Joseph L. Mankiewicz Movies

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film...

Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who...

Three women are going on a trip that leaves them incommunicado with the rest of the world, but before they leave, a woman who either has a history or...

Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is...

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a...

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce...

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and...

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that...

Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most...

Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The...

George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls...

The younger brother of a police captain is a wanted fugitive, so when the captain railroads his brother's former criminal partner, the partner's...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz discusses his career in a feature-length interview recorded at his New England home and the 1983 Berlin Film Festival.

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her....

Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an...