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John Furlong (American Actor)
John Furlong (April 14, 1933 – June 23, 2008) was an American actor. He dubbed the voice of Russ Meyer in all of Meyer's film appearances. Filmography * ''Mudhoney'' (1965) - Calif McKinney * ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'' (1965) - Narrator (voice, uncredited) * ''How Much Loving Does a Normal Couple Need?'' (1967) - Dr. Martin Ross * '' Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!'' (1968) - Customer * '' Vixen!'' (1968) - Sam the Gas Station Attendant * ''Blazing Saddles'' (1974) - Tourist Man (uncredited) * ''Busting'' (1974) - Policeman * ''The Gravy Train'' (1974) - Second Passenger * ''Airport 1975'' (1974) - Mr. Taylor - Passenger (uncredited) * ''The Front Page'' (1974) - Duffy * Adam-12 (11/19/74) as Bar Comic * '' Supervixens'' (1975) - CBS Commentator (voice) * '' Hustle'' (1975) - Waiter * ''W.C. Fields and Me'' (1976) - Reporter (uncredited) * ''All the President's Men'' (1976) - News Desk Editor * ''The Gumball Rally'' (1976) - Man on Freeway * ''Doc Hooker's Bunch'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albany, New York
Albany ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. Albany is the oldest city in New York, and the county seat of and most populous city in Albany County, New York, Albany County. Albany's population was 99,224 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 101,228 in 2023. The city is the economic and cultural core of New York State's Capital District (New York), Capital District, a metropolitan area including the nearby cities and suburbs of Colonie, New York, Colonie, Troy, New York, Troy, Schenectady, New York, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs, New York, Saratoga Springs. With a population of 1.23 million in 2020, the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state. The Hudson River area was originally inhabited by Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam-12
''Adam-12'' is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Robert A. Cinader and Jack Webb and produced by Mark VII Limited and Universal Television. The series follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they patrol Los Angeles in their Police car, police cruiser, assigned the call sign "1-Adam-12". ''Adam-12'' stars Martin Milner and Kent McCord, with several recurring co-stars, the most frequent being William Boyett and Gary Crosby (actor), Gary Crosby. The series ran over seven seasons from September 21, 1968, until May 20, 1975, airing 174 episodes. Like Webb's other series, Dragnet (1967 TV series), ''Dragnet'' and ''Emergency!'', ''Adam-12'' was produced in cooperation with the actual department it was based on; in this case, the LAPD. ''Adam-12'' aimed to be realistic in its depiction of policing and helped familiarize the American public with police procedures and jargon. A Broadcast syndication, syndicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburban Commando
''Suburban Commando'' is a 1991 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Burt Kennedy, produced by Howard Gottfried, and written by Frank Cappello. The film stars Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and Larry Miller. Additionally, a young Elisabeth Moss briefly appears in her film debut. The film was originally titled ''Urban Commando'', and was intended for Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. When these two opted to make '' Twins'' (1988), the script was bought by New Line Cinema as the follow-up to another Hulk Hogan film, '' No Holds Barred''. In the film, an extraterrestrial warrior botches a part of his mission. He is subsequently instructed to take a vacation, and causes damages to his own control systems while reacting in frustration. He crash-lands on planet Earth, and finds himself stranded there until his spaceship recharges itself. He unintentionally gets his new landlords involved in conflicts with his foes. Plot Interstellar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trouble With Spies
''The Trouble with Spies'' is a 1987 spy comedy film written and directed by Burt Kennedy, and starring Donald Sutherland and Ned Beatty. The film was shot in 1984, but not released until three years later. It features veteran actress Ruth Gordon's final performances. It was also the final film of Suzanne Danielle. Plot When secret agent George Trent goes missing, spy agency chief Angus sends inept colleague Appleton Porter to the isle of Ibiza to find out why. Appleton meets a number of guests in Mona Lewis's hotel who were familiar with Trent, but none has a clue what became of him. Appleton himself is totally clueless, nearly being killed a number of times but surviving mainly due to pure dumb luck. Cast *Donald Sutherland as Appleton Porter *Ned Beatty as Harry Lewis *Ruth Gordon as Mrs. Arkwright *Lucy Gutteridge as Mona *Michael Hordern as Jason Locke *Suzanne Danielle as Maria Sola *Robert Morley as Angus *Gregory Sierra as Captain Sanchez Production The film was financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Jobs (1986 Film)
''Odd Jobs'' is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Mark Story. It was the last film distributed by TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures before HBO dropped out of the TriStar venture and sold half of its shares to Columbia Pictures (later sold to Sony). Plot College students Max (Paul Reiser) and Dwight (Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Townsend) form a moving company to pay for Tuition payments, tuition. Along the way, they cross the La Cosa Nostra, mob, which runs a rival moving company. Cast * Paul Reiser as Max * Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Townsend as Dwight * Scott McGinnis as Woody * Rick Overton as Roy * Paul Provenza as Byron * Leo Burmester as Wylie D. Daiken * Thomas Quinn as Frankie * Savannah Smith Boucher as Loretta & Lynette * Richard Dean Anderson as "Spud" * Richard Foronjy as Manny * Ken Olfson as Mayor Brady * Charlie Dell as Earl * Starletta DuPois as Dwight's Mother * Don Imus as Monty Leader * Wayne Grace as Roy's Father * Julianne Phillips as Sall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagged Edge (film)
''Jagged Edge'' is a 1985 American neo-noir legal thriller film written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand, the last of his films to be released during his lifetime. The film stars Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote and Robert Loggia. A lawyer reluctantly takes the case of a man accused of killing his wife, but remains uncertain if he is guilty or not. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success. Loggia was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Plot A masked intruder breaks into the beach house of San Francisco socialite Page Forrester, ties her to her bed, rips open her shirt, and kills her with a hunting knife. The maid is also murdered. Husband Jack Forrester, arrested for her murder, tries to hire high-profile lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him. Barnes is reluctant to take the case since an incident with district attorney Thomas Krasny, her former boss, caused her to quit pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 Film)
''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' is a 1981 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Bob Rafelson and written by David Mamet (in his screenwriting debut). Starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, it is the fourth adaptation of the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. The film was shot in Santa Barbara, California. Plot Frank Chambers, a drifter, stops for a meal at a diner outside Depression-era Los Angeles and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora Smith, and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis, a hardworking but unimaginative immigrant from Greece. Frank and Cora begin an affair soon after they meet. Cora is tired of her situation, married to an older man she does not love and working at a diner that she wishes to own and improve. She and Frank scheme to murder Nick to start a new life together without her losing the diner. Their first attempt at the murder is a failure, but they succeed with their second attempt. The local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens
''Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens'' is a 1979 satirical sexploitation film directed by American film-maker Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert and Meyer. It stars Kitten Natividad and Ann Marie with a cameo by Uschi Digard. Plot Among the people of Small Town, U.S.A. are: evangelical radio preacher Eufaula Roop (Ann Marie) who mounts Martin Bormann inside a coffin; a salesman and a large-breasted housewife (Candy Samples); and Junkyard Sal (June Mack) who has sex with her working-class employees. Finally there is Lamar, who anally rapes his large-breasted wife Lavonia ( Kitten Natividad) after she tries having vaginal sex. Afterwards, she kicks him in the groin. While Lamar heads off to his junkyard work, Lavonia spots a young man skinny dipping in a lake. She sneaks off and undresses, then jumps the boy from behind and proceeds rape him. The young man soon escapes, but she dives down, catches him underwater by fellating him and then overpowers him. After he succumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodbrothers (1978 Film)
''Bloodbrothers'' is a 1978 coming-of-age film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Richard Gere, Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco and Marilu Henner. It was based on the 1976 novel by Richard Price. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Plot The film narrates the coming-of-age story of a teenager hailing from an Italian-American working-class family, specifically a household of construction workers in the Bronx. Tommy De Coco and his brother Louis, affectionately known as Chubby due to his robust build, toil as laborers on construction sites, embodying the life and family values prevalent among immigrant Italians in the working-class milieu of the Bronx. This includes the macho posturing of men, the traditional role of the wife in the kitchen, the marriage to a virtuous girl, and the premarital exploration among vivacious, pleasure-seeking women. Numerous issues remain unaddressed, and the family grapples with finding solutions to certain behaviors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swarm (1978 Film)
''The Swarm'' is a 1978 American natural horror film directed and produced by Irwin Allen and based on Arthur Herzog's 1974 novel of the same name. It stars an ensemble cast, including Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Henry Fonda and Fred MacMurray in his final film role. It follows a scientist and a military task force who try to prevent a large swarm of killer bees from invading Texas. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, although praise was given to the costume design. It has been considered to be one of the worst films ever made.''Halliwell's film and video guide 2002'' edited by John Walker. London. HarperCollins Entertainment, 2001. (p. 804). Plot In south Texas, a top-security United States Air Force ICBM command bunker is invaded and neutralized by an unknown force. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One On One (1977 Film)
''One on One'' is a 1977 American sports film, sports drama (film and television), drama film starring Robby Benson and Annette O'Toole. It was written by Benson (then 21) and his father Jerry Segal. It was directed by Lamont Johnson and features a soundtrack performed by Seals and Crofts. Plot Henry Steele, a naive high school basketball star from a small town in Colorado, wins a college scholarship to Western University in Los Angeles. Talented but with a tendency to improvise, Henry must overcome not only a cultural transition, but also adopt to the team's win-at-all-costs philosophy from his coach, which includes a strict system fraught with corruption. On the academic side, Henry is assigned to Janet Hays, a Senior (education), senior tutor, who initially disdains him, but eventually falls for him. Henry navigates through seduction from an older woman, bribing a police officer and brutal team practices. Henry is given an Stimulant, upper by a teammate and performs erraticall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gumball Rally
''The Gumball Rally'' is a 1976 American action comedy film, directed and co-written by Charles Bail, a former stunt coordinator also known as Chuck Bail, about an illicit coast-to-coast road race. It was inspired by the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash run by Brock Yates, which inspired several other films, including ''Cannonball'' (1976), '' Cannonball Run'' (1981), and '' Speed Zone'' (1989), as well as an actual event, the American Gumball Rally and Gumball 3000 international race. Plot Michael Bannon, a wealthy but bored businessman and candymaker, issues the code word "Gumball" to his fellow automobile enthusiasts, who gather in a garage in New York City to embark on a coast-to-coast race "with no catalytic converter and no 55-mile-per-hour speed limit" in the shortest amount of time. There is only one rule: "There ''are'' no rules". Their longtime nemesis, Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant Roscoe, who has been trying for years to arrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
