Leon AskinFilmography

OcchioPinocchio

Synopsis: Elements of the original Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio can still be found in this modern and loose adaptation which was filmed in Texas, Louisiana, and Tuscany. In a mythical, unnamed country, Brando is a tough old banking magnate who discovers upon his despised brother suicide that he has a son. Read More

Hoehenangst

Actors: Fritz Karl, Dolores Schmidinger, Leon Askin, Michael Niavariani

Synopsis: This Austrian comedy is laced with a touch of black humor as it follows the exploits of a young man runs away to the country to get away from his family and life in the city. Mario had a tough life. He was abused by his father, gang raped in prison, and then after he becomes friends with a Read More

Odd Jobs

Actors: Paul Reiser, Robert Townsend, Scott McGinnis, Paul Provenza, Rick Overton

Synopsis: When a quintet of college classmates take summer jobs, their adventures lead to comic consequences. Max (Paul Reiser) gets a job working for the Cabrizzi Brothers moving company. Dwight (Robert Townsend) and Byron (Paul Provenza) become caddies, while Woody (Scott McGinnis) waits tables and Roy (Rick Overton Read More

Frightmare

Actors: Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne

Synopsis: This uneven attempt at horror parody, direced by Norman Thaddeus Vane, gets off to a fairly promising start with a fun performance from Ferdinand Mayne (the imposing lead vampire in Roman Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers) as the impossibly flamboyant horror superstar Conrad Radzoff -- whose 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

Going Ape!

Actors: Tony Danza, Jessica Walter, Stacey Nelkin, Danny DeVito, Art Metrano

Synopsis: In this comedy, the death of his rich father leaves Foster (Tony Danza) as the sole heir to a five-million-dollar estate -- if he can keep his dad's three pet orangutans safe and sound for the next five years. With the help of his disgruntled girlfriend (Stacey Nelkin), Foster must struggle keep Read More

Savage Island

Actors: Linda Blair, Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Christina Lai, Leon Askin

Synopsis: Ostensibly starring American actress Linda Blair, who actually only spends about ten minutes on screen, this exploitation film was originally a Spanish-Italian exploitation film (Orinoco-Prison of Sex) that was re-edited with the new Blair footage inserted periodically to make it appeal to Read More

Young Frankenstein

Actors: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name Read More

Perahim - Die Zweite Chance

The World's Greatest Athlete

Actors: Tim Conway, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: One of the best of the early-1970s Disney farces, The World's Greatest Athlete stars Jan-Michael Vincent in the title role. A "wild boy" living off the land in the jungles of Africa, Vincent is discovered by coaches Tim Conway and John Amos. Cursed with a last-place college athletic lineup, Conway Read More

Genesis II

Actors: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: On three occasions between 1973 and 1975, Star Trek producer Gene Roddenberry attempted to launch a new science-fiction series. All three pilot films were predicated on the premise of a modern-day scientist awakening after nearly two centuries in suspended animation. The first of these Read More

The F.B.I.: The Buyer

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is assigned to recover some stolen platinum and round up the thieves. To do this, he poses as the go-between for a notorious fence--then sets the stage for a major falling out amongst the criminals. An abundance of TV veterans show up in this episode Read More

Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls

Actors: John Considine, Moe Howard

Synopsis: John Considine does a cut-rate Vincent Price impersonation as the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next (which actually makes him more Read More

Hammersmith Is Out

Actors: Carl Donn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges, Leon Ames

Synopsis: Loosely based on the Faust legend, Hammersmith is Out stars Richard Burton as the title character, a mental patient confined to the sanitarium owned by a loony doctor (Peter Ustinov, who also directed). Befriending a lackadaisical orderly named Billy Breedlove (Beau Bridges), the satanic Read More

Hogan's Heroes: To Russia Without Love

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Duplicitous German officer Col. Becker (H.M. Wynant), hoping to trade assignments with Klink, tries to persuade the Kommandant that being transferred to the Russian front wouldn't be so bad. Learning of Becker's schemes, Hogan concocts a plan of his own whereby Klink will unwittingly appropriate Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink for the Defense

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink's fellow officer Captain Hugo Hauptmann (Sandy Kenyon) is exposed as a traitor. Put on trial, Hauptmann finds that his life is in the hands of Klink, who has been chosen as counsel for the defense on the theory that he will bungle the job. It is up to Hogan to save both Hauptmann and Klink Read More

Hogan's Heroes: That's No Lady, That's My Spy

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan intends to use a fundraising tea party, orchestrated by the wives of several German officers, as a cover to relay penicillin to an injured Underground agent. The scheme relies heavily upon Newkirk's ability to convincingly adopt female drag as a General's wife! Alice Ghostley, who previously Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Easy Come, Easy Go

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Can it be that Hogan has gone to the other side? It sure seems that way when he agrees to accompany Klink on an underground mission to England to steal a revolutionary new American plane. In truth, however, Hogan merely pretends to go along with the scheme, the better to expose a Nazi spy ring Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Kommandant Gertrude

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Kathleen Freeman returns as General Burkhalter's Wagnerian sister Gertrude. By virtue of her engagement to Major Wolfgang Karp (Lee Bergere), Gertrude has been placed in command of Stalag 13. This development puts a crimp in Hogan's plan to smuggle an American general into London -- but only Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Rockets or Romance

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Marlyn Mason returns as leggy German chanteuse Lily Frankel, who moonlights as an Allied agent. With Lily's assistance, Hogan hopes to destroy a trio of mobile guided-missile launchers. The problem: How to evade a veritable minefield of German radio detectors. Written by Arthur Julian, "Rockets or Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink's Escape

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to successfully pull off a sabotage operation, Hogan concocts an elaborate diversion. Thanks to carefully planted "slips," Klink is led to believe that he will be able to trail Hogan's crew to the Underground spy headquarters. In order to make himself the hero of the proceedings, Klink Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Sergeant's Analyst

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Goofing off as usual, Sgt. Schultz is caught by General Burkhalter, who prepares to send the hapless sergeant to the Russian front. In order to keep from losing their favorite patsy -- who has been unwittingly smuggling Allied messages stuffed in loaves of pumpernickel -- Hogan and his crew Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Six Lessons From Madame LaGrange

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Marlyn Mason guest stars as Lily Frankel, a sexy German nightclub chanteuse who doubles as an Allied agent. Lily informs Hogan that one of the Underground members is actually a double agent who intends to turn over a list of Allied operatives to the Germans. To prevent this, Hogan cooks up a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How's the Weather?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to direct Allied bombers to a German hydroelectric dam, Hogan is in dire need of current weather reports. In order to hear those reports via radio, Hogan throws an anniversary party for Klink. Fortunately, the cloddish Kommandant never looks too closely at those "party" balloons which Read More

Mission: Impossible: Death Squad

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: With no pressing assignments at hand, Phelps and Barney head to the Caribbean for a long-overdue vacation. Falling in love with gorgeous artist Alma Ross (Cicely Tyson), Barney finds himself framed for the murder of Alma's ex-boyfriend. The instigator of the frame-up is crooked police chief Manuel Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Get Fit or Go Fight

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Intending to use the hubcaps in Klink's car to transmit information to the Underground, Hogan and his crew must figure out a way to convince Klink that he has to go to town immediately. The solution: Arrange things so that Klink must get back in top physical condition or be shipped off to the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Standing Room Only

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Major Strauss (Noam Pitlik) comes a-snooping at Stalag 13, suspicious about Klink's "perfect" no-escape record. Discovering that Klink has been -- er -- "borrowing" from the camp's treasury, Strauss orders that the Kommandant be turned over to the Gestapo. Hogan must save Klink so that he can Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Softer They Fall

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In a comic re-enactment of the Joe Louis/Max Schmeling heavyweight bout, Kinchloe is pitted against Luftwaffe champ Bruno (Chuck Hicks) in a boxing match. Since Hogan needs to prolong the fight as a diversion for his latest espionage height, it is imperative that Kinch "goes the distance." Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Gestapo Takeover

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Major Strauss (Joseph Ruskin) of the Gestapo takes charge of Stalag 13 and ships Klink and Schultz off to the Russian front. Hogan devises an elaborate masquerade, contingent upon Newkirk's gift for celebrity impressions. Bruce Kirby, the father of film star Bruno Kirby, appears as Otto Baum Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Big Record

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink orders the prisoners to send home pre-written recorded messages. Hoping to turn the tables on his captors, Hogan plans to use the recording equipment to transcribe a top-secret SS meeting. The plan hinges on Schultz, who is convinced (by Hogan) that he has what it takes to be a major singing Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Gowns By Yvette

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plans to use the wedding of General Burkhalter's chubby niece Frieda (Muriel Landers) as a rendezvous point with an Underground agent -- and as step one in an elaborate escape plan. Thus it is that Hogan's Gallic "hero" LeBeau impersonates an effete Parisian designer. Others in the cast Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Kommandant Schultz

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Schultz becomes temporary Kommandant when Klink is called to active duty. Depending upon Schultz's ineptitude, Hogan works up a plan to smuggle an Underground courier and a cache of uranium out of Stalag 13. Unfortunately, Schultz's newfound power goes to his head (where there's plenty of room) Read More

Hogan's Heroes: At Last--Schultz Knows Something

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Amazingly, Sgt. Schultz actually knows the location of an atomic bomb plant. Unable to wheedle the information out of Schultz using the standard methods (including bribing the corpulent sergeant with LeBeau's gourmet food), Hogan relies on a vial of truth serum, courtesy of the Underground. Dave Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Bombsight

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is ordered to sabotage the test of a new German weapon capable of zeroing in on Allied radio signals, and to steal the weapon's blueprints. At first, the assignment goes off without a hitch. But as time rolls on, things are complicated by unforeseen entanglements and incredible bungling on Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Antique

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan talks Col. Klink into opening an antique cuckoo-clock shop. Convinced that he will make a fortune off the needs of European collectors, Klink is blissfully unaware that Hogan plans to use the shop to transmit information to the Underground. This week's "guest cutie" is Kristina, played by Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Unfair Exchange

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Kathleen Freeman returns to the role of General Burkhalter's homely sister Gertrude Linkmeier, after briefly relinquishing the character to Alice Ghostley in the fourth-season episode "Watch the Trains Go By." Hoping to negotiate the release of captured Underground agent Maria Hoffman (Wendy Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan Goes Hollywood

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's Heroes launched its fifth season -- and also returned to the series' original Friday-evening berth -- with the episode titled "Hogan Goes Hollywood." Frequent series guest star Alan Oppenheimer plays his flashiest role (with the aid of an elaborate toupee) as Byron Buckles, a vainglorious Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Purchasing Plan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his crew are ordered to pick up air-dropped messages to the Underground. This task completed, the men must figure out a way to deliver the information simultaneously to four different locations. Coincidentally, Klink is in the middle of an enforced "efficiency and economy" drive Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Well

Actors: Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: Hogan manages to get hold of a book containing the Luftwaffe's secret code. Alas, Newkirk accidentally drops the book into the Stalag 13 well. Hogan's efforts to retrieve the book are stymied by the fact that the well is filling rapidly with freezing-cold water. Will Klink unwittingly provide Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink's Old Flame

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink trembles in anticipation of a visit from his old flame Marlene Schneider (Norma Eberhardt. Convinced that he is still "irresistible" to Marlene, Klink worries that he will incur the wrath of the lady's new husband, SS officer Count Von Heffernick (Ben Wright). Conversely, Hogan is delighted Read More

The Maltese Bippy

Actors: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Carol Lynley, Julie Newmar, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: Cashing in on the popularity of their comedy series Laugh-In, comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin team up ala Abbott and Costello in this spoof of old horror movies and mysteries. Rowan plays a pornographic film producer and Martin plays his star, who is having trouble sleeping at night and Read More

A Fine Pair

Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, Leon Askin, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: In this 1968 Italian production, Francesco Maselli directs this light-hearted and fast-paced caper comedy with Rock Hudson as New York City police captain Mike Harmon, who becomes involved with sex bomb Esmeralda Marini (Claudia Cardinale). Esmeralda, using the ploy that Harmon was an old friend Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Watch the Trains Go By

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is assigned to blow up a German train, but can't get past Stalag 13's beefed-up security. Hoping to keep Klink occupied while he attempts to slip away, Hogan arranges a cozy tête-à-tête between Klink and General Burkhalter's matrimony-minded sister -- but Klink, unwilling to be Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Missing Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plots to kidnap General Burkhalter as part of a hostage swap that will free Underground leader Hans Wagner (Chris Robinson). Unfortunately, things go awry, and it is Klink who ends up kidnapped. Worse still, negotiations for the release of Wagner fall through when Gestapo decides that Klink Read More

La Bataille de San Sebastian

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson, Sam Jaffe, Silvia Pinal

Synopsis: In this French/Italian co-production set in Mexico in 1746, Alastray (Anthony Quinn), a gunman on the run from the law, happens upon a Franciscan priest, Father Joseph (Sam Jaffe), while in flight. Father Joseph shows mercy on the fugitive and allows Alastray to stay with him, but when the locals Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Color the Luftwaffe Red

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Assigned to plant a bug in Luftwaffe headquarters, Hogan and his crew volunteer to paint the building, thereby completing their mission right under the enemy's nose. In the course of the paint job, Newkirk comes upon a map of German plan installations. Forced to stow the map in an overhead lamp Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Will the Blue Baron Strike Again?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: The Allies would like to locate the new Luftwaffe headquarters of famed WWI German flying ace General Von Richter (Henry Corden), aka "the Blue Baron." To realize this goal, Hogan persuades Klink to throw a gala party in Von Richter's honor. Cynthia Lynn, who played Klink's secretary Hilda during Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Will the Real Colonel Klink Please Stand Up Against the Wall?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Carter disguises himself as Klink during a sabotage mission. Holding Klink responsible for the attack, the Gestapo have him arrested and sentenced to execution. Hogan must find a way to simultaneously rescue Klink and Carter, who is off on another mission in the same disguise. "Will the Real Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Man's Best Friend Is Not His Dog

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The good news: Carter is able to snap a picture of a new German tank. The bad news: With the Germans hot on his heels, Hogan is forced to hide Carter's microfilm in a hollow bone. The worst news: The bone is buried by a friendly dog. The supporting cast includes such Hogan's Heroes perennials as Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Ultimate Weapon

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In the first-season episode "Psychic Kommandant," Hogan made it appear as if Klink was gifted with ESP. In this episode, it is Schultz who is persuaded that he has "second sight" and is thus able to predict Allied attacks. It's all part of Hogan's plan to trick Luftwaffe planes into going to the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Is There a Doctor in the House?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Once again, Hogan needs Klink as a dupe for a vital mission; this time, the task is to smuggle a French girl named Janine Robinet (Brenda Benet) to London. Unfortunately, Klink falls ill and is knocked out of commission. Hogan and his men set about to get Klink back on his feet, using such home Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Monkey Business

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's newest "hero" is Freddy, a chimpanzee who wanders into camp after the nearby Hammelburg Zoo is bombed. Previously unable to smuggle radio components to the Underground, Hogan decides to use Freddy as his courier. The trick is to avoid arousing the suspicions of those two-legged primates Read More

Funkstreife Gottes

Actors: Günther Stoll, Günther Neutze, Leon Askin, Anthony Steel

Synopsis: An international gang of criminals pulls off a heist of $2,000,000 in foreign currency. The head of the group is known as "Major," and he boards a plane from Frankfort to meet with his cohorts in Vienna. When the plane crashes at the Vienna Airport, the mortally injured Major confesses his sins to Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink vs. the Gonculator

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: One of Hogan's Heroes' best episodes, "Klink vs. the Gonculator" goes beyond the series' standard spoof of wartime bureaucracy and offers a wide-ranging satire of corporate paranoia and behind-covering. When Klink becomes convinced that Carter's rabbit trap is a secret electronic device, Hogan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Win Friends and Influence Nazis

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Karl Swenson is appropriately cast as Dr. Karl Svenson, a neutral Swedish scientist working for the Germans. To win Svenson over to the Allied cause, Hogan arranges a romance between the good doctor and an attractive chanteuse named Magda Tischler (Doris Singleton). But he'd better hurry: Svenson Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The General Swap

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men capture German Field Marshal Von Heinke (John Myhers), then arrange a prisoner swap to free American General Aloysius Barton (Frank Gerstle). Unfortunately, the mean-spirited Barton despises Hogan and very nearly sabotages his own bid for freedom. Now Hogan finds himself in the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Top Secret Top Coat

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan slips a top-secret military document into Klink's coat, the better to smuggle the information out of Stalag 13. Unfortunately, Klink attends a party thrown by a suspected German traitor. To save Klink himself from being arrested by the Gestapo, Hogan must find a way to steal the document Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Some of Their Planes Are Missing

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The Luftwaffe hatches a scheme to bomb London with captured RAF airplanes and phony British pilots. When the planes are brought into Stalag 13 for safekeeping, Hogan hatches a scheme to destroy them before they can take flight. Stewart Moss appears as POW Olsen, assuming the responsibilities Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Casanova Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Once again, General Burkhalter tries to marry off his Wagnerian sister Gertrude (Kathleen Freeman) to Colonel Klink. The General installs Gertrude as Klink's temporary secretary, which causes problems with Hogan's latest sabotage operation. But Hogan has something else to worry about -- a Gestapo Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Tower

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: With the aid of German underground agent Lili (Elisa Ingram), Hogan blows up a German radio tower. Though he has no proof, General Burkhalter suspects that Hogan was responsible for the sabotage and holds Klink responsible. To prevent Klink from being transferred, Hogan must arrange to trap Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Swing Shift

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to destroy a German ammunition factory, Hogan and his men go undercover as workers in the target factory. Their plans to blow up the place hit a snag when, through a fluke, Newkirk is drafted into the German army. Hal Smith, best known for his portrayal of town drunk Otis Campbell on The Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Comic actor Cliff Norton plays it straight as Captain Kurtz, Klink's new, no-nonsense adjutant. Kurtz' arrival complicates Hogan's efforts to destroy a German munitions train. Adding to the dilemma is the fact that Kurtz gets wind of Hogan's espionage operation and poses as a potential defector. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Most Escape-Proof Camp I've Ever Escaped From

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: British POW and self-proclaimed escape artist Sgt. Malcolm Flood (Mickey Manners) has already broken out of nine prison camps when he is transferred to Stalag 13. Against Hogan's orders, Flood intends to make a tenth bid for freedom. To protect his scheduled rendezvous with the OSS, Hogan must Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Nights in Shining Armor

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This week, Hogan's double mission is to smuggle French courier Dubois (Felice Orlandi) and a German consignment of bulletproof vests out of Stalag 13 and into the hands of the Underground. Though Dubois poses no real problem, the vests are much too heavy to be carried out by any one man. The Read More

Double Trouble

Actors: Elvis Presley, Annette Day, John Williams, Yvonne Romain, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Elvis Presley plays Guy Lambert, a musician (so far, so good) who is touring Great Britain (something Elvis never managed in real life). Jill Conway (Annette Day), a wealthy heiress, is a big fan of Guy's who has developed a very serious crush on him; her family wants to keep her away from the Read More

The Perils of Pauline

Actors: Pat Boone, Terry-Thomas, Pamela Austin, Edward Everett Horton, Hamilton Camp

Synopsis: The Perils of Pauline appropriates the title and nothing else from the legendary 1914 Pearl White serial (and also bears no relation to the 1947 Pearl White biopic of the same name, which starred Betty Hutton). Pamela Austin plays Pauline, a young heiress who finds herself plunked into one peril Read More

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

Actors: Maureen Arthur, Leon Askin, John Banner, Robert Carricart, Bob Crane

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rebellious East German athlete forgoes her dowdy uniforms in favor of daring miniskirts. Soon the leggy track star attracts a lustful villain. To escape, she pole vaults over the Berlin Wall. There she is befriended by a broke black marketeer who has secretly agreed to Read More

The Caper of the Golden Bulls

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Yvette Mimieux, Giovanna Ralli, Walter Slezak, Vito Scotti

Synopsis: Career bank robber Peter Churchman Stephen Boyd plans to retire from his life of crime and live the good life in this uninspired crime thriller. He is blackmailed by Angela Tresler Giovanna Ralli into pulling off one last heist of some precious jewels located in the bank in Pamplona, Spain. Peter Read More

Hogan's Heroes: A Russian Is Coming

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is assigned to provide safe conduct to downed Soviet pilot Igor Piotkin (Bob Hastings). Unfortunately, the fiercely patriotic and stubborn Piotkin refuses to flee to freedom by way of London. He insists upon heading directly to Russia -- and never mind that the homeward path is festooned Read More

Hogan's Heroes: An Evening of Generals

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men draw up a plan to blow up a roomful of German generals during a secret banquet meeting. Posing as caterers, our heroes manage to plant several booby-trapped ashtrays in the banquet hall. The problem: London insists that the sabotage scheme be called off, because one of the Read More

The Monkees: The Card Carrying Red Shoes

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork

Synopsis: Peter falls in love with Natasha Pablova (Ondine Vaughn), a ballet dancer from the Iron-Curtain country of Druvania. The smitten Monkee's ardor inadvertently gets himself and his pals mixed up in an espionage scheme hatched by the other members of Natasha's ballet troupe. Leon Askin, General Read More

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Actors: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Aldo Ray, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: In this service comedy set during World War II, Capt. Cash (Dick Shawn) and Lt. Christian (James Coburn) are given orders to invade a small but strategically important village in Sicily. To their surprise, none of the natives offer the slightest resistance to the Americans taking over their town Read More

My Favorite Martian: Pay the Man the $24

Synopsis: While researching a book, Tim (Bill Bixby) uses Martin's CCTBS time machine to return to the "New Netherlands" of 1626. Unfortunately for posterity, Tim manages to talk the Indians out of selling Manhattan Island to Peter Minuit (Leon Askin). In his efforts to set things right and restore the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Cupid Comes to Stalag 13

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink's inability to win a promotion has kept him awake until the wee small hours of the morning, confounding Hogan's plans to smuggle a prisoner out of Stalag 13. To get Klink's mind off his problems, Hogan offers to act as matchmaker between Klink and General Burkhalter's attractive niece. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Schultz Brigade

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Two of his fellow POW commanders, Burmeister (Parely Baer) and Bussie (Lou Krugman), try to involve Klink in a plot to discredit General Burkhalter. Unfortunately, the general gets wind of the scheme and sentences Klink to a firing squad. In order to rescue Klink -- thereby avoiding a tougher and Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan Springs

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's plans to smuggle four underground leaders into England hits a snag when the emergency tunnel under Stalag 13 is flooded due to a broken water main. In order to divert Klink while repairs are made, Hogan convinces the cloddish Kommandant that the waters under the camp are therapeutic Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The 43rd, a Moving Story

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Sandy Kenyon is cast as Major Hans Kuehn, who has been assigned as Klink's new adjutant. The ruthlessly ambitious Kuehn may well mess up Hogan's plans to destroy a German mobile anti-aircraft battery. Hogan's dilemma this week is to simultaneously pull off the mission and discredit Kuehn. The Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Cook a German Goose by Radar

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men simply cannot warm up to the newest POW, a cranky, selfish, and arrogant American corporal named Walter Tillman (J. Pat O'Malley). Eventually, Hogan finds out that the crotchety old "corporal" is really a general in disguise, assigned to aid Hogan in an important sabotage Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Assassin

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: When Hogan is ordered to assassinate German atomic scientist Dr. Vanetti (Larry D. Mann), the obstreperous Colonel Crittendon demands that he pull off the unpleasant task. Bowing to pressure, Hogan agrees to smuggle Crittendon out of a neighboring POW camp so that he can complete the mission. But Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Don't Forget to Write

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Failing a physical examination, Klink is ordered to combat duty on the dreaded Russian front. This naturally causes consternation amongst Hogan and his men, who don't want Klink to be replaced by a more efficient Kommandant. To save their favorite patsy -- and themselves -- Hogan's heroes cook up Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Information Please

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: General Burkhalter sets up a trap whereby a security leak is traced to Stalag 13. This gives Burkhalter enough ammunition to replace Klink with a tougher and more efficient camp commandant. It is up to Hogan to discredit the replacement and ferret out the "mole" within his own ranks. Familiar Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Art for Hogan's Sake

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: General Burkhalter "liberates" a priceless French painting from the Louvre, intending to add the masterpiece to Hermann Goering's private collection. Hogan and LeBeau take it upon themselves to keep the painting from falling into the wrong hands. To do this, our heroes pay a covert visit to Paris Read More

Hogan's Heroes: A Klink, a Bomb and a Short Fuse

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This episode begins with a major setback when Sgt. Carter bungles a mission to photograph Klink's code book (he forgot to put any film in the camera). When it becomes necessary to create a diversion to complete the mission, Hogan arranges a scenario whereby it appears that a live bomb has landed Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Tanks for the Memory

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This week's mission begins when a test model for the Germans' new radio-controlled tank is brought into Stalag 13. Hogan is ordered to make a blueprint of the tank, then destroy the vehicle before it can be taken for a trial run. A simple task, yes? No -- not with the roadblocks thrown in the path Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The men of Stalag 13 have long been amused by Sgt. Carter's dead-on impersonation of Adolf Hitler. But it is hardly a laughing matter when Carter is ordered to pose as Der Fuhrer for real, as part of a scheme to smuggle photos of secret German fortifications to the Allies. Future MASH Read More

The Terror of Dr. Mabuse

Synopsis: This crime drama is a remake of Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). This time, the malignant Mabuse attempts to enact his evil schemes by hypnotizing another to do them in his stead. A series of strange crimes sets a detective on the case. The hapless detective soon finds himself Read More

Do Not Disturb

Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Doris Day and Rod Taylor star in this romantic comedy as Janet and Mike Harper, a married couple who relocate to England when Mike is transferred by the company for whom he works. While Janet and Mike seem to be happy together, the trip across the pond seems to bring on a case of the Seven Year Read More

My Favorite Martian: Martin of the Movies

Synopsis: Martin (Ray Walton) is worried that the upcoming telecast of a vintage silent film will reveal his previous existence as a movie "sheik"--and thus tip off the fact that he's a space traveller. To avoid this, Martin and Tim activate the "CCTBS" time machine to return to the Hollywood of 1925, there Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Informer

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's Heroes began its six-season run on September 17, 1965, with its black-and-white pilot episode, "The Informer." Colonel Hogan and the gang welcome a new prisoner named Wagner (Noam Pitlik) to Stalag 13 (here referred to as "Camp 13"). After giving the newcomer a guided tour of the barracks Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Top Hat, White Tie and Bomb Sight

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink bugs the POWs' quarters, making it impossible for Hogan to relay vital information to London. As a means of getting the info to the Allies, Hogan convinces Klink that he has been won over to the German side. In exchange for what he knows about the Underground, Hogan requests a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Oil for the Lamps of Hogan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: To avoid bombardment from the Allies, the Germans intend to construct a synthetic fuel plant at Stalag 13. Realizing that this will uproot the prisoners -- and foul up his espionage operations -- Hogan schemes to sabotage the construction project by convincing Klink that there is oil on the camp's Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 13

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is assigned to smuggle British POW Captain Michaels (Michael St. Clair) -- and the prototype for a new German gunsight -- out of Stalag 13. Unfortunately, this requires Michaels to sail across 80 miles of ocean, and the underground's submarine is out of commission. The solution: Hogan Read More

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

Actors: Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Holmes and Watson are again after Moriarty but this time Scotland Yard for some reason does not even suspect that he's the one who wants to get the necklace stolen from Cleopatra's tomb. Doesn't really hold together like most of the Holmes/Watson movies and is a rather odd interpretation of Sir Read More

Lulu

Actors: Nadja Tiller, O.E. Hasse, Mario Adorf, Rudolf Forster

Synopsis: This drama is a remake of Pabst's famed 1929 film Die Buechse Der Pandora/Pandora's Box. It tells the story of a 14 year-old girl who is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady whom he marries off to a wealthy man. Read More

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

Synopsis: Evil genius Dr. Mabuse hypnotizes the director of an insane asylum in this remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 cinematic landmark. Noted German actor Wolfgang Preiss stars. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Unter Ausschluss Der Oeffentlichkeit

One, Two, Three

Actors: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Liselotte Pulver

Synopsis: In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C.R. MacNamara. Assigned to manage Coke's West Berlin office, MacNamara dreams of being transferred to London, and to do this he must curry favor with his Read More

Bis Dass Das Geld Euch Scheidet

Actors: Corny Collins

Synopsis: The pitfalls of idolizing the green god of money are tritely and predictably displayed in this drama by Alfred Vohrer. Jupp Grapsch (Gert Froebe) and his wife Lisbeth (veteran actress Luise Ulrich) have valiantly struggled for years to survive when Jupp finally strikes it rich and they can Read More

Weit Ist Der Weg

The Last Blitzkrieg

Actors: Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, Dick York, Larry Storch, Lisa Bourdin

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Holland, The Last Blitzkrieg stars Van Johnson in the atypical role of WW2 German officer Kroner. The son of a high-ranking Nazi official, Kroner is called upon to lead a dangerous mission in the waning days of the war. He and several other English-speaking Germans are Read More

My Gun Is Quick

Actors: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake, Patricia Donahue, Don Randolph, Pamela Duncan

Synopsis: Robert Bray, best known to baby-boomers as "Ranger Corey" on TV's Lassie, is cast as Mickey Spillane's rough-edged private eye Mike Hammer in My Gun is Quick. Mike's mission this time out is to solve a murder and a jewel robbery. He faces opposition from two warring criminal gangs, but when has Read More

Spy Chasers

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Leon Askin, Sig Rumann, Veola Vonn, Lisa Davis

Synopsis: The Bowery Boys find themselves up to their unwashed necks in international intrigue when they agree to help the exiled king (Sig Ruman) and the lovely princess (Lisa Davis) of the mythical country of Truania. It seems that sweet shop owner Louie (Bernard Gorcey) was born in Truania and is still Read More

Carolina Cannonball

Actors: Judy Canova, Andy Clyde, Ross Elliott, Sig Rumann, Leon Askin

Synopsis: Cornpone comedienne Judy Canova tackles a science-fiction theme in Carolina Cannonball, her last starring vehicle for Republic Pictures. This time, Canova and her grandpa Andy Clyde comprise the entire population of the ghost town of Roaring Gulch. They put food on the table by operating the Read More

Son of Sinbad

Actors: Kim Novak, Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Vincent Price, Mari Blanchard

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as the Son of Sinbad in this tongue-in-cheek Arabian Nights romp. Hoping to rescue Bagdad from the forces of the dreaded Tamerlaine, Sinbad Jr. enlists the aid of the Khalif (Leon Askin) by promising to deliver the secret of "Greek Fire". To expedite this, he enlists the aid Read More

The Adventures of Superman: King for a Day

Synopsis: Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) is mistaken for Prince Gregory of Burgonia (Chet Marshall), who has been targeted for assassination. Putting his life on the line, Jimmy agrees to impersonate Gregory, the better to bring the would-be killer out in the open. Once the not-so-well-hidden Read More

Knock on Wood

Actors: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin

Synopsis: With the exception of the brilliant The Court Jester, Knock on Wood must rank as the best of Danny Kaye's movie vehicles. Capitalizing on the star's recent successful engagement in London, the film casts Kaye as a neurotic American ventriloquist performing in England and Europe. In a parody of the Read More

Secret of the Incas

Actors: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Yma Sumac, Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis: Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient Incan mask to the society from which it came. A greedy con-artist (Robert Young) has other ideas, though, and the two men race to fund an expedition to find the treasure Read More

Valley of the Kings

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Carlos Thompson, Samia Gamal, Kurt Kasznar, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Using the dry historical tome Gods, Graves and Scholars as its source, MGM came up with the rip-roaring adventure film Valley of the Kings. Robert Taylor plays Mark Brandon, an Indiana Jones-style archaeologist who embarks upon an expedition to Egypt. Brandon has agreed to help Ann Mercedes (Eleanor Parker Read More

The Robe

Actors: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Synopsis: Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone Read More

South Sea Woman

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors, Barry Kelley, Arthur Shields, Hayden Rorke

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo, the stars of 1950's Flame and the Arrow, are reteamed in the lusty adventure romp South Sea Woman. It all begins at the military trial of Marine sergeant O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster), facing a court-martial for desertion. In flashback, O'Hearn recalls how he was Read More

Desert Legion

Actors: Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Beregi

Synopsis: In this romantic desert adventure a handsome, Foreign Legionnaire survives a surprise attack and becomes the ward of a beautiful princess who takes him back to her splendiferous city in the remote mountains. After he heals, she begs his assistance, but still weakened from his injuries, he passes Read More

Road to Bali

Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye, Peter Coe

Synopsis: This sixth entry in the Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" series was the first (and last) in Technicolor. This time, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope play George Cochran and Harold Gridley, American vaudevillians stranded in Australia. To avoid a dual shotgun wedding, George and Harold sign on as deep-sea divers Read More

The Veils of Bagdad

Actors: Robert Blake, Victor Mature, Mari Blanchard, Virginia Field, Guy Rolfe, Leon Askin

Synopsis: It's a toss-up as to who looks better unclothed in Universal's Veils of Bagdad: Hero Victor Mature or heroine Mari Blanchard. Mature plays a Robin-Hood type named Antar, who travels with a troupe of jugglers and wrestlers, all of whom double as thieves, pickpockets and second-story men. When the Read More

China Venture

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Barry Sullivan, Jocelyn Brando, Leo Gordon, Richard Loo

Synopsis: In late 1944, an American guerilla unit led by Capt. Matt Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) learns that a Japanese plane carrying Admiral Amara (Philip Ahn) has crashed in China, in warlord-held territory. Reardon and his men are placed under the command of Naval Intelligence officer Commander Bert Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Superman in Exile

Synopsis: Project X, an experimental nuclear reactor located just outside of Metropolis, runs out of control and threatens the city and the surrounding area for 100 miles around with a devastating radioactive explosion. Superman (George Reeves) arrives barely in time and shuts the reactor down, but in the Read More

Assignment - Paris

Actors: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter, Sandro Giglio

Synopsis: Assignment - Paris is based on a serialized Saturday Evening Post yarn by Paul and Pauline Gallico. The film stars Dana Andrews as reporter Jimmy Race, assigned to the Paris bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. Race makes the acquaintance of French journalist Jeanne Moray (Marta Toren), who is Read More