Biography: Albert Salmi |

Brawny, Brooklyn-born Albert Salmi was trained in the late '40s at the Actors Studio and American Theatre Wing. Extremely busy on-stage and live TV in the 1950s, Salmi was seen in such roles as the dimwitted "doom-ded" ballplayer in the 1956 TV... more
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Cast: Burt Reynolds John Sayles Bill Forsyth Casey Siemaszko   
Tags: Crime Comedy Odd Couple Film Comedy 
Length: 95min
In this comedy (which claims a strong pedigree -- it was written by John Sayles and directed by Bill Forsyth), Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, an aging career burglar who knows just about everything there is to know about breaking and entering. One night,...

Cast: Renny Harlin   
Tags: Action Thriller Escape Film Prison Film Action 
Length: 95min
In an anti-Russian film that is a hangover from Cold War polemics, three young Americans knowingly cross the Finno-Russian border while on a hunting trip and land in a grim Soviet prison. While U.S. diplomats work on the Americans' release, prisoners...

Cast: Beau Bridges   
Tags: Docudrama Prison Film Drama 
Length: 97min
Based upon the true story of a woman's battle to raise her baby in prison after having become pregnant by a prison guard while serving a twenty-year stretch for robbery, Amy Madigan, in her debut film, delivers an impressive intensity and range as...

Cast: David Carradine   
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Drama Action Adventure Drama 
Length: 107min
This is a routine story about Bradley (David Carradine), a stunt flyer who loves flying more than anything else, as apparently does the director, Barry Brown. Bradley is devoted to his brother who suffers from Downs syndrome and he helps a new flyer...

The Sweet Creek County War (1978)
Tags: Western 
Length: 99min
In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors from a corrupt Wyoming land grabber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Tags: Science Fiction Creature Film Natural Horror 
Length: 89min
In the '50s, Bert I. Gordon made a career out of sci-fi movies about gigantic mutated insects (Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Spider), lizards (King Dinosaur, Serpent Island), and even people (The Amazing Colossal Man), and in 1977, he was still...

Cast: Albert Salmi   
Tags: Haunted House Film Supernatural Horror Horror 
Length: 85min
Flamboyant, giallo-style gore effects are the only highlight of this otherwise pedestrian supernatural horror film, which was originally filmed in 1981 as The Witch and shelved for four years, before it experienced a mild midnight-movie revival in the...

Cast: Larry Peerce   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Romance 
Length: 93min
In Hard to Hold, pop singer Rick Springfield is cast as an immensely successful recording artist named James Roberts. As a result of a fender-bender accident, Roberts meets and falls in love with child psychologist Diana Lawson (Janet Eilber), who is...

Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Jerry Goldsmith James Garner Charles Aidman William Schallert John Sturges   
Tags: Historical Film Western Revisionist Western Docudrama 
Length: 100min
John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's -Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James...

Cast: Seymour Cassel   
Length: 92min
In this Roger Corman production, co-producer Jesse Vint stars as Jingo Johnson, a stuntman who goes to work for a backwater mining company. Jingo unearths a hotbed of corruption, partially orchestrated by redneck sheriff, Grimes (Albert Salmi). The...
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