Harlan Jordan
Actor · 1939 – 2001 · Kaufman, Texas, USA
Harlan Jordan was born on 1 January 1939 in Kaufman, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Local Hero (1983), Talk Radio (1988) and Tender Mercies (1983). He died on 3 November 2001 in Terrell, Texas, USA.
Movies21
Movie5.7HorrorComedyA radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
1986 · 1.1K votes
Movie4.6ComedyIt's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Johnny Be Good
1988 · 160 votes
Movie6.8DramaMusicAlcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Tender Mercies
1983 · 160 votes
Movie7.0DramaA rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Talk Radio
1988 · 254 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaAn American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Local Hero
1983 · 418 votes
Movie7.0HistoryDramaThe life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987 · 14 votes
Movie6.7DramaTV MovieThe true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
1987 · 8 votes
Movie3.4ActionAdventureA soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
Getting Even
1986 · 8 votes
Movie4.7DramaRomanceAn awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
Square Dance
1987 · 23 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaA middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
Blaze
1989 · 70 votes
Movie4.3HorrorA woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes.
Innocent Prey
1984 · 7 votes
Movie5.4RomanceComedyHairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
Nadine
1987 · 97 votes
Movie6.5DramaTV MovieA high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ultimately found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity and placed in an institution for four years. Meanwhile, the dead girl's father, Tom Nolen, and her sister Wynn, bitterly prepare a campaign to put Nolen away in prison for life. Things come to a boil when Bo is released--and Tom and Wynn take "due process" into their own hands.
With Intent to Kill
1984 · 2 votes
Movie5.5DramaEdwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The move is sudden and is complicated by the fact that Porter’s wife and eight children are all very comfortable in the large, successful church they have been serving in Dallas.
Papa Was a Preacher
1986 · 2 votes
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Daytona Shepherd (Will Bledsoe) and his sister, Carole Lee (Mary Davis), operators of Good Shepherd Tow Service, are pitted against a band of dishonest tow truck operators.
Highway Honeys
1982
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieLeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a choice: Does she perform at the Grand Ole Opry, following her dreams? Or does she not go to the concert, and stay at her dying grandmother's bedside? The made-for-tv film is based in part on LeAnn's autobiographical novel.
Holiday in Your Heart
1997 · 3 votes
Movie7.3DramaTV MovieA juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.
Broken Promise
1981 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ActionDramaAn aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vows to make one last go of it on his bike in the race of his career.
Stormin' Home
1985 · 1 votes
Movie5.7TV MovieComedyTo salvage his job and the circulation of his magazine, an editor decides to publish an expose revealing the inside story of the famed cheerleading squad and plants his reporter/girlfriend among the girls.
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
1979 · 9 votes
Movie5.0ThrillerTV MovieAn increasingly obsessed detective chases an escaped rapist across the Southwest and enters into a complicated relationship with one of the victims.
Fugitive Among Us
1992 · 5 votes
Movie4.0ActionHarley is a 'troubled teen' from L.A. who is arrested. A progressive social worker has Harley sent to Texas to live with the Nortons, an open-minded, heartful Christian family, and spend two months on their ranch. Surrounded by a town full of doddering hicks, Harley takes on ranch chores, learns to ride horses, and finds love in a local girl while the Nortons try to bring him into the fold. Eventually Harley chooses to release his pain in exchange for a return to faith, culminating in his calling for God's help to save the life of the burglar who framed him.
Harley
1991 · 4 votes