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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The Ride Back 1957 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Allen H. Miner
Cast: Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Jorge Trevino, Lita Milan, Ellen Hope Monroe, Louis Towers, Victor Millan, Joe Dominguez
When a Texas lawman, Hamish (William Conrad), captures outlaw Kallen (Anthony Quinn) in Mexico, he needs help from his captive to survive the return journey to the United States.
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 The Ring 1952  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios, Robert Arthur, Robert Osterloh, Martin Garralaga, Jack Elam, Peter Brocco, Lillian Molieri, Julia Montoya, Pepe Hern, Victor Millan, Tony Martinez
Mexican-American Tommy Cantanios (Lalo Rios) lives in White dominated East Los Angeles in the 1950s when he decides that the best way to improve his lot in life is to train as a boxer and excel in the ring. Tommy gets his training from boxing scout Pete Genusa (Gerald Mohr) and gains success as a boxer but learns that despite his standings in the ring, he is still considered to be an "outsider" in the neighborhood.
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Savage 1973 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Watch Dog
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Will Geer, Paul Richards, Michele Carey, Barry Sullivan, Dabney Coleman, Pat Harrington Jr., Jack Bender, Louise Latham, Susan Howard, Victor Millan, Warren J. Kemmerling, Richard Stahl
Steven Spielberg moved away from TV after this entry that concerns TV investigative reporter Paul Savage (Martin Landau). He obtains a photo of a Supreme Court nominee that could destroy the nominee's career, but the photo is too hot to handle.
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Terror in a Texas Town 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Gene Martin, Nedrick Young, Victor Millan, Sheb Wooley, Ann Varela, Fred Kohler Jr., Steve Mitchell, Marilee Earle, Tyler McVey
Director Lewis made a career of making something good with a low budget, and this unusual Western is a case in point. Swedish whaler George Hansen (Sterling Hayden) returns home to find that his father has been killed on the orders of greedy Ed McNeil (Sebastian Cabot) who is trying to force landowners to sell their land to him so he can convert the land into oil wells. George must take matters into his own hands, and the inevitable showdown occurs–but is that weapon of George's a harpoon?
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| 1. Act of Violence (1979)
aka: Deadline Assault
2. The Ride Back (1957)
3. The Ring (1952)
4. Savage (1973)
aka: Watch Dog
5. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
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