Direction: Arthur Penn

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Marlon Brando · Robert Redford · Angie Dickinson · Jane Fonda

Synopsis The Chase (1966) is a tense drama set in a small Texas town, where simmering tensions and hidden secrets come to a boil. When a local convict escapes from prison, the townsfolk react with fear, suspicion, and chaos. As the...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Anne Bancroft · Patty Duke · Andrew Prine · Inga Swenson

Synopsis The Miracle Worker (1962) tells the inspiring true story of Helen Keller, a deaf-blind girl trapped in a world of silence and darkness. Her desperate parents hire Annie Sullivan, a determined and innovative teacher, to help Helen communicate. Through relentless...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Warren Beatty · Faye Dunaway · Michael J. Pollard · Gene Hackman

Synopsis Based loosely on the true exploits of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker during the 30s. Bonnie Parker is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Faye Dunaway · Martin Balsam · Richard Mulligan

Synopsis Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Gene Hackman · Jennifer Warren · Melanie Griffith · Susan Clark

Synopsis Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Craig Wasson · Jodi Thelen · Michael Huddleston · Jim Metzler

Synopsis This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent Sixties--is as much about the coming of...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Paul Newman · John Dehner · James Best · Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to...

Direction Jim Clark · Milos Forman · Kon Ichikawa · Claude Lelouch

Synopsis This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa,...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Synopsis In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Marlon Brando · Jack Nicholson · Randy Quaid · Kathleen Lloyd

Synopsis Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Gene Hackman · Matt Dillon · Gayle Hunnicutt · Viktoriya Fyodorova

Synopsis Chris Lloyd does NOT get along with his father Walter. Walter is too careful, cautious, and boring to Chris, and never tries anything new, and Chris had to live by the same standards when he was growing up. But when...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Mary Steenburgen · Roddy McDowall · Jan Rubes · William Russ

Synopsis A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Arlo Guthrie · Patricia Quinn · James Broderick · Pete Seeger

Synopsis Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Warren Beatty · Alexandra Stewart · Hurd Hatfield · Franchot Tone

Synopsis Warren Beatty stars as a neurotic nightclub comedian suffering from what seems to be an acute persecution complex.

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Cecilia Peck · Paul McCrane

Synopsis After a long absence, artist Margaret Church returns to her aging parent's home to finish a portrait of them. Her parents, Gardner and Fanny Church, unbeknownst to Margaret have sold the family home and are moving. While coming to grips...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Penn Jillette · Teller · Bill Randolph · John Miller

Synopsis Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of them begins a series of...

Direction Sidney Lumet · Susanna Styron · Steve Shill · Don Scardino

Cast Joseph Lyle Taylor · Manny Perez · Phyllis Newman · Paula Devicq

Synopsis The lives and work of the staff of a New York City courthouse.

Direction John Frankenheimer · Franklin J. Schaffner · Ralph Nelson · Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Richard Joy · Charles Bickford · Kim Hunter · Franchot Tone

Synopsis Playhouse 90 is a 90-minute dramatic television anthology series, telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1961 for a total of 133 episodes. 'Playhouse 90' was an exceptionally good anthology series, which consistently offered the most prestigious actors, directors and scriptwriters...

Direction Delbert Mann · Fred Coe · Arthur Penn · Gordon Duff

Cast Bert Lytell · E.G. Marshall · Vinton Hayworth · John Baragrey

Synopsis TV Series (1948-1955). 8 seasons. 269 episodes. This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc. during it's eight year run.

Direction Clark Jones · Kirk Browning · Delbert Mann · Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Cyril Ritchard · Lorne Greene · Nehemiah Persoff · Claire Bloom

Synopsis Live 90 minute productions were aired under this title every fourth Monday on NBC for three seasons. The productions were lavish and included many memorable performances by top stars. Peter Pan was presented on this series on March 7, 1955...