Pat Boone Filmography

Thank You Billy Graham

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This documentary features an all-star performance of a song devoted to the memory of evangelist Billy Graham. The program also features interviews with people who have been moved by the man's life's work. Among the celebrities involved in this project are Pat Boone, Reba McEntire, and Bono. Read More

Elvis and Pat Boone: Rockin Rivals

Actors: Elvis Presley, Pat Boone

Synopsis: Elvis and Pat Boone: Rockin Rivals documents the friendly competition that existed between the two best-selling singers in the 1950s. Many of their contemporaries share their reflections about each of the superstars. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

F*ck

Actors: Drew Carey, Billy Connolly, Janeane Garofalo

Synopsis: The Queen Mother of all dirty words (as it was once described by Jean Shepherd) is examined through all its linguistic, sociological, legal, and ethical implications in this documentary. Filmmaker Steven Anderson interviews dozens of people about the history and function of "the F word," including Read More

The Sights and Sounds of Christmas

Actors: Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, Connie Francis, Pat Boone, London Symphony Orchestra

Synopsis: "Deck the Halls," "Silent Night," "White Christmas" and "Joy to the World" are among the songs presented in this volume. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Life and Passion of Christ

Synopsis: The life and death of Jesus Christ goes under the microscope in this documentary. The Life and Passion of Christ offers staged recreations of the events of Christ's life as they are chronicled in the New Testament, as well as exploring a number of scientific truths which help support the biblical Read More

Pat Boone's American Glory

Synopsis: Pat Boone pays tribute to the natural splendor of America and the songs which celebrate its grandeur in this patriotic video. Set against a backdrop of some of the nation's most inspiring scenery and natural vistas, Pat Boone's American Glory features Boone performing a program of great patriotic Read More

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Actors: RuPaul, Tammy Faye Messner

Synopsis: RuPaul narrates this affectionate look at everyone's favorite televangelist/living cosmetic display: Tammy Faye Bakker. The eldest of eight children in rural Minnesota, Tammy Faye married Jim Bakker in 1960, and soon they found a following on the gospel circuit. This eventually led to a gig on Read More

Pat Boone: 40 Years of Hits

Synopsis: In the 1950s, Pat Boone rivaled Elvis Presley in popularity. Despite Boone's whitebread persona, he introduced mainstream white America to a number of songs initially performed or written by black artists. For example, in July of 1955, Boone had a number one hit with "Ain't That a Shame," which Read More

Roger & Me

Actors: Pat Boone, Michael Moore

Synopsis: Michael Moore's wickedly iconoclastic documentary was inspired by the decline and fall of Flint, Michigan. Once the site of a thriving General Motors plant, Flint went quickly to seed when GM decided to close down and move out. As Moore pokes around what has been described by one magazine as "the Read More

Pat Boone Hits the Road: The RV Video Guide

Synopsis: In Pat Boone Hits the Road: The RV Video Guide, RV enthusiasts Pat Boone and his wife Shirley teach viewers how to research and buy a recreational vehicle, and how to take good care of it. Boone discusses the specifics of financing, maintenance, and more. He offers tips on making the most of RV Read More

Moonlighting: Tracks of My Tears

Synopsis: Pregnant with David's baby, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has decided to return from Chicago to LA via train--but she's still not sure whether or not she and David should resume their relationship. En route, Maddie meets a dweebish fellow passenger named Walter Bishop (Dennis Dugan), to whom she pours Read More

The Cross and the Switchblade

Actors: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jo Ann Robinson, Dino de Filippi

Synopsis: Based on a true story, David Wilkerson (Pat Boone) is the small-town preacher who gets caught in the shadows of a crime-ridden neighborhood in New York City. He encounters a gang led by Nicky Cruz (Erik Estrada), and David brings a message of hope to the angry youths. Guided by the street-wise Read More

The Pigeon

Synopsis: In his TV-movie debut, Sammy Davis Jr. plays a wisecracking private eye drawn into a web of murder and duplicity. Davis is suddenly attacked from all sides by crooks and cops alike, who seem to believe he's got something they want. Eventually he figures he's been set up as the fall guy for a Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Collard Greens an' Fatback

Synopsis: Singer Pat Boone appears as himself in this episode. Intending to purchase the Drysdale mansion, Boone is instead lured to the Clampett spread, where he chows down on Granny's home cooking. Meanwhile, the Clampetts, again planning to move back to the hills, try to convince Boone to buy Read More

The Perils of Pauline

Actors: Pat Boone, Terry-Thomas, Pamela Austin, Edward Everett Horton, Hamilton Camp

Synopsis: The Perils of Pauline appropriates the title and nothing else from the legendary 1914 Pearl White serial (and also bears no relation to the 1947 Pearl White biopic of the same name, which starred Betty Hutton). Pamela Austin plays Pauline, a young heiress who finds herself plunked into one peril 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

Goodbye Charlie

Actors: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Joanna Barnes, Ellen Burstyn, Ellen McRae

Synopsis: George Axelrod's Goodbye Charlie flopped on Broadway with Lauren Bacall in the lead, but fared a little better as a film vehicle for Debbie Reynolds. Charlie (Harry Madden) is an inveterate philanderer who is shot dead by jealous husband Walter Matthau. Through a celestial fluke, Charlie's soul Read More

Never Put It in Writing

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Pat Boone, Milo O'Shea, Fidelma Murphy, Reginald Beckwith, Harry Brogan

Synopsis: Pat Boone plays Stephen Cole, a young Irish man who believes himself to be worthy of a promotion from his employer. Believing that his boss instead is practicing nepotism, giving the promotion to his own nephew, Stephen writes--and mails--the company a caustic letter. Before long, however, Stephen Read More

The Horror of It All

Actors: Pat Boone, Erica Rogers, Dennis Price, Andree Melly

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes herself to be a vampire, while a third is locked Read More

The Main Attraction

Actors: Nancy Kwan, Pat Boone, Mai Zetterling, Yvonne Mitchell, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: A rather innocent and naive tale of romance, The Main Attraction features clean-cut Pat Boone trying to drop his good-boy image and not wholly succeeding. He plays Eddie, who works in an Italian café until he is fired for mixing it up with some rowdies. Hitting the pavement, he runs into Gina (Mai Zetterling Read More

The Yellow Canary

Actors: Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Jack Klugman, Jesse White

Synopsis: Written by mystery master Rod Serling, The Yellow Canary stars Pat Boone as insufferable singing idol Andy Paxton. Barbara Eden plays his wife Lissa, who is fed up with her husband's egotistical attitude and is ready to leave him. When their baby son is kidnapped, Andy Paxton refuses to enlist the Read More

State Fair

Actors: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell

Synopsis: This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the traditional setting in rural Iowa. This film version contains five extra songs written exclusively by Richard Rodgers. Box office results were adequate at best, and movie Read More

All Hands on Deck

Actors: Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden, Warren Berlinger, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: This is a somewhat serviceable, light comedy by prolific director Norman Taurog (a favored helmer of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis films). Squeaky-clean Pat Boone is a singing lieutenant who has to briefly ship out to the Aleutians and regrettably leave Sally (Barbara Eden), his new love behind. Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Actors: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker, Peter Ronson, Thayer David

Synopsis: There was neither a heroine nor a villain in Jules Verne's 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, but scenarist Charles Brackett evidently knew what he was doing by adding both to the 1959 film version. The picture proved to be a significant success in an otherwise disappointing year for Read More

Mardi Gras

Actors: Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: The only reason for the existence of the colorful musical 3DMardi Gras3D is the star power of Pat Boone. The plot is set in motion when a group of Virginia Military Institute cadets organize a raffle: the "prize" is French movie star Michelle Marton (Christine Carere), queen of the New Orleans Read More

Bernardine

Actors: Pat Boone, Terry Moore, Janet Gaynor, Dean Jagger, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: Ultra-pasteurized pop singer Pat Boone makes his feature film debut in this comical and tuneful look at adolescent life in the late 1950s. A group of teen-age boys discuss the attributes of the perfect girl and proceed to create a mental image of their dreamboat. Later they find her in the form of Read More

April Love

Actors: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels, Arthur O'Connell, Matt Crowley

Synopsis: April Love is a musicalized remake of 1944's Home in Indiana. Pat Boone stars as a potential juvenile delinquent who is sent to work on a Kentucky farm. When he meets apple-cheeked local girl Shirley Jones, Boone decides that mending his ways might be an option. Before long, he is devoting himself Read More

The Perfect Specimen

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, Dick Foran

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an industrial fortune kept hidden from the world by his imperious grandmother (May Robson). Intrigued by the secrecy, peppy Joan Blondell literally crashes the estate to Read More

Real Heroes: Inspirational Stories of Giving

Synopsis: Pat Boone hosts the documentary program Real Heroes: Inspirational Stories of Giving. This special pays unfettered tribute to the uniquely American holiday known as Thanksgiving - whereby, each November, U.S. citizens gather with their loved ones to express gratitude and appreciation for the Read More