Luana Anders Filmography

Doppelganger: The Evil Within

Actors: Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: This confusing but enjoyably weird film stars Drew Barrymore (still toying with her good girl/bad girl image) as Holly Gooding, a young woman who apparently stabs her mother to death in New York then shows up on the doorstep of young L.A. screenwriter Patrick (George Newbern), in response to his Read More

Nowhere to Run

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Joss Ackland, Ted Levine, Tiffany Taubman, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a Read More

Heart and Souls

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Director Ron Underwood follows up his crowd-pleasing hit City Slickers (1991) with this likable, feel-good comedy drama about a selfish businessman who discovers that he's permanently being followed by a group of ghosts. In 1959, a bus accident links the spirits of four fatally injured passengers Read More

In Sickness and in Health

Synopsis: When a single mother comes in to help take care of a man's ill wife, he becomes interested in her for more than the care she is rendering. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

In My Daughter's Name

Actors: Donna Mills, Lee Grant, John Rubinstein, Adam Storke, John Getz

Synopsis: Following an temporary insanity acquittal of her daughter's rapist and murderer, a mother goes after the criminal. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Switched at Birth

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, Ed Asner, John M. Jackson, Lois Smith

Synopsis: The two-part, four-hour TV movie Switched at Birth is based on an actual event which began unfolding in Wauchula, Florida in 1978. Brian Kerwin and Judith Hoag play the new parents of a baby girl; a few days later, another couple, played by John M. Jackson and Bonnie Bedelia, have a baby at the Read More

The Two Jakes

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Two Jakes is the much-delayed and rather convoluted sequel to the 1975 classic Chinatown. Released in 1990 after an abortive stab at shooting that began in the mid-'80s, the film was the subject of a creative feud between its principals, star Jack Nicholson, producer Robert Evans, and Read More

Hunter: Second Sight

Synopsis: A serial killer has been preying upon women who have found success in professions previously limited to men. Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) investigate when John Skouros (Tom Villard), a self-styled psychic, claims to have forseen the first three murders. Things take a truly Read More

Limit Up

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nancy Allen

Synopsis: In this Faustian tale, a Chicago Grain Exchange employee (Nancy Allen) signs a pact with the Devil in order to get a leg up in soybean futures. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

You Can't Hurry Love

Actors: David Packer, Scott McGinnis, Bridget Fonda, David Leisure, Anthony Geary

Synopsis: A young Ohio man moves to Los Angeles in search of a career and a girlfriend in this romantic comedy, whose action centers on the '80s singles scene. Eddy (David Packer) heads to California after his cousin, Skip (Scott McGinnis), promises him a job in the ad biz, but Eddy ends up with the Read More

Border Radio

Actors: Chris D, John Doe, Luana Anders, Chris Shearer, Dave Alvin

Synopsis: In this semi-improvised look at life along the edges of L.A.'s rock scene, Chris D. (real name Chris Desjardins, leader of the L.A. punk band The Flesh Eaters) plays Jeff, a singer/songwriter who has suddenly gone missing. Two of his friends, bandmate Dean (John Doe, from the group X) and faithful Read More

Movers and Shakers

Actors: Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Vincent Gardenia, Tyne Daly, Bill Macy

Synopsis: The "movers and shakers" in this weak comedy limned by Charles Grodin do not refer to a religious sect, but the big-wigs in Hollywood who determine how the next many millions are to be spent. Two parallel stories occupy center stage. On the one hand, Joe Mulholland (Walter Matthau) has made a Read More

Irreconcilable Differences

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker, Allen Garfield

Synopsis: In this human-scale drama/comedy, a pair of Beverly Hills parents, Albert (Ryan O'Neal) and Lucy (Shelley Long) first come together as a couple interested in writing (she) and teaching (he), but Albert's life takes an upscale turn when he starts both writing and then directing in Hollywood. As he Read More

Personal Best

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore, Jim Moody

Synopsis: In 1982, there was a brief cycle of homosexual-relationship films, none of which were successful enough to form the basis of a trend. Producer/director/writer Robert Towne's Personal Best is one of the finest. It stars Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly as athletes participating in the 1980 Read More

Goin' South

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Blizzard

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Just before the Christmas vacation, Walnut Grove is threatened by a driving snowstorm. Schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) decides to let her students go home earlier than usual so that they can avoid the impending blizzard; only the Oleson children remain behind to help their teacher Read More

The Missouri Breaks

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Lloyd, Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a gang of Montana rustlers, led by the laid-back Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), buys a small farm adjacent to the ranch of their latest target/nemesis, Braxton (John McLiam). When Read More

Shampoo

Actors: Howard Hesseman, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to Read More

The Last Detail

Actors: Gilda Radner, Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Michael Moriarty, Carol Kane

Synopsis: Two Navy "lifers" and one military innocent briefly attempt to thumb their nose at Authority in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973). "Badass" Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and "Mule" Mulhall (Otis Young) are assigned to escort young sailor Meadows (Randy Quaid, who beat out John Travolta for the part) Read More

The Killing Kind

Actors: John Savage, Ann Sothern, Cindy Williams, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: This genuinely perverse horror film stars John Savage as a young man forced to participate in the beachfront gang rape of Sue Bernard by his nasty friends. After two years in jail, he returns to the boardinghouse run by his mother (Ann Sothern), who does things like kissing him on the mouth and Read More

When the Legends Die

Actors: Richard Widmark

Synopsis: Young Tom Black Bull (Frederic Forrest) is a Ute Indian who ventures into the world of white men after the death of his parents. He winds up working at the rodeo. When hard-drinking Red Dillon (Richard Widmark) spots Tom's horse-handling skills, he makes him a bronco-riding star (and keeps the Read More

Greaser's Palace

Actors: Elsie Downey, Jackson Haynes, Alex Hitchcock, John Paul Hudson, Larry Moyer, Don Smolen

Synopsis: In Greaser's Palace, Alan Arbus plays a zoot-suited character named Jesse, who is not only a Christlike figure, he is Christ. En route to Jerusalem, where he hopes to find work as a "singer-dancer-actor," Jesse finds himself in a dusty western town. At first, he is targeted for extermination by Read More

Bonanza: Forever

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: The fourteenth and final season of Bonanza began on September 12, 1972 with a special two-hour episode. As originally written by series star Michael Landon (who also directed), "Forever" was supposed to have focused on the ill-starred marriage between Hoss Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and Alice Harper Read More

Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

B.J. Lang Presents

Synopsis: This cheapo melodrama was filmed in 1971, long before Mickey Rooney's celebrated comeback via The Black Stallion. Rooney plays a looney film director who acts out his fantasies before an audience of one: an ingenue whom he has kidnapped and spirited away to a deserted movie warehouse. "B"-film Read More

Ironside: The Target

Synopsis: Ex-convict Gordy Brokaw (Earl Holliman), a demolitions expert, is being strongarmed into helping a gang of revolutionaries steal a huge cache of dynamite and assemble a time bomb. To bind the bargain, the rebels kidnap Gordy's young son (Vincent Van Patten). Though Ironside (Raymond Burr) is able Read More

The Manipulator

Synopsis: A film-industry makeup man (Mickey Rooney) goes crazy in Manipulator, kidnapping an actress and holding her hostage on a back lot. The film is R-rated for violence and nudity. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Easy Rider

Actors: Phil Spector, Antonio Mendoza, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Robert Walker, Jr., Luana Anders, Karen Black

Synopsis: Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A. connection (Phil Spector), free-wheeling potheads Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt, aka Captain America (Peter Fonda, who also produced), motor eastward Read More

That Cold Day in the Park

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, Luana Anders, David Garfield

Synopsis: A spinster goes to extraordinary lengths to assuage her loneliness in Robert Altman's 1969 drama. Wealthy Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) conducts herself as if she were older than she actually is, but when she spies a blond youth (Michael Burns) sitting alone in a rain-swept Vancouver park, she Read More

Adam-12: Log 111

Synopsis: There's not much "down time" for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) as they go about their rounds in this episode. Of primary importance is the recovery of a stolen car, the trunk of which contains the owner's pet boa constrictor. Elsewhere, the two officers mediate an Read More

How Sweet It Is!

Actors: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Paul Lynde, Marcel Dalio, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Two parents worry about the feelings of their love-struck teenage son in this engaging romantic comedy. Grif (James Garner) and wife Jenny (Debbie Reynolds) are concerned about their son Davey (Donald Losby). When his girlfriend is slated for a tour of Europe, the teenage boy is heartbroken. Grif Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: A Visit to Barney Fife

Actors: Don Knotts, Betty Kean

Synopsis: Don Knotts makes another of his highly-rated return trips to The Andy Griffth Show in the role of Barney Fife. When Andy comes to visit him in Raleigh, Barney boasts about his importance as a city detective. In truth, however, bumbling Barn' is on the verge of being fired. His only hope for Read More

The Trip

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse

Synopsis: Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce Read More

Games

Actors: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, Ken Smith

Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, Paul (James Caan) and Jennifer (Katherine Ross) are a pair of wealthy but blasé socialites with a sadistic streak. Lisa (Simone Signoret), an older woman from France, arrives at their door one day selling cosmetics; the couple invite her in, and when the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Barney Comes to Mayberry

Actors: Don Knotts, Diahn Williams

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, Barney Fife heads back to Mayberry via train. En route, he is reunited with his high school girlfriend Teena Andrews (Diahn Williams), who is now a major movie star. Teena's PR man Carson (Chet Stratton) decides to capitalize on his star's past Read More

Sex and the College Girl

Synopsis: A cad who goes through women faster than his laundry finally meets his match while vacationing in Puerto Rico. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: The Guests

Synopsis: In Volume 26 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a drifter stumbles across a mansion controlled by aliens. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Young Racers

Actors: Mark Damon, William Campbell, Luana Anders, Rob Campbell, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: Joe Machin (William Campbell) is the devil-may-care auto racer with a reputation that doesn't endear him to other racers on or off the track. Joe makes fast time with women, often incurring the wrath of the jilted boyfriends that lose their girls to him. One such malcontent is Stephen Children, a Read More

Dementia 13

Actors: Patrick Magee

Synopsis: A young Francis Coppola was given the job of directing this moody low-budget chiller after begging producer Roger Corman for the opportunity to reuse the sets for another film which Corman was shooting in Ireland. The story centers on the dysfunctional Haloran family, who live in a state of Read More

Pit and the Pendulum

Actors: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Anthony Carbone

Synopsis: American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the climax, Richard Matheson's script bears but little resemblance to the Edgar Allen Poe original, though there are pronounced echoes throughout of Poe's The Read More

Night Tide

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders

Synopsis: Writer/director Curtis Harrington does an admirable job working around the severe budget limitations of the 1963 psychological chiller Night Tide. Sailor Johnny (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with carnival-girl Mora (Linda Lawson), despite warnings that Mora is a "jinx" who has brought about the Read More

One Step Beyond: The Voice

Synopsis: Jared Corning (Robert Lansing) is assigned to cover a trial in a small New England town, where several townsfolk are accused of burning down the barn owned by Tom Goss (Paul Genge). Questioning Goss' daughter Joan (Luana Anders), Corning is surprised to learn that the blaze was started for express Read More

One Step Beyond: The Burning Girl

Synopsis: Every time the family of teenager Alice Denning (Luana Anders) moves to a new town, mysterious fires begin breaking out. Circumstantial evidence would suggest that Alice is responsible for these fires, even though she is never anywhere near the flames. Can it be that the girl is demonically Read More

The Man Who Died Twice

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer finds herself implicated in the fatal immolation of her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Life Begins at 17

Actors: Mark Damon, Dorothy Johnson, Edward Byrnes, Ann Doran, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: Life Begins at 17 in this all-too-typical example of the "art" of quickie producer Sam Katzman. Plain little Carol Peck (Luana Anders) is wooed by arrogant punk Russ Lippincott (Mark Damon). What Carol doesn't know is that Russ is only interested in her knockout older sister Elaine (Dorothy Johnson Read More

Reform School Girl

Actors: Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford, Edward Byrnes, Ralph Reed, Jan Englund

Synopsis: The inherent trashiness of Reform School Girl is redeemed by the sincere performance of Gloria Castillo and the matter-of-fact direction of Edward Bernds. Castillo plays mixed-up teenager Donna Price, who is shipped off to a girl's reformatory when she is involved in a fatal car crash. Actually Read More