Simmy BowFilmography

Night Court: Death of Baliff

Synopsis: Struck by lightning, Bull (Richard Moll) regains consciousness after a few moments of being technically dead. Still emitting the smoke garnered from his harrowing experience, Bull declares he has experience an epiphany during his brief sojourn to the Other Side--and now he is determined to give Read More

Tough Guys

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Dana Carvey, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas team up one last time in Tough Guys. Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust Read More

Vamp

Actors: Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, DeDee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe

Synopsis: Predating the 1990s cycle of vampire-stripper films (From Dusk Till Dawn, Bordello of Blood, etc.) this cynical entry from director Richard Wenk concerns frat boys looking for a go-go girl to perform at their upcoming party. Wandering to the wrong side of town, the randy youths enter a seedy strip Read More

Doin' Time

Actors: Jeff Altman, Dey Young, Richard Mulligan, John Vernon, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: This undistinguished comedy about life in prison features caricatures of inmates and law enforcement officers, as well as prison guards, in attempts at slapstick action. After Duke Jarrett (Jeff Altman) is put into prison because he had sex with the wife of a government VIP, he discovers that life Read More

Child's Cry

Synopsis: Kate Jackson had intended to both produce and star in the made-for-TV A Child's Cry, but her busy Scarecrow and Mrs. King schedule forced her to relinquish the leading role to Lindsay Wagner. Wagner plays Joanne Van Buren, a sensitive social worker whose latest charge, young Eric Townsend (Taliesen Jaffe Read More

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Actors: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen

Synopsis: Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise: Pee Wee (Reubens), an overgrown pre-pubescent boy sporting a molded Princeton cut, blush, lipstick, and a shrunken Read More

The Sword and the Sorcerer

Actors: Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, George Maharis, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: This is an unusual entry in the knights-in-armor genre. Set in medieval England, the film follows the exploits of a young swordsman, Talon (Lee Horsley). Working as a mercenary knight, Talon possesses a unique three-bladed sword which fires its two extra blades when he touches a button. By chance Read More

Alligator

Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Perry Lang, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Lewis Teague directed this sly horror-comedy from a script by John Sayles, which plays off the old urban legend about the dangers of flushing one's pet alligator down the toilet. One such unlucky reptile is "Ramon," who survives in the subterranean cesspool by feeding on the steroid-saturated Read More

Little Miss Marker

Actors: Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart

Synopsis: Screenwriter Walter Bernstein made his directorial debut with Little Miss Marker, a re-make of the Damon Runyon story that has been filmed many times before (most notably as Little Miss Marker with Shirley Temple, Sorrowful Jones starring Bob Hope, and the Tony Curtis vehicle 40 Pounds of Read More

Angel on My Shoulder

Actors: Peter Strauss, Richard Kiley, Barbara Hershey, Janis Paige, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: A gangster who was wrongfully executed for a killing is promised leniency from Satan if he returns to earth in the body of a lawman who is trying to stamp out evil. Trouble is, the dead man has a hard time being evil enough to get revenge. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fairy Tales

Synopsis: In this bawdy musical, a prince is pressured to procreate in order to keep his kingdom going. Unfortunately, he is a picky fellow and refuses to do his royal duty with anyone but the exquisite, enigmatic "Princess Beauty," whose picture hangs in the royal hall. He enlists the aid of a learned Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Never a Child

Synopsis: Performing an autopsy on a teenage prostitute who has committed suicide, Quincy (Jack Klugman)characteristically takes a personal interest in the case. It seems that the victim had been killed after seeing "Uncle Harry" (Alan Manson), the man who led her into prostituation, persuading an even Read More

Marciano

Synopsis: This made-for-television biography spans the life of boxer Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight to remain undefeated during his career. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Zoltan, Hound of Dracula

Actors: Michael Pataki, Reggie Nalder, José Ferrer, Jan Shutan, Libbie Chase

Synopsis: When soldiers foolishly remove a stake from a mysterious Transylvanian grave, they release a vampire dog belonging to the Dracula clan. Also freed is Veidt-Smit (Reggie Nalder), an old servant of the Count himself, not quite a vampire, but immortal all the same: he can work in the daylight. Read More

You Light up My Life

Actors: Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow, Stephen Nathan, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: In this film, young singer Lauri Robinson (Didi Conn) struggles to make it in the harsh music business while dealing with her romantic problems. The title song from this movie won an Oscar. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Baretta: Dead Man Out

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

Synopsis: This time, undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) goes behind bars to nab a master criminal. Posing as a convict, Baretta blends into the prison population in search of a minor-league jewel thief. His real target, however, is the genius who commandeered a huge jewel theft -- and ordered two Read More

Trackdown

Actors: James Mitchum, Karen Lamm, Anne Archer, Erik Estrada, Cathy Lee Crosby

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a runaway girl from rural Montana heads for LA and ends up trapped within its darkest underbelly surrounded by crime, drugs, and sleazy people. Fortunately, her brother, a tough cowboy, comes to rescue her. But first he must find her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rocky

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has Read More

Lepke

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

The Streets of San Francisco: No Place to Hide

Synopsis: The convicts in a maximum-security prison have developed a diabolically clever method to smuggle drugs in and out of the institution, using as their "mules" the prisoners' wives who show up on visiting day. When one of the convicts resists getting involved in the drug traffic, his wife on the Read More

Last Foxtrot In Burbank

The Blue Knight

Actors: William Holden, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh, the ex-cop turned novelist whose Police Story began its TV run in 1973, was responsible for the like-vintage TV miniseries The Blue Knight. William Holden stars as Bumper Morgan, a 50 year old cop on the verge of mandatory retirement. Morgan's last four days with the LAPD are Read More

The Doberman Gang

Actors: Hal Reed

Synopsis: A small-time crook (Byron Mabe) hits upon the clever plan of training Dobermans to substitute for criminals in a bank-robbery scheme. He hires a military dog-trainer (Hal Reed) and pulls off the heist, though problems arise due to the dogs--perhaps trained too well. The 1972 film spawned two Read More

Hot Rod Gang

Actors: John Ashley, Jody Fair, Gene Vincent, Steve Drexel, Henry McCann

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will only bequeath him their fortune if he behaves like a proper gentleman. His aunts would have apoplexy if they new that their "perfect gentleman" had created a hot-rod club Read More