Luke Askew Filmography

Frailty

Actors: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: Actor Bill Paxton made his directorial debut with Frailty. The bulk of the story is told through flashbacks, as a mysterious man (Matthew McConaughey) tells a terrible tale to an FBI agent (Powers Boothe) investigating the "God's Hand" serial killer case. The man grew up in a small town in Texas Read More

South of Heaven, West of Hell

Actors: Dwight Yoakam, Vince Vaughn, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Popular country & western singer and well-regarded character actor Dwight Yoakam steps behind the camera for this revisionist Western, his first effort as a director and screenwriter. Valentine Casey (Yoakam) is the sheriff of the town of Los Tragos in the Arizona Territory. Valentine, an orphan Read More

Traveller

Actors: Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, James Gammon, Luke Askew

Synopsis: Actor Bill Paxton produced this unusual film about a clan of Irish-American con artists practicing in the American South. They live in a secluded compound and have their own time-honored customs. Pat (Mark Wahlberg) is returning to the hideout for the funeral of his father, who irked the clan by Read More

Savage

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Luke Askew, Jennifer Grant, Kario Salem, Kristen Minter

Synopsis: In this imaginative sci-fi thriller, rancher Alex Verne loses his loving wife and family at the ruthless hands of computer magnate Burrough's shot-gun wielding hitmen. They think they hit Alex too, but he is merely in a coma. He remains so until he hears a far-off version of "Amazing Grace" his Read More

Dangerous Relations

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this prison drama centers on a hard-core convict who for the past decade has been the king of the other prisoners. Just before he is to be paroled, a young inmate challenges him. This creates considerable tension until he learns that he and the youth are related by Read More

No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, two estranged brothers reunite and work together to see that the terrorists who killed their father comes to final justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Thicker Than Water

Synopsis: Jessica's return to Cabot Cove coincides with the arrival of Wayne Metzger (Bruce Abbott), the "black sheep" brother of town sheriff Mort Metzger (Ron Masak). Recently released from prison, Wayne wants to mend fences with his brother, but the uncharacteristically bitter Mort refuses to have Read More

Dune Warriors

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, a drought-ridden Earth is besieged by bands of outlaws who prey upon the small cities in a hope to obtain any water they might possess. When the renegades attempt to take over the town of Chinle, a mysterious warrior named Michael (David Carradine) leads a band of fighters Read More

Back to Back

Actors: Luke Askew, Todd Field, Ben Johnson, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: High in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, a cache of stolen bank money was hidden back in the 1960s. LA based lawyer Bill Paxton, whose security-guard father (David Michael-Standing) has long been held responsible for the heist-he was the only survivor when his armored car was Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Sins of Castle Cove

Synopsis: In an episode clearly inspired by Peyton Place, a former student of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) scandalizes the town of Cabot Cove when she publishes a thinly-disguised "roman a clef" titled "The Sins of Castle Cove." The locals aren't too happy that their personalities and peccadilloes Read More

Bulletproof

Actors: Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: Frank McBain (Gary Busey) is a cop who earned the nickname of "bulletproof" from the dozens of shootings he has survived over his career. He is called on to retrieve a tank held by communists across the border of Mexico. The enemies are cardboard caricatures of Arabs, Russians, and Mexicans led by Read More

Kung Fu: The Movie

Actors: David Carradine, Brandon Lee, Kerrie Keane, Mako, Martin Landau

Synopsis: This 2-hour revival of the old David Carradine TV series was originally titled simply Kung Fu. Set in the west of the late 19th century, the film stars Carradine as Caine, the mystical Chinese-American priest who wanders the countryside seeking spiritual fulfillment-and occasionally busting a few Read More

Bialy Smok

Synopsis: An expedition into the fictional land of Karistan brings a geologist (Christopher Lloyd) and his son into contact with the "witch," a white horse with the power to transform into a dragon. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Warrior and the Sorceress

Actors: David Carradine, Luke Askew, Maria Socas, Anthony de Longis, Harry Townes

Synopsis: Borrowing themes established in Yojimbo and its Italian version A Fistful of Dollars, this action/fantasy film features the exploits of Kain (David Carradine), a drifter/holy-man/martial arts expert who comes upon a village divided into three parts: two clans fighting over control of a water well Read More

The Beast Within

Actors: Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, Don Gordon, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Tom Burman's innovative prosthetic special effects (used to greater effect in later horror films) are the saving grace of The Beast Within. The premise concerns a couple honeymooning in Mississippi. Caroline (Bibi Besch) is brutally raped by a hairy, sub-human monster and gives birth to a child Read More

Quincy, M.E.: For Want of a Horse

Synopsis: The owner of the Institute of Equestrian Therapy, a horse farm catering to handicapped youngsters, is brutally murdered--and the only witness is a mute youngster named Gabe (Ronnie Scribner). Quincy (Jack Klugman) is brought on the scene by way of his boss Dr. Astin (John S. Ragin), whose Read More

Wanda Nevada

Actors: Peter Fonda, Brooke Shields, Fiona Lewis, Luke Askew, Ted Markland, Henry Fonda

Synopsis: When tough gambler Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) wins young Wanda Nevada (Brooke Shields) in a poker game, he discovers that his new possession might be more of a hindrance than a help. Setting off to search for gold in the Grand Canyon, Beaudray and Wanda must work together to avoid falling Read More

The Rockford Files: New Life, Old Dragons

Synopsis: On behalf of Vietnamese refugee Mai (Irene Yah-Ling Sun), Jim (James Garner) searches for the girl's brother Vinh (Jim Ishida), who myseriously vanished after leaving a relocation center. It turns out that Vinh has been waylaid by a couple of war veterans (from the "Catering Corps") who want the Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Hang Tough

Synopsis: Four months away from retirement, hard-bitten narcotics cop Eddie Boggs (Ned Beatty) oversteps his bounds, brutalizing a drug-dealing stoolie and planting a weapon on the man. In his efforts to cover up his misdeeds, Boggs succeeds only making things worse. Played out against all this intrigue are Read More

Rolling Thunder

Actors: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Lisa Richards, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: William Devane plays a rare sympathetic role in Rolling Thunder, though his behavior is just as cold-blooded and sharkish as in any of his villainous assignments. Devane is cast as Maj. Charles Rane, a recently released Vietnam POW who is given a hero's welcome in his Texas hometown. Things sour Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Let Me Light the Way

Synopsis: There is a rapist on the loose in Los Angeles, and Quincy (Jack Klugman) is fairly certain of the man's identity. Unfortunately, some potentially damning evidence has been destroyed while the most recent victim was being treated at an E.R. Even so, Quincy turns up the heat on the most likely Read More

The Longest Drive

Synopsis: The Longest Drive is the syndication title for the network TV movie The Quest, which first aired May 13, 1976. Evidently inspired by John Ford's The Searchers, this western concerns the search by two brothers, Quentin and Morgan Baudine (Tim Matheson, Kurt Russell), for their sister, who as an Read More

A Matter of Wife... and Death

Actors: Rod Taylor, Joe Santos, Eddie Firestone, Luke Askew, John Colicos

Synopsis: Rod Taylor stars in this feature-length pilot film for the unsold TV series Shamus. The star is cast as Shamus McCoy, who befitting his name, makes his living as a private detective. While investigating the bomb killing over another gumshoe, McCoy picks up a trail of evidence leading to a major Read More

The Rockford Files: Feeding Frenzy

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) tries to help his friend Charly Blaylock (Eddie Firestone) turn over a new leaf by returning the $650,000 that Charly had stolen years earlier from the Seawell Oil company. But when Charly's daughter (and Jim's ex-fiancee) Sandra (Susan Howard) is kidnapped, he must use the Read More

Walking Tall, Part 2

Synopsis: Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he continues his single handed crusade against organized crime. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. vs. The Ku Klux Klan

Actors: Ned Beatty, John Beck, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the Ku Klux Klan is a fact-based, two-part TV movie. The film is a dramatization of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The FBI, personified herein by southern operative Wayne Rogers, is brought in to investigate the trio's Read More

Mackintosh and T.J.

Actors: Roy Rogers, Clay O'Brien, Billy Green Bush, Andrew Robinson, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: After sixteen years of cinematic retirement, Roy Rogers made a surprise return before the cameras in Mackintosh & T. J. Rogers plays Mackintosh, an ageing, tale-spinning ranch hand who befriends T.J., a sullen young boy (Clay O'Brien). The film is low-key, like Rogers himself, and Rogers' faithful Read More

Posse

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew

Synopsis: Kirk Douglas produced, directed, and starred in this cynical western concerning Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas) a United States marshal who uses the pursuit of an outlaw to further his political career. Nightingale organizes a posse to track down Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern), a notorious bank Read More

Night Games

Synopsis: This suspense film is about a lawyer who defends a high-society woman charged with killing her husband. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

This Is the West That Was

Actors: Kim Darby, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: The lighthearted title of this made-for-TV film deftly sets the mood for the 74 minutes to follow. Ben Murphy stars as a rogueish Wild Bill Hickok, carrying on with an incongruously glamorous Calamity Jane (Kim Darby). Amidst the gambling and lovemaking, Will Bill must fend off a gang of vengeful Read More

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fountain

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, George Maharis

Synopsis: While stealing computerized Syndicate secrets, minor hoodlum Tom Bachman (George Maharis) injures mob chieftan Matt Drake. With Drake hot on his trail, Bachman escapes to the jungles of Mexico --- where the IMF is waiting for him. Hoping to extract the aformentioned secrets from the fugitive Read More

Slipstream

Synopsis: In this moody drama, a lonely disc jockey working in a remote Alberta radio station finds himself forever changed after a fleeting but passionate encounter with an emotional young woman. After she leaves, he finds himself unable to bear his solitude, suffers a breakdown and torches the radio Read More

The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid

Actors: Bill Callaway, Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of Read More

The Culpepper Cattle Company

Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting Read More

The Glass House

Actors: Alan Alda, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: A group of new prisoners, including a political science professor, Jonathan Paige (Alan Alda), and a student, Allan Campbell (Kristoffer Tabori), arrive at a state prison, along with a new guard, Brian Courtland (Clu Gulager). Paige is a serving a year for manslaughter -- he accidentally killed a Read More

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

Actors: Stefanie Powers, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: This is the final sequel to The Magnificent Seven. In this chapter, the lead gunslinger has settled down with a new wife, and has become the marshal of a little town. His peaceful existence is disrupted when a psychotic outlaw rides in, robs the bank, wounds the marshal with his gun, and then Read More

Bonanza: Kingdom of Fear

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Alfred Ryder

Synopsis: All three Cartwright men-Ben, Hoss and Joe-are arrested for trespassing along with their ranch hand Candy. The men are summarily sentenced to a brutal prison camp run by a despot known as The Judge (Alfred Ryder), who specializes in acquiring slave labor to work his gold mine, then in killing his Read More

Angel Unchained

Actors: Don Stroud, Luke Askew, Larry Bishop, Tyne Daly, Aldo Ray

Synopsis: Angel (Don Stroud) is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town out West. When the town rednecks attack them in a dune buggy convoy, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge. Tremaine (Luke Askew) is the commune leader targeted extermination by the looney Read More

Flareup

Actors: Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew, Don Chastain, Ron Rifkin

Synopsis: A trio of Las Vegas go-go dancers are pursued by a homicidal maniac in this suspenseful murder thriller. Alan Morris (Luke Askew) murders his wife when she seeks a divorce then goes after her three friends. Believing the women have turned his wife against him, Alan hunts down the dancers and kills 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

Mission: Impossible: The Execution

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Racketeer Lewis Parma (Vincent Gardenia) intends to take control of the food distribution industry and pose exorbitant consumer prices. To destroy Parma, the IMF agents must extract information from the gang leader's most trusted lieutenant, a man named Ducho (Luke Askew). The plan hinges upon a Read More

The Green Berets

Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis: The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne's role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963), but it was evident to the worldwide public that the same bravado that flew well in World War II Read More

The Devil's Brigade

Actors: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins

Synopsis: During the early days of World War II, while the United States was massing its forces for the war, England hastily plans commando raids against the German forces to keep them at bay until America's troops enter the war. As a part of this plan, the Allies create the 1st Special Service Force to Read More

Hurry Sundown

Actors: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Robert Hooks

Synopsis: Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. However, two parcels of land have escaped Read More

Cool Hand Luke

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More

The Happening

Actors: Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks, Robert Walker, Jr., Martha Hyer

Synopsis: Four neophyte criminals get some unexpected help from their first victim in this caper comedy. A quartet of Miami Beach bohemians -- Sureshot (Michael Parks), Taurus (George Maharis), Herby (Robert Walker Jr.), and Sandy (Faye Dunaway) -- are looking for kicks and some fast money, and they hatch a Read More

Will Penny

Actors: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport between stars (Charlton Heston) and (Joan Hackett). Heston plays Will Penny, an aging and impoverished cowboy. With his cohorts Blue (Lee Majors) and Dutchy (Anthony Zerbe) Read More