David Bailey Movies
- 1999
A newspaper columnist is murdered, thereby reopening a 20-year-old homicide case. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) track down the central character in the original case, who was a juvenile at the time. This leads to a tricky dilemma for the D.A.'s office -- a dilemma eagerly pounced upon by the defense attorney. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
A young aspiring professional basketball player must make some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle Lee is a talented basketball player in high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. He must decide whether to follow his good-hearted coach or Birdie, the local gangster. Kyle is also feeling resentment for the security guard his mother is falling for. The coach also wants the guard to play, but due to the tragic death of a friend, the guard cannot bear the thought of playing again. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Duane Martin, Leon, (more)
- 1992
Law & Order launched its third season (and its new Wednesday-night time slot) with a complex murder mystery involving a "high-fashion" photographer who sidelines as a pimp. Found murdered in his studio, the photographer has left behind a rather sizeable address book, crammed with the names and phone numbers of his models. As investigating detective Logan (Chris Noth) and Cerreta (Paul Sorvino) discover, virtually every one of the ladies in the dead man's "little black book" had ample motive to knock him off. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1989
The Hotel Copacabana is about to host members of the tobacco industry for a convention of some sort. It is unclear why they have chosen this particular ill-managed and slightly run-down hotel. Perhaps the odd scientific studies by the hotel's owner, which seek to prove that tobacco is harmless, are the reasons for the choice. Shortly before the convention is to begin, Isabel Purvis (Mabel Seldes), a rather starchy and quite suspicious tobacco industry p.r. representative checks into the hotel to make sure that all the necessary arrangments for the convention have been made. The bumbling management and incompetent hotel staff make her stay a memorable one. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marian Seldes, David Canary, (more)
After Billy Robinson (Robert Krantz) finds success as a professional motorcycle racer, he returns to his hometown where he faces adulation and jealousy as a result of his success. When a local motorcycle race is put together, Billy must compete against his best friend (Don Michael Paul) for the prize. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don Michael Paul, Kathleen York, (more)
- 1973
- PG
Set on a coastal resort in California, the thrills in this mystery begin as a strange killer chops up three blonde beauties forcing the house detective to work overtime to figure out that the killer is right under his nose. The film was shot in "Duo-Vision," a technique that splits the screen and allows two different images to be projected simultaneously. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1971
Ironside (Raymond Burr) invests in a play staged by an avant-garde theater troupe. When one of the actresses dies of a heroin overdose during rehearsal, the Chief takes it upon himself to find the killer, prevent further murders--and, incidentally, protect his investment! Featured in the cast is Sally Struthers, whose career was then just taking off thanks to her exposure on the new CBS sitcom All in the Family. This episode was filmed at the old Pasadena Playhouse, onetime training ground of series star Raymond Burr. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1970
This experimental film concerns a young man who refuses to give back to society after taking so much. The camera visits a slaughterhouse for pigs and films a mother dialing a telephone in the family home. Music is provided by Speedy Kean and Pete Townshend. Prior to its screening at the 1970 New York Film Festival, this very unimportant 58-minute project had the second half of its title (Scorpio Rising) become the subject of a legal protest by Kenneth Anger, who claimed (correctly) that he already had rights to it, based on his 1964 documentary with that name. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Brownjohn, Jean Shrimpton, (more)
- 1969
- R
A married couple struggles to adjust when the husband's brain is transplanted into the skull of a black man. David Rowe (Raymond St. Jacques) is the white district attorney who must now live life as a black man. His wife Margaret (Susan Oliver) tries to deal with the transformation of her husband's appearance as David feels the stings of racial prejudice for the first time. Sheriff Webb (Leslie Nielsen) is the local lawman who resents the district attorney, but after the sheriff kills his own black mistress, he must rely on David for his legal defense. Margaret has trouble being intimate with the man she knows is still her husband. David investigates the murder of the young black woman as his superiors, friends and family treat him differently. Although the premise is implausible, excellent acting helps make things more believable. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver, (more)
- 1967
In this comical spaghetti western, a companion film to Seven Guns for the MacGregors, two immigrant families move to Texas during the 1800s. The MacGregors hail from Scotland while their neighbors the Donovans come from Ireland. The two families frequently engage in rivalry, but it is all in fun as all six MacGregor boys are engaged to the Donovan girls. The trouble begins during an engagement party for Bailey and Flori. The festivities are interrupted by an outlaw gang which steals the trunk containing all the MacGregor's money. Naturally the boys, including Bailey, take off in hot pursuit. Flori, afraid her beloved may be tempted by the outlaw's wanton women, follows them and ends up taken hostage. Bailey tries to save her but ends up captured also. Now his brothers, aided by helpful natives must save them both. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Bailey, Leo Anchoriz, (more)
Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the screen. MacMurray plays Lem Siddons, a 1930s musician who decides to settle down in a small Midwestern town. Here he meets pretty bank teller Vida Downey (Vera Miles), who bemoans the fact that the local boys have no organized activities with which to occupy their time. Volunteering to be a scoutmaster, Lem begins a local scout troop. There are some tense moments when banker Ralph Hastings (Elliot Reid) demands that Lem's scouts vacate their headquarters, but Reid's feisty millionaire Aunt Hetty (Lillian Gish) comes to the rescue. The film's throughline is the regeneration of local "tough kid" Whitey (Kurt Russell), who, after joining the Boy Scouts, straightens out and matures into a solid citizen. The film's lachrymose climax is kept "honest" by the sincere underplaying of Fred MacMurray. Though lambasted by reviewers, Follow Me, Boys! struck a responsive chord with filmgoers, to the tune of a $5.5 million box-office take. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, (more)
- 1965
Darrin and Endora are arguing again, this time over how Samantha should celebrate Halloween. Unable to win her argument in a fair fashion, Endora gets even with Darrin by slowly transforming him into a werewolf. Naturally, this causes no end of confusion for Darrin's boss, Larry Tate, and their new client, Jack Rogers (Jack Collins). Written by Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Freeman, "Trick or Treat" appropriately aired on October 28, 1965. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, (more)
- 1965
In this charming fantasy, a young lad is heading home from a hard day of playing hooky from school when he catches a frog in a pond. As he continues toward his home, he also encounters a kindly leprechaun who gives him seven magical coins with the power to grant him seven wishes. The boy then journeys through an enchanted wood where puppets come to life and a gypsy girl becomes a princess. He then discovers that his "frog" is really a spell-bound knight. Using a wish, the boy frees the knight who takes the lad over the rainbow to his home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1964
Written by Harvey Bullock, "Back to Nature" starts off calmly enough when Andy takes Opie and several other youngsters on an overnight camping trip. Along for the ride are Barney and Gomer, who in trying to prove themselves to be expert outdoorsmen promptly get lost in the woods. Not wishing to embarrass Barney, Andy helps his two pals get back to civilization without them ever suspecting that they're being helped. Originally telecast May 11, 1964, "Back to Nature" was the final episode of The Andy Griffith Show'sfourth season, though not the last one to be shown. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1964
Hoping to gain the funds to afford a pony, Opie and his friends sign up to sell the wares of the Miracle Salve Company door to door. Alas, not only are customers unreceptive, the salve is no good anyway. When the Miracle people refuse to release Opie from his contract, Barney tries to save the day with another of his master disguises-only to be defeated by his ingenuous "partner" Gomer Pyle (alias Opie Taylor Sr.!) Written by John Whedon, "A Deal Is a Deal" was originally telecast on April 6, 1964. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1964
Opie invites his new friend Trey Bowden (David A. Bailey) for dinner at the Taylor house. Trey immediately bonds with Andy-so much so that Opie becomes extremely jealous. To teach Opie a lesson about sharing, Andy is obliged to exploit the fragile ego of his own pal Barney. This episode was written by Harvey Bullock and directed by actor Richard Crenna, who'd just finished his own starring TV series The Real McCoys. "Andy and Opie's Pal" first aired on January 13, 1964. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1963
From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly cheery Dale Carnegie (How To Win Friends and Influence People), his lift-yourself-by-your-bootstraps message of good cheer was perceived as unorthodox by many within the churches he grew up in. After many decades of preaching his message, summed up in his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking, he was enshrined as a sort of secular saint. His influence reached to Presidents and corporate heads, and his name became synonymous with a kind of extraverted wholesomeness which has long since vanished. This biopic traces his career in the most respectful possible manner. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don Murray, Diana Hyland, (more)
- 1960
Based rather loosely on a novel by Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans concerns a writer (played by George Peppard) who moves to San Francisco and falls in with a crowd of beatniks after falling in love with a French girl (Leslie Caron). The woman was black, not French, in Kerouac's novel, only the most obvious of the many areas in which this strays from the source material. Jazz great Gerry Mulligan has a small role as a saxophone-playing priest; jazz fans will also want to watch for cameos by Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, and Art Farmer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leslie Caron, George Peppard, (more)
