Biography: Howard Duff |
Hardcase leading man Howard Duff built his reputation on radio, where among several other assignments he was cast as Dashiell Hammett's two-fisted private eye Sam Spade. He made so vivid an impression in this role that, when cast in his first film
Cast: Gene Hackman Kevin Costner
Tags: Political Thriller Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 114min
No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene...
Tags: Horror Comedy Creature Film Horror Comedy
Length: 87min
A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's horror films, this monster movie is set in California, where closets can be large and quite important. The monster (Kevin Peter Hall) is straight out of Alien, if not quite as...
Cast: Barbara Hershey
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Whodunit
Length: 100min
In the Glitter Palace was the first made-for-TV movie in which lesbianism was a crucial plot factor. Chad Everett stars as a defense lawyer and erstwhile detective, whose gay client is Barbara Hershey. She is on trial for murdering her slimy...
Cast: Meryl Streep Dustin Hoffman Robert Benton
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 105min
Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks...
Cast: Howard Duff
Length: 100min
Ever anxious to enter the "nighttime serial" market engendered by Dallas, NBC commissioned Flamingo Road, a casual remake of the 1949 Joan Crawford film of the same name. The TV-movie pilot, which aired in May of 1980, introduces the dramatiis...
Cast: Robert Altman Lillian Gish Carol Burnett Paul Dooley Geraldine Chaplin Mia Farrow
Tags: Domestic Comedy Ensemble Film Tragi-comedy Comedy Drama Satire
Length: 125min
Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the...
Cast: Anthony Perkins
Tags: Thriller
Length: 96min
An exceedingly complex plot with a few gaps in logic characterizes this uneven thriller by George Bloomfield. Photographer Michael (Michael Sarrazin) is now in a mental institution because after he got back from a dangerous assignment in the Middle...
Cast: Nehemiah Persoff
Tags: Political Thriller Paranoid Thriller Thriller
Length: 97min
A murder investigation uncovers a plot that could destroy the world as we know it in this thriller. When a scientist doing research on nuclear weapons is murdered during a hospital stay, federal investigator Dave Pomeroy (Howard Duff) is called in to...
Cast: Michael Gordon James Garner Kim Novak George W. Davis
Length: 115min
In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a sociology student preparing her doctoral thesis, "Adolescent Sexual Fantasies in the Adult Suburban Male." She poses as a call girl...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 100min
Murder One was the pilot film for the Jack Webb-produced TV series The D.A. Howard Duff plays the title role, with Robert Conrad his able-bodied deputy. The indictment they must prepare for the Grand Jury is that of nurse Diane Baker. Several of...
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