While his name was known to only the most obsessive film fans during the course of his career, Val Lewton produced a handful...
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2007
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The Learning Channel invites viewers Into the Mind of Daredevils. Meet a group of thrill-seekers who risk their lives all in...
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Series Producer
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2001
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Robert Wise brings his distinguished name and considerable directorial skill to this remake of a 1970 Rod Serling TV drama....
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Director
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2000
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1998
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Arguably the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane almost never saw the light of day. In this documentary from directors...
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1996
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Narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William...
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1995
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The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects...
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1993
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Set in the Manhattan street milieu that served him well in West Side Story, Robert Wise's Rooftops tells the story of T, a...
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Director
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1989
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In this film, an old felony conviction comes back to haunt the young, ambitious John Wisdom (Emilio Estevez) as he applies...
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Executive Producer
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1986
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One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year...
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1986
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The works of "Puppetoon" creator and special effects wizard George Pal are perhaps best seen separately and in toto rather...
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1985
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When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's...
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Director
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1979
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Audrey Rose is a "thinking man's" horror film, which in a way is unfortunate, since it tended to be ignored amidst the many...
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Director, Producer
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1977
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"The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg,...
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Director, Producer
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1975
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Evan Bonner (Peter Fonda) is a former solider who deserted the Army due to his growing opposition to the U.S. role in...
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Director, Producer
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1973
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The "Andromeda Strain" is a deadly extraterrestrial virus. It is brought to Earth when a research satellite crashes near a...
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Director, Producer
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1971
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Barbara Hershey stars as the "baby maker" of the title. Tish Gray (Hershey) hires herself out to married couple Jay and...
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Producer
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1970
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Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier...
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Director
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1968
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Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel...
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Director, Producer
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1966
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One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family...
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Director, Producer
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1965
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Director, Producer
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1963
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Based on the two-character play by William Gibson, Two for the Seesaw was unnecessarily expanded for the film version....
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Director
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1962
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Romeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by...
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Director, Producer
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1961
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Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop...
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Director, Producer
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1959
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Director
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1958
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The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high tension level of the WW2...
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Director
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1958
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Director
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1957
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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Director
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1957
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The catch-all title Tribute to a Bad Man had been floating around MGM for years (at one point, it was the working title for...
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Director
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1956
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Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you...
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Director
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1956
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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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Director
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1955
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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Director
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1954
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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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Director
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1953
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Director
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1953
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An offbeat blend of World War II drama and "Arabian Nights" escapism, Destination Gobi is all the more odd in that it is...
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Director
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1953
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Producer
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1953
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Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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Director
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1952
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One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime,...
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Director
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1952
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All of Washington, D.C., is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House. Out steps...
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Director
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1951
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After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder,...
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Director
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1951
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Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate...
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Director
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1950
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Three Secrets is a darker variation on a theme first explored in A Letter to Three Wives (1949). There's only one survivor...
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Director
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1950
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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Director
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1949
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One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy...
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Director
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1948
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Much of Mystery in Mexico was filmed on location through the facilities of RKO Radio's Churubusco Studios. William Lundigan...
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Director
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1948
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Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as...
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Director
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1947
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Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and the better-than-usual...
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Director
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1946
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Director
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1945
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Director
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1945
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Officially a sequel to Val Lewton's psychological-horror classic Cat People (1942), Curse of the Cat People is in fact an...
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Director
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1944
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One of the few failures for RKO Radio's resident "prestige programmer" producer Val Lewton, Mademoiselle Fifi is based on two...
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Director
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1944
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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Editor
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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Editor
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1943
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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Editor
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1943
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Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an...
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Editor
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1942
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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Editor
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1942
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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Editor
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1941
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Editor
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1941
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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Editor
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1940
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Editor
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1940
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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Editor
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1939
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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Editor
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1939
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Editor
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1939
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