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James Farentino has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s.
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House of the Long Shadows
1983
Horror · Comedy

Fright Night
1985
Comedy · Horror

Waxwork
1988
Horror · Comedy

The Return of the Living Dead
1985
Comedy · Horror

Motel Hell
1980
Comedy · Horror

Black Candles
1982
Horror

Superstition
1982
Horror

Night of the Demons
1988
Horror · Comedy

Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · Mini · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

Dead & Buried
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

The Final Countdown
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 58%Prime Video · Included

Bulletproof
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 81%Peacock · Included

Her Alibi
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 85%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Yorgo Voyagis

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Dir. Gary Sherman · With James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross

An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · With Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels
Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. This was a large support van with a desert camouflage off-road vehicle stored inside. The television series cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series was canceled by ABC after they felt the similar Airwolf on CBS would win the ratings battle. Also, the series aired at the same time as the CBS soap opera Dallas on Friday nights, and lost. Eleven episodes were made before the series was cancelled.
Dir. Guy Magar · With James Farentino, Dana Carvey, Sandy McPeak