David Susskind Movies

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

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

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

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

A graduate student interviews the retired General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Gettysburg farm, sometimes confronting him about his...

A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry," "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches," and "This Property Is...

Wealthy Margo Wendice's husband (Laurence Harvey) plots her murder to inherit her fortune after discovering her affair, leading to a tense, failed,...

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

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

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....

Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo...

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

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

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...

1981 TV movie

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

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

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...

A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable"...