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- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDan DuryeaJayne MansfieldMartha VickersDan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDarren McGavinMargaret HayesWarren StevensFact-based story of a rookie cop who takes on a crime syndicate involved in corrupting government officials in Brooklyn, New York.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsFranchot ToneElizabeth MontgomeryJames DruryA powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to return to the town which his father lived. His love interest is Elizabeth Montgomery.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsKerwin MathewsJulie AdamsRay DantonA Marine sergeant falls in love with the widow of a comrade shot in combat by their lieutenant.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsSandra DeeJames DarrenCliff RobertsonA young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsFred MacMurrayLin McCarthyDorothy GreenA robber who is falsely accused of murdering a deputy sheriff tries to start a new life in a border town near Mexico, but his past catches up with him.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsCliff RobertsonGia ScalaTeru ShimadaIn 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDick ClarkVictoria ShawMichael CallanA new high school teacher tries to help troubled students and falls in love with the principal's secretary.
- DirectorPaul WendkosHubert CornfieldStarsGeorge HamiltonMercedes McCambridgeJoan BlondellIn his film debut, Burt Reynolds vies with George Hamilton for the love of one heavenly woman. In the American South, evangelist Paul Strand (Hamilton) meets a beautiful, young mute named Jenny, affectionately known as Angel Baby. When Paul prays for her, Jenny's voice miraculously returns ... and the two fall in love, sparking jealousy in Paul's older wife and Jenny's predatory lover (Reynolds). With Paul and Sarah quarreling furiously, Jenny leaves as a traveling evangelist and starts to believe that she possesses divine healing powers. But does she...?
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames DarrenMichael CallanDeborah WalleyGidget, on vacation in Hawaii, finds a gang of lads vying for her attention, starting a chain of romantic complications when her boyfriend arrives.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames DarrenCindy CarolJessie Royce LandisGidget, in Rome for a holiday, misinterprets attention she receives from a famous journalist. Discovering he is "chaperoning" her at Dad's request she resumes interest in her boyfriend. Based upon characters created by Frederick Kohner.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRobert TaylorGeraldine BrooksChad EverettA widowed schoolteacher arrives at a Seminole Reservation in the Florida Everglades with his three children. He's determined to bring these Indians into the modern world but his contempt for their ways meets with resistance.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesAndrew KeirSue LloydDuring World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJack LordNancy KwanLeslie NielsenRed Chinese agent Wo Fat uses a sensory deprivation chamber to procure information from U.S. agents. McGarrett, head of Hawaii's state police force, poses as "control," possessor of the names of other agents. He allows himself to be captured and placed in the chamber; will he be able to withstand the torture?
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLouis JourdanLynda Day GeorgeCarroll O'ConnorA psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGeorge KennedyJames WhitmoreMonte MarkhamGunslinger Chris Adams is hired by a Mexican revolutionary to organize the rescue of his cause's leader from a brutal Army prison.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames FranciscusElizabeth ShepherdRonald AllenAn American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGlenn FordRosemary ForsythDean JaggerA successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGeorge PeppardGiovanna RalliRaf ValloneIn 1916, when a Mexican rebel steals cannons from the American army, General Pershing sends out a group of misfits to retrieve the stolen weapons.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsVic MorrowChris RobinsonJames T. CallahanSand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAlan AldaJacqueline BissetBarbara ParkinsAn old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesFrank ConverseSallie ShockleyA detective accidentally kills his son-in-law's floozy and then tries to cover-up his actions.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDiane BakerEd NelsonHoward DuffA hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsShelley WintersArthur KennedyJohn RandolphA mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLaurence LuckinbillCeleste HolmDean JaggerA government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRichard ChamberlainFaye DunawayPatrick MacneeThe love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsBen GazzaraJack CarterDane ClarkA Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesCloris LeachmanEdward AsnerA group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort but find themselves wondering about their existences after a while.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRichard CrennaJoanna PettetForrest TuckerA football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the team to improve.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAndy GriffithIda LupinoMichael BrandonA building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be bank robber and his spaced-out accomplices.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJoseph BolognaBrenda VaccaroRaf ValloneStory of the rise and fall of the Bonanno organized crime family.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverEstelle ParsonsKristoffer TaboriA family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsPeter GravesSharon FarrellCeleste HolmA private detective goes after the kidnapers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsElizabeth MontgomeryFionnula FlanaganEd FlandersIn 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsKate ReidJohn AndersonA MartinezA female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murder of an international banker.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsBo SvensonCybill ShepherdMel ScottA bank robber fleeing on foot shoves a bag full of money into a mailbox in downtown L.A. Only he doesn't realize that there are two onlookers who are very interested in the bag's content.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsBen GazzaraEileen BrennanRobby BensonA sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsSusan BlakelyRoy ThinnesJoanne LinvilleA young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage goes from affair to affair in her search for the "secret" to happiness.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDack RamboElyssa DavalosRichard LynchA writer, Andy Stuart, teams up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.
- StarsLesley Ann WarrenDavid DukesPolly BergenA poor New York teenager of the mid-1930 is forced into prostitution despite sincere efforts to make a living and ultimately becomes the city's most famous madam.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLesley Ann WarrenRip TornRichard MasurA woman accuses her psychiatrist for having forced her to maintain a sexual relationship with him as a therapy. The following examination of the case is very difficult for the police.
- StarsCicely TysonJason BernardClifford DavidA film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverLisa EilbacherDavid HaskellThe story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerilla organization, as seen by the F.B.I. Agent in charge of her case.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsElizabeth MontgomeryJames SloyanSean FryeDivorced career woman's life changes when she is beaten and robbed by a street gang.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverSusan SullivanRichard DysartCountry doctor Samuel Mudd is unfairly punished by the U.S. Government after he unwisely shelters a wounded John Wilkes Booth during the night after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsSusan BlakelyPowers BootheCharles SiebertDivorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage--who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDavid BirneyDee WallaceMitchell RyanA man was abused by his father and developed distinct multiple personalities to deal with the abuse. He didn't know he had different people taking over his body. He found out and had to deal with it.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsPerry KingJean SimmonsRichard KileyA venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted but ailing patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who attempts a takeover.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsValerie HarperEd O'NeillGregory SierraLiz Farrell is dedicated and honorable and compassionate assistant district attorney. Presently, she has two cases, one a rape of a young girl, and she is up against an attorney, who is prepared to attack the girl to save his client. And she also has to prosecute a man, who has a lot of friends who are powerful, for murder.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverKaren GrasslePamela BellwoodA real-estate salesman with career and marriage problems gets hooked on cocaine and finds that not only does it not help him cope, but it makes those problems much, much worse.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAnthony GearyJudith LightMark HarmonDoctor Kyle Richards takes a job managing an office in the Hamptons where herpes runs rampant. He is frustrated by the community's denial and decides to go public with the epidemic to raise public awareness about the problem.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsBlanche BakerCliff De YoungRichard JaeckelBased on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1975 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.
- StarsNed BeattyClaude AkinsDinah ManoffFollows life of three friends, TJ, Mack and Kleber. When they were young, something happened would haunt them for rest of their lives and they would each achieve notoriety in their own way.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsTuesday WeldKeith CarradinePeter CoyoteA man seduces women to get their money. He has plenty of success, but this time he has met his match.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLoretta SwitRip TornJessica WalterThe members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsBlair BrownLynn RedgraveDavid CarradineA freak fatal accident forces a widow to realize that her 9-year-old daughter was born to kill.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsMargot KidderDavid AckroydAri MeyersA sheltered wife (Margot Kidder) of a surgeon (David Ackroyd) suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJaclyn SmithKen HowardMichael NouriWhen mobster James Moretti (Michael Nouri) is about to be indicted, one of his people thinks he can get to Adam J. Warner (Ken Howard), the Vice President to stop it. So he arranges for lawyer Jennifer Parker (Jaclyn Smith) to get a job at a prestigious law firm. He knows Parker had an affair with Warner and Warner is the father of her son. When she meets him, she has nothing but contempt for him because his brother tried to kill her. Moretti thinks that Parker owes him, so he tells her to tell Warner to stop the indictment. Parker reconnects with Warner much to the consternation of his wife.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsBonnie FranklinJeannetta ArnetteTrazana BeverleyA catholic nun tries hard to protect and integrate in society a number of young women with a past in reform schools or even prisons. Lack of funds, troublemakers in the group, outside incomprehension for her aim make her task hard, but eventually she achieves due to her faith in God, and the human person.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsMelissa GilbertJoe PennyEileen BrennanFashion designer Marian falls in love and marries attorney Edward. Her idyllic romance and marriage are shattered when she learns that Edward is the son of a powerful and feared mafia family.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDavid CarradineRichard DysartDennis FarinaIn May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRaquel WelchMichael GrossBonnie BartlettA successful woman's life is irrevocably changed when she is diagnosed with A.L.S. and ultimately finds her living situation impossible to endure.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLindsay WagnerEli DankerSandy McPeakThis made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The movie chronicles the first 2 days and the aftermath.
- DirectorJud TaylorPaul WendkosStarsChristopher ReeveJudd HirschTony DenisonAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLindsay WagnerBruce BoxleitnerRobin ThomasAfter having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead. Her boyfriend Glen thinks she's crazy so Joanna turns to her ex-boyfriend, Peter. It just so happens that Peter is a strong believer in the supernatural and even teaches a course on it at a local college. Together they must confront the "walkers" so that Joanna can live to see another day.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJohn HeardMel HarrisDavid MorseStory of the rise and fall of 1920s' Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson.
- StarsRobert UrichJoanna KernsDavid Barry GrayA wealthy businessman is accused of murdering his wife to collect insurance money to pay gambling debts. Although his three sons initially believe his innocence, his actions and court evidence soon begin to prove otherwise.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRay SharkeySteve RailsbackJames KeachFact-based story about a rogue Boston police officer who plotted a bank heist.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsCasey SiemaszkoBen JohnsonGerry BammanIn Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chased by the police and a news helicopter, which films the entire incident. Based on a true story.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLoni AndersonMaryedith BurrellRobert DaviBased on the book "Hot Toddy" by Andy Edmunds, this made-for-TV movie revolves around the mysterious death of 1930s movie star Thelma Todd (Loni Anderson).
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsMartin SheenCaroline KavaJames HandyBobby McLoughlin is the adopted child of Harold and Mary Hohne. He's a problem child, so when he is accused of a murder he didn't commit, he is soon recognized guilty. After a moment of doubt, his father will be convinced of his son's innocence, and will fight to get him out of jail. He will need a lot of work and effort to make the administration of justice admit its failure.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsPeter StraussBeverly D'AngeloNed BeattyDown-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsMimi RogersElliott GouldClancy BrownThe aftermath of the notorious "Ninja Murders," aka "The Yom Kippur Murders" is dramatized by following Melody Woodman (Mimi Rogers). Her husband Stewart Woodman (Elliot Gould) is convicted of conspiring with brother Neil Woodman (John Pleshette) to hire a hit on their parents, Vera (Kim Hunter) and Gerald (Sam Wanamaker), The murders are back story; this is a lightly fictionalized account of Melody's travails after Stewart goes to prison. Melody loses her multimillion-dollar home, her dozens of fur coats, her jewelry and her wealthy friends. She can't afford tuition to the private schools her three kids were attending. Forced to move in with her own mother and find a job, she demonstrates pluck and integrity as she deals with the many problems of adjusting to life as a wage earner. For an account of the murders and the investigation that convicted the Woodman brothers, see "Family Blood" by Marvin J. Wolf and Larry Ateberry.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJenny RobertsonNick MancusoEd FlandersJournalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War. While she's there her life is changed profoundly, and she finds new love and hope in the midst of death and destruction.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsOlympia DukakisJohn StamosDella ReeseHelen is a widow who had cancer. Jane is a dedicated nurse that Helen meets. Helen decides that Jane is the one to marry her son.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGreg EviganBrenda BakkeAlexandra PowersA homicide detective finds himself in an uneasy triangle with his fiancée and a female partner.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsClaudia ChristianJeff YagherJessica TuckAn air-traffic controller (Claudia Christian) faces the challenge of her career when she is forced to guide a disabled airplane to safety, unaware that her husband is aboard.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsCecilley CarrollBen SieglerNigel BennettDifferent is the story of a woman with a traumatic brain injury, (Annabeth Gish), and her mentally challenged husband, who have a child of normal intelligence, and how the larger family comes to terms with the parents being 'different.' Gish plays Hope, who is left mentally disabled after a car accident when she was 11. Her mother, played by Lynn Redgrave, is unable to come to terms with her daughter's imperfections sends her away to special schools. After a twenty-year separation, the two are forced to reunite and confront their emotional issues in an attempt to reclaim their lost relationship. It explores the human desire to be accepted and valued just as we are. Hollywood Reporter called it "the best of the best." It was a finalist for a Pen West writing award.