Jo Helton

Acting

Jo Helton

Known for

Acting

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10 titles

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Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

The Slender Thread poster
7.1

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. During a lonely night shift, a woman calls up and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs him she's taken an overdose of pills; he tries desperately to get help to her, while keeping her on the line. As crucial minutes tick by, Alan learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die.

The Slender Thread

1965

The Yellow Canary poster
8.0

Andy Paxton is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife. On the same night he starts an engagement at a theater in Los Angeles their infant son is kidnapped. Despite objections from the lead police officer on the case, Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along.

The Yellow Canary

1963

Ready for the People poster
8.0

In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.

Ready for the People

1964

Bill Wallace of China poster
7.0

The true story of an American doctor in China during the Communist takeover

Bill Wallace of China

1967

The Young Swingers poster
4.5

Singing teenagers rally to keep open their local nightclub.

The Young Swingers

1963

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