Biography: Claude Akins |
Trained at Northwestern University's drama department, onetime salesman Claude Akins was a Broadway actor when he was selected by a Columbia talent scout for a small role in the Oscar-winning From Here to Eternity (1953). With a craggy face and blunt... more
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Tags: Period Film Drama Family Religious Drama Family Drama
Length: 100min
A grieving mother unable to get over the death of her two young daughters finds her marriage and family life threatened due to her inability to let her newly adopted son into her heart in director T.C. Christensen's touching tale of loss and...
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)
Cast: Christopher Lee Patrick Macnee
Tags: Whodunit Crime Mystery Detective Film
Length: 100min
Four countries--Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg--were in on the financing of 1991's Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. At first glance, Christopher Lee seems too old to play Conan Doyle's master detective, but the script allows...
Cast: David Keith
Tags: Horror Science Fiction Natural Horror
Length: 92min
This awful horror film, the directing debut of actor David Keith, is the second major adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's -The Colour Out of Space, first brought to the screen in Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die. Wil Wheaton stars as Zack, eternal...
Cast: Donald Moffat Howard Duff Jesse White Henry Gibson
Tags: Horror Comedy Creature Film Horror Comedy
Length: 87min
A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's horror films, this monster movie is set in California, where closets can be large and quite important. The monster (Kevin Peter Hall) is straight out of Alien, if not quite as...
Cast: Dub Taylor
Tags: Drama Family Drama Romance
Length: 120min
Rocker John Mellencamp both directed and starred in this drama about a well-known musician who returns to his old home town, opening a number of old wounds in the process. Bud Parks (Mellencamp) is a country-rock star who's feeling burned out after a...
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Cast: John Huston Roddy McDowall
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Action Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 86min
The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel -Monkey Planet, this science fiction film was the least-liked by the series' legion of fans. Roddy McDowall returns as Caesar, the...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 71min
A former schizophrenic finds herself stalked by a mysterious foe in this thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Burt Kennedy Gene Evans
Tags: Detective Film Action Comedy
Length: 100min
Two Montana saddletramps head for bustling Music City and open up a detective agency in this comical adventure that was originally the pilot of a television series. Not only do the two have to accustom themselves to strange big-city ways, they have to...
Cast: Angie Dickinson Roy Thinnes Dan Curtis Claude Akins
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 74min
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...
Cast: Charlton Heston Yvette Mimieux Walter Pidgeon John Guillermin
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 100min
Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when...
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