Clarke Gordon

Clarke Gordon

Born: April 21, 1918
Died: December 26, 2004
in Detroit, Michigan, USA

Movies for Clarke Gordon...

Cheap Shots
Title: Cheap Shots
Character: Franklin
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The owner of a sleazy hotel, along with his friend, decides to videotape a room that is rented by a sexually active couple. Inadvertently recording their murders, the men are soon faced with a dilemma as the killers come looking for the tape.
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Title: Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
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Coast to Coast
Title: Coast to Coast
Character: Senator
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a debt-ridden truck driver. Madie and Charles eventually fall in love while evading an assortment of bad guys including a pair of thugs hired by Madie's husband to prevent her from returning to California, and a repo man sent to reclaim Charles' truck
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The Comeback Kid
Title: The Comeback Kid
Character: Man at Funeral
Released: April 11, 1980
Type: Movie
A down-on his-luck baseball pitcher finds a new set of rewards coaching a gang of underprivileged youngsters and romancing a career-oriented playground supervisor who, against her better judgment, put the kids in his charge.
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A Different Story
Title: A Different Story
Character: Mr. Taylor
Released: May 10, 1978
Type: Movie
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
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The Night That Panicked America
Title: The Night That Panicked America
Character: Matlock
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
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That Certain Summer
Title: That Certain Summer
Character: Artist
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
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Glass Houses
Title: Glass Houses
Character: The Novelist
Released: January 7, 1972
Type: Movie
The film's plot centres around the libidinous sexual shenanigans of a middle-class Californian family, and deftly explores themes such as marital discord, middle age, adultery, and incestuous desire.
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Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Title: Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Character: House Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.
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The Greatest Mother of 'em All
Title: The Greatest Mother of 'em All
Character: Collinson
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Stage mother Dolly Murdock (Ann Sothern) uses the attractiveness of her teenage daughter Tricia (Alexandra Hay) for her own economic gains, leading Tricia to experience a nightmarish loss of innocence.
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Impasse
Title: Impasse
Character: Trev Jones
Released: May 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Adventurers search for World War II gold in the Philippines.
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More Dead than Alive
Title: More Dead than Alive
Character: Carson
Released: January 15, 1969
Type: Movie
When the multiple murderer Cain is released from prison after 18 years, he wants to settle down as a rancher and never touch a gun again. But his former life haunts him; not only that nobody wants to give him a job, some villains also want to pay him back. So he has to accept the offer of showman Ruffalo to perform as "Killer Cain" in his traveling shooting show. However after 18 years without practice even Ruffalo's young assistant Billy shoots better than Cain.
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The Sunshine Patriot
Title: The Sunshine Patriot
Character: Scopes
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: Movie
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
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Journey to Shiloh
Title: Journey to Shiloh
Character: Colonel Mirabeau Cooney
Released: May 10, 1968
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
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The Way West
Title: The Way West
Character: Caleb Greenwood (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
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The Spy in the Green Hat
Title: The Spy in the Green Hat
Character: Thrush Officer
Released: February 3, 1967
Type: Movie
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
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Title: The Invaders
Character: Mr. Nova
Released: January 10, 1967
Type: TV
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
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One Spy Too Many
Title: One Spy Too Many
Character: Arnold Claxon
Released: August 5, 1966
Type: Movie
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greatest crimes.
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
Title: Invitation to a Gunfighter
Character: Hickman
Released: October 14, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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A Cold Wind in August
Title: A Cold Wind in August
Character: Harry
Released: July 26, 1961
Type: Movie
An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.
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The Devil's Hairpin
Title: The Devil's Hairpin
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.