Dan Haggerty Movies
Husky and hirsute actor Dan Haggerty is best remembered for playing the title character in the popular television outdoor adventure series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. Having appeared in the 1974 feature-film version of the show and in a similar feature titled Frontier Fremont (1975), Haggerty seemed a natural for the role. But it was really his unusual rapport -- Haggerty had once been an animal trainer -- with bears, such as his huge co-star Ben, that really got him the part. Following the series' demise, Haggerty went on to appear in many made-for-television movies and in low-budget features. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1981
An adventuresome author in 1849 travels to California's Sutter's Fort to work in a saw mill. After gold is discovered, the community is plagued by the antics of greedy treasure seekers. This made-for-television drama is based on the true stories by Bret Hart. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- 1980
Condominium is a two-part, four-hour TV adaptation of the novel by John D. McDonald. The setting is a hastily constructed Florida high-rise, assembled at the least possible cost by its greedy owners. An oncoming hurricane threatens to topple the structure and its residents into the ocean. Various degrees of greed, lust, terror and concern are displayed by stars Steve Forrest, Dan Haggerty, Ralph Bellamy, Barbara Eden, Stuart Whitman, Jack Jones and Pamela Hensley. Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, Condominium was first made available to local stations on November 20, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
This made-for-TV thriller is yet another tale of swarming killer bees. A sub-par sequel to The Savage Bees, this time around, a scientist and his cohorts set out to protect some innocent school kids from the attacking insects. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide
- 1978
In this adventure, a trapper ventures into a terrible blizzard to search for a young couple who had been swept away from their children during an avalanche. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1978
Three Desperate Women is the working title for the TV movie Desperate Women; the original title is utilized throughout in a ballad heard on the movie's soundtrack. The women of the title (or both titles) are played by Susan St. James, Ronee Blakely and Anne Dusenberry. During the Civil War, our three heroines escape from prison. They spend the first half of the film being pursued by the law, outlaws and Indians. The film then shifts gears as the girls plan to pilfer a gold shipment. Dan Hagerty and Max Gail also star as, respectively, the good and bad guy. Desperate Women premiered on October 27, 1978. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1978
Originally made for television, this western concerns three unjustly convicted female prisoners. While being transported to prison, their guards die of water poisoning and a former contract killer helps them survive. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1977
Don Haggerty is Grizzly Adams in this episode from the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. Here Grizzly Adams kindly attempts to protect a beaver family from an impending flood that he feels will soon cause their demise. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1975
Starbird and Sweet William was originally released as The Adventures of Starbird in 1975. A Martinez heads the cast as a Native American youth. While on plane trip en route to his home village, Martinez crashes in the wilderness. Here he is forced to emulate his forebears by fending for himself. Dan Haggerty, Louis Fitch, Skip Homeier and Skeeter Vaughn also appear in the cast. Despite the inherent danger in the central situation, Starbird and Sweet William is a very relaxed, leisurely 90-minute semi-travelogue. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1975
The Adventures of Frontier Fremont was one of the better Sunn Classics "four-wallers." Fremont (Dan Haggerty), a mild-mannered citizen of 19th-century St. Louis, gives up his job as a tinsmith in favor of a life in the mountains. Here he becomes friends with the animals and with other like-minded frontiersmen. Denver Pyle, a veteran Sunn Classics performer, co-stars as "the old mountaineer." Frontier Fremont star Dan Haggerty continued in this singular vein of wide-open-spaces entertainment in his TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 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
- 1974
In this wilderness adventure (which later inspired a TV series), Dan Haggerty stars as Adams, a trapper who flees for the mountains when he is wrongly accused of a crime. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- 1973
- PG
In this bizarre biker movie, set in 1919, a wandering group of bikers encounter two weird sisters from Nebraska. The siblings are hereditary witches, taught by their father. One of them uses her powers to kill many of the gang members. She spares the one she is attracted to. He begins staying on her farm while her sister and another biker take off to California. On video, it is also known as The Shrieking. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1971
This family drama stars Dan Haggerty as Cal, a moonshiner who wantonly kills just about any kind of critter in the woods. Sammy (Charles Lee) is a young man who has made many animal friends, including a bear, alligator, mountain lion, chimpanzee and leopard. Sammy and his friends attempt to save the lives of the other creatures in the swamps where they live, and in doing so become personal enemies of Cal. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- R
A six-foot biker chick grabs a shotgun, jumps on her Harley and hits the highway with two compadres to search for the ones who murdered her brother in this lurid actioner that is the first biker flick to have a female director. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- R
In this colorful outing, a band of transvestites hop on their Harleys and head for Los Angeles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1970
At least Angels Die Hard strives to be something different. The usual motorcyle bums are in attendance, but this time they're the heroes rather than the antagonists. The storyline, concerning a mine cave-in in a small community, bears traces of the 1931 German film Kammeradschaft. Though on the outs with the community, the bikers prove to be heroes as they aid in the rescue of the trapped miners. But don't be lulled into thinking that Angels Die Hard is family fare: it still carries an R rating. The familiar faces dotting the film's cast include R. G. Armstrong, William Smith (what would a biker flick be without William Smith?) and Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty. Filmed in 1970, Angels Die Hard was not given a general release until 1984. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Baker, William Smith, (more)
- 1966
- G
A small town is terrorized by a grizzly bear in this uninspired western. Jim Cole $Clint Walker must defend his inherited property from the designs of his greedy, land-grabbing neighbor Jed Curry (Keenan Wynn). ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, (more)
- 1964
The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party. Surfing sensations Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) have their security threatened when Flex Martian (Rock Stevens) and a collection of well-oiled weight-lifters invade their turf. While tensions heat up on the beach, wealthy contessa Julie (Luciana Paluzzi) arranges for her business manager S.Z. Matts (Buddy Hackett) to entice Flex into becoming the latest in her long line of boyfriends. Julie's feelings change when she meets Frankie, who, honored by Julie's amorous attentions, returns her affections, causing a rift not only between Dee Dee and himself, but a further collapse in relations between the surfers and the body-builders, which is assuaged only by the music of Dick Dale and the Del Tones and Little Stevie Wonder. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, (more)
- 1962
In yet another high-stakes poker game, Bart (Jack Kelly) wins part ownership of Diamond Jim Malone's gambling casino. Unfortunately, our hero also "wins" a certain Lucky Matt Elkins (Dan Haggerty), who has been blackmailing Diamond Jim (Robert J. Wilke) and doesn't intend to let up now that the casino is under new management. Film-noir stalwart Marie Windsor heads the supporting cast of this episode, which in some sources is listed as having originally aired on March 4, 1962. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1957
After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion. The scene is a medium-sized Midwestern town, where Maggie Brewster (Hutton) is reacquainted with her high-school flame Fred Davis (Dana Andrews) during a class reunion. The first time around, Maggie turned down Fred at the behest of her wealthy, domineering father (Robert Simon). When Fred proposes a second time, history threatens to repeat itself -- at least until the lachrymose finale. Silent screen star Laura La Plante also makes a return to the screen as Maggie's understanding mother. Rumor has it that the barely saleable Spring Reunion was deliberately designed as a tax write-off by the accountants for Kirk Douglas' Bryna Productions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, (more)
