Franklin J. Schaffner Archives

5.8

Welcome Home

An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.

R

5.8

1989 Drama 96 min Play

5.5

Sphinx

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!

PG

5.5

1981 Adventure 118 min Play

6.7

The Boys from Brazil

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

R

6.7

1978 Drama 125 min Play

6.7

Islands in the Stream

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

PG

6.7

1977 Drama 104 min Play

7.9

Papillon

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

PG

7.9

1973 Crime 151 min Play

6.9

Nicholas and Alexandra

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

PG

6.9

1971 Drama 189 min Play

7.5

Patton

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

PG

7.5

1970 Drama 172 min Play

7.7

Planet of the Apes

An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

G

7.7

1968 Action 112 min Play

6.3

The War Lord

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

PG

6.3

1965 History 123 min Play

7.4

The Best Man

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

NR

7.4

1964 Comedy 102 min Play

5.3

The Stripper

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

NR

5.3

1963 Drama 95 min Play

0

The Velvet Alley

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.

NR

7.5

1954 Drama 51 min Play