Deborah Shelton Movies
A former Miss U.S.A. (1970), actress Deborah Shelton is best remembered for playing Mandy Winger on the nighttime soap opera Dallas from 1984 through 1987. She has also appeared in a few feature films. She made her film debut in Blood Tide (1982) and has subsequently specialized in B-movies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 2006
- R
- Add The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to QueueAdd The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to top of Queue
Genre specialist John Carl Buechler offers this savage twist on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale by tracing the dark journey of a brilliant doctor who is gradually transformed into a sinister, murderous creature. Dr. Jekyll (Tony Todd) has successfully cured a higher primate of a dire heart condition, but could this treatment prove successful on humans as well? Upon testing the serum on himself, Dr. Jekyll becomes a horrifying and primal beast that goes by the name Mr. Hyde. As Dr. Jekyll descends into a paranoid state of schizophrenia, he fails to see that Mr. Hyde is simply a malevolent manifestation of his own darkest instincts. Tracy Scroggins and Vernon G. Wells co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Todd, Tracy Scoggins, (more)
- 1994
This science fiction adventure, set in the future, depicts an Earth so polluted that people must live underground to avoid the deadly air. It is the sequel to 1989's Circuitry Man. In this new world, people who once would have plugged into drugs for illicit fun, now turn on with computer chips. The evil Plughead, a biosynthetic man, has a revolutionary chip that allows humans to live a decade beyond normal life expectancy but to manufacture it they must torture innocent people until they die. Plughead has no problem with that; in fact, he rather enjoys it. Plughead's nemesis, Danner is also a biosynthetic man, but he is a good guy. FBI agent Kyle is using Danner to help her find Plughead. Together they travel to a barren desert in search of their foe. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vernon Wells, Deborah Shelton, (more)
Set in a WW III-decimated 21st-century Los Angeles in which humans compete with cyborgs, this low-budget special-effects laden thriller chronicles the attempts of a heroic fellow to clean up the town and keep the androids from taking over what's left of the planet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, (more)
- 1993
Two federal agents are assigned to protect the beautiful star of a television series who was the witness to a terrorist murder. The agents decide to take her to a remote country lodge, but the terrorists find out where their hideout is and make plans to kill her, the agents, and any other witnesses. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
- 1993
- R
In this exceedingly complex erotic thriller, a hard-nosed gumshoe uses his expertise as an ex-cop to untangle a convoluted insurance scam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1988
This sequel to the West German comedy hit from 1987 is a spoof with a Back To The Future theme. Sandy (Deborah Shelton) is a beautiful woman pursued by three men who believe that in the future she will be the mother of their hard-driving boss. The trio travels back in time 50 years to try and prevent her from having the child. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Winslow, Thomas Gottschalk, (more)
- 1987
- R
Liz Winters (Deborah Shelton) is the head of a modeling agency in this thrilling crime drama. When two of her top models are drugged and raped, Lieutenant Kevin White (Clarence Williams III) is put of the case. The villain turns out to be a maniacal misogynist with AIDS, and the police continue their efforts to stop the infected rapist before he strikes again. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Deborah Shelton, Lyman Ward, (more)
Bradley Brinkman (Steve Levitt) is a computer nerd who makes a deal with the Devil (James Coco) in this teen comedy. He is transformed into Hunk Golden (John Allen Nelson), the muscular blonde-haired, blue-eyed California heartthrob. She-devil O'Brien (Deborah Shelton) threatens to change the popular Hunk back into the anemic Bradley if he refuses to serve the Devil on Earth. Rebecca Bush plays psychologist Sunny Graves and co-stars with Robert Morse, Constantine Constapopolis, and Avery Schreiber. James Coco, who died a few weeks before the debut of this film, gives memorable comic portrayals of a pirate, a Nazi, and a caveman in addition to a delightful devil. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, (more)
- 1984
In spite of some interesting names attached to this low-budget, embarrassing horror film (Rafael Buñuel, son of acclaimed Luis Buñuel is the co-writer and co-producer), the result is anemic. At the core of the story, seven athletes in training for the Olympics at the Falcon Academy of Athletics in Massachusetts are violently slain by a killer with a wicked javelin toss. Most of the women in the film are portrayed as lesbians (apparently a straight woman can do no more than wield a wicked crochet hook), or their gender is indeterminate because of the drugs they imbibe -- a side issue in the film. Clichéd, predictable, and lacking in suspense, Fatal Games was never released theatrically. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, (more)
In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked out on him, so he has no place to sleep. His pal offers him the use of his apartment for the evening. The apartment happens to be equipped with a huge picture window and telescope, enabling him to spy on his beautiful neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) while she undresses. He also bears witness to her brutal murder. And then he meets a porn star (Melanie Griffith), who has just taken a job posing as the late Gloria. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, (more)
- 1983
Face (Dirk Benedict) opens his mail to find the fraternity pin that he gave to Leslie Bektall (Markie Post), the woman who dropped out of his life fifteen years ago. This leads the A-Team to Ecuador, where Leslie is now a nun, working at an orphanage. Though she nervously insists that there's no trouble brewing, Leslie, the other nuns and the orphans are being held captive by gangsters led by the wounded Salvador (Ismael "East" Carlo). In their efforts to save the good people from the bad people, the Team members disguise themselves as whisky salesmen--and later as (you guessed it!) nuns. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1983
In the first episode of Cheers' two-part season one finale, Sam's brother Derek (George Ball), a natural-born charmer, pays a visit to the gang. It doesn't take long for Derek to win everyone over -- everyone but Sam, who jealously remains impervious to his brother's appeal. Sam reaches his limit, however, when Derek asks Diane (Shelley Long) to accompany him to Paris. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
It will come as quite a shock to discover the venerable James Earl Jones and José Ferrer slumming in this Greek-lensed ultra-cheapie about a legendary sea creature aroused from centuries of sleep off the shores of a Greek island by an opportunistic American archaeologist (Jones). It seems the beastie's legacy is well known by some of the island's old-timers (namely Ferrer), including the part about appeasing the monster with a virgin sacrifice -- namely the alluring Deborah Shelton. The exotic locations and the presence of the gruff Jones (who apparently saw this as a paid vacation) lend a great deal of production value, but apparently Jones' salary came out of the filmmakers' special-effects budget -- because the feared creature of ancient legend looks like a sock puppet! This film is also known as Red Tide and Demon Lake. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, (more)
- 1979
- Add Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women to QueueAdd Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women to top of Queue
In this made-for-TV adventure, six men end up marooned on a remote South Sea island and find themselves having to deal with a tribe of murderously man-hating bikini-clad babes. The film is also titled Island-Sister Theresa. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
