Word: homolka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters to herself, lives in a mansion and worries equally about her 9-ft. feather boa and the loss, many years past, of her only lover. She would seem to be easy prey for a cartel of international shysters (Yul Brynner, Paul Henreid,* Charles Boyer, Donald Pleasence and Oscar Homolka among them) who have discovered oil under the old lady's property. But she will not be moved, and she wins the aid of some colorful companions-a ragpicker (Danny Kaye), a waitress (Nanette Newman) and a young student activist (Richard Chamberlain). In the end, she overcomes, imprisoning...
With all sorts of plot twists borrowed from Dr. Strangelove and the Bond movies, Brain is the sort of film that more or less writes itself. By the time that Oscar Homolka, as the genial head of Russia's secret service, stops Midwinter's army cold, viewers may decide that the whole thing is mechanical enough to have been turned out by a computer-and one that is worth a lot less than a billion dollars...
...Oscar Homolka sets the tone as the crusty old Thane of Skandia, a bankrupt shipbuilder with a voice like a rockslide. Searching for the legendary Golden Bell, a thing of booty "as tall as three men, and cast by the monks of Byzantium," Homolka's sons Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn steal the Norse King's funeral ship as well as his shapely daughter (Yugoslavia's Beba Loncar), and head south. All that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother...
Joseph Conrad's novel, Victory, makes its TV debut. Assisting Carney: Eric Portman, Lois Smith and Oscar Homolka...