Gus Trikonis

Birth : 1937-11-21, New York City, New York, USA

Movies

Insel der Furcht
Director
Perpetuate a series of murders against members of the aristocratic family Decker. Laura, married to one of them and the city attorney will investigate laboriously trying every means to discover the murderer who has outstanding debts with the family.
The Great Pretender
Director
A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.
Open Admissions
Director
An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get a good education in this issue-oriented drama.
Christmas Snow
Director
A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident.
Love on the Run
Director
A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her new lover — a convict she had as a client and whom she helped escape from prison.
Midas Valley
Director
Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, passion and intrigue amongst them.
Malice in Wonderland
Director
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
First Affair
Director
A young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English professor.
Dempsey
Director
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piatelli Dempsey.
Dance of the Dwarfs
Director
An anthropologist and an alcoholic helicopter pilot discover a race of predatory reptile men in the jungles of South America.
Miss All-American Beauty
Director
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teenage girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning the title and participating in a national beauty pageant.
Twirl
Director
Best friends compete for the title of "Miss Twirl" (similar to a Miss America contest with the primary category of competition being (what else?) twirling!). The real test, however, is whether their friendship will survive through the contest with the pressure and interference from their parents to win.
Take This Job and Shove It
Director
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Director
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
Touched by Love
Director
A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
Flamingo Road
Director
A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this pilot film to the later series.
She's Dressed to Kill
Director
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
The Darker Side of Terror
Director
A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings, agrees to assist his former professor in a cloning experiment in which a duplicate of himself is created -- and which then, with a mind and will of its own, falls in love with the biologist's wife.
The Evil
Screenplay
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
The Evil
Director
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Moonshine County Express
Director
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
The Student Body
Director
Carrie, Mitzie, and Chicago get in trouble a lot in the women's prison, but are offered early parolement if they agree to become subjects of a study on human aggression and antisocial behavior at a Kansas City college. Dr. Blalock, the professor in charge of the study, is accepting money under the table from a shady government contact to use an experimental drug on the women. The drug induces the same hostile behavior the doctor is supposedly trying to cure, and after a while the women have a hard time conducting themselves in a civil manner.
Nashville Girl
Director
A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her to lose things far more precious than fame or money when she gets involved with a group of corrupt music executives.
The Swinging Barmaids
Director
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
Supercock
Original Story
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
Supercock
Director
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
Five the Hard Way
Director
Motorcycle racer Rommel seeks vengeance against JC, a madman who murdered the sidehacker's fiancee.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Rio
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
The Sand Pebbles
Restorff
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Pajama Party
Pajama Boy
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Joe
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
West Side Story
Indio
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.