Jerome Coopersmith Movies
- 1983
Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the story focuses on an attorney (Lauren Hutton) who has witnessed a murder. She is unable to convince anyone of the truth, though a young doctor (Ben Murphy) wants to believe her. ~ John Bush, Rovi
Made up to look like a septuagenarian, Henry Winkler plays Benedict Slade, a Scrooge-like miser living in a tiny New England town during the Depression. Slade goes Scrooge one further by repossessing items from a poor farm couple and an orphanage on Christmas eve. While reading a copy of Dickens' The Christmas Carol in his home, Slade is visited by his own set of Spirits Past, Present and Future, including his Hell-dwelling late business partner (Kenneth Pogue). Lensed in Canada, this made-for-TV film premiered the week before Christmas of 1979. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1977
A New York reporter investigates crime and corruption. ~ Rovi
- 1974
- G
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When a local Junctionville newspaper prints an insulting letter about Santa Claus, Joshua Trundle and Father Mouse set out on a mission to let Old St. Nick know that he's truly appreciated, and convince him not to skip over their town this coming Christmas Eve. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1973
Originally made as a television pilot for a series that never panned out, Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside focuses on two New York cops (Hal Linden, Tony LoBianco). The pair work together to thwart a gang of diamond smugglers, with one going undercover while the other remains on the outside. ~ John Bush, Rovi
- 1973
Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) cover the length and breadth of the Bay Area to track down three escaped convicts. The escapees have embarked on a murder spree, wiping out anyone who gets in their way at the behest of the sadistic outlaw leader who kills for the thrill of it. The detectives' mission is made doubly difficult by a potential witness who refuses to get involved--and whose silence costs the lives of a helpless elderly couple. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1973
Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) are obliged to track down a perpetrator who under normal circumstances might have been the heroine of the story. Refusing to believe that her baby was stillborn, young mother Barbara Talmadge (Kity Winn) goes on a desperate search for her child, who has been spirited away by a crooked adoption agency. By the time the hapless Barbara catches up with the unwitting couple who have adopted her baby, she has already committed murder--and is willing to kill again if necessary! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1962
D-Day has come and gone, and the men of King Company are advancing ever deeper into Nazi-held France as Combat! begins its first season. The current assignment facing Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) and his squad is to locate a hidden German gun emplacement somewhere along the Vire River. The squad's only hope for success--and survival--would seem to rest in the hands of a curiously likeable German deserter (Albert Paulsen)...but can he really be trusted? This episode was written by Richard Matheson, using the pseudonym "Logan Swanson". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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