Edward Platt Movies

A bounty hunter holds dear the memory of his son who was killed by outlaws several years before. One day he kills a crook and then takes in his son, who swears vengeance upon his adopted father. This western chronicles their adventures together. The bounty hunter is happy with his new charge and so retires to resume his previous profession as a horse breeder. Things go well until the town sheriff is shot and the breeder's adopted son blames the crime upon him. But he is innocent and so rides out to prove it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Endora's latest spell transforms Darrin into a 73-year-old man. Thinking quickly when the Tates arrive, Samantha passes off Darrin as his own grandfather, Gordon. But there's even more trouble ahead when Larry Tate tries to match up "Gordon" with Louise's Aunt Millicent (Ruth McDevitt), a geriatric swinger. Sam solves matters in characteristic fashion by appealing to Endora's vanity. Written by Ed Jurist, "Samantha's Old Man" originally aired on December 3, 1970. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In Volume 44 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, an alien being comes to Earth to cut a deal with a scientist: if the human wills the spaceman all his emotions, the creature will give the professor the equations necessary to finish his invention. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Audie Murphy continued to make 1950s-style westerns into the 1960s. In Bullet for a Badman, Logan Keliher (Murphy) is framed for murder by onetime friend Sam Ward (Darren McGavin). Keliher escapes to mete out justice and to reclaim his former wife (Ruta Lee), whom Ward has married. The escapee gradually comes to realize that the true villain of the piece is not his ex-friend but instead his ex-wife. A Bullet for a Badman was shipped out to the lower halves of Universal's drive-in double bills for the 1963-64 season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In Volume 28 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the tutor of a group of gifted children is revealed to be an alien spy. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

In this offbeat melodrama, a crazed gardener is relegated to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy boss. The scuttlebutt in the courtroom is that the killer has stolen over a million dollars from his former employer and has hidden it on the estate. A professional actor is hired to feign insanity to get into the home, befriend the maniac, and find out where he hid the cash. Once he is admitted, the hapless actor encounters bedlam as he meets the patients, undergoes electroshock therapy, and suffers through several injections. Eventually he finds himself falling for a manic-depressive woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper, Michael Conrad (Michael Gough) whose literal worship of the animals he tends -- especially the cat species -- starkly contrasts with his cold-blooded disregard for human life. Conrad has a mute son Carl (Rod Lauren) with a simmering Oedipal hatred, and a wife who should have left him eons ago. Whenever Conrad gets miffed with anyone coming a little too close to his private affairs he simply feeds the hapless victim to the animals. It seems inevitable that if the animals do not get him, then the human species will. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This light romantic comedy finds a young widow with three young boys investigated by the Navy. Amy Martin (Shirley Jones) has a curious child who inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon (Gig Young) and crew observe the signal from their ship and investigate. The commander falls for the young mother and proposes marriage. Amy is reluctant to have her family live out of a suitcase and initially declines. Gramps (Edgar Buchanan) tries to bring her on board to sail the sea of love with the commander, but it's the youngest son Alex (Billy Mumy) who flies high an hits the mark as Cupid. Alex sets sail with some helium balloons and floats out over the ocean. The commander must save the boy and return him to his mother, creating another opportunity for his mother to be captured by the romantic suitor. Red Buttons and Carolyn Jones also find romance in this feature directed by George Sidney. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Ben Cartwright is an eyewitness when ex-convict Jack Groat (Charles Maxwell shoots down the son of Ben's old friend Lem Partridge (Lyle Bettger). Inasmuch as Groat had previously been thrown in prison for the murder of Lem's wife, Lem cannot understand why Ben did not intervene when Groat committed his most recent killing. Determining that everyone including Ben has failed him, Lem vows to avenge the deaths of his wife and son all by himself-but, as usual, there is more to the story than meets the eye. Anne Benton is seen as Caroline, while Edward C. Platt plays Wade. Written by Clifford Irving, "The Guilty" first aired on February 25, 1962. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in sci-fi spectacles like the War of the Worlds. So it is no surprise that this sci-fi yarn about the fabled sunken continent of Atlantis should excel in the special effects department. Otherwise, the story is a clichéd tale about Demetrios (Anthony Hall) a Greek fisherman who is tempted into going to Atlantis by Antillia (Joyce Taylor), a princess of that doomed land. Demetrios is soon trapped into slavery, a situation which leads him to hobnob with the oppressed masses and plan a strategy to get them out of there before the rumblings of imminent submersion send the whole kit and caboodle into the briny deep. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

A skeleton in a museum collection of Native American artifacts catches the eye of a man named Newton Clovis (Myron McCormick). Curator Clay Hollister (Larry Gates) insists that the skeleton is that of an Indian, but Newton suspects otherwise. In flashback, we learn that Newton is absolutely right, and that Hollister had once been on somewhat intimate terms with the skeleton's owner, thanks to a sensational murder case involving Hollister's late son, Ben (Bert Convy). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

After briefly experimenting with the videotape format, The Twilight Zone wisely returned to film with this episode, which originally aired April 7, 1961. The story begins in the California desert in 1847; Chris Horn (Cliff Robertson), leader of a bedraggled wagon train, sets out to search for food, water, and medicine for himself, his ailing child, and the rest of his party. Upon climbing "over the rim," Chris finds himself in a roadside diner -- in the year 1961. The supporting cast includes future TV-series stars Ed Platt (Get Smart) and John Astin (The Addams Family), as well as actress Evans Evans, who later played Gene Wilder's wife in the 1967 film classic Bonnie and Clyde. Written by Rod Serling, "A Hundred Yards over the Rim" benefits immeasurably from a driving musical score by Fred Steiner, which would pop up in truncated form in dozens of films and TV series throughout the '60s and '70s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The townspeople of Virginia City turn against Leta Malvet (Susan Oliver when her father and brother are hanged for murder. With nowhere else to turn, Leta latches on to the only person to show her any kindness: Clay Renton (Jack Lord), a "retired" outlaw. Also appearing are Edward C. Platt as Harvey Bufford and Mark Allen as Garth. "The Outcast" was written by Thomas Thompson and was originally telecast on January 9, 1960. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide