Garnett Smith Movies
- 1985
A young woman faces a difficult decision in this drama. She has spent most of her life preparing to dance ballet. She is also involved with a dashing reporter. Despite her love, she leaves Detroit to dance in New York, and while there she has an affair with her dance partner. Her dilemma comes when the reporter proposes marriage as her career is taking off. Now she must choose between her career and her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1985
When Cabot Cove resident Beverly Garrett is electrocuted in her own bathtub in a locked bathroom, Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is willing to write the tragedy off as an accident; Tupper, you see, is thinking about retirement, and has already hand-picked his successor. But Jessica (Angela Lansbury) can't shake the belief that Beverly was murdered, prompting the long-suffering Tupper to dare Jessica to prove it! Adding to the intrigue is a controversial land sale, a vicious poison-pen campaign that has spread throughout town, and Jessica's mounting frustration over playing hostess to a visiting travel writer. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1985
A street artist named Speed (David Westgor) is being forced to paint forgeries of valuable works of art so that crooked dealer Steffan Shawn (Lloyd Bochner) can pass the phonies off as the real thing. When Speed is nearly beaten to death by Shawn's minions, his sister Peggy (Maylo McCaslin) turns to the A-Team for help. To maneuver the villain into tipping his hand, Face (Dirk Benedict) poses as a writer for a high-toned art magazine, while Murdock (Dwight Schultz) impersonates a VERY eccentric artist--named H. M. Murdock, of course! The titular "assault" occurs at the end of the episode, when an expensive Mercedes is brought into play as a makeshift tank. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1985
No sooner have David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) been hired to handle security at SRT Industries than they're fired by Brian and Vivian Baker (Cotter Smith, Lenore Kasdorf), the brother-sister team who run the firm on behalf of their father Carl (Bill Morey). The reason for the dismissal? Someone has managed to smuggle SRT's industrial secrets to a competitor right under the detectives' noses. Maddie suspects that someone is using a professional medium to read the minds of the SRT employees in order to siphon off their secrets. She's right--but there are a couple of other flies in the ointment as well! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1983
Season Two of A-Team begins with a nailbiting episode that owes more than a little to the French film classic The Wages of Fear. Though still officially outlaws and fugitives, the A-Team manages to avoid the American military authorities and make its way to Zulabwe, Africa, there to help Toby Griffith (Kristen Meadows), daughter of a murdered diamond-mine owner. The villains, led by Jonathan Fletcher (Albert Salmi), are determined to drive Toby off her property and claim it as their own. In exchange for ten percent of Toby's earnings (plus an uncut diamond), the Team agrees to transport explosives to her mine, navigating some of the most treacherous terrain ever seen on a TV program. And of course, a stolen helicopter figures prominently in the climax! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an exiled Cuban criminal who goes to work for Miami drug lord Robert Loggia. Montana rises to the top of Florida's crime chain, appropriating Loggia's cokehead mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the process. Howard Hawks' "X Marks the Spot" motif in depicting the story line's many murders is dispensed with in the 1983 Scarface; instead, we are inundated with blood by the bucketful, especially in the now-infamous buzz saw scene. One carry-over from the original Scarface is Tony Montana's incestuous yearnings for his sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). The screenplay for the 1983 Scarface was written by Oliver Stone. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, (more)
- 1983
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, Rovi
- Starring:
- Donald Pleasence, Yvonne Furneaux, (more)
- 1982
The deaths of two teenagers alert Quincy (Jack Klugman) to the perils of deceptively harmless "lookalike drugs", which can be legally sold over any pharmacy counter. The crusading coroner is determined to ban these drugs and to punish those merchants who sell them to underaged customers. Unfortunately, neither the law nor human nature can be changed so easily--and it looks as though future tragedies are a foregone conclusion. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1981
When an "ancient" mummy goes under the X-Ray machine, it turns out that the wrapped-up corpse has been dead only a few weeks--and that a fortune in jewels has been stashed on the body. U.S. Customs agents Brice (John Karlen) and Niven (Edward Grover) consult medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman), who puts the pieces together and determines that the mummy was being used in a smuggling operation headquartered in Cairo. Before the intrigue plays itself out, several other people have died at the hands of a group of Nazi war criminals. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1980
The Laboratory is the principal setting for this derivative sci-fier. A few cultures, left alone in petri dishes, begin spontaneously generating tiny and malevolent creatures. It all turns out to be the handiwork of predatory extraterrestrials. Once the lab mutations have reached maturity, they set about to take over the world. Camille Mitchell, Corine Michaels (the same person? Have you ever seen them photographed together?) costar in The Laboratory. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1980
Performing an autopsy on a man in his eighties, Quincy determines (Jack Klugman) that the victim was physically abused before his death--possibly by his own son-in-law. Subseqeuntly, another old person shows up with similar symptoms, suggesting to Quincy that there may be a link between the two cases. Ulitmately, the crusading coroner unearths a rather nasty scheme cooked up by a nefarious nephew against a pair of elderly ladies (one of whom is played by 97-year-old Estelle Winwood, who when this episode was filmed had been a stage and screen star for over seventy years). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1980
In this comedy drama, a small town is beset by comical characters vying for control. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1979
After a woman whose face was horribly disfigured in a bungled cosmetic operation commits suicide, Quincy investigates Emile Green (Garnett Smith), the doctor who performed the surgery. Though Green is not a qualified plastic surgeon, the current medical laws allow him to perform such operations whether he's capable of doing them or not. Outraged, Quincy vows to move heaven and earth to plug up this legal loophole--or at the very least, to bring Dr. Green to justice before he destroys any more lives. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1972
The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carrying a huge mortadella sausage which she intends as a gift for her fiancé. U.S. Customs has other ideas, however, and she is detained until she hits upon the idea of sharing the offending foodstuff with the customs officers. Finally allowed entry into the U.S., she grows disenchanted with her fiancé and other men she meets and is only with difficulty able to make her escape to a more agreeable location. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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