Sam Laws Filmography

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Project X

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Bill Sadler, Johnny Ray McGhee, Jonathan Stark

Synopsis: Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation to test potential human endurance. Risking a Read More

4/17/87
Sylvester

Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Melissa Gilbert, Yankton Hatten, Michael Schoeffling, Constance Towers, Pete Kowanko, Chris Pederson

Synopsis: Melissa Gilbert acquits herself well in this old-fashioned family drama about a gritty Texas orphan named Charlie (Gilbert), a substitute parent for her brothers, determined to succeed in life by converting an unmanageable rodeo horse into an equestrian champion. The transformation from equine Read More

1985
Heart Like a Wheel

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works hard to qualify for the major auto race competitions of America. Firmly in her cheering section is her dad (Hoyt Axton), and--at least at first--her husband Read More

1983
Get Crazy

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Stern, Gail Edwards, Miles Chapin

Synopsis: Director Allan Arkush knew whereof he spoke in Get Crazy. A longtime employee of Fillmore East, a popular rock-concert locale of the 1960s and 1970s, Arkush brought a great deal of insider's savvy to this comedy about the concert circuit and its denizens. Malcolm McDowell stars as a Mick Read More

1983
White Dog

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore Read More

1982
The Fury

Actors: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie. While vacationing with his psychic son, Robin (Andrew Stevens), and close associate Childress (John Cassavetes), government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) survives a terrorist Read More

1978
Mr. Billion

Actors: Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens, William Redfield

Synopsis: An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president (Jackie Gleason). ~ John Bush, All Read More

1977
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson, Sam "Birmingham" Briston

Synopsis: Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of 1939. African-American baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), tired of being jerked around by the less-than-ethical managers of the Negro League teams, forms his Read More

1976
White Line Fever

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Don Porter

Synopsis: In this action film, trucker Carrol Jo Hummer (Jan-Michael Vincent) borrows money to purchase a truck of his own, only to discover that part of his "payment plan" includes smuggling goods on his trips. When Carrol refuses to participate in the underhanded scheme, a group of thugs threaten his Read More

1975
Kojak: Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

Synopsis: Azure Dee (Denyce Liston), a former prostitute who has struck it rich, is found hanging from the chandelier in the living room of her lavish home. Curiously affected by this death, Kojak begins to investigate Azure's friends, family members and customers, hoping to determine if the woman committed Read More

1975
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder, Cornelia Sharpe, Paul Hecht

Synopsis: Max Ehrlich adapted his own novel for the screen in this fitfully amusing paranormal thriller. College professor Michael Sarrazin feels that someone else is inside him, and is led by his dreams to a small town where Margot Kidder (Black Christmas, Superman) has murdered her cheating husband. She Read More

1975
Dirty O'Neil

Actors: Morgan Paull

Synopsis: Morgan Paull is Jimmy "Dirty" O'Neill in this American-International actioner. An Eastwood-style cop, O'Neill beds down one gorgeous girl after another. When not commiserating between the sheets, O'Neill can be found busting the heads of dope pushers and vice lords. Comic actor Art Metrano, second Read More

1974
Darktown Strutters

Synopsis: A tough biker gang comprised of African-American women heads off to find a member's mother and her abductor in this exploitation comedy ostensibly designed to make fun of racial stereotypes. The film was later retitled Get Down and Boogie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Truck Turner

Actors: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner, three years after composing the legendary score for Shaft (1971). Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when Read More

1974
Walking Tall

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman

Synopsis: A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly manipulative story of real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser. As played by Joe Don Baker, Pusser can either be regarded as a tireless champion of justice or a baseball-bat-wielding hooligan. But with Read More

1973
Sweet Jesus, Preacher Man

Actors: JoAnn Bruno, Betty Coleman, Chuck Douglas, Jr., Amentha Dymally, Lou Jackson, Vincent LaBauve, Paul Silliman, Lillian Tarry

Synopsis: Long before his tenure on TV's Magnum PI, Roger E. Mosley starred in the blaxploitationer Sweet Jesus, Preacher Man. Mosely plays a streetwise mobster who goes undercover as a ghetto clergyman. This he does at the request of his boss, who wants to get the goods on a rival. "Preacher Man" has a Read More

1973
Cool Breeze

Synopsis: This is a remake of The Asphalt Jungle with an all black cast. In it a paroled convict plans to steal $3 million work of jewels, sell them, and use the bread to start a bank to back black businesses. He is assisted by two pals, his half-brother, and a preacher who also works as a thief. The Read More

1972
Hit Man

Actors: Tracy Ann-King, Bhetty Waldron

Synopsis: Featuring an all-African American cast, this crime drama is basically a retread of the movie Get Carter. It is the story of a former football player who has become involved with pornographers and seeks revenge upon the gangster who killed his brother, who in turn was out to avenge the rape of his Read More

1972
Ironside: A World of Jackals

Synopsis: Film star Gloria James (Lynn Borden has disappeared and her maid Janet Loomis (Ena Hartman) is kidnapped just before relating some vital information to Mark (Don Mitchell). These events, coupled with a conspicuously phony letter and an attempt on Mark's life, lead Ironside to suspect that the key Read More

1969