Alvarez Kelly 1966  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Victoria Shaw, Arthur Franz, Harry Carey Jr., Richard Rust, Don "Red" Barry
During the Civil War, Confederate forces kidnap Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) and recruit him to rustle cattle that are badly needed to feed Southern families.
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The Black Shield of Falworth 1954  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick O'Neal, Rhys Williams, Herbert Marshall, Ian Keith, Claud Allister
Based on Howard Pyle's novel, "Men of Iron," this is the story of young Knight Myles (Tony Curtis) who fights for his King, Henry IV (Ian Keith)–and for the love of Lady Anne.
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Castle Keep 1969  R, 119 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk, Tony Bill, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, Al Freeman Jr., Michael Conrad
During World War II, both German and American soldiers vie for a 10th-century castle in the Ardennes forest.
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Chamber of Horrors 1966  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Patrick O'Neal, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker, Jose Rene Ruiz, Philip Bourneuf, Jeanette Nolan, Marie Windsor, Wayne Rogers, Vinton Haworth
Set in 19th-century Baltimore, madman Jason Cravette (Patrick O'Neal) escapes while on his way to prison and execution, losing a hand in the escape. He attaches assorted weapons to the arm with the lost hand as he attempts to take revenge on those who convicted him. But the proprietors of the "Chamber of Horrors" wax museum (Cesare Danova and Wilfrid Hyde-White) are on his trail.
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A Fine Madness 1966  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Jean Seberg, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill, Werner Peters, John Fiedler, Kay Medford, Jackie Coogan
Samson Shillito (Sean Connery) is a non-conformist poet whose wife, Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), talks him into visiting Dr. West (Patrick O'Neal) for psychiatric treatment to get his life back on track. After bedding down with West's wife (Jean Seberg), the good doctor seeks retaliation through a lobotomy for his patient.
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For the Boys 1991 R, 145 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Rydell, Arye Gross, Norman Fell, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Portnow, Bud Yorkin
Dixie Leonard (Bette Midler) joins song and dance man Eddie Sparks (James Caan) and entertains American troops through three wars. This film is filled with 50 years of great music and Bette received an Oscar nomination.
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From the Terrace 1960 N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Patrick O'Neal, Felix Aylmer, Elizabeth Allen, Raymond Greenleaf, Malcolm Atterbury, Raymond Bailey, Ted de Corsia, Howard Caine
Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) has inherited the inability to show affection from his father Samuel (Leon Ames), and, after returning from the war, climbs the corporate ladder in New York's financial world. He chooses his professional world over his personal life with his promiscuous wife Mary St. John (Joanne Woodward) and spends much of his time away from her–until he hits a crisis point while having an affair with Natalie (Ina Balin), and his world comes crashing down around him. An extra star in the rating is due to Myrna Loy's performance as Alfred's alcoholic mother, Martha Eaton.
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King Rat 1965 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Donald, Todd Armstrong, John Mills, Leonard Rossiter, Gerald Sim, John Standing, Alan Webb
Based on James Clavell's novel, the story takes place in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. Corporal King (George Segal) is quite a schemer and has a number of rackets going on, including selling rats to fellow prisoners for food. When he finds out that prisoner Peter Marlowe (James Fox) can speak Malay, the language of the locals, he sees an opportunity to expand his business. Academy award nominations were received for Black and White Cinematography and Art Direction.
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The Kremlin Letter 1970 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Patrick O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, Dean Jagger, George Sanders, John Huston, Marc Lawrence
This cold-war espionage story is about a false treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union that aims to undermine forces of Red China. If the treaty falls into the wrong hands, World War III could be the result.
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The Last Hurrah 1977 TV, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Carroll O'Connor, John Anderson, Dana Andrews, Jack Carter, Mariette Hartley, Burgess Meredith, Patrick O'Neal, Patrick Wayne, Kitty Winn, Arthur Franz
This is a TV remake of John Ford's 1958 film based on the bestselling novel by Edwin O'Connor. Carroll O'Connor takes on the role (formerly played by Spencer Tracy) of the flamboyant, shady Mayor Frank Skeffingon. A good effort, especially by O'Connor, though not on a par with the 1958 film.
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Like Father, Like Son 1987   PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rod Daniel
Cast: Dudley Moore, Kirk Cameron, Margaret Colin, Catherine Hicks, Patrick O'Neal, Sean Astin, Camille Cooper, Micah Grant, David Wohl, Maxine Stuart
A surgeon (Dudley Moore) accidentally places a few drops of an old Indian mind exchange potion into his Bloody Mary. He and his son's (Kirk Cameron) minds are thus exchanged. What then happens is inane as each tries to cope with being in the other's body. Punch lines fail, and so does this film.
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The Mad Magician 1954 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Patrick O'Neal, Jay Novello, Donald Randolph, Lenita Lane, Roy Engel, Lyle Talbot
A crazed magician (Vincent Price) uses his inventions to murder the opposition–his fellow magicians.
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New York Stories 1989 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen
Cast: Heather McComb, Talia Shire, Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Mae Questel, Marvin Chatinover, Jesse Borrego, Ira Wheeler, Jessie Keosian, Larry David, Talia Shire
This film looks at life in New York City from three different perspectives. In "Life Lessons," director Martin Scorsese examines the facets of a great painter's personality, while director Francis Ford Coppola presents one day in the life of a very creative young girl in "Life Without Zoe," and Woody Allen offers "Oedipus Wrecks" about the stereotypical Jewish mother.
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Q&A 1990 R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, Lee Richardson, Luis Guzman, Charles S. Dutton, Leonardo Cimino, Paul Calderon, Dominic Chianese
NYC cop Mike Brennan (Nick Nolte) kills a drug dealer and claims self-defense. It seems to be an open-and-shut case until a young district attorney, Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton), is assigned to investigate.
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The Secret Life of an American Wife 1968 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Axelrod
Cast: Walter Matthau, Anne Jackson, Patrick O'Neal, Edy Williams, Richard Bull, Paul Napier, Gary Brown, Albert Carrier, Cristy Hall, Todd Baron
When Victoria Layton (Anne Jackson) feels she has turned into a bored and dowdy housewife, she decides to create excitement in her life by becoming a call girl. As luck would have it, her first customer is a movie star (Walter Matthau) who is also the friend and client of her husband, Tom (Patrick O'Neal).
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 1973 R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Death House
Night of the Dark Full Moon
Director: Theodore Gershuny
Cast: Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, Walter Abel, Fran Stevens, Jay Garner, Lisa Blake Richards, Ondine, Walter Klavun, Grant Code
The owner of a long-empty estate is anxious to sell and sends his lawyer (Patrick O'Neal) to take care of selling the property to the city for a bargain price. The history of the house is told in flashback, revealing that it was once an insane asylum where the cruel doctors had been slain by inmates set free by the owner. The inmates took up residence in the city and now, many years later, an axe-wielding killer is extracting revenge on the former inmates.
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 The Stepford Wives 1975 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Fantasy
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Josef Sommer, Mary Stuart Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, John Aprea, William Prince, Carol Eve Rossen, Carol Mallory, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, Toni Reid
Ira Levin's best-selling novel is brought to the screen as mysteries unfold behind the personalities of "perfect" housewives in the town of Stepford, Connecticut. Joanna (Katherine Ross) and Walter (Peter Masterson) move with their children to Stepford to enjoy what they believe is an ideal suburban community. But, Stepford has a dark secret: the husbands are replacing their wives with robots that will perform domestic tasks and exist only to please their husbands. Will Joanna be able to escape this nightmare?
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The Stuff 1985 R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Larry Cohen
Cast: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Patrick O'Neal, James Dixon, Alexander Scourby, Rutanya Alda
David (Michael Moriarty) is an industrial spy whose mission is to find the source of a yogurt that turns those who consume it into zombies in this satire on 1950s horror films.
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A Table for One 1999 R, 110 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Wicked Ways
Director: Ron Senkowski
Cast: Rebecca De Mornay, Michael Rooker, Mark Rolston, Lisa Zane, Shareen Mitchell, Dale Dye, Ari Barak, Peter Dobson, Diane Robin, Keli Daniels, Patrick O'Neal, Adele Yoshioka
Bigamist Matt (Michael Rooker) plays a deadly game of jealousy with his psychotic wife, Ruth (Rebecca De Mornay), that involves their neighbor, Tom (Mark Rolston), who is playing his own game.
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Under Siege 1992 R, 102 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Andrew Davis
Cast: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Patrick O'Neal, Damian Chapa, David McKnight, Glenn Morshower, Bernie Casey, Dale Dye, Colm Meaney, Patrick O'Neal, Andy Romano, Nick Mancuso, Troy Evans
This adventure film involves terrorists William Stranix and Cdr. Krill (Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey) who take over the U.S.S. Missouri, the famous Navy battleship. That was the easy part; now they are confronted by the ship's cook, Casey Ryback(Steven Seagal), who is a U.S. Navy SEAL determined to defend his ship.
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 The Way We Were 1973 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Murray Hamilton, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors, Allyn Ann McLerie, Herb Edelman, Sally Kirkland, Diana Ewing, Don Keefer, George Gaynes, Eric Boles, Marcia Mae Jones
This story follows the lives of activist Katie (Barbra Streisand) and writer Hubbell (Robert Redford) through their days in college, subsequent marriage, and inevitable divorce as each one has diverse political views. The title song won an Academy Award, as did the Musical Score by Marvin Hamlish. Streisand was nominated for Best Actress.
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? 1968 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas, Patrick O'Neal, Lola Albright, Steve Allen, Jim Backus, Ben Blue, Pat Paulsen, Earl Wilson
Set amidst the 9 November 1965 blackout in the Northeastern United States, this is an attempt-at-a-comedy about crises encountered during that long evening.
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| 1. Alvarez Kelly (1966)
2. The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
3. Castle Keep (1969)
4. Chamber of Horrors (1966)
5. A Fine Madness (1966)
6. For the Boys (1991)
7. From the Terrace (1960)
8. King Rat (1965)
9. The Kremlin Letter (1970)
10. The Last Hurrah (1977)
11. Like Father, Like Son (1987)
12. The Mad Magician (1954)
13. New York Stories (1989)
14. Q&A (1990)
15. The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
16. Silent Night, Bloody Night (1973)
aka: Death House
aka: Night of the Dark Full Moon
17. The Stepford Wives (1975)
18. The Stuff (1985)
19. A Table for One (1999)
aka: Wicked Ways
20. Under Siege (1992)
21. The Way We Were (1973)
22. Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
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