Boris Aplon Movies
Character actor Boris Aplon spent most of his career on Broadway where he played everything from Chief Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun to the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. He occasionally dabbled in screen performances, beginning with Citizen Saint (1947) and also appeared on a few television soaps as well as in the 1950s series The Honeymooners. Aplon started out performing with Chicago's Globe Theatre Shakespeare Company. From there, he launched a career in radio drama and then started performing on Broadway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Director Andrei Konchalovsky comes a cropper with this mawkish road movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi. Goldberg plays Edwina, an escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live. Belushi is Homer, a retarded man abandoned by his parents when he was a child after a smack with a baseball bat rendered him an idiot. The two team-up when Homer takes off to Oregon to visit his parents and catch up on old times. Edwina agrees to drive him there to recover the $87 that Homer has stolen from her. As they drive down the American roadways, they bond, and Edwina is granted the shining love of Homer as she lapses into a coma. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, (more)
Self-made wealthy guy Rodney Dangerfield decides he needs a better education--and also to spend some time away from his cheating new wife. Dangerfield joins his son Keith Gordon at college. Dad hopes to gain his son's respect (isn't that always Dangerfield's motivation?), while son tries to fit in with his snobbish and brutish fellow students. English professor Sally Kellerman forms a strong bond with Dangerfield, encouraging both father and son to stick out their first year despite all odds. The finale involves some slapstick at the swimming pool diving board, and the obligatory commencement address delivered by Dangerfield, who proves that he can crack jokes without tugging at his tie. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, (more)
Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), who wants to get his hands on the sniper without endangering the lives of the people in the stadium. Unfortunately, there is a second group of law enforcement officers, a tactical commando group, who want to go into the stadium and rush the sniper -- regardless of the danger such an action would cause to the crowd watching the game. The sniper plans to start blasting at the two-minute warning signal of the football game. Holly has to find the sniper before the two-minute warning is given -- not merely to prevent the killings threatened by the sniper but to head off the tactical force before any other unnecessary deaths are incurred by the force's bulldog techniques. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, (more)
- 1958
In this crime drama, a police psychiatrist sets out to capture a whacko purse snatcher who has been scarring the faces of his female victims as he makes off with their bags. When a girl is killed, all evidence points to the mugger, but when he is captured he fervently denies it. The police then begin looking for the real culprit and discover that the killer is the dead girl's brother-in-law and close friend of the shrink. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kent Smith, Nan Martin, (more)
- 1947
The life and times of a modern miracle worker, Mother Frances Cabrini, are chronicled in this biography that features real film clips of the woman as the Pope canonizes her in Rome. Some of her best miracles are re-created. The film also chronicles her love of the church and her sustaining sense of humor. Among the miracles are a scene where she brings someone back from the dead, and gives a mute singer her voice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Boris Aplon
