Zale Dalen Movies
Based on the Classic novel by Jack London, Call of the Wild stakes its claim to being that rare breed of adventure series that parents and kids can enjoy together. Adapted by White Fang screenwriter David Fallon and starring Nick Mancuso, this exciting saga introduces Miles Challenger (Shane Meier) a 15-year old boy living in an Alaskan mining town at the turn of the century, whose whole life changes forever when he encounters a heroic and powerful dog named Buck.
- Starring:
- Shane Meier
- 1995
- R
This cheesy martial arts flick has two government agents fighting to get out of a compound that trains assassins with virtual reality. Some good computer effects (for a film of this type) but still unable to achieve anything resembling entertainment. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, Rovi
- 1990
Robert Conrad grits his teeth and flecks his pecs--this time with motivation--in the fact-based TV movie Anything to Survive. Conrad plays a divorced father who takes his three children (Matthew LeBlanc, Ocean Hellman and Emily Perkins) on a sea journey to the Alaska panhandle. Disaster strikes, and Conrad is forced to brave the Alaskan wastes with his three citified youngsters in tow. 24 days pass: The authorities assume that the family is dead, but they couldn't be more wrong. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Anything to Survive is the fact that Conrad's character is dead wrong at times--and he's willing to admit it. The film was based on Elmo Wortman's book Almost too Late. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Conrad, Matt LeBlanc, (more)
- 1990
As indicated by the title, this made-for-TV movie charts the rise and fall of Olympic figure skater Tai Babilonia. Partnered since childhood with Randy Gardner, Tai skated her way to the 1979 World Championship. Her hopes for Olympics success in 1980 are scuttled when her partner Gardner suffers a groin injury and is unable to compete. Tai responds to this disappointment by descending into drug abuse, culminating in an attempted suicide. The plucky skater recovers from all this, and the film ends on a hopeful note. On This Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story stars Rachel Crawford as Tai and Charlie Stratton as Randy, but that's the real Babilonia and Gardner recreating their classic routines in the long shots. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rachel Crawford, Charles Stratton, (more)
- 1990
Sometime in the future, the developed nations have put up so much junk into space that the realdanger in that time is having it come down on top of you. The entire civilization of the planet has been devastated by these man-made meteors, and decaying institutions are an additional hazard. In the story, Ross Gilmore is campaigning for reelection as the mayor of a city which he has run with the help of thuggish policemen. A few, honest citizens, work up the courage to object to this state of things. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Breck, Jello Biafra, (more)
- 1980
More the story of the man who established it than the College of Notre Dame in Saskatchewan, this is the depiction of Father Athol Murray, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking man who believed that education and athletics were the way to success for young men in college. He was opinionated, but he managed to take a dump and make it into a well-respected college. Uninspiring rendition of a tale told better in other movies. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Thomas Peacocke, Frances Hyland, (more)
- 1977
David Petersen plays a skip tracer, aka repo man, aka process server. His is a thankless job, with several of his "clients" expressing a desire to beat him very badly. When threatened with imminent demise, Petersen is forced to take it on the lam. Though the plot is motivated by danger, this Canadian programmer adopts a leisurely, almost amiable pace. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- David Petersen
- 1976
- R
This macabre horror satire from Canada features an arch performance from Christopher Lee as the sinister overseer of the Underwood Asylum, whose charges come from extremely wealthy families. When relatives of these patients begin to turn up dead in alarming numbers -- with their incarcerated heirs' fortunes subsequently signed over to the asylum -- hulking twin patients the Biggs Brothers (Jack Leavy and Leo Leavy) hire intrepid detective Dick Driver (Tell Schreiber) to uncover Lee's connection to the crimes. It turns out The Keeper maintains complete control over the inmates by means of a powerful and sinister-looking hypnosis device, directing them to do his murderous bidding and doling out remote-controlled punishments to those who step out of line. A bit too jokey to be suspenseful, this film still has its inventive moments, and plays like a slight parody of Norbert Jacques's Dr. Mabuse series. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Starring:
- Christopher Lee, Sally Gray, (more)
- 1975
In this low-budget western, a golden-hearted traveling prostitute who plies her back-breaking trade in the bed of her wagon, rolls into a mining camp and ends up saving the prospectors from vicious outlaws. She also has time to do a little matchmaking for her less worldly companion. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1974
This Canadian seriocomedy stars Vladimir Valenta as a man going through midlife crisis. He begins spending his evenings at the local zoo, where he stands hours on end observing the wolves. Native American Lawrence Brown shares Valenta's fascination, and together these would-be rugged individualists devise a plan to free the wolves. Unfortunately, the wolves themselves are not as enamored with the Great Outdoors as Valenta and Brown; the contented beasts refuse to leave their cage. Valenta follows suit, resigning himself to the "cage" of his humdrum life. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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