Michael Pniewski Movies

Blind Justice is a fact-based TV movie starring Tim Matheson, here made to look "normal" with glasses and mustache. The innocent Matheson is fingered by witnesses as an armed robber/kidnapper/rapist. For the next 14 months, his life is hell. Too much circumstantial evidence surrounds the case, and too much information leaks out to the public; even if Matheson beats the rap, he'll be ruined in his community. Blind Justice was first telecast on March 9, 1986. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In the first episode of a two-part story, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) investigates a murder at the Curaguyan embassy in Los Angeles. While on the job, she is wooed by handsome envoy Raoul Marianos (Richard Yniguez)--who turns out not only to be the murderer but also a serial rapist, with McCall as his next victim. Worse still, Hunter (Fred Dryer) can do nothing to avenge his partner: Marianos is shielded from prosecution by diplomatic immunity! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop his intention of avenging his friend's murder. Warned by Beverly Hills police chief Ronny Cox to stay out of trouble, Foley nonetheless dogs the trail of above-the-law Steven Berkoff, the British crime czar who was responsible for the murder of Foley's friend. With the help of sympathetic local cops Judge Reinhold and John Ashton and lady friend Lisa Eilbacher, Foley attempts to corner Berkoff in his mansion, which leads to a wild slapsticky shootout. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi