5 Movies Directed by Dick Lowry

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-04-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (474 Reviews)

Director:

Dick Lowry

Genres:

Western

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Byrnes (teleplay)

Cort Casady (story)

Jim Byrnes (story)

Don Schlitz (suggested by a song by)

Fullplot:

Brady Hawkes, The Gambler, receives a letter from his son indicating he needs help. This sends Brady to the rescue. Along the way Brady meets up with Billy Montana, a young man who thinks he knows everything about playing cards. Brady teaches Billy a few lessons along the way and they end up forming a strong friendship and team up together.

In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-11-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (578 Reviews)

Director:

Dick Lowry

Fullplot:

Florida 1985: A series of brutal robberies and murders keeps the F.B.I busy. Although all crimes seem to be comitted by the same group, they can't hunt them down. The experienced officer Ben Grogan and his youngest colleague Gordon finally have to rely on their luck when they set up a trap. The chase results in a massacre...

Last Stand at Saber River

Last Stand at Saber River

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-01-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

(967 Reviews)

Director:

Dick Lowry

Cast:

Writer:

Elmore Leonard (novel)

Ronald M. Cohen (teleplay)

Fullplot:

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort. Desperate to rebuild the life he once knew, Cable ultimately joins forces with Vern Kidston, his Union adversary to make a last stand for the one thing worth fighting for -- his family.

Atomic Train

Atomic Train

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-05-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.6 (1827 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

D. Brent Mote (teleplay)

Phil Penningroth (teleplay)

Jeff Fazio (story)

Armand Speca (story)

D. Brent Mote (story)

D. Brent Mote (teleplay)

Phil Penningroth (teleplay)

Rob Fresco (teleplay)

D. Brent Mote (story)

Phil Penningroth (story)

Fullplot:

A waste disposal company has a Russian nuclear bomb to transport, and an employee decides to save money by concealing it on a freight train. The train, also loaded with hazardous and flammable chemicals, suffers a brake failure and becomes a runaway heading for Denver. A wreck would be bad enough, but much, much worse if the bomb goes off. A heroic NTSB investigator boards the train; he and the railwaymen try various ways to stop the train, but nothing works. Meanwhile Denver residents are struggling to collect their families and then leave town, despite rioters and gridlock. Will the train have to be derailed to stop it? If it does derail, will the bomb explode, and if it does, what then?

Category 7: The End of the World

Category 7: The End of the World

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-11-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany, Canada

Runtime:

169 min

Rated:

TV-PG

IMDB Ratings:

4.7 (2200 Reviews)

Director:

Dick Lowry

Cast:

Writer:

Christian Ford

Roger Soffer

Matt Dorff (characters)

Christian Ford (teleplay)

Roger Soffer (teleplay)

James LaRosa (teleplay)

Christian Ford (story)

Roger Soffer (story)

Matt Dorff (characters)

Fullplot:

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.

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