The Amsterdam Kill 1977  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Clouse
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen, Keye Luke, George Cheung, Chang Sing, Stephen Leung, Billy Chan, Lam Ching-Ying
Quinlan (Robert Mitchum), a retired agent for the D.E.A., is called back to duty and assigned the mission of breaking up a heroin pipeline that stretches from Amsterdam to Hong Kong.
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Black Water Gold 1970  TV, 75 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alan Landsburg
Cast: Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Aron Kincaid, Ricardo Montalban, Lana Wood, Jacques Aubuchon, Paul Hampton, Stuart Tyrone
Scuba diver Ray (Aron Kincaid), marine biologist Christofer (Keir Dullea), and historian Alejandro (Ricardo Montalban) team up to search for a sunken Spanish galleon and its cargo of gold. But there are others, headed by ruthless treasure hunter Lyle (Bradford Dillman), who also want the treasure. Made for TV.
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The Bridge at Remagen 1969 G, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Peter van Eyck, Tom Heaton, Matt Clark, Bo Hopkins, Robert Logan
Toward the end of World War II, U.S. troops attempted to capture the last remaining bridge over the Rhine River to keep the Germans from destroying it. Meanwhile, the German officer in charge (Robert Vaughn) delayed the demolition, which precluded German soldiers from returning home. Good acting.
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Brother John 1971  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Paul Winfield, Ramon Bieri, Warren J. Kemmerling, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Richard Ward, Lois Smith
John Kane (Sidney Poitier) returns to his small Southern town where he appears as a Messiah, stirs up the gentry, and is an enigma to his old friends.
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Bug 1975  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Alan Fudge, Jesse Vint, Patty McCormack, Brendan Dillon, Frederic Downs, James Greene, Sam Jarvis, Jim Poyner, Bard Stevens, Karoly Fogassy, William Castle
An earthquake releases mutant cockroaches that have the unique ability to start fires and thus wreak havoc on a nearby town. Professor James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman) takes an interest in the creatures after his wife is killed by them, begins to cross-breed them, and finds that they have intelligence. Sounds like a problem is developing.
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A Circle of Deception 1961 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Lee
Cast: Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews, Paul Rogers, Robert Stephens, John Welsh, Walter Gotell, Charles Lloyd Pack, Richard Marner, Martin Boddey
In this psychological drama, an allied officer, Paul Raine (Bradford Dillman), is set up as a decoy to confuse the Nazis with false information about D-Day plans.
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Compulsion 1959 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner, Richard Anderson, Ed Binns, Robert F. Simon, Robert Burton, Wilton Graff, Gavin MacLeod, Louise Lorimer, Terry Becker, Russ Bender
This is a fictionalized version of the 1920s' Leopold and Loeb case in which law school students–in this case Artie Straus and Judd Steiner (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell)–carry out the "perfect" murder. The crime was perpetrated solely because they were convinced of their own intellectual superiority and wanted to prove their theory. Their parents hire defense attorney Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles) because of his reputation for fighting against the death penalty.
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The Disappearance of Flight 412 1974  TV, 74 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Jud Taylor
Cast: Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, David Soul, Robert F. Lyons, Guy Stockwell, Kent Smith, Greg Mullavy, Stanley Bennett Clay, Jonathan Lippe, Jack Ging, Ken Kercheval, Edward Winter
After two jets from Colonel Pete Moore's (Glenn Ford) unit vanish, Moore, who is being kept in the dark by intelligence agents, decides to investigate on his own.
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 The Enforcer 1976 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: James Fargo
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, John Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, John Crawford, Robert F. Hoy, Rudy Ramos, DeVeren Bookwalter, Samantha Doane, Jocelyn Jones, M.G. Kelly, Nick Pellegrino, Albert Popwell, Rudy Ramos
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) returns, only this time he works with an assistant, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly). Harry goes undercover into a terrorist organization–People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF)–headed by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). The PRSF has kidnapped the Mayor (John Crawford) of San Francisco, and Harry and Kate are determined to rescue him. Lots of action in this good "Dirty Harry" film.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Don Taylor
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Eric Braeden, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, William Windom, Sal Mineo, Albert Salmi, Harry Lauter, M. Emmet Walsh
After a nuclear disaster, two apes (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter) have escaped their lost planet and arrive on Earth. Unfortunately, humans greet them warily–afraid that apes will gain control of Earthlings.
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Francis of Assisi 1961 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Pedro Armendariz, Cecil Kellaway, Eduard Franz, Finlay Currie, Athene Seyler, Mervyn Johns, John Welsh
Bradford Dillman plays the beloved13th-century Franciscan friar who achieves sainthood.
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The Iceman Cometh 1973 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, Hildy Brooks, Martyn Green, Moses Gunn, Clifton James, Juno Dawson, Evans Evans, John McLiam, Stephen Pearlman, Tom Pedi
Based on Eugene O'Neill's play, this is an excellent film about the men who meet at Harry Hope's (Fredric March) bar in 1912 to listen to funny tales told by Hickey (Lee Marvin).
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Jigsaw 1968 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland, Victor Jory, Paul Stewart, Susan Saint James, Michael J. Pollard, Susanne Benton, James Doohan, Donald Mitchell, Roy Jenson, Lev Mailer, Kent McCord
This remake of 1965's "Mirage" features Bradford Dillman as Jonathan Fields, a scientist who is drugged and then faced with the possibility that he may be a murderer after he awakens in an apartment where a dead woman's body lies in the bathtub. Fields hires private detective Arthur Belding (Harry Guardino) to investigate and learns that Field's supervisor Dr. Arkroyd (Victor Jory) had been involved with the dead woman. Now, pieces of the puzzle fit together, and they figure out that Field's co-worker Lew Haley (Pat Hingle) is the guilty culprit. Dillman and Haley have a confrontation, and Haley crashes through the hi-rise office window and plummets to the pavement below.
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Mastermind 1976 G, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Director: Alex March
Cast: Zero Mostel, Keiko Kishi, Gawn Grainger, Bradford Dillman, Jules Munshin, Frankie Sakai, Sorrell Booke, Felix Silla, Zaldy Zshornack, Phil Leeds, Kichi Taki, Tetsu Nakamura
This is an enjoyable spoof of Charlie Chan movies as the very funny Zero Mostel plays Inspector Hoku Ichihara who tries to protect a "special" robot from foreign efforts to capture it. Good car/motorcycle chase scene, complete with sidecar.
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The Mephisto Waltz 1971  R, 115 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Curt Jurgens, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom, Kathleen Widdoes, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curt Lowens, Gregory Morton, Janee Michelle, Lilyan Chauvin, Alberto Morin, Berry Kroeger
Terminally ill pianist Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens), who is also a Satanist, grants an interview with up-and-coming pianist Myles Clarkson (Alan Alda). Duncan is impressed with Clarkson, and at the moment of his death, he transfers his soul to Clarkson. It isn't long before Clarkson's wife Paula (Jacqueline Bisset) notes the change in her husband. But that's not all. Paula eventually takes over the soul of Ely's daughter Roxanne (Barbara Parkins). The musical score provides an eerie background.
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Monstrosity 1964  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Atomic Brain
Director: Joseph V. Mascelli
Cast: Frank Gerstle, Erika Peters, Judy Bamber, Marjorie Eaton, Frank Fowler, Margie Fisco, Lisa Lang, Bradford Dillman
Aging, wealthy Hetty (Marjorie Eaton) searches for eternal youth and finds just the person who can help. Mad scientist Otto Frank (Frank Gerstle) has found a means of transplanting brains from one body to another with the aid of atomic power. Hetty finances his work that is to lead to her brain being placed into a young, sexy woman. But Otto's experiments with corpses lead to zombies or other creatures, so she hires three women to work for her who will be used for his continuing experiments, one of whom will be the recipient of her brain. The bad doctor has his own plans, which involve using Hetty's money for his research. Weird.
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Moon of the Wolf 1972 TV, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino, Geoffrey Lewis, Royal Dano, John Davis Chandler, Claudia McNeil, Robert Phillips, Dan Priest, Dick Crockett, George Sawaya
As Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) investigates a series of murders in his Louisiana parish, he begins to suspect that a werewolf is responsible for the vicious acts.
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Piranha 1978 R, 92 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Barry Brown, Paul Bartel, Richard Deacon, Belinda Balaski
This spoof of "Jaws" is the subject for Joe Dante's directorial debut. The story is about the accidental release of piranhas into a river that flows by a summer resort. There is a sequel.
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The Plainsman 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abby Dalton, Bradford Dillman, Leslie Nielsen, Henry Silva, Simon Oakland, Ed Binns, Michael Evans, Percy Rodriguez
This remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 extravaganza pales by comparison as it, again, tells the story of the settling of America's plains.
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The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler 1971 G, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Wynn
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, James Daly, Angie Dickinson, Robert J. Wilke, Don Haggerty, Jack Carter, Patrick O'Moore, Dick Simmons, Peter Mamakos
Following Senator Zachary Wheeler's (Bradford Dillman) plane crash, TV reporter Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) unwittingly discovers a secret medical facility in New Mexico where diabolical plans are underway to blackmail leaders of the world.
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Sergeant Ryker 1968 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Buzz Kulik
Cast: Lee Marvin, Bradford Dillman, Vera Miles, Peter Graves, Lloyd Nolan, Murray Hamilton, Norman Fell, Walter Brooke, Francis de Sales, Don Marshall
Sergeant Ryker (Lee Marvin) is about to be executed when his wife (Vera Miles) persists in having his case reviewed, which results in a new trial. Ryker is charged with being a traitor during the Korean War, but he insists he was on a top secret mission that was ordered by a now-dead general. Originally shown on TV five years earlier, but expanded for theatrical release.
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Sudden Impact 1983 R, 117 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Audrie J. Neenan, Jack Thibeau, Nancy Parsons, Mara Corday, Michael Currie, Mark Keyloun, Albert Popwell, Bette Ford, Joe Bellan, Paul Drake, Kevyn Major Howard
This is the fourth in a series of "Dirty Harry" movies in which "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) uses his own form of crime control. In this sequel, Harry is in San Paulo where he runs into a rape victim (Sondra Locke) who, like Harry, finds her own way for revenge.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? 1970 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: War Games
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Ewell, Bradford Dillman, Arthur O'Connell, Don Ameche, John Fiedler, William Bramley, Eddie Firestone, Dorothy Green, Grady Sutton, Christopher Mitchum
Col. Flanders (Don Ameche) must deal with citizens of a small town who are unhappy about the Army missile base located nearby. To help solve the problem, Flanders invites the townsfolk to a party that degenerates into a fistfight between the soldiers and the guests. Meanwhile, a soldier, Shannon Gambroni (Tony Curtis), has fallen for bar maid Ramona (Suzanne Pleshette) who town Sheriff Harve (Ernest Borgnine) considers his property. Harve has Shannon arrested, and Shannon's soldier friends, headed by Michael M. Nace (Brian Keith), take matters into their own hands and use a World War II tank to rescue Shannon.
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The Treasure of the Amazon 1985 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Rene Cardona Jr.
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernandez, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland, Ann Sidney, Clark Jarrett, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Jorge Luke, Hugo Stiglitz
Set in the South American jungles, this violent film follows Gringo (Stuart Whitman) as he and his two cohorts search for a treasure. A demented Nazi-in-hiding (Donald Pleasence)–who conducts superman experiments–also seeks the treasure.
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 The Way We Were 1973 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Murray Hamilton, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors, Allyn Ann McLerie, Herb Edelman, Sally Kirkland, Diana Ewing, Don Keefer, George Gaynes, Eric Boles, Marcia Mae Jones
This story follows the lives of activist Katie (Barbra Streisand) and writer Hubbell (Robert Redford) through their days in college, subsequent marriage, and inevitable divorce as each one has diverse political views. The title song won an Academy Award, as did the Musical Score by Marvin Hamlish. Streisand was nominated for Best Actress.
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| 1. The Amsterdam Kill (1977)
2. Black Water Gold (1970)
3. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
4. Brother John (1971)
5. Bug (1975)
6. A Circle of Deception (1961)
7. Compulsion (1959)
8. Crack in the Mirror (1960)
9. The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974)
10. The Enforcer (1976)
11. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
12. Francis of Assisi (1961)
13. Gold (1974)
14. Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1980)
15. Heroes Stand Alone (1989)
16. The Iceman Cometh (1973)
17. Jigsaw (1968)
18. Love and Bullets (1979)
19. Mastermind (1976)
20. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
21. Monstrosity (1964)
aka: The Atomic Brain
22. Moon of the Wolf (1972)
23. Piranha (1978)
24. The Plainsman (1966)
25. A Rage to Live (1965)
26. The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971)
27. Sergeant Ryker (1968)
28. Sudden Impact (1983)
29. Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
aka: War Games
30. The Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
31. The Way We Were (1973)
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