Biography: Janet Margolin |
Fresh out of New York's High School of Performing Arts, doe-eyed actress Janet Margolin was cast as an emotionally disturbed teenager in the Broadway production Daughter of Silence. Though the play didn't last long, Margolin's performance won her the... more
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Cast: John Lithgow Ralph Macchio
Length: 120min
Discharged from Vietnam, John Lithgow and his army buddies have trouble fitting into a hostile home-front society. Rather than endure dirty looks and taunts of "baby killer," Lithgow and his friends wander aimlessly all through the Pacific Northwest....
Cast: Christopher Walken Roy Scheider Jonathan Demme John Glover Sam Levene Tak Fujimoto
Tags: Thriller Mystery Romantic Mystery Psychological Thriller
Length: 102min
In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy...
Cast: Van Heflin
Tags: Chase Movie Drama Science Fiction
Length: 73min
Back before he was producing Charlie's Angels, Aaron Spelling was a major supplier of made-for-television feature films, particularly to ABC, on which this movie premiered in 1971. The Last Child takes place in America in 1994, a time in which a...
Cast: Woody Allen Marvin Hamlisch
Tags: Comedy Mockumentary Absurd Comedy Crime Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 85min
When Woody Allen's fans refer to his "earlier, funnier" pictures, they often cite his directorial debut as a shining example. Co-written by Allen and Mickey Rose, this side-splitting takeoff of crime documentaries stars Allen as Virgil Starkwell, a...
Tags: Drama Political Drama
Length: 102min
This drama, set in a Buenos Aires hotel, centers upon a fascist who goes into hiding after his organization's activities are banned by the government. Within the hotel he finds a group of Spanish exiles and actors. He begins eavesdropping after he...
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
Cast: Ann-Margret Jocelyn Brando James Doohan David Carradine
Tags: Melodrama Reunion Films Drama Romance
Length: 93min
William Inge co-wrote this story about a young man who may have outgrown the straight-laced boundaries of his home town. After a hitch in the Navy, Bus Riley (Michael Thomas Parks) comes home to the staid Midwestern town of his birth; however, home...
Cast: Yul Brynner Marlon Brando Trevor Howard Jerry Goldsmith Wally Cox
Tags: War Drama War Spy Film War
Length: 123min
Bernhard Wicki directed this hard-hitting World War II espionage drama. Marlon Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who is coerced by British Intelligence officer Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) to impersonate a Gestapo officer in order to get...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Romance
Length: 94min
This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new American independent film movement. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as two adolescents who make contact with each other in a home for disturbed...
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