Direction: Alvin Ganzer

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Alvin Ganzer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Direction Alvin Ganzer

Cast Inger Stevens · Adam Williams · Lew Gallo · Leonard Strong

Synopsis Nan Adams is driving across country from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Apart from a blown tire, the trip has been more or less uneventful. That is until she begins to see the same man, over and over again, hitchhiking along...

7.0

207 votes

7.0

207 votes

Direction Alvin Ganzer

Cast Steve Cochran · Ernest Truex · Read Morgan · Arlene Martel

Synopsis An old man comes to the same bar every night to peddle his wares. He tells the clients what it is they need before they realize they need it. Moments after telling a washed up major league pitcher he needs...

6.9

194 votes

6.9

194 votes

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Sam Rolfe · E. Darrell Hallenbeck · Joseph Sargent · John Brahm

Cast Robert Vaughn · David McCallum · Leo G. Carroll · Barbara Moore

Synopsis TV Serie (1964-1968). 4 Seasons. 105 episodes. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kullyakin are the two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, who fight evil (primarily an organization of Bad people called, THRUSH) and use charm, wit, and...

6.5

197 votes

6.5

197 votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Synopsis Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

Route 66 (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich · Arthur Hiller · Tom Gries · George Sherman

Cast Martin Milner · George Maharis · Glenn Corbett · Elizabeth MacRae

Synopsis Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the...

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

Direction Alvin Ganzer

Cast Janice Rule · Shepperd Strudwick · Terry Burnham · Michael Fox

Synopsis Helen Foley is a school teacher who when arriving home one day meets a little girl, Markie, sitting on the steps just outside her apartment door. Helen invites her in and gives her a cup of hot cocoa. Strangely however,...

6.2

135 votes

6.2

135 votes

The Blue Knight (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harvey S. Laidman · Robert Butler · J. Lee Thompson · Ralph Senensky

Cast George Kennedy · John Steadman · Barbara Rhoades · Lee Weaver

Synopsis TV Series (1975-1976). 2 seasons. 25 episodes. The exploits of Los Angeles beat cop Bumper Morgan.

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

Police Woman (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert E. Collins · Alvin Ganzer · John Newland · Barry Shear

Cast Angie Dickinson · Earl Holliman · Charles Dierkop · Ed Bernard

Synopsis TV Series (1974-1978). 4 temporadas. 91 episodes. The show revolves around Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. William “Bill” Crawley (Earl Holliman) is her immediate superior, and Pete...

5.8

120 votes

5.8

120 votes

Hawaiian Eye (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dein · Alvin Ganzer · Paul Landres · André De Toth

Cast Connie Stevens · Robert Conrad · Poncie Ponce · Anthony Eisley

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963) 134 episodes. Set against the beautiful tropical landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii, this series centered around the cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm - Thomas Jefferson Lopaka,...

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

Direction Alvin Ganzer · Robert Parrish

Cast Jack Warden · Abraham Sofaer · Robert Sorrells · Alan Dexter

Synopsis Mouth McGarry is the manager of the Hoboken Zephyrs professional baseball team. They are perennial losers and are already so far back in the standings that they have no chance of winning the pennant. McGarry is approached by Dr. Stillman...

5.4

123 votes

5.4

123 votes

The Girls of Pleasure Island

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Alvin Ganzer · F. Hugh Herbert

Cast Leo Genn · Don Taylor · Gene Barry · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has...

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The Deputy (TV)

1967 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alvin Ganzer

Cast Stuart Whitman · Percy Herbert · Randy Boone · Jill Townsend

Synopsis Marshall Crown hires a one-handed gunslinger as a deputy, not realizing the man has assumed the identity of a slain lawman and is intent on avenging himself on members of his former gang who abandoned him after he was wounded...

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Alcoa Theatre (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 24 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey · Alvin Ganzer · Don McDougall · Robert Ellis Miller

Cast Jack Lemmon · David Niven · Robert Ryan · Charles Boyer

Synopsis When The Alcoa Hour dramatic anthology series moved from Sunday night to Monday, both the name and the format were changed. Instead of having a completely different cast for each episode, the series now used a set group of actors...

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Temple Houston (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leslie H. Martinson · William Conrad · Robert Totten · Irving J. Moore

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Jack Elam · Parley Baer · John Dehner

Synopsis The adventures of frontier lawyer Temple Houston (Jeffrey Hunter), son of the legendary Texan Sam Houston.

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The American Girls (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Mike Lloyd Ross · Lane Slate · Lee Philips · Rod Holcomb

Cast Priscilla Barnes · Debra Clinger · David Spielberg · William Prince

Synopsis Rebecca Tomkins (Priscilla Barnes) and Amy Waddell (Debra Clinger) are a pair of sexy young television reporters working for a respected "60 Minutes", like newsmagazine. Receiving their story assignments from New York producer Francis X. Casey (David Spielberg), the girls...

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The Hunted (TV)

1967 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Alvin Ganzer

Cast Stuart Whitman · Percy Herbert · Randy Boone · Jill Townsend

Synopsis Marshall Crown convinces the gunslinging Gauge brothers that they will receive a fair trial if they turn themselves in. A wealthy rancher decides to seek gun justice and hires a pair of bounty hunters to exact retribution.

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Zane Grey (TV Series)

1956 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction John English · James Sheldon · William D. Faralla · Robert Florey

Cast Dick Powell · Whitey Hughes · Walter Sande · Denver Pyle

Synopsis TV Series (1956-1961). An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Powell was often the star as well as the host.

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