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Cade's County(1970)(TV Series) 20th Century Fox
Director: Reza Badiyi & Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast: Glenn Ford (Sheriff Sam Cade), EdgarBuchanan, Taylor Lacher, Victor Campos, Peter Ford 
Sam Cade (GF) is the tough but sensitive Sheriff of Sprawling Madrid County. He keeps the law helped by his deputy (Buchanan). A modern Western series part drama and part mystery. It lasted the 1971-1972 season. Ford was quite good and convincing in the role.
Santee (1973) Crown International Pictures
Director: Gary Nelson
Screenplay: Brand Bell, Thomas N. Blackburns
Cast: Glenn Ford (Santee), Michael Burns, Dana Wynter, Jay Silverheels, Harry Townes.
For his return to the Big screen after four years, Ford opted for a Western and it came out an Ok one. He is a bounty hunter,whose boy had been murdered, who adopts the son of the outlaw he has just killed.
The Greatest Gift(1974)TV Univesal TV/NBC
Director: Boris Sagal
Screenplay: Abby Mann from a novel by Jack Farris
Cast: Glenn Ford (Reverend Holvak), Julie Harris, Lance Kerwin, harris Yulin, Dobbs Greer,
Reverend Holvak, a poor rural preacher in the 1940s fights against stff-necked church Deacons and a violent bullying sheriff while struggling to support his family.
The cast is superb and the story rings true and convincing. The TV film inspired a series, "The Family Holvak"
The Family Holvak(1975)(TV series) Universal TV/Studios USA television
Director: Corey Allen, Alf Kjellin
Cast: Glenn Ford (rev.Tom Holvak), Julie Harris, Lance Kerwin, Elizabeth Cheshire, Bill McKinney
Inspired By the TV movie "The Greatest Gift" the series that ran from 1975 to 1977 has reverend Holvak and his family battling to survive the depression in the Deep South in the early 30s. It ran for 6 one-hour episodes. It was good but a little monotonous and depressing.
Once an Eagle(1976)(TV mini-series) Universal TV/NBC
Director: Richard Michaels, E.W. Swackhamer
Screenplay: Peter S. Fischer
Cast: Sam Elliott, Cliff Potts, Darleen Carr, Amy Irving, Glenn Ford (George Caldwell), Ralph Bellamy, Dane Clark, Andrew Duggan, Lynda Day George, Clu Gulager, Kim Hunter, Juliet Mills
This mini-series that follows the parallel careers of two Army officers through WW1 and WW2 was hailed as a masterpiece when it was aired. It still ranks among the best ever made.
"Friends of Man"(1974)(TV series)
VOICE-Narrator A series of documentaries on animals. Ford provides the voice over narration. That's action(1977)
A documentary directed by G.David Schine on action on film. Ford and a lot of other stars from Joan Crawford to John Wayne participate as themselves. Interesting. |  |
Jarrett(1973)TV Columbia TV/NBC
Director: Barry Shear
Screenplay:Richard Maibaum
Cast: Glenn Ford (Sam Jarrett), Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker,Laraine Stephens, Yvonne Craig, A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing biblical scrolls. Not enough to keep the audience interested in spite of Ford.
The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1966) TV
NBC
Director: Jud Taylor
Screenplay:Neal R. Burger, George Simpson
Cast: Glenn Ford Col. Pete Moore), Bradford Dillman, David Soul, Guy Stockwell,
Absorbing and convincing TV movie that explores possibilities of cover-up in the title event.
Punch and Jody (1974) TV NBC
Director: Barry Shear
Screenplay: John McGreevey
Cast: Glenn Ford (Peter "Punch" Travers),Pam Griffin, Ruth Roman, Kathleen Widdoes, 
A man abandoned wife and daughter to join a traveling circus. Now, years later, he meets his teenage daughter. Can she forgive him? In spite of the good acting nobody really cares. The TVmovie is flat and uninteresting.
Midway(1976) Universal International
Director: Jack Smight
Screenplay:Donald S. Sanford
Cast: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford( Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert wagner, Robert Webber, Ed Nelson, James Shigeta, 
Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum Prominent cast acts to reels of stock shots from old films, actual wartime footage and antique Japanese war films.
A silly soap opera subplot does not help. Still some of the drama and impact of the great naval battle comes through. Beside the major names there were a lot of familiar faces in the cast.
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The 3,000 mile chase (1977)TV Universal TV/NBC
Director: Russ Mayberry
Screenplay:Philip DeGuere
Cast: Glenn Ford (Paul Dvorak/Leonard Stavek), Cliff DeYoung, Priscilla Pointer, Blair Brown.
A secret courrier accepts the mission to escort a chief Witness (GF) and his wife from San Francisco to New York City to testify at a trial. The journey is 3000 dangerous miles long and the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Another suspense on a trite theme, done and redone several times with better scripts. But the cast is quite good and pull it off. |
