Mala PowersFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Hannigan's Wake

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to finish a book that was inaugurated by recently deceased Pulitzer-winning journalist Daniel Hannigan (Van Johnson). The book was intended to reopen a 16-year-old murder case, and to prove that the man convicted of murdering one Lydia Thurlow was really innocent. Read More

The Doomsday Machine

Synopsis: Poorly written, directed and photographed, The Doomsday Machine is one of those cheap sci-fi farragos which rounds up several faded stars and then gives them nothing to work with. Among the trapped former luminaries are Denny Miller, Mala Powers, Bobby Van and Henry Wilcoxon. The plot (for lack of Read More

Forbidden Knowledge

Synopsis: A large city mayor slowly begins to recognize the depth of the syndicate's involvement in highway and housing construction projects in this crime drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Destiny of a Woman

Synopsis: Destiny of a Woman is comprised of vignettes from the Man and the City TV series, which ran for 13 weeks in the fall of 1971. Anthony Quinn plays Thomas Jefferson Alcala, the Mexican-American mayor of a large southwestern city (possibly Albuquerque). The bulk of Destiny of a Woman concerns a Read More

Ironside: The People Against Judge McIntire

Synopsis: This episode marks a rare joint appearance by actor James Daly and his daughter Tyne Daly. The elder Daly is cast as Judge McIntire, who is presently touring college campuses giving lectures about a controversial death sentence he'd levied eight years earlier. During a classroom re-enactment of Read More

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

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

Rogue's Gallery

Synopsis: Roger Smith plays private eye Richard Rogue in this cinematic revival of the old radio series. Rogue gallantly tries to help would-be suicide Greta Baldwyn. This selfless act enmeshes him in a murder scheme, with himself as the fall guy. The film's chief value is its veteran supporting cast Read More

Bewitched: Instant Courtesy

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Feeling that Darrin has been rude to her, Endora retaliates with a magic spell that transforms Darrin into a perfect gentleman. Unfortunately, his excessive gallantry arouses suspicion rather than admiration from his friends and associates. Mala Powers, the actress who played Darrin's old Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Reluctant Dragon

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Once more penetrating the Iron Curtain, the IMF agents attempt to rescue rocket scientist Helmut Cherlotov (Joseph Campanella), who has developed a high-tech antiballistic missle system. Unfortunately, Cherlotov, who was supposed to have defected to the West along with his wife Karen (Mala Read More

Bewitched: No Zip In My Zap

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Mala Powers guest stars as Darrin's new client, M.J. Nilesmuster, who turns out to be his former girlfriend, Mary Jane. Certain that the woman harbors ill feelings towards him, Darrin is amazed that Mary Jane agrees to give him her account, but then accuses Samantha of using her witchcraft to Read More

Escape from Planet Earth

Synopsis: This sci-fi drama is set aboard a nearly derelict spaceship about to fail. With little remaining supplies and little oxygen, only a few of the crew will survive to make it back to Earth, leaving them to decide which of them must die. The film is also known as The Doomsday Machine. ~ Sandra Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scarlet Scandal

Synopsis: Elaine Bayler (Mala Powers), the wife of small-town big shot Richard Bayler (Lloyd Gough), is being blackmailed by an unknown party who threatens to expose Elaine's romance with her protegee, musician Donald Hobart (Will Hutchins), unless she ponies up $10,000. While making the "drop", Elaine is Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Frightened Fisherman

Synopsis: Hudson Bradshaw (Bartlett Robinson) is willing to use any means, fair or foul, to claim the rights to a revolutionary new antibiotic developed by ex-employee Randolph James (Lee Farr). When all else fails, Bradshaw persuades James' wife Natalie ({$Marian Collier]) to sell her controlling interest Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Weary Watchdog

Synopsis: Janet Brent (Mala Powers), a close friend of Perry Mason's secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale), is being blackmailed by Edward Franklin (John Dall), an employee of Janet's husband Alton (Wesley Addy). Franklin has in his possession some faked photos that could ruin the Brents' marriage and Read More

Maverick: Dutchman's Gold

Synopsis: Beau (Roger Moore) wins part ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon, a heavily-in-debt enterprise managed by Charlotte Simmons (Mala Powers). Despairing over the prospect of having a losing proposition on their hands, Beau and Charlotte have their spirits lifted somewhat when they make the acquaintance Read More

Fear No More

Synopsis: A young woman on a business trip travels by train from L.A. to San Francisco and finds herself implicated in a murder in this crime drama. The trouble begins as she retires to her sleeping compartment and is knocked unconscious. The next day she wakes up beside the dead body of the woman she had Read More

Flight of the Lost Balloon

Actors: Mala Powers, Marshall Thompson, James Lanphier, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: The Woolner Brothers, ever on the cutting edge of cinema with rank imitations of popular hits, strike again with Flight of the Lost Balloon. In response to the upcoming release of Mysterious Island in 1961, the Woolners put together this cheapjack tale which, like Island, is partially set in a Read More

Disneyland: Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road

Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, the Cumberland Gap has been successfully negotiated, and Daniel (Dewey Martin), his family, and a group of settlers are on their way to a permanent settlement in Kentucky. Unfortunately, the Read More

Disneyland: Daniel Boone: The Promised Land

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, several members of Boone's wagon train are angered when Daniel (Dewey Martin) orders them to lighten their loads so they can negotiate the mountains and have turned back to North Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Crying Cherub

Synopsis: A valuable Matisse is stolen from an art museum and replaced by a forgery. Museum curator June Sinclair (Mala Powers) and her boyfriend David Lambert (Joe Maross) are suspected of the crime--and then charged with the murder of the actual thief, David's wife Lisa (Carmen Philips). Thus it is that Read More

Disneyland: Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo

Synopsis: In the second episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, it has been 12 years since Daniel (Dewey Martin) and his wife Rebecca (Mala Powers) first journeyed from North Carolina to Kentucky. Now that he has children to raise and a larger farm to Read More

Disneyland: Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path

Synopsis: In the first episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, a fast-talking salesman convinces Daniel (Dewey Martin), a North Carolina farmer, to pull up stakes and move to the "promised land" of Kentucky. Daniel, his wife Rebecca (Mala Powers), and Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Deadly Toy

Synopsis: Determined to win Claire Allison (Mala Powers) for himself, no-good Martin Selkirk (Dennis Patrick) has Claire's boyfriend Dirk Benedict (Robert Rockwell) beaten up, and also besieges Claire with threatening news clippings. Thus, when Selkirk is murdered (and if anyone "needed killing", it was Read More

Bonanza: The Philip Diedshiemer Story

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Beal

Synopsis: Engineer Philip Diedshiemer (John Beal) arrives in Virginia City, where, in partnership with Adam Cartwright, he creates a timbering system called "square set," which is designed to make the Deep Silver Mines safe from cave-ins. Trouble ensues when the mine owners refuse to pay Diedshiemer for his Read More

Sierra Baron

Actors: Brian Keith, Rick Jason, Rita Gam, Mala Powers, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: In this western set in the California territory in the mid-19th century, a rancher tries to protect his Spanish land grant from greedy American landgrabbers. Unfortunately the eastern interlopers bring in a Texas gunfighter to frighten the man. The gunfighter ends up falling in love with the Read More

The Colossus of New York

Actors: Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert, Otto Kruger, John Baragrey

Synopsis: This low-budget, Frankenstein-flavored sci-fi flick involves the transplantation of a dead scientist's brain into the body of a hulking, glowing-eyed, caped robot by the man's lunatic brother. Though initially a success, the operation soon goes horribly wrong as the robot begins to display Read More

Tammy and the Bachelor

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent (Leslie Neilsen) after his plane crashes near her home. At the beckoning of mutual admiration, Peter soon invites her to his plantation where she charms the fancy-shmancy Read More

Man on the Prowl

Actors: Mala Powers, James Best, Ted de Corsia, Jerry Paris

Synopsis: Man on the Prowl was produced by Jo and Art Napoleon, the same team responsible for TV's The Whirlybirds. James Best stars as Doug Gerhardt, a young homicidal maniac who invades the home of housewife and mother Marian Wood (Mala Powers). Having already killed a girl who turned him down, Gerhardt Read More

Death in Small Doses

Actors: Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors, Merry Anders, Roy Engel

Synopsis: Pill poppin' truckers provide the focus of this anti-drug drama. Much of the story centers upon an investigator for the US Food and Drug Department who has been assigned to stop all truckers from taking amphetamines while they drive. The drivers take the pills to help them stay awake on Read More

The Unknown Terror

Actors: Mala Powers, Paul Richards, May Wynn, Gerald Milton

Synopsis: Western writer/director Charles Marquis Warren makes one of his periodic excursions into horror with The Unknown Terror. Filmed in Mexico, the story focuses on three American adventurers (John Howard, Mala Powers and Paul Richards) who search for a missing explorer. They stumble across the Cave of Read More

The Storm Rider

Actors: Scott Brady, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Olin Howland, William Fawcett

Synopsis: Edward Bernds, graduate of Columbia's "Three Stooges" shorts and Allied Artists' "Bowery Boys" epics, expertly guides The Storm Rider through its paces. Scott Brady plays an ex-gunslinger who is hired by a group of ranchers to protect them from covetous land baron Roy Engel. Unbeknownst to the Read More

Rage at Dawn

Actors: Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns. Based on the exploits of the infamous Reno gang, the film casts Scott as a federal agent assigned to squelch the Renos once and for all. After staging a few phony train Read More

Bengazi

Actors: Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson, Mala Powers, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Richard Conte plays the obligatory Man With a Past in RKO's Bengazi. Joining up with disreputable Irishman Victor McLaglen and army deserter Richard Erdman, Conte heads into the African desert in search of hidden Arab gold. They in turn are pursued by British police inspector Richard Carlson and Read More

The Yellow Mountain

Actors: Lex Barker, Mala Powers, Howard Duff, William Demarest, John McIntire

Synopsis: Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold prospector Andy Martin, who has a serious falling out with his partner Pete Menlo (Howard Duff) over the affections of pretty Nevada Wray (Mala Powers). But Andy and Pete patch up Read More

City That Never Sleeps

Actors: Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold, Chill Wills

Synopsis: John Auer directed and Steve Fisher wrote this police procedural film in the vein of the popular Detective Story of two years earlier. The film juggles around four characters through a particularly bad night in a Chicago precinct -- Johnny Kelly (Gig Young), a stressed out cop ready to crack; Read More

City Beneath the Sea

Actors: Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball, George Mathews

Synopsis: The motivating factor behind City Beneath the Sea is an underwater treasure hunt. In 1692, an underwater earthquake sends the Jamaica city of Port Royal to the bottom of the Caribbean. Three-hundred-fifty years later, deep-sea divers Brad Carlton (Robert Ryan) and Tony Bartlett (Anthony Quinn) Read More

Geraldine

Actors: John Carroll, Mala Powers, Jim Backus, Stan Freberg, Kristine Miller

Synopsis: Stan Freberg fans are advised to keep an eye open for the obscure Republic musical Geraldine. Freberg plays recording star Billy Weber, a devastating takeoff of "crying tenor" Johnnie Ray. Looking for a new song, Billy chances to hear an old folk tune, rearranged by college music professor Grant Read More

Rose of Cimarron

Actors: Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers considers herself a Native American and regards all whites as her enemies. Her feelings are justified to an extent when outlaws kill her Indian parents. Realizing she can't Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to Read More

Edge of Doom

Actors: Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith, Mala Powers, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: An unusually morbid film from producer Samuel Goldwyn, Edge of Doom stars Farley Granger as a sensitive young man trapped in an impoverished slum existence. Granger becomes unhinged when his beloved mother dies, and when an unfeeling elderly priest refuses to provide the woman with a lavish Read More

Outrage

Actors: Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Lillian Hamilton

Synopsis: In terms of content, Outrage was well-ahead of its time. Mala Powers, who'd previously starred opposite Jose Ferrer in {#Cyrano de Bergerac}, plays Ann Walton, a naïve young girl who is attacked and raped while walking home from work. As if the horror and humiliation of the sexual assault wasn't Read More

Tough As They Come

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood pennypincher. He is romantically interested in a wealthy young woman, but unfortunately, he is being pursued by a neighborhood girl. His company assigns him to repossess the Read More