Direction: Richard Brooks

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Paul Newman · Burl Ives · Jack Carson

Synopsis Based on the play by Tennessee Williams: A party is planned for the 65th birthday of family patriarch 'Big Daddy', but not everyone is in a festive mood. Big Daddy's son Brick, a one-time star athlete, has a drinking problem...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Robert Blake · Scott Wilson · John Forsythe · Paul Stewart

Synopsis Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Burt Lancaster · Jean Simmons · Shirley Jones · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire and...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Burt Lancaster · Lee Marvin · Robert Ryan · Jack Palance

Synopsis Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who has been kidnapped by the revolutionary Raza. Fardan and Dolworth,...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ethel Barrymore · Kim Hunter · Ed Begley

Synopsis Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York 'Day', finds that the late owner's heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back his estranged wife...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Paul Newman · Geraldine Page · Ed Begley · Shirley Knight

Synopsis Paul Newman and Geraldine Page re-created their Broadway roles in Tennessee Williams's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH for this stylish film adaptation. Newman stars as Chance Wayne, a Hollywood gigolo determined to become a star, who teams up with Alexandra Del...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Glenn Ford · Sidney Poitier · Anne Francis · Vic Morrow

Synopsis Richard Dadier earns a teaching assignment at a tough high school, where the teenagers make the rules and the staff meekly accept the fact that they've lost control. When Dadier tries exerting his authority, he receives much hostility from both...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Bette Davis · Ernest Borgnine · Debbie Reynolds · Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against their wealthy, overbearing father. When the eldest brother, Dmitri, falls...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Diane Keaton · Tom Berenger · Tuesday Weld · William Atherton

Synopsis Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) is sensitive grade-school teacher who leads a very different life after hours. Throwing off the emotional shackles of her troubled childhood, she enters the seemingly liberated world of singles bars and one-night stands in 1970s New...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Peter O'Toole · James Mason · Curd Jürgens · Eli Wallach

Synopsis After distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, Jim rapidly rises to the rank of second in command of a ship. But because of a broken foot he ends in the Patna, a rusty tub manned by...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Robert Taylor · Stewart Granger · Lloyd Nolan · Debra Paget

Synopsis Sandy McKenzie (Stewart Granger) sets out on his last hunt with his long-time partner, the obsessive Charles Gilson (Robert Taylor). While McKenzie has grown tired of buffalo hunting, Gilson derives a pleasure from his "stands" – killing an entire herd...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Gene Hackman · Candice Bergen · James Coburn · Ben Johnson

Synopsis At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy,...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Jean Simmons · John Forsythe · Lloyd Bridges · Teresa Wright

Synopsis The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Rock Hudson · Dana Wynter · Sidney Poitier · Wendy Hiller

Synopsis Even though Peter and Kimani grow up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. After the father of Kimani is jailed for following tribal customs, Kimani joins a band of rebels that wants all non-Kenyans out of...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Van Johnson · Walter Pidgeon · Donna Reed

Synopsis Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. He worked on "Stars and Stripes" when he met Marion and Helen. He would marry and be happy staying in Paris after his...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Cary Grant · José Ferrer · Paula Raymond · Signe Hasso

Synopsis Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago. As they leave the country, Dr and Madam are arrested and lead to Farrago....

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Warren Beatty · Goldie Hawn · Gert Fröbe · Robert Webber

Synopsis Caper film about crooks robbing crooks, set in Germany where an American bank security Joe Collins (Warren Beattty) expert plots with a call-girl Dawn Divine (Goldie Hawn) to rob three safety deposit boxes from three criminals; a local drug dealer...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Stewart Granger · Pier Angeli · George Sanders · Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · June Allyson · Keenan Wynn · Robert Keith

Synopsis Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world.