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Tag Archives: Fred Zinnemann
A Hatful of Rain (1957) Fred Zinnemann, Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa
Based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, this noir-stained drama provides Read More »
Little Mister Jim (1946) Fred Zinnemann, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, James Craig, Frances Gifford
A boy learns to deal with the loss of his mother and the subsequent Read More »
The Sundowners (1960) Fred Zinnemann, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family–Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean–are sheep drovers, always on the move. Read More »
Julia (1977) Fred Zinnemann, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
This Oscar-winning drama, based on the writing of Lillian Hellman Read More »
Five Days One Summer (1982) Fred Zinnemann, Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson
Douglas Meredith (Sir Sean Connery) is a respectable married middle aged doctor with a terrible secret. Read More »
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. Read More »
The Men (1950) Fred Zinnemann, Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane
Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. Read More »
Teresa (1951) Fred Zinnemann, Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge
A reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US. Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love. Read More »
The Seventh Cross (1944) Fred Zinnemann, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Drama, War
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. Read More »
The Nuns Story (1959) Fred Zinnemann, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Drama
In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Hubert van der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent Read More »
Behold a Pale Horse (1964) Fred Zinnemann, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Drama, War
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. Read More »
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Drama, Romance, War
It’s 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. Read More »
A Man for All Seasons (1966) Fred Zinnemann, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Biography, Drama, History
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Read More »