Direction: Robert Wise

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Paul Newman · Pier Angeli · Everett Sloane · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Robert Wise, who directed the classic boxing noir The Set-Up in 1948, also made this 1956 biopic about the life of Rocky Graziano, a one-time juvenile delinquent from New York's back streets who became World Middleweight Champion. Paul Newman, though...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Ryan · Audrey Totter · George Tobias · Alan Baxter

Synopsis "Stoker" Thompson is getting ready to enter the ring. His wife, Julie, tells him that she won?t watch the fight and begs him to quit. Meanwhile, Thompson's seedy manager has taken money in payment for Stoker throwing the match after...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Susan Hayward · Simon Oakland · Virginia Vincent · Theodore Bikel

Synopsis Susan Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar for her shattering portrayal of a fast-living girl who suddenly finds herself facing the death penalty for a murder she didn't commit.

Direction Robert Wise · Jerome Robbins

Cast Natalie Wood · Richard Beymer · George Chakiris · Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis West Side Story (1961) is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in 1950s New York City. The story follows two rival gangs, the Jets (white Americans) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican immigrants), as they battle for control...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Michael Rennie · Patricia Neal · Hugh Marlowe · Sam Jaffe

Synopsis The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) follows an extraterrestrial named Klaatu who arrives on Earth in a flying saucer, accompanied by a powerful robot named Gort. Landing in Washington, D.C., Klaatu delivers a message of peace but is met...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Henry Daniell · Edith Atwater

Synopsis In Edinburgh in 1831, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased for classroom demonstration purposes. With cemeteries being increasingly guarded, Gray...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Julie Andrews · Christopher Plummer · Richard Haydn · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis 'The Sound of Music' is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria (Julie Andrews) is a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Steve McQueen · Richard Attenborough · Candice Bergen · Richard Crenna

Synopsis Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Harry Belafonte · Robert Ryan · Shelley Winters · Ed Begley

Synopsis Ex cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), a white and racist ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte), a black gambler and singer. Both are...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Mitchum · Shirley MacLaine · Edmon Ryan · Elisabeth Fraser

Synopsis Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Arthur Hill · David Wayne · Kate Reid · James Olson

Synopsis When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found to have died after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. Many years prior to...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast William Holden · June Allyson · Barbara Stanwyck · Fredric March

Synopsis When the president of a major furniture-manufacturing company suddenly dies, the members of the Board scramble to replace him quickly and quietly. Each man is driven by his own motives, be it avarice or altruism. An all-star cast is entangled...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry

Synopsis In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to the police; she's leaving town and doesn't want to be...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Clark Gable · Burt Lancaster · Jack Warden · Brad Dexter

Synopsis A movie's lasting value can often be measured by its influence in the years and decades following its original release, and on that basis Run Silent, Run Deep is certainly a classic of sorts. It remains one of the seminal...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast John Forsythe · Joan Camden · Harold J. Kennedy · Martin Milner

Synopsis A small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Eleanor Parker · Patricia Neal · Ruth Roman · Frank Lovejoy

Synopsis A five-year-old-boy survives a plane crash in which his foster parents die. During the search for him, three women turn up, Susan, Phyllis and Ann, each of whom had given up a son to adoption five years earlier and believes...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Richard Basehart · Valentina Cortese · William Lundigan · Fay Baker

Synopsis Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "son" just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving a lot of money to be inherited. Victoria falls in...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Joseph Cotten · Linda Darnell · Jeff Chandler · Cornel Wilde

Synopsis Captain Bradford offers Confederate prisoners the chance of freedom if they agree to serve as Union soldiers to protect frontier forts against the Indians. Colonel Tucker accepts when Bradford gives him his word that the men won?t be asked to...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast James Cagney · Irene Papas · Vic Morrow · Don Dubbins

Synopsis Easterner Steve Miller (Don Dubbins), making his way west, comes to work for rich, ruthless landowner and horse breeder Jeremy Rodock (Cagney), who doesn’t hesitate to hang cattle rustlers and, with Miller’s help, run dangerous horse thieves from his land....

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Jean Simmons · Joan Fontaine · Paul Newman · Piper Laurie

Synopsis Four sisters in New Zealand fall for Allied sailors en route to World War II. In a courtroom in Wellington, New Zealand, Barbara Leslie listens to testimony about her sister Delia and remembers the events that led to the trial:...