William SmithFilmography

God Has a Rap Sheet

Actors: John Ford Noonan, William Smith

Synopsis: Kamal Ahmed, formerly one-half of the prank phone-call duo the Jerky Boys, makes his directorial debut with God Has a Rap Sheet. A holding tank filled with nine ethnically and culturally diverse New Yorkers is shaken when one of them announces that he is God. His outlandish claim is eventually Read More

Justice League: War World, Part 1

Actors: Eric Roberts, William Smith

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Justice League members Superman and Martian Manhunter are rendered unconscious by hydrogen pockets while destroying an asteroid before it can hit the Earth. "Rescued" by an alien ship, the two do-gooders find themselves prisoners of the evil dictator Read More

Justice League: War World, Part 2

Actors: Eric Roberts, William Smith

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Superman and Martian Manhunter remain prisoners of the despotic Mongul, who has pitted the Man of Steel against his best gladiators in mortal combat in the arena of War World. Though Superman manages to win his first bout (and without shedding blood), he is Read More

Deadly Memories

Synopsis: When the sheriff of his small town fails to deliver justice, the owner of a local body shop sets out to settle the score with the unrepentant group of joyriding teens who killed his wife and rendered his daughter comatose in this thriller starring Phillip Newman and William Smith. Now, as Art Gary Read More

Broken Vessels

Actors: Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, James Hong

Synopsis: Scott Ziehl made his directorial debut with this high-energy ambulance ride with a pair of paramedics careening through the Los Angeles night, with Antonio Calvache's camerawork capturing the social drama in a documentary-style depiction. In the vein of Leaving Las Vegas, the film was the top Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Sky High

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Danielle Cormack, Jonno Roberts, James Gaylyn, Clint Sharplin

Synopsis: Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) endeavors to save the citizenry of Mount Pelion from an erupting volcano. He is joined in this mission by Amazon queen Ephiny (Danielle Cormack), the centaur Nagus (James Gaylyn), and a youth named Kurth (Jonnno Roberts) -- who has been condemned to death for the murder of Read More

Uncle Sam

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster, Bo Hopkins, P.J. Soles, William Smith

Synopsis: After being killed by friendly fire during the Gulf War, soldier Sam Harper (David Shark Fralick) inexplicably returns from the dead to wreak revenge upon corrupt military men, draft dodgers, tax cheats, and flag burners. His memory is cherished only by his nephew, who doesn't realize that in life Read More

Neon Signs

Synopsis: An abandoned teen attempts to learn the rules of the road after being left by his mother at a roadside motel in this quirky crime drama starring screen veterans Carol Lynley, Barbara McNair, and William Smith. Upon realizing that his mother has abandoned him at a seedy motel in the middle of Read More

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

Deadly Currency

Actors: William Smith, Deron McBee, Robert Z'Dar

Synopsis: Like pilgrims heading for Mecca, the world's biggest gamblers travel to Las Vegas to wage the ultimate bet on SuperBowl Sunday. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Due South: Manhunt

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Sgt. Buck Frobisher, a legendary Canadian mountie who is idolized by our hero Benton Fraser (Paul Gross). Frobisher's daughter Julie (Cali Timmins) solicits Fraser's help when Buck disappears from view, one week shy of retirement. Resurfacing in Chicago, an Read More

American Me

Actors: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Danny De La Paz, Evelina Fernandez

Synopsis: Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending Read More

Maniac Warriors

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world prone to a dangerous virus, roving motorcycle gangs replenish their draining blood supplies by abducting helpless females. A would-be victim (Melanie Kilgour) decides to fight back with her friend (William Smith) and two hippie-rebels (Andrew MacGregor and Joe Maffei). Read More

Kiss and Be Killed

Last of the Warriors

Cybernator

Synopsis: The Cybernator....The Terminator....separated at birth? Not exactly. Both films begin in the future, and both involve cyborg killers. But whereas most of The Terminator took place in the present, The Cybernator remains in an unspecified later era. The hero, detective Lonnie Schuyler, is pressed Read More

Instant Karma

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Chelsea Noble, David Cassidy, Glenn Hirsch, James Gallery, Orson Bean

Synopsis: Craig Sheffer stars as Zane, a TV producer looking for romance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Riders

Synopsis: In this actioner, a tough biker leaves his gang to become a cop and finds that he has become their latest target for revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Slow Burn

Actors: Anthony James, William Smith, Ivan Rogers, Scott Anderson

Synopsis: When two rival criminal organizations threaten to stage an all-out war, it is up to a dedicated police officer to attempt to bring them to a truce. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Cartel

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Don Stroud, Crystal Carson

Synopsis: Miles O'Keeffe stars as a victim of harassment from a drug lord. After he is framed for smuggling and his sister is killed, he decides to seek revenge. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Terror in Beverly Hills

Synopsis: A vengeful Arab terrorist abducts the daughter of the President during a Beverly Hills shopping spree, and now only Hack Stone, a former Green Beret and current martial arts instructor can save her. This campy low-budget actioner chronicles shows how he does it. Complicating matters is the fact Read More

Spirit of the Eagle

Synopsis: In this wilderness adventure a cartographer and his son head into the wilds to make some maps. They are accompanied by the father's pet eagle. The trouble begins when his son is kidnapped by the villainous One-Eye Hatchett who sells the lad to an Indian village. With the help of his eagle, the Read More

L.A. Warriors

Jungle Assault

Actors: William Smith, William Zipp, Ted Prior

Synopsis: In this actioner, two dispossessed veterans of the Vietnam war return to the steamy jungles to destroy a terrorist operation and rescue the indoctrinated daughter of a prominent America general. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L.A. Vice

Actors: William Smith

Synopsis: This actioner is the sequel to the film LA Heat and chronicles the further exploits of Chance, a street-wise gumshoe who is now working for the vice squad. He and his captain work together to solve a series of killings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Action USA

Actors: Barri Murphy, William Hubbard Knight, William Smith

Synopsis: Pretty young Barri Murphy witnesses a gangland rubout, compelling her to head for the hills. The killers want to silence Barri for keeps, not only because of what she's seen but because of possible retaliation. You see, the victim was Barri's boyfriend. The fox-and-hounds pursuit ends up in Texas Read More

The Final Sanction

Actors: William Smith, Ted Prior

Synopsis: Stop us if you've heard this one before. A nuclear war has wiped out most of mankind. Still, the remnants of the United States and the Soviet Union haggle over who has "won". To settle matters, a single American (Ted Prior) and a single Russian (Robert D'Zar) are ordered to duke it out on behalf Read More

Emperor of the Bronx

Synopsis: Cycle-flick habitue William Smith is top-billed in Emperor of the Bronx. Virtually wall-to-wall violence, this is the story of homicidal street gangs and their noxious, mob-connected leaders. The film makes a few tentative stabs at social relevance, but this obviously isn't its reason for being. Read More

Evil Altar

Actors: Robert Z'Dar, William Smith, Pepper Martin, Theresa Cooney

Synopsis: Favorite "B"-movie tough guy William Smith stars in this dull and tacky occult horror film, released directly to home video. Smith plays a maniacal Satanist with the entire town of Red Rock under his thumb. The key to his power is his regular provision of souls for his evil master, which he Read More

East L.A. Warriors

Synopsis: When powerful East L.A. drug lord Chesare (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hosts a modern version of the gladiator games in which contemporary street gangs battle one and other to the death, his sworn enemy Aurelo (Tony Bravo) teams with his violent protégé Paulo (Kamar Reyes) to bring the sadistic Read More

Deadly Breed

Actors: William Smith, Addison Randall, Blake Bahner, Joe Vance, Michelle Berger

Synopsis: A neighborhood police force gets out of hand after being overpowered by a white-supremacist organization intent on causing havoc. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Platoon Leader

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Robert F. Lyons, Michael de Lorenzo, Rick Fitts, Jesse Dabson

Synopsis: Lieutenant Jeff Knight (Michael Dudikoff) is an idealistic young officer who arrives in Vietnam to lead a group of fighters from the 103rd Airborne division in jungle combat. Sergeant Michael McNamara (Robert F. Lyons) is a combat veteran who helps Jeff after most of the platoon is wiped out. George S. Clinton Read More

Maniac Cop

Actors: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith

Synopsis: A maniacal murderer is stalking New York City cops in this urban crime thriller. Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) is suspected of being the killer until Lieutenant McCrae (Tom Atkins) is found dead. Jack takes over the case after McCrae's death with help from undercover cop and sweetheart Theresa (Laurene Landon Read More

Hell Comes to Frogtown

Actors: Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, Brian Frank, William Smith, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: The great nuclear holocaust has come and gone, and humanity is hanging on a string. Women rule what's left, and the world is filled with giant mutant humanoid frogs who have started their own communities. Fertile human males have become one of the rarest things on Earth. This really low-budget Read More

Hunter: Honorable Profession

Synopsis: Rookie cop Sandra Chin (Kimberly Delfin), one of Hunter's best students at the Police Academy, is seriously wounded in a Chinatown shootout. As Sandra lies in the hospital near death, she is accused of irresponsible use of her weapon. Hunter (Fred Dryer) puts his own career on the line to prove Read More

Memorial Valley Massacre

Synopsis: A crazed hermit comes out of isolation to terrorize campers in the woods for a weekend getaway. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

B.O.R.N.

Actors: Ross Hagen, P.J. Soles, Hoke Howell, William Smith, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: This gory medical thriller managed to pre-date an early-'90s spate of direct-to-video exploitation films dealing with sleazy black-market organ banks. The plot centers on the activities of the "Body Organ Replacement Network," a secret criminal organization (led by ubiquitous movie villain William Smith Read More

Hell on the Battleground

Actors: William Smith, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior

Bulletproof

Actors: Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: Frank McBain (Gary Busey) is a cop who earned the nickname of "bulletproof" from the dozens of shootings he has survived over his career. He is called on to retrieve a tank held by communists across the border of Mexico. The enemies are cardboard caricatures of Arabs, Russians, and Mexicans led by Read More

Commando Squad

Actors: Brian Thompson, Kathy Shower, William Smith, Sid Haig, Robert Quarry

Synopsis: Drug enforcement agent Cat (Kathy Shower) is sent to Mexico by her boss (Robert Quarry) when fellow agent and former boyfriend Clint (Brian Thompson) is held captive by cocaine-trafficking fiends. The head of the drug cartel turns out to be Morgan (William Smith), a former agent now on the wrong Read More

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ

Synopsis: Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is a modern-day bounty hunter who goes after notorious terrorist Malak Al Rahim (Gene Simmons) in this action feature. Nick is called on after Malak disrupts Los Angeles with a series of fatal bombings. William Russ plays Nick's friend and retired LAPD lieutenant Danny Read More

Red Nights

Actors: Brian Matthews, Tom Badal, Patti Bauer, Jack Carter

Synopsis: Randy (Christopher Parker) leaves rural New Hampshire for Hollywood to become a star in this tragic drama. His best friend David (Brian Matthews) is hooked on drugs and under the spell of the sleazy dealer Bruce (Tom Badal). Randy meets pretty blond Betty (Patti Bauer) at a party but soon Read More

Moon in Scorpio

Actors: Britt Ekland, John Phillip Law, William Smith, Lewis van Bergen, April Wayne

Synopsis: In this provocative and scary supernatural thriller, a brides happy honeymoon aboard an Acapulco-bound yacht with her husband, two of his buddies from Vietnam and their girl friends, turns to terror when someone or something begins to kill them one by one. In the end, only she lives to tell the Read More

Eye of the Tiger

Actors: Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, William Smith

Synopsis: The budget may be loftier, but Eye of the Tiger is essentially an up-to-date AIP motorcycle flick. Ex-convict Buck Mathews (Gary Busey) lives as quietly as possible in his old home town. The corrupt local sheriff (Seymour Cassel) would give anything to drive Buck out of town: thus, the sheriff Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadline for Murder

Synopsis: Eugene Roche is cast as veteran reporter Billy Simms, yet another longtime friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). While recovering from a heart attack, Billy expresses the wish that something very, very bad would happen to the slimy publisher who took over Billy's former newspaper and Read More

The A-Team: The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming

Synopsis: Using the defective of a Russian ballet dancer as a subterfuge, Soviet intelligence agent Shasta Kovich (William Smith) hires the A-Team to locate and neutralize renegade Russian officer Pedavich (Gene Scherer). Aided by a group of American "Com-symps", Pedavich is planning to set off World War Read More

Wildside [TV Series]

Actors: William Smith, Howard E. Rollins, Jr., J. Eddie Peck, Terry Funk, John di Aquino, Meg Ryan, Sandy McPeak

Hunter: Think Blue

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) champions the cause of his old friend Sgt. Charlie Coster (Ramon Bieri) when the man is charged with the murder of his wife. At first it seems that Charlie was up to no good, else why would he have misfiled several recent burglary reports? As it turns out, however, it was the Read More

The Mean Season

Actors: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: Canadian actor/director Philip Borsos made a couple of interesting films before an untimely death in his early forties, including The Grey Fox (1982) and this crime thriller starring Kurt Russell as police beat reporter Malcolm Anderson. Happily abandoning the Miami Daily for which he's labored Read More

Fever Pitch

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett

Synopsis: Writer-director Richard Brooks' final film features a weak script and poor acting but high energy direction in a tale of compulsive gambling in Las Vegas. Ryan O'Neal stars as Taggart, a sports reporter obsessed with gambling. As Taggart gets deeper and deeper into debt, he compounds his problems Read More

Red Dawn

Actors: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Ron O'Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe

Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war movie: Russian and Cuban forces have invaded the U.S. and are viciously eliminating the inhabitants of a small town, when a group of teens escapes and plans a counterattack. Jed Read More

The A-Team: Pros and Cons

Synopsis: B.A. (Mr. T) persuades his fellow A-Teamers to help him rescue his pal from Strikersville, a brutal Florida prison farm where sadistic warden (Clifton James) forces the inmates to participate in to-the-death boxing matches--then orders his deputies to hunt down and kill the "winner" like an Read More

The Outsiders

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the Read More

Rumble Fish

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

Conan the Barbarian

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson

Synopsis: John Milius's jingoistic direction and pulpy screenplay fit perfectly into this film version of the Robert E. Howard fantasy story of the sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. Complementing Mulius's heavy metal production is Arnold Schwarzenegger's leaden acting, which in any other context Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: 10 Million Dollar Sheriff, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally intended to air as Dukes of Hazzard's two-hour Season Four opener, but moved to a later airdate), Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best) is informed that he has inherited $10,000,000. Wasting no time, Roscoe goes on a lavish spending spree Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: 10 Million Dollar Sheriff, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally intended to air as Dukes of Hazzard's two-hour Season Four opener, but moved to a later airdate), Sheriff Roscoe (James Best) is still basking in the news that he has inherited $10,000,000. Sweetening the pot is the fact that, thanks to a rigged Read More

Any Which Way You Can

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, William Smith, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: This sequel to Every Which Way But Loose finds Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) on the road, orangutan companion Clyde in tow, as he makes his way as a bare-knuckle fighter. The action begins with Philo punching out a new victim while Clyde relieves himself on the seat of a police car, setting the Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

Gas Pump Girls

Actors: Kirsten Baker, Dennis Bowen, Huntz Hall, Sandy Johnson, Leslie King

Synopsis: Not exactly meant for intellectuals or feminists, this juvenile comedy-drama centers around the competition between a decaying, old-fashioned gas station and that of a sleek, modern version across the street. Neither Uncle Joe (Huntz Hall) nor his station are doing well. So niece June (Kirsten Baker Read More

The Frisco Kid

Actors: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, William Smith, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich returns to the western-spoof genre he'd previously explored in Four for Texas with The Frisco Kid. Gene Wilder plays Polish rabbi Avram Belinsky, who intends to set up a congregation in San Francisco. Eminently unsuited for life in the Old West, poor Avram is victimized by everyone Read More

Seven

Actors: William Smith, Barbara Leigh, Guich Koock, Art Metrano, Martin Kove

Synopsis: Cycle-flick veteran William Smith stars as the head of a highly trained US intelligence team, each with the requisite invaluable "special talent." Headquartered in Hawaii, the team aims its sights on a powerful crime syndicate. Since the syndicate's henchmen are all martial arts experts, a Read More

A Lion in the Streets

Synopsis: Detective Steve McGarrett becomes entangled in controversy between the Hawaiian underworld and a group of natives who are attempting to control a labor union and Hawaii's tourist business. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fast Company

Actors: William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings, Nicholas Campbell, Don Francks

Synopsis: Amidst such formative shockers as Shivers, Rabid and The Brood, writer/director David Cronenberg dashed off this semi-documentary. Fast Company relates the life story of race car champion Lonnie Johnson. The ubiquitous William Smith, veteran of many a low-budget cycle flick, is quite convincing as Read More

Blackjack

Blood and Guts

Actors: William Smith, Micheline Lanctôt, Henry Beckman, Brian Patrick Clarke, John McFadyen

Synopsis: This is the story of a group of aging wrestlers nickel-and-diming it on the Canadian circuit. William Smith, a well known second-string actor, plays a former wrestling headliner, now down on his luck. The plot is motivated by a romantic triangle involving Smith, up-and-coming grappler Brian Patrick Clark 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

Scorchy

Actors: Connie Stevens, Cesare Danova, William Smith, Norman Burton

Synopsis: Connie Stevens plays an undercover cop in Seattle who is out to break up a big-time drug ring. This low-budget gem is full of bloody violence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Actors: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth Read More

The Swinging Barmaids

Actors: Bruce Watson, Laura Hippe, Katie Saylor, Renie Radich, William Smith

Synopsis: In this thriller, a serial killer is freed and goes out to slaughter a string of cocktail waitresses. One hard-bitten cop attempts to stop the slaughter, but it isn't easy. The film was later renamed Eager Beavers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hollywood Man

Synopsis: Desperate to make his own film, an actor accepts production money from the Mafia. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Minx

Synopsis: A physically attractive female physician finds no fun in brief affairs in this dreadful exploitation drama. Her luck finally seems to change with her latest lover, but when she learns that he is more interested in her money than her, murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ultimate Warrior

Synopsis: This lively action-adventure, is set in the near future where the population of New York has been decimated by a terrible plague. The city is terrorized by violent street-gangs running amok. The tale centers on one leader who insists on keeping vast stores of potential valuables and a helpful Read More

Death Among Friends

Synopsis: Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire financier. As tipped off by the title, she need look no farther than the dead man's circle of friends. Refreshingly, both the heroine and her police contact, John Anderson Read More

The Sex Symbol

Actors: Connie Stevens, Shelley Winters, Don Murray

Synopsis: Connie Stevens appears both with and without clothing in this made-for-TV a clef version of the Marilyn Monroe saga. The script, based on Alvah Bessie's novel The Symbol, contrives to have Stevens portray La Monroe in everything but name, right down to entering into a marriage with a famous Read More

The Rockford Files [TV Series]

Synopsis: The Stephen J. Cannell-produced detective series The Rockford Files was introduced as a 90-minute NBC TV movie on March 27, 1974. James Garner starred as Jim Rockford, an ex-convict turned private detective. Recently exonerated and released from jail, where he had been serving time for a crime he Read More

The Rockford Files

Actors: Robert Donley, James Garner

Synopsis: James Garner first assumed the bethumped mantle of Private Investigator Jim Rockford on March 27, 1974. The original Rockford Files TV movie, like the long running series that followed, starred Garner as an ex-con who only takes cases that the people have been unable to solve. Future Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner Read More

Boss Nigger

Synopsis: A black cowboy saves a frontier town from both the law and the bad guys in this western written by and starring Fred "The Hammer" Williamson. Boss (Williamson) is an African-American bounty hunter traveling though the Wild West with his best friend and sidekick Amos (D'urville Martin) Read More

Black Samson

Actors: John Alderman, William Smith, Carol Speed, Rockne Tarkington

Synopsis: William Smith and a gang of white drug-dealers try to muscle in on black nightclub owner Rockne Tarkington in this silly blaxploitation film. What they don't know is that Tarkington -- who has a pet lion -- is skilled at martial arts and will not give in without a fight. Abby's Carol Speed Read More

Crackle of Death

Synopsis: Crackle of Death is a hybrid feature film comprised of two episodes from the 1974 TV series Night Stalker. Series regulars Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland head the cast, playing, respectively, reporter Carl Kolchak and editor Tony Vincenzo. It was Kolchak's weekly habit on the series to run Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Commitment

Synopsis: On assignment, Stone (Karl Malden) kills a suspect who turns out to be an undercover cop. Though he insists that the killing was an accident, tests in the police lab would seem to suggest that he has committed murder. As the story develops, Stone realizes that he has been made the fall guy in an Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) has degenerated from a respected law enforcement officer to a seedy skid-row bum, apparently because 10-year-old murder witness Jerry Abbott (Lee H. Montgomery) was killed while in the Chief's protective custody. What even Ironside's Read More

A Taste of Hell

Actors: Ruben Rustia, John Garwood, Lisa Lorena, William Smith

Synopsis: Set in the Philippines during WW II, two U.S. Army officers are caught and shot by a Japanese officer. One survives and soon joins with a guerilla troop to battle the enemy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Deadly Trackers

Actors: Richard Harris

Synopsis: Based on filmmaker Samuel Fuller's short-story "Riata," this extremely bloody, excessively violent and long-running western centers on a vengeful sheriff's search for the murderous bank robbers who slaughtered his family. Originally Fuller was the director for the film, but severe artistic Read More

Graveyard Tramps

Actors: William Smith, Claudia Jennings, Andre Philippe, Thomas Pittman, Jack Perkins

Synopsis: In this "guilty pleasure" outing by B-budget director Denis Sanders (Shock Treatment), William Smith plays an FBI man investigating reports of a coven of "bee-girls" -- women who have taken on the characteristics of bees, and who kill men upon making love. A cute device throughout the film allows Read More

Gentle Savage

Synopsis: When a Native American is falsely accused of the brutal rape and beating of a white girl, the white community essentially becomes a lynch mob--led by the victim's step-father. Unaware that it is the leader of their anarchistic group who is guilty of the crime, the mob wants only revenge. When the Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Chief Ironside is assigned to protect little Jerry Abbott, an autistic 10-year-old who has witnessed a murder. Not long afterward, the newspapers are reporting that Jerry himself has been killed--and that Read More

Policewomen

Synopsis: Lee Frost's police action film Policewomen stars Sondra Currie as officer Lucy Bond. She goes undercover to bring down a group of female convicts who have escaped from jail and joined forces with smugglers. After her true identity is revealed, she must fend off a number of adversaries. ~ Perry Read More

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

Grave of the Vampire

Actors: William Smith, Kitty Vallacher

Synopsis: This dark, violent British production stars Michael Pataki as a brutish vampire apparently lacking in Dracula's powers of seduction, since he finds it necessary to brutally rape a young woman (Kitty Vallacher) in order to sire a child. The product of this unholy mating is a half-human Read More

Mission: Impossible: Movie

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Vernon, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Frequent Mission:Impossible villain John Vernon makes a return appearance in "Movie," this time as mob-connected Hollywood mogul Norman Shields. In order to wrest the Syndicate's financial records from Shields, Phelps poses as Theo Dane, the courier brother of mob financier Benjamin Dane (David Read More

The Thing with Two Heads

Actors: Jane Kellem, Rod Steele, Ray Milland, Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall

Synopsis: The good campy fun in this sci-fi horror movie really begins when the head of a racist mad scientist (Ray Milland) is sewn onto the shoulders of a large black convict (Rosie Grier) and the two heads begin fighting--literally trying to punch each other out--to control their shared body. The whole Read More

Piranha, Piranha

Actors: Peter Brown, Ahna Capri, William Smith

Synopsis: Peter Brown and Ahna Capri star as wildlife photographers, exploring the Amazon jungle. The two shutterbugs run afoul of homicidal hunter William Smith. In Most Dangerous Game fashion, the villain gives Brown and Capri a head start, then begins hunting them down like wild animals. The title is 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

Summertree

Actors: Kirk Callaway, Dennis Clark Fimple

Synopsis: As he lies dying in Vietnam, a young soldier (Michael Douglas) recalls the events leading up to this moment. He remembers his sweetheart (Brenda Vaccaro), to whom he couldn't make a commitment. He recalls the battles he'd had with his parents (Jack Warden, Barbara Bel Geddes), when he forsook Read More

Runaway, Runaway

Synopsis: In this drama, a teen-age girl runs away from home and gets romantically involved with a much older businessman. The film is also known as Runaway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Chrome and Hot Leather

Actors: Tony Young, Marvin Gaye

Synopsis: This film is notable for singer Marvin Gaye's debut acting performance. In Chrome and Hot Leather, Green Beret sergeant Mitch's (Tony Young) girlfriend has been mortally injured, and just before her death divulges that a motorcycle gang called "The Devils" were responsible. Mitch and his sergeant Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Ghost Story

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: American defector Howard Bainbridge (Frank Farmer) returns to the US for one last reunion with his son Paul (Anthony Norwalk). Unfortunately, Bainbridge gets into an argument with his ultra-right wing father Justin Bainbridge (Andrew Duggan), who ends up killing Howard and burying the body on his Read More

Mission: Impossible: Encounter

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley shines in an extremely difficult guest-star turn in the Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter." The IMF is assigned to halt the extortionist activities of crooked business executives Frank Brady (Val Avery) and Martin Stoner (Lawrence Dane). The key to the mission's success is the Read More

Angels Die Hard

Actors: Tom Baker, William Smith, R.G. Armstrong, Alan DeWitt, Connie Nelson

Synopsis: At least Angels Die Hard strives to be something different. The usual motorcyle bums are in attendance, but this time they're the heroes rather than the antagonists. The storyline, concerning a mine cave-in in a small community, bears traces of the 1931 German film Kammeradschaft. Though on the Read More

Darker Than Amber

Actors: Rod Taylor, Suzy Kendall, Theodore Bikel, Jane Russell, James Booth

Synopsis: John D. McDonald was not altogether pleased with what Hollywood did to his novel Darker Than Amber, but audiences were generally satisfied. Private eye Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) and his cohort Meyer (Theodore Bikel) rescue the beautiful Vangie (Suzy Kendall) from drowning. Vangie has been Read More

C.C. and Company

Actors: Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, William Smith, Jennifer Billingsley, Don Chastain

Synopsis: C.C. Ryder (Joe Namath) is a biker who rescues Ann McCalley (Ann-Margret) from a rape attempt by a gang of malevolent hippies. She makes love with him to show her appreciation, but their romance meets with obstacles when gang-leader Moon (William Smith) seeks revenge for C.C.'s interference. They Read More

The Losers

Actors: William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Dan Kemp, Houston Savage

Synopsis: Motorcycle maniacs are recruited by the U.S. government to rescue a captured CIA operative in Cambodia. The action-packed cycle drama finds the army slaughtering innocent villagers while the bikers rescue the agent. The CIA agents are painfully clueless as to the toll on human lives that follows Read More

Crowhaven Farm

Actors: John Carradine

Synopsis: Crowhaven Farm is a contrived creepy-crawly originally telecast on The ABC Movie of the Week. Hope Lange is probably the last person you'd expect to see in the middle of a witchcraft/reincarnation plot, but there she is, in the company of Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner and (who else?) John Carradine Read More

Ironside: Poole's Paradise

Synopsis: In a small desert town, Ed (Don Galloway) is kidnapped by D.W. Donnelly (Clu Gulager), an escapee from a local prison farm. Ed soon figures out that the real villain of the piece is not Donnelly, but instead corrupt Sheriff Poole (Steve Forrest), who with his vicious deputy Hoag (William Smith) is Read More

Backtrack

Actors: Neville Brand, Doug McClure, Peter Brown, William Smith

Synopsis: The fans of television shows The Virginian and Laredo will delight to the combined casts of the two popular series for Backtrack. Ramrod (James Drury) and Trampas (Doug McClure) are shown meeting for the first time as they go to work on the Shilo Ranch. Reese (Neville Brand) Chad (Peter Brown) and Read More

Run, Angel, Run!

Actors: William Smith, Valerie Starrett, Gene Shane, Lee de Broux, Eugene Cornelius

Synopsis: When Angel (William Smith) writes a story about the Devil's Advocates motorcycle gang, his luck changes. The good news is he sells the story to a magazine for $10,000. The bad news is he is a wanted man, now hunted by the biker gang. Angel and his girlfriend head for the northern California hills Read More

The Manhunter

Synopsis: Big-game hunter Roy Thinnes is hired to track down bank robbery suspect William Smith. While on the job, Thinnes becomes emotionally involved with Smith's wife, Sandra Dee. The climactic showdown takes place in the swamps of Louisiana. Filmed in 1968, Manhunter was slated for a 1969 theatrical Read More

Oliver!

Actors: Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild

Synopsis: Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. For its first half-hour or so, Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 Read More

Three Guns for Texas

Actors: Neville Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith, Martin Milner, Philip Carey

Synopsis: Three Guns For Texas is a routine western. Taken from the television series "Laredo," three 30-minute episodes are strung together. The only continuity seems to be the plot of Texas Rangers fighting a renegade band of Indians led by Linda Little Trees (Shelley Morrison). Neville Brand, Peter Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Operation: First Couple on the Moon

Synopsis: Dr. Bellows (Hayden Rorke) has cooked up another experiment: This time, he wants to send a male and a female astronaut to the moon. Tony (Larry Hagman) of course is chosen as the male, while an attractive scientist (Kay Reynolds) is selected as the female. Worried that the scientist will steal Read More

Laredo: Season 02

Actors: Philip Carey, William Smith, Neville Brand, Peter Brown

Laredo: Season 01

Actors: Philip Carey, William Smith, Neville Brand, Peter Brown

Perry Mason: The Case of the Frightened Fisherman

Synopsis: Hudson Bradshaw (Bartlett Robinson) is willing to use any means, fair or foul, to claim the rights to a revolutionary new antibiotic developed by ex-employee Randolph James (Lee Farr). When all else fails, Bradshaw persuades James' wife Natalie ({$Marian Collier]) to sell her controlling interest Read More

Combat!: The Eyes of the Hunter

Synopsis: Ed Nelson is cast as Pvt. Jesse Burgess, one of two survivors of a dangerous reconnaissance mission. Returning from this assignment, Burgess is order to guide Saunders' men back to the German outpost that he has located. But Burgess' sergeant questions the circumstances surrounding the Private's Read More

Mail Order Bride

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Lois Nettleton, Warren Oates, Barbara Luna

Synopsis: Many viewers avoided Mail Order Bride upon its first release, assuming (thanks to MGM's shoddy promotional campaign) that the picture had been slapped together to capitalize on the popularity of Beverly Hillbillies star Buddy Ebsen. In truth, the film is an engaging and involving western drama Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The McGregor Affair

Actors: Andrew Duggan, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Malet, Michael Pate, William Smith

Synopsis: The infamous story of 19th century grave robbers Burke and Hare is given a new slant in this episode, told from the point-of-view of dimwitted Scottish laborer John McGregor (Andrew Duggan). In order to provide gin money for his sodden wife, Aggie (Elsa Lanchester), McGregor takes a job hauling Read More

Combat!: Anatomy of a Patrol

Synopsis: The misson: to retrieve the pilot and the movie film from a US reconnaissance plane. The Americans assign Saunders and his squad to carry out this mission, while at the same time the Germans dispatch a patrol led by Sgt. Beckman (played by a decidedly pre-Godfather James Caan) for the same Read More

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Actors: Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, Frank de Kova, John Dall, Jay Novello

Synopsis: Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in sci-fi spectacles like the War of the Worlds. So it is no surprise that this sci-fi yarn about the fabled sunken continent of Atlantis should excel in the special effects Read More

Go Naked in the World

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida plays a Lady of the Evening who is wooed by wealthy young Anthony Franciosa. She leaves him in the dark concerning her checkered past. Alas, Franciosa's father Ernest Borgnine knows everything about Lollobrigida, and breaks the bad news to his son. Aghast at first, Franciosa is Read More

The Mating Game

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, Una Merkel

Synopsis: George Marshall directed this breezy romantic comedy starring Tony Randall and Debbie Reynolds. Randall plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they haven't been paying taxes. He discovers that the Read More

At Sword's Point

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, June Clayworth

Synopsis: At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by Maureen O'Hara. As the swash-buckling daughter of Athos, O'Hara joins the offspring of Aramis and Porthos, portrayed respectively by Dan O'Herlihy and Alan Hale Jr., as well Read More