Showing posts with label George Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Hamilton. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Poker Alice (1987) TV Movie

Alice Moffit, 'Poker Alice', has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling.








Poker Alice (1987) TV Movie
Cast: David Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, George Hamilton, Liz Torres, Richard Mulligan, Tom Skerritt

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Togetherness (1970)

Foreign movie with George Hamilton and Peter Lawford playing over the top playboys. Picturesque scenery, beautiful locations and weird 70s casting. Total fun.




Togetherness (1970)
Cast: Ann Ferguson, George Hamilton, Giorgia Moll, Jesse White, John Banner, Olga Schoberová, Peter Lawford, Phil Brown

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Poor Richard (1984) (TV)

No detailed information could be found for this selection, other than a short bit from a New York Times archive;

The story, set in Beverly Hills, California, follows the adventures of Richard Manning III, a once-wealthy playboy who poses as a butler to remain in his former mansion--now owned by Ruby Hopper, an Iowa country bumkin turned millionaire. In the pilot episode, Richard seeks a way to raise $5,000 to pay off a gambling debt.

AVAILABLE EPISODES 

Pilot 
1984

Poor Richard (1984) (TV)
Cast: Alley Mills, Cynthia Sikes, Geoffrey Lewis, George Hamilton, Nancy Stafford

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Amore! (1993)

Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life.










Amore! (1993)
Cast: Arlene Golonka, Ava Cadell, Betsy Russell, Carol Lawrence, Elliott Gould, Frank Gorshin, George Hamilton, Jack Scalia, James Doohan, Katherine Helmond, Kathy Ireland, Mother Love, Norm Crosby

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Power, The (1968)

A 1968 film based on the science fiction novel "The Power" by Frank M. Robinson. Its protagonist, a researcher named Tanner, discovers evidence of a person with psychic abilities among his coworkers. As he tries to uncover the superhuman, his existence is erased and his associates murdered, until he faces a showdown with an apparently undefeatable opponent.

Produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin, it was substantially changed in the John Gay screenplay, moving the location to San Marino, California, changing most of the characters' names (although retaining the surnames of Tanner, Nordlund, and department head Professor Van Zandt), and eliminating several subplots and characters, presumably to fit the story into a 108-minute film. George Hamilton starred as Professor Jim Tanner, Suzanne Pleshette as his teammate and romantic interest Margery Lansing (Marge Hanson in the novel), and Michael Rennie (famous among science fiction movie fans as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still) as new government liaison Mr. Nordlund. Otherwise, the story proceeds in a fashion similar to the novel, except for a somewhat different twist to the conclusion.

This somewhat obscure movie is memorable for a number of intriguing scenes, including murder by centrifuge, a seemingly possessed "Walk / Don't Walk" sign, toy soldiers firing with real gunpowder, and winking inanimate objects (the last two also in the novel). The soundtrack also memorably features a beating heart to signal the mind-control attempts and eerie music from a cymbalum (a hammered dulcimer-like instrument) accompanying the more suspenseful moments. The music, written by Oscar-winning composer Miklós Rózsa, actually contributes an amusing fourth wall-breaking moment when Tanner, hearing the haunting tune, seems to expect a new disaster, only to be visibly relieved when he finds a cymbalum-violin duet being performed in the hotel lobby.

The Power (1968)
Cast: Aldo Ray, Earl Holliman, George Hamilton, Ken Murray, Michael Rennie, Nehemiah Persoff, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvonne De Carlo

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Users, The (1978) TV Movie

A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading. Loaded with good Hollywood scenery, lots of good 70s flavor.





The Users  (1978) TV Movie
Cast: Alan Feinstein, Army Archerd, Carrie Nye, Darren McGavin, George Hamilton, Jaclyn Smith, Joan Fontaine, John Forsythe, Michelle Phillips, Red Buttons, Tony Curtis

Two Fathers' Justice (1985) TV Movie

Two Fathers' Justice (1985) TV Movie
Cast: Danny Goldring, Gary Houston, George Hamilton, Mary Mulligan, Ned Schmidtke, Robert Conrad

Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent (1994) TV Movie

Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent (1994) TV Movie
Cast: Danny Goldring, Gary Houston, George Hamilton, Mary Mulligan, Ned Schmidtke, Robert Conrad