Alex & the Gypsy 1976  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Love and Other Crimes
Alex and the Gypsy
Director: John Korty
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Genevieve Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt, Titos Vandis, Joe Flaherty, Todd Martin, Frank Doubleday, Clyde Kusatsu
Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a bail bondsman who is obsessed with gypsy Maritza (Genevieve Bujold). Even though she dumped him, he comes to her aid when she is accused of murder.
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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1974  TV, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, David Hooks, Michael Murphy, Odetta, Thalmus Rasulala, Josephine Premice, Teddy Airhart, Ted Arroyo, Will Hare, Katherine Helmond, Thalmus Rasulala, Valerie Odell, Arnold Wilkerson
This historical drama is based on the story of fictional 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) who reminisces about her experiences from the American Civil War until the 1960s' Civil Rights Movement. Shown through flashbacks, the story begins when the Civil War ends, and young Jane escapes from the KKK. As a newly freed woman, she fights to overcome adversity–even enduring the murder of her husband by racists in the North. Finally, she takes a positive position in the Civil Rights Movement. This television movie won nine Emmy Awards, including Best Actress (Tyson), Director, and Screenplay.
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A Christmas Without Snow 1980  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: John Korty
Cast: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, Ruth Nelson, Valerie Curtin, James Cromwell, David Knell, Calvin Levels, Beah Richards, Barbara Tarbuck, William Swetland, Ed Bogas, Daisietta Kim, Joy Carlin, Anne Lawder
After her divorce, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned) relocates to San Francisco to start a new life. She joins the church choir but has conflicts with tough, old choirmaster Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Pressures rise as the choir practices for the big Christmas show, and the problems of other choir members– including Ephraim–are revealed.
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A Deadly Business 1986  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Alan Arkin, Armand Assante, Michael Learned, Jon Polito, Raymond Serra, James Rebhorn, George Morfogen, John Seitz, Stephen Pearlman, Dave Nichols
This film is based on the real-life story of government informer Harold Kaufman (Alan Arkin) who provides evidence of chemicals being illegally dumped in New Jersey.
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Deadly Matrimony 1992 TV, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Treat Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Lisa Eilbacher, Xander Berkeley, John M. Jackson, George Morfogen, Susan Ruttan, Sean McCann, James Rebhorn, Kerrie Keane, Terry Kinney
Chicago cop John Reed (Brian Dennehy) is intent on proving that mob lawyer Alan Masters (Treat Williams) killed his own wife. But that won't be easy since Alan has friends in high places AND controls the crooked cops. This made-for-TV film is based on a true story.
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The Ewok Adventure 1984 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Family / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy
aka: Caravan of Courage: The Ewok Adventure
Director: John Korty
Cast: Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller, Eric Walker, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Boyd, Burl Ives, Daniel Frishman, Debbie Lee Carrington, Kevin Thompson, Tony Cox
George Lucas' furry creatures, the Ewoks, from the "Star Wars" series, are brought back in two made-for-TV movies. This is the first one, and was followed by "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor." In this episode, the Towani family's shuttle crashes on the moon Endor, and the parents are captured by the giant Gorax. Their son and daughter come across the friendly Ewoks and talk them into helping find their parents. And the search begins with perils and magic along the way.
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A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story 1999 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Elden Henson, Ed Marinaro, Debbie Reynolds, Gwynyth Walsh, Michael McLachlan, John Bourgeois, Marcia Diamond, Maria Ricossa, Francesca Scorsone, Bryan Sullivan
Daniel Huffman (Elden Henson) was a high-school football player with high potential for future stardom. Despite his talent, when his grandmother needed a kidney to survive, he donated one of his kidneys. Based on a true story.
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Go Ask Alice 1973 TV, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: William Shatner, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Andy Griffith, Julie Adams, Ruth Roman, Wendell Burton, Robert Carradine, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Michael Morgan, Jennifer Edwards, Ayn Ruymen
Alice is the pseudonym for the author of a "real-life" diary in which 15-year-old Alice (Jamie Smith-Jackson) writes about moving to a new school and getting involved in drugs. She ends up running away from her home and parents (William Shatner and Julie Adams) who have no clue as to her problems. Alice becomes a prostitute before crashing and realizing the error of her ways.
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The Haunting Passion 1983 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Korty
Cast: Jane Seymour, Gerald McRaney, Millie Perkins, Ruth Nelson, Paul Rossilli, Ivan Bonar, Lisa Britt, Ocean Hellman, Terry David Mulligan, Tom Heaton
Dan (Gerald McRaney), a former football star who is starting a broadcasting career, and wife Julia (Jane Seymour) move into a remote house on a cliff. Jane starts having erotic dreams of a man, and it turns into an affair. But this is no ordinary man; he is a ghost. Now she must make a choice between the two men in her life.
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Oliver's Story 1978  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Ed Binns, Ray Milland, Swoosie Kurtz, Charles Haid, Kenneth McMillan, Josef Sommer, Benson Fong, Sully Boyar, Meg Mundy
This sequel to "Love Story" again stars Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett IV, but now he is looking for a new love following the death of his "Love means never having to say you are sorry" wife.
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Resting Place 1986 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: John Lithgow, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Tarantina, Morgan Freeman, G.D. Spradlin, Richard(2) Brooks, Richard Bradford, CCH Pounder, Frances Sternhagen, John Philbin, Bob Hannah, Marc Clement, Mert Hatfield, Elliott Street, Tegan West
Major Kendall Laird (John Lithgow) accompanies the body of a Black lieutenant, who was killed in action, to his hometown in Georgia. When Laird arrives in town, he meets the deceased soldier's parents, Luther and Ada Johnson (Morgan Freeman and CCH Pounder) and learns that he must deal with racial tension when it is recognized that the Black lieutenant is slated to be buried in a White cemetery.
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Sto 1995 TV, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes, William Converse-Roberts, William Allen Young, Kevin McNulty, Vic Polizos, Molly Parker
Glen Close takes on the role of Margarethe Cammermeyer in this true story of Cammermeyer's legal fight to prevent the U.S. Army from discharging her when her status as a homosexual was revealed. Close won an Emmy for her role in this film, and costar Judy Davis also was awarded the Emmy for her depiction of Cammermeyer's lover, Diane.
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A Son's Promise 1990 TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Rick Schroder, Donald Moffat, Veronica Cartwright, Stephen Dorff, Andrew Lowery, Boyd Gaines, Andy Stahl, David Andrews, Bob Hannah, Danny Nelson, Dan Biggers, Joe Inscoe
Fifteen-year-old Terry (Rick Schroder) promises his dying mother (Veronica Cartwright) that he will keep the family of seven boys together. This made-for-TV tale follows Terry through the good times and bad times in keeping his promise.
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Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? 1977 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Korty
Cast: Henry Winkler
Narrated by Henry Winkler, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of Californians Robert and Dorothy DeBolt who, with six children of their own, adopt/become wards of 13 children, several of whom have severe physical disabilities.
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| 1. Alex & the Gypsy (1976)
aka: Love and Other Crimes
aka: Alex and the Gypsy
2. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
3. A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
4. A Deadly Business (1986)
5. Deadly Matrimony (1992)
6. The Ewok Adventure (1984)
aka: Caravan of Courage: The Ewok Adventure
7. A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story (1999)
8. Go Ask Alice (1973)
9. The Haunting Passion (1983)
10. Oliver's Story (1978)
11. Resting Place (1986)
12. Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Sto (1995)
13. A Son's Promise (1990)
14. Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977)
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