David Susskind Movies

An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social...

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Cast: David Susskind

Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trevor Howard

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Robards

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Susskind

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Cassavetes

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ellen Burstyn

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hal Holbrook

Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not. Walter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley MacLaine

An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

In the year AIDS was first defined by the CDC, this 1982 program is a human rights debate between religious scholars and notable gay New Yorkers.

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The fascinating 1973 interview with a mid-level hitman named “Joey” who describes in detail his life in the mob that included the murder...

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The 1973 program that explored Howard Hughes’ connection to Watergate and the alleged $100,000 bribe to Nixon that may have precipitated the...

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A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Robards

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle...

Genre: War

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Quinn

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Berenger

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel in this one-man show presented before a live studio audience.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Charles Durning

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Judith Anderson

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Newman

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynda Carter

Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Alexander

Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Barrie

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diana Davila

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynda Carter

A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Jones

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Segal

A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Margolin

Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hal Linden

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George C. Scott

Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kevin Dobson

Two attractive divorcees find that their newly realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susan Saint James

A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ed Asner

JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Granville Van Dusen

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee J. Cobb

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ed Flanders

William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Sarrazin

Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joanne Woodward

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Hordern

A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Gazzara

When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.

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Cast: Paul Newman

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Alexander

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Flanders

A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Granville Van Dusen

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Arlene Francis

A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Cilento

The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joanne Woodward

A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sandy Dennis

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Conrad

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Fonda

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden...

Genre: Western

Cast: Paul Newman

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Bathurst

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Donna M. Bryan

A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bess Armstrong

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bea Arthur

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patty Duke

In this charming TV adaptation of the 1947 film classic, a kindly old gentleman (Ed Wynn) working as a Macy's department store Santa causes a...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ed Wynn

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mia Farrow

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Fabiani