Vonetta McGeeFilmography

Detroit 9000

Synopsis: Titled Detroit Heat for video release, this blaxploitation flick concerns two Motor City detectives (Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco) on the trail of a gang of thieves who attacked a political rally. Noted blaxploitation fan Quentin Tarantino sponsored a theatrical re-release in 1998, with a video reissue Read More

Johnny B.

Actors: Richard Brooks, Richard Gant, Vonetta McGee

The Man Next Door

Actors: Pamela Reed, Michael Ontkean, Annette O'Toole, Sam Anderson, Richard Gilliland

Synopsis: In this drama, a neighborhood community becomes tense and upset when they learn that a recently released convicted rapist is living amongst them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

Actors: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: In 1994 -- six years after the final episode of the groundbreaking 1980s television crime drama Cagney & Lacey -- Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly reprised their iconic roles for the first of four TV-movie sequels. Cagney & Lacey: The Return finds the now-retired Lacey reuniting with the now-married Read More

Stormy Weathers

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Beltran, Charlie Schlatter, Kurt Fuller, Diane Salinger

Synopsis: When a private detective takes on a missing person assignment trying to find an Italian aristocrat's uncle, she discovers a conspiracy of murder and drugs. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo

Actors: Raymond Burr, Amy Steel

Synopsis: Television fans fed up with the state of TV talk shows might get a kick from the 1992 Perry Mason TV movie The Case of the Reckless Romeo. The title character, a video personality who's just written a tell-all autobiography, is played by none other than Geraldo Rivera. When the future O.J. Read More

You Must Remember This

Synopsis: A highly principled African-American independent filmmaker hides his early profession because his films never became popular. This Wonderworks drama chronicles what happens when the former filmmaker's niece finds his old films in a trunk and then begins researching her uncle's contributions. She Read More

Brother Future

Actors: Phill Lewis, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee

Synopsis: This drama was a "Wonderworks Family Movie," and tells the tale of a self-centered, rebellious African- American youth who gets a new outlook on life after he is hit by a car and finds himself awakening in South Carolina during the early 19th century. Soon he is captured and auctioned off to the Read More

To Sleep with Anger

Actors: Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Synopsis: African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. She already has enough on her hands contending with her grown live-in son Richard Brooks Read More

Father of Hell Town

Actors: Robert Blake, Jeff Corey, James Gammon

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was edited from several episodes of the short-lived television series Hell Town, in which Robert Blake starred as Father Noah "Hardstep" Rivers, a tough but giving Catholic priest trying to do good works in a rough ghetto neighborhood. Also appearing in Father of Hell Town Read More

Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing An Independent Black Cinema

Actors: Diahnne Abbott, Rosalind Cash, Alfre Woodard, Jim Brown, Vonetta McGee

Synopsis: Through probing exploration and expert commentary, this documentary takes an in-depth look at the evolution of African American cinema, examining how African Americans have been portrayed in film, and how the community has both utilized and expressed itself through movies. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Case of the Red Faced Thespian

Synopsis: When Higgins (John Hillerman) is stunned into semi-consciousness by an errant croquet ball, Magnum (Tom Selleck) must take over supervision of a "Great Gatsby" costume ball held at the Masters Estate. In the course of the evening, some valuable jewels are stolen, and the chief suspect is none Read More

Repo Man

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash, Tracey Walter, Sy Richardson

Synopsis: Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major cult item once it began making the art-house rounds a year after its release (an initial run in a string of Southern grind houses and drive-ins, where it was billed as an action film, was a resounding Read More

Scruples

Synopsis: In this soapy drama based on Judith Krantz's novel,, a rather ordinary woman inherits a conglomerate and finds herself embroiled in the glittery but often sleazy world of big business. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Superdome

Synopsis: An upcoming Super Bowl provides the framework for this suspenseful thriller set in New Orleans. The trouble begins when a murderous stalker begins threatening assorted lovers, gamblers, and con artists who typically surround the big game. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Brothers

Actors: Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal, Renny Roker, Stu Gilliam

Synopsis: Based loosely on the real-life relationship between political activist Angela Davis and convict-turned-author George Jackson, Brothers stars Bernie Casey as David Thomas, who begins corresponding with college professor and outspoken black activist Paula Jones (Vonetta McGee) after he's convicted Read More

Foxbat

Actors: Rick van Nutter, James Yi Liu

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, this action-adventure thriller concerns the race to obtain the blueprints of a MIG-25 "Foxbat" Soviet fighter plane which has landed in Japan, complete with a pilot who is asking for asylum. Undercover U.S. spy Michael Saxon (Henry Silva) is trying to get the microfilms Read More

The Eiger Sanction

Actors: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Bruhl

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood both directed and starred in this thriller based on a novel by Trevanian. Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood) is a professor of art history who formerly had a deadly secret life; he was a hired assassin working with an international intelligence organization. Normally content to collect Read More

Thomasine and Bushrod

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kip Allen, Tedi Altice, Paul Barby, Scott Britt, Max Cisneros, Bud Conlan, Harry Luck, Katy Martin, Leigh Potter, James Sargeant, Brad Woolley

Synopsis: Thomasine and Bushrod was intended as the African American counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde, the difference being that the story in this case is utterly fictional. Vonette McGee plays Thomasine, and Max Julien (who also wrote and coproduced the film) is Bushrod. They are a pair of thieves Read More

The Big Bust Out

Actors: Karen Carter

Synopsis: The Big Bust Out, a low-budget "women's prison" exploitation film directed by Ernst von Theumer, tells the story of seven beautiful women who escape from a high-security prison. After the breakout, Rebecca (Karen Carter) and her fellow escapees find they are in more trouble than they had imagined Read More

Shaft in Africa

Actors: James E. Myers, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric, Debebe Eshetu

Synopsis: In the third and last in the original Shaft (1971) series of action-packed "blaxploitation" pictures, private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) travels to the "motherland," where he breaks up a modern slavery ring. Shaft is hired by a diplomat, Emir Ramila (Cy Grant), to infiltrate the criminal Read More

The Norliss Tapes

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Author William F. Nolan and producer/director Dan (Dark Shadows) Curtis combined forces for the made-for-TV The Norliss Tapes. Roy Thinnes stars as Dan Norliss, an investigative reporter specializing the supernatural. Norliss' tapes consist of his observations when tracking down a report about a Read More

Hammer

Actors: Tracy Ann-King, Nawana Davis, John DeCarlos, Leon Isaac, Perrie Lott, Jamal Moore, Al Richardson

Synopsis: A man who fights his way to success learns the people who helped him may be his biggest enemies in this action drama. B.J. Hammer (Fred Williamson) is a dock worker who used to box in the Golden Gloves and still knows how to handle himself in a fight; when he gets into a brawl at work, he's seen Read More

Blacula

Actors: Eric Brotherson, William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: Advertised as the 100th production of American International studios, Blacula stars actor/singer William Marshall in the title role. An 18th century African prince, Blacula is transmogrified into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin to wreak havoc in Read More

Melinda

Actors: Calvin Lockhart, Judyann Elder, Lonne Elder, Jan Tice

Synopsis: In this blaxploitation flick, a supercool deejay, stuck on himself, decides to get revenge after his girl friend is slaughtered in his apartment. He enlists the help of a friend to investigate the death. He then finds a tape that shows that implicates a mobster in the murder of a union leader. His Read More

The Kremlin Letter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. The plot has as many switchbacks as a Formula One racetrack, and a pad and paper to keep track of the agents Read More

The Lost Man

Actors: Joanna Shimkus, Sidney Poitier

Synopsis: Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) is an angry black man who plans to rob a factory payroll. With the help of his accomplices Dennis (Al Freeman Jr.) and his white girlfriend Cathy (Joanna Shimkus), a racially motivated demonstration diverts attention from the crooks while they rob the safe. Jason is Read More

The Great Silence

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci directed this serious-minded populist spin on the spaghetti western, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, whose vocal cords have been slashed by sadistic bounty-hunters. Silence joins with local hillfolk in fighting the corrupt and tyrannical authorities in Read More

Faustina

Actors: Vonetta McGee, Enzo Cerusico, Renzo Montagnani

Synopsis: This romantic comedy concerns a young girl who is the product of a black American-Army regular and a Roman woman who shared a romance in World War II. The woman is pursued by two men who both covet a relationship with the dark-skinned girl. Scenes often take place amidst the Roman antiquities and Read More