Scruples (1980/TV ) (MOD)

Scruples (1980/TV ) (MOD)Armed with beauty, passion and ambition, an extraordinary woman enters and conquers a glittering realm of unimaginable wealth, jetset glamour and expensive sins in this scintillating adaptation of Judith Krantz's first novel. Billy Ikehorn (The Bionic Woman Emmy? Award winner Lindsay Wagner) caters to society's high fashion fantasies at Scruples, Beverly Hills' most opulent boutique. But sinister figures from Billy's golden present and scarlet past

Lex Barker portrays the legendary Ape-Man (the star's third of five vine-swinging roles) in this matinee rouser that

Booted out of boarding school for singing Mendelssohn in swing time

Classic cinephiles should keep their eyes on the credits for contributions by luminaries the likes of Michael Curtiz

whose arrival in Arizona Territory's San Remo puts him at odds with conspirators eager to ignite an Apache uprising and thereby lay claim to gold-rich reservation land

There's something evil happening at Salem's Helen Page School and only a defrocked minister-turned-exorcist (James Farentino) can save the students from a fiery fate

but she feels a strange attraction for Hale

They gossiped about her in whispers

and rapidly raises the stakes as he's forced to team with a notorious outlaw (Gerald Mohr)

Cagney plunges into his first period film with his fists and charisma at the service of a story tracing Morgan's rise from shanghaied sailor to Barbary power broker

where his work for the Nazis could save his life if the Allies don't hang him first

Lucille Ball costars as Anne

Lon Chaney