Barbara Luna Movies

McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) comes home to find that her young Latino cleaning woman has been murdered. Curiously, the woman's body shows signs of torture--torture that obviously occurred several years earlier. Investigating, Hunter (Fred Dryer) manages to link the murder to an outwardly respectable Los Angeles businessman with secret ties to a brutal Latin American dictatorship ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

When she's wrongfully convicted for participation in a drug-smuggling ring, a woman (Tracy Bregman) winds up in a women's prison, where she toughens up during several brutal encounters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide

Steve Forrest, in his last starring role before moving permanently to series television with S.W.A.T., plays James Devlin, a once-notorious gunman who is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Through an accident -- though the priest Father Alvaro (Rafael Campos) insists it was divine intervention -- he survives the hanging, barely, and is set free, a death certificate having been duly and lawfully issued by the doctor (William Bryant) who examined the "body." A near walking corpse, with an odd, dark fire in his eyes and a strangely low body temperature and heartbeat, Devlin doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life, however long that may be -- he's got enemies still walking around who would like to finish the job, and neither the doctor nor the priest can tell him how long he might live. Having already reformed before he was convicted, he goes the rest of the way and decides to spend what time he's been given, and use the skills he still has as a gunman and soldier of fortune, on the side of the angels, helping people who need it. He quickly finds himself up to his neck in a deadly land war between an ambitious mining tycoon (Cameron Mitchell) and a young widow (Sharon Acker) for the property she owns. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

This Western presents a fictionalized account of the ways in which the Gatling gun was created. Also chronicled are its tremendous effects on the great frontier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

With nothing to lose, terminally ill American agent Anton Malik (Morgan Sterne) has planted an detonation device in a nuclear reactor. It is up to the IMF to convince the embittered Malik to remove the device. Their strategy involves a dangerous waiting game which may result in the deaths of all concerned. Barbara Luna, who played the title role in the first-season Mission:Impossible episode "Elena," is here cast as IMF agent Wai Lee. Written by Paul Playdon, "Time Bomb" was originally telecast on December 14, 1969. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played -- also incredibly -- by Jack Palance. Guevara, a young Argentine doctor, proves his worth under the heat of guerilla warfare and, gaining the respect of his men, becomes the leader of a patrol. Castro is impressed by Guevara's tactics and strict discipline and makes him his chief advisor. When Castro defeats the Cuban dictator Batista after two years of fighting, Guevara, under Castro's nod, directs a series of massive reprisals -- but Guevara dreams of fermenting a worldwide revolution. After Castro backs down during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Guevara accuses Castro of being a Soviet dupe and leaves Cuba. Under disguise, Guevara lands in Bolivia, where he attempts to begin his dream of a worldwide peasant revolution, but the Bolivian poor will not follow his lead, and his band find themselves starving in the Bolivian jungle and pursued by the Bolivian army. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) goes undercover as a seaman when a Latin-American diplomat is killed on board a merchant ship. It turns out that a group of insurgents are planning a mutiny, the better to deliver weapons to guerilla warriors in a South American republic. To make certain that the mission succeeds, the leader of the rebels (Alejandro Rey) is playing upon the fragile emotions of countrywoman Barbara Reyes Barbara Luna). Featured as the ship's captain is veteran actor Henry Wilcoxon, best known for his work in such Cecil B. DeMille productions as Cleopatra and The Crusades. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

An unusual astronomical event wreaks havoc with the Enterprise's transporters, and as a result Captain Kirk, Lt. Uhura, Dr. McCoy and Scotty are thrust into an alternate universe. This episode of the original Star Trek series provides a funhouse mirror image of the usual world of the series, as the quartet of officers find themselves in a reality where the Enterprise is a warship for a ruthless, militaristic society that operates by force. Even their fellow crew members have changed, including Spock, who now not only schemes for command and expresses his power over the crew through force, but sports rather sinister-looking facial hair. Kirk and the others must attempt to fit in in this strange universe, without committing any evil deeds themselves, until they can find a way back to their home universe -- and discover what damage their darker selves may have done while there. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

Barbara Luna plays the title role in the Mission: Impossible episode "Elena." A longtime IMF agent, Eleana Del Barra has endangered several assignments with her inexplicably bizarre and erratic behavior. With the cold detachment of a true professional, Briggs must decide if Elena can be rehabilitated: If not, he will have to kill her. One of the few episodes in which Dan Briggs appears without the rest of the regular IMF team, "Elena" was written by Ellis Marcus, and was first telecast on December 10 1966. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the film. It begins on the deck of an ocean liner travelling from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven. The time is the 1930s, so close and yet so far from war. The cross-section of humanity on board includes ship's doctor Oscar Werner, Spanish political activist Simone Signoret, aging coquette Vivien Leigh, hedonistic baseball player Lee Marvin, philosophical Jew Heinz Ruhmann, a smattering of pro- and anti-Hitlerites (Jose Ferrer plays the nastiest and most vocal "pro") and young lovers George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley. Yes, it's Grand Hotel at sea, a feast for stargazers and an endurance test for those who aren't comfortable with non-stop speechmaking. Despite such lines as "What can the Nazis do? Kill all six million of us?," Ship of Fools manages to stay afloat throughout its 148 minutes. Michael Dunn was nominated for an Academy Award for his interlocutory characterization; the rest of the performances range from brilliant to merely filling up the room. Other Oscars were presented to cinematographer Ernest Lazslo and to the art-direction staff. Ship of Fools was adapted by Abby Mann from the novel by Katharine Ann Porter. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide