Biography: Martin Balsam |
Bronx-raised actor Martin Balsam was the oldest of three children of a ladies' sportswear salesman. "Actors are bums" was dad's reaction when Balsam announced his intention of going into show business; still, young Martin took full advantage of lunch... more
Find videos of Martin BalsamFree Martin Balsam videosThe Silence of the Hams (1994)
Cast: Billy Zane Dom DeLuise
Tags: Parody/Spoof Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 81min
In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film includes cameos from several stars including Mel Brooks, John Astin, Larry Storch, Phyllis Diller, John Carpenter, and John...
Cast: Alfre Woodard
Tags: Drama
Length: 95min
In this thriller, a successful executive risks it all to help a street orphan get disentangled from the world of drugs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Kirk Douglas Claire Bloom Georges Delerue
Tags: Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 233min
The two-part TV movie Queenie was adapted from the roman a clef by Michael Korda. This is the story of Queenie Kelly,an English girl (Mia Sara) from the slums of Calcutta who is kept from full knowledge of her Indian heritage by her protective mother...
Cast: Lee Marvin Chuck Norris George Kennedy
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 125min
Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film...
Cast: Charles Bronson Ed Lauter
Tags: Action Thriller Action Urban Drama
Length: 100min
Michael Winner ups the ante once again in Death Wish 3. Any pretense of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) having a career in architecture is completely gone. Kersey's new career appears to be as a professional vigilante, blowing away muggers, rapists and...
Tags: Drama
Length: 88min
In this run-of-the-mill suspense thriller, a woman fights for her survival on two different occasions. Kathy's (P.J. Soles) husband Joe (Kit Taylor) at first seems normal -- until Kathy catches him slashing a prostitute in the shower. She calls the...
Cast: Ron Silver
Tags: Melodrama Comedy Drama
Length: 104min
Playwright Herb Gardner's patented combination of cynicism and sentimentality that worked so well in his A Thousand Clowns didn't quite jell in his subsequent The Goodbye People. This film version, adapted and directed by Gardner, stars Martin Balsam,...
The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn George Schaefer
Tags: Crime Drama Courtroom Drama Docudrama
Length: 147min
The videotaped TV movie The People vs. Jean Harris premiered May 7, 1981-five weeks after the outcome of Jean Harris' trial. Ellen Burstyn plays Jean, the 57-year old headmistress of a Virginia girl's school. Jean was also the longtime lover of...
Cast: Anthony Quinn Jerry Goldsmith Christopher Lee Claudia Cardinale Eli Wallach
Tags: Police Detective Film Thriller Political Thriller
Length: 101min
Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and as he begins to investigate, he has an ally in Bruno Manzini (Anthony Quinn), a man dedicated to hunting down war criminals....
Cast: Broderick Crawford
Length: 88min
Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars Tom Smothers as Timothy Westerby, the bumbling father of the bride, and his imaginary dance partner, Polly (Twiggy). Events of the...
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