Abraham 1994  TV, 178 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Richard Harris, Maximilian Schell, Barbara Hershey, Vittorio Gassman, Carolina Rosi, Andrea Prodan, Gottfried John, Kevin McNally, Evelina Meghangi, John McEnery
Simple shepherd Abraham (Richard Harris) leads his family and other believers in God on a long and dangerous trek to the Promised Land (Canaan) in this made-for-TV epic.
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Bojangles 2001   TV, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Gregory Hines, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Elise, Maria Ricossa, Savion Glover, Linette Robinson, Jonathan Higgins, Lea Golde, Novie Edwards, Jackie Richardson
This made-for-TV film tells the story of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (Gregory Hines), the highly successful African American tap dancer. It covers his early days in vaudeville; the move into movies, which made him famous and rich; and his subsequent fall as a result of an addiction to gambling.
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Choices of the Heart 1983   TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: In December the Roses Will Bloom Again
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Melissa Gilbert, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Helen Hunt, Peter Horton, Rene Enriquez, Pamela Bellwood, Mari Gorman, Mary McCusker, Rene Enriquez
This is the true story of four American nuns who were killed in El Salvador during the political uprising in 1980. Melissa Gilbert proves her acting ability as lay missionary Jean Donovan. 2 User Reviews
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Coast to Coast 1980 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner, Maxine Stuart, William Lucking, George P. Wilbur, Ellen Gerstein, Patricia Conklin, David Moody
Madie Levrington (Dyan Cannon) and trucker Charles Callahan (Robert Blake) travel cross-country with their enemies in close pursuit.
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Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: The Forbin Project
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff, Georg Stanford Brown, Willard Sage, Alex Rodine, Martin E. Brooks, Marion Ross, Dolph Sweet, Byron Morrow
Dr. Forbin (Eric Braeden) develops a supercomputer, "Colossus," intended to control the military defense system. Shortly after being turned on, Colossus finds that Russia has made a similar computer, and the two hook up to share information. Before long, the two merge with the intention of taking over the world and threaten destruction if they are unplugged. Will Forbin be able to outwit the computers? A good flick.
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Day One 1989 TV, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard Dysart, Hal Holbrook, Barnard Hughes, John McMartin, David Ogden Stiers, Anne Twomey, Lawrence Dane, Ron Frazier, Olek Krupa, Gary Reineke
In this strong made-for-TV film, the story about the men who made the Atomic Bomb is told, as well as the political and morality struggles concerning its use. General Groves (Brian Dennehy) heads up the Manhattan Project and works diligently toward the single goal of building the ultimate weapon. He appoints Robert Oppenheimer (David Strathairn) to head up the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. Oppenheimer questions the consequences of their efforts but continues on to the final goal. Now it is time to drop the bomb, and the scientists witness the gruesome consequences of their efforts.
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For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story 2000 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Mia Maestro, David Paymer, Charles S. Dutton, Tomas Milian, Freddy Rodriguez, Andy Mendez, Jose Zuniga, Felix David Manrique
This is the story of famed jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) who fled from Cuba to the U.S. with his family. An HBO production.
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Friendly Persuasion 1975 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Except for Me and Thee
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Clifton James, Michael O'Keefe, Kevin O'Keefe, Sparky Marcus, Tracie Savage, Paul Benjamin, Erik Holland, Bob Minor, Gus Peters, Twila Pollard, Walter Scott
In this well made, well acted, remake of the 1956 classic, Richard Kiley and Shirley Knight play the Quaker couple who helps two runaway slaves during the Civil War.
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Goldengirl 1979 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Susan Anton, Curt Jurgens, James Coburn, Robert Culp, Leslie Caron, Harry Guardino, Jessica Walter, Michael Lerner
Goldine Serafin (Susan Anton) is being groomed for an Olympic championship medal and, in the process, loses her own individuality.
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Hustling 1975 TV, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Lee Remick, Jill Clayburgh, Monte Markham, Alex Rocco, Melanie Mayron, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Allan Miller, Dick O'Neill, Burt Young, Paul Benedict, John Sylvester White, Burke Byrnes, Howard Hesseman, James Andronica, Clifford A. Pellow
This made-for-TV drama is based on Gail Sheey's book that follows reporter Fran Morrison (Lee Remick) as she investigates the big business of prostitution in NYC. Morrison works for a New York City magazine, and she uncovers the fact that wealthy and powerful corporations and families benefit directly from prostitution. Morrison gets more than she bargained for when her report causes a storm of controversy.
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The Incident 1990 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Robert Carradine, Peter Firth, Barnard Hughes, Harry Morgan, William Schallert, Ariana Richards, Norbert Weisser, Helen Stenborg
In a small town during World War II, Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau) reluctantly defends a Nazi POW charged with the death of the town's doctor. While the townsfolk are ready for a hanging, the case becomes more complicated than expected. Made for TV.
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Jaws: The Revenge 1987  PG-13, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young, Michael Caine, Judith Barsi, Lynn Whitfield, Mitchell Anderson, Jay Mello, Cedric Scott
Police Chief Brody's (from the original "Jaws") son has taken over his father's job and is killed by a shark. His mother, Ellen (Lorraine Gary), decides to leave the horrors of Amity behind and heads to the Bahamas to join her other son and his family. But–the shark follows her, wanting, presumably, to finish off the family. Terrible ending to the series.
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A Lesson Before Dying 1999 PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Stuart Culpepper, Patty Mack, Elijah Kelley
Set in the South during the 1940s, Don Cheadle plays the role of Grant Wiggins–a teacher, who at the request of a condemned man's mother, Miss Emma (Irma P. Hall) and aunt Tante Lou (Cicely Tyson), goes to visit Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) daily while he awaits execution. Jefferson was wrongly convicted in a brutal trial that took away his dignity; it falls on Wiggins to help restore this black man's self esteem.
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MacArthur 1977 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Marj Dusay, Sandy Kenyon, Nicolas Coster, Art Fleming, Dick O'Neill, Kenneth Tobey, G.D. Spradlin
Beginning with his command at Corrigidor, this film depicts the later military career of Douglas MacArthur until his "firing" by Truman in 1952. Peck does an admirable job as the proud and haughty Army general, but the movie just missed the mark.
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The Man 1972  G, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, William Windom, Barbara Rush, Janet MacLachlan, Jack Benny, Patric Knowles, Anne Seymour
Based on Irving Wallace's novel, this is Rod Serling's film adaptation of the story of a presidential assassination and the vice president's (James Earl Jones) ascent to power as America's first black president.
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Mandela and de Klerk 1997 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Tina Lifford, Gerry Maritz, Ian Roberts, Ben Kruger, Jerry Mofokeng, Owen Sejake, Terry Norton, Tertius Meintjes, Farouk Valley-Omar, John Carson
This film documents the struggles of Nelson Mandela (Sidney Poitier) over the 27-year period during which he brought an end to apartheid in South Africa.
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The Manions of America 1981 TV, 290 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles S. Dubin, Joseph Sargent
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Kate Mulgrew, Linda Purl, David Soul, Steve Forrest, Simon MacCorkindale, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Parkins, T.P. McKenna, Kathleen Beller
This film was originally shown as a three-part TV miniseries and stars Pierce Brosnan as one of many Irish patriots who immigrated to the United States during the famine of the 1840s. The story chronicles his successes, failures, and fights in his rise in America.
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Miss Evers' Boys 1997 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton, Obba Babatunde, Von Coulter, Thom Gossom Jr., Ossie Davis, E.G. Marshall, Robert Benedetti
Seen through the eyes of a nurse on the scene, the focus of this film is the infamous 1932 Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis.
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Nightmares 1983 R, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Cristina Raines, Anthony James, Emilio Estevez, Moon Unit Zappa, William Sanderson, Veronica Cartwright, Lance Henriksen, Robin Gammell, Richard Masur, Bridgette Andersen
Four horror stories are related in this bland made-for-TV film that did not make the grade.
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Out of the Ashes 2003 R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Christine Lahti, Beau Bridges, Richard Crenna, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake, Jolyon Baker, Jessica Beichman, Oliver Cotton, Michelle Fine, Zoie Palmer, Ingrid Veninger, Nina Young
This made-for-TV movie is based on Hungarian Dr. Gisella Perl's (Christine Lahti) memoirs and is told in flashback as she endures intense interrogation by U.S. officials when she attempts to gain U.S. citizenship in 1946. She lost her entire family at the Auschwitz death camp and had come to the U.S. to begin life anew. The interrogation centered around her work as a gynecologist who performed morally questionable abortions at Auschwitz in an effort to save pregnant women from the gas chambers.
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Skylark 1993 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell, Margaret Sophie Stein, Jon DeVries, Elizabeth Wilson, Lois Smith, Lee Richardson, James Rebhorn
A sequel to "Sarah, Plain and Tall," this Hallmark Hall of Fame production continues the story of the mail order bride (Glenn Close) from Maine and her trials encountered living in drought-ridden Kansas during the early 1900s.
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The Spy in the Green Hat 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, Leo G. Carroll, Leticia Roman, Eduardo Ciannelli, Allen Jenkins, Joan Blondell, Elisha Cook Jr.
This film is a result of splicing together parts of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." TV series and is a watchable James Bond and 1930s gangster film spoof. Jack Palance plays the bad guy who is the target of the U.N.C.L.E. agents.
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 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, James Broderick, Dick O'Neill, Jerry Stiller, Rudy Bond, Kenneth McMillan, Lee Wallace, Doris Roberts, Beatrice Winde, Nathan George, Tom Pedi
Four gangsters–Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw), Mr. Green (Martin Balsam), Mr. Gray (Hector Elizondo), and Mr. Brown (Earl Hindman)–hold the passengers on a New York subway train hostage and demand a large ransom. Their leader, Mr. Blue, tries to outfox Transit Authority detective Lieutenant Garber (Walter Matthau) when he negotiates with them for the passengers' release while their train sits in a tunnel surrounded by police.
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Warm Springs 2005  TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson, Matt O'Leary, Matt Malloy, Jane Alexander, Kathy Bates, Andrew Davoli, Nelsan Ellis, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Greg Thompson, Devon Gearhart, Brian F. Durkin, Melissa Ponzio
Kenneth Branagh takes the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt–during seven crucial years of his life from 1921 when he was stricken with polio; through rehabilitation at Warm Springs, Georgia; to his nomination of Al Smith for President in 1928. Cynthia Nixon plays the role of Eleanor, while Jane Alexander, who had played Eleanor previously, takes on the role of FDR's mother, Sarah Delano Roosevelt.
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White Lightning 1973 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Action
aka: McKlusky
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd, R.G. Armstrong, Conlan Carter, Dabbs Greer, John Steadman, Iris Korn
Offered release from prison if he would help catch a moonshine operation gang, moonshiner Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) agrees in order to avenge his brother's death and bring the crooked sheriff (Ned Beatty) to justice. And the rip-roarin' action begins. There is a sequel: "Gator."
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| 1. Abraham (1994)
2. Bojangles (2001)
3. Choices of the Heart (1983)
aka: In December the Roses Will Bloom Again
4. Coast to Coast (1980)
5. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
aka: The Forbin Project
6. Day One (1989)
7. For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
8. Friendly Persuasion (1975)
aka: Except for Me and Thee
9. Goldengirl (1979)
10. Hustling (1975)
11. The Incident (1990)
12. Ivory Hunters (1990)
aka: The Last Elephant
13. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
14. A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
15. MacArthur (1977)
16. The Man (1972)
17. Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
18. The Manions of America (1981)
19. Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1970)
20. Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
21. Nightmares (1983)
22. One Spy Too Many (1966)
23. Out of the Ashes (2003)
24. Skylark (1993)
25. The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
26. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
27. Warm Springs (2005)
28. White Lightning (1973)
aka: McKlusky
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