All the Kind Strangers 1974  TV, 72 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Evil in the Swamp
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage, Robby Benson, John Connell, Arlene Farber, Brent Campbell, Tim Parkison, Patti Parkison
Motorists Jimmy and Carol Ann (Stacy Keach and Samantha Eggar) are taken prisoner by a group of hillbilly orphans and their mean dogs. The orphans only want a mom and dad, but they can't handle rejection. Made for TV.
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The Astronaut's Wife 1999  R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rand Ravich
Cast: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Nick Cassavetes, Donna Murphy, Blair Brown, Tom Noonan, Samantha Eggar, Gary Grubbs, Clea DuVall
Astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is lost in space for only two minutes but returns to Earth a changed man. Just how changed he is emerges one night when he forcefully seduces his wife, Jillian (Charlize Theron). Pregnancy results, but the question of what is growing inside her womb gives Jillian–and the audience as well–more than a few tense moments.
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The Brood 1979  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Nuala Fitzgerald, Cindy Hinds, Susan Hogan, Michael McGhee, Gary McKeehan, Felix Silla, Reiner Schwartz
Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar) is a mental patient under the care of eccentric psychiatrist, Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed). When Nola's family members become victims of vicious physical attacks, Dr. Raglan is suspected of being behind the attacks. Gross.
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The Collector 1965  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore, William Beckley, Gordon Barclay, David Haviland
It is not always good to win lotteries. When Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp) wins enough money for retirement, he moves to the country to collect butterflies. Unfortunately for Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar), he decides to extend his collection to include her. Undaunted by Miranda's death during an escape attempt, Freddie determines to replace her with another specimen. Eerie stuff.
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Doctor Dolittle 1967 N/R, 152 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Geoffrey Holder, William Dix, Norma Varden, Muriel Landers, Portia Nelson, Frank Welker, Ginny Tyler
Veterinarian Dr. John Dolittle (Rex Harrison) has the unique ability of talking in animal languages–a feat that comes in handy when he leaves Puddleby-By-The-Marsh, England in search of the elusive Great Pink Sea Snail. An Oscar went to "Talk to the Animals" as Best Song. It also won for Special Visual Effects and was nominated for eight more, including Best Picture.
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 Double Indemnity 1973  TV, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Samantha Eggar, Kathleen Cody, Arch Johnson, John Fiedler, Robert Webber, John Elerick, Gene Dynarski, Joan Pringle, Ken Renard, Arnold F. Turner, Rand Brooks, Tom Curtis, Joyce Cunning
Scheming housewife Phyllis Dietrickson (Samantha Eggar) seduces insurance salesman Walter Neff (Richard Crenna) into helping her in a scheme to murder her husband (Arch Johnson). Neff's job will be to falsify the accident insurance that carries a double indemnity clause, which will pay twice as much if he is killed in a train accident. The scheme works–until Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb) suspects foul play and investigates.
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Dr. Crippen 1962 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Lynn
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar, James Robertson Justice, Donald Wolfit, Geoffrey Toone, Oliver Johnston, Edward Ogden, Elspeth March, Douglas Bradley-Smith, John Arnatt, Olga Lindo, Betty Bascomb, Paul Carpenter, John Lee
Beginning with the trial and then through flashbacks, this film dramatizes the story of a notorious murder case in which American-born, but living in London, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (Donald Pleasence) killed his wife (Coral Browne), dismembered her body, and buried it in his coal cellar. He was arrested while sailing to Canada with his mistress (Samantha Eggar) and returned to London for his trial and sentencing–all the while protesting his innocence.
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The Exterminator 1980  R, 101 min.
Genre: Action
Director: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Steve(2) James, Tony DiBenedetto, Dick Boccelli, Patrick Farrelly, Michele Harrell, David Lipman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Stan Getz, George Cheung
James Dalton and Megan Stewart (Christopher George and Samantha Eggar) investigate after John Eastland (Robert Ginty) takes the law into his own hands and fights the gang that mugged and paralyzed his friend (Steve James).
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The Great Battle 1978 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Battle Force
The Greatest Battle
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Cast: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Henry Fonda, Edwige Fenech, Ray Lovelock, Aldo Massasso, Venantino Venantini, Rik Battaglia, Guy Doleman
Narrated by Orson Welles, this German film relates the final tank battles of the Panzer Corps in Tunisia during World War II. Poorly made and poorly acted by big-name stars.
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Hercules 1997  G, 93 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
Cast: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Rip Torn, Danny DeVito, Bob Goldthwait, Matt Frewer, Samantha Eggar, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Barrie, Josh Keaton, Amanda Plummer, Paul Shaffer, Carole Shelley, Charlton Heston
Hercules (voice of Tate Donovan) and Hades (voice of James Woods) fight to the death–ala Disney Studios' animation, and Greek mythology will never be the same.
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The Light at the Edge of the World 1971 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Kevin Billington
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Fernando Rey, Jean-Claude Druout, Renato Salvatori, Massimo Ranieri, Tito Garcia
Cape Horn lighthouse keeper Will Denton (Kirk Douglas) fights for his survival when the pirate, Jonathan Kongre (Yul Brynner), tries to snare him on his own island. Both want shipwrecked Eggar.
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The Molly Maguires 1970 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Zerbe, Art Lund, Frank Finlay, Bethel Leslie, John Alderson, Anthony Costello, Philip Bourneuf, Brendan Dillon, Frances Heflin, Malachy McCourt, Susan Goodman, Chuck Hicks
This film is based on the true story of Irish emigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and worked in coal mines during the 1800s. The miners form a secret group, the "Molly Maguires" whose aim is to correct abuse in the mines. Jack Kehoe (Sean Connery) serves as their leader, and sabotage and murder are how they fight the mine owners. The owners hire Pinkerton detective James McParlan (Richard Harris) to go undercover, infiltrate the Molly Maguires, and report on their activities. McParlan does get first-hand information and begins to understand that the Molly Maguires are protesting truly miserable conditions and exploitation in the mines. Now, McParlan's loyalties become divided between the mine owners who hired him and the struggling miners.
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The Phantom 1996  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Simon Wincer
Cast: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Patrick McGoohan, Samantha Eggar, Jon Tenney
Created by writer/cartoonist Lee Falk in 1936, the Phantom is a superhero whose goal is to make right the wrongs in this world. The first Phantom vowed 400 years ago to accept the mission, and the oath has been passed on for 20 generations. Now the Phantom (Billy Zane) is on the trail of the Pirates of the Sengh Brotherhood who are trying to take over control of the planet.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1976 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier, Joel Grey, Samantha Eggar, Jeremy Kemp, Charles Gray, Georgia Brown, Regine, Anna Quayle, Jill Townsend, Alison Leggatt, John Bird
Doctor Watson (Robert Duvall) is very concerned about his friend Sherlock Holmes' (Nicol Williamson) cocaine addiction and suggests that he consult with Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). During their meetings, the criminologist and psychologist join forces and become involved in solving the mystery behind the kidnapping of one of Freud's former patients, Lola Devereaux (Vanessa Redgrave).
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Walk, Don't Run 1966 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, John Standing, Miiko Taka, Ted Hartley, Ben Astar, George Takei, Dale Ishimoto, Peggy Rea
During the Tokyo Olympic games, a British businessman (Cary Grant) finds he must share his apartment with a young woman (Samantha Eggar) and a U.S. Walking Team member (Jim Hutton). The results are amusing at times, but there are also some boring times. Grant retired from films after this one.
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| 1. All the Kind Strangers (1974)
aka: Evil in the Swamp
2. The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
3. The Brood (1979)
4. The Collector (1965)
5. Doctor Dolittle (1967)
6. Double Indemnity (1973)
7. Dr. Crippen (1962)
8. The Exterminator (1980)
9. The Great Battle (1978)
aka: Battle Force
aka: The Greatest Battle
10. Hercules (1997)
11. The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
12. The Molly Maguires (1970)
13. The Phantom (1996)
14. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
15. The Uncanny (1977)
16. Walk, Don't Run (1966)
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