Richard B. Shull

Richard B. Shull

Birth : 1929-02-24, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Death : 1999-10-14

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Richard B. Shull

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Victor/Victoria
André Cassell
Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a club in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan, falls in love with "him." Filmed live on Broadway, 1995.
Trapped in Paradise
Father Ritter
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Housesitter
Ralph
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
Wild by Law
Howard Zahniser (voice)
Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling Sand County almanac and the first to bring the word 'ecology' into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of the Wilderness Society; and Howard Zahniser, a bureaucrat with a love of the wild places he seldom saw. Singly and together, these three fought from the 1920s through the 1950s to preserve the natural world. Provides an overview of the roots of the environmental movement, offering a deeper understanding of one of the most important issues facing contemporary civilization.
Tune in Tomorrow...
Leonard Pando
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.
Seize the Day
Rojax
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Postman
A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a video feature.
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Doorman / Narrator
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
Garbo Talks
Shepard Plotkin
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the iconic star, at the expense of his personal life and much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa. Can he find Garbo before it's too late?
Splash
Dr. Ross
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Unfaithfully Yours
Jess Keller
A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.
Spring Break
Eddie Potmore
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Publicist
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Lovesick
Dr. Fessner
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Heartbeeps
Factory Boss
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Wholly Moses
Jethro
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.
Dreamer
George Taylor
The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain his dream — to win the Tournament of Champions and buy his own lanes. But what price will he pay? The woman he loves sees only that his dream re-locates her to second place in his life; Harry White, his friend and mentor pushes him to become the champion Harry wanted to be — and never was. Torn between ambition and love, Dreamer fights to have both.
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Joseph Ervin
Four women intimate with the showman tell his life story.
The Pack
Hardiman
The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers.
The Big Bus
Emery Bush
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Hearts of the West
Stout Crook
Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.
The Fortune
Chief Detective Sergeant Jack Power
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
Cockfighter
Omar Baradansky
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
Hail
Secretary of Health
A presidential advisor discovers that the President has assembled a secret army of vigilantes to suppress dissent and is setting up concentration camps in which to imprison protestors, hippies and other "social undesirables."
Sssssss
Dr. Ken Daniels
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.
Slither
Harry Moss
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
Made For Each Other
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
Klute
Sugarman
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
The Anderson Tapes
Werner
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
B.S. I Love You
Mr. Harris
When young advertising exec Paul Bongard (Peter Kastner) gets involved with his attractive female boss, he discovers that the affair has fast-tracked his climb up the corporate ladder. Paul's career gets another boost when he starts up with the boss's daughter. Meanwhile, his childhood sweetheart, Ruth (Louise Sorel), is patiently wondering when, if ever, he'll propose to her in this sex comedy from the early 1970s.
Decameron '69
Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of novellas known as The Decameron, this innovative film combines short works from seven directors who set out to interpret Boccaccio's masterwork for the modern age. The result is an assortment of titillating tales ranging from the erotic to the tragic.
Pamela, Pamela, You Are...
Writer
Story revolves around adultery, with Pamela (Elaine Edwards) having a problem explaining her indiscretion to stepdaughter Susan (Mary Lindsay). Matters escalate when Calvin goes after Susan, too.
Aroused
Story
In Manhattan, prostitutes are being murdered by a psycho. A detective is assigned to track him down and bring him in.
It's a Sick, Sick, Sick World
Faux-mondo movie featuring sex, drugs, violence and the familiar dulcet tones of Joel Holt.