Aftermath: A Test of Love 1991  TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Michael Learned, Zeljko Ivanek, Doug Savant, Lisanne Falk, Raye Birk, Darryl Hickman, Scott Jaeck, J.A. Preston, Adam Biesk, Marcus Giamatti, Cyndi James Gossett
After his wife is killed and one of his four sons injured during a robbery, Dr. Ross Colburn (Richard Chamberlain) is determined to keep his grieving family together.
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Barbarians at the Gate 1993  R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy, Fred Dalton Thompson, Leilani Sarelle, Matt Clark, Jeffrey DeMunn, David Rasche, Tom Aldredge
Based on a true story and book by Bryan Burrough with the same name, this made-for-TV film is a lighthearted account of the takeover of RJR Nabisco in the takeover-active 1980s. Good film.
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Dress Gray 1986  TV, 192 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Hal Holbrook, Lloyd Bridges, Eddie Albert, Ron Rifkin, James Sikking, Alexis Smith, Lane Smith, Albert Salmi, Cameron Dye
When cadet David Hand is found murdered near a riverbank at the U.S. Grant Military Academy, a cover-up ensues that breaks wide open when Hand's homosexuality is revealed.
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 Frankenstein 1973 TV, 130 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Robert Foxworth, Bo Svenson, Susan Strasberg, Robert Gentry, Heidi Vaughn, John Karlen, Willie Aames, Philip Bourneuf, Jon Lormer, William Hansen, George Morgan, Brian Avery, Rosella Olsen, Edgar Daniels, Edgar Justice
Robert Foxworth steps into the role of Dr. Frankenstein experimenting in his lab in Ingolstadt during 1856. He experiments with nature by harnessing electricity to create his monster (Bo Svenson) from dead body parts. This monster is decent looking but doomed because of its homicidal nature. After murdering Frankenstein's assistant, the monster hides in a forest where it learns English by listening in on a family living nearby. The monster then returns to Frankenstein demanding that Frankenstein create a mate for it. Frankenstein refuses and destroys his experiment, which leads to the monster vowing revenge.
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Jake's Women 1996 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Alan Alda, Anne Archer, Lolita Davidovich, Julie Kavner, Mira Sorvino, Joyce Van Patten, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Ashley Peldon, Perry Anzilotti, Aasif Mandvi, Steven M. Porter, Yul Vazquez
This made-for-TV film is based on Neil Simon's play about a troubled writer (Alan Alda) whose imaginary conversations with people who are no longer part of his life, appear to keep him from acknowledging the cruel realities of his life.
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Legalese 1998 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: James Garner, Gina Gershon, Mary-Louise Parker, Edward Kerr, Brian Doyle-Murray, Kathleen Turner, Scott Michael Campbell, Keene Curtis, Matthew Glave, Brent Briscoe
First aired on TNT, "Legalese" begins with an actress accused of murder, but the real plot has many twists and turns. Angela Beale's (Gina Gershon) lawyers–Norman Keane and Roy Guyton (James Garner and Edward Kerr)–know only too well that sympathy and a "Not Guilty" verdict can be won through the media's airing of the story to the public.
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 Les Miserables 1978  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Cyril Cusack, Claude Dauphin, John Gielgud, Flora Robson, Celia Johnson, Ian Holm, Joyce Redman, Christopher Guard
This made-for-TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic tale features Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean, the persecuted ex-convict, and Anthony Perkins as the mean-spirited policeman, Javert, who trails him for 40 years. The lavish production–with a great cast–includes scenes that have been ignored by other makers of this story.
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Mass Appeal 1984 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning, Louise Latham, Talia Balsam, James Ray, Alice Hirson, Helene Heigh, Jerry Hardin, Gloria Stuart
An idealistic seminarian, Mark Dolson (Zeljko Ivanek), does not listen to the advice of Father Farley (Jack Lemmon) and delivers a sermon that is spurned by the parishioners. This brings on concern by church officials that Dolson will not make it as a good priest, but Father Farley comes to his aid. From a Broadway play.
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Only When I Laugh 1981 R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, Joan Hackett, James Coco, David Dukes, Kevin Bacon, John Bennett Perry, Ed Moore, Ellen La Gamba, Byron Webster
Based on Neil Simon's play "The Gingerbread Lady," this is the story of alcoholic actress Georgia Hines who tries to change the course of her life and form a meaningful relationship with her daughter, Polly (Kristy McNichol). Marsha Mason earned an Academy Award nomination for her role in this film and Coco and Hackett were nominated for Supporting Actor and Actress.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall 1991 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Margaret Sophie Stein, Jon DeVries, Christopher Bell, James Rebhorn, Woody Watson, Betty Laird, Kara Beth Taylor
In this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, Sarah (Glenn Close) is a spinster living in Maine who answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride. As a result, she heads for Kansas to be the wife of a widower (Christopher Walken) who has two children in need of loving care. Sequel: "Skylark."
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End 1999 TV, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell, George Hearn, Emily Osment, Betty Laird, Calen Pick
Ho-hum. The third (and last) of the made-for-TV series is boring for all except those who have come to love the Walton-like family. It's a tough winter in Kansas and the flue season hits hard. In rides good old Jack Palance, as always, a film highlight.
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 A Streetcar Named Desire 1995 TV, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Diane Lane, Patricia Herd, Rondi Reed, Frederick Coffin, Carlos Gomez, Matt Keeslar, Jerry Hardin, Tina Lifford, Carmen Zapata
In this made-for-TV version of Tennessee Williams' classic story, Jessica Lange performs as the Mississippi Southern belle, Blanch DuBois, who visits her pregnant sister Stella (Diane Lane) and Stella's husband Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin) in their run-down French Quarter apartment in New Orleans. Although Blanche appears to be a refined woman, Stanley learns there is more to her than meets the eye and sabotages her romance with his friend Mitch (John Goodman). Alec Baldwin and Lange repeated their Broadway roles in this film.
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To Dance with the White Dog 1993  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Christine Baranski, Terry Beaver, Harley Cross, Esther Rolle, Frank Whaley, Amy Wright, Bob Hannah, Ed Grady
Cora (Jessica Tandy), nearing death, worries about how her husband, Sam (Hume Cronyn), will cope after she is gone. After she dies, he is indeed grief stricken, but when a white dog appears, his outlook changes, and he finds that love is eternal. A good made-for-TV adaptation of a novel by Terry Kay.
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| 1. Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
2. Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
3. The Boys (1991)
4. The Buddy System (1984)
5. Dress Gray (1986)
6. Frankenstein (1973)
7. Jake's Women (1996)
8. Legalese (1998)
9. Les Miserables (1978)
10. Mass Appeal (1984)
11. O Pioneers! (1992)
12. Only When I Laugh (1981)
13. Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
14. Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
15. A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
16. To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
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