David Susskind Movies

  • 1977
    Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

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    Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.

    Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
  • 1979
    Sex and the Single Parent

    Sex and the Single Parent

    Sex and the Single Parent

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    Two attractive divorcees find that their newly realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.

    Sex and the Single Parent
  • 1975
    Fear on Trial

    Fear on Trial

    Fear on Trial

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    The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was...

    Fear on Trial
  • 1980
    The Plutonium Incident

    The Plutonium Incident

    The Plutonium Incident

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    A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...

    The Plutonium Incident
  • 1980
    Father Figure

    Father Figure

    Father Figure

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    Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the...

    Father Figure
  • 1981
    Casey Stengel

    Casey Stengel

    Casey Stengel

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    Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel in this one-man show presented before a live studio audience.

    Casey Stengel
  • 2013
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

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    Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali
  • 1972
    If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

    If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

    If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

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    Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit....

    If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
  • 1959
    The Moon and Sixpence

    The Moon and Sixpence

    The Moon and Sixpence

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    A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

    The Moon and Sixpence
  • 1966
    Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

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    Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

    Death of a Salesman
  • 1978
    Who'll Save Our Children?

    Who'll Save Our Children?

    Who'll Save Our Children?

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    A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable...

    Who'll Save Our Children?
  • 1959
    Meet Me in St. Louis

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    Meet Me in St. Louis

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    Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

    Meet Me in St. Louis
  • 1979
    Transplant

    Transplant

    Transplant

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    Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

    Transplant
  • 1967
    Johnny Belinda

    Johnny Belinda

    Johnny Belinda

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    In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes...

    Johnny Belinda
  • 1981
    Crisis at Central High

    Crisis at Central High

    Crisis at Central High

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    The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth...

    Crisis at Central High
  • 1967
    The Desperate Hours

    The Desperate Hours

    The Desperate Hours

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    The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed,...

    The Desperate Hours
  • 1959
    Miracle On 34th Street

    Miracle On 34th Street

    Miracle On 34th Street

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    In this charming TV adaptation of the 1947 film classic, a kindly old gentleman (Ed Wynn) working as a Macy's department store Santa causes a...

    Miracle On 34th Street
  • 1962
    Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

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    Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

    Hedda Gabler
  • 1979
    Walking Through the Fire

    Walking Through the Fire

    Walking Through the Fire

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    A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the...

    Walking Through the Fire
  • 1966
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

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    A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

    The Human Voice