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THE ABDUCTION OF SAINT ANNE
1975
78 min.
Robert Wagner, E.G. Marshall, Kathleen Quinlan, Lloyd Nolan, William Windon, Martha Scott, James Gregory. Directed by
Harry Falk.
Cynical detective (Wagner) and Vatican bishop (Marshall) check reports that a mobster's daughter has miraculous powers
and, if so, should be kidnapped by the church. Intriguing combination of religious drama and detective story, compromised
by pedestrian telling. Based on Thomas Patrick MacMahon's THE ISSUE OF BISHOP'S BLOOD. Also called THEY'VE
KIDNAPPED ANNE BENEDICT. Average.

THE ACORN PEOPLE
1981
100 min.
Ted Bessell, LeVar Burton, Cloris Leachman, Dolph Sweet, Cheryl Anderson, Shawn Timothy Kennedy. Directed by Joan
Tewksbury.
Sensitive drama about the relationship between a camp counselor and a group of severely disabled children. Tewskbury
wrote the teleplay from Ron Jones's book, the title of which refers to the handmade acorn necklaces worn by the
children, who affectionately refer to themselves as nuts. Above average.

ACT OF LOVE
1980
100 min.
Ron Howard, Robert Foxworth, Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Brooks, Sondra West, David Spielberg, Gail Youngs, Mark Kay
Place. Directed by Jud Taylor.
Howard gives a sensitive portrayal of a man on trial for the mercy-killing of his paralyzed brother. Written by Michael
De Guzman from the factual book by Paige Mitchell. Average.

ACT OF PASSION
1984
104 min.
Marlo Thomas, Kris Kristofferson, Jon DeVries, George Dzundza. Directed by Simon Langton.
Hardworking divorcee Thomas meets a dangerously handsome stranger at a party (Kristofferson) and, for once in her
life, decides to throw caution to the wind. However, she discovers he's a suspected terrorist and subsequently pays for
her night of passion. Inspired by the German film THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM. Above average.

ACT OF VIOLENCE
1979
100 min.
Elizabeth Montgomery, James Sloyan, Sean Frye, Roy Poole, Biff McGuire, Linden Chiles. Directed by Paul Wendkos.
Plucky Ms. M in another of her traditional victim roles, showing true grit as a divorced career woman who's gang
mugged. Graphic and, thanks to its leading lady, remarkably arresting. Above average.

ADAM
1983
100 min.
Daniel J. Travanti, JoBeth Williams, Martha Scott, Richard Masur. Directed by Michael Tuchner.
Compelling drama of true-life couple who, after the kidnap and murder of their child, lobby Congress to permit parents
to use the FBI's national crime computer to help locate missing children. Script by Allan Leicht. Above average.

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
1981
100 min.
Kurt Ida, Dan Monahan, Brock Peters, Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Lurene Tuttle, Mike Mazurki, Jack Kruschen. Directed
by Jack B. Hively.
Huck and Tom again embark on their river escapade with runaway slave Jim in this "Classics Illustrated" interpretation.
Average.

THE ADVENTURES OF NELLIE BLY
1981
100 min.
Linda Purl, Gene Barry, John Randolph, Raymond Buktenica, J. D. Cannon, Elaine Heilveil, Cliff Osmond. Directed by
Henning Schellerup.
A trailblazng female journalist, well scrubbed for this fanciful "Classics Illustrated" adventure (and played with spunk
by Purl), exposes corruption, sweatshop inhumanity, and insane-asylum brutality without missing a hair on her head.
Below average.

ADVENTURES OF NICK CARTER
1972
72 min.
Robert Conrad, Shelley Winters, Brooke Bundy, Broderick Crawford, Dean Stockwell, Pat O'Brien, Neville Brand, Pernell
Roberts. Directed by Paul Krasny.
Legendary private eye Carter (Conrad) sets out to find out who bumped off a good friend. An unusual assortment of corrupt
police types, a millionaire robber baron, a glamorous nightclub owner, etc.; emphasis on action, not mystery. Average.

ADVENTURES OF THE QUEEN
1975
100 min.
Robert Stack, David Hedison, Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Brooke, Burr de Benning, John Randolph. Directed
by David Lowell Rich.
Stack captains a luxury cruise ship threatened with destruction as part of a deadly vendetta against eccentric
millionaire Bellamy. Predictable Irwin Allen disaster drama, filmed aboard the Queen Mary. Below average.

ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN
1981
100 min.
Cloris Leachman, Melissa Sue Anderson, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Lance Kerwin, Donna Pescow, Paul Burke, Tina Louise, Kelly
Bishop, Rick Lenz. Directed by Harry Falk.
Cloris solves various domestic crises in her newspaper column but can't seem to handle her own; routine pilot to an
unsold sitcom. Average.

ALCATRAZ: THE WHOLE SHOCKING STORY
1980
200 min.
Michael Beck, Art Carney, Alex Karras, Telly Savalas, Ronny Cox, Will Sampson, Richard Lynch, Robert Davi, John Amos,
Charles Aidman, James MacArthur. Directed by Paul Krasny.
Straightforward prison drama about Clarence Carnes, said to be the youngest man ever sentenced to Alcatraz, and his
decades of planning to escape. Ernest Tidyman's script swings wildly from intelligence to the hilarious simplicity of a
'30s B movie. Carney gives a thoughtful performance as Robert Stroud, the legendary Birdman of Alcatraz, while Savalas
chews up the scenery as a cellblock king. Average.

ALIAS SMITH AND JONES
1970
90 min.
Peter Duel, Ben Murphy, John Russell, Earl Holliman, Forrest Tucker, James Drury, Susan Saint James. Directed by Gene
Levitt.
Reworking of BUTCH CASSIDY premise. Two adequate bandits in the American West find technology creeping up on them,
making their job more difficult. Pilot for the TV series. Average.

THE ALIENS ARE COMING
1980
100 min.
Tom Mason, Melinda Fee, Eric Braeden, Fawne Harriman, Caroline McWilliams. Directed by Harvey Hart.
Slick sci-fi in the INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS mold, with extraterrestrial beings from a dying planet possessing
the bodies of earthlings. Average.

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN
1980
100 min.
Richard Widmark, Ned Beatty, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Mariclare Costello, Ken Swofford, George Spell, Trish Van Devere.
Directed by Jerry Thorpe.
The provocative forced-busing issue has been molded into a sensitive drama about the tearing apart of friends,
families, and a neighborhood. Widmark gives a fine performance as a judge who must decide the case. Script by William
Blinn. Above average.

ALL MY DARLING DAUGHTERS
1972
73 min.
Robert Young, Eve Arden, Raymnd Massey, Darleen Carr, Judy Strangis, Jerry Fogel, Darrel Larson. Directed by David
Lowell.
Daughters of Judge Charles Raleigh (Young) all decide to get married on the same day. Some amusing incidents. Average.

ALL THE KIND STRANGERS
1974
78 min.
Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage, Robby Benson, Arlene Farber, Tim Parkinson. Directed by Burt Kennedy.
Seven backwoods orphans turn a remote farmhouse into a prison for unsuspecting Keach and Eggar. The children want them
to be their foster parents, or disappear permanently. Below average.

ALL TOGETHER NOW
1975
78 min.
John Rubinstein, Glynnis O'Connor, Brad Savage, Helen Hunt, Dori Brenner, Bill Macy, Jane Withers. Directed by Randal
Kleiser.
Fact-based tale of an orphaned college student who has thirty days to prove himself a fit guardian for his younger
brothers and sisters. Inspiring drama. Written by Jeff Andrus and Rubin Carson. Above average.

ALOHA MEANS GOODBYE
1974
78 min.
Sally Struthers, James Franciscus, Joanna Miles, Henry Darrow, Larry Gates, Frank Marth. Directed by David Lowell Rich.
A young woman fights for her life against a rare blood disease and an unscrupulous doctor in need of a heart-transplant
donor, but manages to enjoy location beauty of Hawaii. Ludicrous. Below average.

ALONG CAME A SPIDER
1969
75 min.
Suzanne Pleshette, Ed Nelson, Andrew Prine, Brooke Bundy, Richard Anderson, Milton Seltzer. Directed by Lee Katzin.
Entertaining, occasionally moving drama featuring Pleshette as the widow of a research scientist torn between her
instincts and her need for vengeance as she befriends a scientist professor (Nelson) who had worked on the same project
that brought about a deadly accident. Complete with a nail-biting finish. Adapted by Barry Oringer from Leonard Lee's
novel SWEET POISON. Above average.


  

THE ALPHA CAPER
1973
73 min.
Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin, Larry Hagman, John Marley, Elena Verdugo, Noah Beery. Directed by Robert
Michael Lewis.
Parole officer Forbes (Fonda), disenchanted with the System, convinces three paroled criminals to join him in an
armored-car robbery scheme. Emphasis on action and supsense in a mechanical narrative brightened only by a good cast.
Average.

AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE DIXIE BAR AND GRILL
1979
100 min.
Victor French, Candy Clark, Louise Latham, Sheree North, Jamie Farr, Henry Gibson, Tanya Tucker. Directed by Joel
Schumacher.
Multi-character comedy-drama written by Schumacher about a country-western talent show at a Southern roadhouse.
Suprisingly good vignettes in this film are reminiscent of Robert Altman's NASHVILLE. Above average.

AMAZONS
1984
100 min.
Jack Scalia, Madeline Stowe, Tamara Dobson, Jennifer Warren, Stella Sevens, William Schallart, Leslie Bevis, Peter
Scolari. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
A lady surgeon stumbles onto a secret organization of women trying to take control of the government after one of her
patients, an influential congressman, mysteriously dies. The plot's strictly comic book, but director Glaser is intent
on dazzling in the manner of an up-and-coming Spielberg, and it's overkill. Below average.

THE AMBUSH MURDERS
1982
100 min.
James Brolin, Dorian Harewood, Alfre Woodard, Louis Giambalvo, John McLiam, Teddy Wilson, Antonio Fargas. Directed by
Steven Hilliard Stern.
A dramatization of the book by Ben Bradlee, Jr., about a true-life white attorney who takes up the cause of a black
activist accused of killing two white cops. Less gripping than talky. Average.

AMELIA EARHART
1976
150 min.
Susan Clark, John Forsythe, Stephen Macht, Susan Oliver, Catherine Burns, Jane Wyatt, Charles Aidman. Directed by
George Schaefer.
An intriguing portrait of a unique woman, her private and public careers, and her search for fullfillment as a noted
aviatrix. Susan Clark brings the famed flier vibrantly to life as a pioneer in women's lib as well as aviation. Compliments,
too, to Carol Sobieski for her excellent screenplay. Above average.

AMERICAN DREAM
1981
74 min.
Stephen Macht, Karen Carlson, Michael Hershewe, Hans Conried, John McIntire, Scott Brady, Andrea Smith. Directed by 
Mel Damski.
Superior pilot to the unfortunaely short-lived family series about a man who moves with his wife and children from an
affluent Chicago suburb to a mixed inner-city neighborhood. Emmy nominations went to director Damski and to writers
Ronald M. Cohen, Barbara Corday, and Ken Hecht. Above average.

AMOS
1985
100 min.
Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorothy McGuire, Pat Morita, Ray Walston, Jerry Hausner, Don Keefer. Directed by
Michael Tuchner.
A compelling TV-movie with an excellent performance by Douglas as an aged retiree who's put in a rest home and soon comes
in conflict with the conniving nurse (Montgomery) who manages the place and withholds treatment to patients in the name
of cost efficiency. Gripping and efficient, with Emmy-nominated performances by Douglas, McGuire, and Morita. Above 
average.

ANATOMY OF A SEDUCTION
1979
100 min.
Susan Flannery, Jameson Parker, Rita Moreno, Ed Nelson, Michael LeClair. Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern.
Romantic soaper about a frosty divorcee's affair with her busom buddy's college-age son -- who is also her own son's
best friend. Average.

AND I ALONE SURVIVED
1978
100 min.
Blair Brown, David Ackroyd, Vera Miles, G. D. Spradlin, James G. Richardson. Directed by William A. Graham.
A middling dramatization of Lauren Elder's account of her ordeal following a plane crash in the Sierra Nevadas in the
spring of 1976. Underdeveloped and overdramatic. Average.

AND NO ONE COULD SAVE HER
1973
73 min.
Lee Remick, Milo O'Shea, Jennie Linden, Frank Grimes, Liam Redmond, Paul Maxwell. Directed by Kevin Billington.
Fern O'Neil, a young American newlywed, almost goes crazy when her immigrant husband disappears mysteriously in
Ireland, leaving no traces. Written by Anthony Skene. Above average.

ANGEL CITY
1980
100 min.
Ralph Waite, Paul Windfield, Jennifer Warren, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mitchell Ryan. Directed by Philip Leacock.
Stark contemporary drama about migrant workers who find themselves locked in a squalid labor camp. James Lee Barrett's
script, from Patricia Smith's book, gives a good cast a gripping story to work with. Above average.

ANGEL DUSTED
1981
98 min.
Jean Stapleton, Arthur Hill, John Putch, Darlene Craviotto, Percy Rodrigues, Helen Hunt, Patrick Cassidy. Directed by
Dick Lowry.
Drama about a family crisis: the son goes berserk after smoking marijuana laced with angel dust. Stapleton is a stand-out,
working here with her real-life son, John Putch (in his acting debut). Darlene Craviotto, who plays a psychiatrist, wrote the
screenplay. Above average.

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER
1980
100 min.
Peter Strauss, Richard Kiley, Barbara Hershey, Janis Paige, Seymour Cassel, Scott Colomby, Murray Matheson. Directed by
John Berry.
An updated remake of the Paul Muni fantasy, with tough-talking Strauss as a wrongfully executed Chicago hood sent on a new
mission by Satan and having a devil of a time remaining evil. Average.

ANOTHER WOMAN'S CHILD
1983
100 min.
Linda Lavin, Tony LoBianco, Joyce Van Patten, Doris Roberts, Ron Ritkin, Tracey Gold. Directed by John Erman.
A childless woman agonizes over her role as the stepmother to her husband's illegitimate daughter. Average.

ANY SECOND NOW
1969
97 min.
Stewart Granger, Lois Nettleton, Joseph Campanella, Dana Wynter, Katy Jurao, Tom Tully. Directed by Gene Levitt.
Professional photographer Dennison (Granger) attempts murder of wife when he realizes she's aware of his infidelity.
Above average.

APOLOGY
1986
98 min.
Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller, John Glover, Jimmie Ray Weeks, George Loros, Garrett M. Brown, Harvey Fierstein. Directed
by Robert Bierman.
Slick but empty made-for-cable thriller with Warren playing a SoHo performance artist creating a "piece" out of the
confessions she hears on her apology hot line. The film becomes a dull, conventional melodrama whose aspirations to greater
things go unfulfilled. Average.

THE AQUARIANS
1970
100 min.
Ricardo Montalban, Jose Ferrer, Leslie Nielson, Kate Woodville, Curt Lowens, Chris Robinson. Directed by Don McDougall.
Fair Ivan Tors production features Montalban as Dr. Luis Delgado, head of scientist/explorer operation using a vessel
capable of workng at 15,000 feet below sea level. Written by Leslie Stevens and Winston Miller. Above average.

ARCHER -- FUGITIVE FROM THE EMPIRE
1981
100 min.
Lane Caudell, George Kennedy, Belinda Bauer, Victor Campos, Kabir Bedi, John Hancock. Directed by Nick Corea.
Sword-and-sorcery pilot for a brief series has a young wanderer seeking the sorceror who can help him gain his rightful
title. Corea's script stays at comic-strip level. Average. Also known as FUGITIVE OF THE EMPIRE.

THE ART OF CRIME
1975
99 min.
Ron Liebman, Jose Ferrer, David Hedison, Jill Clayburgh, Eugene Roche, Diane Kagan, Cliff Osmond, Mike Kellin. Directed
by Richard Irving.
A gypsy antique dealer (Leibman) turns sleuth to clear a friend accused of murder. A busted pilot adopted from Martin
Smith's GYPSY In AMBER, this comedy-drama is long on gypsy folklore and short on suspense. Average.

AS SUMMERS DIE
1986
88 min.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Scott Glenn, Penny Fuller, Beah Richards. Directed by Jean-Claude Tramont.
Competently made but wholly unoriginal scandal drama deals with a collection of venal Southern rich folk trying to bilk
a little old black lady out of her legitimate claim to part of their land. Passable, and Davis shines in her brief,
carefully framed role as an addled grand dame who holds the key to the entire coutroom fracas that breaks out over the
property. Average.

ASSAULT ON THE WAYNE
1970
90 min.
Joseph Cotten, Leonard Nimoy, Lloyd Haynes, Dewey Martin, William Windom, Keenan Wynn, Malachi Throne. Directed by
Marvin Chomsky.
Commander Philip Kettenring is handed control of the U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne, unaware of the presence of enemy
agents out to seize a top-secret device. Good cast. Average. 

ASSIGNMENT: MUNICH
1972
100 min.
Richard Basehart, Roy Scheider, Lesley Warren, Werner Klemperer. Directed by David Lowell Rich.
A shady saloon owner in Germany helps the U.S. government find gold stolen during WW2. Pilot for the series ASSIGNMENT:
VIENNA. Average.

ATTICA
1980
100 min.
Charles Durning, George Grizzard, Glynn Turman, Anthony Zerbe, Henry Darrow, Joel Fabiani, Roger E. Mosely, Morgan
Freeman. Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky.
Gripping dramatization by James Henerson of the harrowing Attica Prison uprising of 1971. Taken from Tom Wicker's
best-selling account, A TIME TO DIE. Above average.

AUNT MARY
1979
100 min.
Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Harold Gould, Dolph Sweet, Robbie Rist, Anthony Cafiso, K.C. Marel. Directed by Peter
Werner.
Inspirational true-life drama drama about Mary Dobkin, a physically handicapped Baltimore spinster who became a legend
as a sandlot baseball coach. Stapleton sparkles. Above average.

THE AWAKENING OF CANDRA
1983
100 min.
Blanche Baker, Cliff DeYoung, Richard Jaeckel, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Regina. Directed by Paul Wendkos.
Dreary psycho drama based on a sinister fisherman's real-life abduction of teenage bride Candra Torres during her
camping-trip honeymoon of 1975. Made in 1981. Below average.

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