The Bunker 1981  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Schaefer
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton, Michael Lonsdale, Susan Blakely, Edward Hardwicke, Martin Jarvis, Michael Kitchen, Andrew Ray, Yves Brainville
Anthony Hopkins won the Emmy for his role of Adolph Hitler during the last weeks of Hitler's life, which were spent in a Berlin bunker. Piper Laurie was nominated for her role as Magda Goebbels.
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Chato's Land 1972  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, James Whitmore, Victor French, Simon Oakland, Ralph Waite, Richard Jordan, Jill Ireland, Lee Patterson
A half-breed Apache (Charles Bronson) is on the run in 1870's New Mexico. He is the suspect in a murder case, and a brutal posse will stop at nothing in the attempt to capture him.
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka 1978  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence, John McMartin, Shirley Knight, George Dzundza, Leo Grillo, Nicholas Guest, Ted Shackelford
This powerful made-for-TV drama is the true-life story of a Lithuanian sailor who defected by jumping ship in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1970. Arkin does another fine acting job and Rich won an Emmy for his directing.
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A Flash of Green 1984  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Nunez
Cast: Ed Harris, Blair Brown, Richard Jordan, George Coe, Joan Goodfellow, Jean De Baer, Helen Stenborg, William Mooney, Isa Thomas, John Glover
Jimmy Wing (Ed Harris) is a local reporter whose old friend, County Commissioner Elmo Bliss (Richard Jordan), gets him involved in a shady, land deal that has conservationists up in arms.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitch Ryan, Jack Kehoe, Helena Carroll, James Tolkan, Peter MacLean, Kevin O'Morrison, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman, Margaret Ladd
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is a small-time hood who becomes an informer as the means of escaping a life sentence in prison. When the mob learns that Eddie is informing on his cohorts, they send Eddie's friend Dillon (Peter Boyle) on a mission to kill Eddie. After spending a night on the town together, Dillon plans to take Eddie's life. This is a powerful film, which is realistic in depicting the world of the underworld.
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 Gettysburg 1993 PG, 258 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Cast: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan, Jeff Daniels, Kieran Mulroney, Kevin Conway, Sam Elliott, Richard Anderson, William Morgan Sheppard, Timothy Scott, Andrew Prine, Cooper Huckabee, Patrick Gorman, Bo Brinkman
Attempts were made to make the famous battle as close to fact as was possible in this Ted Turner production based on the Pulitzer prizewinning novel "The Killer Angels." Confederate Generals Lee (Martin Sheen) and Longstreet (Tom Berenger) make preparations for battle while Union Col. Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) moves his troops into position. Meanwhile, Union General Buford (Sam Elliott) attacks Confederate troops trying to get into position. The story uses both Union and Confederate perspectives to provide a good interpretation of the famous Battle of Gettysburg that claimed 53,000 lives. Both the acting and battle scenes are excellent.
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Heaven Is a Playground 1991  R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Randall Fried
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Michael Warren, Richard Jordan, Victor Love, Bo Kimble, Janet Julian, Nigel Miguel, Cylk Cozart, Hakeem Olajuwon, Terry Bradley
In Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood, inner-city lawyer Zack Telander (D.B. Sweeney) and basketball coach Byron Harper (Michael Warren) join forces to encourage teens to stay out of trouble and tryout for basketball scholarships instead.
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 The Hunt for Red October 1990  PG, 137 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Richard Jordan, Tim Curry, Joss Ackland, Courtney B. Vance, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Firth, Timothy Carhart, Larry Ferguson, Fred Dalton Thompson, Stellan Skarsgard
Something strange is happening in the U.S.S.R. submarine force: the CIA suspects that one of its submarine captains, Commander Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), is leading his submarine, Red October, on a mission that will start World War III. The U.S. Navy knows the submarine is headed their way, but they can only surmise why. Only one person, CIA operative Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), comes up with another reason for the mission of Red October. He believes that Ramius is planning to defect and is assigned the job of going out there to find out what is really going on.
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Interiors 1978  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Geraldine Page, Richard Jordan, E.G. Marshall, Maureen Stapleton, Sam Waterston, Henderson Forsythe
Woody Allen's attempt at drama is good film fare. The plot involves three sisters and their parents whose relationships have deteriorated. The film received five Oscar nominations, including Best Actress (Geraldine Page), Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton), and Director.
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Lawman 1971 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman, Robert Duvall, Albert Salmi, J.D. Cannon, John McGiver, Richard Jordan
After a drunken spree, during which an old man is accidentally killed, Marshal Jared Maddox (Burt Lancaster) sets out to arrest those responsible but finds the town against him.
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 Les Miserables 1978 TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Cyril Cusack, Claude Dauphin, John Gielgud, Flora Robson, Celia Johnson, Ian Holm, Joyce Redman, Christopher Guard
This made-for-TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic tale features Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean, the persecuted ex-convict, and Anthony Perkins as the mean-spirited policeman, Javert, who trails him for 40 years. The lavish production–with a great cast–includes scenes that have been ignored by other makers of this story.
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Logan's Run 1976 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov, Randolph Roberts, Lara Lindsay, Gary Morgan, Greg Lewis, Michael Anderson Jr., Michelle Stacy, David Westberg, Camilla Carr, Richard Kelton
In a man-made city of the 23rd century, humans live in a world without crime, hunger, or strife. The only problem is that no one is allowed to live past the age of 30 (population control). Concerned about his future, almost-30-year-old Logan (Michael York) escapes the city and is joined by Jessica (Jenny Agutter). Although Logan's former partner Francis (Richard Jordan) is on their trail, determined to catch Logan and end his rebellion, Logan and Jessica clear their city and enter the outside world where adventure and dangers await. This Academy Award winner for Best Visual Effects gets high marks in that realm.
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The Mean Season 1985 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phillip Borsos
Cast: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Bradford, Andy Garcia, Rose Portillo, William Smith, John Palmer
A serial killer (Richard Jordan) is on the loose in Miami, and he is communicating with one person, a newspaper reporter (Kurt Russell). Russell gets caught up in all the publicity he is receiving for his involvement with the killer–which is giving him more credibility as a valued journalist.
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The Men's Club 1986  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Roy Scheider, Treat Williams, Richard Jordan, Frank Langella, David Dukes, Craig Wasson, Stockard Channing, Cindy Pickett, Jennifer Jason Leigh
This story about a group of nearly 40-year-olds who get together for a stag party depicts all that is macho about some men and their destructive attitudes toward women.
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The Murder of Mary Phagan 1988 TV, 250 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Hale
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Peter Gallagher, Richard Jordan, Paul Dooley, Charles S. Dutton, Kevin Spacey, Robert Prosky, Kathryn Walker, Rebecca Miller, William H. Macy, Wendy J. Cooke
This made-for-TV movie is about a real-life, controversial legal case. In 1913, when a Jew, Leo Frank, was convicted of murder, Governor John M. Slaton ignored dangers to his career as he looked into the case to obtain the truth from questionable evidence.
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A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 1979 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Big Scam
The Mayfair Bank Caper
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Richard Jordan, Gloria Grahame, David Niven, Elke Sommer, Oliver Tobias, Richard Johnson, Michael Angelis, Dicken Ashworth, Derek Deadman, Davy Kaye, Brian Protheroe
Ex-con Pinky (Richard Jordan) gets a job as a bank maintenance man and is then convinced by Ivan the Terrible (David Niven) to pull off a bank heist.
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Old Boyfriends 1979 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Tewkesbury
Cast: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman, Buck Henry, Gerrit Graham, P.J. Soles, Joan Hotchkis
In the process of healing herself after a failed suicide attempt, psychologist Diane Cruise (Talia Shire) seeks out boyfriends from her past.
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 Raise the Titanic! 1980 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jerry Jameson
Cast: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, Alec Guinness, J.D. Cannon, M. Emmet Walsh, Bo Brundin, Norman Bartold, Elya Baskin
Salvage efforts are underway to raise the ill-fated luxury liner and retrieve its sunken treasures.
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Rooster Cogburn 1975 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Stuart Miller
Cast: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, Strother Martin, John McIntire, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin, Warren Vanders, Lane Smith
A boozing U.S. marshal (John Wayne), complete with patch over one eye, fights for law and order with a minister's daughter (Katharine Hepburn) as his sidekick. Hepburn and Wayne are a good team in this sometimes-exciting film.
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The Secret of My Success 1987 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow, Fred Gwynne, Mercedes Ruehl, Christopher Murney, Gerry Bamman, Carol Ann Susi
A young man (Michael J. Fox) heads for the Big Apple with lots of dreams and ambition. Once he gets there, reality hits him head on with a menial job and squalid apartment. Not discouraged, he continues to look for that big break.
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Shout 1991  PG-13, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeffrey Hornaday
Cast: John Travolta, James Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey, Glenn Quinn, Frank von Zerneck, Michael Bacall, Gwyneth Paltrow
Set in the 1950s at the Benedict Home for Boys in Texas, this story involves a new music teacher, Jack Cabe (John Travolta), whose liberal ideas–professing rock & roll–are not readily accepted by the warden, Eugene Benedict (Richard Jordan).
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Solarbabies 1986  PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Alan Johnson
Cast: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, Charles Durning, Peter DeLuise, Adrian Pasdar, Frank Converse, Terrence Mann, Sarah Douglas
This is one of Mel Brooks' WORST films. It deals with a group of young people imprisoned in a fortress; their escape is dependent on a mystical force.
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Valdez Is Coming 1971  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Edwin Sherin
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan, Frank Silvera, Hector Elizondo, Lex Monson, Juanita Penaloza, Phil Brown
A lawman (Burt Lancaster) in Mexico encounters racial problems and greed when he tries to collect money from a landowner to help an Apache woman (Juanita Penaloza) whose black husband (Lex Monson) was accidentally killed. 1 User Review
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The Yakuza 1975 R, 112 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: Brotherhood of the Yakuza
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, James Shigeta, Keiko Kishi, Eiji Okada, William Ross, Denis Akiyama, Kyosuke Mashida, Christina Kokubo, Eiji Go, Lee Chirillo, Akiyama
Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is a detective who answers the call of his friend, George Tanner (Brian Keith). Tanner's daughter has been kidnapped in Japan by the gangsters, Yakuza, who are the Japanese Mafia. In order to save George's daughter, Harry knows that he must show great power and seeks out his old nemesis Tanaka (Ken Takakura) to aid him in the rescue efforts that, before all is said and done, involve uncovering an espionage plot.
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| 1. The Bunker (1981)
2. Chato's Land (1972)
3. The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)
4. A Flash of Green (1984)
5. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
6. Gettysburg (1993)
7. Heaven Is a Playground (1991)
8. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
9. Interiors (1978)
10. Lawman (1971)
11. Les Miserables (1978)
12. Logan's Run (1976)
13. The Mean Season (1985)
14. The Men's Club (1986)
15. The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
16. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979)
aka: The Big Scam
aka: The Mayfair Bank Caper
17. Old Boyfriends (1979)
18. Raise the Titanic! (1980)
19. Rooster Cogburn (1975)
20. The Secret of My Success (1987)
21. Shout (1991)
22. Solarbabies (1986)
23. Valdez Is Coming (1971)
24. The Yakuza (1975)
aka: Brotherhood of the Yakuza
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