Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies 1973  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Pamela Franklin, Eric Shea, Bernadette Peters, Rosemary Murphy, Alice Ghostley, Royal Dano, Claudia Bryar, Don Keefer, Kelly Jean Peters
This is a Steven Spielberg story about a 1920s' stunt pilot and marks Bernadette Peters' film debut.
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The Atlanta Child Murders 1985   TV, 245 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Martin Sheen, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman, Lynne Moody, Ruby Dee, Paul Benjamin, Bill Paxton, Gloria Foster
This excellent docudrama relates events leading to the 1982 trial and conviction of Wayne Williams for the killing of black children in Atlanta. 1 User Review
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| | 03/10/2007 | | I would like to buy the 1985 movie |
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Carolina Skeletons 1991  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Melissa Leo, Paul Roebling, Bill Cobbs, Henderson Forsythe, Clifton James, Richard Jenkins, G.D. Spradlin, Rosanna Carter, Trazana Beverley, Marc Macaulay
After a career in the Army, James Bragg (Louis Gossett Jr.) returns home in the early 1960s. He is haunted by the thought of his brother's execution 30 years previously for the rape and murder of two girls. Thus, he begins a search for the real killers, and he soon recognizes that there are those who do not want their secrets uncovered. Made for cable TV.
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An Early Frost 1985 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, D.W. Moffett, John Glover, Terry O'Quinn, Bill Paxton, Sydney Walsh, Cheryl Anderson, Don Hood, Scott Jaeck
After learning that he has AIDS, Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) must deal with his homosexuality and disease. As a successful lawyer, he returns home to face his mother (Gena Rowlands) and father (Ben Gazzara). This film was made for TV in 1985, and it was the first of its kind to deal with the subject of AIDS.
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 The Letter 1982 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Lee Remick, Christopher Cazenove, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ian McShane, Soon-Tek Oh, Ronald Pickup, Beulah Quo, Jack Thompson, Kieu Chinh, Sarah Marshall, James Hong, Molly Roden, Byron Chung, Peter Mintun, John Orchard
Somerset Maugham's story is told again. This time around, Lee Remick takes on the role of Leslie who is accused of murdering her lover. Leslie's story is told through flashbacks–first as a victim of rape, then as a victim of blackmail concerning an incriminating letter she wrote involving her deceased lover, and finally as a murder victim.
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My Old Man 1979 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Kristy McNichol, Warren Oates, Eileen Brennan, Joseph Maher, Jess Osuna, David Margulies, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Joseph Leon, Mark Arnold, Michael Jeter, Peter Maloney, Kenneth Kimmins
After 14 years of separation, teenager Jo (Kristy McNichol) and her horse-trainer dad, Frank (Warren Oates), reunite, select a horse, and enter it in a race. Things look good for father and daughter, but problems lie just around the corner.
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Our Sons 1991 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Ann - Margret, Julie Andrews, Hugh Grant, Zeljko Ivanek, Tony Roberts, Hal England, Loyda Ramos, Annabelle Weenick, Lisa Blake Richards, Essex Smith
While Donald (Zelijko Ivanek) is dying of AIDS, his lover, James (Hugh Grant), begs his own mother (Julie Andrews) to travel to Arkansas to tell Donald's mother (Ann-Margret) about his illness.
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Queen 1993 TV, 283 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Alex Haley's Queen
Director: John Erman
Cast: Halle Berry, Jasmine Guy, Tim Daly, Martin Sheen, Ann - Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Winfield, Raven-Symone, Charlotte Moore, Ossie Davis, Jane Krakowski, Jasmine Guy, Samuel E. Wright, Peter Maloney, Tim Guinee
Alex Haley's saga continues. His first story, "Roots," involved seven generations of his mother's family. The miniseries "Queen" is based on Haley's father's family. Haley passed away in 1992 before completing his story, which was then completed by David Stevens. The plot revolves around Queen (Halle Berry) who was the daughter of a slave, Easter (Jasmine Guy), and plantation owner James Jackson Jr. (Tim Daly). Queen is light skinned and tries to pass for a White person, but in the aftermath of the Civil War, she faces many obstacles along the way.
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Roots 1977  TV, 573 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses
Cast: LeVar Burton, John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Maya Angelou, O.J. Simpson, Ben Vereen, Moses Gunn, Leslie Uggams, Lynda Day George, Beverly Todd, Edward Asner, Madge Sinclair, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorne Greene
Alex Haley's classic story of his family history involving Kunta Kinte's (LeVar Burton) abduction in 18th-century Africa and then being sold into slavery and sent to America is the focus of Chapter 0ne in this six-part made-for-TV epic. The mini-series received 37 Emmy nominations and won nine. Chapters continue through Kunta's (now played by John Amos) marriage to Bell (Madge Sinclair) and the birth of their daughter Kizzie. Then the saga follows with the birth of Kizzie's (Leslie Uggams) son Chicken George (Ben Vereen) who grows up to buy his freedom and pave the way for future generations to live in freedom following the Civil War.
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Scarlett 1994 TV, 360 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Barbara Barrie, Sean Bean, Annabeth Gish, Julie Harris, Stephen Collins, John Gielgud, Melissa Leo, Jean Smart
This highly advertised TV miniseries is a sequel to "Gone with the Wind." It's now 1873; Scarlett (Joanne Whalley) still wants Rhett (Timothy Dalton), so she heads to Charleston to win his love. After that fails and she has an illegitimate child, she leaves for Ireland and nobility, but her troubles are just beginning. There are better ways to spend six hours.
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Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 32 (Episodes 63&64) 1968 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: John Erman, Ralph Senensky
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, Kathryn Hays, Sean Morgan
Two episodes from the classic series are presented in this DVD. "The Empath" (aired 12/6/1968, stardate 5121.0)-The Enterprise heads to a planet in the Minara system to pick up a team of researchers before Minara explodes. But the researchers had vanished, and now the Enterprise landing party follows suit. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find themselves imprisoned and are to be used in an experiment (that had resulted in the death of the researchers). Will the empath (a mute woman with great healing powers) be able to help? "The Tholian Web" (aired 11/15/1968, stardate 5693.4)-The Enterprise is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a starship. They find it, and a landing party discovers that all are dead–apparently from violence. A power loss on the Enterprise results in Kirk being left on the starship, which drifts in and out of another dimension. Meanwhile, Spock must deal with the reduced power, caused by a Tholian ship; a threat by the Tholians to destroy Enterprise; recovering Kirk; and a crew that is going insane. Poor Spock.
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Stella 1990  PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Linda Hart, Ben Stiller, William McNamara, Charles W. Gray
This is an update to Olive Higgins Prouty's novel "Stella Dallas," though it strays far afield from the book or earlier movie versions. As Stella's daughter matures, her single mother (Midler) decides it is time for the father to contribute financially to the daughter. 2 User Reviews
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| | TINKERXL@YAHOO.COM 09/30/2009 | | One of her best movies, be prepared to cry |
| | lady_harley47 05/16/2009 | | great acting by Midler |
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 A Streetcar Named Desire 1984 TV, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Ann - Margret, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Rafael Campos, Erica Yohn, Ric Mancini, Raphael Sbarge, Fred Sadoff, Elsa Raven, Tina Menard, Dan Owens
Ann-Margret is at her very best in this good TV remake of the 1951 classic. Ann-Margret takes on the role of the Mississippi Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who visits her pregnant sister Stella (Beverly D'Angelo) and Stella's working-class husband Stanley Kowalski (Treat Williams) in their rundown, New Orleans French Quarter apartment. Frictions flare between Blanche and Stanley, and the battle of wills between the two leads to problems when Stanley discovers that there is more to Blanche than meets the eye.
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The Sunshine Boys 1995 TV, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Erman
Cast: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber, Edie Falco, Tyler Noyes, Olga Merediz, Andy Taylor, Jose Soto
Neil Simon updated his 1972 play for this made-for-TV offering about the proposed reunion of two comedians–Al Lewis (Woody Allen) and Willie Clark (Peter Falk)–after they had gone their separate ways. The film suffers in comparison to the original starring Walter Matthau and George Burns.
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| 1. Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
2. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
3. Carolina Skeletons (1991)
4. An Early Frost (1985)
5. The Letter (1982)
6. Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
7. My Old Man (1979)
8. Our Sons (1991)
9. Queen (1993)
aka: Alex Haley's Queen
10. Roots (1977)
11. Scarlett (1994)
12. Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 32 (Episodes 63&64) (1968)
13. Stella (1990)
14. A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
15. The Sunshine Boys (1995)
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