Soundtrack: Duke Ellington

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast James Stewart · Lee Remick · Ben Gazzara · Arthur O'Connell

Plot An Army Lieutenant, Frederick Manion (Ben Gazarra), is accused of murdering a man, Barney Quill, for allegedly raping his beautiful wife, Laura Manion (Lee Remick). Manion’s lawyer, Paul Biegler (James...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Myriam Boyer · Marie Trintignant · Bernard Blier

Plot Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon...

Direction D.A. Pennebaker

Plot Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of the same name, the five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City is the earliest known...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Sidney Poitier · Diahann Carroll

Plot Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate American jazzmen working in a Left Bank nightclub in Paris. Ram is there...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Duke Ellington · Barney Bigard · Wellman Braud · Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton

Plot Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with...

Direction Jack Donohue

Cast Frank Sinatra · Virna Lisi · Anthony Franciosa · Richard Conte

Plot A daring tale about a group of adventurers who salvage a sunken U-Boat and use it to hijack and rob the Queen Mary.

Direction Adel Yaraghi

Cast Leila Hatami · Adel Yaraghi · Bahareh Rahnama

Plot The only nuptial condition an inveterate chain smoker receives from his perfume-testing fiancee is to quit smoking. This poses a problem for the advertising agency ideas man for whom smoking...

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Raymond St. Jacques · Susan Oliver · Janet MacLachlan · Leslie Nielsen

Plot A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.

Direction John Taylor

Cast Sandra Burslem · Robert Shaw

Direction Robert Drew

Cast Duke Ellington · Louis Armstrong · Mercer Ellington · Don Morrow

Plot A film shot in 1967, when Duke Ellington was 68 that takes us through the jazzman’s daily existence.