Glen Campbell Movies
A pop and country singer-musician, and occasional lead actor, Glen Campbell was something of a child prodigy; he began playing guitar and singing on local radio at age 6. He joined a band at age 15, and later formed his own group. In 1967 he hit the big time with his mega-popular songs "Gentile on My Mind" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," leading to a starring role on his own TV variety show The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which in turn led to roles in several films. He was first onscreen in a bit role in The Cool Ones (1967). ~ All Movie Guide
- 2007
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The Best of the Johnny Cash Show captures a number of memorable performances from the variety show hosted by the country music legend. This collection includes performances by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Neil Young, Ray Charles, Pete Seeger, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kris Kristofferson
- 2006
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The musical compilation release Legends of Country: Classic Hits of the '50s, '60s and '70s caters to fans of vintage country and western music who came of age in the postwar decades, with the genre in its absolute heyday. The program compiles an hour of vintage performance clips from the titular decades, many of which originally aired on television. Tracks include: Hank Locklin on "Please Help Me, I'm Fallin'," Glen Campbell on "Southern Nights" and "Rhinestone Cowboy," Patti Page on "The Tennessee Waltz," The Bellamy Brothers on "Let Your Love Flow," B.J. Thomas on "Hooked on a Feeling," Billy Swan on "I Can Help" and the inimitable Crystal Gayle on "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
A hot young celebrity discovers fame can be a toxic substance in this independent drama. Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is a successful actor in his late twenties who would seem to have it made. Gray is married to an attractive actress with a solid career of her own, Mia Lang (Franka Potente), he's got several projects in the works, he gets lots of fan mail, and he gets to hang out at ritzy parties with his heroes. But Gray is far from happy; his marriage to Mia is starting to fall apart, and he's being driven to distraction by his obsessive belief that a fan is stalking him. As Gray struggles to separate his delusions from reality, he finds himself indulging in a bit of stalking of his own, as he begins following John (Joshua Jackson), a clerk at a video store who is a big fan of his movies. The way Gray sees it, John is happier than he is, John's pretty wife, Jane (Marisa Coughlan), loves him while Mia doesn't care for him any more, and all in all he'd just as soon trade lives with the guy. In the midst of all this, Gray has recently run into Shana (Christina Ricci), a former flame he'd like to reconnect with. Directed by actor Adam Goldberg, I Love Your Work features a number of major stars in cameo roles, including Vince Vaughn, Jason Lee, and Elvis Costello. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, (more)
- 2004
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Rock out to 50 years of the King of Rock & Roll with this celebration of the man, the myth and the legend himself, Elvis Presley. Containing never-before-seen interviews with his closest peers inside and out of the music industry, follow rock's biggest icon from his early days with Sam Phillips and Sun Records through his untimely death in 1977 from the people that were there to see it all happen. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
Singer and guitarist Glen Campbell has been a hitmaker through the 1960's, 70's and 80's, and this performance video, recorded during a concert appearance in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, shows Campbell has lost none of his easy charm as a vocalist or his impressive skills as an instrumentalist. Glen Campbell In Concert features "Goodtime Glen" performing 22 songs, including "Gentle On My Mind", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "Southern Nights", "The Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife", and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix". ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Johnny Cash is, without question, one of the most powerful and important performers in the history of country music, and an artist whose influence has touched musicians as diverse as Marty Stuart, Tom Waits, and Elvis Costello. Johnny Cash: The Anthology is a two-part video tribute to the Man in Black's remarkable life and career, in which Cash and some of his close friends from the music world perform a handful of his best-known songs. Guest artists include Merle Haggard, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Rodney Crowell, and Glen Campbell; songs include "I Walk the Line," "Big River," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Cry Cry Cry," "Ring of Fire," "A Boy Named Sue," "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," and many more. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1992
- G
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When Chanticleer the Rooster (Glenn Campbell) is tricked into leaving town to seek fame as an Elvis-style Las Vegas singer, his farm is plunged into eternal darkness. This animated musical from Don Bluth centers on a young farm boy who embarks on a magical journey into the animal world to try and bring Chanticleer home. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Glen Campbell, Ellen Greene, (more)
- 1992
- PG
Set in 1969 Los Angeles, this movie aims at nostalgia but really is more a depiction of the tragedy of a dysfunctional family. Young Andrew, a 13-year-old male on the brink of manhood, is saddled with a Father who is a compulsive gambler and a Mother who is immersed in constant battle with him because of it. Often desperate for money, their dependence on Andrew's older sister for money is one more cause of tension and anxiety in an already unhappy household. As Andrew cares for himself and his younger sister, the symbol of his coming of age--his approaching bar-mitzvah--comes to symbolize more than just a rite of passage. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, (more)
- 1985
This Western comedy is set in the early 1900's and features the inept duo of Ben (Roy Clark) and Booger (Mel Tillis). The two men visit a bank seeking a loan but carry a shotgun with them. Understandably, this gives the wrong impression to the bank staff and before they know it, they are being chased all over creation by the sheriff (Burl Ives) and an army captain (Glen Campbell). Several songs are interspersed with the chase scenes, and Burt Reynolds makes a cameo appearance as an ace poker player who cleans out Ben and Booger. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mel Tillis, Burl Ives, (more)
- 1982
Hosted by Glen Campbell, Coming Home: An Evening of Gospel features performances by such respected performers as Deniece Williams, Andrae Crouch, and The Hawkins Family as well as the beloved Ray Charles. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Glen Campbell, Andrae Crouch, (more)
The concert video Hallelujah Gospel features performances of over a dozen songs by a variety of performers including Ray Charles, Andrae Crouch, Deniece Williams, and Glen Campbell. The setlist includes "Coming Home," "I Believe in Miracles," "God Is Amazing," and "A Few Good Men." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1981
- R
This video features clips from a live performance of country music, with some of the genre's biggest stars, including Tanya Tucker, Glen Campbell, Roger Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Delaney and Bonnie, Maureen McGovern, Gary Busey, and Duane Eddy. Among the popular tunes performed in the concert are "Me and Bobby McGee," "Rhinestone Cowboy," and "Only You Know." ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide
This sequel to Every Which Way But Loose finds Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) on the road, orangutan companion Clyde in tow, as he makes his way as a bare-knuckle fighter. The action begins with Philo punching out a new victim while Clyde relieves himself on the seat of a police car, setting the tone for the rest of the story. From there, Philo and Clyde return home, where Philo, who still lives with Ma (Ruth Gordon), is offered a contest with Jack Wilson (William Smith), the Mafia-sponsored East Coast bare-knuckle champ. Philo inadvertently saves Wilson's life, but then the Mafia kidnaps his girlfriend (Sondra Locke) to force him to go ahead with the match. Philo and Wilson team up to battle the Mob, but somehow they end up fighting anyway in a grueling climactic sequence. Country music, bikers, the Mafia, an orangutan, pick-up trucks, defecation jokes, fighting, drinking, and swearing -- it's all here in this lowbrow comic stew. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, (more)
- 1979
Most famous for their blockbuster hit singles "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Do That to Me One More Time," the soft rock team of Captain and Tennille (husband and wife Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille) peaked in popularity from 1975 through 1976; they performed for the likes of Gerald Ford, swept up a massive fanbase and even landed an eponymous musical variety series on ABC from late September 1976 through mid-March 1977. Unfortunately, that program soon folded due to low ratings; Tennille and Dragon rebounded ever so briefly in 1979 with this musical variety special, originally called simply "Captain and Tennille" but retitled The Captain and Tennille Songbook for video release in the U.S. This hour-long program completely eschews the comedy bits of the original variety series to focus exclusively on music, by virtue of The Captain, Tennille, and guests B.B. King, Ella Fitzgerald and Glen Campbell. It also eschews songs like "The Way I Want to Touch You" and the campy "Muskrat Love" to focus on standards including "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "The Man That Got Away" and "Stormy Weather." ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daryl Dragon, Toni Tennille, (more)
- 1977
Live concert of Glen Campbell and his orchestra with songs including "Wichita Lineman," "Rhinestone Cowboy," "Galveston," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," and "Southern Nights." ~ All Movie Guide
- 1974
A murderous robber returns home to his loving family after he serves 18 years for his crimes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1970
In this romance, an ex-Marine begins looking for a fellow Vietnam vet in hopes of making it as musicians in New York. He does not realize it, but he is driving in stolen cars. After being chased by the police, he ditches the cars and hitchhikes the New York. By the time he arrives, his pal has already left. At the friend's former apartment, the Marine gets romantic with a hippie chick and begins singing in the Village where he finds audiences unreceptive. He then boards a bus where he meets a young woman on her way to marry a Marine who ends up refusing to marry her. Soon she and the musical Marine are traveling companions. They are accompanied by a trick chicken, and a midget. Just as he finally finds his friend, the girl states that she is pregnant and the honorable fellow offers to marry her, but she will not. Then her old fiancé appears and a fight ensues. She ends up going with him. When the singer finally gets his big chance, he sees the girl watching him and realizes they are in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, (more)
In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), who killed her father. The headstrong Mattie could have had her pick of lawmen, but selects the aging Cogburn because she believes he has "true grit" (she talks this way all through the picture, so be prepared). Also heading into Indian territory in search of Chaney is Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who wants to collect the reward placed on the fugitive's head for his earlier crimes. Complicating matters are Chaney's scurrilous cronies Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall), Quincy (Jeremy Slate), and Moon (Dennis Hopper), who have no qualms about killing a troublesome teenaged girl like Mattie. While the plot of True Grit, adapted (and streamlined) by Marguerite Roberts from the novel by Charles Portis, maintains audience interest throughout, the glue that truly holds this Western together is John Wayne, delivering one of his finest performances (though some believe he was better in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon). Wayne's casual charisma is infinitely more effective than the mannered method acting of Kim Darby and the floundering non-acting of poor Glen Campbell. And who could not love the climatic face-off between Duvall and company and John Wayne, whose "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" is not only a classic bit of dialogue, but the apotheosis of the Wayne mystique. In 1975, Wayne repeated his True Grit characterization opposite Katharine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn, but the film failed to match its predecessor and the overall effect was blunted. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Wayne, Glen Campbell, (more)
- 1967
Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) head to the Florida Keys, where Gloria Burnett is hiding in an abandoned house. Gloria is the only person who can identify her husband Charles (James Franciscus) and his accomplice Allen Cole (Hunt Powers) as the masterminds behind a thwarted kidnap attempt, and Charles is not about to let her tell anyone what she knows. Ratcheting up the melodrama is an oncoming hurricane that threatens to wipe out all of the principal characters in one fell swoop. Glen Campbell shows up as a philosophical guitar player. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1967
This musical comedy pokes fun at the music industry as it tells of the romantic travails of two popular singers thrust together by an ingenious promoter/matchmaker as a publicity stunt. The young male needs to revive his flagging career while the female singer is trying to get her big break; so both of them reluctantly go along with their manager's harebrained scheme. You can guess what happens next. Songs include: "The Cool Ones," "A Bad Woman's Love," "Whiz Bam Opener," "This Town," "High," "Up Your Totem Pole with Love," "Tantrum," and ""Where Did I Go Wrong?"" ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roddy McDowall, Debbie Watson, (more)
