Screenplay: Carson McCullers

Direction Robert Ellis Miller

Cast Alan Arkin · Sondra Locke · Laurinda Barrett · Stacy Keach

Plot Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer moves from a small town in order...

Direction John Huston

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Marlon Brando · Brian Keith · Julie Harris

Plot Peculiar, overheated melodrama about sexual frustration, jealousy and madness on a Southern military base. Pretentious treatment bores some viewers, but hysterical performances, over-the-top scenario should keep Southern Gothic fans entertained.

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Ethel Waters · Julie Harris · Brandon De Wilde · Arthur Franz

Plot A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the...

Direction Simon Callow

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Keith Carradine · Rod Steiger · Cork Hubbert

Plot A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son,...

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Anna Paquin · Alfre Woodard · Corey Dunn · Enrico Colantoni

Plot In the last days leading up to her older brother’s marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers’ classic...

Direction Christine van de Putte

Cast Pierre Baillot · Jean-François Chaintron · José Correia · Daniel Isoppo

Direction Arsalan D. Asli

Cast Dana Beecroft · Kyle Clark · Lisa Klimov · Jay Williams

Plot The lives of a family plagued by alcoholism. The Meadows' family is torn by both compassion and suffering, and Martin Meadows is faced with one of the most difficult decisions...

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Pearl Bailey · Dana Hill · Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Benjamin Bernouy

Plot A 1982 made-for-television remake of the 1952 Fred Zinnemann film. Shown as a feature on "NBC Live Theater."

Direction Mike Figgis · Walter Bernstein · Kristi Zea

Cast Matt Dillon · Kyra Sedgwick · Ray Liotta · Andie MacDowell

Plot Three short stories about women & men relationship. The first (Return to Kansas City) is about a successful boxer in New York, whose wife only wants to return to her...

Direction Stephan Rinser

Cast Herbert Fleischmann · Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel · Ursula Dirichs · Inge Langen

Direction Karen Allen

Cast Jeffrey DeMunn · James McMenamin · Kale Browne · William Galatis

Plot An old man tells a young boy about what he has learned about how to love.