Martine BeswickeFilmography

Wide Sargasso Sea

Actors: Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed. Plantation Read More

Evil Spirits

Actors: Michael Berryman, Arte Johnson, Karen Black

Synopsis: An interesting bit of casting enlivens this psycho-thriller set in a California boarding house run by eccentric Karen Black with a rogue's gallery of bizarre tenants and more dark secrets than the Bates Motel. Tenants have a habit of disappearing rather abruptly from this particular residence Read More

Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Megan Ward, Biff Manard, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his Read More

Critters 4

Actors: Don Opper, Paul Whitthorne, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Terrence Mann

Synopsis: Sent directly to video, the fourth installment in the Critters series picks up the action with Charlie (Don Keith Opper) about to destroy the last of the critter eggs. A holographic apparition warns him, however, that every species must be preserved by galactic law; the eggs are transported into Read More

Miami Blues

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely de-boarded his plane before he's killed a Hare Read More

Life on the Edge

Actors: Jeff Perry, Jennifer Holmes, Greta Blackburn, Andrew Prine, Thalmus Rasulala

Synopsis: Attendees of a Southern California cocktail party find themselves reevaluating their convoluted, faulted lives following a major earthquake and a series of aftershocks in this hip comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

From a Whisper to a Scream

Actors: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar, Rosalind Cash

Synopsis: This horror anthology is hosted by Vincent Price and features a quartet of chilling stories, all of which took place in a single town that seems to inspire people to do horrendous things to each other. The stories contain scenes of graphic violence and considerable gore. The film is also known as Read More

Cyclone

Actors: Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Ashley Ferrare, Dar Robinson, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: In this fast-paced actioner, a brave young woman must deliver a specially designed, top-secret super-destructo armored motorcycle that runs on oxygen to the US military after the man assigned to deliver it, her lover, is murdered by enemy agents. Soon after finding his body, the woman finds a Read More

Balboa

Actors: Tony Curtis, Carol Lynley, Jennifer Chase, Chuck Connors, Lupita Ferrer

Synopsis: This is a soap opera about a rich, suave, but self-aggrandizing villain and the women who either love or hate him. The melodrama sudses up with Ernie Stoddard's (Tony Curtis) determination to bring legal gambling to an island off the California coast and a local councilman's equally strong Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dear Mummy

Synopsis: When an "ancient" mummy goes under the X-Ray machine, it turns out that the wrapped-up corpse has been dead only a few weeks--and that a fortune in jewels has been stashed on the body. U.S. Customs agents Brice (John Karlen) and Niven (Edward Grover) consult medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) Read More

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood

Actors: Martine Beswicke, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Richard Deacon, Edie Adams

Synopsis: The notorious madam Xaviera Hollander travels to Tinseltown to film her illustrious autobiography in this comedy. The trouble begins when she encounters a few crooked producers looking to exploit her. Look for a variety of second-string and cult stars including Martine Beswick, Dick Miller, and Adam West Read More

Melvin and Howard

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. Read More

The Tenth Month

Synopsis: Robert Altman protégé Joan Tewkesbury called the directorial shots on the made-for-TV The Tenth Month. After a whirlwind affair with famed concert pianist Keith Michell, middle-aged, unmarried Carol Burnett becomes pregnant. Rather than seek out the father, she decides to raise the baby by Read More

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Synopsis: Though not actually a film addressing the evil lure of cream-filled chocolate cakes, this amusingly cheesy made-for-TV opus from director Curtis Harrington pits a relatively normal suburban family against a slavering, demonically-possessed German shepherd whose hunger for human souls far exceeds Read More

My Husband is Missing

Synopsis: As is customary, Sally Struthers cries buckets in My Husband is Missing (one gets the feeling that she cries buckets at card tricks). Struthers plays the wife of an MIA who is permitted to visit North Vietnam in search of her husband. She meets Canadian journalist Tony Musante, who's anxious to Read More

Aspen

Actors: Sam Elliott, Perry King, Gene Barry, Martine Beswicke, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: Ostensibly a six-hour miniseries adaptation of Bert Hirschfield's novel Aspen, the program actually used only the title of the Hirschfield work; the plot proper was lifted from another novel by a different author, Bart Spicer's The Adversary. Set in the titular Colorado ski resort in the 1960s Read More

Please Stand By for Murder

Synopsis: In this thriller a paranoid woman, locked inside a deserted TV studio, begins to go mad with the fear that a killer is stalking her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strange New World

Synopsis: Originally made to be a television pilot, this sci-fi thriller is set in the future and chronicles the exploits of a trio of space travellers who thaw out after having spent nearly two centuries in suspended animation, return to earth and find it inhabited by clones. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Crime Club

Actors: Scott Thomas, Eugene Roche, Robert Lansing, Barbara Rhoades, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: The second and last TV pilot film to bear the Crime Club title, the 1975 Crime Club once again involves a state-of-the-art crime solving organization whose members are professional investigators from various public and private sectors. The principal characters are a detective (Scott Thomas), a Read More

Seizure

Actors: Roger DeKoven

Synopsis: After being plagued by recurring dreams where three strange creatures play havoc with his mind, a novelist pulls an overnighter during which his mind-spun creatures become a reality and horror happens. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ultimo Tango a Zagarol

Actors: Martine Beswicke, Franco Franchi, Gina Rovere, Franca Valeri

Synopsis: Franco Franchi, best known as half of the comedy duo Franco and Ciccio, stars with cult favorite Martine Beswicke in this crude parody of Bernardo Bertolucci's Ultimo Tango a Parigi. In contrast to the original's brutish Brando, Franchi's character is constantly dominated by the aggressive Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Actors: Pat Brackenbury, Irene Bradshaw, Anna Brett, Geoffrey Kenion, Rosemary Lord, Jackie Poole, Petula Portell, Liz Romanoff, Jeanette Wild, Julia Wright, Ralph Bates, Martine Beswicke, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Dorothy Alison, Susan Broderick

Synopsis: In a clever, gender-bending twist on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale, the research done by Dr. Henry Jekyll (Ralph Bates) in the field of artificially-induced human longevity involves experimentation with female hormones. When he partakes of his own formula and the inevitable Read More

Longstreet

Synopsis: Longstreet was the pilot for one of the better "gimmick" detective series of the 1970s. The title role of Michael Longstreet is played by James Franciscus. Longstreet is a New Orleans insurance investigator who has been permanently blinded in a mysterious bombing which has killed his wife. As he Read More

Hollywood Blue

Actors: Mickey Rooney, June Wilkerson

Synopsis: Hollywood Blue is a compilation of scenes taken from cinematic pornography over the years. Mickey Rooney and June Wilkerson are interviewed and give their thoughts about the late Jane Mansfield. Supposedly, Marilyn Monroe is the subject of one film where the female writhes on the floor in her Read More

The Penthouse

Actors: Suzy Kendall, Terence Morgan, Tony Beckley, Norman Rodway, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: A man and woman with a shameful secret are confronted by a pair of sadistic thugs in this unsettling drama. Bruce Victor (Terence Morgan) is a not-so-happily married real estate agent having an affair with Barbara Willason (Suzy Kendall), an overly credulous young woman who believes that Bruce Read More

Prehistoric Women

Actors: Martine Beswicke, Michael Latimer, Edina Ronay

Synopsis: Filmed on the sets of One Million Years B.C., this adventure fantasy centers on a hunter who accidentally ends up lost and stranded in a mysterious world ruled by statuesque, raw-meat eating, big-haired and scantily-clad brunettes who enslave their blonde sisters and worship the horns of Read More

A Bullet for the General

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Lou Castel, Martine Beswicke, Andrea Checchi, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: It is early in the 20th century, and an American traveler has come to Mexico at just the wrong time to continue living a peaceful life, for the Revolution has begun and he quickly finds himself in the thick of it. At first, he is right in the middle between government troops and the Read More

One Million Years B.C.

Actors: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: This film was advertised with the slogan "See Raquel Welch In Mankind's First Bikini!" While archeologists tell us humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, and our prehistoric ancestors probably didn't look much like Ms. Welch and her co-stars, One Million Years B.C. is a good bit more Read More

Thunderball

Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rick van Nutter

Synopsis: Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). This time, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. hijacks a NATO nuclear bomber, hiding the bombs under the ocean depths and Read More

Saturday Night Out

Actors: Heather Sears, Bernard Lee, Erika Remberg, Colin Campbell, John Bonney, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: This British comedy details what happens to five sailors and a passenger as they spend fifteen hours on shore leave in London while waiting for their cargo ship to unload. The passenger, a lonely widowed business man named George (Bernard Lee), finds his way to a West End bar, where he meets Wanda Read More

From Russia With Love

Actors: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw

Synopsis: From Russia With Love, the second in the series of James Bond films, is the film that solidifies all the Bond film elements into a formula -- the action sequences are intensified and lend greater tension to the proceedings; John Barry's inimitable score makes its first appearance; Q is seen for Read More