Ginger in the Morning(1972)

Synopsis

Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively “small” picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between its stars. A young Sissy Spacek plays the title character, a gangly teenaged hitchhiker who thumbs a ride from travelling salesman Joe (Monte Markham). He is drawn to her free-spirited outlook on life. She, in turn, is attracted by his conservative…

Director

Gordon Wiles

Cast

David F. Doyle – Beatrice Kay – Fred Ward – Monte Markham – Mark Miller – Marion Charles

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Comedy – Romance

Runtime: 90 minutes

Terminal Island(1972)

Synopsis

It’s every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison. After female prisoners arrive at an island prison full of male convicts, they are brutalized and fight back in an attempt to set up a more democratic system. This exploitative drama includes performances of Tom Selleck and Roger E. Mosley of television’s Magnum P.I.

Director

Stephanie Rothman

Cast

Tom Selleck – Chris Allen – Randy Boone – Frank Christi – Albert Cole – Phyllis Davis – Geoffrey Deuel

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Thriller – Action – Science Fiction

Runtime: 88 minutes

Firehouse(1971)

Synopsis

Tensions arise when a previously all-white firehouse gets its first black fireman. An African American youth must deal with both many physical tests and the racism of his peers as he works to become a full-fledged fire fighter in this drama that was originally made as a television pilot. As he is the only black man in an all white unit, things are difficult, especially after he learns that the man he replaced was killed in a fire set by a black arsonist.

Director

Alex March

Cast

John Anderson – Val Avery – Alma Beltran – Mwako Cumbuka – Howard Curtis – Andrew Duggan – Vince Edwards

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Action – Adventure

Runtime: 74 minutes

Incident on a Dark Street(1971)

Synopsis

David Canary and Robert Pine play two green law school graduates, sent to work at the Department of Justice’s office in Manhattan. The standard-issue “gruff but lovable” father figure is US attorney James Olson (who would have been the star of the subsequent series). The first case-load: Getting the goods on a mafia boss, while simultaneously exposing City Hall corruption and tracking down a narcotics operation. Richard Castellano, late of The Godfather, shows up as a minor mafioso.

Director

Buzz Kulik

Cast

Jed Allan – Richard S. Castellano – Robert Pine – David F. Doyle – Murray Hamilton – Kathleen Lloyd – Gilbert Roland

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Crime

Runtime: 96 minutes