Nick Benedict Movies
This is the biopic of basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich, here played by Adam Guier. The film is for the most part an exercise in joie de vivre, until it ends as it tragically must, with the sudden and untimely death of Maravich. Writer Darrel Campbell and director Frank Schroeder perform miracles with their tiny budget. Though Pistol is comparatively little known, odds are it won't remain that way much longer. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Millie Perkins, Nick Benedict, (more)
In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a by-gone era. He is unhappy with the new arrangement and finds his new bohemian lifestyle strange and the activities of his new peers, stupid. His life begins to change a bit when he befriends a young surfer named Fin. At first he thinks of the fun-loving Fin as a real dolt, but later he admits he was wrong. Like the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters on which they are loosely based, the two new friends soon find themselves having a series of adventures, some of them dangerous; by the summer's end, Tom finds himself wiser, accustomed to California, and a lot more grown up. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael Landes, Brian Austin Green, (more)
- 1986
- R
The Naked Cage offers a glimpse of the stark realities of prison life while at the same time acknowledging the issue of prison corruption. Young and naïve Michelle (Shari Shattuck) has just been thrown in the slammer for a bank heist she definitely did not commit. The inmates warn her about the warden (Angel Tompkins), whose lesbian lifestyle is forced on inmates of her choosing. No one has to warn Michelle about the guard who rapes and kills the inmates, or about the woman who framed her and is now also in jail. These three threats to Michelle's inherent virtue are nothing she can fight off alone, and so some new characters step into the picture to help tip the scales. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, (more)
- 1984
Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) produces a document which "proves" that the Duke farm was deeded to his great-grandfather Thaddeus Hogg by Jesse's great-grandfather Jeremiah Duke way back in 1862. Investigating this surprising turn of events, the Dukes refer to a diary left behind by their great-grandma Jenny Duke (Doris Dowling). All this intrigue is merely an excuse to present an extended "Western" flashback spoof, in which the Dukes of Hazzard regulars all show up in cowboy guise as their 19th-century forebears--and run up against the Jesse James gang (somewhat off their own turf) in the bargain! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1983
Novice pilot Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) lands a job as temporary crop-duster. Her first assignment is to spray the crops on the property owned by Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). But of course, there's a catch: Unbeknownst to Daisy, Boss has mixed lye with the plane's chemicals so his crops will be ruined--whereupon he plans to sue the Dukes out of existence! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1971
Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) stop an errant driver at a traffic intersection, only to find that the man's car is "hot." Answering another call, the two cops take the statement of a homeowner who has been victimized by vandals. And a very pretty, very popular young lady (Sherry Miles) proves troublesome for policemen and civilians alike. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1970
Bent on revenge, a mysterious assailant has managed to completely isolate Ironside (Raymond Burr) in his apartment-office. The telephone wires have been cut, and anything that the Chief can use as a weapon has been removed. Nor can Ironside count upon a timely rescue from his assistants, all of whom all occupied elsewhere. How can our wheelchair-bound hero save himself when he doesn't even know who is responsible for his predicamnt--nor where his tormentor is hiding? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1969
When Mark (Don Mitchell) is shot by an unknown assailant, it is first assumed that the bullet was intended for Ironside (Raymond Burr). When a second shooting proves that Mark was the intended target all along, Ironside tries to figure out who could possibly hate his assistant enough to kill him. The plot thickens when the hired thug who pulled the trigger turns up dead. Now Ironside must hide the fact that Mark himself survived the attack in order to flush out the brains behind the assassination attempt. Richard Benedict, who directed this episode, appears in the role of "Sock". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1969
Nehemiah Persoff makes his second Mission: Impossible guest appearance, this time in the role of corrupt Latin American official Phillipe Pereda. Planning to loot his country's treasury of $40,000,000, Pereda intends to pin the blame on the country's honest president, De Varo (Rodolfo Acosta). The IMF is assigned to destroy Pereda by stealing back the money--from a high-tech safe which is controlled by sound waves and requires perfect pitch to open. Originally broadcast April 6 1969, "The Vault" was scripted by Judy Burns from a story by Burns and John Kingsbridge. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, (more)
