George Perry Movies
This violent film follows the miserable life of a miserable Vietnam vet as it goes from awful, to disgusting, to almost ludicrous (the life and the film). First the vet helps slaughter the inhabitants of a village during the war and then he is captured and tortured for two years. After that scenario, he winds up in a low-life neighborhood in New York owing drug money, saddled with a chunky, nagging, ugly wife and a little baby who inherited his mother's genes. One gory scene follows another until the climax which is meant to be the shocker that caps it all. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mitch Maglio, Aspah Livni, (more)
- 1978
As warm as winter's fire and sentimental as the sixth glass of wassail, this heart-tugging made-for-television holiday drama tells the Depression-era story of a gruff Minnesota grandfather and his wife who must take in their teenage grandson for Christmas. A city kid, the youth finds it difficult to adjust to the quiet of farm living. It is also difficult to deal with his grandfather who treats him cruelly. Unable to stand it, the youth runs away, forcing the grandfather to deal with the reason for his unending anger and to admit that he feels guilty for the death of his son. The teleplay is based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout, The Melodeon. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1978
This heart-warming made-for-television drama chronicles a widowed father's struggle to keep his family intact. He has three sons, and one of them is mentally retarded. The boy has a gift for sports and his father enrolls him in the Special Olympics. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1965
A space capsule is shot into orbit to investigate some mysterious satellites. Suddenly, communications are lost and the ship crash lands in a field. Astronaut Frank Douglas is missing and the helicopter pilot who discovered the accident is found dead, his body shrivelled and distorted. Soon other victims are found, all "cooked to death" in the same gruesome fashion. Has Douglas metamorphosed into the enormous, scarred creature (Henry Hite) responsible for the killings? Government scientist Dr. Logan begins secretly treating the monster with an experimental antidote which helps quiet its homicidal tendencies for a while, until the creature destroys the laboratory and heads out to the countryside once more. The army is called out to assist in the giant's capture and the public is alerted to the existence of a radioactive monster stomping through the area. Clad in protective gear and hot on the trail, the soldiers suddenly realize that, inexplicably, the monster appears to have vanished into thin air. A telegram arrives with the news that Frank Douglas has been found alive and well in a lifeboat 8,000 miles away and the case is closed. ~ Fred Beldin, Rovi
- 1938
In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to popular radio humorist Bob Burns. In Paramount's The Arkansas Traveller, Burns plays the nameless title character, who wanders in out of the nowhere to settle down in a dusty Arkansas farming community. It turns out that he's arrived just in time: newspaper editor Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), widow of The Traveller's best friend, is in danger of losing her publication to crooked politico Matt Collins (Lyle Talbot). While helping Martha foil the villain, our hero also stage-manages the romance between Martha's daughter Judy (Jean Parker) and local boy Johnnie Daniels (John Beal). Irvin S. Cobb, no mean humorist himself, provides a bit of homespun philosophy as the town constable. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Fay Bainter, John Beal, (more)
