Movies with Richard Jordan

Dune

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Starring: Francesca Annis, Virginia Madsen, Brad Dourif, Leonardo Cimino, Richard Jordan, Everett McGill, Silvana Mangano

Directors: David Lynch

Country: USA

Year: 1984

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of good Duke Lito, from the time of his father's betrayal and murder by a rival lord, Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery of the great secret behind the planet Dune and his own destiny, which is to free the planet and its denizens of the cruel rule of the Emperor.

 

The Bunker

Genres: Drama, History, War

Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Hopkins, James Naughton, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Martin Jarvis, Michael Lonsdale

Directors: George Schaefer

Country: USA, France

Year: 1981

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

 

Gettysburg

Genres: Drama, History, War

Starring: Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Royce D. Applegate, Richard Jordan, William Morgan Sheppard, Martin Sheen

Directors: Ronald F. Maxwell

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod

The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels'.

 

Posse

Genres: Western

Starring: Blair Underwood, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Isaac Hayes, Pam Grier, Stephen Baldwin, Billy Zane, Richard Jordan

Directors: Mario Van Peebles

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1993

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.

 

The Hunt for Red October

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin, Tim Curry, Sean Connery, Joss Ackland, Jeffrey Jones, James Earl Jones

Directors: John McTiernan

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

This film tells the story of Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union's newest nuclear sub. Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the "Red October" with him. The story is an action packed techno-thriller.

 

Solarbabies

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Starring: Sarah Douglas, James LeGros, Jason Patric, Bruce Payne, Jami Gertz, Richard Jordan, Adrian Pasdar

Directors: Alan Johnson

Country: USA

Year: 1986

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for them and the orb.

 

The Secret of My Success

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Drew Snyder, Gerry Bamman, Michael J. Fox, Barton Heyman, Carol Ann Susi, Richard Jordan, Helen Slater

Directors: Herbert Ross

Country: USA

Year: 1987

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room. Then Brantley meets Christy Wills, who happens to be one of the top executives. Believing that the best way to win her over is by posing as an executive, Brantley decides to take a position under the name Carlton Whitfield, and soon things get unexpectedly out of hand.

 

Rooster Cogburn

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Lane Smith, John McIntire, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe, Strother Martin

Directors: Stuart Millar

Country: USA

Year: 1975

A small village in the Indian Nation that is run by a Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula is overrun by a band of drunken thugs. They kill and rape the people of the village. Miss Goodnight then teams up with the ruthless Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn who goes after them and bring them to justice.

 

Raise the Titanic

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Anne Archer, Alec Guinness, M. Emmet Walsh, Jason Robards, Dirk Blocker, Richard Jordan, David Selby

Directors: Jerry Jameson

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1980

A group of Americans are interested in raising the ill-fated Ocean liner Titanic. One of the team members finds out the Russians also have plans to raise the ship from its watery grave. Why all the interest ? A rare mineral on board could be used to power a sound beam that will knock any missile out of the air when entering us airspace.

 

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Peter Boyle, Robert Mitchum, Mitch Ryan, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, Matthew Cowles, Joe Santos

Directors: Peter Yates

Country: USA

Year: 1973

Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?

 

Logan's Run

Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama

Starring: Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Laura Hippe, Farrah Fawcett

Directors: Michael Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 1976

It's 2274 and on the surface, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within an enclosed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform and inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. There is one catch however: your life is limited and when you reach 30, it is terminated in a quasi-religious ceremony known as Carousel. Some, known as runners, do try to escape their fate when the time comes and it's the job of a Sandman to track them down and kill them. Logan is such a man and with several years before his own termination date, thinks nothing of the job he does. Soon after meeting a young woman, Jessic...

 

Lawman

Genres: Western

Starring: Robert Duvall, Albert Salmi, Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Richard Jordan, John Beck, Ralph Waite

Directors: Michael Winner

Country: USA

Year: 1971

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident. Maddox, however, will not compromise even though small ranchers like Vern Adams are not in a position to desert their responsibilities for a long and protracted trial. Sabbath's marshal, Cotton ...