Mariette HartleyFilmography

Meet the Santas

Synopsis: In this sequel to the extraordinarily popular 2004 cable movie Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus, Steve Guttenberg returns in the role of Nick, son of the soon-to-be retired Santa Claus (John Wheeler) and heir to the North Pole toyshop. Likewise, Crystal Bernard repeats her characterization of Beth Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Doubt

Synopsis: The SVU investigates when graduate student Myra Denning (Shannyn Sosamon) claims that she was raped by college advisor Ron Polikoff (Billy Campbell). A voluntary DNA exam reveals that Polikoff has indeed been intimate with Myra--but he tells a different story of their relationship, insisting that Read More

Wild About Animals: Animal Babies

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Animal Babies celebrates little tykes of the animal kingdom. Viewers observe a baby rhino restored to good health, lion cubs at rowdy play Read More

Wild About Animals: Giant Sea Creatures

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Giant Sea Creatures dips below the surface to study animals of the deep. Viewers observe seals, sharks, manatees, dolphins, and more, as Read More

Wild About Animals: Exotic Birds

Wild About Animals: Greatest Animal Stories Ever Told

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Greatest Animal Stories Ever Told shares action-packed tales of heroic animals. Viewers learn about a smart dog who handed his master a Read More

Wild About Animals: Animals to the Rescue

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Animals to the Rescue celebrates animals who protect and serve people in need. The program shares stories of staggeringly sensitive canines Read More

Wild About Animals: Animals of the Jungle

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Animals of the Jungle travels to Central America. Viewers study various exotic creatures residing in the Central American rainforests. Read More

Wild About Animals: Animals of Alaska

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Animals of Alaska visits the final frontier state, Alaska. Viewers study the bald eagle, the reindeer, the musk ox, and other animals Read More

Baggage

Actors: Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: In this independent drama, aging Sandy Westphall (M. Emmet Walsh) and twenty-something Martin Kessler (Christian Leffler) accidentally pick up each other's suitcases at the baggage claim center of a busy airport. Before Sandy realizes what's happened, the suitcase he claimed is stolen by a pair of Read More

To Have & to Hold [TV Series]

Actors: Moira Kelly, Jason Beghe, Stephen Lee, Stephen Largay, Jason Wiles

Synopsis: In this TV series, Boston police detective Sean McGrail (Jason Beghe) and public defender Annie Cornell (Moira Kelly) are an odd couple caught in a passionate love affair, and they're just as passionate when they clash. In their close-knit Irish neighborhood, they get plenty of advice, including Read More

Wild About Animals: Backstage with Celebrity Animals

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Backstage With Celebrity Animals interviews animals in show business. Viewers meet big stars such as Shamu the whale and the pup who plays Read More

Wild About Animals: Amazing Animals of Australia

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals educational video series for children, which teaches kids about animals around the world, exploring one specific geographic location at a time, Wild About Animals: Amazing Animals of Australia looks at animal life down under. The program investigates the lifestyles Read More

Wild About Animals: Wonderfully Wacky Animals

Synopsis: Part of the Wild About Animals series, which teaches children and parents, too, about various wild and domestic animals, one special episode at a time, Wild About Animals: Wonderfully Wacky Animals is a tongue-in-cheek celebration of oddball pets. Viewers observe a poodle fond of shooting pool, a Read More

World War II: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory - The Women's Army Corps

Synopsis: Not all U.S. women served indirectly on the home front during World War II. This video brings to light the proud service of those women who served in the Women's Army Corps. World War II: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory -- The Women's Army Corps chronicles the valuable support missions that put Read More

Wild About Animals [TV Series]

Synopsis: One of the first projects of syndicated TV producer Steve Rotfield, the weekly half-hour Wild About Animals was hosted by actress Mariette Hartley. The series cast its spotlight on rare animals, unique to specific regions of the United States. Regular weekly features included "K9 Cops and Animal Read More

Crimes Against Women

Freefall: Flight 174

Actors: William Devane, Shelley Hack, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Falling From the Sky: Flight 174 was based on a true story that occurred high over Canada in July of 1983. While en route from Montreal to Edmonton, a brand-new Boeing 767 runs out of fuel in mid-flight. With only a cursory knowledge of the jet's inner works, the crew is forced to Read More

The Wild West [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson Read More

Encino Man

Actors: Sean Astin, Pauly Shore, Brendan Fraser, Mariette Hartley, Richard Masur, Megan Ward, Rose McGowan, Rick Ducommun, Robin Tunney

Synopsis: A clueless caveman meets his intellectual match in the form of Pauly Shore in this teen-oriented comedy. Dave Morgan (Sean Astin) is a high school student in Encino, California, where he spends most of his time with his dazed-and-confused buddy Stoney Brown (Shore) and tries to figure out why his Read More

Diagnosis of Murder

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mariette Hartley, Ken Kercheval, Bill Bixby, Stephen Caffrey

Synopsis: In a 1991 episode of Jake and the Fatman, Dick Van Dyke guest-starred as Dr. Mark Sloan, who couldn't seem to keep his nose out of a murder investigation. Diagnosis of Murder is the two-hour TV-movie spin-off of that episode. This time, Dr. Sloan tags along with his police-sergeant son (Barry Van Dyke Read More

Child of Rage

Actors: Mel Harris, Dwight Schultz, Mariette Hartley, Ashley Peldon, Rosanna de Soto

Synopsis: A terrible secret is uncovered in a child's past in this made-for-cable drama. Based on a true story, Ashley Peldon stars as 7-year-old Catherine, the newly adopted child of the Tylers. When Catherine turns increasingly violent towards her new parents and her natural brother, the Tylers try Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Night of the Coyote

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) swings into action when entrepreneur Max Teller (Steve Forrest), who had recently converted a former western mining town into a tourist attraction, is murdered. The killing may have been linked to the legendary lost treasure of a notorious stagecoach robber. Graham Greene Read More

The House on Sycamore Street

Synopsis: A physician--an amateur sleuth--decides to investigate the suicide of a former student of his and begins to suspect that it was murder. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Amazing World of Marine Mammals

Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: Queen Esther

Synopsis: This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen. Meanwhile, the king's counselor schemes to bring about the death of Read More

Murder C.O.D.

Actors: William Devane, Patrick Duffy

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Murder C.O.D. has a plot almost as complex and clever as its psychotic "protagonist." William Devane plays an adroit hitman who selects his victims before he's been hired to kill them. His modus operandi is to approach the person or persons who'd most benefit from the murder, then Read More

Passion and Paradise

Actors: Armand Assante, Catherine Stewart, Mariette Hartley, Kevin McCarthy, Rod Steiger, Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis: The four-hour TV movie Passion and Paradise traces the rise and fall of real-life British playboy Alfred de Marigny (Armand Assante). Little better than a gigolo, de Marigny finds himself in the Bahamas during World War II, where he romances the daughter (Catherine Mary Stewart) of fabulously Read More

How to Stop the One You Love from Drinking and Using Drugs

Synopsis: Inspired by Mary Ellen Pinkham's profound self-help book How to Stop the One You Love From Drinking, this insightful video uses dramatized situations and straightforward commentary to explain the process of intervention. Mariette Hartley takes viewers through the practical steps they can take to Read More

1969

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder

Synopsis: Ernest Thompson, the playwright responsible for the Pulitzer Prize winning On Golden Pond, makes his directorial debut with 1969. Kiefer Sutherland plays a draft-age youth who undergoes an epiphany when one of his friends is killed in Vietnam. Sutherland's subsequent antiwar stance causes a great Read More

One Terrific Guy

Synopsis: In this teen drama, a courageous high school girl accuses her well-respected coach of improper conduct. Despite severe ostracism from her peers and the faculty, the brave girl refuses to back down until justice is done. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

Synopsis: From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Joshua and the Battle of Jericho" tells the tale of Joshua's leadership and determination to follow his God. The story demonstrates Joshua leading the Hebrews through a battle with the Canaanites, who built a wall to prevent Read More

My Two Loves

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley stars in this groundbreaking TV movie as Gail Springer, a widowed mother on the horns of an outwardly familiar romantic dilemma. Equally in love with two different people, Gail has the devil's own time choosing between them. What made this film unique (at least when it initially Read More

The Night Dracula Saved the World

Synopsis: This chiller was made for younger viewers and chronicles Dracula's fight to keep Halloween alive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strong Kids, Safe Kids

Synopsis: Strong Kids, Safe Kids is an educational general interest video that teaches children and their parents important safety skills. In an attempt to make serious subject matter accessible, the program uses a friendly, open voice, and takes a somewhat light approach. Viewers learn key steps to take to Read More

Silence of the Heart

Actors: Mariette Hartley, Howard Hesseman, Dana Hill, Chad Lowe, Charlie Sheen

Synopsis: A 17-year-old boy (Chad Lowe) is killed in an automobile accident. As the facts begin to assert themselves, it appears that the boy actually took his own life. His mother (Mariette Hartley) and sister (Dana Hill) try to learn the truth, even as his father (Howard Hesseman) digs in his heels and Read More

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

Actors: Mariette Hartley, Paula Prentiss, David Huddleston, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley portrays Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, in this made-for-television movie produced and written by Michael Braverman. After her daughter is killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident, Lightner forms M.A.D.D. to enact legislation curbing the Read More

Goodnight, Beantown [TV Series]

O'Hara's Wife

Actors: Ed Asner, Mariette Hartley, Jodie Foster, Perry Lang, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: This ghostly made-for-television romance tells the story of a struggling widower who finds that life becomes easier once his beloved comes back from the grave to assist him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Drop-Out Father

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke is the Drop-Out Father in this lighthearted TV movie. A successful but unsatisfied insurance executive, Van Dyke decides one day to kick over the traces. As his wife (Mariette Hartley) and family listen in fascinated horror, our hero announces his plans to move from the suburbs to a Read More

The Love Tapes

Synopsis: This pilot film for an unsold TV series was originally titled They're Playing Our Tape. Michael Constantine stars as Frank Yost, the avuncular head of a videotape dating services called "Good Possibilities." Among Yost's clients is recently divorced executive David Franklin (Martin Balsam), single Read More

No Place to Hide

Synopsis: In this taut made-for-television psychological thriller, a young woman has never been able to overcome the guilt she feels about her father's accidental death. She nearly goes insane when a stalker begins watching her every move and she becomes convinced that it is the ghost of her late dad. Read More

Improper Channels

Actors: Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley, Sarah Stevens, Monica Parker, Harry Ditson

Synopsis: Alan Arkin plays a hapless architect named Jeffrey Martley, separated from his sprightly writer wife Diana (Mariette Hartley) and his wise-beyond-her-years five-year-old daughter Nancy (Sarah Stevens). When Nancy is injured in Jeffrey's camper, she is taken to the hospital where a misunderstanding Read More

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, a team of female pilots perform dangerous missions on both sides of enemy lines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Inga

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as Dr. Inga Helversen, a gorgeous Swedish surgeon temporarily assigned to the 4077th. Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is smitten by Inga, but doubts that one so beautiful could be truly efficient in the O.R. Our hero's preconceived notions--and his ego--take quite a beating when Read More

Stone

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays Daniel Stone, a Joe Wambaugh-style LA cop turned novelist. The pressures of his new career cause a rift between Stone and his superior officer Pat Hingle, and also puts additional barriers between Stone and his estranged wife Mariette Hartley. The fact that Stone's partner Roy Thinnes Read More

The Rockford Files: Paradise Cove

Synopsis: Season Six of The Rockford Files begins as Jim Rockford (James Garner) faces permanent expulsion from the community of Paradise Cove as the result of a damage suit instigated by vindictive neighbor C.C. Calloway (Leif Erickson). Court-appointed receiver Althea Morgan (Mariette Hartley) shows up at Read More

A Rainy Day

Actors: Mariette Hartley, Collin Wilcox, Tracey Gold

Synopsis: In this drama, a well-known actress goes home to attend her father's funeral and finds herself haunted by unhappy childhood memories. It is these dark reminiscences that force her to take an honest look at herself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bride of the Incredible Hulk

The Last Hurrah

Synopsis: 1977's Last Hurrah is a TV-movie remake of the 1958 John Ford film of the same name. Both versions are based on the Edwin O'Connor novel about the last days of flamboyant, larcenous Mayor Frank Skeffington--based upon the equally colorful, equally underhanded Boston mayor James Curley. Carroll O'Connor Read More

The African Queen

Synopsis: In 1963, The Dick Powell Theatre aired an hour-long episode titled "Safari", starring James Coburn as a scruffy steamboat captain and Glynis Johns as an English missionary. What this really was was a pilot for a TV series based on the 1951 Humphrey Bogart- Katharine Hepburn film classic The Read More

The Mystery in Dracula's Castle

Actors: Clu Gulager, Mariette Hartley, Johnny Whitaker, Scott Kolden, Mills Watson

Synopsis: Mystery in Dracula's Castle features Johnny Whitaker as an erstwhile adolescent filmmaker. Whitaker wanders around a foreboding mansion, making a vampire picture with his 8-millimeter equipment. Also tooling about the mansion is Whitaker's brother, a junior-league aspiring detective (Scott Read More

Little House on the Prairie: For My Lady

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

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as the Widow Thurman, for whom Charles (Michael Landon) does some carpentry work. As previously agreed upon, the widow pays Charles with a set of expensive china, intended as a surprise gift for Charles' wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle). In order to keep the surprise Read More

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

Synopsis: The Killer Who Wouldn't Die was the original network title for the 1976 TV movie also known as Ohanian. Mike Connors plays Ohanian, an Armenian-American ex-cop who runs a charter boat service. He's pulled back into the investigation game when one of his old friends is killed in Hawaii by a foreign Read More

Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest

Synopsis: In this fact-based drama, the quiet life of an average family is torn apart when a SWAT team bursts in and arrests them for drug dealing. Though they plead their case in court, no one believes them and they undergo a terrible ordeal as they try to prove their innocence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Tight as a Drum

Synopsis: This mystery is set at a military school where a young cadet goes on a terrifying rampage after he learns that his father, a crime lord, has been killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Cry Help!

Synopsis: Clint Howard (brother of Ron, and former star of TV's Gentle Ben is herein cast as Tommy Sanders, a troubled teenager whose parents are divorced. Befriending another teen named Paul Harris (David Gruner), Tommy is present when a bitter family fight breaks out--and is subsequently accused of Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Shield of Honor

Synopsis: The SFPD's internal affairs division suspects that something is amiss when a witness under police protection is killed. Clearly, someone in the Department is a Syndicate informer--and everyone is under suspicion, even Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas). Written by Star Trek veteran Read More

Emergency!: Zero

Synopsis: The Rampart emergency team try to save a suicidal youngster from leaping off an apartment ledge. Elsewhere, the paramedics rescue a man who has been trapped in a doughnut machine. And in what would normally be a less stressful moment, John (Randolph Mantooth) suffers from a terrible bout of stage Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Have You Met Miss Dietz?

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Anxious to help out her recently divorced friend, Marilyn Dietz (Mariette Hartley) -- who frankly needs no help whatsoever in affairs of the heart -- Emily goes on another matchmaking expedition. As a result, both Howard and Jerry end up dating Marilyn. The ensuing rivalry threatens to spread Read More

The F.B.I.: The Double Play

Synopsis: Con artist Rex Benning (Stuart Whitman) is quite a piece of work, ruthlessly swindling not his wealthy victims but also his own accomplices. Currently, Benning is preparing to fleece both a multimillionaire and a small-time crook with big-time ideas. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) hopes 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

Sandcastles

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Sandcastles dresses up an old story with pretty seascapes and prettier actors. Bonnie Bedelia is a lonely young musician who strikes up an acquaintance with the enigmatic Jan-Michael Vincent. Even though she sees him only while walking along the beach, Bonnie falls in love with this curious young Read More

Skyjacked

Actors: Kelley Miles, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain

Synopsis: Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin 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: The Iron Butterfly

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mariette Hartley, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: In her fourth Bonanza appearance, Mariette Hartley is cast as Lola, a temperamental touring actress. When Lola is forced to kill her abusive boyfriend, Hoss Cartwright gallantly shoulders the blame. This brings down the wrath of Senator Carson (Peter Whitney), the ruthlessly powerful father of the Read More

The Return of Count Yorga

Synopsis: Lonely vampire Count Yorga and his bloodthirsty cohorts begin living in a ramshackle mansion located near an orphanage. This slightly fang-in-cheek horror film chronicles what happens when the Count falls in love with a toothsome young woman and tries to make her his bride. Fortunately for her Read More

Earth 2

Synopsis: The all-purpose science fiction title Earth 2 was utilized in 1971 for this TV pilot film. Producer/writers Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield consulted both NASA and the Rockwell Corporation to guarantee a modicum of authenticity for their futuristic teleplay. The story takes place in "Earth Read More

The F.B.I.: The Impersonator

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is anxious to bring con artist Wesley Ziegler to justice. Specializing in fleecing wealthy, lonely women, Ziegler has recently added murder to his list of crimes--a fact that does not bode well for his latest pigeon, Jessica Bowling (Mariette Hartley). Read More

Barquero

Actors: Lee Van Cleef, Forrest Tucker, Warren Oates, Kerwin Mathews, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his gang and demands that Van Cleef transport the crooks and their booty across the river. He refuses, and is taken prisoner. Biding his time, Van Cleef Read More

Bonanza: Is There Any Man Here?

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: In her third Bonanza appearance, Mariette Hartley is here cast as Jennifer, the daughter of Ben Cartwright's old friend Harry Carlis (John McLiam). Slated to be wed to influential banker Tuttle Ames (Burr DeBennings, Jennifer leaves her intended at the altar and makes a beeline to the Ponderosa Read More

Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays

Synopsis: This episode finds Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock exploring the planet Sarpeidon, whose sun is about to go nova. They discover cities and other components of an advanced civilization, but no inhabitants save one, a mysterious man (Ian Wolfe) who identifies himself as the "librarian." They Read More

Marooned

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant

Synopsis: In this tense and suspenseful science fiction thriller, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who monitors the space mission of three astronauts. Buzz (Gene Hackman), Jim (Richard Crenna) and Clayton (James Franciscus) have their lives put in jeopardy when the oxygen Read More

Bonanza: The Survivors

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley makes a return visit to Bonanza in the November 10, 1968 episode "The Survivors." This time, Hartley is cast as Alicia, a former captive of the Paiutes. During her captivity, Alicia had been forced to bear a son to one of the braves, and as a result is shunned by the townsfolk-and Read More

Death Valley Days: The Battle of San Francisco Bay

Bonanza: Right is the Fourth R

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: Adam Cartwright rescues long-suffering schoolteacher Barbara (Mariette Hartley), who has been tied to a burning post by her unruly pupils. While Barbara recovers from her ordeal, Adam takes over her classroom, determined to teach her contentious charges the history of the Nevada Territory. In so Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Long Morrow

Actors: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley, George Macready, Edward Binns, William Swan

Synopsis: Just before embarking upon a 40-year space journey, Cmdr. Douglas Stansfield (Robert Lansing) falls in love with the beautiful Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley). Blasting into space, Stansfield in placed in a state of suspended animation, which will enable him to retain his youth and vitality during Read More

Marnie

Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Condemned as being a "disappointing" and "unworthy" Alfred Hitchcock effort at the time of its release, Marnie has since grown in stature; it is still considered a lesser Hitchcock, but a fascinating one. Tippi Hedren plays Marnie, a compulsive thief who cannot stand to be touched by any man. She Read More

Drums of Africa

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley, Lloyd Bochner, Torin Thatcher, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

Synopsis: Spliced together with plentiful strips of old footage from previous films set in Africa, this routine romantic drama takes place on the east, equatorial region of the so-called "dark continent," in 1897. The story features Mariette Hartley as Ruth Knight and Lloyd Bochner as David, an engineer and Read More

Ride the High Country

Actors: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, James Drury

Synopsis: This Sam Peckinpah-directed feature outing was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; while McCrea would unexpectedly emerge from retirement, this 1961 western serves as an excellent valedictory for both men. The time is the early 1900s, when the Old West was Read More

Teens & Sex in Europe: A Story of Rights, Respect & Responsibility

Actors: Mariette Hartley

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