Menahem GolanFilmography

Born:: May 31, 1929 in Tiberias, Israel (then Palestine)
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: As one of the leaders in Israeli cinema, filmmaker/producer Menahem Golan has collaborated with his cousin Yoram Globus since the early '60s to produce over 150 movies. He spent many years directing theatrical productions in Israel before coming to the U.S. to study film in New York and later...Read More

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A History of Israeli Cinema

Synopsis: While Israel is a nation that has been in the center of the public eye ever since its birth, its national cinema has received relatively little attention, and only a handful of Israeli films have received extensive distribution outside the country. Raphael Nadjari at once addresses the story of Read More

2009
Dangerous Dance

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Zohar Liba, Eliana Bekier, Michal Amdursky, Omer Barnea, Niv Raz

2006
The Killing Grounds

Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Armand Assante, Udo Kier, Daniel Bernhardt, Shirly Brener

Synopsis: Armand Assante and Udo Kier star in director Ivan Nichev's tale of two warring gangs of drug dealers struggling to gain the upper hand in the lucrative Berlin drug trade. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Wild Dogs

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ayelet Zurer, Lior Ashkenazi, Alon Abutbul, Neta Garty, Igal Adika

Synopsis: An upstanding lawyer discovers where his loyalties truly lie while embarking on a personal crusade of vengeance and struggling with his own integrity. Israel, 2006: young lawyer Uri wrestles with his own morality after being asked by his best friend to lie in court. His friend has been accused of Read More

2006
Crime and Punishment

Crew: Director

Actors: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Margot Kidder, Sophie Ward

2002
Return From India

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Directed by Menahem Golan, Return From India centers inside of a chaotic Tel-Aviv hospital, where administrator Lazar (Assi Dayan) requests that a young surgeon named Dr. Rubin (Aki Avni) accompany him and his wife on a trip to India in hopes of rescuing his daughter, who had originally left for Read More

2002
Speedway Junky

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jesse Bradford, Jordan Brower, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Daryl Hannah, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen

Synopsis: In this gritty drama executive-produced by Gus Van Sant, a teenaged would-be stock-car driver gets more than he bargained for when he makes a pit stop in Las Vegas to earn a little cash. Almost as soon as he arrives in the city, high-school dropout Johnny (Jesse Bradford) finds himself victimized Read More

8/31/01
Death Game

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Joe Lara, Billy Drago, Richard Lynch, Maureen Lavette, Bo Brown

Synopsis: A young man's future hangs in the balance as two opposing forces struggle for his trust in this dramatic thriller from director Menahem Golan (Over the Top). Bo Brown stars as Jackie Stewart, a high-school basketball phenom poised to hit the big time. Enter Shakes Montrose (Billy Drago), a shady Read More

2001
Devarim

Synopsis: This Israeli drama is based on Yaakov Shabtai's novel Past Continuous and tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. Caesar loves his wife and son; he is devastated that they have separated. Now he leads a miserable life in a run-down apartment shared with the sluggardly Israel, a dead-beat Read More

3/25/98
Armstrong

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Zagarino, Kimberley Kates, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: A man becomes the unwitting last barrier between terrorists and nuclear holocaust in this action thriller. Rod Armstrong (Frank Zagarino) is a former Navy SEAL who travels to Moscow with his old friend Bob (Charles Napier) and Bob's wife Susan (Kimberly Kates) on a vacation. However, Armstrong Read More

1998
The Versace Murder

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Steven Bauer

Synopsis: The hunt is on with this story of the investigation into the murder of fashion mogul Gianni Versace (Franco Nero). Based on the true story, Steven Bauer stars as FBI agent John Jacoby as he conducts the manhunt for spree serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan (Shane Perdue). Miami Beach heats up as Read More

1998
Death Wish 5: The Face of Death

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Saul Rubinek, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: In this final film in the Death Wish series, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) returns to New York City, where he attempts to resume a normal life by proposing to his girlfriend Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down), a fashion designer. However, Olivia runs afoul of her ex-husband Tommy O'Shea (Michael Thomas Parks Read More

1994
Dead Center

Crew: Producer

Actors: Justin Lazard

Synopsis: Justin Lazard plays a crack-cocaine dealer who is caught in a police dragnet. The cops cut a deal with Lazard: they'll let him off the hook if he agrees to be trained as a professional assassin. Not unexpectedly, Lazard finds the police no more trustworthy than his former drug cronies. The last Read More

1994
Deadly Heroes

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Paré, Billy Drago, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: In this action-thriller, Brad Cartowski (Michael Pare) is a Navy SEAL whose wife, Marcy (Claudette Mink), has been kidnapped by a band of Libyan terrorists. The terrorists have also hijacked an airliner filled with passengers, and in exchange for the return of both Marcy, the jet, and its Read More

1993
Est & Ouest: Les Paradis Perdus

Actors: Alena Antonova, Phillipe Bergerone, Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: In this quasi-semi-documentary, a Russian angel leads viewers in a quest to discover what, if anything, remains of the great, utopian "American Dream" now that the so-called "Worker's Paradise" dream of Russia has passed completely into oblivion. Along the way, real celebrities and working members Read More

1993
Killer Instinct

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Bradley, Bruce Nozick, Rachel York, Jeff Griggs

Synopsis: This brutal biopic tells the blood-soaked tale of how Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll rose to become one of the most ruthless, powerful gangsters of the 1920s. Mad Dog Coll was shot simultaneously with Hit the Dutchman with Moscow locations substituting for New York. Both films basically used the same Read More

1992
Silent Victim

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ely Pouget, Kyle Secor, Alex Hyde-White, Ralph Wilcox

Synopsis: Silent Victim is the true story about a troubled pregnant wife (Michelle Greene) who attempts suicide, but is only successful in killing her unborn child, not herself. Following her failed attempt, her husband (Kyle Secor) sues her for murdering the unborn child, while a district attorney Read More

1992
Captain America

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matt Salinger, Melinda Dillon, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Michael Nouri

Synopsis: After a scientist creates superhuman warrior Red Skull for the Nazis during WW II, she defects and does the same for the U.S.-- injecting a polio victim to transform him into the titular heroic beefcake. Forty years after a confrontation which left Captain America frozen in Alaska, he is found and Read More

1992
Hit the Dutchman

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Bruce Nozick, Eddie Bowz, Will Kempe, Sally Kirkland, Matt Servitto

Synopsis: The ever economy-minded Menahem Golan -- of the legendary and defunct Cannon Films -- directed this gangster saga in Moscow to take advantage of low production costs, even shooting a second gangster film (Mad Dog Coll) at the same time, on the same locations, with the same cast. Hit the Dutchman Read More

1992
Dance Macabre

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This mundane, predictable psycho-thriller was originally conceived as a sequel of sorts to the 1989 version of Phantom of the Opera, another unsuccessful horror vehicle for Robert Englund. Filmed on location in St. Petersburg, the film stars Englund as the co-director of a prestigious Russian Read More

1991
The Finest Hour

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracy Griffith

Synopsis: In this action film, Hammer (Rob Lowe) and Dean (Gale Hanson) meet and become fast friends at a Navy training school. When the impulsive Hammer marries the woman (Tracy Griffith) Dean is pining for, the two go their separate ways. However, when the United States suspects Iraq of possessing the Read More

1991
The Masque of the Red Death

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A contemporary version of the masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe follows a photographer (Michelle McBride) as she spies on a soap-opera star at a party in Bavaria. She must solve the crimes when several guests are murdered by someone in a skull mask and red coat. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Killing Streets

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: After his twin brother is taken hostage in Beirut, a high school basketball coach (Michael Pare) heads to the Middle East to rescue him. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Night of the Living Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson, William Butler, William Anderson

Synopsis: Makeup wizard Tom Savini's color remake of George A. Romero's 1968 classic follows the original almost shot-for-shot, so quality comparisons are somewhat pointless. The film was clearly made for younger viewers who refuse to watch black-and-white films, no matter how good they may be. The result Read More

10/19/90
The Fifth Monkey

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Mika Lins, Vera Fischer, Sylvia de Carvalho, Carlos Kroeber

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley headlines this thoughtful adventure that was filmed on location in Brazil. The story centers on Cunda, a poor hunter who makes his meager living killing snakes. One day, he runs across four chimpanzees. The hunter is elated, for he hopes that selling them in the Big City will net him Read More

10/5/90
The Forbidden Dance

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbra Brighton, Laura Elena Harring, Jeff James, Sid Haig, Richard Lynch, Miranda Garrison

Synopsis: When the Brazilian rainforest home of young Princess Nisa (Laura Herring) is threatened by greedy American businesses, she travels to Los Angeles with Joa the shaman (Sid Haig). There Joa is thrown in jail, and Nisa must find a way to stop the rainforest destruction herself. When a young man who Read More

3/16/90
Mack the Knife

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era London. The girl's family attempts to thwart the marriage by catching the thief in the act. ~ John Read More

2/2/90
Bullseye!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland, Deborah Barrymore, Mark Burns

Synopsis: A hectic caper flick with farcical overtones, Bullseye! doesn't quite hit the....oh, you know. Government scientist Michael Caine and his titled pal Roger Moore plan to auction off a cold fusion formula to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, a pair of con artists-also played by Caine and Read More

1990
Street Hunter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steve James, Reb Brown, John Leguizamo, Valarie Pettiford, Frank Vincent

Synopsis: Steve James stars in this martial-arts adventure. This time he plays former maverick NYC cop and Vietnam vet Logan Blade who currently works as a bounty hunter in pursuit of the potentially dangerous Angel, who is trying to get all of the Big Apple's gangs to unite and become a vicious death Read More

1990
The Phantom of the Opera

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Lawrence

Synopsis: Gaston Leroux's classic tale of love and suspense gets a face-lift in this horror story loosely adapted from Leroux's novel. Christine (Jill Schoelen) is a young classical vocalist who, in the midst of performing a recently discovered piece by an obscure composer, is struck on the head by a Read More

11/3/89
Cyborg

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, killer-for-hire Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is hired to escort a cyborg--which contains valuable information on a cure for a deathly plague--to its research center. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

4/7/89
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Perry Lopez, James Pax, Peggy Lipton, Sy Richardson, Juan Fernandez

Synopsis: Once again, Charles Bronson plays a renegade cop out for vigilante justice in the darkest heart of the urban jungle. This time, he is targeting an especially ruthless pimp who has been leading innocent young girls into prostitution. When the pimp kidnaps the beautiful daughter of a Japanese Read More

2/3/89
Manifesto

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Camilla Soeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow, Eric Stoltz, Lindsay Duncan

Synopsis: This film deftly combines black comedy with sharp political satire. Set in a fictional Eastern European town called Waldheim, a place "where nothing is what it seems," the action is centered around a visiting king, in whom many people are very interested for a variety of reasons. Assassination and Read More

1/27/89
Haunted Summer

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz, Alex Winter

Synopsis: Adapted by Lewis John Carlino from the speculative novel by Anne Edwards, Haunted Summer recounts one of the most tempestuous "menage a quatres" of the 19th century. During an Italian holiday in 1816, novelist Mary Godwin (Alice Krige) meets the man she is destined to marry, bisexual poet Percy Read More

12/16/88
Hanna's War

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence, David Warner

Synopsis: Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II. Though safely ensconced in Palestine at the outbreak of the war, Hannah volunteers to venture behind enemy lines in Europe on a life-or-death mission. Unfortunately, she is Read More

11/23/88
A Cry in the Dark

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Bruce Myles, Sam Neill, Nick Tate

Synopsis: A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early 1980s was the most hated woman in Australia. While visiting the Ayers rock monument in the Outback with her husband Michael (Sam Neill), Lindy notices a dingo creeping into the tent where Read More

11/11/88
Business As Usual

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Glenda Jackson, John Thaw, Cathy Tyson, Eamon Boland, James Hazeldine

Synopsis: The British Business as Usual stars Glenda Jackson and John Thaw as the husband-and-wife managers of a boutique. When a huge store chain purchases Jackson and Thaw's establishment, chain executive Eamon Boland is sent to check out the place. It seems, however, that he's more interested in checking Read More

10/21/88
Messenger of Death

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Trish VanDevere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Even though Charles Bronson doesn't carry a gun in this feature, there are still plenty of the fights, car chases, and explosions -- all hallmarks of Bronson's action films. Bronson plays Denver Tribune crime reporter Garrett Smith, who investigates the murder mystery of a Mormon family. Smith Read More

9/16/88
Doin' Time on Planet Earth

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Nicholas Strouse, Hugh Gillin, Gloria Hendry, Hugh O'Brian, Martha Scott

Synopsis: Ryan Richmond (Nicholas Strouse) is a lonely teen from Sunnydale, Arizona who believes he is a space alien in this offbeat comedy. Charles (Adam West) and his wife Edna (Candice Azzara) are the new neighbors who reinforce Ryan's vivid imagination. Hugh O'Brien plays a former U.S. vice-president Read More

9/16/88
Hero and the Terror

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran, Jeffrey Kramer

Synopsis: O'Brien (Chuck Norris) is a detective who captured the psychotic maniac Simon Moon (Jack O'Halloran), aka the Terror, by mistake. When the obese 6' 6'' villain fell from a ladder trying to escape, he was knocked cold and the lucky O'Brien got the credit for his collar. With his psychiatrist Read More

8/26/88
The Kitchen Toto

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, Edwin Mahinda, Kristen Hughes, Robert Urquhart

Synopsis: In the vernacular of Kenyan whites of the 1950s, a "kitchen toto" was a native black servant. One such "toto" is 12-year-old Mwangi (Edwin Mahinda). The son of a black clergyman who has been slain by Mau Mau for his moderate beliefs, Mwangi is taken into the household of British police-chief Bob Peck Read More

5/13/88
Salsa

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Robi Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Magali Alvarado, Miranda Garrison, Moon Orona

Synopsis: Disco-gone-Latin, that's what's happening in Salsa, where a grease monkey who's sick and tired of knuckle-busting lives for his nights on the dance floor where he gyrates to the salsa beat. Not much plot but plenty of dancing is the fare here, as the lead guy (Robby Rosa) is out to show he's the Travolta Read More

5/6/88
Powaqqatsi

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Powaqqatsi was the second of the feature-length "non narrative" films produced, directed and co-scripted by Godfrey Reggio. As in his earlier Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio utilizes a collage of sounds and gimmicked-up images to make a comment on modern life. And as in the earlier film, Reggio's onslaught Read More

4/29/88
Appointment with Death

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium created by Agatha Christie. In 1937, Mrs. Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie) is on an archeological dig in Palestine; she inherited the wealth of her recently deceased husband and Read More

4/15/88
Alien from L.A.

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Kathy Ireland, Thom Matthews, Don Michael Paul, Linda Kerridge, Richard Haines

Synopsis: Who else but a California Valley Girl could stumble down a hole in the ground and end up in the lost city of Atlantis: "Ooooh, and the buildings are sooo spiffy..." The Atlanteans are quite sure she's on their side, so they decide she's gotta' go and send out the death squads. The "Alien" in this Read More

2/26/88
Mercenary Fighters

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Peter Fonda, Reb Brown, Ron O'Neal, James Mitchum, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: A team of mercenaries, led by Colonel Virelli (Peter Fonda), is hired by an African nation to get rid of a tribe of people who are trying to block a proposed dam. After the men learn that the tribe is merely fighting to save its life, they face mutiny and confusion as to which side they're on. Read More

2/19/88
Going Bananas

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When a disgruntled chimp escapes from his circus master, he leads a number of people on a wild and crazy chase across Africa. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

2/12/88
King Lear

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Two highly talented and innovative directors -- filmdom's Jean-Luc Godard and the theatre world's Peter Sellars -- join forces in this unusual (to say the least) slant on Shakespeare's King Lear. This offbeat adaptation gives the viewer a postmodern taste of Shakespeare through the eyes of a Read More

1/22/88
Braddock: Missing in Action 3

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim, Yehuda Efroni

Synopsis: Vietnam veteran Colonel Braddock had believed his Asian wife to be dead since the war, but he hears from a missionary that she is not only alive, but has a son. Soon, he returns to Vietnam to rescue them and others from a prison camp. This is the third Missing in Action film starring the Read More

1/22/88
Snow White

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diana Rigg, Billy Barty, Sarah Patterson, Nicola Stapleton, Mike Edmunds

Synopsis: The highlights of this classic children's story are the performances of Diana Rigg as the Mean Queen and Billy Barty as Biddy the Dwarf. The seven-year-old Snow White is played by Nicola Stapleton, with Sarah Patterson portraying the princess at age 16. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Schizoid - Murder by Mail

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This is a Whodunit-type film, where someone is using a nasty pair of scissors to play a one-by-one elimination game with a troop of group-therapy patients. The group is made up of attractive women who soon realize that they could be next. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Shy People

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin

Synopsis: Writer Jill Clayburgh wants to remove her coke-addicted daughter Martha Plimpton from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Clayburgh, with daughter in tow, heads to the bayous of Louisiana, there to seek out an elusive great-uncle--and, it is Read More

12/4/87
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John Ryan, Perry Lopez, George Dickerson

Synopsis: Charles Bronson, weary and comatose, is trotted out again as the cocked crusader Paul Kersey in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Director Michael Winner has jumped ship for this installment, replaced by J. Lee Thompson (who has seen better days). Kersey is back in L.A. and dating attractive reporter Read More

11/6/87
Barfly

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, J.C. Quinn

Synopsis: Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the surprisingly entertaining Barfly was based. The film concentrates on alcoholic writer Mickey Rourke (the Bukowski alter ego) who carries on a hate-hate relationship with bartender Frank Stallone. Rourke Read More

10/16/87
Surrender

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Veteran television writer-director Jerry Belson concocted this sweet comedy that stars Michael Caine as Sean Stein, a best-selling mystery novelist who's been constantly hurt by women he's fallen for. Sally Field plays Daisy Morgan, an artist who has not yet hit it big. She and Stein are at a Read More

10/9/87
The Dancers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Leslie Browne, Thomas Rall, Lynn Seymour

Synopsis: Choreographer and filmmaker Herbert Ross directs the romantic backstage drama The Dancers, which features a production of Giselle by the American Ballet Theatre. Mikhail Baryshnikov stars as macho lead dancer Tony Sergoyev, the director of a ballet company beginning a production of Giselle in Read More

10/9/87
Tough Guys Don't Dance

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd

Synopsis: Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a Provincetown of perpetual twilight. Most of the tale, based on his best-selling novel, is told in flashback as Dougy Madden (Lawrence Tierney) pays a visit to his son Tim (Ryan O'Neal). Dougy, a tough ex-bartender, is Read More

9/18/87
Masters of the Universe

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty, Courteney Cox Arquette

Synopsis: Dolph Lundgren stars in this live-action film version of the popular television cartoon series (based on a collection of Mattel action figures). Lundgren is He-Man, a well-muscled super-hero, battling the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella) for control of the universe. Skeletor has designs on Read More

8/7/87
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel. In a speech to the United Nations, Superman declares he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Luthor emerges Read More

7/24/87
Too Much

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bridgette Andersen, Masato Fukazama, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Char Fontana, Uganda

Synopsis: Bridgette Andersen stars as the young daughter of an American businessman residing in Japan. The father's partner gives Bridgette a most lifelike toy robot, and before long the girl and the toy are the closest of friends. But when Bridgette's dad prepares to return to the US, the girl is told that Read More

6/12/87
The Barbarians

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Paul, Peter Paul, Richard Lynch, Eva La Rue, Virginia Bryant

Synopsis: The professional wrestling world's battling "Barbarian Brothers" are featured as the heroes in this sword-and-sorcery fantasy film. They're out to rescue their lovely queen and retrieve a magic ruby, stolen from them years before. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

5/15/87
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Larry Poindexter, Gary Conway, Jeff Weston

Synopsis: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation spotlights Michael Dudikoff and Steve James as a pair of combustible U.S. Army Rangers. Dudikoff and James are ordered to find out why so many Marine guards have been disappearing from their posts at the US Embassy in a mythical Carribean country. Turns out that Read More

5/1/87
The Hanoi Hilton

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones, Paul Le Mat, Stephen Davies, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention Read More

3/27/87
Street Smart

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson

Synopsis: Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a newspaper reporter who becomes a celebrity when he writes a fictitious exposé on prostitution. The story of the high-living pimp is too close a resemblance to real-life flesh pedlar Fast Black (Morgan Freeman), and Jonathan is jailed when he refuses to turn Read More

3/20/87
Number One with a Bullet

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Carradine, Billy Dee Williams, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: Detective Berzak (Robert Carradine) and his suave partner Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) combine forces to track down a notorious drug lord in this routine action feature. Captain Ferris (Peter Graves) monitors the progress of the decidedly different detectives. The trail leads to Dacosta (Barry Sattels Read More

2/27/87
Down Twisted

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, Trudi Dochtermann, Thom Matthews, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this well-wrought, fast-paced caper flick, a naive, good-hearted waitress doesn't think twice about helping her troubled roommate. Unfortunately, her help lands her in Central America fleeing for her life with a grungy mercenary. They are chased because the two are believed to have possession Read More

2/27/87
Over the Top

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall

Synopsis: After winning the heavyweight boxing championship and single-handedly winning the war in Vietnam for America, Sylvester Stallone moves on to a real challenge -- arm wrestling -- in this action drama with a family undercurrent. Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a long-haul truck driver who years ago Read More

2/13/87
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva, Robert Donner

Synopsis: After receiving a mysterious gold piece, Quatermain travels to Africa to find his brother, who is searching for a lost white tribe. In his search, Quatermain discovers a lost civilization. This film is a follow-up to King Solomon's Mines. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1/30/87
Dutch Treat

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Landsberg, Lorin Dreyfuss, The Dolly Dots, Terry Camilleri, Linda Lutz

Synopsis: Two young adventurers sign on to a cruise ship as performing knife throwers and get involved in all kinds of hijinks that begin when the bodies of two officers are found stabbed to death in this sea-going musical British farce. Meanwhile, the smooth-talking dopes attempt to convince the members of Read More

1/30/87
Assassination

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Jan Gan Boyd, Randy Brooks, Erik Stern

Synopsis: In Assassination, a routine political thriller directed by Peter Hunt, Jay Hillion (Charles Bronson) is a secret service agent assigned to protect First Lady Lara Royce Craig (Jill Ireland). Lara hates Hillion and tries to get away from him but finds she needs him when her life is threatened by a Read More

1/9/87
Sleeping Beauty

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Featuring several gorgeous ballet sequences, Sleeping Beauty is a live-action telling of the classic fairy tale, starring Tahnee Welch as Beauty. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Hansel and Gretel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hugh Pollard, Nicola Stapleton, Emily Richard, David Warner, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: In this live-action version of the classic fairy tale, Hansel (Hugh Pollard) and Gretel (Nicola Stapelton) are the offspring of an impoverished woodcutter (David Warner) and his wife (Emily Richard) who wander into the woods in this Grimm Brother's fairy tale. The trail of bread crumbs they leave Read More

1987
Red Riding Hood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Isabella Rossellini, Rocco Sisto, Linda Kaye

Synopsis: This uneven reworking of the famous Grimm Brother's fairy tale stars Amelia Shankley as Red Riding Hood. Craig T. Nelson plays a double role of twin brothers. Godfrey is the evil brother who rules the kingdom when the virtuous Percival is missing in action after riding off to war. Lady Jeanne (Isabella Rossellini Read More

1987
Beauty and the Beast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, John Savage, Yossi Graber, Michael Schneider, Carmela Marner

Synopsis: This live-action version of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast stars Rebecca De Mornay as the woman who learns to see the charm and love beneath the exterior of a boorish beast who imprisons her in his castle in order to collect a debt from her father. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
My African Adventure

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Jimmie "J.J." Walker, David Mendenhall, Deep Roy, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: For all we know, there may be even more unknown and unseen Dom DeLuise films lurking around out there. Until we did the research, we didn't know My African Adventure existed. Based loosely on a comic novel by Tamar Burstein, the film concerns the son of an American ambassador who meets a steady Read More

1987
Undercover

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Neidorf, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Corbin, David Harris, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: When a police officer is killed while investigating the drug trade at a South Carolina high school, his partner, Sheffield (David Neidorf), decides to get even. With the help of officers La Rue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Sgt. Irwin Lee (Barry Corbin), Sheffield goes undercover to discover the Read More

1987
The Emperor's New Clothes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sid Caesar, Clive Revill, Robert Morse, Lysette Anthony, Julian Joy-Chagrin

Synopsis: This witty version of Hans Christian Anderson's moral tale of a king whose vanity makes him an easy mark for con artists, features Sid Caesar and Art Carney. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Duet for One

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Margaret Courtenay

Synopsis: Julie Andrews delivers a virtuoso dramatic performance in Duet for One. Based on a play by Tom Kempinski, the story concerns brilliant concert violinist Stephanie Anderson (Andrews) who is slowly succumbing to the ravages of multiple sclerosis. Stephanie's problems are compounded by her cheating Read More

12/25/86
Rumpelstiltskin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Amy Irving, Billy Barty, Clive Revill, Priscilla Pointer, John Moulder-Brown

Synopsis: Billy Barty, one of the world's biggest little people, stars in this musical children's fable from the Brothers Grimm. Rumpelstiltskin (Barty) promises the miller's daughter Katie (Amy Irving) that she will be able to spin straw into gold in order to win the love of the Prince (John Mouler-Brown). Read More

12/19/86
Firewalker

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett, Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their nemesis "El Coyote" (Sonny Landham) comes into Read More

11/21/86
52 Pick-Up

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor

Synopsis: Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand Read More

11/7/86
Un Complicato Intrigo Di Donne, Vicoli E Delitti

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Daniel Ezralow, Francisco Rabal, Paolo Bonacelli

Synopsis: The vicious drug-related killings of young pre-teen boys are the fuel that moves this mystery-actioner into high gear. After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is Read More

10/3/86
Otello

Crew: Producer

Actors: Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz, Petra Malakova, Urbano Barberini

Synopsis: Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined Zeffirelli's 1976 La Scala staging (production on the film was Read More

9/12/86
Avenging Force

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, James Booth, John Ryan

Synopsis: Produced in the Autumn of the Golan-Globus collaboration, Avenging Force serves as a vehicle for American Ninja costar Michael Dudikoff. Cast as a retired secret service agent, Dudikoff runs up against a sinister right-wing political organization called the Pentangle. He comes to the aid of his Read More

9/12/86
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley

Synopsis: Over ten years after making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper returns to his deranged family of reclusive cannibals for another round of chainsaw chases and non-stop screaming. Hooper brings a real budget this time (having recently directed Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg) and the Read More

8/22/86
Detective School Dropouts

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Landsberg, Lorin Dreyfuss, Christian de Sica, Valeria Golino, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: Neither the idiotic title Detective School Dropouts nor the film's alternate cognomen Dumb Dicks are worthy of this easy-to-take crime comedy. David Landsberg stars as a likeable schlemiel who is addicted to detective stories. He links up with down-and-out gumshoe Lorin Dreyfuss (brother of Richard Read More

8/8/86
Invaders from Mars

Crew: Producer

Actors: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen

Synopsis: Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms Read More

6/6/86
Cobra

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Lee Garlington

Synopsis: Crime is the disease and Sylvester Stallone is the cure in Cobra, a high-octane rehash of the Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry films, burnished to a 1980s action sheen. Stallone is Marion Cobretti, a cop called in when regular police methods have failed. Cobra is sent to get a cult of Charles Read More

5/23/86
Murphy's Law

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress, Robert F. Lyons, Angel Tompkins, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: An officer of the law becomes a wanted man while trailing a killer in this crime drama. Jack Murphy (Charles Bronson) is a police detective who helped to put Joan Freeman (Carrie Snodgress), a psychotic murderer, behind bars ten years ago. However, Joan is now back on the street and determined to Read More

4/18/86
P.O.W.: The Escape

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Carradine, Charles R. Floyd, Mako, Steve James, Phil Brock

Synopsis: This is a very macho action film in which the good guys are just that "guys". Col. Cooper (David Carridine) has been captured by the North Vietnamese and wheels and deals his way out of this predicament with the sleazy Vietnamese commandant, Capt. Vinh (Mako). Vinh agrees to let Cooper and the Read More

4/4/86
America 3000

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Wagner, Laurene Landon, Camilla Sparv, Victoria Barrett, William Wallace

Synopsis: This future dystopia tale is set in what remains of the U.S.A. 900 years after a nuclear war. People have banded into clans, where women fight and win control over a region while men are held as slaves and divided into functional groups, such as laborers, servants, or those who father children. Read More

4/4/86
The Delta Force

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the Read More

2/14/86
Field of Honor

Crew: Producer

Actors: Everett McGill, Ron Brandsteder, Jun-Kyung Lee

Synopsis: In this action film set during the Korean War, a crude and brutal sergeant (Everett McGill ) has a sense of morality fixed at an altitude of about three feet above the gutter on his best days. Yet as time goes on, he is miraculously transformed into the shining opposite as though his defects were Read More

1986
Dangerously Close

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Stockwell, J. Eddie Peck, Carey Lowell, Bradford Bancroft, Don Michael Paul

Synopsis: This action drama is set in an affluent, conservative neighborhood seeking protection for its high school students. A company known as "The Sentinels" is hired to guarantee security at the school. However, the men in this company are more Nazi than Himmler, and they are soon bullying and abusing Read More

1986
Ha-shiga'on Hagadol

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Seffi Rivlin, Arik Lavie, Yehuda Efroni, Dina Doron, Anat Waxman

Synopsis: This comedy about the "sanity" of those in an asylum focuses on popular Israeli comic Seffi Rivlin, who plays a bank manager who discovers that the inmates of a mental institution are running a counterfeiting operation from the basement of their hospital. Actors exaggerate their portrayals of the Read More

1986
Malkat Hakita

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alon Aboutboul, Itzhak Ben-Ner, Avital Beer, Ranan Hefetz

Synopsis: Director Itzhak Yeshurun uses dissention in a high school as an allegory for the difficulties in mid-'80s Israeli society in this routine drama. One of the students in the school makes others miserable with his abrasive, brooding temperament after his girlfriend dumps him. Things start to go wrong Read More

1986
Hame' Ahev

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Bat-Adam, Avigail Arieli, Roberto Pollak, Awas Khatib

1986
Fool for Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, Martha Crawford

Synopsis: Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, long absent. Unexpectedly re-entering May's life, Eddie picks up where he left off, and soon the Read More

12/6/85
Runaway Train

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner, John Ryan

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood history. Two prisoners, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts), escape from a desolate Alaskan maximum-security facility. They hop aboard a speeding train, making a clean Read More

12/6/85
King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu

Synopsis: The action in this routine adventure film would be modeled on the enormously successful Indiana Jones but it is too much, too fast, too deja vu. It all starts when Jessie Huston (Sharon Stone, before stardom) talks adventurer Allen Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) into helping her find her father Read More

1985
Invasion U.S.A.

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anthony Correa, Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet, Alexander Zale, Alex Colon, Dehl Berti

Synopsis: This red-baiting action film stars Chuck Norris as Matt Hunter, a retired CIA agent who lives in the Florida Everglades. A communist invasion of Miami brings Hunter out of retirement to fight the encroaching hordes led by everyone's favorite low-budget bad guy, Richard Lynch. The film is extremely Read More

1985
American Ninja

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, John Fujioka

Synopsis: In American Ninja, Michael Dudikoff plays American "GI Joe" who, based in the Philippines, gets hip to a crooked arms racket involving none other than the military itself. There's no end to the rib-cracking opportunities Dudikoff encounters as he knee-knocks his way through a host of bad guys as Read More

1985
Rappin'

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edye Byrde, Rony Clanton, Charles Flohe, Eriq La Salle, Leo O'Brien

Synopsis: In Rappin', Mario Van Peebles is John Hood, a con who when released from jail goes back to his neighborhood to find his girl shacked up with a nasty gang-leader named Duane (Charles Flohe). Duane is on the take with a corrupt contractor who plans to tear down Hood's neighborhood and he and his Read More

1985
Lifeforce

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that Read More

1985
Hot Chili

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Schillaci, Allan J. Kayser, Joe Rubbo, Chuck Hemingway, Taaffe O'Connell

Synopsis: An softcore film featuring sado-masochism and bondage, Hot Chili concerns four teen-age boys who go to work at an exclusive Mexican spa. In spite of the orders of the manager, they are soon sexually involved with innumerable buxom and in sometimes kinky guests, ranging from a Nazi to a swinging Read More

1985
Hot Resort

Crew: Producer

Actors: Debra Kelly, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Berz, Dan Schneider

Synopsis: In this teen comedy, the employees at a posh hotel go to war with the resort's snooty guests. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
The Berlin Affair

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler, Andrea Prodan, Philippe Leroy, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of Read More

1/1/85
Death Wish 3

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Michael Winner ups the ante once again in Death Wish 3. Any pretense of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) having a career in architecture is completely gone. Kersey's new career appears to be as a professional vigilante, blowing away muggers, rapists and thieves off the mean streets -- or as he terms Read More

1985
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Soon-Teck Oh, Steven Williams, Cosie Costa, David Chung

Synopsis: While the first Missing in Action film told of a rescue mission by ex-POW Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris), the second concerns his original stay in a Vietnamese prisoner camp. The camp is governed by the crazed Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POW's to grow opium for French drug Read More

1985
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Adolpho "Shabba Doo" Quinones, Michael Chambers, Susie Bono, Harry Caesar

Synopsis: Breakdancing, hip-hop, rap, and a good time are the main stars of this standard teen movie about youths trying to raise money to save their community club from being razed for a shopping mall. Ozone (Adolfo Quiñones) and Turbo (Michael Chambers) are two master breakdancers who have started a Read More

12/19/84
Ninja III: The Domination

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, Sho Kosugi, David Chung, Tom Castronova, Dale Ishimoto

Synopsis: In this slick exploitation, martial arts fantasy from schlockmeisters Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, an evil ninja is killed off in a sandtrap on a golf course in Phoenix -- the police riddle him with bullets, foolishly thinking that is the end of it. But as he is dying, the ninja throws a smoke Read More

9/14/84
Breakin'

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Adolpho "Shabba Doo" Quinones, Michael Chambers, Ben Lokey, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: The first major breakdancing film, Breakin' stars Lucinda Dickey as a dancing student who dislikes the hidebound regimen of her demanding teacher. She breaks free from terpischorean tradition when she befriends a bunch of street kids devoted to breakdancing. Within a year of its release, Breakin' Read More

5/4/84
The Assisi Underground

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Maximilian Schell, Karlheinz Hackl

Synopsis: Set during World War II, The Assisi Underground deals with the efforts made by a handful of hardy European souls to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Ben Cross plays a dynamic young Catholic priest who puts his own life on the line to save thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy. While the Read More

1984
Edut Me' Oness

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anat Atzmon, Uri Gavriel, Moscu Alkalay

Synopsis: The innate morality of a ballet teacher is under attack in this message movie about the evils of a society that refuses to protect a potential victim because no violence has yet been committed against her. While this premise is worthy, director Raphael Rebibo's protagonists tend to be cardboard Read More

1984
The Ambassador

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Fabio Testi, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum plays as U.S. ambassador to Israel whose efforts at reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians run afoul of the somewhat questionable ambitions of security advisor Rock Hudson. Meanwhile, Mitchum's wife Ellen Burstyn embarks upon an affair with a PLO leader. When this fact Read More

1984
The Exterminator 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner, Frankie R. Faison, Scott Randolph

Synopsis: This violent follow-up to the sadistic actioner The Exterminator (1980) again features Johnny Eastland (Robert Ginty), a Vietnam vet who is triggered into vengeful killing when his dancer girlfriend (Deborah Geffner) is first badly beaten and permanently crippled and later murdered by a gang of Read More

1984
Maria's Lovers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Anita Morris

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's first American film is a romantic tale about an American war veteran whose dreams of his childhood sweetheart are countered by a less sunny reality. John Savage stars as Ivan Bibic, who has returned home to a small town in Pennsylvania, having suffered a Read More

1984
Making the Grade

Crew: Producer

Actors: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz, Ronald Lacey, Dana Olsen

Synopsis: The time-worn clash between the rich and poor, brought out by switched identities, is the ploy used here to put a streetwise kid into an upper-crust prep school. Palmer (Dana Olsen) does not want to stay at school for his final year, but he needs to graduate in order to receive his mega-buck trust Read More

1984
Ordeal by Innocence

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Ian McShane, Sarah Miles, Diana Quick

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) comes back to England after two years on an Antarctic expedition and discovers that the man he is searching for has been executed for murder. At the beginning Read More

1984
Deja Vu

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Nigel Terry, Claire Bloom, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover, and they both perish in a fire that destroys Read More

1984
Missing in Action

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Lenore Kasdorf, James Hong, Pierrino Mascarino, David Tress

Synopsis: One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. Read More

1984
The Naked Face

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Art Carney, Anne Archer

Synopsis: In this fast-paced, often complex murder mystery, a psychiatrist's patient and later his secretary are killed, yet the police seem unable to come up with any answers so the doc takes matters into his own hands. Roger Moore is Dr. Judd Stevens, a rather meek Chicago psychiatrist whose patient is Read More

1984
Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Elliott Gould, Margaux Hemingway, Sid Caesar, Burt Young, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: A man is torn between true love and the lure of fine dining in this romantic comedy. Alby Sherman (Elliott Gould) was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he runs a coffee shop. Alby has dreams of doing bigger and better things, and he works up the courage to ask his rich Uncle Benjamin (Sid Caesar) Read More

1984
Grace Quigley

Crew: Producer

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Nick Nolte, Elizabeth Wilson, Chip Zien, Kit Le Fever

Synopsis: When first released as Grace Quigley, this odd little black comedy proved too fey and quirky even for the most devoted fans of Katharine Hepburn. The star plays the title character, an old, worn-out woman with nothing to live for. Accordingly, she hires professional assassin Seymour Flint (Nick Nolte Read More

1984
Love Streams

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, Margaret Abbott

Synopsis: In this emotional roller coaster ride, Robert Harmon (John Cassavetes) is a street-wise, sometimes obnoxious writer currently working on a book about the seamier side of buying/selling love, and Sarah Lawson (Gena Rowlands) is an emotive wife and mother struggling through a divorce and custody Read More

1984
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Menahem Golan

Synopsis: Filmed in 1984, I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes was released in 1989, the year of the subject's death. Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams. This is warts-and-all material; Cassavetes makes no attempt at diplomacy if Read More

1984
Hercules

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lou Ferrigno, Mirella D'Angelo, Sybil Danning, Ingrid Anderson, William Berger, Brad Harris

Synopsis: The 12 labors of Hercules were not the objective of this film starring Lou Ferrigno as the semi-divine son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Hercules must rescue Princess Cassiopea from her kidnappers, fight off grotesque laser-breathing monsters and in one case, jettison a giant bear up into space Read More

11/24/83
The Wicked Lady

Crew: Producer

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales

Synopsis: Faye Dunaway stars in Michael Winner's labored re-make of the 1945 swashbuckler, which was co-scripted by Leslie Arliss, the original director of the 1945 film. Dunaway is Lady Barbara Skelton, a lady of the royal class, who becomes a highway robber, taking up with Captain Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates Read More

1983
Revenge of the Ninja

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sho Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Virgil Frye, Arthur Roberts, Mario Gallo

Synopsis: Sam Firstenberg directs Sho Kosugi in the martial arts action film Revenge of the Ninja. Kosugi plays a former ninja assassin whose family is killed by other ninjas. He begins life anew in America, but unexpectedly comes to work for drug traffickers who he must face off against. ~ Perry Seibert Read More

1983
10 to Midnight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Gene Davis, Andrew Stevens, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's Read More

1983
Sahara

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Although it is based on an intriguing premise -- Dale (Brooke Shields), disguised as a man, takes the place of her late father in a 1927 car race through the Sahara -- this film perversely falls flatter than a blow-out, and just as quickly. After starting the race and because of tribal warfare Read More

1983
Sword of the Valiant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: In this uneven dramatization of a legendary sword-and-sorcery tale, the Green Knight (Sean Connery) is a magician who appears at King Arthur's court brandishing an axe and challenging anyone to do battle with him. When no one responds, King Arthur himself steps into the breach -- but is turned Read More

1983
House of the Long Shadows

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz, Jr., John Carradine

Synopsis: In this umpteenth remake of the George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers play Seven Keys to Baldpate, Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he can bat out a mystery play in one evening. Magee squirrels himself away in a forbidding old mansion where, unbeknownst to him, a Read More

1982
The Last American Virgin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo, Louisa Moritz

Synopsis: A group of teens search for a woman to help them lose their innocence in this sex comedy from Boaz Davidson. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Death Wish 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia, J.D. Cannon, Anthony Franciosa

Synopsis: Paul Kersey's (Charles Bronson) self-appointed one-man vigilante squad goes bi-coastal in Michael Winner's sequel to his Death Wish. Kersey has taken up residence in Los Angeles, but lunatic violence follows him across the country like toilet paper sticking to his shoe. Kersey's Spanish cook is Read More

1982
Sapiches

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jonathan Segall, Dvora Kedar

Synopsis: As the fourth in a series of "Popsicle" movies about three young buddies, Sapiches is running on empty. Director Boaz Davidson liberally borrows from the preceding three films and puts together a series of low-brow sequences and variations on a few core jokes to pad a story line about ostensible Read More

1982
The Secret of Yolanda

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shraga Harpaz, Asher Tzarfati, Lasha Rosenberg

Synopsis: A beautiful deaf-mute is courted by both her riding instructor and personal guardian in this hot-and-heavy romance story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1982
That Championship Season

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Adapted from Jason Miller's play which won the Pulitzer Prize, That Championship Season is about a group of men who, after 25 years, get together again for a high-school basketball team reunion. After drinking and chumming, the circle of friends soon find long-hidden anger and resentment Read More

1982
Treasure of the Four Crowns

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ana Obregon, Gene Quintano, Francisco Rabal, Jerry Lazarus

Synopsis: In this 3-D adventure, a knock-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a mercenary history professor and his crack team of commandos head out to retrieve four stolen crowns said to possess the power of good and evil. It will not be an easy task as the crowns are being held by a mad cultist. The second Read More

1982
Hospital Massacre

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbi Benton, Chip Lucia, Jon Van Ness, John Warner Williams, Den Surles

Synopsis: This lurid, misogynist slasher opus employs the usual "20 years later" motif in its presentation of a heavy-breathing maniac (Chip Lucia) who has been relentlessly stalking the now-grown object of a jilted childhood crush (former Playboy playmate and '80s television staple Barbi Benton). He Read More

1981
Lady Chatterley's Lover

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell, Elizabeth Spriggs

Synopsis: The once-notorious D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover seemed like kid stuff by the time this 1981 adaptation hit the screens. To pep up Lawrence's tale of an aristocratic woman who conducts an affair with her earthy gamekeeper, soft-core porn specialist Just Jaeckin attempted to convert Read More

1981
Enter the Ninja

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Susan George, Sho Kosugi, Alex Courtney, Will Hare

Synopsis: Cannon Productions' first foray into the martial arts milieu, Enter the Ninja stars Franco Nero. While visiting old pal Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) in the Philippines, master ninja Cole (Nero) is approached by villain Charles Venarius (Christopher George). Coveting Lander's plantation, Venarius Read More

1981
Hot Bubblegum

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yftach Katzur, Jonathan Segall, Zachi Noy, Dvora Kedar

Synopsis: Coming along as the third film in a trilogy that may have died here, Lemon Popsicle 3 is a reminiscence of teenage years that is based on short, disparate segments featuring nudity, some violence, "oldies" music, and teen sex. Some viewers may want to stick with memories of their own teen years Read More

1981
Body and Soul

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Peter Lawford, Perry Lang

Synopsis: A medical student decides to enter the world of boxing and dives into a life of superficial values and corruption in this remake of the 1947 classic. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Schizoid

Crew: Producer

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Donna Wilkes, Richard Herd

Synopsis: When Dr. Peter Fales's (Klaus Kinski) patients start getting annhilated by an unknown serial killer, he and his daughter Alison (Donna Wilkes) both come under suspicion. Part slasher film and part psychological thriller, Schizoid co-stars Marianna Hill as Julie, a syndicated "Dear Abby"-style Read More

1980
New Year's Evil

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer, Louisa Moritz

Synopsis: In this horrific slasher outing, a punk rock disc jockey has a really bad night when a nutcase begins calling her every hour on New Year's Eve to inform her of his latest murder victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

Crew: Producer

Actors: Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Mel Welles, Virgil Frye

Synopsis: This is a crazy horror-film spoof in which the enthusiastic leads provide laughs just by the strength of their characterizations alone -- and because they are obviously having fun. Oliver Reed is Dr. Heckyl whose lumpy face is so ugly it has kept women away in droves. He works at a podiatrist's Read More

1980
The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood

Crew: Producer

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

1980
The Apple

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Stewart, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland, Vladek Sheybal, Grace Kennedy

Synopsis: Unleashed just as the disco phenomenon had peaked and was slipping out of public favor, this one-of-a-kind pop musical is set in 1994, when a Mephistophelean entrepreneur named Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) controls the international recording industry through the Worldvision Song Contest. Read More

1980
Imi Hageneralit

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gideon Singer, Gilatt Ankori, Avi Pnini, Eyal Geffen

Synopsis: Critics hated the play this film was based upon and continued to hate the film itself. However, it was very popular with audiences. In the story, an Israeli post commander on the Suez receives a visit from his mother. She has all his leadership skills and more, and before long she is the true base Read More

1979
The Magician of Lublin

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Valerie Perrine, Shelley Winters, Maia Danziger

Synopsis: This expensive production attempts to bring Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's subtle philosophical novel The Magician of Lublin to the screen. In the story, Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin) is a perfectionistic turn-of-the-century Jewish stage magician, con-man and mystic, who is touring Read More

1979
Lemon Popsicle

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yftach Katzur, Anat Atzmon, Jonathan Segall, Zachi Noy

Synopsis: Boaz Davidson co-wrote and directed this nostalgic schoolboy romance, taking place in 1950s Tel Aviv. The story deals with three young men -- Bentzi (Jesse Katsur), Momo (Jonathan Sagalle), and Yuda'leh (Zachi Noy) -- who only have girls on their minds. The boys, searching for their first sexual Read More

1979
Going Steady

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yftach Katzur, Jonathan Sagall, Zachi Noy, Yvonne Michaeli, Daphna Armoni

Synopsis: Teens in 1950s Tel Aviv were just as enamored of popular music as their American counterparts -- often listening to the same songs. In this romantic comedy, three buddies are on the lookout for an opportunity to express their sexual maturity. Benjie is much too nice for some of their shenanigans Read More

1979
Nissuim Nosach Tel Aviv

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yosef Shiloah, Shosh Marciano

Synopsis: This somber drama from the play by Moliere bears little resemblance to the original. It can only be termed as a low-budget quickie, with most of the money having been placed on advertising to dupe the public. An oily loan shark and miser tries to find himself a bride while destroying the lives of Read More

1979
The Godsend

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Cyd Hayman, Malcolm Stoddard, Angela Pleasence, Patrick Barr

Synopsis: This meandering distaff variant on The Omen begins with a visit from a strange pregnant woman (Angela Pleasence) to the house of a young suburban couple (Malcolm Stoddard and Cyd Hayman), where she gives birth to a baby girl and promptly exits stage left. The befuddled pair decide to adopt the Read More

1979
It's a Funny, Funny World

Crew: Producer

Actors: Boaz Davidson, Zvi Shissel

Synopsis: Few possible embarrassments are spared the victims of Candid Camera-type practical jokes played on unsuspecting members of the general public in this controversial Israeli film. Among the gags: a recording of a passing train is played from concealed speakers at a dressed-up ordinary road crossing Read More

1978
The Uranium Conspiracy

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Siegfried Rauch, Oded Kotler, Gianni Rizzo, Rolf Eden, Herbert Fux

Synopsis: This espionage thriller is set in some of Europe's most scenic locales and follows the exploits of an agent and soldier-of-fortune who must stop enemy agents from stealing a shipment of uranium. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Kid Vengeance

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leif Garrett, Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, John Marley, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: One of Cannon Films' two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Gianfranco Parolini's Pistola di Dio was the other), this spaghetti western was actually shot in the Middle East by American director Joseph Manduke. Pop star Garrett plays Tom, a teenager who Read More

1977
Operation Thunderbolt

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Yehoram Gaon, Ori Levy, Arik Lavi, Klaus Kinski, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: This thrill-packed fact-based action-adventure from Israel chronicles the daring rescue of 104 passengers from a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The film is also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
God's Gun

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leif Garrett, Sybil Danning, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone

Synopsis: One of two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance was the other), this spaghetti Western stars Van Cleef in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, Father John, is gunned down by the ruthless Sam Clayton (Jack Read More

1975
The Passover Plot

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Zalman King, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Was Jesus Christ the son of God -- or a clever political activist who staged his crucifixion and resurrection to help promote his point of view? The latter possibility is proposed in this bit of historical speculation, based on the best-selling novel by Hugh J. Schonfield. Yeshua (Zalman King), as Read More

1975
Lepke

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger, Gianni Russo

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting Read More

1975
The Four Deuces

Crew: Producer

Actors: Warren Berlinger, Carol Lynley, Jack Palance

Synopsis: TThough barely released to theaters, the tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama Four Deuces became a Late Late Show fixture in the '80s. Jack Palance plays Vic Morano, a high-ranking Prohibition-era mobster with a weakness for women. Vic's humanity begins surfacing when he falls for gorgeous blonde Wendy Read More

1975
Diamonds

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey, Shelley Winters, Shai Ophir

Synopsis: Menahem Golan directed this low wattage heist movie enlivened by Robert Shaw in a dual role as twin brothers. Shaw plays a jaded British aristocrat who decides to become a jewel thief in order to get back at his brother (also played by Shaw), a security expert who has constructed an impregnable Read More

1974
Kazablan

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Aliza Azikri

Synopsis: In this Israeli musical, shot in old Jaffa and Jerusalem and based on a popular stage show, a street-wise war hero inspires his neighbors to fight back against the developers endeavoring to destroy their neighborhood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
The House on Chelouche Street

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gila Almagor

Synopsis: While Egyptian-born director Moshe Mizrahi is best known for such popular European films as Madame Rosa (1977), I Sent a Letter to My Love (1981), and La Vie Continue (1981), he scored his first cinematic successes in his adopted homeland of Israel. Mizrahi was 15 years old when he emigrated to a Read More

1973
I Love You Rosa

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gabi Oterman

Synopsis: This Israeli romantic drama chronicles the love of Nissim for Rosa (Michel Bat-Adam), Nissim's widowed sister-in-law. Under (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty and obligation to marry his brother's spouse on the death of his brother. Nissim (Gabi Oterman) is very fond of Rosa, and Read More

1972
Escape to the Sun

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis: The ongoing plight of Russian Jewry serves as the backdrop for the Golan-Globus effort Escape to the Sun (Habricha el Hashemesh). Laurence Harvey is cast against type as Major Kirsanov, a nasty KGB officer who refuses to allow Soviet Jews Nina Kaplan (Josephine Chaplin, Charlie's daughter and Geraldine Read More

1972
999 - Aliza the Policeman

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this fast-paced slapstick Israeli comedy, cleaning woman Aliza (Edna Fildel) solves two murders in the department store she works in. The bumbling police try to help; despite the obstacles their help presents to her, with much shouting and scolding she unravels the mystery. In Hebrew, this film Read More

1972
The Great Telephone Robbery

Crew: Director

1972
Katz & Carasso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This film moves the Romeo and Juliet story to Tel Aviv, has the rival families be insurance brokers Katz and Karosso, and changes the number of tragic couples from one to two. In this Israeli comedy, the story has a happy ending. One interesting feature of the film is the astonishing number of Read More

1971
Highway Queen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gila Almagor

Synopsis: Margalit (Gila Almagor) is a prostitute with one child, and she wants another one. A man-hater, she doesn't want a husband, just another child. At this point she is an independent woman who works without a pimp and who "owns" a section of a road outside of Tel Aviv. There, she offers her services Read More

1971
Lupo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yehuda Barkan, Gabi Amrani

Synopsis: Yes, contrary to popular belief, Menahem Golan of the Golan-Globus production team can direct. Lupo is proof positive of this. The title character, played by Yehuda Barkan, is a happy-go-lucky Israeli cart driver. Before long, however, Lupo is neither happy nor lucky, nor can he "go." His horse is Read More

1970
Eagles Attack at Dawn

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Yehoram Gaon, Rick Jason, Yosef Shiloah

Synopsis: Members of the Israeli Army and Security Services plan an attack on a Syrian prison to release Israeli commandos. Eli (Yehoram Gaon) joins Beno (Rick Jason) and Abie (Peter Braun) in the clandestine operation. They must divert the attention of the Syrian Major Heikal (Yoseph Shiloah) by leaking Read More

1970
What's Good for the Goose

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Sally Geeson, Sarah Atkinson, Sally Bazely, Stuart Nichol

Synopsis: Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the sea of love. Timothy goes middle-aged crazy, making a Read More

1969
My Margo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Levana Finklstein, Oded Teomi, Avraham Ronay

Synopsis: Margo (Levana Finklstein) is a young woman saddled with the responsibility of caring for her siblings because of her absent mother and drunken father. With little time to think of her own feelings, she falls in love with a university professor and has her first love affair. Scenes of the Golan Read More

1969
Tuvia Vesheva Benotav

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This uneven and humorless drama is taken from the writings of Sholom Aleichem. Unfortunately, this movie version falls short of the tragic comedy presented in the original text. Tovie is a poor milkman who must work hard to support his wife and seven daughters. One by one, the young women leave Read More

1968
Nes Ba'Ayara

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gadi Yagil, Schlomo Bar-Shavit

Synopsis: This colorful musical comedy finds a young Jewish boy trying to save up enough money for a one-way ticket to America at the beginning of the 20th century. His brother tries to make money with a series of inventions which inevitably fail. Featured in the film are fourteen songs by Yohanan Zaray Read More

1968
Trunk to Cairo

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Audie Murphy, George Sanders, Marianne Koch, Hans von Borsody, Joseph Yadin

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a secret agent is slated to rendezvous with a German scientist in Cairo. There the agent gets involved with the scientist's daughter and discovers that her father is busy designing a moon rocket that can be used as a weapon. This leads the agent to break into the Read More

1966
Eight Against One

Crew: Director

1964
Dalia And The Sailors

Crew: Director

Actors: Shai Ophir

Synopsis: Veronique Vandell and Shai K. Ophir co-star in this musical comedy from Israel. Dalia is a beautiful Israeli woman whose family has moved to Canada. She stows away on a freighter in Montreal bound for the Middle East. The curvaceous, bikini-clad female endears herself to the crew, who do their Read More

1964
Shmonah Beiikvot Ekhad

Crew: Director

Actors: Shai Ophir

Synopsis: A group of Israeli children investigate a stranger who is camping out in the ruins that the kids consider their territory. Although the man claims to be an ornithologist, the children soon suspect him of clandestine operations. The children band together to uncover the mystery surrounding the Read More

1964
Sallah

Crew: Producer

Actors: Topol, Gila Almagor, Arik Einstein, Geula Nuni, Shraga Friedman

Synopsis: Israeli stage and film favorite Topol tops the cast of Sallah. Topol plays a Jewish refugee who moves his family to Israel shortly after the official establishment of that "promised land." Unlike his hard-working new neighbors, Topol is shiftless and lazy, forever finding the easiest, most Read More

1963
El Dorado

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gila Almagor, Topol, Shimon Finkel, Ori Levy, Shai Ophir

Synopsis: When a man is framed for a crime he didn't commit, his socially intimidated lawyer is reluctant to take the case. The barrister finally agrees, but does nothing to help in his defense. Political pressure is exerted to find the man guilty, and the guilty man is blackmailed into really committing a Read More

1963
Around the World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mischa Auer, Marcy McGuire, Wally Brown

Synopsis: In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This film realistically portrays the role of the USO during the WW II time period. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1943

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