Elliot Silverstein

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Cineastes contra magnats
6.2
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Documentary
The Happening
5.9

The Happening

May 17, 1967
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.
Comedy
Nightmare Honeymoon
5

Nightmare Honeymoon

Sep 20, 1974
Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists.
Crime
Flashfire
5.7

Flashfire

Sep 15, 1994
Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal with. Another officer has been murdered in a hotel room, where he was with a prostitute named Lisa, who managed to escape with her life. Flinder has to track down Lisa to find out what happened, but the answer proves the corruption in his department runs much deeper than he had initially believed.
Crime
Betrayed by Innocence
5.5

Betrayed by Innocence

Mar 01, 1986
A married commercial filmmaker (Barry Bostwick) is charged with statutory rape when it is revealed that his lover (Cristen Kaufman) is only 16.
TV Movie
Belle Sommers
1

Belle Sommers

May 30, 1962
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Drama
Night of Courage
4.5

Night of Courage

Jan 12, 1987
A young man is beaten to death. Now it's believed that he sought out sanctuary in the house of a man (Hughes), and that the man threw him out. And it's also believed that the boy being Hispanic was probably part of a gang and that the whole thing was gang related, so the police don't consider any need to investigate the incident. But a teacher (Kelly) doesn't believe this, and sets out to find out what happened that night by talking to the man, but he doesn't want to talk about it.
Drama
Rich Men, Single Women
1
Three women plot to catch wealthy husbands by throwing a party at a mansion to which they have temporary access. Obvious love stories follow involving an ex-ballplayer, a secretly wealthy mechanic and an ad exec.
Comedy
Fight for Life
5.7

Fight for Life

Mar 23, 1987
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.
Drama
4.667

May 15, 1962

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
Drama
8.4

Jun 19, 1964

Nous sommes transportés dans une autre dimension, une dimension faite non seulement de paysages et de sons, mais surtout d'esprits. Un voyage dans une contrée sans fin dont les frontières sont notre imagination. Un voyage au bout des ténèbres où il n'y a qu'une destination : la Quatrième Dimension.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
6.7

Dec 30, 1960

The Westerner is an American Western series that aired on NBC from September to December 1960. Created by Sam Peckinpah, the series was produced by Four Star Television. The Westerner stars Brian Keith as Dave Blassingame and features John Dehner as semi-regular Burgundy Smith.
Western
6

Apr 22, 1964

The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.
Drama
5.3

May 29, 1963

La série présente des enquêtes menées par les inspecteurs du 65e commissariat de police du New York City Police Department avec des intrigues se concentrant beaucoup sur les criminels et les victimes.
Drama
6.4

Mar 20, 1964

Route 66 est une série télévisée américaine dans laquelle deux jeunes hommes ont parcouru l'Amérique dans une voiture de sport Chevrolet Corvette. L'émission a été diffusée chaque vendredi sur CBS du 7 octobre 1960 au 20 mars 1964. Elle mettait en vedette Martin Milner dans le rôle de Tod Stiles et, pendant les deux premières saisons et demie, George Maharis dans le rôle de Buz Murdock. Maharis a été malade pendant une grande partie de la troisième saison, période au cours de laquelle Tod a été montré voyageant seul. Tod a rencontré Lincoln Case, joué par Glenn Corbett, à la fin de la troisième saison, et a voyagé avec lui jusqu'à la fin de la quatrième et dernière saison.
Drama
7.4

Apr 20, 1963

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Western
6.2

May 13, 1965

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
Drama
8

Jul 19, 1996

Cette comédie horrifique est basée sur les comics des années 50 de Williams M. Gaines. Chaque épisode est une histoire indépendante, avec de prestigieuses guest-stars régulièrement devant ou derrière la caméra.
Comedy
5.3

Jul 01, 1965

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
Mystery
5.7

May 04, 1960

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
Western
5.4

Apr 05, 1966

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Drama
5.857

Jul 28, 1958

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
Crime
7

Apr 08, 1964

Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.
Drama