The Great Impostor

1960

English

6.9

♡ 7

84%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Robert Mulligan Director

Mike Kellin as Clifford Thompson

Karl Malden as Father Devlin

Paul Sorensen as Guard

Arthur O'Connell as Warden J.B. Chandler

Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.

The Incident

1967

English

7.6

♡ 14

88%

Larry Peerce Director

Ed McMahon as Bill Wilks

Mike Kellin as Harry Purvis

Jan Sterling as Muriel Purvis

Jack Gilford as Sam Beckerman

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976

English

7.0

♡ 15

86%

Paul Mazursky Director

Mike Kellin as Ben Lapinsky

Jeff Goldblum as Clyde Baxter

Bill Murray as Nick Kessel

Christopher Walken as Robert Fulmer

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

Girlfriends

1978

English

7.2

♡ 10

93%

Claudia Weill Director

Mike Kellin as Abe

Christopher Guest as Eric

Bob Balaban as Martin

Melanie Mayron as Susan Weinblatt

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

Fools' Parade

1971

English

6.4

♡ 5

55%

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

David Huddleston as Homer Grindstaff

Kurt Russell as Johnny Jesus

William Windom as Roy K. Sizemore

Mike Kellin as Steve Mystic

When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.

The Jazz Singer

1980

English

6.0

♡ 9

26%

Richard Fleischer Director

Mike Kellin as Leo

Lucie Arnaz as Molly Bell

Catlin Adams as Rivka Rabinovitch

Seymour Cassel as Unnamed

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Just Before Dawn

1981

English

6.0

♡ 5

60%

Jeff Lieberman Director

Chris Lemmon as Jonathan

Jamie Rose as Megan

George Kennedy as Roy McLean

Mike Kellin as Ty

In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.

Freebie and the Bean

1974

English

6.6

♡ 5

23%

san francisco, california

Richard Rush Director

Alex Rocco as D.A.

James Caan as Freebie

Mike Kellin as Lt. Rosen

Jerry Walter as Salesman

Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.

The People Next Door

1970

English

6.1

♡ 5

41%

David Greene Director

Anita Dangler as Blonde Mother

Mike Kellin as Dr. Margolin

Sandy Alexander as Elliott

Don Scardino as Sandy Hoffman

A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.

Riot

1969

English

5.9

♡ 5

Buzz Kulik Director

Mike Kellin as Bugsy

Jim Brown as Cully Briston

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Grossman

Bill Walker as Jake

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960

English

6.3

♡ 4

43%

Richard Murphy Director

Mike Kellin as Chief Mate Jack MacCarthy

Warren Berlinger as Radioman 2nd Class A.J. 'Sparks' Sparks

Roy Jenson as Shark Bait - USS Echo Crewman

Lloyd Kino as (uncredited)

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

The Mountain Road

1960

English

6.2

♡ 1

53%

bandit

based on novel or book

Daniel Mann Director

Eddie Firestone as Maj. Lewis

James Best as Niergaard

Mike Kellin as Prince

Rudy Bond as Sgt. Miller

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

Lonelyhearts

1958

English

6.6

♡ 5

70%

50%

advice columnist

based on novel or book

Vincent J. Donehue Director

Mike Kellin as Frank Goldsmith

Jack Black as Jerry

Dorothy Neumann as Mrs. Cannon

Frank Richards as Taxi Driver

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.

Hell Is for Heroes

1962

English

6.9

♡ 19

86%

Don Siegel Director

Mike Kellin as Pvt. Kolinsky

Steve McQueen as Reese

Harry Guardino as Sgt. Larkin

Chuck Hicks as Wounded Prisoner

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown

2016

French

7.5

♡ 6

83%

Gregory Monro Director

Mike Kellin as (archive footage)

Everett Sloane as (archive footage)

Martin Scorsese as Self

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self

Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker whose unquenchable curiosity led him to write, produce, stage and direct many of the films he appeared in, resulting in such adored classics as The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and The Nutty Professor.

The Wonderful Country

1959

English

6.1

♡ 3

36%

Robert Parrish Director

Julie London as Helen Colton

Mike Kellin as Pancho Gil

Claudio Brook as Ruelle

Anthony Caruso as Santiago Santos

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.

Invitation to a Gunfighter

1964

English

6.3

♡ 8

40%

Richard Wilson Director

Mike Kellin as Blind Union Vet

Brad Dexter as Kenarsie

John A. Alonzo as Manuel

John Roy as Townsman

In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.

Paternity

1981

English

5.0

♡ 15

27%

David Steinberg Director

Burt Reynolds as Buddy Evans

Paul Dooley as Kurt

Beverly D'Angelo as Maggie

Mike Kellin as Tour Guide

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming into contact with several children, Buddy decides that he is ready to be a father. Buddy decides to hire a surrogate mother in the hope of having a son.

On the Yard

1978

English

6.0

♡ 6

Drama

Raphael D. Silver Director

John Heard as Juleson

James Remar as Larson

Joe Grifasi as Morris

Mike Kellin as Red

Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.