Dawn Lyn Movies

In his second Streets of San Francisco guest appearance, Pat Hingle is cast as Alfred Mossman, a man suffering from acute paranoia. Convinced that he is being stalked by a criminal, Mossman fires a gun at a man lurking outside his home--and ends up shooting a police officer by mistake. Mossman's clumsy efforts to cope with the shooting result in disastrous complications that not even Stone (Karl Malden) and Robbins (Richard Hatch) are able to prevent. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he continues his single handed crusade against organized crime. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This quirky psychological thriller involves a quintet of weird kids who stumble into the luxurious winter retreat of a wealthy patriarch (Gene Evans) and his arrogant guests. Little do the effete vacationers realize that the children are escapees from an asylum for the criminally insane -- a fact they realize only after their doom has been sealed. The only known film from director Sean MacGregor (released theatrically as People Toys), this is a seldom-seen but thoroughly satisfying horror sleeper with a sardonic sense of morality, taking great delight in knocking off Evans' circle of decadent snobs in graphic and innovative ways (one guest is joined in the bath by piranhas; another is pummeled with chains in a creepy still-photo montage). Known also to some drive-in venues as The Horrible House on the Hill, no doubt as part of a double-bill with Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly manipulative story of real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser. As played by Joe Don Baker, Pusser can either be regarded as a tireless champion of justice or a baseball-bat-wielding hooligan. But with some of the most scurrilous villains this side of a Republic serial as the main targets of Pusser's wrath, the audience cannot help but applaud the sheriff's strongarm methods. When the town baddies seek vengeance by killing Pusser's wife (Elizabeth Hartman), the you-know-what really hits the fan! Never resorting to subtlety, Walking Tall was such a winner that it spawned two sequels, a made-for-television movie, and a weekly TV series -- none of which were enjoyed by the real Buford Pusser, who had long since died under questionable circumstances. At the time of the film's theatrical release, the MPAA rating system was comparatively new, so the studio launched an ad campaign aimed at parents, letting them know that the R-rated Walking Tall contained violence and not sex, and therefore was good family entertainment. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This western drama from the team that made True Grit -- director Henry Hathaway, screenwriter Marguerite Roberts. and producer Hal B. Wallis -- stars Gregory Peck as a gunfighter who served a seven-year stretch in prison after his partner turned on him during a bank robbery. Shortly after his release, he's saddled with the responsibility of looking after a six-year-old girl while looking for his old sidekick with revenge on his mind. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Responding to a call from a concerned neighbor, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Martin Milner) come upon a particularly heinous example of child neglect. A six-year-old girl has been left alone in her home for several days--and her baby brother is dead, drowned in a bathtub. The question: Where is the mother...and what could she possibly have been thinking when she abandoned her children? Future Emergency! regular Ron Pinkard appears as a police photographer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide