Direction: Delbert Mann

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


Separate Tables

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast David Niven · Burt Lancaster · Rita Hayworth · Deborah Kerr

Synopsis "Separate Tables" touchingly and humorously examines the lives of the lonely-hearted guests at a hotel on England's south coast. Sibyl, a demure spinster on holiday with her mother, is attracted to a man who claims to be a war hero,...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Marty

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Betsy Blair · Esther Minciotti · Joe Mantell

Synopsis Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

Lover Come Back

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Rock Hudson · Doris Day · Tony Randall · Edie Adams

Synopsis Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency, Carol tries to get him thrown out of his profession....

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

All Quiet on the Western Front (TV)

1979 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Richard Thomas · Donald Pleasence · Ian Holm

Synopsis Paul Baumer is a young German who, along with his graduating high school classmates, enlist in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Originally thinking war would be a great adventure, Paul and his friends discover exactly the...

6.6

511 votes

6.6

511 votes

Desire Under the Elms

1958 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Burl Ives · Frank Overton

Synopsis n DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, Anna poses tough competition to Ephraim’s bitter sons from his previous marriages, who believe they, not their new stepmother, should inherit all his land. Things heat up when Anna and Ephraim’s son, Eben spend a...

6.6

390 votes

6.6

390 votes

Middle of the Night

1959 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Kim Novak · Fredric March · Martin Balsam · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Jerry Kingsley (March) is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer who falls in love with Betty Preisser (Novak), one of his employees. The employee-boss relationship is one hurdle the erstwhile couple have to overcome, another is the thirty-year...

6.4

111 votes

6.4

111 votes

The Bachelor Party

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Don Murray · E.G. Marshall · Jack Warden · Philip Abbott

Synopsis Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and...

6.2

121 votes

6.2

121 votes

Fitzwilly

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Barbara Feldon · John McGiver · Edith Evans

Synopsis When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the...

6.1

188 votes

6.1

188 votes

Night Crossing

1982 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast John Hurt · Jane Alexander · Beau Bridges · Doug McKeon

Synopsis Berlin, 1979. Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

6.0

340 votes

6.0

340 votes

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Robert Preston · Dorothy McGuire · Eve Arden · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

That Touch of Mink

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Doris Day · Cary Grant · Gig Young · Audrey Meadows

Synopsis Love arrives with a splash when a handsome and eligible tycoon (Cary Grant) and a beautiful working woman (Doris Day) meet over a curbside mud puddle. He’s enchanted by her small town ways; she’s captivated by his romantic, debonair manner....

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Jane Eyre (TV)

1970 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast George C. Scott · Susannah York · Ian Bannen · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and...

5.9

91 votes

5.9

91 votes

A Gathering of Eagles

1963 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Rock Hudson · Rod Taylor · Barry Sullivan · Mary Peach

Synopsis Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for....

5.8

517 votes

5.8

517 votes

Dear Heart

1964 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Glenn Ford · Geraldine Page · Angela Lansbury · Barbara Nichols

Synopsis Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie's,...

5.8

66 votes

5.8

66 votes

Kidnapped

1971 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Michael Caine · Lawrence Douglas · Vivien Heilbron · Trevor Howard

Synopsis When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance his relative first tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Fortunately for the lad...

5.5

202 votes

5.5

202 votes

The Outsider

1961 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Tony Curtis · James Franciscus · Bruce Bennett · Gregory Walcott

Synopsis Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.

5.4

61 votes

5.4

61 votes

Mister Buddwing

1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast James Garner · Jean Simmons · Suzanne Pleshette · Katharine Ross

Synopsis A well-dressed man wakes up on a bench in New York's Central Park, with no idea of who he is, or how he got there. All he can find in his pockets are a train schedule, a couple of drug...

5.4

83 votes

5.4

83 votes

April Morning (TV)

1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Robert Urich · Chad Lowe · Susan Blakely

Synopsis The "April Morning" here is the famous April 19, 1775 upon which the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signalling the start of the American Revolution. Faithful to author Howard Fast's somewhat revisionist view that the skirmishes between the...

5.2

52 votes

5.2

52 votes

The Pink Jungle

1968 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast James Garner · Eva Renzi · George Kennedy · Nigel Green

Synopsis A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.

5.0

56 votes

5.0

56 votes