Larry D. Mann Movies

The supremacy of Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is challenged by the equally corrupt (and far more dangerous) Boss J.W. Hickman (Larry D. Mann), who has set his sights on taking over Hazzard County. At the same time, Daisy (Catherine Bach) has fallen for a handsome hitchhiker named Earl Beckett (Phillip Brown)--little suspecting that Earl is Hickman's bomb-throwing chief henchman. This week's victims of Boss Hogg's "celebrity speed trap" are The Oak Ridge Boys, who sing "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" Originally slated to air on February 20, 1981, this episode was ultimately bumped forward to January 9. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Quincy (Jack Klugman) crosses over into "Columbo" territory as he tries to trip up a fiendishly clever murderer. When the wife of ambitious young executive Richard Yager (John Fink) dies of an apparent heart attack, Quincy wonders why an otherwise healthy woman would succumb in this fashion. Investigating, Quincy discovers that the victim's sister was Yager's previous wife--who also died under similar circumstances. The conclusion: Yager has been marrying for financial convenience and job advancement, then murdering each wife before moving on to the next. All Quincy needs now is the conclusive proof to stop Yager in his tracks...before he kills again. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Charles Durning guest stars as Hatch, a veteran safecracker whom undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) sent to prison. When a series of jewelry store robberies hits his district, Baretta realizes that there is only one man who can help him bring the perps to justice. Need it be added that the man in question is none other than the hapless Hatch? Former B-Western leading lady Peggy Stewart appears in a cameo role as a teacher. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Finding that he hasn't much time left to live, a man makes needed changes in his life with the help of an angel in this Disney feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer/gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hoping to avenge Luther's death, Johnny begins planning a "sting" -- an elaborate scam -- to destroy Lonnegan. He enlists the aid of "the greatest con artist of them all," Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), who pulls himself out of a drunken stupor and rises to the occasion. Hooker and Gondorff gather together an impressive array of con men, all of whom despise Lonnegan and wish to settle accounts on behalf of Luther. The twists and surprises that follow are too complex to relate in detail -- suffice to say that you can't cheat an honest man, and that you shouldn't accept everything at face value. The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early '70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this comedy, young Donald Beeman (Tom Smothers) becomes disillusioned with his business career and quits to become a tap-dancing magician. However, the grass isn't always greener, and Donald soon discovers that the money-oriented aspects of his former career are starting to creep into his new life. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

Photographer Christopher George is mistaken for an assassination target by paid killers. Since the actual victim-to-be is now safe, George cannot count on the protection of the authorities, so he takes it on the lam. He is sheltered by former girlfriend Judy Carne, who is kidnapped and threatened with death for her troubles. George decides to take matters in his own hands when it becomes impossible for him to separate the good guys from the bad. Made for television, Dead Men Tell No Tales would dearly love to be a Hitchcock film; it falls short of this goal, but is diverting fun all the same. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own everything. In this family comedy drama, it's too much for John McCanless (Brian Keith). He is a cranky old rancher and former gunslinger who has no intention of selling his beloved acres to some fool who wants to build a dam and flood them all. Going "gently into that good night" is not in the cards at all, and this latter-day Quixote prepares to wage a lonely battle against the namby-pamby modern world. His ranch hand, Paco (Alfonso Arau), an illegal immigrant, and his bemused daughter, Amanda (Michele Carey) do what they can to help. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Seeking the location of a New York repair shop for his broken antique watch, Oliver (Eddie Albert) gets in touch with his former secretary Carol Rush (Elaine Joyce), who is now working for a realtor. One thing leads to another, and by the end of the story Oliver and Carol have combined forces to save her boss from being bilked out of 10,000 dollars. This 170th and final episode of Green Acres was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series starring Elaine Joyce, Emmaline Henry, and Richard Deacon. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

While burrowing through a wall in their farm, Oliver and Lisa come across a very old mail-order catalog. This yellowed volume soon morphs into a "wish book" for the Douglases, as they experience another of those Green Acres flashbacks in which they play different characters in an earlier time period. On this occasion, Oliver and Lisa are recast as 1890s newlyweds Calvin and Tessie Whitaker, who become movie pioneers with their travelling magic-lantern show. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella (Barbara Hershey), takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle Oman Hedgepath (Lee J. Cobb). L.B. Jones (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a well-to-do African-American funeral director who comes to Hedgepath's firm in search of legal representation. Jones wishes to divorce his wife Emma (Lola Falana), but his grounds make the case a hot potato -- Jones has learned Emma has been having an affair with Willie Joe Worth (Anthony Zerbe), a white police officer who is the father of Emma's unborn child. Worth does not want his affair dragged into a court of law, so he and his fellow officer Stanley Bumpas (Arch Johnson) violently take matters into their own hands. The last feature film from legendary Hollywood director William Wyler, The Liberation of L.B. Jones was based on a novel by Jesse Hill Ford. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

This episode of Hogan's Heroes features bravura performances by three of the series' most frequent guest stars: Nita Talbot in her customary role of Russian spy Marya, Gavin McLeod as General Von Rauscher, and Larry D. Mann as captured Russian rocket scientist Zagoskin. Von Rauscher hatches a plan whereby Hogan will witness a test flight of Zagoskin's new and devastatingly destructive rocket weapon; Hogan will then be released and sent to England, where he will demand the Allies' surrender lest the weapon be unleashed on London. Can Hogan count on the mercurial Marya's cooperation to foil the General's scheme? Written by Richard M. Powell, "The Witness" was originally broadcast on March 1, 1969. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide