Biography: Arthur O'Connell |
A veteran vaudevillian, American actor Arthur O'Connell made his legitimate stage debut in the mid '30s, at which time he fell within the orbit of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Welles cast O'Connell in the tiny role of a reporter in the closing... more
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Tags: Drama War Drama Docudrama
Length: 150min
Produced by Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association and based on an autobiographical novel by Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II. ~ Jason Ankeny,...
Cast: Milton Berle
Tags: Disaster Film Adventure Drama Action Adventure Drama
Length: 75min
Seven in Darkness has the distinction of being the first made-for-TV "ABC Movie of the Week." The "seven" are all blind people, passengers on a flight en route to a convention for the visually impaired. The plane crashes, forcing the sightless seven...
Cast: Bing Crosby
Tags: Natural Horror Animal Picture Horror Thriller
Length: 93min
This sequel to the rampaging-rodent chiller Willard stars Lee H. Montgomery as young Danny Garrison, a neglected kid who finds a new little friend in Ben -- an intelligent rat whose furry minions managed to slaughter most of the cast of the previous...
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Cast: Don Knotts Jesse White Bud Westmore
Tags: Adventure Comedy Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 101min
Roy Fleming (Don Knotts) is signed on to the space program at NASA by his father Buck (Arthur O'Connell), a gung-ho former World War I vet who is trying to make something out of his son. Roy becomes a janitor who is afraid of heights and mistaken for...
If He Hollers, Let Him Go (1968)
Cast: Charles Martin
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Crime
Length: 106min
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily...
Do Not Throw Cushions into the Ring (1970)
Cast: Ed Asner Steve Ihnat Arthur O'Connell
Length: 100min
Actor Steve Ihnat, fed up with playing two-dimensional heavies, turned TV director in the late 1960s. Do Not Throw Cushions Into the Ring is a rare theatrical-feature directorial effort for Ihnat, who also produced, wrote, edited an starred in the...
Cast: Tab Hunter
Tags: Spy Film Action Comedy Family
Length: 88min
Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around...
Cast: Donald Pleasence Raquel Welch William Redfield Edmond O'Brien Stephen Boyd
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction
Length: 100min
Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a...
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama Mystery
Length: 97min
In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on...
Cast: Dean Martin Cyd Charisse Stella Stevens Phil Karlson
Tags: Glamorized Spy Film Comedy Action Spy Film
Length: 102min
Columbia Pictures tried to create a tongue-in-cheek American James Bond with this, the first of five motion pictures based on the character of Matt Helm, a spy created in a series of novels by Donald Hamilton. Dean Martin stars as Helm, a boozing,...
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