Geoffrey Deuel Movies
- 1988
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The first of several 1980s TV movies based on official FBI files, In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders premiered on November 27, 1988. Veteran TV "good guys" David Soul and Michael Gross do a typecasting about-face, playing two vicious, homicidal Miami-based bank robbers. The deadly duo's crime spree was climaxed by a bloody 1986 gun battle. Extremely violent, the film tempers its bloodshed with several instructive scenes showing how the FBI pieced together the clues that enabled them to track down their quarry. Doug Sheehan, Ronny Cox and Bruce Greenwood represent the forces of the Law. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
It's amateur night at a big-time club and the aspiring wanna-be's scramble on each other's shoulders in their vainful attempts at claiming the limelight. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1978
After being discharged by the Air Force, a pilot tries to make a living in Taipei. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1974
On assignment, Stone (Karl Malden) kills a suspect who turns out to be an undercover cop. Though he insists that the killing was an accident, tests in the police lab would seem to suggest that he has committed murder. As the story develops, Stone realizes that he has been made the fall guy in an elaborate frameup. This episode was directed by Richard Donner, whose later film credits included Superman: The Movie and Lethal Weapon. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Someone has been bootlegging the songs performed by a popular musical quartet. Investigating the situation, Ed (Don Galloway) and Fran (Elizabeth Baur) are "treated" to the spectacle of the death-by-electrocution of the group's lead singer Joey (Kip Niven). Clearly, the man has been murdered--but when the two detectives and their boss Ironside (Raymond Burr) launch their investigation, they learn to their surprise that none of the suspects had any reason on earth to hate the dead man. In a curious chain of casting choices, the character of Manning is played by former Laugh-In regular Judy Carne; Mo is played by Geoffrey Deuel, the brother of the late Pete Deuel), who'd costarred with Carne on the 1966 sitcom Love on a Rooftop; and Willie is played by Roger Davis, who'd appeared on the popular TV western Alias Smith and Jones... as as last-minute replacement for star Pete Deuel! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
The IMF again invades the world of professional boxing to get the goods on crooked sports promoter Paul Mitchell (William Windom) and his Syndicate boss Jay Braddock (Joe Braddock). Terrified by Braddock's homicidal tendencies, Mitchell is on the verge of turning informer, but he needs a little dose of incentive. Thus, IMF agent Casey poses as Mitchell's daughter Susan (Jennifer Shaw) as part of a divide-and-conquer strategy aimed at utterly destroying Braddock. First broadcast on February 9, 1973, "The Fighter" was scripted by Stephen Kandel and Nicholas E. Bashr, from a story by Orville H. Hampton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Graves, Greg Morris, (more)
- 1973
Notorious safecracker Gus Benderson (Pat Hingle) plans to give up crime for the sake of his son Bob (Geoffrey Deuel). Unfortunately, Bob idolizes his dad--and even worse, wants to follow in the old man's footsteps. When Bob insists that Gus join him for one last job, it is only a matter of time before the FBI seals their professional doom. Appearing as Vera Benderson is perennial game-show panelist Brett Somers, here billed under her married name, Brett Somers Klugman (need we add that her husband at the time was Jack Klugman). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
- R
After female prisoners arrive at an island prison full of male convicts, they are brutalized and fight back in an attempt to set up a more democratic system. This exploitative drama includes performances of Tom Selleck and Roger E. Mosley of television's Magnum P.I. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Barry Sullivan guest stars as Chris Bane, a famous and powerful San Francisco newspaper columnist. After murdering his mistress, Bane uses his journalistic skills to pin the killing on his rival. Complications ensue when it turns out that Chris' son Greg (Geoffrey Deuel) was likewise involved with the dead woman. Also in the cast are former Disney leading man Tommy Kirk (here billed as "Thomas") and future TV soap-opera doyenne Anna Lee. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
This alleged feature film actually consists of two hour-long TV pilots, both produced by Screen Gems in 1972. The first, "Movin' On," stars Patrick Wayne and Geoffrey Deuel as a stock-car driver and cyclist, respectively. David Soul and Kate Jackson guest-star in this action-filled entry, which was originally telecast July 24, 1972. The title and play-date of the second pilot is currently unavailable though sources say that it stars Barbara Parkins, and that it takes place in a house haunted by the victim of a hanging. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker) moves in on several local businesses and takes them over. By the time Chisum and his ally, fellow rancher Henry Tunstall (Patrick Knowles), decide to go to the law, Murphy's already bought and paid for influence there, as well. The only recourse left to the cattlemen is to take Murphy on in all-out range war that embroils everyone in the county, including Tunstall's hand Billy the Kid Bonney (Geoffrey Deuel) and his comrade Pat Garrett (Glenn Corbett). Screenwriter and producer Andrew J. Fenady based the script for Chisum (1970) on his own short story, a very loosely fact-based account of Chisum, Billy the Kid and their involvement in the Lincoln County wars. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, (more)
- 1970
Determined to "change the world" in a hurry, home-grown terrorist Eric Stone (Geoffrey Deuel) has no qualms about resorting to violence. Together with fellow conspirators Gilbert Manning (Tom Falk), Karen Wandemere (Diane Ewing), and Knox and Allen Hiller (Wayne Maunder, Mark Jenkins), Stone has cut quite a swath across the country, wreaking all manner of destruction on government property. With time running out and only a handful of leads at his disposal, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) must locate the Federal building that has been booby-trapped with a time bomb by the arrogant would-be revolutionaries. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1969
A student revolt is fomenting on a college campus, prompting police headquarters to dispatch a riot squad. Among those summoned to nip the hostilities in the bud is mobile officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). The problem: Malloy is currently taking classes at the troubled college--and several of his fellow students regard him as a traitor for taking the side of the "pigs." Watch for pro heavyweight boxer Jerry Quarry in a small supporting role. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1967
The 1938 Marx Brothers comedy Room Service was the obvious inspiration for "Monkees Manhattan Style" (aka "Monkees in Manhattan"). Arriving in New York to star in a rock musical, the Monkees discover that the show is being cancelled because the backer has bailed out. The boys spend the rest of the episode trying to escape the wrath of irate hotel manager Weatherwax (Philip Ober while simultaneously attempting to raise money for the musical's producer ($Dick Anders). The superb supporting cast includes Doodles Weaver as a butler, "lovable lush" Foster Brooks as a conventioneer, Olan Soule as a waiter, and Susan Howard and Geoffrey Deuel as a honeymooning couple. Songs: "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)", "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", and "Words". At the end of the episode, the Monkees appear out of character for an interview with director Bob Rafaelson -- a tantalizing preview for the series' first-season closer, "The Monkees on Tour." Written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso, "Monkees Manhattan Style" first aired on April 10, 1967. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
