Movies: Delbert Mann

  • 1974
    The First Woman President

    The First Woman President (1974)

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    This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his severe stroke in 1919, she played an influential role in his administration. For the remainder of his ...

    The First Woman President
  • 1977
    Tell Me My Name

    Tell Me My Name (1977)

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    Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family....

    Tell Me My Name
  • 1978
    Tom and Joann

    Tom and Joann (1978)

    Tom and Joann

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    The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978)....

    Tom and Joann
  • 1978
    Love’s Dark Ride

    Love’s Dark Ride (1978)

    Love’s Dark Ride

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    A young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub entertainer who befriends him....

    Love’s Dark Ride
  • 1960
    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

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    In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going ...

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • 1953
    Marty

    Marty (1953)

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    Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his moth...

    Marty
  • 1978
    Home to Stay

    Home to Stay (1978)

    Home to Stay

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    A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged....

    Home to Stay
  • 1983
    Brontë

    Brontë (1983)

    Brontë

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    Julie Harris performs her one-woman show based on the life of Charlotte Brontë....

    Brontë
  • 1991
    Ironclads

    Ironclads (1991)

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    Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of the CSS Virginia from the remains of the USS Merrimack and the battle between the Virginia and the USS Monitor in the Battle of...

    Ironclads
  • 1958
    Desire Under the Elms

    Desire Under the Elms (1958)

    Desire Under the Elms

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    Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned mos...

    Desire Under the Elms
  • 1954
    Middle of the Night

    Middle of the Night (1954)

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    A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss....

    Middle of the Night
  • 1958
    The Plot to Kill Stalin

    The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)

    The Plot to Kill Stalin

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    In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first....

    The Plot to Kill Stalin
  • 1978
    Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

    Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978)

    Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

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    The wife of a paralytic becomes involved in an extra-marital affair, with his permission....

    Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
  • 1975
    The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

    The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975)

    The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

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    The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discovery in 17th Century India until its donation to the Smithsonian Institute....

    The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
  • 1972
    No Place to Run

    No Place to Run (1972)

    No Place to Run

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    An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away....

    No Place to Run
  • 1976
    Birch Interval

    Birch Interval (1976)

    Birch Interval

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    A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes....

    Birch Interval
  • 1955
    The Petrified Forest

    The Petrified Forest (1955)

    The Petrified Forest

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    Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appe...

    The Petrified Forest
  • 1984
    Bruised Celluloid

    Bruised Celluloid (1984)

    Bruised Celluloid

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    The 1930 Hollywood-produced anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" is one of the great works in film history. But like hardly any other cinema classic, it was ostracized, shortened, censored, altered in image and sound and banned. The documentary de...

    Bruised Celluloid
  • 1983
    The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

    The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)

    The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

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    After experiencing several stressful situations within a short time — including the failure of the family business and the loss of her mother — Janet Broderick becomes ill. Falling into a deep sleep, she dreams of returning to her hometown, taking he...

    The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
  • 1953
    The Bachelor Party

    The Bachelor Party (1953)

    The Bachelor Party

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    Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes....

    The Bachelor Party