75% (2) Summer of '42 104 min, R, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Robert Mulligan] [26 Apr 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations.
Actors: Gary Grimes, Jennifer O'Neill, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Writer: Herman Raucher
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Plot: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this irresistible coming-of-age piece, director Robert Mulligan narrates the film as the grown-up counterpart of Hermie, a teenager of the War Years who has a crush on twentyish Jennifer O'Neill. With O'Neill's soldier husband off to war, Grimes convinces himself that he can take hubby's place in every way.
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70% (1) The Culpepper Cattle Co. 92 min, PG, [Western] [Dick Richards] [09 Jul 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Billy Green Bush, Bo Hopkins, Gary Grimes, Luke Askew
Writer: Dick Richards (story), Eric Bercovici (screenplay), Gregory Prentiss (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA
Plot: Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. His mother barely notices. Ben doesn't even seem to get it when he's told to report as 'little Mary' to the old cook, whose words, "Cowboy is something you do only if you have nothing better." gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting heroic macho life, it's endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment, even getting literally caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse, and witnessing unpunished crimes...
Rotten Tomatoes: Young farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
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65% (1) Cahill U.S. Marshal 103 min, PG, [Drama, Western] [Andrew V. McLaglen] [11 Jul 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Gary Grimes, George Kennedy, John Wayne, Neville Brand
Writer: Harry Julian Fink (screenplay), Rita M. Fink (screenplay), Barney Slater (story)
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Plot: J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boys want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.
Rotten Tomatoes: John Wayne stars in this western as the marshal father who finds his sons involved in a bank heist--apparently because of his neglect to give them proper attention.
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64% (1) The Spikes Gang 96 min, PG, [Drama, Western] [Richard Fleischer] [11 Apr 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Martin Smith, Gary Grimes, Lee Marvin, Ron Howard
Writer: Irving Ravetch (screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay), Giles Tippette (novel)
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Plot: Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber, who teaches them the trade.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this western, an outlaw is wounded in battle and manages to escape to the home of two helpful runaways who help him recuperate. During this time, the outlaw regales them with thrilling tales of his adventurous exploits. His stories inspire the lads to form a gang of their own; the outlaw is more than happy to help and become their leader. They rob a few banks and have great fun until the outlaw becomes a turncoat and begins hunting them for a generous bounty. But one of the boys decides to get revenge and rootin' tootin' mayhem ensues.
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59% (1) Gus 96 min, G, [Comedy, Family, Sport] [Vincent McEveety] [07 Jul 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews
Actors: Don Knotts, Edward Asner, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway
Writer: Ted Key (story), Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson
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Plot: The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a losing professional football team, recruits Gus, a Yugoslavian soccer player, to his team. Even though Gus is a mule, he figures the animal can be taught to make field-goal kicks. Despite the outrage of his team, and sabotage efforts by Crankcase, Spinner and Gwymm (Tim Conway, Tom Bosley and Harold Gould), Gus the Mule kicks his team all the way to a championship. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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54% (1) Class of '44 95 min, PG, [Drama] [Paul Bogart] [10 Apr 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 54%, External Reviews
Actors: Deborah Winters, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Writer: Herman Raucher
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Plot: The sequel to Summer of '42 (1971) reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.
Rotten Tomatoes: Paul Bogart directed this ho-hum follow-up to Robert Mulligan's Summer of '42 in which the three adolescents begin their college years during the waning years of World War II. Hermie (Gary Grimes), Oscy (Jerry Houser), and Benjie (Oliver Conant) graduate from high school and head off in different directions. Benjie takes off to join the Marines and disappears from the story line, while Hermie and Oscy fret about entering college. Hermie falls for beautiful college freshman Julie (Deborah Winters), and the boys have to deal with a fractious fraternity president (William Atherton) who is the supervisor of the fraternity hazings.
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