Steven Rogers Movies
- 1968
Biker-flick entrepreneur Joe Solomon used the profits from his first three independent efforts to form his own company, Fanfare Productions. The second film in the Solomon trio was Angels From Hell -- not to be confused with his other efforts, Hell's Angels on Wheels and Run, Angel, Run. Tom Stern plays a Vietnam vet whose wartime experiences have soured him on the Establishment. As a form of protest, the disgruntled vet organizes the biggest, meanest, ugliest biker gang in human history. Five-hundred strong, the Angels From Hell descend upon a small town to exact vengeance on the redneck sheriff who brutally killed one of the bikers in the first reel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Stern, Arlene Martel, (more)
- 1966
Directed by versatile standup comedian Lenny Weinrib, Wild Wild Winter is more palatable in its comic scenes than its musical interludes. Essentially a snowbound imitation of American-International's Beach Party series, the film stars such passing fancies of the 1960s as Gary Clarke, Chris Noel and Les Brown, Jr. The plot: Clarke poses as a millionaire to impress Noel, she finds out, everybody lives happily ever after. The musical acts include Jay and the Americans, The Beau Brummels, Dick and Dee Dee and Jackie and Gayle. Man, this sure is a swingin' snow-ball. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gary Clarke, Chris Noel, (more)
- 1966
In this psychedelic exploitation comedy, an air-headed bombshell of an actress is sent to a rest home by her producer. This facility is managed by a psycho shrink who slips acid to his patients and listens to their darkest fantasies. Among his other victims are an effete fashion designer, a movie star, a midget, a writer, an obese woman, and the man who made the film, Albert Zugsmith. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Strauss, Del Moore, (more)
- 1965
Ski Party is essentially a beach-party flick with snow and capri pants replacing the surf and bikinis. Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman decide to crash a girls-only party at a skiing lodge. You know what happens next--and boy, are Avalon and Hickman a sight in lipstick and high heels. Avalon's usual vis-a-vis Annette Funicello has a mere guest role here, allowing Deborah Walley and Yvonne Craig to supply the pulchritude. All that's really missing are the usual Beach Party guest stars: Robert Q. Lewis is hardly a fair exchange for Buster Keaton and Don Rickles. One of the songs in Ski Party was co-written by no less than Marvin Hamlisch. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, (more)
- 1965
The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Or so the members of the Alpha Beta sorority who are trying to raise $10,000 during Spring Break to save their sorority house believe. When the Fab Four do not show, the ingenious girls must create a passable imitation by imitating them themselves. The Beach Boys also appear in this film with an especially choice scene of Brian Wilson singing around a campfire. Songs in this musical comedy include: "Leave Me Alone," "It's Gotta Be You," "I Don't Want to Be a Loser" (sung by Lesley Gore), "Lonely Sea, La Bamba" (performed by the Crickets), "Girls On the Beach," and "Little Honda" (sung by the Beach Boys). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Martin West, Noreen Corcoran, (more)
- 1962
The first season of Combat! follows the exploits of King Company, a platoon of American GI's making their way through occupied Europe in the months just following D-day. In addition to series stars Vic Morrow (as Sgt. Chip Saunders) and Rick Jason (as Lt. Gil Hanley), the 32 hour-long episodes feature a pair of regulars unique to season one: Steven Rogers as medical aidman Doc Walton, and legendary nightclub comic Shecky Greene as wisecracking wheeler-dealer Pvt. Braddock. Highlights include the debut episode, written by prolific science-fiction specialist Richard Matheson under the pseudonym "Logan Swanson"; and the later episode "Hill 256", in which King Company's most reckless GI, Private Kirby (Jack Hogan) is brought up on charges of cowardice under fire. And of course the season yields an impressive crop of guest stars, including Jeffrey Hunter, Howard Duff, Keenan Wynn, Frank Gorshin, Robert Culp, and future Mary Tyler Moore regular Ted Knight. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1962
The most successful of network television's many WWII dramatic series of the '60s, Combat!, ran for five seasons on ABC -- or roughly one year longer than the war lasted! Set in the months following D-Day, the weekly, hour-long series focused on King Company, a platoon of American GIs battling their way through Southern Europe, encountering action, adventure, humor, heartbreak and dozens of guest stars along the way. Throughout the series' run, King Company was headed by gritty, taciturn Sgt. Chip Saunders (Vic Morrow) and his superior officer, cool and courageous Lt. Gil Hanley (Rick Jason). Though several soldiers were attached to the platoon from one season to the next, the most enduring of the supporting players were Pierre Jalbert as Paul "Caje" Lemay, Jack Hogan as "Wild Man" Kirby, and Dick Peabody as PFC Littlejohn. Some of the better episodes were directed by such Hollywood heavyweights as Robert Altman and Burt Kennedy. Filmed in glorious black-and-white during its first four seasons -- the better to accommodate newsreel footage of actual wartime battles -- Combat! switched to color for its fifth and final season on the air. ~ All Movie Guide
