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
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The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Tags: Unglamorized Spy Film Drama Political Thriller Spy Film
Length: 98min
Based on a true story, this made-for-TV spy movie chronicles the 1960 capture of a Nazi in South America. When Israeli agents find out that Nazi Adolph Eichmann survived the war and is living in Argentina, they hatch a plan to kidnap him and bring him...
Cast: Charles Bronson Jack Warden Horst Buchholz
Tags: Action Thriller Docudrama Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 113min
Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in...
All the President's Men (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman Jason Robards, Jr. Hal Holbrook
Tags: Docudrama Political Drama Paranoid Thriller Drama
Length: 138min
Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972...
Cast: John Cassavetes Charlton Heston
Tags: Action Thriller Action Thriller
Length: 115min
Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop...
Cast: Ava Gardner John Carradine José Ferrer
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 91min
In the wake of such Satanic-themed thrillers as Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen comes The Sentinel. When New York fashion model (Cristina Raines) splits with her fiance (Chris Sarandon) and moves into an old brownstone, she soon discovers...
Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
Cast: Frank Sinatra Jerry Goldsmith
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 150min
Contract on Cherry Street represented Frank Sinatra's TV movie debut--an event deemed worthy of a TV Guide cover story. Sinatra plays NYPD veteran Deputy Inspector Frank Hovannes, in charge of a special unit set up to battle organized crime. The...
Length: 97min
A tough-guy cop (Joe Don Baker) pursues two drug runners (Martin Balsam, John Saxon) across the city to bust a large syndicate. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Cast: Walter Matthau Robert Shaw
Tags: Police Detective Film Action Thriller Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 104min
On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated "Pelham One Two Three" -- so named for its station of origin and time of departure -- makes its way down the East Side of Manhattan. One by one, three men...
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman Sean Connery Albert Finney Lauren Bacall Sidney Lumet
Tags: Ensemble Film Mystery Detective Film Whodunit
Length: 127min
Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett...
Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
Tags: Action Thriller Docudrama Action
Length: 97min
The inspiration for the made-for-TV movie was an actual event which occurred in June of 1973. A crew of four sinks in a minisub off the Florida coast. As half the nation (apprised of the disaster by TV and radio) holds its breath, a daring rescue...
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