Steve Harris Movies
- 1967
This New York art film is almost totally comprised of still photographs. It chronicles the hip and colorful life in SoHo during the 1960s. The filmmaker also comments and makes observations about the issues and cultural icons of the day; included are his insights concerning the underground film movement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- George Morgan
- 1966
Having trouble finding work thanks to his criminal record, Tony Polk (Steve Harris) finally lands a job going door to door and dispensing free gifts to viewers of a bizarre game show called "The Bad Buccaneer." This assignment requires him to wear a pirate costume, complete with a hook-shaped artificial hand. Unfortunately, while taking over a fellow worker's customer list, Polk is accused of murdering one of his customers, Grace Knapp (Kathleen Crowley), with that selfsame hook. In his efforts to defend Tony, Perry Mason discovers that the dead woman was a blackmailer--and that one of her victims was a performer on "The Bad Buccaneer"! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1965
Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart) is aboard the newly-launched submarine Neptune, a sister-ship to the Seaview, for her shakedown cruise. The ship detects the presence of an unusual radioactive ore and the admiral and crewman Fowler go on a dive to investigate. Soon after leaving the ship, they see it approached, engulfed, and destroyed by a gigantic, jellyfish-like coelenterate. Making for the surface, the two men find themselves alone in mid-ocean on a sea filled with smaller versions of the same creature, which carry a painful and poisonous sting. Nelson makes a valiant effort to keep them both alive but Fowler succumbs during a storm that sweeps the area. Meanwhile, the loss of the Neptune results in an ocean-wide search for survivors under the command of Admiral Jiggs Starke (Harold J. Stone), an old friend of Nelson's but also a fierce martinet of a man. He gets the Seaview temporarily commissioned into the regular navy and comes aboard, intending to use it as his flagship -- but he immediately butts heads with the sub's captain, Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), over the latter's more modern approach to command. While they square off over their philosophical differences, Nelson is rescued at sea. The sub makes a stop to pick him up, because he wants to return to the scene of the wreck and find the coelenterate before it can attack any other ships. Crane can't help notice, however, that Nelson is acting very strangely, at times even irrationally. His behavior -- which seems to match the symptoms that the ship's doctor (Richard Bull) has connected with fatal radiation poisoning derived from those smaller jellyfish -- and Stark's interference with Crane's command of the Seaview come to a head just as the sub's balast controls are jammed, and the coelentarate starts stalking the Seaview. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
- 1964
In Bayou country, Kimble (David Janssen) hitches a ride with Hanes McClure (Warren Oates), an obnoxious braggart who happens to be wanted by the authorities of a variety of crimes. Local police captain Charles Shafter (Philip Abbott) is grateful when Kimble subsequently helps him capture McClure, but he still is duty-bound to hold Kimble until Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) arrives. Complicating matters is a mixed-up kid named Tad Thompson (Dee Pollock), who idolizes Hanes and helps him bust out of jail. Though willing to take advantage of the jailbreak himself, Kimble realizes that he must prevent Tad from following in McClure's crooked footsteps. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1964
Marlyn Mason guest-stars as Tessa Caldwell, who is accidentally blinded in a hunting accident caused by Joe Cartwright. More out of pity and guilt than love, Joe offers to marry the girl. Eventually, she regains her sight-but her covetous father (Denver Pyle), anxious to see his daughter wed to a wealthy Cartwright, decides to keep Tessa's recovery a secret. Written by Tom Seller, "Bullet for a Bride" was first shown on February 16, 1964. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, (more)
- 1963
Written by mystery master Rod Serling, The Yellow Canary stars Pat Boone as insufferable singing idol Andy Paxton. Barbara Eden plays his wife Lissa, who is fed up with her husband's egotistical attitude and is ready to leave him. When their baby son is kidnapped, Andy Paxton refuses to enlist the help of the police. He still does not cooperate even after three people are murdered in crimes apparently related to the kidnapping. Finally, acting on his own, he agrees to pay $200,000 in ransom, but the kidnapper never shows up at an arranged meeting. In desperation, the singer finally gets more involved in tracking down the kidnapper. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, (more)
- 1962
This Untouchables episode is the first of two pilot films for the proposed spinoff series The Seekers, starring Barbara Stanwyck as Lt. Agnes "Aggie" Stewart of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau. The story is set in motion when gangster Charlie Radick (John Larch) learns that he is dying of leukemia. Summoning Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), Charlie offers to provide evidence against his fellow hoodlums. There's just one catch: Radick will turn "fink" only if Ness agrees to locate the mobster's missing daughter Margaret (Peggy Ann Garner) for one last reunion. It is at this point in the proceedings that Aggie Stewart enters the picture, along with her loyal secretary June (Virginia Capers) and her favorite detective Frank Benton (Edward Asner, curiously billed as "Asher" in the closing credits). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
This is a routine drama about Leo Mack (Frankie Vaughn) a good-for-nothing, aspiring actor who goes to Hollywood and then ruins one life after another. Based on a stage play by the late Garson Kanin and adapted by his brother, scripters Michael Kanin and his wife Fay Kanin, the story is one long series of disasters wrought by Leo. Alleviated by several pop songs, Leo first wrecks the relationships between five young men who had been living equitably together in a bachelor pad. He goes on to mess up his budding romance with Ursula (Juliet Prowse) and Anne (Martha Hyer) and continues in that way until fame is almost certain. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Juliet Prowse, Frankie Vaughan, (more)
- 1960
Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few generations of Alaskan settlers between the first World War and the granting of statehood in 1959. Zeb (Richard Burton) is a local despot whose tough personality dominates the region. He is openly bigoted against the Inuit, and his greedy nature has led him to reject the woman he really loves to marry another with plenty of money. Thor (Robert Ryan) starts out as Zeb's ally and friend, but due to their diametrically opposed natures, that friendship turns into an entrenched hatred. In this unpredictable, harsh wilderness Zeb discovers that he ultimately cannot control his daughter and irony of ironies, he and Thor end up connected through the marriage of a son and daughter. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, (more)
