Jack Somack

The Frisco Kid (1979)

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Aldrich
CAST:  Gene Wilder  •  Harrison Ford  •  Ramon Bieri  •  Val Bisoglio

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Aldrich
CAST:  Gene Wilder  •  Harrison Ford  •  Ramon Bieri  •  Val Bisoglio

The Main Event (1979)

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Barbra Streisand  •  Ryan O'Neal  •  Paul Sand  •  Whitman Mayo

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Barbra Streisand  •  Ryan O'Neal  •  Paul Sand  •  Whitman Mayo

Carlton Your Doorman (1980)

Rhoda's camera-shy doorman gets his own special in which we see his daily habits, including flirting with joggers and making the rounds of local watering holes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fred Wolf  •  Charles Swenson
CAST:  Lorenzo Music  •  Jack Somack  •  Lucille Meredith  •  Lurene Tuttle

Rhoda's camera-shy doorman gets his own special in which we see his daily habits, including flirting with joggers and making the rounds of local watering holes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fred Wolf  •  Charles Swenson
CAST:  Lorenzo Music  •  Jack Somack  •  Lucille Meredith  •  Lurene Tuttle

Shut Up... I'm Crying (1970)

Shut Up... I'm Crying is a 1970 English language short film directed by Robert Siegler, starring Sal Catena, Kevin Michael and Carolyn Schultz. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Siegler
CAST:  Sal Catena  •  Kevin Michael  •  Carolyn Schultz  •  Jack Somack

Shut Up... I'm Crying is a 1970 English language short film directed by Robert Siegler, starring Sal Catena, Kevin Michael and Carolyn Schultz. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Siegler
CAST:  Sal Catena  •  Kevin Michael  •  Carolyn Schultz  •  Jack Somack

Blood Bath (1975)

The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joel M. Reed
CAST:  Harve Presnell  •  Stefan Schnabel  •  Doris Roberts  •  Deborah Loomis

The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joel M. Reed
CAST:  Harve Presnell  •  Stefan Schnabel  •  Doris Roberts  •  Deborah Loomis

Portnoy's Complaint (1972)

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ernest Lehman
CAST:  Karen Black  •  Richard Benjamin  •  Lee Grant  •  Renée Lippin

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ernest Lehman
CAST:  Karen Black  •  Richard Benjamin  •  Lee Grant  •  Renée Lippin

Desperate Characters (1971)

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank D. Gilroy
CAST:  Shirley MacLaine  •  Kenneth Mars  •  Sada Thompson  •  Jack Somack

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank D. Gilroy
CAST:  Shirley MacLaine  •  Kenneth Mars  •  Sada Thompson  •  Jack Somack

Hero at Large (1980)

An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Martin Davidson
CAST:  John Ritter  •  Anne Archer  •  Bert Convy  •  Kevin McCarthy

An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Martin Davidson
CAST:  John Ritter  •  Anne Archer  •  Bert Convy  •  Kevin McCarthy

Heat of Anger (1972)

A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Taylor
CAST:  Susan Hayward  •  James Stacy  •  Lee J. Cobb  •  Fritz Weaver

A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Taylor
CAST:  Susan Hayward  •  James Stacy  •  Lee J. Cobb  •  Fritz Weaver

Generation (1969)

Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Schaefer
CAST:  David Janssen  •  Kim Darby  •  Sam Waterston  •  James Coco

Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Schaefer
CAST:  David Janssen  •  Kim Darby  •  Sam Waterston  •  James Coco