Movies by Woodrow Parfrey

Papillon
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Wake Me When the War Is Over
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!

Stay Hungry
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.

The Family Nobody Wanted
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.

The Alpha Caper
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.

A Very Missing Person
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

Sam Whiskey
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

Back to the Planet of the Apes
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]

Valley Forge
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Johnny Gunman
Set over the course of one night in New York, Johnny Gunman follows a tense battle between two mob boss hopefuls.