Direction: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm

Plot Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve’s humble background...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine · Alec Cawthorne · John Matthews

Plot Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas

Plot Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best

Plot At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast James Mason · Danielle Darrieux · Michael Rennie · Walter Hampden

Plot Based on a true story involving espionage in neutral WWII Turkey. The refined and impeccably spoken James Mason plays the traitorous Ulysses Diello, personal valet for the British ambassador to...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Marlon Brando · Louis Calhern · Deborah Kerr · James Mason

Plot The grandeur of the Roman world and powerful jealousy thunder together in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous JULIUS CAESAR. Scheming Cassius (John Gielgud), envious of the honors...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Montgomery Clift · Katharine Hepburn · Albert Dekker

Plot In 1937 New Orleans, Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion's View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy. Lion's...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Henry Fonda · Warren Oates · Hume Cronyn

Plot Following the tradition of 1960s and '70s Westerns in which the criminals are the heroes, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN takes devilish pride in the antics of armed robber and...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Susan Hayward · Richard Conte · Luther Adler

Plot Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Marius Goring

Plot At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Rex Harrison · Susan Hayward · Maggie Smith · Cliff Robertson

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Roddy McDowall

Plot In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and,...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Ronald Colman · Peggy Cummins · Vanessa Brown · Richard Haydn

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Cary Grant · Jeanne Crain · Finlay Currie · Hume Cronyn

Plot Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · Linda Darnell · Stephen McNally

Plot The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Marlon Brando · Jean Simmons · Frank Sinatra · Vivian Blaine

Plot All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Vincent Price · Glenn Langan

Plot When Miranda Wells was invited to live with her dark and charming distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryan in order to school his daughter at Dragonwyyck manor she was a naive...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast John Hodiak · Nancy Guild · Lloyd Nolan · Richard Conte

Plot George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland

Plot Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Audie Murphy · Michael Redgrave · Claude Dauphin · Georgia Moll

Plot In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Michael Redgrave....