Biography: Ed Begley, Sr. |
Born in Connecticut to an immigrant Irish couple, Ed Begley ran away from home several times before making a complete break from both his family and his formal education at the age of 13. For the next two decades, Begley knocked around in a variety of... more
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Cast: Dean Stockwell
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror Thriller
Length: 90min
With a style and tone that wreaks of the late '60s, this cheap-looking adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story plays like an obvious reference to the battle between the establishment and the counterculture. The film stars Dean Stockwell as Wilbur...
Cast: Rita Hayworth
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
Mara (Rita Hayworth) is the lonely owner of a gas station on a remote road leading to Salina, Mexico in this psychodrama. A young hippie (Robert Walker Jr.) is mistaken for her son who had left four years earlier. He is encouraged to stay and develops...
The Secrets of the Pirates' Inn (1969)
Cast: Ed Begley, Sr.
Tags: Adventure Mystery Family
Length: 89min
Secret of the Pirate's Inn stars Ed Begley in one of his last roles, playing a retired Irish sea captain. Three kids (Jimmy Bracken, Annie McEveety, Patrick Creamer), try to help the old salt locate the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. A reporter...
Cast: Clint Eastwood
Tags: Western
Length: 114min
Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley Sr.), ride up and accuse him of having stolen the cattle and killed their owner. Refusing to...
Cast: Shelley Winters Richard Pryor Hal Holbrook
Tags: Rock Musical Political Satire Teen Movie Comedy Drama Satire
Length: 97min
A ock star decides he'd rather rule the free world than just sell records in this ambitious fusion of political satire and een exploitation. Teenage rebel Max Flatow (Christopher Jones) has grown tired of life in suburbia with his domineering mother...
Cast: James Stewart Henry Fonda
Tags: Western Adventure Action Revisionist Western
Length: 120min
Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a band of recent returnees from the Missouri range wars and their villainous leader (Fonda), who threaten to destroy it with their...
Cast: Michael Caine Ken Russell Karl Malden
Tags: Spy Film Unglamorized Spy Film
Length: 111min
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having...
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Cast: Debbie Reynolds
Tags: Musical Feminist Film Musical Comedy Docudrama
Length: 128min
Meredith Willson's second Broadway hit (the first and biggest was The Music Man) proved a lucrative vehicle for the equally unsinkable Debbie Reynolds. Based on a true story, the film casts Debbie as hoydenish Molly Brown, who wangles her way into...
Length: 91min
This musical chronicles the rise to fame of C&W singer Grady Dodd (Hank Williams Jr.). The tale begins as the talented young man defies the uncle who raised him and tries to break into the music business. As a result of the conflict, the boy learns...
Cast: Lillian Gish David Janssen Jerry Goldsmith Steve Allen
Tags: Police Detective Film Crime Mystery Drama Action Crime Thriller Action Thriller
Length: 105min
LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard luck lately -- his marriage is a wreck, and he hasn't fully recovered from a serious wound suffered in the line of duty a year...
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