H.B. III Barnum Movies
- 1975
- PG
Dean Martin had his final leading role in this obscure drama about a San Francisco lawyer defending a black militant (Thalmus Rasulala) on trial for murder. The familiar supporting cast includes Cindy Williams, Philip Michael Thomas, and Room 222's Denise Nicholas. Filmmaker Paul Bogart, who directed many of the best episodes of the ground-breaking series All in the Family, went on to make Torch Song Trilogy. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, (more)
Lost in the Stars was an American Film Theatre adaptation of the musical play by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill--which in turn was based on the Alain Paton novel Cry the Beloved Country. Brock Peters portrays a South African minister who goes to the Big City to locate his son Raymond St. Jacques, who is now a criminal in the eyes of the white rulers. The minister forges a curious, foredoomed friendship with a white farmer (Paul Rogers). Lost in the Stars has sometimes been accused of blunting the edge of Paton's angry study of the cruelties of Apartheid; fans of musical theatre will be more politely inclined to this loving filmization of the Broadway play. On its own, Cry the Beloved Country was previously filmed in 1951, with Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier and Charles Carson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Convinced that he's learned everything he needs to know, Danny (Danny Bonaduce) decides to drop out of school. On the advice of a child psychologist, Shirley (Shirley Jones) allows Danny to try his luck in the professional world, certain that he'll see the folly of ways--but the plan nearly backfires when Danny meets Claude Tubbles (James Gregory), a self-made millionaire who never finished the sixth grade. Songs: "Lookin' for a Good Thing" and "Workin' on a Groovy Thing". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
