James Desmond
Actor
Movies4
Movie6.8DramaHistoryBuck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Eight Men Out
1988 · 291 votes
Movie5.5HorrorThrillerGarbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!
Christmas Evil
1980 · 205 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceA successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
It's My Turn
1980 · 33 votes
Movie8.0DramaCrimeA New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.
Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
1983 · 1 votes