Billy Two Hats 1974  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Lady and the Outlaw
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr., Jack Warden, Sian Barbara Allen, David Huddleston, John Pearce, Dawn Little Sky, Vince St. Cyr, Henry Medicine Hat, Zeev Berlinsky
Aging bandit Deans (Gregory Peck) coerces a half-Indian boy, Billy (Desi Arnaz Jr.), into helping him commit one last robbery.
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Black Market Baby 1977  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: A Dangerous Love
Don't Steal My Baby
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr., Bill Bixby, Linda Purl, Tom Bosley, Annie Potts, Jessica Walter, David Doyle, Beulah Quo
Based on Elizabeth Christman's novel "A Nice Italian Girl," this film tells the story of a baby-racket ring that hires a man (Desi Arnaz Jr.) to impregnate a college girl (Linda Purl) and then sell the resulting baby. When he falls in love with her, the bad guys are not happy.
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Having Babies 1976 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr., Adrienne Barbeau, Ronny Cox, Harry Guardino, Tom Kennedy, Linda Purl, Richard Masur, Jan Sterling, Karen Valentine, Jessica Walter
This drama tells the story of four couples as they decide to have babies by natural (Lamaze) methods. It was probably more timely then than now and spawned two sequels and a TV series.
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Joyride 1977 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Ruben
Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart, Tom Ligon, Cliff Lenz, Robert Loper, Diane O'Mack, Susan Ludlow, Duncan Maclean, Richard Riehle
Four teens hop into a Cadillac, leave L.A., and head north to Alaska. But what began as a joy ride ends up with more than a few violent moments along the way.
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The Mambo Kings 1992 R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: Arne Glimcher
Cast: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi Arnaz Jr., Celia Cruz, Roscoe Lee Browne, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Tito Puente, Talisa Soto, Joe Petruzzi, Anh Duong
Brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo (Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas) leave Cuba and travel to the U.S. in the early 1950s to pursue their dream of making names for themselves on the Latin music scene. They succeed as The Mambo Kings but encounter more than a few problems in the process. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ("Beautiful Maria of My Soul").
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A Wedding 1978  PG, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Lillian Gish, Ruth Nelson, Desi Arnaz Jr., Vittorio Gassman, Nina Van Pallandt, Dina Merrill, Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Amy Stryker, Mia Farrow
This is a good story about an upper-middle-class wedding in which religion and values are satirized.
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| 1. Billy Two Hats (1974)
aka: The Lady and the Outlaw
2. Black Market Baby (1977)
aka: A Dangerous Love
aka: Don't Steal My Baby
3. Having Babies (1976)
4. House of the Long Shadows (1983)
5. Joyride (1977)
6. The Mambo Kings (1992)
7. The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983)
8. A Wedding (1978)
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