Daniel J. Travanti Archives

The Love War (1970)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 17, 2015Aliens War on Earth

Unusually effective tv movie about two warring alien species fighting for the fate of the Earth. An early effort from producer Aaron Spelling with an eye-opening cast of before they were famous names

Director: George McCowan

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson, Daniel J. Travanti, Harry Basch, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 December 201528 July 2026 by Roog

The long-planned film adaptation of a time travel novel by John Varley, one of the finest SF writers in the world, that alas ends up bluntening and dumbing the story down in the clod hands of Michael Anderson

Director: Michael Anderson

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 20013 September 2026 by Roog

Megaville (1990)

Rating: ½

Jun 18, 2020Dystopian Future

Little-known SF film with Billy Zane in a dystopian future involving Virtual Reality tech and implanted memories. Like Total Recall rewritten as an episode of Miami Vice

Director: Peter Lehner

Actors: Billy Zane, Daniel J. Travanti, J.C. Quinn, Kristen Cloke, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 June 202018 June 2020 by Roog

Just Cause (1995)

Rating: ★★

May 9, 2001Wronged Man Legal Thriller/Serial Killer

Sean Connery stars as a law professor in a courtroom thriller about a wrongly convicted man. However, this gets sidetracked into being a The Silence of the Lambs copycat

Director: Arne Glimcher

Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris, …

Category: Horror

9 May 200116 May 2026 by Roog