Jed Allan Movies
A feature debut for Emmy-winning TV director Lee Stanley, this film centers around the wheeling and dealing lifestyle of the world of boxing. Christian pop singer Carman stars as Orlando Leone, a former cruiserweight champ who now works as a security guard for a hotel and runs a youth center. One night on the job at the hotel, he assists in a complaint regarding noise and disruption, which happens to be occupied by the current cruiserweight champion. A local boxing promoter hears of the conflict and decides it is the perfect opportunity to get Orlando back into the ring. Through blackmail, Orlando is faced with returning to his old milieu, where he must face the current champion no matter what. Carman: The Champion, released by independent Christian company 8X Entertainment, also features Michael Nouri and Patricia Manterola. ~ Jason Clark, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carman, Michael Nouri, (more)
- 1997
A middle-aged, slightly pudgy and earthy waitress finds herself wooed by a handsome marine animal trainer from a local theme park. Arlette (comedienne Josiane Balasko, France's answer to Roseanne) has no idea that she is the long-lost heir to the vast fortune of a dying business tycoon. Her new suitor Franck (Christophe Lambert), who is dangerously indebted to Las Vegas gamblers, is well-aware of her status and is being forced by the gamblers to court and marry her so they can later kill her and collect her inheritance. As this is a comedy, the story takes several humorous twists and turns, especially when Franck really does fall in love with the feisty Arlette and comes clean about the scheme. This leads Arlette and Franck to hatch their own plan for turning the tables on the crooks. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Josiane Balasko, Christopher Lambert, (more)
A vengeful FBI agent wages a one-man war against a powerful drug cartel that has kidnapped his family in this action thriller from producer/director Joseph Merhi. The White Hand is a feared drug cartel run by the five most powerful crime lords in the business. When The White Hand takes FBI agent Jeff Douglas' family hostage, they will face an army of one more powerful than any military force, who is ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of his family. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1979
Fast Friends is a lumpy satire set "backstage" at a talk show (imagine what the film would have been like had it been made in 1989 rather than '79). Most of the action centers around egotistical, near-lunatic talk host Dick Shawn. His frantic antics are counterpointed with the story of career woman Susan Heldfond, a divorcee who re-enters the workplace for the sake of her child. This made-for-TV film costars former critic's darling Carrie Snodgress and then-hot actress MacKenzie Phillips. But the real attraction in Fast Friends is the prescient appearance of tenth-billed David Letterman as "Matt Morgan", a brash comedian who has the temerity to upstage the preening Dick Shawn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1978
An eccentric boy genius deceives the local sheriff and turns the town upside down in this 1978 comedy. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1977
After several weeks of pre-emptions and reruns, Streets of San Francisco returned to the ABC lineup in late April of 1977 for its final six episodes. This time, Stone (Karl Malden) and Robbins (Richard Hatch) put out an A.P.B. on a convicted killer who has escaped from an asylum. Refusing to believe that he has murdered his wife, the fugitive embarks upon a desperate search for the dead woman--and in the process imperils the lives of several innocent bystanders. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1976
Dale Messick's inexplicably popular Brenda Starr has to be one of the lamest comic strips ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public; thus, any filmed version of the strip had nowhere to go but up. Jill St. John stars in this feature-length TV pilot film as plucky girl reporter Brenda Starr. While searching for a Howard Hughesish recluse, Brenda ends up in the wilds of Brazil at the mercy of voodoo-practicing natives. Happily, both St. John and special guest villain Victor Buono recognize the material for what it is, and make no effort to take things seriously. Brenda Starr debuted on May 8, 1976; no series of any kind followed. Other cinemadaptations of Brenda Starr include a 1945 Columbia serial starring Joan Woodbury, and a much-delayed (though not long-awaited) theatrical feature of the 1990s starring Brooke Shields. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1975
Mixing humor and melodrama, this curiosity has a husband-and-wife detective duo investigating Satanic goings on in an American suburb, all the while bickering about their in-laws and other domestic problems. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Produced in 1974 and telecast on January 6, 1975, The Specialists is a TV pilot film from Jack Webb's Mark VII team. The four protagonists--two men, two women--are functionaries of the Bureau of Epidemic Control, a division of the US Health Department. In the tradition of Adam 12 and Emergency, the multiplotted film involves several different cases of delaying or halting contagious diseases, rather than one single epidemic. One of the scientists is played by none other than Maureen Reagan, professional "first daughter." Had it been sold as a series, the title would have been Vector. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer, Detective Ben Fiore (Harry Guardino) decides to take care of some unfinished business before cashing in his chips. With nothing to lose, Fiore begins an intensive manhunt for the killer of his partner Eddie Ryan (Jed Allen)--and at the same time he reveals his long-suppressed ardor for Eddie's widow Ellen (Joanne Linville). Despite the dying detective's effort to hide his illness from everyone, Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) senses that there's something very strange going on, especially considering that the late Eddie Ryan was frankly not worthy of Fiore's intense loyalty. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
James L. Brooks' Thursday's Game is a witty made-for-television comedy about two businessmen (Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder) who meet every Thursday night to play poker and discuss their professional and personal problems. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Assigned temporary fill-in duty at Los Angeles International Airport, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are kept hopping with a variety of major crimes and minor misdemeanors. In the course of their shift, the two cops collar some parking-lot thieves, and stop a frequent-flying dope smuggler in his tracks. They also recover a runaway kid who is trying to stow away on an airliner. The supporting cast includes former My Three Sons costar Tina Cole. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Tonight's case log for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) includes their high-speed pursuit of a teenage robber. And elsewhere, the two cops confront a gun-wielding father (Raymond Mayo) who has held his daughter (Mia Bendixsen) a virtual prisoner for nearly all her life. Among the "perps" on this occasion is ex-convict Reno West (Jed Allan, whom Jim and Pete will hear much more from in a later episode. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
In the police penal code, a "Misdemeanor 415" translates as "Disturbing the Peace"--and Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) have a doozy of a "415" on their hands. The two cops are summoned time and again to the home of an unhappily married couple (Jed Allan, Jean Allison), whose noisy arguments are driving everyone in their neighborhood crazy. It would be nice to report that Jim and Pete are able to convince the couple to calm down and patch up their differences...but the final scene of this episode yields tragically different results. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Hoping to solve a series of burglaries, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) set their sights on Reno West (Jed Allan), an ex-convict whom they'd confronted in the previous episode "Hot Shot". Elsewhere, the cops search high and low for a nasty marauding dog. And yet another squabbling married couple causes headaches for Jim and Pete. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
This TV movie was the pilot for a series that would have been titled The Prosecutors...had it sold. David Canary and Robert Pine play two green law school graduates, sent to work at the Department of Justice's office in Manhattan. The standard-issue "gruff but lovable" father figure is US attorney James Olson (who would have been the star of the subsequent series). The first case-load: Getting the goods on a mafia boss, while simultaneously exposing City Hall corruption and tracking down a narcotics operation. Richard Castellano, late of The Godfather, shows up as a minor mafioso. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
In addition to tackling the usual traffic and drug violations--not to mention a thief posing as a cab driver-- Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) find themselves in the middle of a bizarre hostage situation. A frustated actor has taken a stewardess captive in hopes of forcing a producer to give him an audition. Ironically, the actor is played by Frank Sinatra Jr.), who had himself been the victim of an audacious pair of kidnappers back in 1963. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1971
Peter Falk revived his Lieutenant Columbo characterization, first seen in 1967's Prescription: Murder, for the made-for-TV Ransom for a Dead Man. Lee Grant plays a wily lawyer who murders her husband, then arranges to make it appear that he's been kidnapped. The plan is to allow the body to be found by the cops during the ransom pickup, leaving Grant in the clear. But Columbo has "just one more question," and slowly but surely wears down Grant's alibi. Written and produced by Richard Levinson and William O. Link, Ransom for a Dead Man was the official pilot for the subsequent Columbo TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1971
After nearly four seasons in a Saturday-night timeslot, Adam-12 moved to a new Thursday evening berth beginning with this episode. The LAPD's Internal Affairs Division zeroes in on officer Tony Johnson (Jed Allan), who has been charged with extorting money from a civilian. The only person who can clear Johnson is a bar girl, but no one can locate her--except, hopefully, officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1970
A domestic-disturbance call gets Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) mixed up in the trials and tribulations of a former wrestler (played by veteran movie heavy Mike Mazurki) and his contentious spouse (Dorothy Keller). Elsewhere, the men of Adam-12 deal with a narcotics gang, and auto theft, and (per the episode's title) a bank robbery. Featured in the cast as Charles Jensen is Jed Allan, then currently costarring on the long-running CBS action series Lassie. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched with orders to get to Ice Station Zebra carrying three passengers, a Englishman going by the name of David Jones (Patrick McGoohan), a Soviet turncoat named Boris Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine), and an American Marine officer, Captain Anders (Jim Brown), who is supposed to command the Marine unit assigned to the mission. Jones is problem enough, as he is in command of the mission and he prefers to withhold as much information as it's possible to do from Ferraday, even at the risk of the Tigerfish's safety. Add to that the fact that Anders is suspicious of Vaslov, and Vaslov seems much too inquisitive and is telling even less of what he knows about the mission, and Ferraday has his hands full trying to get these men to the polar ice -- 600 miles of dangerous travel -- in just two days. When an attempt to break through the ice -- coupled with some timely sabotage -- kills one man and nearly destroys the boat, the men surrounding these contending parties start to understand just how high the stakes are for everyone. It turns out that the Soviets want what was aboard that satellite as much as the West does; indeed, both sides are frantic to get it, and, just as much, to keep the other side from getting it -- and they're prepared to take it by brute force. Once Ferraday and his men arrive at Zebra, they find a disaster and still more mystery, with most of the men dead and the object that Mr. Jones is supposed to secure nowhere in evidence, and he and his two fellow men of mystery suddenly showing their killing instincts quite freely. And with the storm clearing from the Soviet side first, their planes and their paratroops are closing in on Ferraday, and his relative handful of men. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, (more)
- 1965
In this sweet-natured drama, poor Lassie suffers from canine amnesia and finds herself in San Francisco where she meets an assortment of interesting characters in several neighborhoods. These experiences cure her and lead her home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
