Movies: Claude Akins

The disease: incurable. The odds: insurmountable. But Eric will not surrender! An unforgettable true drama of a young man's fight for hope, for love, for life. A two-hour special adapted from Doris Lund's best-seller "Eric."...

Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him, later faking a pregnancy to win her aunt's consent. But Jonas tires of living off of his wife's fam...

The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew....

The story is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelter....

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy....

A single mother struggles to raise two teenage daughters in a small town in America....

An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him....

Steve Guttenberg portrays Pecos Bill, the "King of the Cowboys," in this rootin' tootin' epic. Raised by coyotes, Bill puts the "wild" in the Wild West settlement of Petunia City. When his rowdy behavior gets him run out of town, he heads for Mexico....

Gypsy truckers -- a tough veteran driver and his young college-educated partner -- come to the aid of embattled citrus growers in this pilot for the 1974-75 series, "Movin' On," about these free-spirited, civic-minded teamsters....

A pastiche of three episodes from the 1958 TV series Northwest Passage, stitched together as a feature and released theatrically in Europe....

In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff....

In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for W...

A couple of freelance explosives experts find jungle adventure while being stalked by a revolutionary leader and a diamond hunter....

Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad....

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working....

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II....

A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher....

Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre....

A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preacher....

A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way....