Eugene Price Movies
A member of the infamous "Texas Trio" of writers, along with fellow wordsmiths Jack Sowards and David Westheimer, Emmy-winning pen-pusher Eugene Price frequently moved between daytime dramas (General Hospital and One Life to Live) and primetime presentations (Kung Fu and Marcus Welby, M.D.) of the 1960s and 1970s.Born in Guthrie, OK, Price received his early education at Dallas' Sunset High School before majoring in drama at the University of Texas. He began his career as a writer after a post-college stint as a radio announcer for the Armed Forces Network for the U.S. Army stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. His earliest jobs alternating among soaps, primetime shows, and TV movies, Price received an Emmy and a Writers Guild Award for his work on Ryan's Hope in 1981.
Eugene Price died of natural causes at his Putney, VA, home on March 28, 2000. He was 68. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1982
Money on the Side is a feminist's worst nightmare. This TV movie proposes that the only recourse a housewife has to the nation's "faltering economy" (to quote the film's press release) is to turn to prostitution. The three suburban housewife hookers in this opus are Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl, and....Karen VALENTINE?!?!?!? Say it ain't so, Joe. Forget this one: even the title of Money on the Side sounds like a dirty joke. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1976
This disaster movies chronicles the many dramas of the people involved in a 39 car smash-up on a California freeway. The wreck occurs on the final day of a holiday weekend. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1975
This time, Stone (Michael Douglas) and Keller (Michael Douglas) comes up against a ruthless international executive determined to force several stubborn homeowners off their property. Carefully keeping his name out of the proceedings, the executive hires several sinister minions to get what he wants, utilizing terrorism and murder as his methods. Featured in the guest cast are three future TV series luminaries: John Ritter (Three's Company), Sorrell Booke (The Dukes of Hazzard) and Gordon Jump (WKRP in Cincinnati). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
In this made-for-television disaster thriller, a carload rich commuters are held hostage by a trio of thugs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Comedian Jackie Mason made one of his many comeback attempts after the 1966 Ed Sullivan Show "flipping the finger" debacle with the low-budget The Stoolie. Mason plays a cheap crook who cops a plea with the law by offering to trap other thieves with bait money. But Mason can't leave well enough alone; he steals $7500 of the money himself and high-tails it to Miami Beach. Now he must continually look over his shoulder as both the police and the crooks try to catch up with him. Seedily effective at times (though not during the love scenes between Mason and leading lady Marcia Jean Kurtz), The Stoolie was produced in Florida and New Jersey by Jackie Mason himself; it received very limited release in 1972, then was given a second unsuccessful distribution in 1974. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
- PG
A grease monkey becomes so obsessed with stock-car racing that the rest of his life begins to fall apart in this character-driven drama. The one who suffers most from his fixation is his devoted wife whom he totally ignores until she gets a job and her husband begins thinking she is fooling around with her boss. In a jealous rage, he makes his accusation and during the ensuing scuffle kills his rival and takes off with the police in hot pursuit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- R
This uneven satire presents the hypocrisy of suburban attitudes towards sex education in school. Roger (Richard Carballo) is the sexually repressed moralist who tries to eradicate community perversion. Parents object to the school teachings while they engage in nude swimming parties and marital infidelities. Roger lives next to a couple who gives their teenage son a complex over their inability to express affection. His baby-sitter reads erotic literature to him. Roger's wife lures the boy into his first sexual encounter as his parents watch the action. Their sex lives are rejuvenated when they witness the proceedings, and the moralistic Roger soon discovers to his horror he is gay. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Carballo, Devin Goldenberg, (more)
