Direction: Rod Amateau

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


Gilligan's Island (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · Leslie Goodwins · Gary Nelson · Jerry Hopper

Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1967). 3 Seasons. 98 episodes. Gilligan's Island was an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive and ultimately escape from a previously...

5.7

290 votes

5.7

290 votes

Mister Ed (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Sonia Chernus · Walter Brooks · Arthur Lubin · Ira Stewart

Cast Alan Young · Connie Hines · Edna Skinner · Allan Lane

Synopsis Mister Ed is a horse who is owned by Wilbur Post. Mister Ed is not just any horse, he talks to Wilbur! But this gets Wilbur in all kinds of trouble because Mister Ed won't talk to anyone else, so...

5.4

202 votes

5.4

202 votes

Where Does It Hurt?

1972 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Peter Sellers · Jo Ann Pflug · Rick Lenz · Harold Gould

Synopsis A corrupt hospital administrator (Peter Sellers) decides to get as much money as possible from the patients by any means necessary: lie, cheat or steal.

5.3

40 votes

5.3

40 votes

The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gy Waldron · Paul Baxley · Hollingsworth Morse · Denver Pyle

Cast Denver Pyle · Sorrell Booke · Catherine Bach · Ben Jones

Synopsis Series set in the rural community of Hazzard. The Dukes are a family who were once moonshiners but when cousins Bo and Luke were caught; they were given probation on the condition that they give up moon shining, which they...

5.2

325 votes

5.2

325 votes

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

1987 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Phil Fondacaro · Anthony Newley · Mackenzie Astin · Katie Barberi

Synopsis Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations...

4.0

816 votes

4.0

816 votes

Drive-In

1976 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Lisa Lemole · Gary Lee Cavagnaro · Glenn Morshower · Billy Milliken

Synopsis The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.

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Enos (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gy Waldron · Rod Amateau · Hollingsworth Morse · Richard C. Bennett

Cast Sonny Shroyer · Samuel E. Wright · John Dehner · Michelle Pfeiffer

Synopsis The big city adventures of Officer Enos Strate of Hazzard County.

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Monsoon

1952 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Ursula Thiess · Diana Douglas · George Nader · Ellen Corby

Synopsis A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply and things take a turn for the worse when Julia's seductive younger sister...

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The Bob Cummings Show (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Robert Cummings · Rod Amateau · Norman Tokar

Cast Robert Cummings · Rosemary DeCamp · Ann B. Davis · Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis The romantic misadventures of Bob Collins, a suave, sophisticated bachelor and photographer operating in Hollywood, California. The show centers around his womanizing ways with his models, and his sister's attempts to make him settle down.

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Son of Hitler

1979 · Movie · United Kingdom

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Bud Cort · Peter Cushing · Felicity Dean · Leo Gordon

Synopsis The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich.

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The Statue

1971 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast David Niven · Virna Lisi · Robert Vaughn · Ann Bell

Synopsis Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's...

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The Patty Duke Show (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 32 min. · United States

Direction William Asher · Sidney Sheldon · Stanley Prager · Gary Nelson

Cast Patty Duke · Jean Byron · William Schallert · Paul O'Keefe

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1966). 3 seasons. 105 episodes. Cathy Lane, teen-aged daughter of a globe-trotting journalist, comes to live at the home of her uncle, a newspaper editor in New York City. Curiously, Cathy is the spitting image of her uncle's...

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Uncommon Valor (TV)

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Mitchell Ryan · Barbara Parkins · Ben Murphy

Synopsis A mentally disturbed man sets fire to a Utah hospital, endangering the lives of staff, patients and a team of firefighters

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Direction Herschel Daugherty · Don Medford · John Brahm · James Neilson

Cast Ronald Reagan · Edgar Buchanan · Lee Marvin · Harry Townes

Synopsis TV Series (1953-1962). 10 seasons. 300 episodes. General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and varitey music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following the Toast of the Town/Ed Sullivan Show from February 1953...

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The Seniors

1978 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Tim Stafford · Gary Imhoff · Dennis Quaid · Lou Richards

Synopsis Four students open a bogus sex clinic for cheap thrills and then are amazed to see it blossom into a profitable business.

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My Mother the Car (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau · David Davis · Tom Montgomery · Sidney Miller

Cast Jerry Van Dyke · Maggie Pierce · Ann Sothern · Cindy Eilbacher

Synopsis The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.

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Direction Frederick de Cordova · Rod Amateau · Ralph Levy

Cast George Burns · Gracie Allen · Bea Benaderet · Harry von Zell

Synopsis TV Series (1950-1958). 8 seasons. 291 episodes. George Burns and Gracie Allen were among the few successful radio personalities to make the transition to television in the early days of the medium. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show exuded...

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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rod Amateau

Cast Ian McShane · Anna Calder-Marshall · John Gavin · Severn Darden

Synopsis An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.

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