Biography: Gig Young |

Gig Young started his movie career billed under his birth name, Byron Barr. He made his debut in You're in the Army Now (1941). The following year, he played in The Gay Sisters playing a larger supporting role, a character called Gig Young. While he... more
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Cast: Bruce Lee Gig Young John Barry Hugh O'Brian   
Tags: Action Martial Arts Action Thriller 
Length: 102min
Star Bruce Lee died before this film was completed, thus the producers were forced to pad out the running time with outtakes and alternate shots. They also lifted chunks of footage from Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon. The finished product...

Cast: John Hurt Robert Culp   
Tags: Horror Mystery Supernatural Horror 
Length: 98min
In this pilot for a TV series. Robert Culp stars as a top criminologist and dabbler in the occult. Gig Young is a drunken doctor who is "magically" cured of his alcoholism by Culp's housekeeper. Culp and Young decide to team up as the Holmes and...

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy (1975)
Tags: Americana Drama Family Drama 
Length: 78min
This TV movie was originally aired as John O'Hara's Gibbsville. Based on O'Hara's semi-autobiographical story anthology -The Doctor's Son, the film tells the story of Jim Malloy (John Savage) and his youth in his Pennsylvania home town. Aspiring to...

Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller 
Length: 107min
Marina Malfatti stars as Deborah in this low-wattage horror piece. A childless bride, Deborah begins suffering bizarre hallucinations regarding her barren state. She also possesses psychic powers, which take on dangerous dimensions as she drifts into...

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Cast: Sam Peckinpah   
Tags: Action Thriller Black Comedy Action 
Length: 112min
Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up Fernandez's daughter. Trouble is, Alfredo Garcia is already dead and buried. Barkeep Bennie (Warren Oates) is appointed by two...

Cast: George C. Scott Anne Bancroft Robert Wise   
Tags: Docudrama Thriller Disaster Film 
Length: 125min
"The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg, pausing and then adding, "But then, nothing is these days." That seems to sum up the ponderous, irony-laden script and plot...

Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror 
Length: 99min
Another semi-successful attempt to adapt the works of American fantasist H.P. Lovecraft to the screen, this is loosely based on the short story -The Shuttered Room (also an alternate release title for the film), a story which is purported to be more...

Cast: Kirk Douglas Michael Gordon Mitzi Gaynor   
Length: 108min
In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters,...

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Cast: Jane Fonda   
Tags: Period Film Melodrama Drama 
Length: 121min
A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression. Gig Young stars as Rocky, the obnoxious emcee for a dance marathon that...

Cast: Rock Hudson Gina Lollobrigida Terry-Thomas   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 98min
This omantic comedy stars Rock Hudson as Carter Harrison, an executive rising through the ranks of a major oil company. When he meets Toni Vincente (Gina Lollobrigida), a beautiful but hot-tempered artist, it's love at first sight and they quickly...


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