Lenore Kasdorf Movies
- 1974
This somewhat clunkily titled TV movie was an offshoot of producer Quinn Martin's series The FBI. Robert Foxworth plays Depression-era desperado Alvin Karpis, who for nearly five years eluded capture while committing bank robberies, kidnappings and murders. Karpis finally comes acropper when the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover (Harris Yulin) enters the case. Since this film was made long before Hoover became every filmmaker's favorite historical villain, he is depicted in shining-knight terms, a sharp contrast to the loathsome Karpis. Producer Martin had planned to produce six to nine additional TV-movies based on authentic FBI files, but dropped the project after only three entries. The FBI Vs. Alvin Karpis was first telecast November 8, 1974. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1974
Policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur) has a new man in her life: Jim Marshall (Gary Lockwood), a police detective who is long on charm but dangerously short on temper. Marshall's well-known propensity for violence catches up with him when he is suspected of two murders. Ironside (Raymond Burr) wants to know if Marshall's current dilemma is linked to a case he once pursued with his former partner--a private detective who is no saint himself. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1973
Kung Fu goes airborne in Fly Me. A bunch of martial-arts assassins board a passenger plane. En route, the thugs terrorize the passengers and insist that the flight be re-routed. They are thwarted by a resourceful stewardess, who knows a little something about Kung Fu herself. Another gem from Philippine auteur Cirio H. Santiago. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1973
Still at the stage of his career when he was specializing in cold-blooded villainy, Martin Sheen guests in this episode as Dean Knox, a charismatic young man who has several girlfriends at his beck and call. One of these, a "Plain Jane" named Kate Evans (Collin Wilcox-Horne, stumbles onto the fact that Dean is a bank robber. It now falls to Dean to sweet-talk the girl into keeping his secret--or to get rid of her if she won't play along. Famed female impersonator Jim Bailey makes a cameo appearance as himself. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1973
The centerpiece of this episode is an allegedly haunted house, where over the course of many years several people have mysteriously vanished. The niece of the San Francisco police commissioner makes a bet that she can spend one night in the house--whereupon she disappears as well. Investigating the phenomenon is Chief Ironside...or at least, he WAS investigating the pheonomenon before he also turns up missing! This convoluted tale of spectral intrigue was directed by Don Weis, whose previous forays into the "old dark house" genre include The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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