Aldo Ray Movies

When a war-training competition pits a group of tough recruits against a pathetic platoon of soldiers, confusion and chaos results. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

In this actioner, a small town mayor kills a young girl, stashes her corpse in a junk yard and figures that no one will be the wiser. He then continues his reign of terror on his town until a vengeful mercenary shows up to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this crime drama, an escaped convict, the only man ever to make it out of Alcatraz alive, is faced with the daunting prospect of having to sneak back to the dreaded island to find the key to the safety deposit box containing his loot. He will stop at nothing to get it back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A cheesy rubber-suit monster flick from Wisconsin -- where they should know a thing or two about cheese. When a lazy local begins fishing with dynamite in scenic Bog Lake, something a bit larger pops to the surface: a green, bug-eyed mutant "were-fish," awakened from decades-long sleep, which promptly begins making hot meals of any unfortunate hard-drinking fishermen who stumble across its lair. When biologist Ginny Glenn (Gloria DeHaven) discovers the creature's evolutionary nature, the local sheriff (Aldo Ray, who looks really tired of playing a sheriff) decides to employ everything from pesticides to plastic explosives to slay the tenacious beast. It is hard to tell whether the filmmakers conceived this out of genuine nostalgia for 1950s rubber-monster films like Horror of Party Beach or Attack of the Giant Leeches, or genuinely thought their monster was scary. The still-attractive DeHaven appears also in heavy old-age makeup as the local hermit -- probably the producers' attempt to keep the film's only legitimate actor on screen as much as possible. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

In this unexceptional thriller, not released theatrically, Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body -- yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a crafty local police detective starts to figure out what really happened. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this horror spoof, after not paying his yearly taxes, Dr. Frankenstein is in danger of being kicked off of the family estate. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

This direct-to-video thriller involves a seriously unbalanced, former-alcoholic housewife who tries to make a clean start by moving into a new address after her release from therapy. What she finds there, however, are disturbing and violent visions which seem to be related to the brutal decapitation murder of the house's former owner... until consultation with a local psychic hints that some of the nightmares may actually be foreshadowing her own fate. In an unusual twist, her premonitions are echoed by a recently-suspended cop (Aldo Ray). Poor performances and slack pacing derail most of the suspense and reveal the rank amateurism of the filmmakers. The cable TV release of this cheapie usually carries the working title Straight Jacket (not to be confused with the properly-spelled Joan Crawford psycho-thriller Strait-Jacket). ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

The American novelist , screenwriter and film director Samuel Fuller was very highly regarded in European circles. Among Fuller's better-known films are I Shot Jesse James and The Big Red One. In this documentary, Fuller is shown during the shooting of the latter film, and is interviewed during that time and shortly afterward about his life and films. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

The Haunted, a supernatural thriller concerning demonic possession, witchcraft and mysterious deaths, was produced, written and directed by Michael DeBaetano and filmed in Arizona. An average thriller, the film contains some good moments and a veteran cast including Aldo Ray and Virginia Mayo. Michelle (Mayo) believes that she is possessed by the ghost of an Indian woman who was accused of witchcraft, banished from her tribe and left to die alone in the desert in the 1890's. Virginia is being used as a pawn in this tale of revenge from beyond the grave. The Haunted was also released as The Glass Cage, which should not be confused with the haunting, unique Spanish horror film of the same name. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

This early '70s effort from veteran exploitation director Greydon Clark attempts to create a more socially conscious variation on the blaxploitation genre, but devotes most of its time to thrills of the most lurid variety. The story begins with Jim (director and co-writer Clark), a liberal-minded white Vietnam vet witnessing the death of a black soldier. He returns home and attempts to deliver the fallen soldier's posthumous Purple Heart to the soldier's family. In the process, he angers Makimba(Tom) (Tom Johnigarn), an angry militant who was the soldier's brother. Jim and Makimba's paths continue to cross as the two deal with their problems: Jim struggles to decide whether he should settle down with the prim and proper Nancy (Jacqueline Cole) or live with the free-spirited Bobbie, and Makimba develops an ever-growing anger towards white society as he is hounded by racist white cops, Lt. Stans (Aldo Ray) and Sgt. Berry (Jock Mahoney). Tom is finally driven over the brink and takes action, resulting in a tragedy that changes both men's lives forever. Despite the serious nature of the story line, the film that resulted is an exploitative affair that takes every opportunity to titillate the audience with plenty of sex and violence. As a result, its attempts at social consciousness went ignored, but its salacious moments went over well with the drive-in crowd. Director Greydon Clark later revisited the blaxploitation genre with the even more exploitative Black Shampoo. ~ Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide

The shadow of the recent Attica uprising looms large over the October 3, 1972 Bonanza episode "Riot!" While on a tour of the Nevada State Prison, Ben Cartwright and several other prominent men are taken hostage by rioting prisoners. Though some of the inmates hope to escape, most of the others simply want to expose the brutal conditions in the prison-conditions that the corrupt wardens are determined will never be made public. The supporting cast includes Gregory Walcott as Will Cooper, Marco St. John as Plank, Aldo Ray as Heiser, Barney Philips as Calhoun, and Denver Pyle as the head warden. Also on hand is Tim Matheson, making the first of several Bonanza appearances as reformed convict Griff King. Riot! was written by Robert Pirosh. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Pig (Harold Sakata) is an international crime lord who has commissioned the creation of a lethal "freeze bomb," which he plans on auctioning off to the highest bidder. Dr. Mason (T.E. Forman) is appalled; he intended his climate control device to be used to eliminate droughts. He sabotages the operation, destroying his files and condensing all the data into a microdot which he implants in the forehead of his assistant, Felicia (Terry Moore). When Mason turns up dead and Felicia is kidnapped, it's up to karate-kicking detective John Ash (Jim Kelly) to investigate. With his partner, Li (Myron Bruce Lee), Ash infiltrates the Pig's cathouse hideout and finds the girl, though the sadistic villain has already cut the microdot out of her skin and escaped to the mountains via ski lift. While Li cleans up some police corruption they've discovered in the Pig's organization, Ash pursues his quarry until he can exact justice with lethal martial artistry and an airplane crash. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide