wounded Cavalry officer (Joseph Perry). Taking a rest stop at a way station, Jason and Everlyn hope to quench the officer's thirst with some well water. Unfortunately, the station has Read More

Branded: Price of a Name

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) accepts a lucrative job as ranch supervisor from wealthy Lucy Benson (Marilyn Maxwell). Unfortunately, the story of McCord's alleged cowardice under fire has apparently preceded his arrival, as witness the beating Jason endures from three toughs who order him to get Read More

Branded: The Rules of the Game

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Disgraced Army officer Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) crosses the path of another outcast in the form of saloon girl-turned-dressmaker Elsie Brown (Jeanne Cooper). Inasmuch as Elsie once saved her life, Jason comes to the town of McKinley to return the favor. His visit coincides with that of a Read More

Branded: The Mission, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story, Jason (Chuck Connors) agrees to embark upon a dangerous undercover mission on behalf of President Grant (William Bryant). Meeting a gang of Mexican bandits, Jason pretends to join them in brazen plan to steal gold from a US Army fort. Should McCord fail Read More

Branded: The Vindicator

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: New York newspaperman Ned Travis (Claude Akins) tracks down Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) in hopes of getting the "real story" of what happened at Bitter Creek. Under normal circumstances, McCord would like nothing better than to reveal the truth and clear himself of the charge of cowardice. But Read More

Branded: Survival

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Unjustly accused of desertion at the Battle of Bitter Creek, Captain Jason McCord (Chuck Connors), the sole survivor of that skirmish, is dishonorably discharged from the Army and booted out into the world. In this premiere episode of Branded, McCord has already embarked upon his westward odyssey Read More

Branded: The Mission, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is invited to Washington DC by his ex-fiancee Laurette (played by Connors' then wife Kamala Devi) and her father, Senator Hastings (Macdonald Carey). It turns out that Lansing is one of several people who hope to benefit by Read More

Branded: The Bounty

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cowboy Johnny Dolan (Pat Conway) helps Jason McCord fend off three hoodlums in a barroom brawl. However, it turns out that Johnny did not rescue Jason out of the goodness of his heart: He is bounty hunter, and he intends to collect the $5000 bounty that has been placed on McCord's head. The Read More

The Fugitive: Escape into Black

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Seriously injured in an explosion, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) awakens to find that he has lost all memory of his identity as a fugitive from justice. Hoping to help Kimble put the pieces back together are Dr. Towne (Ivan Dixon), an aloof neuropsychologist, and Margaret Ruskin (Betty Garrett) Read More

The Fugitive: Scapegoat

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Based on eyewitness testimony, a nasty old man named Justin Briggs (John Anderson) is convicted of the murder of one Eddie Fry--who is not only very much alive, but is actually fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen). Now miles away from Briggs' town, Kimble could conceivably keep quiet and avoid Read More