Direction: Paul Wendkos

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Paul Wendkos. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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