Gayle Hunnicutt Movies

Long before establishing herself as a top-rank actress of the British stage and screen, American-born Gayle Hunnicutt did starlet duty on The Beverly Hillbillies. In "The Badger Game," Hunnicutt and Leon Ames are cast as Emaline Foxhall and her "father" the Colonel , a pair of con artists posing as Ozark hillbillies. Convincing Jed that they're his neighbors from back home, the two sharpsters intend to place Jed in a compromising position, then use photographic "evidence" for blackmail purposes. Part one of a two-part story arc, "The Badger Game" first aired on October 5, 1966. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This biker gang exploitation picture from director Roger Corman and co-writer and editor Peter Bogdanovich earned critical respect in Europe for its gritty documentary style. Peter Fonda stars as Heavenly Blues, the leader of a wild, roving band of leather-clad bikers. When his best friend Loser (Bruce Dern) is injured in the midst of an attempt to steal a police motorcycle, the boys kidnap their debilitated buddy from the hospital, raping a black nurse and trashing the place in the process. Blues and his friends believe they've set Loser free, but he dies not long after the escape. Staging a funeral and drunken orgy in a small town church, the gang flees is set upon by the enraged locals, leaving Blues alone to face the law. Nancy Sinatra and a then-pregnant Diane Ladd co-star; a number of real-life Hell's Angels were hired to appear in scenes, adding authenticity to the picture. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the murderer -- who turns out to be the tycoon's business partner. The detective is incarcerated for his crime, but is then released. Upon his parole he discovers that the family his abandoned him and that he was framed for the death. He eventually confronts the conspirators who end up killing each other during a struggle in their offices. This frees the detective who takes off to look for better assignments. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a severe case of ailurophobia -- an irrational fear of all cats. In order for their plot to succeed, the pair must first eliminate Aunt Danny's legions of feline companions...which turns out to be much more difficult than expected, thanks to a sly, deadly counter-plot. Despite some bizarre cues hinting at some sort of evil intelligence on the part of the cats, the suggested horror elements are downplayed in favor of a substandard psycho-thriller. Sadly, Stefano's script is the film's greatest failure, littered with silly dialogue and plot holes a mile wide. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

Based on the novel The Love Machine, by Jacqueline Susann, this movie concerns the machinations, in the boardroom and in the bedroom, of a group of people--from the chairman of the board down--who are involved in network television. Through his own guile and the sponsorship of his mistress (Dyan Cannon), the wife of the chairman of the board, a lowly television newsman (John Phillip Law) becomes the head of the network in a very short time. He leaves behind very few friends on his climb to the top, however, and he will need some. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this grim drama, a college student remains passive as his friend commits suicide causing his friends to blame him for the death. Eventually he too, kills himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This spy thriller from future Death Wish (1974) director Michael Winner stars Burt Lancaster as the enigmatic Cross, a CIA agent who has hired a government assassin, Jean Laurier (Alain Delon), to kill an Arab terrorist. Once they return home, Laurier is arrested by his superior, McLeod (John Colicos), who wants to know why Cross is still alive, as Laurier was ordered to kill him as well. Laurier doesn't think that Cross is guilty of the crime, but he relents and agrees to carry out the contract for a higher price. Cross, suspected of selling secrets to the Soviets, learns that his life is in danger and flees to Vienna, where he is aided by a former comrade-in-arms from WWII, the sympathetic KGB agent Sergei Zharkov (Paul Scofield). When Cross learns that his wife (Joanne Linville) has been murdered by McLeod, he returns to the U.S. and kills him, leading to a bloody final confrontation with a reluctant Laurier, who is shocked to discover that his lover (Gayle Hunnicutt) is in league with Cross. Scorpio (1973) was the writing debut of David W. Rintels, who went on to author several critically respected made-for-TV films. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

The Man Without A Face is an archvillain, comic-book style, and in this French action movie, he proves to be a worthy foe. The villain has an extensive crime network, including a retreat under the streets of Paris. He has discovered that the Knights Templar, outlawed many hundreds of years before, still exist as a secret society, and that they have access to a hidden treasure of gold. He wants it, and it is up to the daughter of a murdered Templar and a few none-too competent policemen to prevent him from getting it. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this thriller, a two married detectives work together to nab the killer who stalks their client. The film is also titled "K Is for Killing." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

The eyewitness to a mob killing, a corrupt businessman, is pursued by the murderers. ~ All Movie Guide

In this violent actioner, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his little sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for vengeance that he casts protocol to the winds and begins using his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that his "innocent" kid sister was involved in the theft of a valuable string of pearls and that she had been hanging around an appalling assortment of creeps and weirdos. The story was originally titled Blazing Magnum. The new title has nothing to do with the film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Playwright Frank D. Gilroy wrote and directed this subtle, down-to-earth and autobiographical depiction of an American screenwriter in Paris who befriends his chauffeur and has an affair with a British aristocrat. Wayne Rogers is Michael Moore, an American scenario writer who has traveled to Paris for the first time in his life in order to serve as a script doctor on a troubled film script. Upon arriving at the airport, he's met by his driver Jean-Paul Barbet (Jack Lenoir Gilroy's real-life chauffeur), who has served time in prison for manslaughter. Michael is assured that his chauffeur will be immediately replaced with a driver without a prison record, but Michael lets him stay, and the two become fast friends. All is going along swimmingly until Michael meets his hotel neighbor, attractive upper-class British woman Susan Townsend (Gayle Hunnicutt). ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide