Biography: Richard Kiel |
We shouldn't say it, but...at seven foot two, American actor Richard Kiel was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Making the cast-call rounds while working as a nightclub bouncer, Kiel began picking up bit roles in the early '60s. He was the... more
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Giant of Thunder Mountain (1991)
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Family
Length: 101min
Hearing tales of a legendary giant who lives on Thunder Mountain, some kids go up the mountain to see for themselves. They discover the giant (Richard Kiel, who also co-wrote the film and was executive producer) and persuade him to shave off his beard...
Cast: Keenan Wynn Murray Hamilton Bud Cort Clint Walker
Tags: Horror Comedy Horror Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 87min
During the peak of the slasher-movie boom of the early '80s, there were numerous attempts at Airplane!-style horror parodies, all of which fell considerably short of their comic targets and vanished into cable-TV obscurity. Hysterical, an abortive...
Cast: Fred Gwynne Ennio Morricone Ryan O'Neal Jack Warden
Tags: Comedy Sex Comedy Satire
Length: 91min
Trying to recreate the screwball comedy success of his collaborations with Peter Bogdanovitch, actor Ryan O'Neal headlined this sporadically funny mixture of light farce and social satire. O'Neal stars as Bobby, an intellectual English professor who...
Cast: John Barry
Tags: Spy Film Space Adventure Action Adventure Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 136min
In this adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1955 novel, James Bond (Roger Moore) must thwart Sir Hugo Drax (Michel Lonsdale), who plans to wipe out all of humankind and replace it with a super race that he has cultivated in a massive space station. The girl...
They Went That-A-Way and That-A-Way (1978)
Tags: Comedy Parody/Spoof Slapstick Escape Film
Length: 96min
In this broad, occasionally slapstick comedy, Dewey and Wallace (Tim Conway and Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are trying to find out where some thieves have hidden their money. With the help of the governor of their state, they are able to...
Tags: Fantasy
Length: 90min
Tapping into one of the favorite subjects of Chinese cinema, War of the Wizards tells the tale of Tai, a young fisherman (Charles Lang) who accidentally dredges up a magical Golden Vessel that functions like the Horn of Plenty -- it grants wealth...
Cast: Roger Moore Bernard Lee Albert R. Broccoli Barbara Bach Curd Jürgens Marvin Hamlisch
Tags: Spy Film Action Action Thriller Romantic Adventure Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 125min
Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't make an appearance until the book is two-thirds...
Cast: Hugh Beaumont George Macready
Tags: Alien Film Science Fiction
Length: 82min
Kolos (Richard Kiel) is a space alien sent to Earth in this low-budget science fiction story. His mission is to make duplicates of the world leaders in an effort to take over the world. Government agents Glenn Martin (George Nader) and Gale Wilson...
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 93min
Considered by many to be one of the worst films ever made, Eegah! is the story of a gigantic Neanderthal who has managed to survive into modern times living in California's Mojave desert, and who falls in love with and kidnaps the teenage girl who...
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