Don Galloway Movies
American leading man Don Galloway started his television career in the 1950s in the New York-based soap opera The Secret Storm. In 1963, Galloway was among the first regular cast members of ABC's General Hospital, playing Buzz Stryker. His first regular nighttime video stint was on Tom Dick and Harry, one-third of the 90-minute weekly sitcom 90 Bristol Court (1964). From 1967 through 1975, Galloway was seen as officer Ed Brown on the Raymond Burr prime-time vehicle Ironside, reprising the character for a made-for-TV "reunion" film in the late 1980s. He later appeared with Burr in a brace of Perry Mason TV movies, playing a different character in each. Don Galloway's movie credits include the role of Richard in The Big Chill (1983). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Billed as "a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki," The Doom Generation is the director's self-styled bad-taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's terrified of AIDS (even though they both claim to be virgins). One day, they run across Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech), a charming but enigmatic drifter who has a bad habit of killing people. Joining the young couple on a seemingly endless road trip, Xavier (or "X,"as the verbally challenged Jordan insists on calling him), proves a threatening and repulsive yet strangely alluring companion whose very presence raises issues of loyalty and sexual identity. The Doom Generation is dotted with a variety of eccentric cameo appearances, including comic Margaret Cho, actress Parker Posey, musician Perry Farrell, "Hollywood Madame" Heidi Fleiss, and onetime Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight. This is the middle installment in Araki's "teen apocalypse trilogy," which also includes 1993's Totally F***ed Up and 1997's Nowhere. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Duval, Rose McGowan, (more)
Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los Angeles. Clifford wants to go so badly that he manages to force the Hawaii bound plane he and his parents are on to land in L.A. His parents need to attend a convention in Hawaii so they leave him with his Uncle Martin who despises children. Martin's fiance adores kids, so he pretends to be ecstatic about Clifford's visit. He must also pretend that Clifford is the angel child he isn't. Because Martin reneges on a promise to take him to Dinosaur World, Clifford begins an elaborate plot for revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Martin Short, Charles Grodin, (more)
- 1993
In this feature-length reprise of the popular '70s police drama Ironside Raymond Burr returns as the wheelchair-bound police chief. This time, he is drawn out of retirement by a puzzling murder and the San Francisco police department's need to find a new chief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, (more)
- 1991
- PG
In this earnest, socially conscious drama, a prominent young lawyer rethinks his yuppie lifestyle and risks it all to become a staunch defender of homeless people's rights. Look for Martin Sheen (a strong advocate for the homeless) in a cameo role as a street person. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Long believed to be dead, bank robber Ned Jinks (Donnelly Rhodes) returns to Cabot Cove after twenty years in hopes of visiting his daughter Bonnie (Claudia Christian). Not only must Ned face the hostility of the local citizenry, but he is also slapped with a murder charge when one of his oldest enemies is knocked off. Exercising her prerogative as Bonnie's friend and neighbor, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attempts to find out who is really the guilty party. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Rock Hudson is a TV-biopic oversimplification of the life and career of the durable screen idol. Most of the background material is based on the book by Phyllis Gates, who was briefly married to Hudson in the 1950s. The film recounts (in fan-magazine fashion) Hudson's rise from truck driver to movie star, then spends the last twenty minutes or so on his death from AIDS. Only a few of Hudson's personal and professional associates are depicted in the film: Daphne Ashbrook is seen as Phyllis Gates, Andrew Robinson (who'd portrayed Liberace in an earlier TV movie!) plays Hudson's manager Henry Wilson, and Don Galloway portrays John Frankenheimer, who directed Hudson in Seconds. Rock Hudson himself is played by Thomas Ian Griffith, who came from obscurity and promptly went back after this film was completed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Ian Griffith, William R. Moses, (more)
- 1990
In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason listens to the pleas of a 13-year-old girl and helps her father who was falsely accused of murdering a gambler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1989
A lunatic who has confessed to killing four homosexual men insists that he is innocent of a fifth, similar murder. If this is true, then there is a copycat killer on the loose--and armed with inside information known only to an elite LAPD task squad. Investigating, Hunter (Fred Dryer) narrows the list of suspects to two of his own colleagues: a homophobic sergeant (played by veteran B-movie heavy Bill Smith) and a closeted gay cop. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1989
At the recommendation of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), a young editor heads to Montana, there to organize the unpublished manuscript of the last novel written by a celebrated, recently deceased author. Unable to make heads or tails of the author's notes, the editor concocts a readable volume from his own imagination. Just as he is poised to tell the world that he, and not the late author, penned the novel, the editor is murdered--and from here on in, it's up to Jessica to solve the crime. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Zalman King wrote and directed this soft-core Harlequinesque Romance that plays like Tennessee Williams meets Fredericks of Hollywood. April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn) is the daughter of a powerful senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern family. April is engaged to marry the granite-handsome Chad Douglas Fairchild (Martin Hewitt) within a few days. But Chad has gone to Tuscaloosa to sign papers for their condo and the rest of the family has headed off to the lake, leaving April in the house alone with nothing to do except take long and languid showers--until she sets her eyes on the pecs of carnival roustabout Perry (Richard Tyson). Soon the two are making tasteful love in every nook and cranny of April's mansion. Unfortunately for the two sexual athletes, April's grandmother (Louise Fletcher) has assigned the local sheriff (Burl Ives) to keep an eye on her. And an eye on her he keeps, so that during the wedding ceremony, he has quite a story to tell. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, (more)
- 1988
In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must prove that the man whose murder conviction he upheld when he was an Appellate Court judge is really innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1984
In this thriller, based on a novel by Caroline B. Crosney, an insane escaped convict evades cops by hijacking a car and holding the female driver and her baby hostage. He then takes off through rural South Carolina. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Embraced by the Baby Boomer generation and spawning countless imitators, the sophomore film of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan was a successful comedy-drama with a best selling soundtrack of Motown hits. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion of former college pals gathered for the funeral of one of their own, a suicide victim named Alex. As the weekend unfolds, the friends catch up with each other, play the music of their youth, reminisce, smoke marijuana, and pair off with each other in unexpected combinations. Included are Michael (Jeff Goldblum), a smarmy journalist; Sam (Tom Berenger), a TV star; Karen (JoBeth Williams), unhappily married and pining for Sam; Nick (William Hurt), a drug-addicted Vietnam vet; and Meg (Mary Kay Place), a single career woman who wants a child. Joining the group is Alex's bizarre girlfriend Chloe (Meg Tilly), who finds new love with Nick. As they learn to deal with the truth about the loss of idealism in their lives and Alex's sad demise, the friends find their bond still intact, while the marriage of Harold and Sarah is healed in an unusual way that's in sync with the era of their youth. Cut from the release of The Big Chill (1983) was the brief appearance of young actor Kevin Costner as Alex. Kasdan promised Costner a role in his next picture, which turned out to be a star-making part in Silverado (1985). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, (more)
- 1982
- R
This sex-filled exploitation favorite has bounced from one double-billing to the next, undergoing numerous re-titlings (including Bride of Satan and Fury of the Succubus) in the process. It stars Lana Wood as a frustrated housewife who begins having nightly trysts with a tall, dark stranger... who, of course, turns out to be Satan himself. Thus begins her descent into dementia, as she begins to distance herself even further from her husband and kids (if that were possible) while painting portraits of her enigmatic new lover. For reasons never detailed in the film, there is a fully-functional guillotine in the cellar, and it's only a matter of time before heads begin to roll. Assorted devil-worshippers pop up out of nowhere for a confusing climax. Not a bad little time-waster, this film relies more on nudity than scares, with a dollop of gore for good measure. Britt Ekland fans be warned: despite her prominent billing in the credits, her role barely amounts to a walk-on. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Britt Ekland, Lana Wood, (more)
- 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
- 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
The most surprising aspect of the made-for-TV Ski Lift to Death is that it wasn't produced by Irwin Allen. Two ski-lift gondolas derail, hanging perilously close to destruction. Among the passengers are a former gangster and the hit man assigned to kill him. Also on board are a pair of champion skiiers who've been linked in a publicity-generated romance. Real-life ski champ Suzy Chaffee plays Maureen; the rest of the cast includes such TV stalwarts as Deborah Raffin, Howard Duff, Don Galloway, Don Johnson, Veronica Hamel and Clu Gulager. Ski Lift to Death was originally telecast March 3, 1978. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1977
Cover Girls isn't really a Charlie's Angels rip-off. Honest! Look: there are three girls in Charlie's Angels and only two girls (Jayne Kennedy and Cornelia Sharpe) in Cover Girls. Besides, the Angels are private eyes, working on behalf of boss John Forsythe; the Cover Girls are fashion models, doubling as secret agents on behalf of boss Don Galloway. Just because Cover Girls premiered on May 18, 1977, six months into Charlie's Angels' fabulous first season, doesn't mean that there was any conscious copycatting. Does it? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jayne Kennedy, Cornelia Sharpe, (more)
- 1976
The Gemini Man (Ben Murphy) is a guy who was exposed to a laboratory mix-up that gave him the power to become invisible at will. With such a skill he's appointed a dangerous task that brings him into contact with a crazed scientist who's involved in a deadly scheme. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1974
The eighth and final season of Ironside finds wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) continuing to purge San Francisco of criminals and murderers with the help of his assistants Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway), policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur) and aspiring lawyer Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) who this season not only passes his California bar exam, but also takes a wife named Diana (Joan Pringle). However, Ironside and company don't have much time to pursue justice: the season ends after a mere thirteen episodes. The show gets on the road with the two-part season opener "Raise the Devil" which features what, for Ironside, constitutes an all-star guest cast: Dane Clark, Bill Bixby and Caroline Jones. Other guest performers worth noting this year include Mike Farrell, just before M*A*S*H, in "Cross Doublecross"; former Batman stalwarts Cesar Romero and Alan Napier in The Lost Cotillion; Jim Hutton, on the eve of his stint as TV's Ellery Queen, in "The Far Side of the Fence"; and radio personality Casey Kasem as a lab tech in "Fall of an Angel". Though the final episode telecast on NBC was "The Faded Image", there were still three additional episodes in the Ironside manifest. "A Matter of Life of Death", "The Organizer" and "The Rolling Y" would not be broadcast until the series went into off-network syndication. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside shows no signs of slowing down his battle against crime, corruption and persecution in Season Seven of Ironside. Likewise not slacking in their duties are the members of Ironside's team: police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), aspiring lawyer Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell), and feisty policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur). The episode that received the most attention this season was the two-parter "Downhill All the Way", an acting tour de force for star Burr as Ironside pretends to quit the force and become a down-and-out drunkare in order to weed out a killer. As for the guest stars, the viewer is treated to the thespic expertise of such performers as Ross Martin, Kim Darby, Judy Carne, and young, pre-Cagney and Lacey Sharon Gless. With the ratings for Ironside diminishing with each successive season, the producers tried to pump new life and viewer interest in the property at the very end of Season Seven by offering a brace of episodes designed as pilots for possible spinoff series. The first of these is "Riddle at 24,000", starring no less than Desi Arnaz as unconventional doctor Juan Domingo, an intriguing project that unfortunately didn't sell. Much more successful was the second proposed spinoff featuring a no-nonsense female police chief named Amy Prentiss, which resulted in a brief but memorable series stint for guest star Jessica Walter. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
Season Six of Ironside opens with the two-part "Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown, in which the title character (played by Don Galloway) is felled by a sniper's bullet and faces the same fate--permanent confinement in a wheelchair--as his boss, private detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr). The second half of this episode was originally shown as part of another NBC-Universal series The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, with that show's stars E.G. Marshall, David Hartman and Stephen Young comprising the surgical team which operates on the unfortunate Brown. In other developments, Ironside's bodyguard-aide Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell), who has come a long way from his street-punk origins, graduates from law school; and the Ironside team's newest member, rookie cop Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur), has overcome a lot of the awkwardness which impeded her effectiveness in the previous season. Guest stars of note this season include Hollywood legend Myrna Loy in a rare TV appearance; onetime Star Trek regular Nichelle Nichols; The Addams Family's former "Lurch", Ted Cassidy; Geraldine Brooks, who ironically had appeared in the Ironside pilot as the culprit who crippled Ironside with a well-aimed bullet; and up-and-comers Loretta Swit, William Devane, Dabney Coleman, and Cheryl Ladd, here billed under her maiden name of Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
This Child Is Mine, a 90-minute videotaped TV drama written by Richard De Roy, stars two popular soap opera performers: Rosemary Prinz (All My Children) and Robin Strasser (Another World). The scene is a courtroom, where a tense custody battle is in progress. The natural mother and foster mother of a child fight tooth and nail over possession. What starts as a standard "Day in Court" affair quickly escalates into a heart-pounding melodrama. The pilot for a never-sold series, This Child Is Mine was originally telecast December 7, 1972 as an "ABC Afternoon Playbreak." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
Lee Grant plays Mrs. Schuster, wife of a recently murdered Manhattan cop. Lt. Schuster died under a cloud, with intimations that the killing was orchestrated by criminals with whom the Lieutenant was chummy. Mrs. Schuster is forced to vindicate her husband, and to try to emotionally reassemble herself. The film is sustained by the powerhouse performance of Lee Grant, backed by such strong supporting players as Jack Warden, Paul Burke and Eartha Kitt. Lieutenant Schuster's Wife is one of the most convincing and compelling directorial jobs of TV-movie workhorse David Lowell Rich. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
