Direction: Don Siegel

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Don Siegel. 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

Plot 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...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Escape from Alcatraz

1979 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Patrick McGoohan · Roberts Blossom · Jack Thibeau

Plot San Francisco, january 1960. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz --...

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7.6

33K votes

7.6

33K votes

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Kevin McCarthy · Dana Wynter · Larry Gates · Carolyn Jones

Plot Miles Bennell, a GP in the small Californian town of Santa Mira, returns from an out-of-town meeting to find himself inundated with calls from locals insisting that members of their...

7.6

16K votes

7.6

16K votes

Dirty Harry

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Harry Guardino · Reni Santoni · John Vernon

Plot Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the...

7.3

58K votes

7.3

58K votes

The Beguiled

1971 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Geraldine Page · Elizabeth Hartman · Jo Ann Harris

Plot Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier who has been taken in at a Southern girls' school. The girls become curious and then sensuous. Eastwood's character takes advantage of the situation...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

The Killers

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Lee Marvin · Angie Dickinson · John Cassavetes · Ronald Reagan

Plot Ernest Hemingway's short story THE KILLERS was turned into two memorable films noir at the beginning and the end of the high period of the genre. The original 1946, directed...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Charley Varrick

1973 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Walter Matthau · Joe Don Baker · Felicia Farr · Andrew Robinson

Plot In this compact, fast-paced action thriller, a bank robber really messes up when he and his gang accidentally knock over a Mafia-controlled New Mexico bank. As a result, they must...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Verdict

1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre · Joan Lorring · George Coulouris

Plot Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man...

6.9

181 votes

6.9

181 votes

The Lineup

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Eli Wallach · Robert Keith · Richard Jaeckel · Mary LaRoche

Plot An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling in Asia, so that the dope traffic can pass through customs undetected. Two psychopathic killers (Eli Wallach and Robert...

6.8

576 votes

6.8

576 votes

Madigan

1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Harry Guardino

Plot Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Neville Brand · Emile Meyer · Frank Faylen · Leo Gordon

Plot Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film...

6.7

341 votes

6.7

341 votes

Two Mules for Sister Sara

1970 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Shirley MacLaine · Manolo Fábregas · Alberto Morin

Plot Hogan, a tough cowboy, rescues a woman, Sara, as she's about to be attacked by a trio of rapists. Surprised to learn that his new traveling companion is a nun,...

6.6

9K votes

6.6

9K votes

Crime in the Streets

1956 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast John Cassavetes · James Whitmore · Sal Mineo · Mark Rydell

Plot Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.

6.6

236 votes

6.6

236 votes

The Shootist

1976 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast John Wayne · Lauren Bacall · Ron Howard · James Stewart

Plot The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Private Hell 36

1954 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Ida Lupino · Steve Cochran · Howard Duff · Dean Jagger

Plot Two LA detectives get in over their heads when they get involved with a nightclub singer who holds the key to the missing loot from a New York elevator robbery....

6.6

281 votes

6.6

281 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross (TV)

1964 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Don Gordon · Gail Kobe · Vaughn Taylor · J. Pat O'Malley

Plot Salvadore Ross has a unique talent where he can trade physical characteristics with other people and will do anything to get the love of Leah Maitland.

6.5

57 votes

6.5

57 votes

The Big Steal

1949 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Greer · William Bendix · Ramon Novarro

Plot Accused of robbing the army payroll, Lt. Duke Halliday heads to Mexico to clear his name with the police on his tail. He pursues Jim Fiske, the man who actually...

6.3

709 votes

6.3

709 votes

The Twilight Zone: Uncle Simon (TV)

1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Constance Ford · Ian Wolfe · John McLiam

Plot Caregiver Barbara Polk receives a surprise after her uncle's death.

6.3

57 votes

6.3

57 votes

Count the Hours

1953 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Macdonald Carey · Teresa Wright · Dolores Moran · Adele Mara

Plot Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of 2 murders.

6.2

167 votes

6.2

167 votes

Baby Face Nelson

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Mickey Rooney · Carolyn Jones · Cedric Hardwicke · Leo Gordon

Plot George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

6.2

75 votes

6.2

75 votes