Showing posts with label Hal Holbrook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hal Holbrook. Show all posts

Friday, June 21, 2013

Freedom Festival '89 (1989) (TV)

An Independence Day special hosted by Patrick Duffy and featuring a lineup of song and dance performers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Constitution.



Freedom Festival '89 (1989) (TV)
Cast: The Oak Ridge Boys, Nell Carter, Frankie Avalon, Ann Jillian, Patrick Duffy

Monday, May 7, 2012

Beauty (1998) TV Movie

This made-for-television romantic fantasy is based on author Susan Wilson's novel-length, updated version of Beauty and the Beast. The beauty is talented painter Alix Miller. Her father Alexander was scheduled to paint a family portrait for the reclusive author Lee Crompton, but he fell ill and could not. Alix decides to take his place. Much to her shock, Lee is horribly disfigured. Still, she has an obligation and so continues with the painting. As time passes, she finds herself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic Lee, who in spite of his own fears, finds himself equally interested in her. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Beauty (1998) TV Movie
Cast: Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan, Linden Ashby, Shirley Broderick, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin McNulty, Hal Holbrook, Lossen Chambers

Monday, April 4, 2011

America Remembers John F. Kennedy (1983) (TV)

Television oddity, nearly impossible to find. Great rundown of all things Kennedy to that point, all of it glossy, all of it glowing. Their legacy has been documented here in an exacting if not fawning way, it's obvious the emotions of those men and women who worked with and knew him closely were still affected after 20 years.

America Remembers John F. Kennedy (1983) (TV)
Narrator: Hal Holbrook

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Unholy, The (1988)

A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.










The Unholy (1988)
Cast: Ben Cross, Claudia Robinson, Hal Holbrook, John Boyland, Ned Beatty, Nicole Fortier, Peter Frechette, Phil Becker, Ruben Rabasa, Trevor Howard

Monday, April 12, 2010

I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988) TV Movie

The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II. Great casting, almost every face is familiar.





I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988) TV Movie

Cast: Courteney Cox, Eva Marie Saint, Hal Holbrook, Nancy Travis, Peter Gallagher, Whip Hubley

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

George Washington (1984) TV mini-series

The early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.








George Washington (1984) TV mini-series
Cast: Barry Bostwick, David Dukes, Hal Holbrook, Jaclyn Smith, James Mason, José Ferrer, Lloyd Bridges, Patty Duke, Richard Kiley, Robert Stack, Trevor Howard

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Under Siege (1986) TV Movie

Under Siege (1986) TV Movie
Barry Corbin, E.G. Marshall, Fritz Weaver, George Grizzard, Hal Holbrook, Lew Ayres, Mason Adams, Paul Winfield, Peter Strauss, Stan Shaw, Victoria Tennant

Travis Logan, D.A. (1971) TV Movie

Travis Logan, D.A. is a TV pilot film, originally telecast in March of 1971. Vic Morrow heads the cast as Logan, while Hal Holbrook earns "special guest star" billing as a clever murderer. Logan is prepared to go around with Holbrook's defense team when they try to cop an insanity plea. But a little ardent sleuthing reveals a vital trip-up clue in the form of a shotgun pellet. Though Travis Logan, D.A. did not result in a series, its pilot film was far and away superior to most one-shot of its ilk. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Travis Logan, D.A. (1971) TV Movie
Cast: Brenda Vaccaro, Brooke Bundy, Chris Robinson, George Grizzard, Hal Holbrook, James T. Callahan, Scott Marlowe, Vic Morrow

Friday, March 27, 2009

Three Wishes of Billy Grier, The (1984) TV Movie

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier  (1984) TV Movie
Cast: Betty Buckley, Bill Murdoch, Conchata Ferrell, Hal Holbrook, Jeffrey Tambor, Laura Dern, Lawrence Pressman, Lillian Carlson, Ralph Macchio, Season Hubley, Viveca Lindfors

Monday, March 23, 2009

Sorry, Wrong Number (1989) TV Movie

Sorry, Wrong Number (1989) TV Movie
Cast: Alan Jordan, Carl Weintraub, Diane D'Aquila, Geoffrey Bowes, Hal Holbrook, Harvey Atkins, Helen Hughes, Loni Anderson, Miguel Fernandes, Patrick Macnee

Pueblo (1973) TV Movie

Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.


Pueblo (1973) TV Movie
Cast: Andrew Duggan, Barnard Hughes, Gary Merrill, Hal Holbrook, John Randolph, Larry Gates, Richard Mulligan, Robert Ito, Ronny Cox, Stephen Elliott

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Murder by Natural Causes (1979) TV Movie

An excellent made-for-TV drama about a world renowned mind reader who finds himself the object of a murder plot devised by his young wife and her lover.

Murder by Natural Causes (1979) TV Movie
Cast: Barry Bostwick, Hal Holbrook, Katharine Ross, Richard Anderson

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988) TV Movie

The two-part TV movie "Emma: Queen of the South Seas" stars the incredibly lovely Barbara Carrera. The film is based on the true story of Samoan princess Emma Coe. Part One takes place in the 1860s, as teenaged Emma (Rebekah Elmaloglou) dreams of an exotic life beyond the confines of her hated convent school. In part two, the grown-up Emma (Carrera), now ensconced in Samoa, valiantly defends her country against British colonization. Hal Holbrook and Thaao Penghlis play the most significant men in Emma's life. Syndicated to independent TV outlets, "Emma: Queen of the South Seas" was first telecast the week of April 23-29, 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988) TV Movie
Cast: Barbara Carrera, E.G. Marshall, Hal Holbrook

Dress Gray (1986) TV Movie

When a first-classman's insignia is found on the riverbank near the drowned body of plebe David Hand, the specter of murder casts a shadow of scandal across the U.S. Grant Military Academy. General Hedges, the headmaster of the school, is determined to keep the beleaguered school out of the headlines and attempts to cover-up the likelihood of murder by wielding his considerable influence to pass it off as a simple drowning. This is done in spite of forensic reports that show, shortly before his death, David Hand participated in "consensual sexual relations" with another man. Letters from the dead boy, which the Army Intelligence Department "confiscates" from his sister's New York apartment, implicate Ry Slaight as the first-classman with whom David was in love. As General Hedges says, "You cannot have a murder without a murderer." He offers Slaight the opportunity to "go quietly" which means he would be washed out into the infantry and quickly bound for Vietnam. Professing his innocence in the matter, Slaight refuses the invitation at which point General Hedges threatens to court-martial him on a point of "honor." Enlisting the aid of Elizabeth Hand, the dead boy's sister, Slaight sets out to find the first-classman with whom her brother was involved -- the first- classman who killed her brother.

Dress Gray (1986) TV Movie
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Hal Holbrook, Lane Smith, Lloyd Bridges