Direction: Paul Wendkos
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Paul Wendkos. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 70
The Untouchables (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Walter Grauman · Stuart Rosenberg · Paul Wendkos · John Peyser
Cast Robert Stack · Nicholas Georgiade · Abel Fernandez · Paul Picerni
Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963). 4 Seasons. 119 Episodes. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
7.0
615 votes
7.0
615 votes
The Case Against Brooklyn
1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Darren McGavin · Margaret Hayes · Warren Stevens · Peggy McCay
Synopsis When a reporter claims that New York police are on the take letting the mob run its horse parlors at will, a shocked District Attorney Michael Norris decide to do something about it. Not knowing who can be trusted on...
6.7
24 votes
6.7
24 votes
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (TV)
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Elizabeth Montgomery · Fionnula Flanagan · Ed Flanders · Katherine Helmond
Synopsis A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
6.2
29 votes
6.2
29 votes
The Brotherhood of the Bell (TV)
1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Glenn Ford · Rosemary Forsyth · Dean Jagger · Maurice Evans
Synopsis A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
6.2
38 votes
6.2
38 votes
I Spy (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 51 min. · United States
Direction Earl Bellamy · Paul Wendkos · Christian Nyby
Cast Robert Culp · Bill Cosby · Kenneth Tobey · Arthur Batanides
Synopsis A pair of American agents faces espionage adventures with skill, humor and some serious questions about their work. Robinson's cover is as a former Princeton law student and Davis Cup tennis player; Rhodes scholar Scott is his trainer as well...
6.2
34 votes
6.2
34 votes
The F.B.I. (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Don Medford · Jesse Hibbs · William Hale
Cast Efrem Zimbalist Jr. · Philip Abbott · Marvin Miller · William Reynolds
Synopsis TV Series (1965-1974) 241 episodes. Cases, based on real FBI files, were handled by Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and several coworkers over the years.
6.1
23 votes
6.1
23 votes
The Burglar
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Dan Duryea · Jayne Mansfield · Martha Vickers · Peter Capell
Synopsis Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
6.0
105 votes
6.0
105 votes
The Bad Seed (TV)
1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Blair Brown · Lynn Redgrave · David Carradine · Carrie Wells
Synopsis Nine-year-old Rhoda is the only child of Kenneth and Christine Penmark. Kenneth Penmark goes away on business, leaving Christine and Rhoda at home. Christine begins to notice that Rhoda is acting strangely after one of her classmates mysteriously dies, and...
5.8
24 votes
5.8
24 votes
The Mephisto Waltz
1971 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Alan Alda · Jacqueline Bisset · Curd Jürgens · William Windom
Synopsis Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends a famous player himself who's at death's door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a satanist, who arranges to have thier souls switch places at his death, so...
5.5
229 votes
5.5
229 votes
Dr. Kildare (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Elliot Silverstein · Alf Kjellin · John Newland · Leo Penn
Cast Richard Chamberlain · Raymond Massey · Leslie Nielsen · Lee Meriwether
Synopsis TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 191 episodes. The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his...
5.4
46 votes
5.4
46 votes
Face of a Fugitive
1959 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Fred MacMurray · Lin McCarthy · Dorothy Green · Alan Baxter
Synopsis A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find...
5.4
123 votes
5.4
123 votes
The Death of Richie
1977 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Ben Gazzara · Eileen Brennan · Robby Benson · Lance Kerwin
Synopsis A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
5.3
29 votes
5.3
29 votes
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (TV)
1988 · Movie · 178 min. · United States
Direction Jud Taylor · Paul Wendkos
Cast Christopher Reeve · Judd Hirsch · Tony Denison · Charles Haid
Synopsis Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
5.2
56 votes
5.2
56 votes
Special Delivery
1976 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Bo Svenson · Cybill Shepherd · Mel Scott · Phillip R. Allen
Synopsis A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to...
5.2
26 votes
5.2
26 votes
Gidget
1959 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Sandra Dee · James Darren · Cliff Robertson · Arthur O'Connell
Synopsis Frances Lawrence is almost 17, petite, an A student, and an accomplished musician. She has studied about everything but sex. In fact she hates dates (she rejects her father's suggestion to meet a certain nice young man), and when her...
5.2
22 votes
5.2
22 votes
Attack on the Iron Coast
1968 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Lloyd Bridges · Andrew Keir · Sue Lloyd · Mark Eden
Synopsis They turned a dead ship into a live bomb and sailed it down the throat of the enemy!
5.0
109 votes
5.0
109 votes
Cannon for Cordoba
1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast George Peppard · Giovanna Ralli · Raf Vallone · Don Gordon
Synopsis In 1912, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons. Douglas recruits a...
4.8
126 votes
4.8
126 votes
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast George Kennedy · James Whitmore · Monte Markham · Tony Davis
Synopsis When notorious desperado Chris Adams (Kennedy) is offered a huge reward to free a young Mexican revolutionary from prison, he must first assemble a cutthroat team of frontier warriors. Together, these daring gunslingers embark on the adventure of their livesand...
4.8
335 votes
4.8
335 votes
Six Against the Rock (TV)
1987 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast David Carradine · Richard Dysart · Dennis Farina · Charles Haid
Synopsis An inmate at Alcatraz Prison (nicknamed "The Rock") plots an escape with five fellow prisoners.
4.8
49 votes
4.8
49 votes
Hell Boats
1970 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast James Franciscus · Elizabeth Shepherd · Ronald Allen · Reuven Bar-Yotam
Synopsis An American commander, serving under the British Royal Army in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.
3.8
58 votes
3.8
58 votes