Biography: Peter Frederick Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer. He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films and Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He received an Academy Award nomination for his direction for the 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. He also hosted the show Engineering an Empire on the History channel. He played Stan Liddy in the 5th Season of the Showtime original series, Dexter.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 24, 1947
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1991-12-27
Overview: Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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1985-10-24
Overview: Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him. Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-24
Popularity:
1987-07-17
Overview: In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-17
Popularity:
1990-06-22
Overview: After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
Popularity:
1984-08-10
Overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
Popularity:
1995-09-13
Overview: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-13
Popularity:
1995-12-19
Overview: Baxter and Travis are two guys hired to protect a millionaire's daughter from bad guys.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-19
Popularity:
1995-09-08
Overview: SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-08
Popularity:
1999-12-17
Overview: When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
Popularity:
2003-09-05
Overview: For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-05
Popularity:
2000-09-12
Overview: Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a number of days to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West onto his company's books. We then follow Ivan through the highs, lows, and extreme excesses of his final days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-12
Popularity:
1993-02-26
Overview: Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-26
Popularity:
1989-09-13
Overview: A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-13
Popularity:
1994-09-16
Overview: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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2007-05-18
Overview: An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
Genres: Adventure Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-18
Popularity:
1989-03-17
Overview: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.
Genres: Adventure Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
Popularity:
1983-11-23
Overview: A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-23
Popularity:
1979-06-15
Overview: Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
Popularity:
1997-05-01
Overview: In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion, and the two of them become suspects. Over the course of the evening and next morning, the two attempt to escape to surrounded casino, and to prove their innocence, as well as to save their marriage.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-01
Popularity:
2010-11-02
Overview: When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-02
Popularity:
1988-05-06
Overview: When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
Popularity:
1983-01-11
Overview: A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
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2005-08-26
Overview: A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-26
Popularity:
2000-12-17
Overview: In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem to follow in the path of Joseph Mueller (Peter Weller), a seemingly ordinary man who works as a security guard. Unknown to Mueller, his body carries a strange contaminant that's deadly to many people, and Whitman is desperate to find Mueller and stop him before he can cause more deaths.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-17
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2010-11-05
Overview: A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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1982-01-22
Overview: After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-22
Popularity:
2013-05-05
Overview: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-05
Popularity:
1998-06-01
Overview: Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions.
Genres: Action TV Movie Drama Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-06-01
Popularity:
1984-10-26
Overview: Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. Until he discovers Sam's illegal activities.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
Popularity:
2023-04-17
Overview: A documentary interview about Naked Lunch
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-17
Popularity:
2012-05-10
Overview: In St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-10
Popularity:
2012-08-21
Overview: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-21
Popularity:
2013-01-03
Overview: Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-03
Popularity:
1986-07-27
Overview: For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert inviting them to spill their guts, leave messages on her answering machine. When one caller confesses to a murder, Lily begins to suspect that the mystery man may be intending a little "performance" of his own: her death.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-27
Popularity:
2011-08-31
Overview: Once a legend in the brutal world of illicit underground fighting, Shane Slavin (Daniels) decides to turn his life around, promising his wife and young son he's fought his last battle. But when his younger brother betrays a ruthless crime boss (Weller), Shane is forced back into the arena to pay his brother's debts and to protect his family.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-31
Popularity:
1994-05-23
Overview: In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
Genres: Drama Romance Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-23
Popularity:
1980-01-18
Overview: A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-18
Popularity:
1988-04-29
Overview: A painter becomes obsessed and begins an affair with a mysterious woman who was touched deeply by one of his works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
Popularity:
1997-09-16
Overview: An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward (Amy Locane) and a young maid (Karen Dwyer).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-16
Popularity:
2001-10-15
Overview: Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-15
Popularity:
1991-09-21
Overview: A wealthy businessman risks his fortune to test the love of his beautiful girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-21
Popularity:
1993-09-27
Overview: Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much. His estranged wife Anita runs a bar and restaurant called the Sunset Grill and is romantically involved with Jeff Carruthers, a detective who worked with Hart. When someone close to them is murdered, Hart and Carruthers team up to try to solve the crime.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-27
Popularity:
1990-01-01
Overview: A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Popularity:
1992-12-29
Overview: A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-29
Popularity:
1990-01-01
Overview: Spago restaurant maître d’ Bernard Erpicum hosts this program featuring Hollywood stars as they share tips for choosing the best wine for any occasion. Dudley Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Seagal, and Peter Weller are among the guests. Added advice is provided by Robert Loggia, Kelly LeBrock, Herbie Hancock, and Shelley Hack. Other topics covered include quickly ordering from a restaurant's lengthy wine list and selecting the proper stemware for home entertaining.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Popularity:
2010-03-16
Overview: The creators of the God of War video game series discuss how the game parallels the form and function of classic Greek mythology. Experts in classics are brought in to provide their take on the character of Kratos and discuss his journeys.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-16
Popularity:
1994-10-16
Overview: Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-16
Popularity:
1990-04-02
Overview: This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-02
Popularity:
2006-01-01
Overview: Twenty-five hundred years before the reign of Julius Caesar, the ancient Egyptians were deftly harnessing the power of engineering on an unprecedented scale. Egyptian temples, fortresses, pyramids and palaces forever redefined the limits of architectural possibility. They also served as a warning to all of Egypt's enemies-that the world's most advanced civilization could accomplish anything. This two-hour special uses cinematic recreations and cutting-edge CGI to profile the greatest engineering achievements of ancient Egypt, and the pharaohs and architects who were behind them. Includes Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Senusret's Nubian Superfortresses, Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Dier el-Bahari, Akhenaten's city at Amarna, and the temples of Ramesses the Great at Abu Simbel.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
Popularity:
2014-11-07
Overview: After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
Popularity:
2015-07-20
Overview: An Interview with Peter Weller
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-20
Popularity:
2017-09-10
Overview: An automated girl and tortoise warrior journey with a band of outlaws on an incredible quest. Their one hope is to find a legendary relic to defeat a sinister mechanized army and save the creatures of their world.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-10
Popularity:
2006-11-04
Overview: Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-04
Popularity:
2007-07-09
Overview: A Vietnamese girl is forced into prostitution by her abusive German husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-07-09
Popularity:
2000-07-14
Overview: Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy stranger, Stuart, enters Michael's life, taking Michael through a tour of the seediest and slimiest parts of L.A. underbelly. Is Stuart leading Michael to hell, or salvation?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-14
Popularity:
1983-11-08
Overview: Two kinds of love are experienced by young Ricky Schroder in this made-for-TV drama. One kind is the tenuous affection he extends to his estranged father when Schroder's mother unexpectedly dies. The other kind consists of the teasing sensations felt by Schroder whenever he approaches a girl his own age.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-08
Popularity:
2017-03-21
Overview: This retrospective features both archival and 2017 interviews with cast and crew members. It includes interviews with CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin as well as actors Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, and Galyn Görg. Sammon's 1989/90 interviews with producer Jon Davidson and director Irvin Kershner are excerpted. There is also vintage rehearsal and BTS footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-21
Popularity:
1995-10-27
Overview: Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-27
Popularity:
2002-01-04
Overview: A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-04
Popularity:
2013-10-08
Overview: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Genres: Animation Action Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-08
Popularity:
2000-10-31
Overview: Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
Popularity:
1987-11-14
Overview: A king with six daughters who is extremely over protective locks them in their room at night. But for some reason they order shoes from the cobbler practically every day and the king has to pay for them. And when he ask them why, they don't give him a straight answer. So he sends word that whoever figures out why they need so many shoes, he will have the hand of the daughter of his choice. But so far none have succeeded cause they make sure no one can find out. But a soldier upon learning of this decides to find out after being given a cloak that renders him invisible.
Genres: Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-14
Popularity:
2005-11-20
Overview: A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-20
Popularity:
2014-02-28
Overview: An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-28
Popularity:
2001-10-02
Overview: A look behind the scenes at the making of this science fiction classic about a policeman killed in the line of duty, only to be reborn as a half-man, half-machine supercop. Includes interviews with star Peter Weller and director Paul Verhoeven, who give their views on the efforts that went into making the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-02
Popularity:
1993-11-12
Overview: A junior partner in a law firm, finds out that the wife of a very important client is a former college sweetheart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-12
Popularity:
2000-01-01
Overview: A newly hired security expert on the American Embassy in Paris questions who to trust, as he investigates an elaborate passport faking scheme.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Popularity:
1975-11-06
Overview: A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-06
Popularity:
1973-04-24
Overview: At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil, nor come within sight of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country.
Genres: Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-24
Popularity: