Cheryl Miller Movies
Lead actress, onscreen from 1965. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1985
- PG
This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts her class to fight alongside the rebels. Tom teaches his son Ned (Dexter Fletcher) everything he needs to learn, though the growing rebellion consumes most of his attention. Eventually, the Redcoats are mowed down in large battle scenes, as the ragtag Colonialists go to war. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, (more)
- 1979
This animated presentation features a circus poodle and his 400-pound Bengal tiger when they escape from the circus. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1978
An eccentric boy genius deceives the local sheriff and turns the town upside down in this 1978 comedy. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1977
This family adventure chronicles the adventures and exploits of George Clark (Denver Pyle), one of the early naturalists. Clark was a friend and peer of John Muir, the man whose writings did so much to encourage the development of the national park system in the U.S. The two men attempt to save Yosemite Valley in California from the lumbermen and managed to get Abraham Lincoln to sign a piece of national legislation which would do just that. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Denver Pyle, John Dehner, (more)
- 1976
Code Name: Minus One is the syndication title for the TV movie The Gemini Man. Ben Murphy stars as a secret agent for an organization called INTERSECT (International Security Technics). When saboteurs blow up an underwater testing lab, Murphy is exposed to radiation; as a result, he finds that he turns invisible every so often. Since the invisibility lasts for only 15 minutes at a time, Murphy must hustle if he hopes to capture the saboteurs. This pilot film was successful in selling the subsequent Gemini Man TV series, even though it drags badly at 100 minutes. When the film went out as Code Name: Minus One, 22 of the most boring minutes were snipped out. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1975
Strange things happen during the tour of a professional tennis team. For starters, the nasty team owner Beverly Garland is nearly murdered. The police have their work cut out for them, since every one of the athletes had plenty of motive. But there may be still another suspect: the ghost of a dead tennis pro, who has a score to settle. The taped, 90-minute Deadly Volley originally aired January 27, 1975, as part of ABC's Wide World Mystery anthology series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Bill Bixby guest stars as Charles Pine, a former government agent turned professional assassin. Hired by a group of fanatical right-wingers, Pine prepares to kill a Chinese diplomat visiting the U.S.--all the while keeping the woman in his life (Linda Marsh) from interfering with his sinister mission. Cast respectively as a retired military officer and a nurse are Andrew Duggan and Peggy McCay, who twelve years earlier had costarred in the ABC sitcom Room for One More. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
In a virtuoso image-smashing performance, pop star Rick Nelson appears in this episode as Billy Jeffers, a sweet-talking, baby-faced "Pied Piper" who lures teenage girls into prositution. Despite his gentle demeanor, Billy is a ruthless criminal and manipulator--and ultimately, a murderer. In one remarkable scene (remarkable for 1973, that is), detective Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) interrogates Billy, who makes the implicit confession that he's far more interested in boys than in girls! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Neither his parents nor the emergency staff of Rampart Hospital can figure out why a young boy is apparently choking to death. In other cases, a youngster dives off a roof, and a blind grandfather is trapped in a house fire with his infant grandson. And in the episode's obligatory humorous subplot, John (Randolph Mantooth) vows to be 100 percent honest for the rest of his life after a slight prevarication results in a brush with death (so to speak). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
- R
John Considine does a cut-rate Vincent Price impersonation as the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next (which actually makes him more of a "Seeker of Bodies"). Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit to the Alien, since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone, thus ensuring his personal safety. This is "Z"-grade fare that plays somewhat like a Herschell Gordon Lewis film, but without enough silliness to keep things amusing. The only point of interest keeping this film in circulation (mainly via late-night-cable) is the presence of sad-looking former Stooge Moe Howard in his last role as a perverted old man. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1965
Dr. Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson) is an animal behavioral research director who travels to East Africa with his daughter Paula (Cheryl Miller) in this engaging wildlife saga. While Tracy develops a relationship with anthropologist Julie Harper (Betsy Drake), Paula befriends the visually challenged lion named Clarence. Because his eyes are crossed, Clarence has never been able to rely on hunting for survival, so the family adopts the lovable lion. Richard Haydn plays the schoolmaster with comic flair as he runs scared from the harmless king of the jungle. The evil Gregory (Maurice Marsac) is the leader of a group of mercenaries who plan to capture Julie's beloved gorillas and sell them for profit. Clarence later traps Gregory in a slapstick scene to save the animals from danger. The film served as a pilot for the television series Daktari. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, (more)
- 1965
The sequel to 1963's Misadventures of Merlin Jones finds young Mr. Jones (Tommy Kirk) still in college and still going out with Jennifer (Annette Funicello). In this movie, he must help football players pass their tests and invent a flying machine win a contest for the school. Funicello and the Beach Boys sing the title song. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames, (more)
- 1962
While vacationing in the small town of Price Hill, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) agrees to speak before the local board of education on behalf of English teacher Jane Wardman (Mona Freeman), who may lose her job because of an anonymous letter accusing her of "playing around" with her male students. Things get worse for Jane when local barkeep Gus Wiler (Chris Alcaide) is killed, and the townsfolk are reminded of an earlier incident wherein a troubled student befriended by Jane likewise died under mysterious circumstances. The outcome of the story takes place during an impromptu hearing in the school gymnasium, presided over by avuncular judge Edward Dally (the ever-popular Edgar Buchanan). This episode is based on "The Man with Half a Face", a short story by Hugh Pentecost. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is insulted that he has not been invited to a party that Wally (Tony Dow) is throwing for his friends. But instead of getting mad, he decides to get even. Visiting the local magic shop, Beaver purchases a variety of annoying practical jokes, guaranteed to make the party an event that no one will forget -- or want to remember. Perhaps it goes without saying that once Beav has all his booby-traps in place, Wally ends up inviting him after all! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ken Osmond, Frank Bank, (more)
