Good Neighbor Sam 1964  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine, Mike Connors, Louis Nye, Charles(2) Lane, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Seymour, Edward Andrews, Tristram Coffin, Robert Q. Lewis, Joyce Jameson, Linda Watkins, Peter Hobbs, Neil Hamilton
Advertising executive Sam Bissell (Jack Lemmon) is happily married to Minerva (Dorothy Provine) when he helps out his neighbor, Janet (Romy Schneider), by pretending to be her husband so she can inherit $15 million. Janet is married but separated from Howard (Mike Connors) and does not want to share the inheritance with him. Many complications arise when Sam's biggest client, Simon Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson), uses Sam and Janet as "the ideal married couple" in an ad campaign and features their pictures on billboards throughout the town.
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Harlow 1965  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Leslie Nielsen, Mary Murphy, Peter Leeds
Movie star Jean Harlow's life is recreated in this screen version with Carroll Baker in the title role. It came out at the same time as a competing biography of Harlow starring Carol Lynley. This one is a little better, though both take many liberties with the true account of her life.
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The Oklahoma Woman 1956  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Peggie Castle, Mike Connors, Richard Denning, Cathy Downs, Dick Miller, Tudor Owen, Martin Kingsley, Jonathan Haze, Edmund Cobb
Ex-con Steve Ward (Richard Denning) arrives in town to claim his inheritance and becomes involved in a rough election engineered by a gunslinging saloon owner, Marie "Oklahoma" Saunders. Typical Corman.
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Situation Hopeless...But Not Serious 1965  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford, Anita Hoefer, Mady Rahl, Paul Dahlke, Frank Wolff, Elisabeth von Molo, John Briley, Carola Regnier
A bizarre, and more than slightly mad, German (Alec Guinness) keeps two American airmen (Mike Connors and Robert Redford) captive in his basement for six years after the war has ended.
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 Stagecoach 1966 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Ann - Margret, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Alex Cord, Bing Crosby, Robert Cummings, Van Heflin, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, Brad Weston, Joseph Hoover, John Gabriel
Buck (Slim Pickens) is driving a stagecoach, and the riders include drunken Dr. Josiah Boone (Bing Crosby), prostitute Dallas (Ann-Margret), embezzling bank clerk Mr. Gatewood (Robert Cummings), policeman Curly (Van Heflin), pregnant Army wife Lucy (Stefanie Powers), and liquor salesman Mr. Peacock (Red Buttons). Later, outlaw Ringo (Alex Cord) boards the coach. They are attacked by Indians, and when they arrive in Cheyenne they must deal with outlaws led by Luke Plummer (Keenan Wynn). In the midst of these dangers, the passengers realize that they must work as a group if any of them is to survive.
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Sudden Fear 1952 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Miller
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston, Mike Connors, Bess Flowers, Taylor Holmes, Arthur Space
A playwright, Myra Hudson (Joan Crawford), learns that her new husband (Jack Palance) is planning to kill her. She devises a unique way to beat him at his own game. Crawford and Palance were nominated for Oscars.
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Swamp Women 1955 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Cruel Swamp
Swamp Diamonds
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Carole Mathews, Marie Windsor, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors, Jil Jarmyn, Susan Cummings, Lou Place, Jonathan Haze, Ed Nelson
Policewoman Lee Hampton (Carole Mathews) goes undercover to infiltrate a gang in prison. In order to carry out her job of recovering the gang's loot, she must help them break out of prison. Having accomplished that, things get dicey when the group is stuck in a swamp.
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Where Love Has Gone 1964 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Anne Seymour, Jane Greer, George Macready, DeForest Kelley, Willis Bouchey, Ann Doran
When Danielle (Joey Heatherton) kills her mother Valerie's (Susan Hayward) lover, Danielle's father (Michael Connors) returns to help work some sanity into the tragic situation.
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick 1995 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Todd Robinson
Cast: Alec Baldwin, James Cagney, Mike Connors, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Darryl Hickman, Tab Hunter, Nancy Davis, Howard Koch, John A. Gallagher, Gary Gray, Arthur Hiller, Tom Laughlin, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck
Narrated by Alec Baldwin, this documentary covers the life of Hollywood director William A. Wellman–including his stormy personal life that included five marriages. The documentary also features interviews with stars and clips from his films including "Wings," "A Star is Born," and "The High and the Mighty." Among the many stars interviewed are Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, James Garner, Richard Widmark, and Gregory Peck who attest to Wellman's brilliance.
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| 1. Avalanche Express (1979)
2. Day the World Ended (1956)
3. Five Guns West (1955)
4. Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
5. Harlow (1965)
6. Nightkill (1980)
7. The Oklahoma Woman (1956)
8. Situation Hopeless...But Not Serious (1965)
9. Stagecoach (1966)
10. Sudden Fear (1952)
11. Swamp Women (1955)
aka: Cruel Swamp
aka: Swamp Diamonds
12. Where Love Has Gone (1964)
13. Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995)
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