Carmen Argenziano Movies

In a story of one woman's revenge against a gang of brutal rapists, Carla Harris (Deborah Tranelli) makes Rambo look like the Easter Bunny. After her husband is killed when he comes to the aid of a woman under assault, Carla leaves New York City and goes to stay with her parents in California. A group of local men badger her for dates; when she puts them off with increasingly sharp comments, they plot an attack against her. Waiting until she is alone at home one night, the men subject her to gang rape and kill both her parents (and a repairman) when they return home unexpectedly. Carla then begins a series of bloody, revenge-motivated killings that eventually take her back to New York City for the final round of bullets. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Convicted murderer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald had hoped that, by telling his side of the story to investigative journalist Joe McGinniss, the authorities would be persuaded of MacDonald's innocence. Instead, McGinniss ended up unswerving in his belief of MacDonald's guilt, and the result was the devastating best-seller Fatal Vision. In this two-part TV adaptation of McGinniss' book, Gary Cole plays MacDonald, a former Green Beret officer, while Frank Dent essays the role of McGinniss. MacDonald's wife and two children are brutally murdered in their Fort Bragg, North Carolina home on February 17, 1970. The prime suspect, MacDonald insists that the killings were committed by a gang of stoned-out hippies, a story that at first is accepted in toto by the doctor's father-in-law Freddy Kassab (Karl Malden). But after MacDonald is officially exonerated, Kassab notices several holes in his son-in-law's story, and becomes convinced that MacDonald was in fact the murderer. Through Kassab's persistence, as well as the uncovering of new forensic evidence, MacDonald is ultimately convicted for all three murders in 1979. Since the TV premiere of Fatal Vision on November 18 and 19, 1984, there has been a growing movement by MacDonald's sympathizers to discredit McGinniss' book and to retry the case--a movement that has been hampered time and again by MacDonald's own erratic behavior. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Sam (Ted Danson) breaks up with his new girl Maxine (Kim Lankford) when he finds out that she's married. Shortly afterward, Maxine's husband (Carmen Argenziano) storms into Cheers, gun in hand. In an attempt to disarm the outraged hubby, Sam shoots himself in an embarrassing location -- then spins an outrageously heroic tale of how he got his wound for the benefit of Diane (Shelley Long). In other news, Cliff (John Ratzenberger) considers buying a house from Norm (George Wendt). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The A-Team is hired by Judy Rogers (Judy Strangis), the cousin of a pilot who has been arrested by the Feds in Venezuela for smuggling cocaine from Colombia. It turns out that the pilot was an innocent go-between for drug kingpin Winston Corliss (Anthony Charnota), who so long as he remains in Colombia will be immune from prosecution. Adopting a wide (and wild) variety of disguises, the A-Team heads South of the Border to execute a daring plan whereby Corliss and his minions will be lured into the clutches of the authorities. This of course means that plane-o-phobic B.A. (Mr. T) will be forced to fly--and this is where Judy Rogers' skills as a hypnotist come in handy! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This fact-based youth-oriented drama chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who stands tall in the face of sexist traditionalism and fights for her right to play on the varsity football team. Not only does she succeed, she also manages to become the homecoming queen. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this family drama, a famed lawyer is forced to come to grips with the lousy way he has treated his emotionally disturbed brother. Most of the story centers on the attorney's attempts to atone for his actions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A powerful alien sorceress from outer space tries again to commandeer the Earth in this sci-fi adventure. This time she can breath fire, change into a giant, and has a magic fan capable of producing tidal waves. Fortunately, a brave super-hero is there to oppose her and her legion of laser-toting monsters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A young racer attempts to win a dragstip competition where the outcome has already been fixed by the local mob, in this film alternately known as Hotrod and Rebel of the Road. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Struck down by a drunken driver, Jim (James Garner) ends up in the hospital. Under heavy sedation, he sees--or thinks he sees--Dr. Lee Yost (John Considine) harvesting organs from a donor. Trouble is, the donor isn't quite dead yet. After regaining consciousness, Jim is unable to get anyone to believe what he saw, so he makes it his personal mission to dig deeply into the career (and personality) of the aforementioned Dr. Yost. What he discovers not only places Jim's life in jeopardy but also the life of Yost's faithful secretary Sorel Henderson (Jesse Welles)--who, unbeknownst to herself, has been set up as the "good" doctor's next organ donor. This is the final episode of The Rockford Files' fifth season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The story of "red light bandit" Caryl Chessman, previously dramatized in the 1955 film Cell 2455, Death Row (based on Chessman's own book), was adapted for television as Kill Me If You Can. In a radical departure from his usual duties as MASH's Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda plays Chessman, who in 1948 was found guilty of robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault. Under the laws of the era, Chessman was sentenced to die in the gas chamber. But by studying the law and publishing four books on his plight, the brilliant (albeit still repugnant) Chessman managed to forestall his execution for 12 years. Though no effort is made in the film to make the sociopathic Chessman any better than he was, John Gay's script comes out squarely in opposition of capital punishment. Kill Me If You Can first aired on September 25, 1977. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Jim (James Garner) tries to help his friend Charly Blaylock (Eddie Firestone) turn over a new leaf by returning the $650,000 that Charly had stolen years earlier from the Seawell Oil company. But when Charly's daughter (and Jim's ex-fiancee) Sandra (Susan Howard) is kidnapped, he must use the money to pay the ransom. Facing some hard time behind bars if he doesn't recover the cash and return it to its rightful owners, Charly must rely upon the ingenuity of his pal Jim--who has problems of his own in the form of a "dirty" cop. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), who wants to get his hands on the sniper without endangering the lives of the people in the stadium. Unfortunately, there is a second group of law enforcement officers, a tactical commando group, who want to go into the stadium and rush the sniper -- regardless of the danger such an action would cause to the crowd watching the game. The sniper plans to start blasting at the two-minute warning signal of the football game. Holly has to find the sniper before the two-minute warning is given -- not merely to prevent the killings threatened by the sniper but to head off the tactical force before any other unnecessary deaths are incurred by the force's bulldog techniques. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide