David Macklin Movies

An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed, and America's string of humiliating defeats was finally broken. Though the battle itself was sufficiently dramatic to fill two films, Midway also has plotline involving the mixed-race relationship between Ensign Garth (Edward Albert), son of Navy Captain Matt Garth (Charlton Heston), and Haruko Sakura (Christina Kokubo), a Hawaiian girl of Japanese descent. The real-life personages depicted herein include American Admirals Nimitz (Henry Fonda), Halsey (Robert Mitchum) and Spruance (Glenn Ford), and Japanese Admiral Yamamoto (Toshiro Mifune, his voice once again dubbed by Paul Frees, whom Mifune personally selected for the job). For its original road show release, Midway was offered in the "Sensurround" process, which electronically shook and vibrated the audience's chairs during the battle sequences. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) spearheads a search for mentally disturbed Walker Oborn (Don Stroud), who has already committed one murder while eluding the Feds. Now Oborn has kidnapped Emily Willis (Darlene Carr), the 18-year-girl he has long worshiped from afar, and has headed into the Sierra Mountains with his terrified captive. The climax of this nailbiting episode was filmed on location along the Montery-Carmel coast. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A small Arizona town is plagued by violence created from the tension between Anglo and Mexican-American youths. Tony (Tom Nardini) is the idealistic new kid in school who tries to alleviate long-time tensions between the rival factions. The Mexican gang is led by Paco (Zooey Hall), a hot-tempered youth with good reason to resent some of his Caucasian counterparts due to past prejudices. Bruce (David Macklin) is the leader of the white gang. Patty McCormack and Joanna Frank are the female interests who become victims of the gang struggles. Tony, formerly from San Diego, attempts to change the attitudes of the polarized and violent groups. Simms (Russ Bender) is a bigoted educator who fans the flames of hate, and Wilson (Arthur Peterson) is the school principal who is helpless to stop the violence between the two factions. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

In the first episode of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) investigates the kidnapping of Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin), the long-estranged son of ex-convict Max Griswold (Arthur Hill). What Erskine doesn't know is that the boy has been abducted by one of Max's former prison buddies. The motivation: A three-million dollar robbery which the kidnapper wants Griswold to help mastermind. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In the conclusion of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) steps up his search for kidnap victim Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin). Meanwhile, Bob's ex-convict father Max (Arthur Hill) reluctantly launches the final stage of an elaborate robbery that will net the kidnapper a cool three million dollars. A wild seagoing chase caps this nail-biting suspenser. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Placed in a trance by Grandpa (Al Lewis) to cure a bad case of hiccups, Herman (Fred Gwynne) is discovered by a pair of frat brothers (one of whom is played by Ken Osmond, aka "Eddie Haskell" of Leave It to a Beaver fame). Assuming that Herman is a monstrous mannequin, the prankish collegians decide to use the "dummy" to scare the girls at a sorority house. Featured among the female supporting players is Bonnie Franklin, some nine years removed from her "Anne Romano" role on One Day at a Time. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Season Two of The F.B.I gets under way as Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) receives an anonymous tip that teenager Paul Wallace (David Macklin) has been kidnapped and returned unharmed once the ransom was paid. But when Erskine interviews Wallace's father (John Larch), the man steadfastly denies that any kidnapping took place. It turns out that the abductors, Casey (Scott Marlowe) and Junior (Robert Blake), have threatened horrific consequences to the Wallace family if they talk to the authorities. Unfortunately, Mr. Wallace's silence may prove fatal for the kidnappers' latest victim(Dennis Joel Olivieri)--a diabetic in desperate need of insulin. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Though he would frequently be cast in later FBI episodes as a crime victim, David Macklinis here seen as a the heavy of the piece, a deranged teenager named Howard "Howdy" Collier. After blowing up a freight train with a homemade time bomb, Howdy threatens to destroy a passenger train if he isn't paid a ransom of $100,000. To locate the seriously disturbed Collier, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. puts the boy's mother (Louise Latham) under surveillance--while a new and unanticipated danger looms over the horizon. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Based on eyewitness testimony, a nasty old man named Justin Briggs (John Anderson) is convicted of the murder of one Eddie Fry--who is not only very much alive, but is actually fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen). Now miles away from Briggs' town, Kimble could conceivably keep quiet and avoid arrest by allowing Briggs to be executed. Instead, Kimble's essential decency gets the better of him, and returns to reveal that reports of his death were highly exaggerated. Unfortunately, by this time Briggs himself has been killed while trying to escape--and his hotheaded son Roy (David Macklin) is determined to get even with Janice Cummings (Dianne Foster), whose testimony sent his dad to prison. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Appearing in Santa Barbara with her Shakesperean acting troupe "A Company of Four", former Broadway star Ramona Carver (Virginia Field) is confronted by a man who claims to be the son she gave up for adotion. Whether or not this is good news to Ramona seems inconsequential when she accused of murdering an old enemy, ex-drama critic Ogden G. Kramer (Sherwood Keith). Originally hired to help Ramona locate her son, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) must now defend her life in court. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Scheming Frances Walden (Constance Ford) hopes to use the "gossip grapevine" in the small farming town of Palmetto to break up the marriage of her brother Martin (Robert Bray) and his wife Andrea (Diane Brewster). Frances goes so far as to pay her own nephew Roy (a pre-Lost in Space Mark Goddard), the town's biggest "stud", to compromise Andrea--who may already be amply compromised, if rumors of her affair with former boyfriend Nelson Tarr (Joe Maross) are true. When Martin is murdered, the police arrest Nelson--who, fortunately, happens to be a client of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide