Martin LandauFilmography

Lovely, Still

Actors: Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, Adam Scott

Synopsis: Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn topline the debut of writer/director Nik Fackler in Lovely Still, a whimsical romance tale that follows an elderly grocery-store bagger (Landau) who experiences his first pangs of love in the form of Burstyn. Elizabeth Banks portrays the woman's daughter, while Adam Scott Read More

City of Ember

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy about two young heroes who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time to prevent their underground city from being swallowed by darkness. The City of Ember was built over 200 year ago, deep below the earth, where the Read More

Billy: The Early Years

Actors: Armie Hammer Jr., Stefanie Butler, Kristoffer Polaha, Josh Turner, Jennifer O'Neill

Synopsis: He remains one of the true icons of late 20th and early 21st century evangelism. But what of his early years -- the years that led him into full-time ministry? As scripted and directed by acclaimed actor Robby Benson (The Chosen), this fact-based historical drama depicts Billy Graham (here played Read More

David & Fatima

Actors: Cameron Van Hoy, Danielle Pollack, Anthony Batarse, Allan Kolman, Yareli Arizmendi

Synopsis: A forbidden romance threatens deadly consequences for a young Israeli Jew and a beautiful Palestinian Muslim who risk their lives and defy their families by eloping in a land where their union will be doomed from the moment they wed. Jerusalem is in crisis; while Jews, Arabs, and Christians live Read More

Brando

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Bailey, Janet Aemisegger, Ellen Adler, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, James Caan, Jane Fonda

Synopsis: As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth, epic-length documentary Brando chronicles in encyclopedic detail (and with a consistently reverent overtone) the life and career of the man widely regarded as the most Read More

The Evidence [TV Series]

Actors: Orlando Jones, Rob Estes, Martin Landau, Anita Briem

Synopsis: The gimmick of the ABC procedural drama The Evidence was established at the beginning of each hour-long episode. It was explained via a videotaped police log that a murder had been committed, and that several clues were left behind by the unknown killer. As the camera froze on each clue, the Read More

Entourage: Sorry, Ari

Synopsis: In the third-season finale, Ari takes evasive action when The Ramones project -- and his future -- are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Vince taps an unlikely source to chart his career. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

Entourage: What About Bob?

Synopsis: The pitching of The Ramones project creates a rift between Ari and Bob Ryan; Vince helps Turtle in his quest for new footwear; Drama prepares to get back in front of the camera. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

Entourage: I Wanna Be Sedated

Synopsis: A big day for Turtle is missing a key ingredient; Eric stumbles upon a movie idea for Vince during a long meeting with a producer (Martin Landau); Vince's chance encounter may not be so random after all. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

James Dean: Sense Memories

Synopsis: James Dean: Sense Memories documents the short but brilliant career of the iconic James Dean. Combining interviews given by some of those who worked with him and archival footage, this American Masters film attempts to explain how Dean's talent and acting style helped make him a superstar and Read More

An Existential Affair

Synopsis: Gretchen Becker (Ed Wood, Hollywood Homicide) and Alex A. Quinn star in the erotic drama An Existential Affair, as Petra and Mark, a married woman and her younger lover who steal away together and conduct a series of kinky sex sessions in random hotels. When the partners grow increasingly jaded Read More

The Aryan Couple

Actors: Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty, Caroline Carver

Synopsis: In this drama set in Eastern Europe in 1944, (Martin Landau) plays Josef Krauzenberg, a wealthy Hungarian Jewish business owner who, despite his fortune, finds his life hanging in the balance as the Nazi "final solution" is being enacted throughout Eastern Europe. Under the terms of the Third Read More

Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

Wake

Actors: Gale Harold, Blake Gibbons, Dihlon McManne, John Winthrop Philbrick, Rainer Judd

Synopsis: Marking the writing and directorial debut of Henry LeRoy Finch, Wake revolves around four estranged brothers whose reunion, through no conscious effort of their own, takes place on the eve of their mother's death. Shot entirely on location in Bath, ME, Wake is told from the perspective of Read More

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

Actors: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Lauren, Peter Bogdanovich

Hollywood Homicide

Actors: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich

Synopsis: Further cementing 2003 as the year of Ron Shelton cop movies, the director continued his vacation from the sports genre with Hollywood Homicide, a police comedy that comes right on the heels of Shelton's Dark Blue, a decidedly grittier cop thriller. The film stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett Read More

Shanghai Ghetto

Actors: Martin Landau

Synopsis: In the late 1930s, as the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe and the fate of Germany's Jewish population began to look increasingly grim, many Jews began seeking refuge wherever they could find it. However, with Europe no longer safe and passage to Great Britain or the United States frequently Read More

The Majestic

Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Gerry Black, Brent Briscoe, Karl Bury

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Read More

Haven

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Hal Holbrook, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration camp in this two-part made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In the early days of America's involvement in World War II, Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson) is a reporter Read More

Ready to Rumble

Actors: David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But Read More

In the Beginning

Actors: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg), Esau (Andrew Grainger), and Jacob Read More

Shiner

Actors: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Claire Rushbrook, Frank Harper

Synopsis: A minor-league criminal suddenly finds himself in deep trouble in this thriller. Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Michael Caine) is a man who has spent much of his life making a living by skirting the law, but he thinks he may finally have a legitimate path to the big time managing his son Eddie (Matthew Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

EDtv

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The turning point in the life of Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey) comes thanks to the misfortunes of the NorthWest Broadcasting Company. After two years on the air, their flagship cable channel, True TV, has slid into obscurity due to competition from the The Gardening Channel. Program director Read More

The New Adventures of Pinocchio

Synopsis: Offering a new twist on the classic fairytale, this sequel to The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) finds the formerly wooden puppet attempting to right a damaging mistake. When Pinocchio (Michael Anderson) buys a potion from the mysterious Madame Flambeau, he gets himself into more trouble that he Read More

Youngest Godfather

Actors: Martin Landau, Costas Mandylor, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia, Bruce Ramsay, Tony Nardi

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama is based on the autobiography of one of the most notorious figures in American organized crime, Joseph Bonanno. Bonanno (played by Bruce Ramsay) left Sicily as a young man, eager to escape the tyranny of Benito Mussolini, but when he arrived in America, fate led him to a Read More

The Joyriders

Actors: Martin Landau, Diane Venora, Kris Kristofferson, Shawn Hatosy

Synopsis: In this inspiring drama, Gordon Trout (Martin Landau) is a elderly man who was once a successful businessman but has become despondent since his wife left him. As Gordon gives serious thought to killing himself, he decides to buy a gun, but while at a shopping mall, he offers to give a ride to Read More

Rounders

Actors: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen

Synopsis: John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his entire savings to Russian club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from Read More

The X-Files

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million Read More

The Long Way Home

Actors: Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: The struggles of European Jews during WWII have been well documented, but this film (produced with the cooperation of the Simon Weisenthal Center) makes it clear that the ordeal of those who suffered during the Holocaust did not end with the liberation of Europe. The Long Way Home uses interviews Read More

B.A.P.S.

Actors: Halle Berry, Martin Landau, Ian Richardson, Natalie Desselle, Troy Beyer

Synopsis: In this broad fish-out-of-water comedy, Nisi (Halle Berry) and Mickey (Natalie Desselle) are African-American women with two ambitions -- marry rich men who will give them lots of money, and open the world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant. However, eligible bachelors and Read More

The Elevator

Actors: Martin Landau, Arye Gross

Synopsis: In this drama with comedic touches, Martin Landau is an executive with a movie studio who finds himself trapped in an elevator with an aspiring screenwriter, who seizes upon the opportunity to pitch as many ideas to him as possible. Supporting cast includes Martin Sheen, Paul Bartel, Arye Gross, Richard Lewis Read More

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Actors: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Synopsis: Unlike the more familiar animated Pinocchio by Disney, there are no song interludes here, and characters added to the story by Disney (such as Jiminy Cricket) are not included. Producer Francis Ford Coppola and director Steve Barron, (known for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film) closely Read More

City Hall

Actors: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau

Synopsis: Three A-list screenwriters -- (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman, and Paul Schrader) -- contributed to the script of this idealistic political drama. John Pappas (Al Pacino) is the popular, ethical Mayor of New York; Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) is his even more idealistic and principled deputy. When a Read More

Joseph

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Paul Mercurio

Synopsis: This television miniseries recounts the biblical story of Joseph, the 11th son of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob. Joseph (Paul Mercurio) has an extraordinary gift: the ability to interpret dreams. He also enjoys the special favor of his father. One day, Jacob (Martin Landau) presents his son a Read More

L'Ile Au Trésor

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback, Lou Castel, Jeffrey Kime

Synopsis: Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island and the television adventure shows he is watching. This story device allows the highly regarded and very Read More

Intersection

Actors: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, David Selby

Synopsis: A man who may be on the verge of death quickly takes a thorough look at his life in this drama. Vincent Eastman (Richard Gere) is speeding along a mountain road in Canada when, while swerving to avoid a stalled van, he discovers that he's about to run headfirst into a trailer truck. As he's about Read More

Ed Wood

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself Read More

Time is Money

Actors: Max von Sydow, Charlotte Rampling, Martin Landau, Francois Montagut

Synopsis: Screenwriter and novelist Joseph Kaufman Max von Sydow) has made his mark, earned gobs of money in his day, and won an Oscar for his troubles. Now he's a lot older, and all he wants to do is sit around and vegetate - and if he were anyone else, he'd probably be allowed to. However, he has a Read More

12:01

Synopsis: Based on a story by Richard Lupoff (a short filmization of the same story earned an Oscar nomination for 1990), 12:01 centers on a member of the personnel department in a science lab, who discovers that the world has become somehow trapped in a strange time warp that causes the same 24-hour period Read More

No Place to Hide

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau, O.J. Simpson, Dey Young

Synopsis: In this gory thriller, a troubled dancer has just enough time to convince her little sister to hide a videotape before she is stabbed to death by an unseen killer, leaving the surviving sister in grave danger. Fortunately, a cynical but determined cop comes on the case to help her. ~ Sandra Read More

Eye of the Stranger

Actors: David Heavener, Martin Landau, Sally Kirkland, Don Swayze, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: The plot in this suspenseful mystery evokes the old westerns while dealing with contemporary issues concerning the further development of the West. It all begins when a stranger rolls into a remote little town and discovers that they are doing their best to keep secret the murder of a civil Read More

Sliver

Actors: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Phillip Noyce directed Joe Eszterhas's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about voyeurism, starring Sharon Stone as Carly Norris, a book editor on the rebound from an emotionless seven-year marriage. Carly decides that a change of location will help her in the healing process, so she moves into a Read More

Mistress

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own Read More

Legacy of Lies

Actors: Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: Michael Ontkean stars as Zack Resnick, an honest Chicago cop drawn into a political assassination who discovers some shocking information about himself and his family. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story

Actors: Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Molly Ringwald stars as Alison Gertz, an upscale Manhattanite who thinks she knows her way around. Still, Alison conducts an "unprotected" one-night affair, which results in Read More

Max and Helen

Actors: Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Treat Williams

Synopsis: Martin Landau plays legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in this made-for-cable offering from director Philip Saville. Based on Wiesenthal's book, Treat Williams plays Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor relating his story to Simon, who has tracked down the Nazi commandant in charge of the camp Read More

Real Bullets

Synopsis: Real Bullets is the result of a bunch of Hollywood stunt persons (male and female) getting together and saying "Let's make a movie starring US!" The plot: A batch of stunt men and women decide to go vacationing together, and when they get to the chosen spot, they find a drug ring and it's Read More

Firehead

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Chris Lemmon, Martin Landau, Brett Porter, Gretchen Becker

Synopsis: When Ivan Tibor (Brett Porter), a Russian with dangerous psychokinetic powers, flees to the United States, scientist Warren Hart (Chris Lemmon) is charged with the responsibility of capturing the renegade. However, when Warren discovers that Ivan is on a mission to foil the plans of a group of Read More

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Actors: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah Read More

The Neon Empire

Synopsis: Novelist/journalist Pete Hammill was responsible for the screenplay of the two-part TV movie The Neon Empire. Ray Sharkey stars as a Bugsy Siegel-like New York gangster. It is Sharkey's dream to turn the sleepy Nevada town of Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world. Part One, running 105 Read More

By Dawn's Early Light

Synopsis: Soviet radicals upset with the thawing of the Cold War explode a nuclear weapon in Russia, setting off a series of events that may very well trigger World War III. The president (Martin Landau) has been isolated after a helicopter accident and must outwit government and military officials who are Read More

Paint It Black

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Julie Carmen, Martin Landau, Doug Savant

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are not always nice and helpful. His first mistake is to fall for the seductress who runs the gallery that has an exclusive on his work. He then hooks up with an insane art collector who gets jealous of the Read More

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker Read More

Sweet Revenge

Actors: Nancy Allen, Ted Shackelford, Martin Landau, Sal Landi, Michelle Little

Synopsis: Jillian Grey (Nancy Allen) is a television reporter who investigates the disappearance of young women in this routine action drama. She is kidnapped with three other woman from the streets of Los Angeles and sold into slavery in Southeast Asia. Martin Landau plays Cicero, the villainous head of Read More

The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

Synopsis: In this movie sequel to the two popular sci-fi adventure TV series, the bionic couple are reunited to stop a group of radicals from using Steve's bionic son to take over the United States. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Empire State

Actors: Cathryn Harrison, Emily Bolton

Synopsis: A man investigates the disappearance of his friend from an East End pub in this low-budget crime drama. The trail starts at a club where male prostitutes are the popular flavor and leads to the uncovering of a shady real estate deal in New York. Martin Landau plays the American real estate Read More

Lethal Victims

Synopsis: In this gritty thriller, a woman who suffers the pain and humiliation of sexual assault is appalled to discover the man who raped her has gone free. Enraged, she joins forces with a number of other women who have survived rape and together they set out to meet out justice on their own terms. 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

Run If You Can

Synopsis: Here's another cop thriller with a terrified witness, a determined assassin, and a highly untrustworthy supporting cast. Run if You Can is all about a young woman who turns on her TV for a little entertainment and relaxation, only to tune in on a real-life murder in progress. This one works best Read More

Delta Fever

Death Blow

Synopsis: When a rapist avoids conviction several times in a row, his past victims join together to exact vigilante justice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

Murder, She Wrote: Birds of a Feather

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) arrives in San Francisco to attend the wedding of her niece Victoria Brandon (Genie Francis) to a handsome but rather secretive young man named Howard Griffin (Jeff Conaway). Her first meeting with Howard occurs under strange circumstances, as he scrambles over her table Read More

Access Code

Synopsis: This disjointed action film concerns a renegade security company which takes over the United States' computer defense system. CIA agent Barnes (Michael Durrell) and his sister must avoid World War III by defusing the plot. Mark Sobel's direction is lacklustre, and entire scenes appear to be Read More

The Being

Actors: Martin Landau, José Ferrer, Dorothy Malone, Ruth Buzzi, Rexx Coltrane

Synopsis: Director Jackie Kong, who later made the cult favorite Blood Diner (1987), directed this terrible monster movie for exploitation pioneer Bill Osco, who stars under the pseudonym "Rexx Coltrane." The plot concerns a mutant child who has become a monster after being exposed to toxic waste in a small Read More

The Pottsville Horror

The Fall of the House of Usher

Actors: Martin Landau

Synopsis: A maddened Roderick Usher (Martin Landau) and his dying sister Madeline (Dimitra Arliss) are the only surviving members of the ancient race of the Ushers in this rendition of the classic Edgar Allen Poe tale. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Alone in the Dark

Actors: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, Erland Van Lidth

Synopsis: This is a very enjoyable tongue-in-cheek horror film about some homicidal maniacs who break out of an asylum and terrorize a psychiatrist's family on a dark and stormy night. Martin Landau and Jack Palance are particularly funny, but there are some genuine scares as well. One scene, in which a Read More

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

Synopsis: The seven stranded castaways find comical chaos when an insane scientist, his trusty sidekick and the title basketball tricksters, playing robots visit their tropic island nest in this third in a series of made-for-television films based on the enduring early '60s sitcom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Last Word

Actors: Richard Harris, Karen Black, Martin Landau, Dennis Christopher, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: Danny Travis (Richard Harris) is a kindly Irish inventor and widower whose projects leave his family in a constant state of near poverty. He takes on the system when the city slates his apartment building for demolition. Danny uncovers a plot hatched by the scheming Governor Davis (Biff McGuire) Read More

The Return

Actors: Neville Brand, Raymond Burr, Jan-Michael Vincent, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The bottom-drawer science fiction cheapie was originally released as The Return. In a dusty New Mexico town, two children and an old man witness the arrival (via poor special effects) of an alien spacecraft. The phenomenon has such a profound effect on the lives of the witnesses that they Read More

Alien Warning

Actors: Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Tarah Nutter, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: This goofy sci-fi/horror nonsense plays like '50s-style alien-invasion schlock with a dollop of '80s-style blood and gore. The invasion -- such as it is -- is perpetrated on various backwoods hunters and campers by a scarcely-seen alien that looks like a menacing Star Trek guest star in a Read More

The Death of Ocean View Park

Actors: Caroline McWilliams, Perry Lang

Synopsis: The demolition of a real-life amusement park in Norfolk, Virginia was excuse enough for The Death of Ocean View Park. Factual footage of the park's destruction is blended into a fictional plotline by screenwriters John Furia Jr. and Barry Oringer. Mike Connors, Diana Canova, Perry Lang, Caroline Read More

Meteor

Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley (Sean Connery) is an American scientist who teams up with Dubov (Brian Keith), and his translator-assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) later falls in love with Bradley. Hong Read More

Beyond Reason

Actors: Telly Savalas, Laura Johnson, Diana Muldaur, Marvin Laird, Bob Basso

Synopsis: Telly Savalas wrote and directed this drama about an unconventional psychologist who battles for his own mental health while dealing with the stress of his profession. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Aliens from Spaceship Earth

Synopsis: Aliens from Spaceship Earth is a "four-waller" documentary from the Chariot of the Gods? school of speculative filmmaking. Are there, or have their ever been, extraterrestrials in our midst? This program speculates that there are, and that such aliens have taken distinctly human form - that of Read More

Space: 1999 - Matter of Life and Death

Space: 1999 - Earthbound

Alien Attack

Synopsis: Alien Attack is a jerry-built feature film comprised of two episodes from the TV sci-fi series Space: 1999. Martin Landau stars as John Koenig, commander of Moonbase Alpha, a futuristic research colony. Landau's then-wife Barbara Bain co-stars as the base's chief medical officer Dr. Helena Read More

Blazing Magnum

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Carole Laure, Martin Landau, Jean Le Clerc, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: In this violent actioner, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his little sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for vengeance that he casts protocol to the winds and begins using his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon Read More

Space: 1999 - Voyager's Return

Space: 1999 - Breakaway

The Cosmic Princess

Actors: Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: Cosmic Princess is comprised of scenes from the syndicated TV series Space 1999. Most of this "TV movie" consists of the series' second-season opener, which introduced Maya (Catherine Schell), an extraterrestrial endowed with the ability to transform herself into any life form. Maya is the Read More

Space: 1999 - Black Sun

Space: 1999 - The Guardian of Piri

Space: 1999 [TV Series]

Actors: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell

Synopsis: Space: 1999 was one of the more visible sci-fi disasters of early-'70s television, although it started out with some promising credentials. It was produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, who had been responsible for several fondly remembered series such as Supercar, Fireball XL-5 Read More

Destination Moonbase Alpha

Synopsis: This sci-fi adventure was the pilot for a television series Space: 1999. It is set in the next century just after an enormous blast from an alien ship destroys half the moon and sends the rest hurtling through space. Unfortunately, upon the chunk of speeding rock is the research station Alpha Read More

Journey through the Black Sun

Synopsis: A nuclear explosion causes chaos in space, in this British made-for-television sci-fi thriller. The moon seems to be headed for disaster after a nuclear explosion sends it out of orbit and heading for a black sun. Some stranded moon-base personnel may be doomed -- unless someone comes to their Read More

Savage

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Savage is worth seeing today as an example of early Steven Spielberg. Martin Landau stars as Paul Savage, a TV investigative reporter. In possession of a photograph that might destroy the career of a Supreme Court nominee, Savage finds himself the target of scrutiny from all sorts Read More

Black Gunn

Actors: Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Jim Brown, Tommy Davis, Rick Ferrell, Jay Montgomery, Mark Tapscott

Synopsis: This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, a Vietnam veteran, is murdered by gangsters, Brown gathers some of his brother's fellow veterans and an assortment of ex-convicts to get brutal revenge. Martin Landau, Luciana Paluzzi, and Jeannie Bell Read More

Under the Sign of Capricorn

Synopsis: In this chilling drama, a unit of American scientists go Down Under to study Aborigines. The trouble begins when they start disappearing or turning up dead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Synopsis: In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Town Called Hell

Actors: Telly Savalas, Martin Landau, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: A priest--a former revolutionary--finds himself the target of a manhunt in a small Mexican town. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Snafu

Synopsis: Don't confuse this 1970 Italian/Yugoslav Operation Snafu with the 1962 British comedy-drama of the same name. While the earlier film boasted an engaging story and a boisterous early appearance by Sean Connery, the 1970 film is a witless mess. Even star Peter Falk fails to raise a laugh in his role Read More

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Juano Hernandez, Anthony Zerbe, George Spell

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the Heat of the Night. Once again, he is a veteran homicide detective and is currently investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Glass Cage

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

Synopsis: East European resistance leader Anton Reisner (Richard Garland) is being held in a prison cage surrounded by escape-proof glass. The cage can only be opened automatically via a newly created security device. The IMF agents hope to trick Reisner's captor Major Zelinko (Lloyd Bochner) into Read More

Mission: Impossible: Doomsday

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

Synopsis: European business tycoon Carl Vandaam (Alf Kjellin) hopes to recoup his lost fortune by building a hydrogen bomb and selling it to the highest bidder. The IMF's mission is to stop Vandaam in his tracks, a strategy that requires Rollin to pose as one of the potential buyers. The more dangerous Read More

Mission: Impossible: Live Bait

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

Synopsis: Kellerman (Anthony Zerbe), chief of security in an Iron Curtain country, suspects that defector Orin Selby (John Crawford) is actually a double agent for the Americans. Having captured the only person who knows Selby's true identity, Kellerman holds the man in a booby-trapped cell in a state of Read More

Mission: Impossible: The System

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

Synopsis: To get the evidence necessary to destroy mob kingpin Constantine Victor (Val Avery), the IMF preys upon Johnny Costa (James Patterson), Victor's most trusted henchmen. Knowing that Costa would never rat out his boss under normal circumstances, the IMF agents stage a complex scam to convince Costa Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Exchange

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

Synopsis: The focus in this Mission: Impossible episode is on Cinnamon Carter, who has been captured behind the Iron Curtain. Chief interrogator Strom (John Vernon) discovers that Cinnamon suffers from a mortal terror of small, confined spaces, and uses this knowledge as a means of breaking her cover and Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Mind of Stefan Miklos

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

Synopsis: Steve Ihnat guest-stars as eponymous master spy Stefan Miklos in this psychologically complex Mission: Impossible episode. Discovered to be a double agent, Walter Townsend (Jason Evers) is fed false information by the Americans. In order to throw Miklos off the track, the IMF must convince him Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Test Case

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

Synopsis: In order to prevent Dr. Oswald Beck (David Hurst) from inaugurating wholesale bacteriological warfare against the Free World, IMF agent Rollin takes the place of a political prisoner chosen as Beck's guinea pig. To discredit Beck, Phelps and his colleagues are forced to make certain that the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Vault

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

Synopsis: Nehemiah Persoff makes his second Mission: Impossible guest appearance, this time in the role of corrupt Latin American official Phillipe Pereda. Planning to loot his country's treasury of $40,000,000, Pereda intends to pin the blame on the country's honest president, De Varo (Rodolfo Acosta). The Read More

Mission: Impossible: Illusion

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

Synopsis: The IMF's mission is to smash the unholy alliance between East European officials Skarbeck (Fritz Weaver) and Lom (Kevin Hagen) and enable a pro-US candidate to win an important government post. The plan requires Cinammon to pose as a recently deceased cabaret entertainer, with Rollin Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Interrogator

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

Synopsis: Written by Paul Playdon, "The Interrogator" opens as enemy submarines converged off the Atlantic Coast, poised to launch a nuclear attack against the United States. Racing against time, the IMF agents must persuade captured spy Novan Kruger (Henry Silva) to reveal his country's war plans. Read More

Mission: Impossible: Nicole

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

Synopsis: Guest star Joan Collins plays the title character in this offbeat Mission: Impossible episode. While on a particularly delicate recovery mission, Phelps is shot, wounded and left for dead. Upon awakening, he finds that he has been nursed back to health by the beautiful Nicole. Despite being Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bunker, Part One

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

Synopsis: The second multipart adventure of Mission: Impossible's third season, "The Bunker" was written by Paul Playdon. The IMF is assigned to rescue rocket scientist Erich Rojak (Milton Selzer), who is being forced to cooperate with the enemy. Not only must the agents release Rojak from an impenetrable Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bunker, Part Two

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

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Bunker", the IMF team continue their efforts to rescue rocket scientist Erich Rojak (Milton Selzer) and his wife Anna (Lee Meriwether from the Enemy. Complicating matter is the fact that Rojak is being held in bunker some 300 Read More

Mission: Impossible: Nitro

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

Synopsis: General Zek (Titos Vandis) conspires with munitions manufacturer Ismir Najiid (Sandor Szabo) to kill Middle Eastern potentate King Said (Joe E. Tata) with a truckload of nitroglycerin. The conspirators then plan to place the blame for the assassination on a neighboring country, thereby sparking a Read More

The Mama Cass Television Program

Actors: Mama Cass Elliot

Synopsis: This musical TV special features 60's vocalist Mama Cass singing a number of her best loved hits, including Dream a Little Dream, California Dreamin', Monday Monday, and many more. Some of the artists who collaborate with Cass in the program include John Sebastian and Joni Mitchell. ~ Cammila Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trial by Fury

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

Synopsis: Written by Sy Salkowitz, "Trial by Fury" takes place in a South American dictatorship. When resistance leader Manuel Delgardo (Ernest Sarracino) is thrown into prison, his associate Santos Cardoza (Michael Tolan) has himself arrested so that he can pass on valuable information to Delgardo's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Phoenix

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

Synopsis: Frequent Mission: Impossible director Alf Kjellin appears in this episode as art museum director Stefan Prohosh, the ousted party chairman of a small Eastern Bloc country. Hoping to regain his power, Prohosh steals a secret alloy which has been welded into a metal sculpture. The IMF's mission is Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Heir Apparent

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

Synopsis: Mission: Impossible launched its third season on September 29 1968 with the episode titled "The Heir Apparent." To save a Balkan monarchy from falling into the hands of Envir Quaisette (Charles Aidman), the IMF concocts a plan built around the legend of Princess Celine, the real heiress to the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Recovery

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

Synopsis: When a SAC bomber crashes in a Communist country, the palne's fail-safe mechanism falls into the hands of American defector Paul Shipherd (Bradford Dillman). The IMF agents must retrieve the mechanism before Shipherd inadvertently triggers its self-destruct device. Posing as the husband-and-wife Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Town

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

Synopsis: Taking a well-deserved vacation, Phelps finds himself in a small town populated almost exlclusively by political assassins. Captured, Phelps is drugged and left in a paralytic state. Despite his helplessness, he manages to blink a message to Rollin, who rallies the rest of the IMF to prevent the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Counterfeiter

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

Synopsis: The title character in this Mission: Impossible episode is Raymond Calder (Edmond O'Brien), the unscrupulous manufacturer of counterfeit drugs. Distressed that Calder has exploited the needs of the desperately ill, his former colleague Dr. McConnell (Noah Keen) conspires with the IMF agents to Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Condemned

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

Synopsis: Like the first-season Mission: Impossible episode "The Ransom," the second-season installment "The Condemned" is an unusual departure from the series' format. Racing against the clock, Jim Phelps hopes to save the life of his close friend Kevin Hagen, who has been convicted of murder and sentenced Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Killing

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

Synopsis: Gerald S. O'Loughlin guest-stars as Burt Gordon, the suspected head of a nationwide organization of contract killers. To get the goods on Gordon, Phelps and Cinnamon pose as a married couple and move next door to the suspect. The next step is to convince Gordon that he has murdered Phelps--and Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Contenders, Part One

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

Synopsis: World champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson makes a guest appearance in the two-part Mission: Impossible episode "The Contenders", which was loosely based on an actual event in Robinson's career. The IMF must prevent Charles Buckman (Ron Randell) from gaining control of all American sports events, and Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Diplomat

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

Synopsis: Unable to recover valuable documents concerning America's missile system, the IMF must resort to a contingency plan. In order to convince enemy agents that the documents are worthless, Phelps and his cohorts work hand in glove with Susan Buchanan (Lee Grant), the wife of an American diplomat. Mrs. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Elixir

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

Synopsis: Ruth Roman guest-stars as Riva Sentel, the Evita-like widow of a popular Latin American leader. Santel plans to make a television broadcast that will enable her to abolish democracy in her nations and set herself up as dictator. Banking on Sentel's notorious vanity, the IMF hopes to ruin her Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bargain

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

Synopsis: Miami-based gambling kingpin Frank Layton (Warren Stevens) has agreed to finance the return of a deposed Latin American dictator General Neyron (Albert Paulsen). In exchange, Layton will receive all gambling rights in Neyron's home country. The IMF agents hope to derail this bargain, and destroy Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Play

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, John Colicos

Synopsis: Milos Kuro (John Colicos), minister of culture in an Eastern Bloc nation, plans to use an anti-American play to sabotage the peacful negotations between pro-Western premier Leon Vados (Barry Atwater) and the United States. To that end, Kuro, hires a travelling theatrical troupe to do his dirty Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Mercenaries

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

Synopsis: Mercenary leader Colonel Han Krim (Pernell Roberts) promises to bring freedom to emerging African nations, all the while robbing the economic resources of those nations to fatten his own coffers. In order to discredit Krim and return his ill-gotten gains to their rightful owners, the IMF stages a Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Contenders, Part Two

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

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Contenders", crooked sports promoter Charles Buckman (Ron Randell) still hopes to gain control of all professional and amateur athletics in the United States. Posing as an aspiring boxer, IMF agent Barney has managed to Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Cardinal

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

Synopsis: Borrowing a page from "The Man in the Iron Mask," an impostor poses as Cardinal Soucheck (Paul Stevens), the much-beloved spiritual leader of a Balkan nation, while the real Cardinal languishes in prision. It is all part of a scheme by would-be dictator General Zepke (Theodore Bikel) to gain 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

Mission: Impossible: The Freeze

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

Synopsis: Having stolen $10 million, Albert Jenkins (Donnelly Rhodes) allows himself to be arrested for another offense under an assumed name, secure in the belief that, by the time his 14-year sentence has been served, the statute of limitations will have expired and he will be able to recover his stolen Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Emerald

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

Synopsis: Boarding the S.S. Star of Suez, the cleverly disguised agents of the IMF attempt to prevent Communist agent Yorgi Petrosian (Michael Strong) from getting his hands on a valuable microfilm. Unbeknownst to himself, gun salesman Victor Tomar (William Smithers) is in possession of the film, which is Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 03

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

Synopsis: After two years of playing to respectable but not spectacular ratings, Mission: Impossible finally attained the gold ring in season three, when it was ranked as America's 11th most popular series by the A.C. Nielsen Company. At this point in time, the series' formula had been committed to memory Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Spy

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

Synopsis: Beautiful but dangerous enemy agent Felicia Vabar (Kate Woodville) engineers the theft of valuable NATO missile-defense plans. Fortunately, only half of the plans are in Vabar's possession: It is up to the IMF to protect the other half--and, of course, to recover the already stolen documents. Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Game of Chess

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

Synopsis: The IMF agents are assigned to recapture $1,000,000 in gold bullion, which was targetted for a pro-Democracy underground group but has been confiscated by the Communists. The money is being held under maximum-security conditions at a hotel where an important chess tournament is being held. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Frame

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

Synopsis: The IMF agents pose as caterers to prevent mob boss Jack Wellman (Simon Oakland) from infiltrating the government of an unnamed state government. While Briggs, Rollin and Willy prepare a lavish dinner for Wellman and his cronies, Barney undertakes a delicate safecracking operation--while Cinnamon Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Trial

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

Synopsis: Though filmed as the twelfth episode of Mission: Impossible, "The Trial" was the seventeenth to be telecast, on January 28, 1967. While visiting an Eastern European nation, Briggs is mistaken for an American tourist and arrested by public prosecutor Josef Varsh (Carroll O'Connor). It is Varsh's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Diamond

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

Synopsis: Having gained control of the African nation of Lombuanda, despotic Henrik Durvard (John Van Dreelen) has compounded this outrage by confiscating a 27,000-carat diamond. He intends to sell the diamond to the highest bidder in order to finance the invasion of his neighboring nations. The IMF's 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

Mission: Impossible: Season 02

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

Synopsis: Season two of Mission: Impossible found a new man at the helm of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force: Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, replacing the first season's Steven Hill, who played Dan Briggs. At the time, there was much speculation in the industry over the reason for Hill's departure, with Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Legacy

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

Synopsis: The scene is Zurich, Switzerland, where four young men, all sons of top-ranking Nazi officials, have gathered. Armed with information that will lead them to the long-hidden personal fortune of Adolf Hitler, the men hope to establish a Fourth Reich. The IMF's mission is to intercept the money (a Read More

Mission: Impossible: Shock

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

Synopsis: Enemy agent Peter Kiri (Sorrell Booke) has kidnapped US special envoy Wilson (James Daly) and replaced him with an exact lookalike named Gort. Kiri's plan is to discredit Wilson by having "him" behave in a disgraceful manner while on a delicate diplomatic assignment in a neutral nation. The IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Train

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

Synopsis: The scene is the tiny European republic of Svardia. Dying prime minister Laryra (Rhys Williams) has arranged to be succeeded by his protégé Milos Pavel (William Windom), little realizing that Pavel intends to set up a Communist dictatorship. In concert with an Oscar-winning Hollywood art director Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Traitor

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

Synopsis: Guest star Eartha Kitt is cast as a petite circus contortionist named Tina. American agent Hughes (Lonny Chapman) has defected to the East, intending to sell top-secret information to the Communists. In order to retrieve that information, the IMF must penetrate an Iron Curtain embassy, via the air Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Cube of Sugar

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

Synopsis: Under the guise of an LSD addict, US secret agent Vincent Deane (Jacques Denbeaux) has managed to hide some top-secret information in one of his "doped" sugar cubes. Unfortunately, Deane is arrested and placed in a Communist-controlled rehabilitation clinic. Posing as Deane's wife, Cinnamon Read More

Mission: Impossible: Snowball in Hell

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

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban guest-stars as Gerard Sefra, formerly the sadistic overseer of the defunct Boradur penal colony. Sefra has somehow come into possession of a sample of Cesium 138, the catalyst for a low-cost nuclear arsenal. To prevent Sefra from selling the Cesium to the highest bidder, the IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Legend

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

Synopsis: The IMF is assigned to infiltrate a South American stronghold, where a group of unregenerate Nazis have gathered in hopes of reestablishing the Third Reich. Much to the agents' amazement, the leader of the Nazis is the infamous Martin Bormann! Will the agents be able to convince the old but wily Read More

Mission: Impossible: Action!

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

Synopsis: Eastern European movie mogul Miklos Klaar (J.D. Cannon) plans to combine genuine American newsreel footage with faked "re-enactments" to show US soldiers committing atrocities in Southeast Asia. The IMF's assignment is to discredit Klaar in the eyes of his government. Series regular Barbara Bain Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Confession

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

Synopsis: US Senator William Townsend (Kent Smith), the head of a right-wing extremist group, has been assassinated. Confessing to the crime is Andreas Solowiechek (David Sheiner), a member of a Communist Trade delegation, who insists that he was acting on orders from his own government. In truth, however Read More

Mission: Impossible: Operation

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

Synopsis: Communist agent Stephan Gomalk (Michael Strong) intends to take control of the small European democracy ruled by his "friend", President Beyron Rurich (Pernell Roberts). Caught in the middle is archaeologist William Bennett (Aaron Fletcher), who stumbled onto Gomalk's scheme, suffered a heart Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Slave, Part Two

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

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Slave", the IMF force has kidnapped Amara (Antoinette Bower), the niece of corrupt Elkabaran King Ibn Borca (Joseph Ruskin), Fasar (David Mauro), and sold her into slavery. It is all part of a plan to end the slave trade in Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Seal

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

Synopsis: The sacred gold seal of the Far Eastern nation of Kuala Rokat has been stolen. Masterminding the heist is American industrialist Taggart (Darren McGavin), who intends to hold on to the seal despite the danger of a major diplomatic breakdown. The IMF is assigned to recover the seal, a job that Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Money Machine

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

Synopsis: African stockbroker Walter DuBruis (Brock Peters) is poised to destroy the economy of Ghalea by flooding the nation with counterfeit money. His partner in crime is master forger Raf Tagoor (Michael Shilo), who has come into possession of a shipment of genuine currency paper. Assigned to dispose of Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Escape

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

Synopsis: Promising to smuggle wealthy Eastern Europeans across the Iron Curtain, banker Alfred Belzig 9James Daly) lures the hapless escapees to their deaths, then deposits the victims' money in his own bank to finance a neo-Nazi party. The IMF hopes to put Belzig out of business permanently by stealing Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Widow

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

Synopsis: Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) takes over as head of the Impossible Missions Force in "The Widow." This time, the target is Alex Cresnic (William Cresnic), the world's largest heroin dealer. The IMF's mission is to persuade Cresnic's buyers that he has double-crossed them. First step: to convince Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Slave, Part One

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

Synopsis: The first multipart adventure of Mission: Impossible's second season, "The Slave" was written by William Read Woodfield and Alan Balter. The scene is the Persian Gulf state of Elkabar, where King Ibn Borca (Joseph Ruskin) supervises a vicious but entirely legal slave ring with the aid of his crony Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Psychic

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

Synopsis: The first season of Mission: Impossible came to a close with the April 22, 1967 episode "The Psychic." Some valuable NATO secrets have been appropriated in a hostile corporate takeover by ruthless industrialist Alex Lowell (Barry Sullivan). The IMF heads to South America, where Lowell has Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Photographer

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

Synopsis: Anthony Zerbe guest-stars as David Redding, a high-profile fashion photographer--and treacherous double agent. In league with 150 fellow spies, Redding intends to destroy the U.S. with a deadly bubonic plague epidemic. With only 72 hours at their disposal, the IMF agents must stop Redding and his Read More

Mission: Impossible: Echo of Yesterday

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

Synopsis: Powerful but gullible German industrialist Otto Kelmann (Wilfred Hyde-White) is on the verge of handing over his munitions empire to a "new Hitler" named Colonel Marcus Von Frank (Hans Gudegast), aka Eric Braeden). It is up to the IMF to smash Marcus' movement by forcing Kelmann to realign his Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trek

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

Synopsis: A priceless collection of Inca gold treasures has disappeared, threatening the financial stability of Santales, a tiny Latin American republic. The IMF is assigned to retrieve the treasures from master thief Jack Cole (Dan O'Herlihy), a task made doubly difficult by the treacherous terrain of Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Survivors

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

Synopsis: Two of the three scientists working on a cobalt bomb have been kidnapped by enemy agent Eric Stavak (Albert Paulsen), who has hidden his captives somewhere in San Francisco. The IMF must protect remaining scientist Dr Robert Webster, who holds the equations for the deadly weapon. Posing as Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Council, Part One

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

Synopsis: Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Council" was the second multipart story of Mission: Impossible's second season. In their most ambitious assignment to date, the IMF must destroy a criminal empire that threatens to drain America's gold reserves. As part of the plan, Rollin Read More

Mission: Impossible: Sweet Charity

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

Synopsis: Guest stars Fritz Weaver and Hazel Court are cast as Erik and Catherine Hagar, who operate a fraudulent charity organization from their lavish European estate. The IMF agents attempt to destroy the Hagars' racket by ruining the couple's "perfect" marriage. Essential to the success of this plan is Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Council, Part Two

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

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Council", the IMF's plan to topple a gangland syndicate is threatened when one of the mobsters apparently sees through Rollin's impersonation of crooked businessman Frank Wayne (Paul Stevens). Meanwhile, the real Stevens lies Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Astrologer

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

Synopsis: Baltic freedom fighter Nikolai Kurzon (Bob Tiedemann) has been kidnapped by Colonel Alex Stahl (Steve Ihnat), leader of the secret police in Kurzon's homeland. To rescue both Kurzon and his thousands of followers, the IMF must make it appear that Stahl has sold out his government. To accomplish Read More

Mission: Impossible: Pilot Episode

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

Synopsis: Returning from a much-needed vacation, Briggs is asked to take his Impossible Missions Force to the South American dictatorship of Santa Costa. General Rio Dominguez has gotten hold of two nuclear warheads and locked them in the impenetrable vault of the Hotel Nacionale. Briggs' mission--should he Read More

Mission: Impossible: Odds on Evil

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

Synopsis: Nehemiah Persoff guest-stars as Prince Iben Kostas, absolute ruler of a tiny Middle Eastern country whose income derives solely from a famous gambling casino. In order to prevent Kostas from raising the money necessary to wage war upon a neighboring oil-rich country, the IMF must arrange to break Read More

Mission: Impossible: Old Man Out, Part Two

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

Synopsis: In Part Two of "Old Man Out," the IMF is still posing as a carnival troupe: Briggs as a mind reader, Cinnamon as his assistant, Willy as a strongman, Barney as a clown, and freelance agent Crystal Walker (Mary Ann Mobley) as a high-wire artist and Rollin as a light-fingered roustabout. It is all Read More

Nevada Smith

Actors: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated Read More

Branded: The Stage of Fools

Synopsis: Martin Landau guest stars in this episode as legendary American actor Edwin Booth, who has embarked on a theatrical tour of the West despite widespread resentment towards his Presidential-assassin brother John Wilkes Booth. Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) agrees to hire on as Edwin Booth's bodyguard Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 01

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

Synopsis: Season one of Mission: Impossible finds Steven Hill heading the cast as Dan Briggs, head of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force. Issued instructions at the outset of each episode by that famous "self-destructing" tape recorder, Briggs proceeds to select the IMF operatives best suited to the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Wheels

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

Synopsis: The IMF journeys to the Free World country of Valeria, where an election is about to be held. The police-controlled Nationalists intend to rig the votes so that they will emerge triumphant over the Liberty Party. The agents' mission is to "unfix" a crucial voting machine that has been tampered Read More

Mission: Impossible: Operation Rogosh

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

Synopsis: Mercenary anarchist Imry Rogosh (Fritz Weaver) has concocted a scheme to kill off most of the population of Los Angeles. With only 36 hours at their disposal, the IMF must "break" the unbreakable Rogosh to uncover his plans. Their strategy hinges upon convincing Rogosh that he has been imprisoned Read More

Mission: Impossible: Zubrovnik's Ghost

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

Synopsis: The IMF agents arrive in Austria, where widowed American scientist Dr. Martha Zubrovnik (Beartice Straight) has fallen under the influence of the Communists. Though Dr. Zubrovnik is not a traitor, she has been hoodwinked into cooperating with the enemy by phony medium Sigismund Poljact (Donald Read More

Mission: Impossible: Old Man Out, Part One

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

Synopsis: The first of Mission: Impossible's multipart adventures, "Old Man Out" began its two-episode run on October 8, 1966. The IMF agents disguise themselves as a carnival troupe in order to rescue 80-year-old freedom fighter Anton Cardinal Vossek (Cyril Delevanti) from an impregnable Balkan prison. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Carriers

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

Synopsis: Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Carriers" features George Takei as IMF agent Roger Lee and Arthur Hill as enemy agent Janos Passik. An expert on infiltration, Passik has set up a training school for spies in an Iron Curtain replica of a "typical" American town. It is all Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Ransom

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

Synopsis: Briggs is forced to play along with powerful mobster boss Frank Egan (William Smithers when the daughter of Briggs' friend Joe Mantell is kidnapped. In order to secure the girl's release, Briggs and the IMF must themselves kidnap the key witness against Egan in an upcoming Grand Jury Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Short Tail Spy

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

Synopsis: The IMF is faced with an assignment that virtually requires them to be in two places at once. First, they must prevent the murder of Professor Napolsky (Edward Colmans), who has defected to the West. Simulatenously, they must discredit the more dangerous of the two enemy spy groups who are Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Spool There Was

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

Synopsis: IMF agents Rollin and Cinnamon are assigned to an Iron Curtain nation, where they hope to retrieve a reel of recording wire containing details of an enemy chemical-warfare project. To avoid detective, Rollin poses as dockworker, while Cinnamon impersonates a news photographer. Finding the reel is Read More

The Hallelujah Trail

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily Read More

I Spy: Danny Was a Million Laughs

Synopsis: Martin Landau plays the title role in the I Spy episode "Danny Was a Million Laughs." In Hong Kong, agents Kelly and Scott are ordered to protect Danny Preston, a mobster who has agreed to turn government witness in exchange for immunity. Making the job doubly difficult is the fact that the two Read More

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Actors: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Charlton Heston

Synopsis: Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20 million) adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book. The "Greatest Story" is, of course, the life of Jesus Christ, played herein by Max Von Sydow. The large supporting Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Second Verdict

Actors: Martin Landau, Frank Gorshin, Sharon Farrell, John Marley, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: Defense lawyer Ned Murray (Martin Landau) is certain that he has made a name for himself by getting his client Lew Rydell (Frank Gorshin) acquitted on a murder charge. Later on, however, Lew mockingly informs Ned that he was actually guilty of the crime -- and under the rule of double jeopardy, he Read More

The Outer Limits: The Man Who Was Never Born

Synopsis: The sixth volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series chronicles the time travels of a mutant from the future who goes back to prevent the birth of the mad scientist who is responsible for creating a horrifying virus. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Jeopardy Room

Actors: Martin Landau, Richard Donner, John van Dreelen, Rod Serling, William Froug, Bob Kelljan

Synopsis: Having just defected from an Iron Curtain country, Major Ivan Kuchenko (Martin Landau) realizes that he is not out of the woods yet. Sequestered in a tiny hotel room, Kuchenko knows that he has been targeted for assassination by Commissar Vassiloff (Robert Kelljan). What he doesn't know is that Read More

The Outer Limits: The Invisibles

Synopsis: Luis Spain (Don Gordon), Genaro Planetta (Tony Mordente), and Henry Castle (Chris Warfield) are three seeming social misfits who are recruited into the ranks of the Invisibles, a subversive underground organization run by an alien race. The Invisibles, small creatures with hard shell-covered Read More

The Outer Limits: The Bellero Shield

Synopsis: Richard Bellero (Martin Landau) is a brilliant but frustrated scientist, forever failing to find approval from his wealthy, pacifist-oriented father Richard Sr. (Neil Hamilton), even when he develops a practical high-energy laser. Much to the displeasure of his ambitious wife Judith (Sally Read More

The Outer Limits: The Galaxy Being

Synopsis: Engineer Alan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson) is using his commercial radio station's antenna to probe into deep space in experiments of his own, in the course of which he makes contact with a being (William O. Douglas, Jr.) from the great nebula in the constellation Andromeda. Through an accident, the Read More

The Outer Limits: It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

Synopsis: Dr. Stuart Peters (Michael Forest) arrives in Los Angeles from upstate New York, with his ne'er-do-well younger brother Jory (Scott Marlowe) in tow, to take a job at NORCO, an energy research laboratory. After an odd encounter with a guard -- who tries to warn him away from NORCO -- he reports for Read More

Cleopatra

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

Synopsis: In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Read More

Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock

Synopsis: When a passenger seems to develop small pox, she and five fellow travellers are kicked off a stagecoach and stranded in the desert. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Untouchables: Loophole

Synopsis: Jack Klugman guest stars as Morton Halas, an unethical but supremely successful criminal lawyer whose services are highly coveted by the Underworld. Now Halas has taken Big Mike Probitch (George Tobias) on as a client--and Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) determined to put Probitch away, no matter how Read More

Bonanza: The Gift

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Martin Landau

Synopsis: Originally scheduled to air on March 18, 1961, the Bonanza episode "The Gift" finally made its first appearance on April 1 of that same year. Determined to capture a white Arabian stallion as a birthday present for his father, Joe Cartwright makes a treacherous desert journey to Yuma, Arizona. Read More

The Untouchables: Mexican Stake-Out

Synopsis: Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is frustrated when a case that he has been building against mob functionary Theodore Newberry (Ken Lynch) literally goes South when the star witness, bookkeeper Julius Imbry (Byron Foulger), is kidnapped and spirited away to Mexico. When Newberry manages to humiliate Read More

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Denton on Doomsday

Actors: Dan Duryea, Martin Landau, Jeanne Cooper, Malcolm Atterbury, Doug McClure

Synopsis: First telcast October 16, 1959, this episode stars Dan Duryea as Al Denton, a once-legendary gunslinger fallen on hard times. Now the town drunk and the object of ridicule, Denton dreams of the day that he will regain his skills with a sixgun. That day comes sooner than expected, thanks to a Read More

Pork Chop Hill

Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, George Shibata, James Edwards

Synopsis: Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean "police action." While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a Read More

The Gazebo

Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Any murder mystery featuring a pigeon named Herman can be trusted to offer more mirth than mayhem and that is the case with this upbeat film by director George Marshall. Glenn Ford stars as Elliott Nash, a television playwright married to Nell (Debbie Reynolds), a successful Broadway thespian. Read More

North by Northwest

Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a Read More

Maverick: High Card Hangs

Synopsis: While working in a South Dakota gold-mining camp, Bart (Jack Kelly) and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) befriend Genessee Jones (Frank Ferguson), a grizzled old prospector with a hefty bankroll. Later on, Jones gets into a poker game with two miners (one of them a young Martin Landau) and Read More

Omnibus: Salome

Synopsis: Best known in 1955 as a sultry singer, Eartha Kitt returned to her dancing roots in this hour-long TV adaptation of Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salome. In one of his earliest TV appearance, Martin Landau costars as the prophet Jokanaan, better known as John the Baptist. When he denounces King Herod Read More