Vince Williams Movies
American actor Vince Williams had a brief but promising career that was cut short by cancer. He is best known for his appearances on the soap operas The Guiding Light, where he played Hampton Speakes, and Another World as Dustin Carter. Before becoming an actor, Williams earned a B.A. from Northwestern State University of Louisiana and studied pre-law at Southern University in Baton Rouge. While in college, Williams attended a few speech and drama courses and decided to become a professional actor. On Broadway, he appeared opposite Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones in Fences. In addition to acting, Williams was also involved with music and just before he died, was in the process of recording an album with his "Afrazz" (a blend of Haitian, African, and Latin music) band, Company of One. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1971
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Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy of a notorious erotic novel, entitled The Seven Minutes, to a teenager who is later arrested for rape. A prosecutor on a crusade against pornography seizes upon this as an opportunity to have the book declared obscene, and the trial sparks a heated debate about the issue of pornography vs. free speech, as well as revealing a startling revelation about the novel's true author. Adapted from a novel by Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes featured one of Meyer's more interesting casts, including veteran character actors John Carradine and Alexander D'Arcy, a post-Munsters Yvonne de Carlo, a pre-Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck, lounge comic Jackie Gayle, and Wolfman Jack as himself. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, (more)
- 1964
Having been burned by a previous marriage to a callous fortune hunter, heiress Grace Renford (Diana Hyland) promises herself that she won't make the same mistake again. Thus, when she falls in love with handsome engineer Keith Holloway (Jeremy Slate), Grace does not tell him that she is fabulously wealthy. Nonetheless, Grace's surrogate mother, Minnie (Mildred Dunnock), is suspicious of the gregarious Holloway -- but this hardly seems to matter when an unexpected tragedy strikes, requiring the services of a spiritualist named Dr. Shankara (Abraham Sofaer). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mildred Dunnock, Diana Hyland, (more)
- 1964
A major metropolis has been thrown into panic by a series of bomb threats. Making matters worse, an eccentric artist named James Bellington (Donnelly Rhodes) has shown up at various municipal buildings bearing a variety of ticking packages. In each instance, the contents of the package prove to be harmless, and the authorities are invariably forced to let Bellington go. The question: is Bellington a lunatic who is crying wolf so that he will ultimately be able to plant a real bomb -- or does he have another insidious scheme in mind? Watch for David Carradine at the end of this episode in an unbilled bit role. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Donnelly Rhodes, Lonny Chapman, (more)
- 1963
Ward (Hugh Beaumont) has two tickets to a baseball game, and asks Wally (Tony Dow) to come along. This sits not at all well with Beaver (Jerry Mathers), who is hurt, offended, and depressed that Ward has chosen his brother over him -- and never mind that Ward made his decision only after Beaver had announced plans to go out with Gilbert (Stephen Talbot). But if Wally thinks that he has remedied the situation by magnanimously handing the ticket over to Beaver, he'd better think again! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stephen Talbot, Vince Williams, (more)
- 1961
This is a straightforward, unexceptional story about a platoon of Marines taken out of battle in Korea for some R & R in Tokyo, and then sent back to the front lines again. The four men are stereotypes found in many war stories: the simpatico country boy, the intellect though not overtly so, a rich, suave type, and a hard-as-nails tough-guy leader. These four friends are first seen in combat situations, then encountering all sorts of misadventures in Japan before they have to push off to do battle again. This was the penultimate film of director Raoul Walsh (who also provided the story for the script), unusual because he started directing in 1915 -- his career spanned fifty years. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Tryon, David Hedison, (more)
- 1960
Wally (Tony Dow) was supposed to take little Chuckie Murdock (Rory Stevens) to buy shoes at the nearby shopping center, but instead the job has been shunted off to Beaver. "Job" is right: Chuckie is a little monster who insists that Beaver grant his every whim -- and to top it off, when time comes to go home, Chuckie has disappeared! As Beaver frantically searches for his missing charge, Ward searches for Beaver to inform him that the situation is not as bleak as it appears. Chuckie's mom is played by Marjorie Reynolds, best remembered as the girl to whom Bing Crosby first sings "White Christmas" in the 1942 movie Holiday Inn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ken Osmond, Marjorie Reynolds, (more)
- 1959
In this WW II actioner, the crew of the Seahawk nearly mutinies when they discover that their new commander is a tactical instructor who has very little experience as a leader. They are quite angry because he refuses to allow them to sink the Japanese warships that are so close to them. Later they change their opinion after learning that he was only following orders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Bentley, Brett Halsey, (more)
- 1958
Dorothy Provine gives her all to the title role in The Bonnie Parker Story. Billed in the picture's ad campaign as "the cigar-smoking she-devil of the thirties", the tommy-gun wielding Bonnie cuts quite a swath across the South after her husband (Richard Bakalyan) is sent to jail for life . Teaming up with a young bucko named Guy--not Clyde!--Barrow (Jack Hogan), Bonnie robs banks, kills people, and broods about the pointlessness of her existence. Put as charitably as possible, this isn't Bonnie and Clyde, not by a long shot. The Bonnie Parker Story was originally released on a double bill with Machine Gun Kelly. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, (more)
- 1958
Curvaceous blonde actress Barbara Nichols is typecast as a Monroe-like movie star in this episode. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) enter the rarefied world of Hollywood glamour when the gorgeous star begins receiving anonymous extortion letters, threatening to disfigure her unless she ponies up a huge sum of money. But has the evidence been arranged to lead the detectives down the wrong path? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
