Biography: Forrest Tucker |
After leaving George Washington University, Forrest Tucker made his stage bow in Burlesque. He spent two years in the Army, then returned to performing. After appearing in his first film, 1940's The Westerner, Tucker signed with Columbia, then spent... more
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Tags: Action Thriller Action Drama
Length: 84min
In this Road Warrior clone, an aging trucker spends his retirement mining an old cobalt mine with the assistance of his devoted grandson. A good friend lures the trucker out of retirement by offering him a quarter of a million dollars to drive some...
Length: 85min
Actor Forrest Tucker is the host of this Tunnelvision/Groove Tube-type film that spoofs television shows. Included are parodies of the Phil Donahue Show, a slasher Santa Claus and goofy late-night news reports, among others. Started in 1983, this film...
Cast: George Kennedy
Length: 94min
As in the real-life story which spawned it, Rare Breed deals with the kidnapping of a racehorse and the quest of its loving owner to retrieve it. Tracy Vaccaro plays the cute young girl who wants her horse back so she can continue on her European...
Tags: Melodrama Drama Family Drama
Length: 93min
Originally released as The Wild McCulloughs, this AIP melodrama stars Forrest Tucker as J.J. McCulloch, a domineering patriarch. In their race to escape their father's overbearing influence, J.J.'s grown sons come to grief; one son dies in Korea,...
Walking Tall: The Final Chapter (1977)
Cast: Jack Starrett
Tags: Police Drama Action Docudrama Action Thriller
Length: 112min
Rated R for violence, this is another of the promises broken to us by the movie industry. When they promise that we won't have to see something again, why can't they make it happen? Although this, like the Jason movies (Friday the 13th ad nauseam), is...
Cast: Kerwin Mathews Mariette Hartley Gordon M. Douglas
Tags: Western Action Revisionist Western
Length: 108min
Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his gang and demands that Van Cleef transport the crooks and their booty across the river. He refuses,...
Cast: Glenn Ford
Tags: Detective Film Adventure Mystery
Length: 78min
Glenn Ford is Jarrett, a former boxer with an artistic streak. He becomes a private detective, specializing in cases that will allow him to breath the rarefied air of art galleries and museums. Anthony Quayle is Jarrett's "Moriarity," a wealthy art...
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Norman Wisdom William Friedkin
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 97min
Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell." Thus begins The Night They Raided Minsky's, set in the rarefied world of burlesque in the 1920s. Amish girl Rachel Schpitendavel...
Cast: John Wayne
Tags: Biopic Traditional Western Western
Length: 111min
John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when...
Cast: Forrest Tucker
Length: 76min
Counterplot is a standard murder melodrama in which a man mistakenly believes he has killed someone. Brock (Forrest Tucker) flees to Puerto Rico from New York City, the scene of his supposed crime. A Puerto Rican boy who had befriended Brock years ago...
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