
Lenny Montana
Actor · 1926 – 1992 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Tall and solidly built, this Italian-American professional wrestler turned actor was born Lenny Passaforo in Brooklyn, New York, and is best remembered for his first on-screen role as the not too bright but ever loyal bodyguard Luca Brasi in The Godfather (1972). Montana didn't get a lot of screen time before being eliminated by the henchmen of opposing gangster Al Lettieri with a garrote and a knife; however, he caught the eye of casting agents and over the next ten years racked up roles in 16 movies. Usually cast as "muscle for hire", he was equally good at playing the intimidating thug or a buffoonish hoodlum, such as in Battle Creek Brawl (1980) and The Jerk (1979). His last film appearance was in the B-thriller Blood Song (1982), which he also co-wrote. He died in May 1992 of a heart attack while in Italy.
Movies19
Movie8.7DramaCrimeSpanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
The Godfather
1972 · 23K votes
Movie5.9ActionComedyA young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
The Big Brawl
1980 · 202 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaA two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
...All the Marbles
1981 · 59 votes
Movie6.9ComedyAfter discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
The Jerk
1979 · 932 votes
Movie5.3HorrorScience FictionBullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
Evilspeak
1981 · 122 votes
Movie5.7ComedyCrimeA small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Matilda
1978 · 6 votes
Movie5.8ActionDramaA government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
Seven
1979 · 46 votes
Movie5.4CrimeDramaDr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would be poorly received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
Change of Habit
1969 · 29 votes
Movie6.2DramaActionA wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.
Fingers
1978 · 69 votes
Movie4.4ComedyDewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978 · 9 votes
Movie4.8ComedyHorrorA former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
Pandemonium
1982 · 32 votes
Movie6.4ThrillerCrimeTommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.
Defiance
1980 · 32 votes
Movie6.8DramaThrillerA policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
Contract on Cherry Street
1977 · 4 votes
Movie5.9CrimeDramaA New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Strike Force
1975 · 7 votes
Movie4.9HorrorThrillerA psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
Blood Song
1982 · 23 votes
Movie6.7DramaA close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.
Below the Belt
1980 · 6 votes
Movie6.0ComedyThe Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
MovieTV MovieComedy1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary.
Movie7.0Doctors and "experts" sit around the discuss the Patty Hearst kidnaping case, which is seen in flashbacks.
Patty
1976 · 1 votes
Series4
TV7.3CrimeDramaA private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · 460 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Kojak
1973 · 154 votes
TV8.6CrimeDramaA seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America.
TV7.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasySearch is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe was the name of an existing PBS series. In the UK the series aired on BBC 1 under the title Search Control. The show was created by Leslie Stevens, and produced by Leslie Stevens, Robert Justman, John Strong and Tony Spinner. The high concept was described as "science fiction in today's world" and the episodes featured many high-tech elements which are considered common in current science fiction shows.
Search
1972 · 9 votes