Joseph Raffill Movies
- 1991
Hearing tales of a legendary giant who lives on Thunder Mountain, some kids go up the mountain to see for themselves. They discover the giant (Richard Kiel, who also co-wrote the film and was executive producer) and persuade him to shave off his beard and come out of hiding. However, a crooked carnival owner soon hears of him and has his own plans for the giant. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Kiel
Stewart Raffill directs the high-action comedy caper igh Risk about a four-man band of theives trying to pull off the perfect crime. Stone (James Brolin), Tony (Chick Venera), Dan (Bruce Davidson), and Rockney (Cleavon Little) hire two inept airplane pilots and plot a major heist. The plan is to rob a mansion in South America belonging to the wealthy drug lord Serrano (James Coburn). After they break open his safe and steal five million dollars, they try to escape the jungle while being followed by the Columbian army and a group of bandits led by Mariano (Anthony Quinn). Ernest Borgnine appears in a brief cameo. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Brolin, Cleavon Little, (more)
- 1978
Robert Logan stars in still another of his many independently produced films designed for the family-matinee crowd. Logan plays Travis, the father of two young girls Courtney and Samantha (Heather Rattray and Shannon Saylor), all of whom set off from Tahiti on a perilous round-the-world sailboat trip. The journalist assigned to cover the voyage is Kelly (Mikki Jamison-Olsen), an attractive with whom Travis falls in love. The fifth member of the sailing party is youthful stowaway Jesse (Cjon Damitri Patterson). When the group is shipwrecked off the Alaskan coast, the film metamorphoses into one of those "Wilderness Family" adventures guaranteed to thrill both children and adults. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Logan, Mikki Jamison-Olsen, (more)
- 1974
In the family film When the North Wind Blows, an old trapper flees into the woods of Alaska after accidentally wounding his friend's son. Once he's in the wilderness, he befriends a family of snow tigers and protects them from various other hunters and trappers. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
