Peter Oliphant Movies
- 1973
- R
Five bosomy buddies take off for a little fun and sun and end up involved with handsome new men. Their fun abruptly ends when a homicidal maniac begins stabbing people to death. To make matters worse, the killer seems to be one of them. Fortunately, looks can be deceiving. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
In this youthful actioner, two young hot-rodding hoods torment a family while they are en route to a motel in the California desert. The film is also known as 52 Miles to Midnight. The family goes there to take over the establishment. When they finally arrive, tired and frightened by their ordeal, they are horrified to discover that the ramshackle inn is all but abandoned but for the teens who use it as a place to drink. The father and his clan then head for his brother's house 52 miles down the road. Again the young hoodlums launch a vicious attack. Something inside the father snaps. Suddenly stopping his speeding car, he aims his headlights right into the windshield of the oncoming teens, blinding them with the light. The kids crash. The father then forces them to promise to mend their delinquent ways. If they don't, he will send them to jail for a long, long, time. The creepy kids decide to reform. The father, decides to return to the motel and try to fix it up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, (more)
- 1965
Against his better judgment, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) allows his son Ritchie (Larry Mathews) and the Helpers' son Freddie (Peter Oliphant) to be cast in a TV commercial. Just as Rob had feared, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) and Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert) transform into the Stage Mothers from Hell, arguing over billing, number of lines, and which of the two boys' faces will be obscured by a catcher's mask. Colin Male, the announcer heard introducing the cast at the beginning of every Dick Van Dyke Show episode, makes a rare onscreen appearance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1965
Ritchie (Larry Mathews) plays an unusual game of "connect the dots," using a pen to connect the freckles on the back of his father, Rob (Dick Van Dyke). The result is a stunningly accurate outline of the Liberty Bell -- whereupon neighbor Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) suggests that Rob can cash in on this phenomenon. It seems that the famous newspaper column "Odd But True" is offering a 500-dollar prize for the oddest, truest item...and that's how Rob winds up in an outer office in the company of a man walking on his hands and another fellow jealously guarding a weird-looking potato! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ann Morgan Guilbert, Hope Summers, (more)
- 1962
Hampered by a quickie conclusion, this routine melodrama by Reginald LeBorg features twin sisters, Sabena and Dara (Marcia Henderson) who are identical in physical appearance but about as alike as night and day. The evil twin learns that her good-hearted sister is about to come into some money and so she plots to get her hands on the lucre instead. What can be so difficult since the two of them look alike? She poses as her angelic counterpart but then runs into a series of problems that lead up to the abrupt ending. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Craig Hill, Marcia Henderson, (more)
Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the Bride (1950), into this domestic comedy. James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara star as Roger and Peggy Hobbs, a St. Louis couple with a large brood who desire a seaside vacation. Renting a cottage by the ocean is just the first step in a summer fraught with disasters, including a couch potato son, a shy daughter with newly installed braces, a pair of grown daughters who have married badly, and a local yachtsman with eyes for Peggy. Not to mention the ramshackle state of the shoreline abode, Roger and Peggy's new grandparent status, and incidents involving a sexy neighbor, a sailboat regatta and bird watching. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, (more)
- 1962
The Petries' prankish neighbor Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) takes great delight in telling anyone who will listen that Rob's most recent script for "The Alan Brady Show" is, in his humble opinion, terrible. The angrier Rob (Dick Van Dyke) gets and the more Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert) tells her husband to shut up and drop the subject, the more Jerry persists in insulting the script, at one point, even hiring a singing telegram service to deliver a musical message about how rotten the show is! Ultimately, the joke goes too far, and Jerry ends up with a punch in the nose -- but from whom? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, (more)
