Alma Platt Movies
- 1974
Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) doesn't get much opportunity to enjoy his new car before another driver smashes into it. This happens just after Pete and his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are forced to abandon the vehicle in order to chase down a purse snatcher. Elsewhere, the two mobile cops find themselves with two crises on their hands as they attempt to simulatenously investigate a holdup at a store and administer emergency first aid to the wounded proprietor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1970
This episode focuses on the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics unit, which had made a "guest" appearance in the previous Adam-12 installment "Log 43: Hostage". The S.W.A.T. team is called in to help Officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) locate and neutralize a sniper, who is holed up on the roof of a theater. The inner workings of the team is detailed with clinical precision--and without giving away the entire ending, it can be noted that their methods are most effective. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1970
A frantic mother places a call to Rampart headquarters, telling the officers that her child is missing. Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) do their best to locate the child, despite a number of other assignments on their case log. In addition to the job at hand, the two cops must also haul in a young man who has burlarized his uncle's house, investigate a self-defense killing, and mollify a lonely old lady. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Shirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist. Charity never stops looking for true love and never seems to look for it in the right places. We first see her in the company of Charlie (Dante DiPaolo), a slimeball who steals her purse and pushes her into the Central Park pond. Next she stumbles into a one-night stand with Vittorio Vidal (Ricardo Montalban), an egotistical movie star; this comes to nothing when Vittorio's contrite girlfriend Ursula (Barbara Bouchet) comes calling, forcing Charity to spend the night hiding in the closet. Desperate to escape the dance hall, Charity heads to an employment agency, where a bureaucratic clerk (Alan Hewitt) informs her that she has no qualifications. Unhappily, Charity heads for the elevator, where she becomes trapped with the very shy -- and very claustrophobic -- Oscar Lindquist (John McMartin). Once they've gotten out of the stalled elevator, Charity begins dating Oscar, never telling him of her checkered past or her sordid dance-hall job. Oscar eventually finds out but assures her that it doesn't matter. However, at the engagement party held at the dance hall, Oscar's puritanical streak emerges. He walks out on Charity, leaving her alone and heartbroken once more. With the help of a group of flower children (among them Bud Cort and Kristoffer Tabori), Charity is able to pick herself up and start living "Hopefully Ever After." Sweet Charity was adapted from the 1965 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the 1957 Fellini flick Nights of Cabiria. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, (more)
Successful racecar driver Capua (Paul Newman) falls in love with Elora (Joanne Woodward). The two marry and settle down with Elora's 13-year-old son Charley (Richard Thomas). The honeymoon is short-lived as Capua must spend his time away from home on the racing circuit. Soon the racer's luck begins to change as his main rival Luther Erding (Robert Wagner) begins to best him at every race. Capua has a one-track mind and realizes too late that his wife is being lapped by the rival racer not only on the track but in the bedroom as well. He comes home to find his wife in bed with Luther, and he promptly leaves. Young Charley hitchhikes across country in an attempt to bring the couple towards a reconciliation. Richard Thomas, who would later star in the television series "The Waltons," makes his film debut. Spectacular footage from Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin and Indianapolis is used, including a 17-car pile-up. Cameo appearances are made by racers Bobby Unsur and Tony Human. After doing all his own driving during filming, Paul Newman would develop a lifelong passion for auto racing beginning with this film. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, (more)
- 1967
With the series' premise (a wheelchair-bound detective) already established in a two-hour TV pilot film, Ironside launches its first season with a minimum of exposition and a maximum of fast action. Now living in his third-floor office at police headquarters, former San Francisco police chief Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) doggedly disregards his semi-invalid status and continues to solve crimes with an elite three-person staff, consisting of Det. Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway), policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson) and Ironside's bodyguard-general factotum Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell). In this episode, Ironside and company try to solve a racetrack robbery that occurred virtually under their noses. With only one firm clue (a crashed car) to go on, Ironside detemines that the robbery was an inside job...but who was the inside man? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
In his second Twilight Zone apperance of the 1961-62 season, Joseph Schildkraut stars as elderly John Holt, who, together with his equally aged wife Marie (Alma Platt), yearns to be young and vital again. Visiting the New Life Corporation, John and Marie are invited by unctuous salesman Vance (Noah Keen) to trade in their old bodies for newer models. Alas, the operation costs $5,000 per person -- and the Platts have only enough money for one "trade-in." Written by Rod Serling, "The Trade-Ins" was the final third-season Twilight Zone episode to be filmed, but not the last one to be telecast; rather, it was seen on April 20, 1962, with six more episodes still to go. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt, (more)
- 1961
Once again, Bart (Jack Kelly) wins big in a poker game. And once again, his prize is not a pile of cash but instead a piece of property--in this case, a bank. What Bart doesn't know is that the bank is about to go bust...and there are quite a few gun-toting depositors who will be sorely annoyed when their assets disappear. Featured in the cast as Blackjack Carney is Frank DeKova, who went on to play the timorous Indian chief Wild Eagle on F Troop. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1949
This drama tells about a juvenile delinquent that wavers between loyalty to a fellow crook and a kind-hearted reform school guard. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William Bendix, Allen Martin, Jr., (more)
