Hector Elizondo Movies

Katherine Ross, who played Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, reprises the role for the made-for-TV Mrs. Sundance Rides Again. History doesn't record what exactly happened to former schoolteacher Etta after Butch and Sundance were shot full of holes in Bolivia, but it isn't likely that she ran guns for Pancho Villa in Mexico. We could be wrong, however, for that is exactly what she does in this grimy little film. Hector Elizondo plays Villa rather nervously, as though he's afraid his agent will find out. Mrs. Sundance Rides Again was originally telecast as Wanted: The Sundance Woman--the same week in 1976 that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made its network TV debut. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This time, undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is on the trail of a professional arsonist. In hopes of expediting his assignment, Baretta enlists the aid of a retired pyrotechnics expert -- who, after sustaining serious injuries in a tenement fire, may turn out to be too unstable to be of any help. Series star Blake is afforded the opportunity to ad-lib to his heart's content in this episode. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Though at first he turns down the assignment, Jim (James Garner) agrees to help his former war buddy Mitch (Hector Elizondo), now a fashion photographer, to track down one of his models, Jennifer Ryburn (Pamela Hensley). Suspected of murder, Jennifer has been reported killed in a fiery car crash on the basis of her dental records, but Mitch is convinced that she is still alive. This turns out to be true--but by the time Jim catches up with Jennifer, Mitch himself has been bumped off! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated "Pelham One Two Three" -- so named for its station of origin and time of departure -- makes its way down the East Side of Manhattan. One by one, three men board the train, and at 28th Street, a fourth man approaches the motorman (James Broderick) and points a pistol at him, ordering him to unlock the door to his cab and admit the man waiting there; meanwhile, another man points a gun at the conductor and threatens to kill him unless he holds the doors open and then closes them when the man talking to the motorman is aboard. Once on board, "Mr. Blue" (Robert Shaw) and "Mr. Green" (Martin Balsam) halt the train between stations, while "Mr. Brown" (Earl Hindeman) and "Mr. Gray" (Hector Elizondo) seal off the lead car. With Mr. Green at the controls, the front car is separated and isolated in the tunnel with 17 passengers aboard, and then Mr. Blue presents their demands over the radio: one million dollars in cash, within one hour, or they will start shooting one passenger each minute. On the other end, Transit Police Lieutenant Zachary Garber (Walter Matthau) must overcome his initial disbelief to deal with this threat, amid the confusion of a subway system that's chaotic even when it's running normally. With the mayor reluctantly aboard to pay the ransom, Garber must keep the hijackers from carrying out their threat while the money is transported, and keep the hotheads around him and on the police force under control -- and figure out how they intend to get away with a million dollars from inside a subway tunnel with police on all sides. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

It could only happen to Archie Bunker: He's trapped in a stalled elevator with a prickly black attorney named Thompson (Roscoe Lee Browne), a ditzy secretary named Miss McCarthy (Eileen Brennan), and a pregnant, monolingual Puerto Rican woman (Edith Diaz). Things take an even dicier turn when Mrs. Mendoza goes into labor! The touching final scene was the result of on-set improvisation; star Carroll O'Connor felt that the scene as written was in poor taste, and threatened to walk off the show unless something new was added. A young Hector Elizondo rounds out the cast (and further crowds the elevator) as excitable janitor and father-to-be Señor Mendoza. Written by Alan J. Levitt, "The Elevator Story" first aired on January 1, 1972. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico into the United States for use of the rodeo circuit. While the deal seems dubious, Kane goes along with it, and persuades his friend Leonard (Lee Marvin) to tag along. However, the cattle drive proves to be more of a challenge than the men expected, with a number of less-than-welcome adventures following the cattlemen along the way. Pocket Money also features Strother Martin, Hector Elizondo and Wayne Rogers; keep an eye peeled for a cameo appearance by Terrence Malick, who wrote the film's screenplay years before directing the acclaimed Badlands and Days of Heaven. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, Valdez is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in the title role. A scrupulously honest Mexican-American marshal, Bob Valdez is double-crossed and humiliated by wealthy, unscrupulous rancher Jon Cypher. Since Cypher has the law on his side, Valdez is obliged to mete out his own justice. He kidnaps Cypher's mistress Susan Clark to force the rancher's hand. At first, Cypher is able to rally a group of tough hombres against Valdez, but one by one they side with the marshal. Director Edwin Sherin, who'd helmed the Broadway production of The Great White Hope, makes several rather anachronistic points regarding the film's racial issues; on the other hand, Valdez is Coming is one of the most-authentic looking westerns ever made-right down to the deglamorization of Susan Clark, who in a 1950s film might have looked as though she'd just visited a frontier branch of Max Factor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Carrie Snodgress, who after several years in show business became an "overnight success" with Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), stars in the made-for-TV The Impatient Heart. In this pilot for a never-sold series titled McCormack, Ms. Snodgress plays a Manhattan social worker with a knack for straightening out everyone's problems. When it comes to her own life, she isn't quite as adept. Case in point: A handsome but testy young man (Michael Brandon), with whom she falls in love. Director John Badham once more suppresses his British upbringing to serve up a distinctly American slice of life to the TV audience. Featured in the cast of The Impatient Heart is Marian Hailey, a prolific TV commercial actress of the 1960s and 1970s who rarely received a large role in "regular" TV. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A trio of married couples swap partners in this exploitation feature that prominently features nudity and lesbian sex. One of the husbands meets an untimely demise in a threadbare plot that has little to do with the onscreen X-rated romantic romps. Not to be confused with the Russ Meyer film Vixen. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide