Denis Sanders Filmography

Born:: January 21, 1929
Occupation:: Director
Biography:: In 1945, filmmaker Denis Sanders earned an Academy Award for Best Short Subject for his film A Time Out of War. He and his brother, Terry Sanders, co-wrote the script. In 1958, the two teamed up again to pen the script for The Naked and the Dead. Later Sanders became the director who gave Robert Redford...Read More

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Graveyard Tramps

Crew: Director

Actors: William Smith, Claudia Jennings, Andre Philippe, Thomas Pittman, Jack Perkins

Synopsis: In this "guilty pleasure" outing by B-budget director Denis Sanders (Shock Treatment), William Smith plays an FBI man investigating reports of a coven of "bee-girls" -- women who have taken on the characteristics of bees, and who kill men upon making love. A cute device throughout the film allows Read More

1973
The Great American West

Crew: Director

Actors: John Ford, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne

Synopsis: After several feature-length documentaries (Elvis: That's The Way It Is, Soul to Soul), filmmaker Denis Sanders returned to the short-length form with The Great American West. This 55-minute film was initially a TV special, titled The Great American West of John Ford. The life story of the fabled Read More

1973
Soul to Soul

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No longer professionally linked to his brother Terry Sanders, screenwriter/director Denis Sanders returned to the documentary format in which he'd started his career in the mid-1960s. After enjoying success with the up-close-and-personal Elvis: That's the Way It Is, Sanders decided to focus his Read More

1971
Elvis: That's the Way It Is

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elvis: That's the Way It Is offers a candid look at Elvis Presley at a point when he decided to permanently abandon movie roles and return triumphantly to concert gigs. It shows him strutting around Vegas with his entourage, Elvis painstakingly preparing for his stage show, Elvis relaxing Read More

1970
Shock Treatment

Crew: Director

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Lauren Bacall, Roddy McDowall, Olive Deering

Synopsis: In this offbeat melodrama, a crazed gardener is relegated to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy boss. The scuttlebutt in the courtroom is that the killer has stolen over a million dollars from his former employer and has hidden it on the estate. A professional actor Read More

1964
One Man's Way

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart

Synopsis: From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly Read More

1963
Naked City: A Horse Has a Big Head - Let HIM Worry

Crew: Director

1962
War Hunt

Crew: Director

Actors: John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Robert Redford makes his big-screen debut in this off-beat war drama that tells the tail of a new replacement on the Korean front line. It is his first time in battle, and he comes all starry eyed and eager to prove himself a glorious hero. Obviously a greenhorn, the platoon commander takes the Read More

1962
Crime and Punishment, USA

Crew: Director

Actors: George Hamilton, Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes, John Harding

Synopsis: Handsome, twenty-year-old George Hamilton had his first starring role in this so-so drama by Denis Sanders inspired by Feodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. Robert Cole (Hamilton) is a law student whose certainty that he is a cut above anyone else leads him to murder a pawnbroker with Read More

1959
The Naked and the Dead

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: Despite an ad campaign wherein RKO Radio congratulated itself for its "guts", this long-delayed film version of Norman Mailer's bestselling WW2 novel The Naked and the Dead still had to pull most of its punches (especially when it came to four-letter words). Aldo Ray heads the cast as sadistic Read More

1958
A Time Out of War

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: An interesting look at a moment during the Civil War when soldiers from opposing side share an uneasy truce. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1954