Don Pedro Colley Movies

Sho Kosugi stars (as well as produced) this picturesque and exciting swashbuckler, directed by Gordon Hessler. Kosugi plays Mayeda, a 17th-century Japanese samurai whose clan, headed by Lord Ieyasu (Toshiro Mifune), is waging a bloody battle with a rival clan. The rival clan has the advantage of using punk-burning muskets, which work fine unless it rains, rendering the firearms useless. Ieyasu sends Mayeda to Spain to one-up the rival clan by arranging the purchase of flintlock rifles, which are immune to rain. Mayeda is accompanied on his journey by Ieyasu's young heir Yorimune (Kane Kosugi), along with a traitor -- the clan's Catholic spiritual advisory Father Vasco (Norman Lloyd), who has made a deal with the rival clan to kill Mayeda and Yorimune and to make sure that the flintlock rifles never reach their destination. However, the plot fails. In the process, the gold to pay for the rifles falls overboard, and Mayeda arrives in Spain penniless at the court of King Philip (Christopher Lee). King Philip refuses to give Mayeda the rifles, until Mayeda saves his life during an attack of rebels. But even though Mayeda now has the king on his side, he has earned the wrath of his advisor Don Pedro (David Essex) by falling in love with his fiancee Cecilia (Polly Walker). Mayeda and Don Pedro eventually tangle in mortal combat. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Sheriff Little (Don Pedro Colley) is placed in charge of two convicts, one of whom (Judson Scott) has a score to settle with Luke Duke (Tom Wopat). Getting the drop on the Duke boys, the two prisoners force the cousins to help them break out of jail. Unfortunately, the rest of their escape takes the four men straight into the heart of a raging forest fire! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) chase a band of armored-truck robbers into the jurisdiction of Sheriff "Big" Ed Little (Don Pedro Colley), only to be accused of being the robbers themselves and locked up in Little's jail. The only witness who can clear the Duke boys is rustic painter Artie Bender (James Cavan)--who, unfortunately, is dead. Well, he's not REALLY dead, but Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) has declared Bender legally deceased so that Artie's artwork will greatly increase in value! (By the way, the paintings seen in this episode were actually done by series regular James Best, who also directed). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

To avoid breaking their probation, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) agree to coach the Boar's Nest Bears, a pee-wee basketball team owned by Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). The Bear are pinning their hopes on their "secret weapon" Rod Moffat (Jason Lively), a farm boy with astonishing athletic skills, to win against a hitherto unbeaten team. Unfortuanately, the boy may not show up in time for the game, thanks to the obligatory crooked gamblers. This episode was directed by series regular Tom Wopat. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) stoops even lower than usual to get his hands on Jesse's secret moonshine recipe. Hiring disreputable magician Jasper Fenwick (Jim B. Baker) to frame the Dukes for stealing money intended for an orphanage, Boss then generously offers to clear the cousins. But, oh yeah, there's a price tag for Boss' largesse: Jesse (Denver Pyle) must give up that precious recipe--immediately!. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

There are many Dukes of Hazzard fans who would just as soon pretend that the series' fifth season never existed. Although perennial co-stars Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, Sorrell Booke, and James Best are back, and Sonny Shroyer has returned in his familiar role as Deputy Enos Strate (after a brief sabbatical on his own TV series), conspicuous by their absences are leading men Tom Wopat and John Schneider) as hot-rodding cousins Luke and Bo Duke. The two actors had walked off the series over a monetary dispute, obliging the producers to replace them with two more branches from the Duke family tree: cousins Coy Duke (Byron Cherry) and Vance Duke (Christopher Mayer), who according to the scriptwriters had come back to Hazzard country after a six-year absence to help Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle run his farm while Luke and Bo were tooling around the NASCAR circuit. To put it as nicely as possible, diehard Dukes fans did not warm up to Coy and Vance. Fortunately, Tom Wopat and John Schneider patched up their difference with the producers and returned to the series in the middle of season five. The "other" two Dukes hung on until season's end, then disappeared so totally that they might as well have never been born. ~ Rovi

After Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) stumble across a stash of stolen credit cards, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) hatches a scheme to get his hands on the cards and frame the Dukes for theft in the process. But Boss has reckoned without his formidable wife Lulu (Peggy Rea), who has just joined Hazzard's Equal Rights Society (HERS), and uses her newfound feminist clout (with a little help from Daisy Duke [Catherine Bach] to take over half her husband's business enterprises. Further flexing her muscles, Lulu proceeds to sell Roscoe's (James Best) car to Sheriff Little (Don Pedro Colley)--never suspecting that those hot credit cards are hidden inside the vehicle! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

With the State probation supervisor breathing down his neck, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) tries to prove he's on the ball by framing the Duke boys for passing bad checks. As part of a subterfuge to help the boys break out of jail, Daisy (Catherine Bach) leads Deputy Cletus (Rick Hurst) to believe she's in love with him. When Cletus is fired for negligence, it's up to Daisy--and the rest of the Dukes--to set things right. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Never at a loss for sneaky schemes, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) has come up with "foolproof" scheme to rob an armored truck from his own bank. Seeking to frame Luke (Tom Wopat) and Bo (John Schneider) for the crime, Boss hires a pair of impostors (Robin Strand, Morgan Woodard) and fixes them up with "Duke" face masks--and to top it off, he arranges for the phonies to make their getaway in an exact replica of the "General Lee." Singer Donna Fargo appears as the latest victim of Boss' "celebrity speed trap." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The Dukes of Hazzard spends most of its fourth season entertainingly covering ground already traveled during the series' previous three seasons. Cousins Luke and Bo Duke (Tom Wopat, John Schneider) continue burning up the byways of Hazzard County in "The General Lee," their souped-up Dodge Charger; Luke and Bo's attractive cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach) continues to provide eye candy in her form-fitting short shorts--and to pursue her own car-racing career; their Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) persists in returning to the moonshining game, just to keep his hand in; and crooked country commissioner Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) never tires of cooking up new get-rich-quick schemes or devising ways to toss the Dukes into the pokey with the aid of non-villainous lawmen Roscoe Coltrane (James Best) and Deputy Cletus (Rick Hurst). Carryovers from season three include a brace of new semi-regulars, postmistress Miz Emma Tisdale (Nedra Voltz) and Chickasaw County Sheriff Little (Don Pedro Colley). Added to the cast lineup during season four are Lila Kent as Laverne and Charlie Dell as Emery Potter. Of the many guest stars appearing in the the 27 Dukes of Hazzard fourth-season episodes, special mention should be made of country & western impresario Mickey Gilley, adroitly cast as "himself" in the episode "The Sound of Music - Hazzard Style." ~ Rovi

The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses locked their windows and doors and pretended not to hear. Raul Julia stars as the detective who investigates the murder and stirs up the guilt feelings of those who refused to help. The film casts celebrity actors in the roles of the witnesses (Diahann Carroll, Cloris Leachman, Lucie Arnaz, Nancy Walker, Art Carney, et al.). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this blaxploitation horror movie, a young woman enlists the aide of a voodoo priest to help her get revenge upon the gangsters who killed her lover. With a few incantations and magical spells, the priest raises an army of zombies. Later the film was cut and shown on TV as The Zombies of Sugar Hill. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi