Addison Powell Movies

A Detroit priest (Donald Sutherland) is trying to help solve a crime spree that has resulted in a horrible series of slayings of area priests and nuns. When he hears the murderer's admission of guilt (while giving confession) he is torn between honoring the vows of privacy and secrecy afforded repentants and revealing the murderer's identity. ~ All Movie Guide

This TV movie might just as well have been titled Frankenstein Takes Manhattan. Robert Vaughn stars as Doctor Franken, a dedicated Manhattan medico who becomes obsessed with the theory of artificial life. This is understandable, since the doctor is a descendant of a certain foreign gentleman named Frankenstein. He takes an arm here and an organ there from his hospital's storage bank and tries to repair the cadaver of an unclaimed accident victim. The result is a complex creature named John Doe (Robert Perrault), a reasonably friendly chap who has inherited the character traits and emotions of all those people whose body parts he has "borrowed". To their credit, everyone involved in Doctor Franken takes the script seriously--perhaps too seriously for any network or sponsor to care enough to purchase this pilot film for a weekly series berth. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Weary of the exigencies of life in the big city, Bob applies for a professorial post at a small-town college. The institute, located in Iowa, is essentially a farming college, so one can guess the direction of the episode's comic thrust. The supporting cast includes Tresa Hughes as Dr. Doctor (trivia note: Newhart played Major Major in the film version of Catch 22), Richard Libertini as Dr. Pitt, Craig Wasson as Chuck Morgan, Addison Powell as Dr. Scranton, and director James Burrows as a maintenance man. Scripted by Michael Zinberg, "Halls of Hartley" first aired on January 29, 1977. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Star Gregory Peck went into MacArthur disliking the title character that he was slated to play, but emerged from the experience with a deeper understanding and respect for this complex historical figure. The film is framed in flashback, with an octogenarian General
Douglas MacArthur (Peck) making his final address before his alma mater of West Point. We flash back to the fall of Corregidor in 1942, with MacArthur promising "I shall return" to the beleaguered (and eventually imprisoned) American and Filipino troops. The story follows MacArthur's subsequent victories in the South Pacific, occasionally pausing to show us the General's omnipresent sense of "showmanship" (e.g. his wading ashore on the beaches of the Philippines for the benefit of the newsreel cameras). The greater part of the film involves MacArthur's attempts to restore dignity to the defeated postwar Japan, and to keep the Russian Communists from overtaking the orient as they had Eastern Europe. MacArthur is eventually fired from his post by President Truman after the general defies orders during the Korean conflict. MacArthur was intended as Universal's "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's enormously successful Patton (1970), but box-office returns were disappointing. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

"His code name is Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him." As the ads ominously announced, a low-level spook confronts the unfathomable in Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller, adapted from the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor. CIA researcher Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find the entire staff of his small New York office assassinated. When he meets his boss (Cliff Robertson) at another location to tell him what happened, someone tries to shoot Turner as well. On the run from the cops and his agency, a desperate Turner resorts to holing up with innocent civilian Kathy (Faye Dunaway), who becomes his only ally. Joe decides to save himself the only way possible: by going to The New York Times. But will it work? One of a cycle of conspiracy films from the 1970s that also included The Parallax View (1974) and Redford's All the President's Men (1976), Three Days of the Condor pits a working Everyman (albeit a CIA everyman) against a far-reaching conspiracy, as it also criticizes the CIA during a period of increasing publicity about federal wrongdoing, from the Pentagon Papers through Watergate and other congressional investigations; the challenge of negotiating New York City, shot on location, becomes one more sign of the forces that Joe must face. With its timely subject matter, taut suspense, and sympathetic Redford hero, Three Days of the Condor became a substantial hit. Balancing the conspiracy cycle's pessimism with a margin of attenuated hope, Three Days of the Condor suggests that one man can still discover the truth, but whether it helps him remains to be seen. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

The sudden death of the constable's wife further convinces Lamar (Jerry Lacy) that Quentin (David Selby) is a warlock. Though he dismisses the murder charge, the judge (Addison Powell) is persuaded to try Quentin on a charge of witchcraft. Gerard Stiles (James Storm) forces Daphne (Kate Jackson) to have a dream in which she and Gerard are married. This episode originally aired on December 8, 1970. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Carolyn (Nancy Barrett) prevents Adam (Robert Rodan) from killing Harry (Craig Slocum). Nicholas (Humbert Allen Astredo) learns about the life-force-transfer experiment from the ghost of Dr. Lang (Addison Powell). Cassandra (Lara Parker) is angry over Nicholas' fascination in the artificially created Adam. This episode originally aired on July 24, 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually meet Crown but manage to pull off the robbery without a hitch. Crown deposits 3 million in a Swiss bank account, pays off the crooks, and waits for the insurance company to repay the bank for the loss. Eddy Malone (Paul Burke) is the savvy detective who helps insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) find the mastermind behind the heist. Thomas Crown Affair became one of the first films to employ many split-screen images throughout its running time, as devised by editor Hal Ashby. Michel Legrand's score was nominated for an Academy Award, and the song The Windmills Of Your Mind, written by Legrand with Alan and Marilyn Bergman took home the coveted Oscar. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Dr. Lang's (Addison Powell) experiment to cure Barnabas (Jonathan Frid) of vampirism by transferring his life forces into an artificial body gets under way. Things almost end before they can begin, however, thanks to the interference of the treacherous Cassandra (Lara Parker). This episode originally aired on May 3, 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Dr. Lang (Addison Powell) plots to kill Jeff Clark (Roger Davis) so he can use Jeff's face for his artificial human "Adam," but Barnabas intervenes. Victoria (Alexandra Moltke) continues to seek out Jeff, unable to shake the conviction that he is her 18th century lover, Peter Bradford. This episode originally aired on April 25, 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Dr. Lang (Addison Powell) manages to dissuade Julia (Grayson Hall) from alerting the authorities about his experiments. Having enslaved Tony Peterson (Jerry Lacy), Cassandra/Angelique (Lara Parker) orders Tony to steal Lang's protective talisman. This episode originally aired on April 29, 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Barnabas (Jonathan Frid) gives Dr. Lang (Addison Powell) a talisman, provided by Prof. Stokes (Thayer David), to protect Lang from the reincarnated Angelique (Lara Parker). The bizarre method for permanently curing Barnabas of his vampire's curse is finally revealed. This episode originally aired on April 19, 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide