Robert Wise Movies

Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly...

Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman.

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles.

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and...

A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.

Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching...

Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of...

A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.

It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan...

From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red...

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of...

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island...

The making of "The Andromeda Strain".

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors....

A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the...