Act of Violence 1979  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Deadline Assault
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, James Sloyan, Sean Frye, Roy Poole, Biff McGuire, Linden Chiles, Dolph Sweet, Michael Goodwin, Grand L. Bush, Ed Bernard, Victor Millan, Fredric Cook
Following her divorce, a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery) optimistically sets out on a new career–until she is brutally attacked by a gang of muggers.
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Angel Baby 1961 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: George Hamilton, Salome Jens, Mercedes McCambridge, Joan Blondell, Henry Jones, Burt Reynolds, Roger Clark, R.L. Armstrong, Eddie Firestone, Dudley Remus
This good story follows evangelists as they travel from town to town and "Angel Baby" (Jens) who thinks she was healed by one and thus falls in love with him. Burt Reynolds' film debut.
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Attack on the Iron Coast 1968  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden, Maurice Denham, Glyn Owen, George Mikell, Walter Gotell, Bill Henderson, John Welsh
Sir Frederick Grafton (Lloyd Bridges) leads a Canadian commando group on a daring attack against the German fleet off the French coast.
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The Bad Seed 1985  TV, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, Carrie Wells, Chad Allen, Christa Denton, Anne Haney, Weldon Bleiler, Carol Locatell, Eve Smith, Katharine Tobin, Rebecca Birken, Angella Kaye
In this remake of the 1956 rendition, Carrie Wells takes on Patty McCormack's role of the murderous child. Patty is a tough act to follow.
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Betrayal 1978 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren, John Hillerman, Peggy Ann Garner, Bibi Besch, Ron Silver, Richard Masur, Stephen Elliott, Bob Delegall
Based on a real case, this is the story of a young woman (Lesley Ann Warren) who feels the need for therapy. Unfortunately, she picks an unethical doctor (Rip Torn), who convinces her that the therapy she needs is a sexual relationship with him.
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The Burglar 1957 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy, Wendell K. Phillips, Phoebe Mackay, Stewart Bradley, John Facenda, Sam Elber
Now here's a crazy burglary: rob a fake spiritualist. Duryea, his friend from childhood (Mansfield), and his other cronies are on the lam after the robbery.
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 The Chase 1991  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Casey Siemaszko, Ben Johnson, Ricki Lake, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Barry Corbin, Nada Despotovich, Robert Beltran, Gerry Bamman, Megan Follows, Sheila Kelly, Gailard Sartain, Jimmie F. Skaggs
Based on a true story, this made-for-TV tale concerns a bank robber (Casey Siemaszko) who kills a cop and takes an old man (Ben Johnson) hostage. The high-speed chase was filmed by a TV crew in a helicopter that contributed to the eventual capture.
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Cross of Fire 1989 TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: John Heard, Mel Harris, David Morse, Lloyd Bridges, Kim Hunter, George Dzundza, Donald Moffat, Keith Szarabajka, William Schallert, Gilbert Lewis
Originally a two-part TV movie, this is a good biography of the rise and fall of the 1920s KKK Grand Dragon, D.C. Stephenson (John Heard).
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 Gidget 1959 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, Joby Baker, Yvonne Craig, Doug McClure, Tom Laughlin, Jo Morrow, Robert Ellis
This classic film from the 1950s era features Sandra Dee as Gidget–the California teenager who surfs and finds love on the beach.
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Good Against Evil 1977 TV, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Dack Rambo, Elyssa Davalos, Richard Lynch, Dan O'Herlihy, John Harkins, Jenny O'Hara, Lelia Goldoni, Peggy McCay, Peter Brandon, Kim Cattrall
When Satan takes Andy's (Dack Rambo) girlfriend Jessica (Elyssa Davalos) from him, Andy seeks the help of a priest (Dan O'Herlihy) to get her back. Another "Exorcist" imitator that is helped by Director Wendkos' fine atmospheric touches.
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven 1969 G, 106 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: George Kennedy, Monte Markham, James Whitmore, Reni Santoni, Bernie Casey, Joe Don Baker, Scott Thomas, Michael Ansara, Fernando Rey, Frank Silvera
Once again the "magnificent seven" gunslingers pivot into action–this time they plan to free a Mexican revolutionary from his prison fortress where he is being held as a rebel leader.
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Honor Thy Father 1973 TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Joseph Bologna, Brenda Vaccaro, Raf Vallone, Marc Lawrence, Richard S. Castellano, Joe De Santis, Gilbert Green, Louis Zorich, Felice Orlandi, James Sloyan, Joseph Campanella, Carmine Caridi
Gay Talese's book about the Bonanno family of the Mafia and their participation in the internal fighting is the subject of this movie. Not bad.
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The Mephisto Waltz 1971  R, 115 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Curt Jurgens, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom, Kathleen Widdoes, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curt Lowens, Gregory Morton, Janee Michelle, Lilyan Chauvin, Alberto Morin, Berry Kroeger
Terminally ill pianist Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens), who is also a Satanist, grants an interview with up-and-coming pianist Myles Clarkson (Alan Alda). Duncan is impressed with Clarkson, and at the moment of his death, he transfers his soul to Clarkson. It isn't long before Clarkson's wife Paula (Jacqueline Bisset) notes the change in her husband. But that's not all. Paula eventually takes over the soul of Ely's daughter Roxanne (Barbara Parkins). The musical score provides an eerie background.
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd 1980 TV, 143 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Dennis Weaver, Susan Sullivan, Richard Dysart, Michael McGuire, Nigel Davenport, Arthur Hill, Mary Nell Santacroce, Larry Larson, Teddy Milford, Clarence Thomas, Luke Halpin, Bill Gribble
After assassinating Abraham Lincoln, an injured John Wilkes Booth (Bill Gribble) arrived at the farm of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (Dennis Weaver) where the doctor set his broken leg. As a result, Mudd was falsely accused and sentenced to life in a penal colony for being part of a conspiracy to kill the President. His wife, Frances (Susan Sullivan), maintained his innocence, but it would be many years before President Andrew Jackson pardoned him.
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Six Against the Rock 1987 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: David Carradine, Richard Dysart, Dennis Farina, Charles Haid, Howard Hesseman, David Morse, Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Mahon, Tom Reese, J.P. Bumstead
Based on a failed escape in 1946, this made-for-TV movie relates the efforts of inmates at Alcatraz Prison who hatch a plot to take guards hostage and, traveling by boat, escape from the island.
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Special Delivery 1976 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Dangerous Break
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Bo Svenson, Cybill Shepherd, Tom Atkins, Sorrell Booke, Gerrit Graham, Michael C. Gwynne, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Ito, John Quade, Vic Tayback
This comedy-action film involves a bank robbery in which bystanders–including a weird artist (Cybill Shepherd)–try to grab off some of the loot.
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story 1988 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Flight
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Lindsay Wagner, Eli Danker, Sandy McPeak, Ray Wise, Leslie Easterbrook, Laurie Walters, Joseph Nasser, Barry Jenner, Jim McMullan, Steven Eckholdt
In 1985, a Flight Attendant was credited for saving nearly all of the passengers' lives during a hijacking. This very good TV film tells the story of that real-life incident.
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A Tattered Web 1971 TV, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Frank Converse, Sallie Shockley, Murray Hamilton, Broderick Crawford, Anne Helm, Val Avery, Walter Brooke, Whit Bissell, Ellen Corby
Police Sergeant Ed Stagg (Lloyd Bridges) finds out that his son-in-law is cheating on Ed's daughter. Ed tracks down the woman, but tragedy strikes when Ed accidentally kills her. He decides to pin the murder on a homeless drunk. Not a bad made-for-TV flick.
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| 1. Act of Violence (1979)
aka: Deadline Assault
2. Angel Baby (1961)
3. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
4. The Bad Seed (1985)
5. Betrayal (1978)
6. The Burglar (1957)
7. The Chase (1991)
8. Cross of Fire (1989)
9. Face of a Fugitive (1959)
10. Gidget (1959)
11. Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
12. Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
13. Good Against Evil (1977)
14. Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
15. Hawaii Five-O (1968)
16. Honor Thy Father (1973)
17. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
18. The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)
19. Six Against the Rock (1987)
20. Special Delivery (1976)
aka: Dangerous Break
21. The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
aka: The Flight
22. A Tattered Web (1971)
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