Biography: Leo Penn |
Over his career as a television director, Leo Penn helmed well over 400 primetime hours on a wide variety of series, ranging from Star Trek to I Spy to Diagnosis Murder. In 1973, he received an Emmy for directing a two-hour episode of Columbo titled... more
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Christine Cromwell: Only the Good Die Young (1990)
Cast: Ralph Bellamy
Tags: Crime Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 97min
In this episode of the series, defense attorney Cromwell thinks that the bizarrely murdered members of an investment club were killed for money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989)
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 96min
After an absence of nearly a decade, Peter Falk returns to the role of dishevelled detective Columbo in Columbo Goes to the Guillotine. The special guest murderer this time out is professional psychic Anthony Andrews. The victim is magician Anthony...
Cast: Sean Penn
Tags: Crime Drama Courtroom Drama Crime
Length: 98min
In his first major TV project since Kojak, Telly Savalas stars as maverick Philadelphia criminal lawyer Nick Hellinger. He heads to Houston to defend a syndicate accountant accused of murder. The government seems inordinately interested in the case,...
Length: 99min
A couple find the body of a detective in their apartment, and follow the trail of his killer to Nashville. The film is also known as Country Music Murders. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Cast: Martin Sheen Sam Wanamaker Harris Yulin
Tags: Docudrama Courtroom Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 96min
In 1978, an East German waiter used a toy gun to hijack a Polish airliner heading for East Berlin and forced the pilot to land at an American Air Force base in West Germany. The best-selling book about the ensuing trial of the hijacker -- written by...
Columbo: The Conspirators (1978)
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 100min
The Conspirators was one of four Columbo feature-length TV specials irregularly scheduled during the 1977-1978 TV season. The titular conspirators are Irish political terrorists, funded by Americans. Clive Revill is an Irish poet who murders an arms...
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
Cast: Bette Davis Rosanna Arquette Tom Tryon Donald Pleasence Norman Lloyd
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror Thriller
Length: 300min
This television miniseries is based on Thomas Tryon's complex and suspenseful occult hriller -Harvest Home, delving into the forbidden rituals of the small New England township Cornwall Combe, whose residents offer annual human sacrifices to pagan...
Cast: Wally Cox John Dehner
Tags: Disaster Film Medical Drama Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 74min
Quarantined is set in a clinic maintained by a famous family of physicians. Dr. John Dehner and his son Dr. Gary Collins struggle to control a widespread cholera epidemic. One plot complication involves a testy movie star (Sharon Farrell), who refuses...
Cast: Roddy McDowall Leslie Nielsen Beverly Garland
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 103min
Sixth and Main is the Los Angeles street corner where on any given day you might find itinerant local "character" John Doe (Leslie Nielsen). Elegant authoress Monica (Beverly Garland) discovers that the supposedly derelict Doe has in his possession...
Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)
Cast: Peter Falk
Tags: Police Detective Film Mystery
Length: 78min
Any Old Port in a Storm is another two-hour TV cat and mouse session with Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk). Donald Pleasance portrays a winemaker whose covetous brother plans to sell the family vineyard. Pleasance puts the kibosh on this transaction by...
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