TV Guide: Richard Basehart

Listing: Tet!

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:30:00 -0500

Sat Dec 13 06:30 AM HIST The 1968 Tet Offensive and public opposition to the war.

Listing: The House on Telegraph Hill

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 11 12:00 PM FMC

Listing: Time Travelers

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:30:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 04:30 AM FMC

Listing: Captain Sligo

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0500

Mon Dec 8 01:00 PM TVLAND Richard Basehart plays a retired whaler who drops anchor in Kansas and begins a courtship with a widow. Josephine Burney: Salome Jens. Watney: Royal Dano. Matt: James Arness. Tim Burney: Bobby Eilbacher. Leonard: Stacy Harris. Anne Burney: Geri Reischl. Kitty: Amanda Blake. Festus: Ken Curtis. Tanner: Boyd Red Morgan.

Listing: Firepower

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:30:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 06:30 AM HIST Part 11. An examination of weapons employed by both sides, ranging from the Viet Cong's "toe-popper" mine to the Americans' 15,000-lb. "daisycutter" bombs. Narrator: Richard Basehart.

Video: The House On Telegraph Hill

iTunes — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:01:55 -0500

The House On Telegraph Hill is an intriguing cliffhanger set in a spooky Victorian mansion below Coit Tower in San Francisco. Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to America. Now she should be blissfully happy with her devoted husband (Richard Basehart) in their mansion overlooking the San Francisco Bay, but Victoria is not who she seems. Her child belongs to someone else, and her husband and housekeeper are frightening her half to death.

Video: Tension - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:12 -0500

A man who had planned to murder his wife's lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it in Tension (1949) starring Richard Basehart.

Video: The Black Book

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:43:08 -0500

In the late 18th century, the French republic has been thrown into social and political chaos, a disarray that is exploited by the evil Maximillan Robespierre (Richard Basehart). Within 48 hours, Robespierre will sieze power and perpetrate his diabolical tactics on France's helpless citizens. Charles (Robert Cummings), a freedom-fighter working for the resistance, poses as the murderous prosecutor that Robespierre has sent for, skillfully sidestepping the secret police and informants with the guidance of Madelon (Arlene Dahl), a former lover who's now a key resistance member. When Robespierre tells Charles that his black book, a notorious death list filled with enemies on both sides, is missing, Charles is commanded to find it before its contents can be exposed, putting an end to his planned dictatorship. Charles' quest to maintain Robespierre's trust while secretly trying to destroy him and his wrathful allies elicits a series of suspenseful exploits where danger looms around every Parisian corner.

Video: Rebels, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:42:33 -0500

The Rebels was the second Operation Prime Time miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' {-Kent Family Chronicles} (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Part One of this two-part endeavor busies itself with setting up characters, places and events; Part Two finds Kent and his pal Judson Fletcher (Don Johnson) teaming up to prevent the assassination of General George Washington (Peter Graves). The enormous all-star cast includes Richard Basehart, Doug McClure, Joan Blondell, Tom Bosley, Macdonald Carey, Robert Vaughan, William Daniels and Nehemiah Persoff; William Conrad does off-screen duty as narrator. The Rebels was syndicated to local TV stations beginning the week of May 14, 1979. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Flood

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:07:37 -0500

Having already exhausted the dramatic possibilities of fire with The Towering Inferno, producer Irwin Allen turns to water in the made-for-TV Flood! The film is set in a small community, conveniently (for the purposes of the plot) located near a huge earthen dam. As the flood waters rise and the dam threatens to collapse, we are made privy to the individual reactions of such all-star victims-to-be as Robert Culp, Martin Milner, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Hershey, Teresa Wright and Carol Lynley. As in Inferno, helicopter pilots come to the rescue. Most of the film was shot in Eugene, Oregon. Flood! first aired on November 24, 1976. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Brothers Karamazov, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:53:24 -0500

Dostoyevsky's novel {-The Brothers Karamazov} is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks. Yul Brynner plays Dmitri Karamazov, a callous Russian officer who cuckolds his domineering father (Lee J. Cobb) with the old man's mistress Grushenka (Maria Schell). Richard Basehart is Dmitri's intellectual brother Ivan, while William Shatner is the pious Alexey Karamazov; both men eventually enjoy the attentions of the willing Grushenka. The Karamazovs' half-brother is Smedyakov (Albert Salmi), an epileptic whose purpose in the story is clarified after the family patriarch's murder. It is now part of Hollywood folklore that Marilyn Monroe fought long and hard to be cast as the enigmatic Grushenka. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: 21

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:48:55 -0500

Although the title of the series alluded to its human protagonist, the real star of the weekly, hour-long NBC action-adventure series Knight Rider was a talking car -- and no, this wasn't Mr. Ed on Wheels. David Hasselhoff headed the cast as an undercover cop named Michael, who after being shot in the face and left for dead was rescued by billionaire Wilton Knight (Richard Basehart), founder of Knight Industries for the Foundation of Law and Order. Surgically supplying Michael with a new face, Knight also gave our hero a new name, Michael Knight, and a new mission in life -- to travel throughout the world righting wrongs and punishing criminals, with the latest in high-tech computer weaponry and gadgetry at his disposal. Foremost among Michael's arsenal of neat stuff was a sleek, super-powered black Trans Am named Knight Industries Two Thousand, or K.I.T.T. for short. In addition to being outfitted with a near-impenetrable chassis, the capacity to travel 300 miles on the ground, underwater, and even in the ai

Video: Moby Dick

Video Detective — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:59:09 -0500

Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. Call me Ishmael declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly intimidated by the sermon delivered by Father Mapple (Orson Welles in a brilliant one-take cameo), who warns that those who challenge the sea are in danger of losing their souls, Ishmael nonetheless signs on to the Pequod, a whaling ship captained by the brooding, one-legged Ahab (Gregory Peck). For lo these many years, Ahab has been engaged in an obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale to whom he lost his leg. Ahab's dementia spreads throughout the crew members, who maniacally join their captain in his final, fatal attack upon the elusive, enigmatic Moby Dick. Screenwriter Ray Bradbury masterfully captures the allegorical elements in the Herman Melville original without sacrificing any of the film's enterta

Video: Knight Rider

Video Detective — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:41:51 -0500

Video: The Black Book

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:42:20 -0500