Perry King
Perry King, born Perry Firestone King, made his film debut, aged around 23, in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five. In 1975, he portrayed Hammond Maxwell in the exploitation film Mandingo. Since the 1970s, he has appeared in dozens of feature films, television series and... Read full bio →
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The Day After Tomorrow
A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from an abrupt global climate shift. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age
Stranger at the Door
A suspense-thriller about a married couple whose adopted son turns up at their home after several years and has bad intentions.
Almost Home
Having difficulty making ends meet after her divorce, Millicent Torkelson moves her three children to Seattle, where she becomes the nanny for the spoiled Morgan children.
The Torkelsons
Millicent Torkelson does what she can to hold her family together as it shrinks to just her and her children after her husband Randy abandons the family.
Switch
A sexist womanizer is killed by one of his former lovers and then reincarnated as a woman.
Class of 1984
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.
Search and Destroy
The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer in order to clear his name. He soon realizes, however, that the real killer is now hunting him.
The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Lipstick
Composer Gordon Stuart brutaly rapes a fashion model, goes to trial, gets freed, comes back and rapes her little sister. She takes revenge.
Mandingo
A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
The Lords of Flatbush
Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into street fights, and hang out at a local malt shop.
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Slaughterhouse-Five
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past, present, and future.