Biography: Cloris Leachman |
Cloris Leachman seems capable of playing any kind of role, and she has consistently demonstrated her versatility in films and on TV since the 1950s. On the big screen, she can be seen in such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Butch Cassidy and the... more
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Cast: Richard Benjamin Arnold Schwarzenegger Vincent Price
Tags: Ensemble Film Comedy Adventure Comedy Chase Movie
Length: 117min
When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith Delbert Mann
Tags: Drama Family Drama Rural Drama
Length: 115min
The made-for-TV A Girl Named Sooner stars newcomer Susan Deer in the title role. Sooner is an illiterate 8-year-old, growing up in a backwater Indiana community. Lee Remick co-stars as Elizabeth McHenry, Sooner's new foster parent, who hopes to...
Cast: Madeline Kahn Peter Boyle Teri Garr
Tags: Parody/Spoof Horror Comedy Comedy
Length: 108min
Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter...
Cast: Mel Brooks Harvey Korman
Tags: Slapstick Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 94min
This is Mel Brooks' spoof of over ten Alfred Hitchcock classics, including Psycho, Vertigo, and The Birds (Brooks actually used the bird trainer from that classic suspense movie in making his film). Brooks plays Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a renowned...
Cast: Ann Sothern Jonathan Demme
Tags: Period Film Gangster Film Comedy Crime
Length: 82min
Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers...
Cast: Peter Bogdanovich
Tags: Romance Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 90min
Continuing his 1970s recreations of classical Hollywood genres and styles, Peter Bogdanovich turned to the literary costume drama with an adaptation of the Henry James novella Daisy Miller. At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick...
Tags: Drama
Length: 78min
This made-for-TV drama focuses on the plight of a family of migratory farm workers. The film was Emmy-nominated as "Outstanding Drama" of the 1974 season. Nominations also went to director Tom Gries, actress Cloris Leachman, cinematographer Dick...
Cast: Nick Nolte
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Courtroom Drama
Length: 74min
Originally made for television, this story focuses on a woman selected for jury duty. During a murder trial, she discovers that the accused is the wrong man; she also finds that the real killer is after her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss Harry Dean Stanton
Tags: Crime Thriller Biopic Gangster Film Crime
Length: 107min
John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that depict a nostalgia for historical figures tinged with a hard-edged skepticism. Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger, whose...
Cast: Ross Martin Dabney Coleman
Tags: Mystery
Length: 74min
Married couple Jean (Cloris Leachman) and Jim Mitchell (Ross Martin) stop at a rundown roadside eatery. When time comes to leave, Jean is ready, but Jim isn't. In fact, Jim is nowhere to be found. Jean's anguished efforts to locate her husband are...
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