Biography: Dana Elcar |
Brusque character actor Dana Elcar was usually assigned roles calling for blunt imperiousness. He became especially handy in films and TV shows of the 1970s, portraying curt, dour, meticulously groomed authority figures at odds with dishevelled... more
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Cast: Suzanne Pleshette
Length: 97min
A career woman is so desperate to conceive a child that when her boyfriend the sportswriter comes up short, she goes looking for a fertile stranger in this made-for-TV comic outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Shirley Jones
Tags: Family & Personal Relationships Health & Fitness Illnesses & Disabilities Interpersonal Relationships
Length: 60min
This excellent docudrama is an affecting dramatization of the decline of an Alzheimer's victim and the emotional and psychological toll his fatal illness takes on his family. Bob Millard (Len Cariou) is an active outdoorsman, he is strong and healthy...
Cast: Billy Wilder Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Dana Elcar Klaus Kinski Paula Prentiss
Tags: Black Comedy Farce Odd Couple Film Comedy
Length: 96min
As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to...
Cast: Helen Hunt
Tags: Sports Drama Drama Teen Movie Docudrama
Length: 96min
This fact-based youth-oriented drama chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who stands tall in the face of sexist traditionalism and fights for her right to play on the varsity football team. Not only does she succeed, she also...
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 96min
This is a baseball comedy with a twist. This time, the young player striving to make it big in the major leagues is a plucky, talented young woman who attends spring training camp. The team's wealthy owner is a male-chauvinist bachelor who finds...
Cast: Rhonda Fleming
Tags: Spy Film Parody/Spoof Action Comedy Spy Comedy
Length: 94min
Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy espionage spoof. This time, Smart and his cohorts must stop enemy spies from detonating a bomb that would destroy all the world's...
Cast: Ben Gazzara Marvin J. Chomsky
Tags: Adventure Action Combat Films War Drama
Length: 100min
Outtakes and stock footage from the 1970 Oscar-winner Patton were utilized to flesh out the made-for-TV Fireball Forward, which was the brainchild of Patton producer Frank McCarthy. Ben Gazzara plays a fictional American general obviously patterned on...
Cast: Gordon Parks
Tags: Coming-of-Age Americana Drama
Length: 107min
Gordon Parks' adaptation of his own novel -The Learning Tree stars Kyle Johnson as Newt, a black teenager living in 1920s Kansas. He is an intelligent even-tempered young man who meets the many racial prejudices he faces with composure and pride. His...
Cast: Laszlo Kovacs John Hancock
Length: 90min
In this WWII-era drama, Jan-Michael Vincent plays Marion Hedgepeth, a young Marine who fails out of a boot camp in 1943 and gets sent home wearing a baby blue suit to symbolize shame and dishonor. In Los Angeles, he runs into a veteran who -- eager to...
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972)
Cast: Robert Duvall Philip Kaufman Cliff Robertson
Tags: Crime Drama Revisionist Western Western
Length: 91min
The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September...
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