Cast: Norman Lloyd

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Synopsis Limelight (1952) is a poignant drama directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film follows Calvero, a once-famous but now washed-up clown, who saves a young ballerina, Terry, from a suicide attempt. As he nurses her back to health, Calvero...

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Aleksandr Sokúrov · Norman Lloyd · Lars von Trier · Paul Schrader

Synopsis 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Gregory Peck · Michael Chekhov · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis Spellbound (1945) follows Dr. Constance Petersen, a psychoanalyst at a mental hospital, who becomes intrigued by the new director, Dr. Anthony Edwardes. As their relationship deepens, she discovers he is an impostor suffering from amnesia and haunted by a mysterious...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Robin Williams · Robert Sean Leonard · Ethan Hawke · Josh Charles

Synopsis In Dead Poets Society (1989), a group of students at a conservative boarding school in the 1950s is inspired by their unconventional English teacher, Mr. Keating. He encourages them to seize the day and think independently through poetry and literature....

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Nick Cravat · Robert Douglas

Synopsis Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than...

Direction Richard Schickel

Cast Sydney Pollack · Bill Irwin · Norman Lloyd · David Thomson

Synopsis American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. The film also contains insight...

Direction Fletcher Markle

Cast Fletcher Markle · Alfred Hitchcock · Joan Harrison · Norman Lloyd

Synopsis This 1964, interview of Alfred Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. It was conducted during or immediately after the filming of Marnie and also contains interesting stories and comments from Alfred Hitchcock and...

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Arlene Dahl · Gloria DeHaven · Tom Drake

Synopsis Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, most upsetting to the racket bosses who can't get normal...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Zachary Scott · Betty Field · J. Carrol Naish · Beulah Bondi

Synopsis Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as...

Direction Michael Epstein

Cast David O. Selznick · Alfred Hitchcock · Peter Bogdanovich · Judith Anderson

Synopsis This excellent documentary interweaves the biographies of two highly different but equally important characters of cinema history: David O. Selznick, producer, and Alfred Hitchcock, movie director.

Direction Joshua Brand · John Falsey · David Anspaugh · Eric Laneuville

Cast William Daniels · Ed Begley Jr. · Howie Mandel · David Morse

Synopsis This hour-long dramatic series featured life at St. Eligius Hospital, headed by Drs. Donald Westphall and Daniel Auschlander. Every year, new residents would walk down the halls of St. Eligius; learning to deal with perfectionist Cardiovascular Surgeon Mark Craig was...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Priscilla Lane · Robert Cummings · Otto Kruger · Alan Baxter

Synopsis A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed his good friend. Recognizing that he has been set up...

Direction John Berry

Cast John Garfield · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford · Selena Royle

Synopsis Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is killed, along with a policeman. Nick hides out in a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. He goes back to her apartment with her and forces her family...

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanne Moreau · Peter Brook · Costa-Gavras

Synopsis Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast David Wayne · Howard Da Silva · Luther Adler · Martin Gabel

Direction Bernard Eisenschitz

Cast Claude Chabrol · Norman Lloyd

Direction Ted Haimes

Cast Kevin Spacey · Jonathan Demme · Alfred Hitchcock · Joseph Stefano

Synopsis This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such as "Shadow of a Doubt", "Notorious", "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "Psycho"...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Robert Cummings · Richard Basehart · Richard Hart · Arlene Dahl

Synopsis Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge...

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Ken Follett · Norman Lloyd · Alfred Hitchcock · Heywood Gould

Synopsis "A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline. The special will feature...

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Joel McCrea · Gail Russell · Herbert Marshall · Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis When Elizabeth Howard (Gail Russell) comes to fashionable Crescent Drive to take charge of two motherless children, she finds them spoiled, unmanageable yet strangely cognizant of all the weird events going on in the ostensibly empty, shuttered house next door....