James Sloyan
6 titles
Filmography
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Xanadu
(1980)Xanadu is a look at the future and a loving remembrance of the way things were in the heyday of Hollywood.

The Traveling Executioner
(1970)In 38 seconds he'll send you on your way to the Fields of Ambrosia, sizzling; like a piece of Bacon. Stacy Keach electrifies in this starling black comedy about an itinerant electrocutioner. It's 1918, and Jonas Candide travels the South with a portable electric chair. Offering up his services to various authorities at a price of $100 a jolt, the ex-Carney tends to his charges with his own brand of tender loving care. Dispensing his own philosophy and consolation, he assures the prisoners that the Fields of Ambrosia await them on the other side of their ordeal. And then he throws the switch. Jonas' life of lethal loquacity becomes undone after he is contracted to bring his ministrations to a pair of siblings and he finds himself drawn to one of them. Bud Cort also excels in this too rarely seen dark jewel of a film, playing Jonas' bumbling assistant.

Callie & Son
(1981)Once her son goes missing right after birth, a teenage mother will stop at nothing to find him. Even if it takes years, they will be reunited.

Her Secret Life
(1987)An ex-secret agent who leads a one-woman invasion of Cuba to rescue an old colleague.

Prime Suspect
(1982)The life of a respected architect and family man unravels when a sensationalistic TV reporter implicates him in a sex crime case involving children.

The Million Dollar Rip-Off
(1976)In this thrilling crime caper, a brilliant electronics expert fresh out of prison soon finds himself drawn into one last heist: stealing a million dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority….with the help of an all woman team.