Direction: Sam Wanamaker

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


Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Peter Falk · Theodore Bikel · Kenneth Mars · Sorrell Booke

Synopsis Columbo this time tries to tackle a murderer who has one of the highest IQs in the world. The victim is a business partner who threatened to expose the killer for stealing money from his clients. The murderer uses all...

6.8

315 votes

6.8

315 votes

Columbo: Grand Deceptions (TV)

1989 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Peter Falk · Robert Foxworth · Andy Romano · Janet Eilber

Synopsis After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.

6.1

196 votes

6.1

196 votes

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

1977 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Patrick Wayne · Taryn Power · Margaret Whiting · Jane Seymour

Synopsis Sinbad The Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from a powerful witch.

5.8

469 votes

5.8

469 votes

The File of the Golden Goose

1969 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Yul Brynner · Charles Gray · Edward Woodward · John Barrie

Synopsis Policemen Novak & Thompson go undercover to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters.

5.5

78 votes

5.5

78 votes

The Executioner

1970 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast George Peppard · Joan Collins · Judy Geeson · Oskar Homolka

Synopsis A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.

5.0

54 votes

5.0

54 votes

Catlow

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Yul Brynner · Richard Crenna · Leonard Nimoy · Daliah Lavi

Synopsis An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to pull off a $2-million gold robbery.

4.8

221 votes

4.8

221 votes

Custer (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Laslo Benedek · Lawrence Dobkin · Leo Penn · Herschel Daugherty

Cast Wayne Maunder · Slim Pickens · Robert F. Simon · Peter Palmér

Synopsis In 1868, after the Civil War, Custer takes charge of a mix of ex-Confederates and criminals, the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays, Kansas. His boss General Terry doesn't like his methods or his long blond hair, but he manages...

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Broken Wing (TV)

1967 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wanamaker

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

Synopsis When a parson is shot, Crown arrests the son of a prominent rancher. When the preacher recovers and refuses to press charges, a rabble-rousing saloon owner and his gun-toting sidekick try to organize a lynching party.

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Hawk

1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wanamaker · Richard Benedict · Paul Henreid · Leonard Horn

Cast Burt Reynolds · Wayne Grice · Leon Janney · John Marley

Synopsis The crime busting techniques of Iroquois detective John Hawk of the New York City District Attorney's office.

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Lancer (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Samuel A. Peeples · Allen Reisner · Don Richardson · William Hale

Cast James Stacy · Wayne Maunder · Andrew Duggan · Elizabeth Baur

Synopsis A tyrannical owner of a vast ranch recruits his two estranged and vastly opposite sons to maintain an uneasy alliance as they fight off forces that would destroy the ranch.

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Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Vincent McEveety · Alvin Ganzer · Charles R. Rondeau

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

Synopsis TV Series (1967-1968). 23 Episodes. The western adventures of tough, but fair, Marshal Jim Crown.

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Court Martial (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff · Harvey Hart · Peter Maxwell · Robert Douglas

Cast Bradford Dillman · Peter Graves · Kenneth J. Warren · Angela Browne

Synopsis TV Series (1965-). 26 Episodes. During World War II this crack team from the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime all over Europe and then proceeds to the court-martial itself.

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Mrs. Columbo (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · Sam Wanamaker · Reza Badiyi · Leo Penn

Cast Kate Mulgrew · Lili Haydn · Henry Jones · Don Stroud

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1980). 2 seasons. 13 episodes.

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