Richard JaeckelFilmography

The King of the Kickboxers

Synopsis: A Thai "snuff film" ring is the target of an American undercover detective in search of the men who killed his brother. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold

Actors: Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, Bobby Chavez, John Ryan, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: This confused sequel -- bearing many names in the credits: Delta Force 2, Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection -- to the first Delta Force movie lacks the nightmarish collection of guest stars gracing the first film, i.e. Hanna Shygulla, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters Read More

Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier

Actors: Erika Eleniak, David Hasselhoff, Parker Stevenson, Shawn Weatherly

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film served as the pilot for the internationally popular adventure series Baywatch. David Hasselhoff stars as Lt. Mitch Buchanan, the man in charge of the LA County lifeguard squad at Malibu beach. Future series regulars spotlighted herein are Shawn Weatherly as Jill Riley, Parker Stevenson Read More

Ghettoblaster

Synopsis: Ghettoblaster immediately gets down to business with a frightening montage of urban gang violence. Richard Hatch plays Travis, a survivor of the ghetto who returns home to find that his "hood" is a hotbed of criminal activity (he didn't know this when he left?) Fortunately, Travis is more than a Read More

Supercarrier

Synopsis: Featuring shots of aerial adventure and excitement, this is the pilot for a television series that chronicled the exploits of a group of specially trained Navy fighter pilots who live aboard a gigantic aircraft carrier and struggle daily to keep the world safe for democracy. The story centers on Read More

Deadly Enemies

Synopsis: The "Supercarrier" TV series comes to the big screen with a deadly virus running rampant on the U.S.S. Georgetown. (AKA Supercarrier) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Way to Dusty Death

Synopsis: Cornell Wilde guest stars as Duncan Barnett, the ruthless founder-CEO of Barnett Industries. Gathering his board of directors (and their wives and loved ones) to his lavish New York estage, Barnett seems poised to name his successor. Instead, he is killed in an accident--or, at least, it looks Read More

Black Moon Rising

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving

Synopsis: A John Carpenter story served as the launching pad for Black Moon Rising. Veteran thief Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by the FBI to steal some politically volatile computer tapes. The owners of the tapes are displeased, and begin chasing Quint all over the countryside. Just when he's about to Read More

Spenser: For Hire: Season 02

Actors: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Richard Jaeckel, Ron McLarty

Synopsis: As a result of several changes in his TV series' production staff, the brilliant, highly principled Boston private eye Spenser (Robert Urich) is short one girl friend as Spenser launches its second season. It was decided to write out the character of guidance counselor Susan Silverman, played by Read More

Spenser: For Hire: Season 01

Actors: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Richard Jaeckel, Ron McLarty

Synopsis: Season One of Spenser:For Hire begins with the two-part "Promised Land", one of a handful of the series' episodes actually based on a "Spenser" story by novelist Robert B. Parker. In this one, tough but ethical Boston private eye Spenser (Robert Urich) is hired to find the wife of a powerful Read More

Pacific Inferno

Actors: Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel, Tad Horino, Dindo Fernando, Wilma Reading

Synopsis: With 1985's Pacific Inferno action star Jim Brown made a triumphant return to movies. Or did he? If you read the copyright date carefully, you'll discover that this US-Philippine coproduction was actually shot in 1977. The plot has us believe that General Douglas MacArthur ordered that $16 million Read More

Spenser: For Hire [TV Series]

Actors: Ron McLarty, Barbara Stock, Robert Urich, Avery Brooks

Synopsis: Based on a series of suspense novels by Robert B. Parker, the weekly, hour-long Spenser: For Hire starred Robert Urich as the title character. The TV series was filmed on location in Boston, the home-based of private investigator Spenser (no other name), who in addition to being wily and Read More

The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Larry Wilcox, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: The first of two full-length television sequels which reprise the 1967 original, finds two convicts (Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) again forced to lead a suicide mission behind enemy lines. This time, they head into Germany to thwart an unbelievable plot to assassinate Hitler. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Killing Machine

Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Willie Aames, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: With shoddy production values and a plot that seems to be more of an excuse for violence than anything else, this underpar drama focuses on vigilante justice. While trying to cross the border into France, a Spanish truck driver's vehicle is burned by two angry French farmers, killing the driver's Read More

The Fix

Actors: Richard Jaeckel, Tony Dale, Julie Hill, Byron Cherry

Synopsis: Never released theatrically, this deflated actioner features the late Vince Edwards as Frank Lane, a drug boss hiding behind a dummy contracting business. Lane has come up with a scheme to secretly ship narcotics by using a touring country-music band as the unknowing transporters. He has two goons Read More

Starman

Actors: Ted White, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen

Synopsis: Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward Read More

Airplane II: The Sequel

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Read More

Blood Song

Synopsis: Blood Song, a horror/slasher film, tells the story of a young woman (Donna Wilkes) who witnesses the murder of a hospital attendant by a psychopath during his escape from a mental institution. The young, handicapped girl, who once was given a blood transfusion from the killer, now is his next Read More

... All the Marbles

Actors: Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Burt Young, Tracy Reed

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich's last film, All the Marbles stars Peter Falk as a "win-at-all-costs" type manager of a ladies tag-team wrestling combo. These girls are good and Falk wants them great. And he doesn't really care what they've got to do to get there. (This film's "R" rating is not for Read More

The Awakening of Candra

Actors: Blanche Baker, Cliff De Young, Richard Jaeckel, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Regina

Synopsis: This TV film is spawned by a true story where a marauding fisherman accosts a pair of newlyweds in the Northwest wilderness. He kills the young groom, rapes the bride, and then forces her to live with him as he attempts to convince her that it was just an unfortunate accident. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cold River

Actors: Suzanne Weber, Pat Petersen, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Earl Jones, Brad Sullivan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Judson, Cold River is a study of the New York Adirondack region and the citizens dwelling therein. Richard Jaeckel is the only "name" actor in the cast, unless you count Robert Earl Jones, father of the better-known James Earl Jones. The villains are those old reliable Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Albert's classmate Sylvia (Olivia Barash) has been impregnated by a masked rapist, whereupon her "disgraced" father forcibly removes her from town. Already suspected of being the father of Sylvia's unborn baby, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) courts further Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) develops a crush on his classmate Sylvia (Olivia Barash), a 14-year-old girl who has developed early. Sylvia's stern father disapproves of Albert's affections and orders his daughter to ignore the boy. Later on, Sylvia is raped Read More

Herbie Goes Bananas

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, Harvey Korman, John Vernon, Stephan W. Burns

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of the "Herbie" series of Volkswagen Bug fantasies, the magical car has lost a lot of its sheen as it is retreaded into a journey through Central America. D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) and Pete (Stephan W. Burns) want to enter their supernatural car in a special Read More

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the theatrical feature Norma Rae, The $5.20 an Hour Dream stars Linda Lavin as a recently divorced woman supporting herself and her 12-year-old daughter. The highest-paying job at the Oregon engine factory where she works is on the assembly line--which has traditionally been an Read More

Reward

Synopsis: In this mystery, a policeman quits the force to investigate the death of his partner independently. He is assisted by a pretty young woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Salvage 1 [TV Series]

Actors: Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, Richard Jaeckel, Trish Stewart

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, the Vulture rocket and its crew must fly to space to save an endangered communications satellite. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dark

Actors: William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, Jacquelyn Hyde

Synopsis: This well-acted but wildly disjointed sci-fi/horror film stars William Devane as a writer who takes a personal interest in a series of baffling decapitation murders in the L.A. area, all of which seem to indicate some kind of supernatural force at work. He is joined in his investigation by a TV Read More

Champions: A Love Story

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco

Synopsis: Though top billing goes to Shirley Knight and Tony lo Bianco, the real stars of Champions: A Love Story are Jimmy McNicol and Joy Leduc. McNicol and Leduc play a pair of skaters who aspire to compete in the National Figure Skating Championships. As the two train together, their friendship blossoms Read More

Go West, Young Girl

Actors: Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Karen Valentine, who's probably starred in more unsold pilots than McLean Stevenson and Don Meredith combined, stars in this made-for-TV comedy western. Playing a "Nellie Bly" type reporter, Karen heads thattaway, hoping to interview Billy the Kid (Richard Jaeckel). This might prove difficult in Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

Speedtrap

Synopsis: A female cop and a male private detective team up to bring car thieves to justice in this actioner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Delta Fox

Actors: Richard Lynch, Priscilla Barnes, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: In this "B" grade film noir wannabe, the U.S. government releases David Fox (Richard Lynch) from prison on the condition that he help them trap a tax-shelter specialist working for the mob. Armed with $1,000,000 in hot money, Fox is chased all over Miami and back as he vacillates between Read More

Day of the Animals

Actors: Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: An interesting low-budget entry in the post-Jaws animals-run-amok genre (which also owes more than a little to Hitchcock's The Birds), this noisy, violent thriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human indulgences in hairspray and other aerosol Read More

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government will someday tell the truth about the Southeast Asian debacle, thereby allowing his country to embark upon a healing process. Regarded as a dangerous embarrassment by the Read More

The Jaws of Death

Actors: Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop, Buffy Dee, Harold Sakata

Synopsis: Vietnam vet Richard Jaeckel sets out to aid his shark friends when he discovers they're being exploited by aquarium owners in this film, also known as Mako: The Jaws of Death. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Grizzly

Actors: Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel, Joan Mc Call, Joseph Dorsey

Synopsis: This ecology-themed horror movie took its inspiration from the success of Jaws and moved that film's man-versus-nature conflict from the seaside to the forest. The plot of Grizzly focuses on Mike Kelly (Christopher George), a forest ranger whose peaceful tenure over a forest housing a busy nature Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Long Road Home

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

Synopsis: It's The Wages of Fear, prairie style, in this tension-laden episode. When the price of grain plummets precipitously, Charles (Michael Landon), Edwards (Victor French), and two other men must seek out employment in a hurry. The four men accept a high-paying but highly dangerous job, transporting Read More

Baretta: Aggie

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Shelley Duvall guest stars as Aggie, an incredibly naïve young waitress. Aggie is the only witness when a cop accidentally kills his girlfriend. Preying upon Aggie's childlike faith in the infallibility of authority figures, the killer persuades her to finger another man as the culprit -- but Read More

The Drowning Pool

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Paul Newman returns as private detective Lew Harper is this tale of blackmail and murder based on a novel by Ross MacDonald. Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), the wife of a wealthy oilman from Louisiana, hires Harper after she receives a threatening letter. A blackmailer is threatening to tell Read More

The Last Day

Synopsis: In this western, a retired gunslinger must defend his town against the nefarious Dalton gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Walking Tall, Part 2

Synopsis: Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he continues his single handed crusade against organized crime. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Amazing Mr. No-Legs

Synopsis: Ricou Browning, the Olympic swimmer best known as the man inside the suit of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed this amazing bit of weirdness which could only have been a product of the cinematically insane 1970s. Richard Jaeckel stars as a Florida policeman tracking a gang of heroin Read More

Born Innocent

Synopsis: Born Innocent, originally telecast September 9, 1974, concerns the plight of a teenaged reform-school inmate, played by Linda Blair in her first important post-Exorcist role. Committed for being a habitual runaway, Blair is, for all her surface toughness, unworldly and naïve. All this changes in Read More

The F.B.I.: Selkirk's War

Synopsis: Peter Haskell guest stars as Major Edward Selkirk, an ex-Army officer who hopes to wreak a peculiar brand a vengeance against the military. Invading a stockade, Haskell frees two prisoners, then enlists them in a bold and painstakingly preplanned scheme to steal an Army payroll. With only a Read More

Chosen Survivors

Actors: Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: This speculative horror film details the tribulations endured by a specially-selected test group of 11 people who are informed that they will be the only occupants of a nuclear fallout shelter built half a mile below the Earth's surface. Chosen by project coordinator Peter Macomber (Bradford Dillman Read More

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More

The Outfit

Actors: Tony Trabert, Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey

Synopsis: A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death in this drama based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake. Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother. Read More

Partners in Crime

Synopsis: Partners in Crime was the second attempt by Richard Levinson and William Link to create a TV series featuring a female ex-judge and male ex-con: the first was 1971's The Judge and Jake Wyler. This time, Lee Grant is the former jurist turned sleuth, while Lou Antonio is the onetime prisoner turned Read More

The Kill

Synopsis: It is nice to see Richard Jaeckel in a full-fledged leading role, even in a shabby internationally-produced thriller like The Kill. Set in Macao, the film finds Jaeckel cast as a two-fisted, womanizing private detective. He has been assigned to track down an international crime ring, run by the Read More

The Red Pony

Actors: Henry Fonda, Clint Howard, Maureen O'Hara

Synopsis: The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star as a turn-of-century farming couple. Clint Howard plays their 10-year-old son, a rebellious lad constantly at odds with his taciturn father. Read More

Firehouse

Synopsis: An African American youth must deal with both many physical tests and the racism of his peers as he works to become a full-fledged fire fighter in this drama that was originally made as a television pilot. As he is the only black man in an all white unit, things are difficult, especially after he Read More

Emergency!: Kids

Synopsis: Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller suspects that a boy whom the paramedics have rescued from a deep hole is the victim of child abuse. The problem now is to convince the Court, a task made difficult by the hotshot attorney (Richard Jaeckel) hired by the boys' parents. Meanwhile, the station adopts a Read More

Ulzana's Raid

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez

Synopsis: One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Set in Arizona during the late 1880s, the film begins with experienced scout McIntosh (Burt Lancaster) and idealistic U.S. Read More

Ironside: The Countdown

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper guest stars as scientist Dr. Norman Chase, who early in the proceedings is waylaid by the minions of a criminal named Caesar (Richard Jaeckel) and forced to put on an explosive belt that cannot be removed . Unless Ironside (Raymond Burr) agrees to release three of Caesar's cohorts Read More

Mission: Impossible: Run for the Money

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Forming an unholy alliance, mobsters Frank Mason (Frank Mason) and Edward Trask (Richard Jaeckel) have been successfully modernizing, computerizing and (violently) streamlining the Syndicate's gambling activities. The IMF is assigned to break up the relationship between the two master criminals. Read More

Sometimes a Great Notion

Actors: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Also known as Never Give an Inch, this film was based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Paul Newman (who also directed) stars as Hank Stamper, the oldest son of an Oregon logging family headed by Henry (Henry Fonda). Hank's half-brother, Leeland (Michael Sarrazin), embittered over Henry's treatment of his Read More

The Deadly Dream

Synopsis: Where do dreams end and reality begins? That's the question facing research scientist Lloyd Bridges in the made-for-TV Deadly Dream. Each night, Bridges suffers nightmares, in which he is on trial for his life before a mysterious tribunal. The whys and wherefores of Bridges' torment are revealed Read More

The Counterfeit Green

Synopsis: Counterfeit Green is a jerrybuilt "TV movie" made up of two episodes of the TV series O'Hara, US Treasury. David Janssen stars in this Jack Webb-produced effort as Jim O'Hara, special agent for five different treasury branches. O'Hara is on the prowl for (what else?) clever counterfeiters. In one Read More

The F.B.I.: Death Watch

Synopsis: The Feds are hot on the trail of Arthur Blaisdell (Frank Hotchkiss) and Timothy Gage (Solomon Sturges), a pair of gunruners who break into a National Guard armory and steal several M1 rifles. The criminals' next move is to sell the weapons to a gang of extremists--but for what ultimate purpose? Read More

The Surabaya Conspiracy

Actors: Michael Rennie, Richard Jaeckel, Barbara Bouchet, Michael Preston

Synopsis: Two gunrunners' hunt for buried treasure in Java is disrupted by the quest for the same woman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Chisum

Actors: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker Read More

Horror House

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Richard O'Sullivan, Veronica Doran, Julian Barnes

Synopsis: The most horrifying part of this British spooker is seeing former clean-cut teen idol Frankie Avalon cast as Chris, a London hooligan who with his druggie friends decides to spend the night in a supposedly haunted house and hold a seance. The seance is a bust, so the buddies decide to do a little Read More

Ido Zero Daisakusen

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Masumi Okada

Synopsis: Godzilla maven Inoshiro Honda helmed this quaint, old-fashioned fantasy adventure (loosely styled after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) about the crew of a damaged deep-sea craft who are taken aboard a high-tech atomic submarine dubbed "Alpha," commanded by the Nemo-like Captain McKenzie Joseph Cotten Read More

The Devil's Brigade

Actors: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins

Synopsis: During the early days of World War II, while the United States was massing its forces for the war, England hastily plans commando raids against the German forces to keep them at bay until America's troops enter the war. As a part of this plan, the Allies create the 1st Special Service Force to Read More

The Green Slime

Actors: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom, Ted Gunther

Synopsis: This shoestring-budget science fiction drama finds astronauts plagued by a mysterious green slime that clings to the men's backs, then turns into tentacled, red-eyed creatures that kill their victims. Jack Rankin (Robert Horton) is sent to a space station commanded by Vince Elliot (Richard Read More

The Dirty Dozen

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman Read More

Bonanza: Night of Reckoning

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: A gang of outlaws, led by the sadistic Dibs (Richard Jaeckel), descends upon the Ponderosa. The crooks are determined to retrieve $60,000 in stolen money from their duplicitous partner Don Buckler (Ron Hayes), now wounded and under the care of the Cartwright boys. Eve McVeigh appears as Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers

Synopsis: Having trouble finding work thanks to his criminal record, Tony Polk (Steve Harris) finally lands a job going door to door and dispensing free gifts to viewers of a bizarre game show called "The Bad Buccaneer." This assignment requires him to wear a pirate costume, complete with a hook-shaped Read More

Town Tamer

Actors: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie Selander directs an equally veteran cast in this high-action Western. After his wife is murdered, hired gun Tom Rosser (Dana Andrews) rides into town in search of revenge Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Off Season

Actors: John Gavin, Dody Heath, Indus Arthur, Tom Drake, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's long-running suspense anthology wraps up its ten seasons on the air with its 361st episode, directed by a pre-French Connection, pre-Exorcist William Friedkin. John Gavin heads the cast as Johnny Kendall, a trigger-happy cop who is suspended from the force after killing a Read More

Once Before I Die

Actors: John Derek, Ursula Andress, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Long before Bo Derek, actor/director John Derek was playing Svengali with another movie-star wife, Ursula Andress. In Once Before I Die, Derek casts himself as a cavalry major and Andress as his mistress. Both captain and girl are marooned with a group of American marines in the Philippines. When Read More

Bonanza: Between Heaven and Earth

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: This compelling Bonanza episode focuses almost exclusively on Little Joe Cartwright. Plagued by a fear of heights, Joe suffers severe nightmares after losing his rifle on precarious Eagles Peak. The only way Joe will find peace is to "conquer" the peak and retrieve his weapon-but he may not live Read More

The Outer Limits: Tourist Attraction

Synopsis: In Volume 13 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a prehistoric creature found encased in ice is thawed out to lead an army of cavemen. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: Specimen: Unknown

Synopsis: In Volume 22 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the crew of a spacecraft bound for Earth must kill a lethal plant attached to the ship before they reach their destination. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Nightmare in the Sun

Actors: John Derek, Aldo Ray, Arthur O'Connell, Ursula Andress, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a bored, but seductive wife of a wealthy old ranch goes cruising for trouble and finds it when she picks up a hapless hitchhiker who soon falls under her sexy spell. Like a fly to a spider's web, he is drawn to her bedroom. Unfortunately, the old rancher sees him leaving and Read More

Combat!: Gideon's Army

Synopsis: Coming across a Nazi work camp, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad liberate a group of starving Polish slave laborers. These men had been abandoned by their captors because they are to weak to walk--and it is for the same reason that Saunders may also be forced to leave the prisoners behind. A Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Forecast - Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, Inger Stevens, Chris Robinson, Christopher Dark, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: When his car runs out of gas on an oceanside road, Manuel Sanchez (Christopher Dark) shows up at the beach house owned by Karen Wilson (Inger Stevens), begging Karen to look after his girlfriend while he goes for gas. Not believing Manuel's story, Karen refuses -- and shortly afterward, Manuel's Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Death of a Cop

Actors: Victor Jory, Peter Brown, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Hartman, John Marley

Synopsis: Victor Jory stars as veteran police officer Paul Reardon, who vows to avenge the murder of his rookie-cop son, Philip (Peter Brown). Although ordered by the higher-ups to lay off, Paul is determined to bring drug kingpin Herbie Lane (Lawrence Tierney), the man responsible for Peter's death in a Read More

The Young and the Brave

Actors: Rory Calhoun, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Manuel Padilla

Synopsis: In this Korean War drama, three POWs escape the North Koreans and try to make it safely across enemy lines. During their flight, the soldiers encounter a young boy and his German Shepherd. The boy hates the communists because they killed his parents for sheltering American soldiers, and he offers Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lover's Leap

Synopsis: Not long after divorcing his wife Valerie (Julie Adams), Roy Comstock (John Conte) apparently commits suicide. In truth, both the divorce and the phony suicide are part of an elaborate scheme to swindle Comstock's partner Peter Brent (Carleton Carpenter). When Comstock turns up dead for real, it Read More

4 for Texas

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono

Synopsis: In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most of the film battling over who will control the gambling and wenching in 1870 Galveston. Though they'd as soon cut each other's throats than cooperate, Zack and Joe are Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Predators

Synopsis: Fulfilling his latest assignment, Paladin captures a cruel and crafty killer named John Tyree (Richard Jaeckel). But that is hardly the end of the story: Now Paladin and his prisoner must embark upon a long and thirsty trek through the desert in order to bring Tyree to trial. In search of water Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Incident in a Small Jail

Synopsis: While traveling through the tiny community of Bugletown, traveling salesman Leon Gorwald (John Fiedler) is arrested for jaywalking. A little later, Leon finds himself with a cellmate: a local mechanic (Richard Jaeckel) who is suspected of murdering a young girl. As a lynch mob gathers outside the Read More

Town Without Pity

Actors: Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel, Christine Kaufmann, Frank Sutton

Synopsis: Gene Pitney's hit title song for this courtroom drama became a bigger and more enduring success than the film in which it was repeatedly sung. The story takes place in postwar Germany in the village of Neustadt. A group of four drunken American soldiers come upon a teenage girl, Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann Read More

The Untouchables: The Otto Frick Story

Synopsis: Beating the U.S. Army to the punch by nearly six years, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) goes after a criminal gang with links to the Nazi party. Otto Frick (Jack Warden), a racketeer in charge of several travelling carnivals which are distributing narcotics throughout the country, enters into an unholy Read More

The Gallant Hours

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne, James T. Goto

Synopsis: The "mutual admiration society" consisting of actor James Cagney and actor/director Robert Montgomery culminated in the 1960 film The Gallant Hours. Cagney stars as war hero Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. On the verge of retirement, Halsey recalls his most fateful wartime experience: his Read More

Flaming Star

Actors: Elvis Presley, Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Dolores Del Rio, John McIntire, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Tensely directed by Don Siegel, Flaming Star is the grittiest of Elvis Presley's post-Army films. Elvis plays Pacer Burton, a half-breed youth in the old West, torn between loyalty to the whites, as represented by his father (John McIntyre), and the Indians, represented by his mother (Dolores Del Rio Read More

Platinum High School

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea, Conway Twitty, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: This is a low-budget, standard drama by Charles Haas (his last film) in which a father investigates the mysterious death of his son in a military school. Steven Conway (Mickey Rooney) never knew his son who was raised by the ex-Mrs. Conway after their divorce. The son had been enrolled in a Read More

The Gun Runners

Actors: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Everett Sloane, Gita Hall

Synopsis: The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners was as topical as this morning's news when it came out in 1958. Audie Murphy plays Sam Martin, a charter-boat skipper based in Key West, whose bad luck has enlarged from the Read More

Cowboy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Dick York

Synopsis: The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Jack Lemmon plays Harris, who when first the audience meets him is a citified desk clerk in a frontier hotel. Harboring romantic notions of the West, Harris prevails upon hard-living Read More

When Hell Broke Loose

Actors: Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, Violet Rensing, Robert Easton

Synopsis: To escape arrest, small-time bookie Steve Boland (Charles Bronson) joins the army. Soon he figures that he'd have been better off in jail: an unrepentant foul-up, Boland just can't seem to get in step with military protocol. All this changes when Steve falls in love with level-headed Ilsa (Violet Rensing Read More

Smoke Jumpers

Synopsis: Smoke Jumpers stars Dan Duryea as the head man of a group of death-defying firefighters. Duryea and his crew are called upon to combat forest fires by parachuting into the various woodland conflagrations. One of Duryea's crew (Richard Jaeckel) accuses him of being a coward, but Duryea proves his Read More

The Naked and the Dead

Actors: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: Despite an ad campaign wherein RKO Radio congratulated itself for its "guts", this long-delayed film version of Norman Mailer's bestselling WW2 novel The Naked and the Dead still had to pull most of its punches (especially when it came to four-letter words). Aldo Ray heads the cast as sadistic Read More

The Lineup

Actors: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson, Richard Jaeckel, Mary Laroche

Synopsis: A steamship docks in San Francisco, and as one of the passengers, Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey), is waiting for a cab after clearing customs, a baggage handler suddenly grabs one of his cases and throws it into a taxi, which takes off. In the ensuing getaway, a police officer is killed, but not Read More

3:10 to Yuma

Actors: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Desperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward. While both men await the train to Yuma that will escort Ford to prison, the cagey outlaw offers Heflin $10,000 if he'll set Ford free. The rest of the film is a Read More

Attack

Actors: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The Fragile Fox, this searing war film is a powerful indictment against a military system which protects even its most incompetent of officers. Eddie Albert plays a posturing but Read More

The Petrified Forest

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Hartmann, Natalie Schafer

Apache Ambush

Actors: Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Montoya, Adele August, Tex Ritter

Synopsis: Longtime B-western favorites Tex Ritter and Ray "Crash" Corrigan are among the supporting players of the Columbia oater Apache Ambush. Star of the proceedings is Bill Williams, cast as Indian scout James Kingston. In the last days of the Civil War, President Lincoln (James Griffith) selects Read More

The Shanghai Story

Actors: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the bread-and-butter firm of Republic Pictures. The film takes place in the eponymous far-eastern metropolis (courtesy of the Republic backlot), where Communist police chief Colonel Read More

The Violent Men

Actors: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith

Synopsis: Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson plays Lee Wilkison, the bad-guy owner of Anchor Ranch with a plan to buy out all the smaller ranches to gain control of the valley. Barbara Stanwyck plays his wife Martha, who Read More

The Big Leaguer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen, Jeff Richards, Richard Jaeckel, William Campbell

Synopsis: Big Leaguer was the inauspicious feature-film debut for director Robert Aldrich. Edward G. Robinson stars as the real-life Hans Lobert, the baseball scout in charge of the New York Giants' Florida training camp. Each year, a new crop of would-be ballplayers are given a two-week tryout under Read More

Sea of Lost Ships

Actors: John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action, romance and suspense. John Derek plays Grad Matthews, descended from a long line of Coast Guard officers. Through a misunderstanding, Grad is booted out of the Coast Guard Read More

Hoodlum Empire

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler

Synopsis: The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets after WW II. Part of Gray's "reclamation" is to Read More

Come Back, Little Sheba

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel, Philip Ober

Synopsis: In the original Broadway production of this William Inge play, Shirley Booth played Lola Delaney, the vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" of recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney, played on stage by Sidney Blackmer, who won a Tony award for his efforts. When time came to film the play, Shirley Booth Read More

My Son, John

Actors: Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Robert Walker, Dean Jagger, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, this drama chronicles the attempts of two All-American parents to save their son from the temptations of Communism. Unfortunately, they are too late. The arrogant and Read More

Fighting Coast Guard

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Richard Jaeckel, William Murphy

Synopsis: The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and military adventure, the film also features an interesting glimpse in to the training of the young Guards as they prepare for war. The story centers around a crew of shipyard Read More

The Sea Hornet

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth, Chill Wills, Jim Davis

Synopsis: This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under mysterious circumstances, McNeil investigates, all the while carrying out a salvage assignment for the lovely Suntan Radford (Adele Mara). The titular Sea Hornet is a vessel which Read More

The Gunfighter

Actors: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Cliff Clark, Angela Clarke, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, David Clarke, Ellen Corby, Karl Malden

Synopsis: In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child Read More

Wyoming Mail

Actors: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley, Sr., Dan Riss

Synopsis: Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey upon mail trains, Davis goes undercover, posing first as a fugitive from justice. Joining the bandit gang run by the ruthless Cavanaugh (Howard da Silva), Davis discovers Read More

City Across the River

Actors: Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten, Jeff Corey, Sharon McManus, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: This slightly bowdlerized version of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes was used by Universal-International to showcase several of its new male contractees. Set in the slums of Brooklyn, the film follows the exploits of the Amboy Dukes, a teenaged street gang. Foremost among the Dukes is Frank Read More

Sands of Iwo Jima

Actors: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has Read More

Battleground

Actors: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, James Whitmore

Synopsis: Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM boss Louis Mayer. The result was an award-winning box-office hit, as well as the beginning of the end of Mayer's power. This dramatization of the battles of Bastogne and the Read More

Jungle Patrol

Actors: Kristine Miller, Arthur Franz, Ross Ford, Tommy Noonan, Gene Reynolds

Synopsis: In this war drama, set in New Guinea circa 1943, a squadron of fliers, stationed near Port Moresby must keep the Japanese at bay until a permanent air base can be built. They successfully shoot down 100 Japanese planes without losing one of their own. The men, realizing that they cannot beat the Read More

A Wing and a Prayer

Actors: Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime bravery whenever repeating his "We'll bring this one down together" anecdote. In fact, he was merely quoting a scene from the above-average World War 2 drama A Wing and a Prayer. Read More

Guadalcanal Diary

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the spare, lean prose of Tregaskis' eyewitness account. The incidents in the "diary" are tied together by an off-screen narrator into a cohesive storyline. The principal characters Read More