David Elliott Movies
- 1998
With this romantic comedy, the scripting-directing team of Donna Silverberg and Bradley Fisher offered a homage to Hollywood's memorable screwball comedies of the '30s. When New York Jewish princess Randy Hartman (Rikki Dale) learns that her relatives experienced their last breaths in a variety of bus, train, and airplane accidents, her superstitious fears dictate that the only safe way she can travel to her cousin's wedding is in an automobile. When earthy Midwestern rancher Gale Forman (David Elliott) picks her up in his vintage Chevrolet, the film switches from color to black-and-white. The two then set forth on a car trip, cross-country and seemingly at cross purposes, until they detour around their differences to make romance their destination. Shown at the 1998 Dances With Films Festival of the Unknowns (Santa Monica). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rikki Dale, David Elliott, (more)
- 1994
As part of a promotional book tour, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to appear in a TV informercial. Also appearing is Matt Matthews (Anthony Zerbe), a once-popular author laid low by alcoholism. It turns out that Matthews--who of course is an old friend of Jessica's--is acquainted with a member of the informercial's studio audience, and with a blackmailing professional extra, both of whom are murdered in the course of the action. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1989
Keith Michell returns in the role of Dennis Stanton, an ex-jewel thief turned insurance investigator. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) links up with her old friend Dennis when she arrives in San Francisco to attend the opening of a prestigious opera. Before long, things become "operatic" for real when a celebrated tenor, who had previously shot another man (in self-defense, he claimed) who'd been making overtures to the tenor's pretty protégée, succumbs to a suspicious heart attack. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1981
Stingray: Invaders of the Deep is about a submarine captain who leads a fight against a fleet of invading aliens. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- 1978
Adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant from his own novel, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Pearl inevitably invoked memories of the strikingly similar From Here to Eternity. The focus was on three military couples living in Honolulu in and around the time of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Race, romance, and rank-pulling ran riot in a number of interconnected plot lines, interspersed with stock footage of the attack from the 1970 theatrical feature Tora! Tora! Tora!. Pearl originally aired on ABC during a particularly busy "sweeps week," November 16, 17, and 19, 1978. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Angie Dickinson, Robert Wagner, (more)
