Arena (1953)

Richard Fleischer

Gig Young stars as a rising rodeo star whose success fuels his ego and almost destroys his marriage--until he meets a man working as a clown at the Tucson rodeo and sees the future awaiting him if he does not change.


Armored Car Robbery

Richard Fleischer

Steve Brodie (The Caine Mutiny) and Gene Evans (The Big Carnival) star in this entertaining tale about a police lieutenant who leads the recovery of half a million dollars stolen by gangsters. Co-starring Charles McGraw (The Birds) and Adele Jergens (Jane Eyre).


The Spikes Gang

Richard Fleischer

Lee Marvin gives a spellbinding performance as a wounded outlaw who appears as a romantic figure to three impressionable youths (Ron Howard and Gary Grimes). Nursed back to health by the boys, the outlaw enlists them in his robberies...And then callously betrays them.


The Narrow Margin

Richard Fleischer

Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller deemed worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers headed by Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. The tracks run direct from Chicago to L.A. The Oscar-nominated story, directed by Richard Fleischer (The Boston Strangler) and scripted by his frequent collaborator Earl Felton, zigzags with surprise turns. Film noir favorite Charles McGraw plays a cop guarding a gangster's moll (fellow genre icon Marie Windsor) as she travels west to testify before a grand jury. Also riding the Pullmans, determined hitmen who know the moll is on the train, but don't know what she looks like. All aboard!


Tora! Tora! Tora!

Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda & Kinji Fukasaku

Jason Robards, Martin Balsam and E.G. Marshall star in this definitive, authentic reenactment of the “date which will live in infamy,” and the political intrigue that preceded it. The code words TORA! TORA! TORA! meant that the Japanese Imperial Navy’s attack on Pearl Harbor and other targets on December 7, 1941 had begun. With over 3,000 killed or wounded, America was abruptly drawn into WWII.


Fantastic Voyage

Richard Fleischer

Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence et Raquel Welch sont les vedettes de cette aventure. Un scientifique détenant le secret de la miniaturisation tombe dans le coma, et une équipe de spécialistes pénètre en lui pour tenter de le soigner. Mais son corps se défend et un saboteur fait partie de l'équipe. C'est donc une course contre la montre qui s’engage.


The Jazz Singer

Richard Fleischer

Neil Diamond adds his own distinctive sounds to the classic role of a young Jewish cantor on the verge of a dream.


The Last Run (1971)

Richard Fleischer

George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere (Scott's future wife) costar in this gritty crime drama directed by Richard Fleisher (who replaced original director John Huston). Scott plays Harry Garmes, a former getaway driver who has retired to a peaceful life in a rural southern Portugal fishing village. Garmes is asked to pull off one last gig; he must drive a young killer (Tony Musante) and his girlfriend (Van Devere) across the border to France. What follows is a lean, full-of-attitude thriller where no one can be trusted, fueled by Scott's hard as nails performance and striking cinematography by Sven Nykvist.


Violent Saturday

Richard Fleischer

Three bank robbers are about to pull a big heist on a small Arizona mining town, but first they spend time casing the town to get to know the various townsfolk. There's Shelley Martin, a man who is a disappointment to his son because he didn't serve in the war; a seemingly timid bank manager who is a peeping tom by night; an adulterous wife of a local leading citizen; and an Amish farmer who is forced to take violent action when his children are threatened by the criminals.


Red Sonja

Richard Fleischer

In the times of sword and sorcery, amazonian Red Sonja avenges her sister's death and deposes an evil queen. With box-office superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger ("Eraser," "True Lies") and Golden Globe-winner Sandahl Bergman ("Conan the Barbarian").


10 Rillington Place

Richard Fleischer

This is the horrifying true account of John Reginald Christie, whose crimes and subsequent trial summarily ended capital punishment in Britain. After savagely murdering a woman and her newborn baby, Christie was able to convince a jury that the woman's husband was the actual perpetrator. Years later, Christie admitted his guilt and a shocked nation learned an innocent man had been put to death.


Between Heaven and Hell

Richard Fleischer

Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderick Crawford and Buddy Ebsen star in this absorbing drama about a young, self-centered recruit who comes of age during WWII. Sam Gifford (Wagner) is a successful cotton planter who treats his sharecroppers as if they were little more than farm machinery. But during combat in the Pacific, as he sees "quality" people crack, endures life under a sadistic officer (Crawford), and learns true friendship from a "cropper" (Ebsen), Gifford slowly discovers there's more to a person than social class and good breeding.


The Girl In the Red Velvet Swing

Richard Fleischer

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw. Mr. White buys Evelyn an incredible apartment, but insists that she perform for him on a red velvet swing he has fashioned in the living room. As Evelyn swings above the salivating White, Harry K. Thaw is across town pining for her. Eventually Thaw and Evelyn marry, but he makes her life miserable with his jealousy. White continues to pursue Evelyn romantically, and Thaw becomes enraged. During Evelyn's performance, a jealous husband confronts a philandering playboy on the roof of Madison Square Garden. The result changes Evelyn's life forever.


Che!

Richard Fleischer

"Che!" is an intentionally noncommittal version of the Cuban revolution which strains to balance the good with the bad. The film opens with Che Guevara's dead body on display in Bolivia and various people who knew him coming forward to give their varied opinions. In flashback, the film recounts Che's switch from doctor to politico in Castro's campaign to wrest Cuba from the dictatorship of Batista. Later, he becomes disillusioned with Castro's compromises and his willingness to cooperate with the Communists, and leaves to lead a revolt in Bolivia which costs him his life.


The Puppet Masters

Richard Fleischer

Parasitic space aliens take over the bodies of humans and manipulating these unfortunates to do their bidding. US security agent and his team attempt to squash the extraterrestrial scheme before the aliens get to them.


20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Richard Fleischer

Climb aboard the Nautilus ... and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award-winning (1955, Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" a truly mesmerizing masterpiece!


See No Evil (1971)

Richard Fleischer

The suspense-filled story of a young woman (Mia Farrow), blinded in a horse-riding accident who, while convalescing in a mansion belonging to her uncle (Robin Bailey) is terrorized by a psychopath (Paul Nicholas), who murders her uncle, her aunt, and her cousin.


Soylent Green

Richard Fleischer

This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.


Compulsion

Richard Fleischer

Compulsion, a deeply moving psychological courtroom drama, is one of several re-tellings of the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb killings. Artie Straus is the sadistic leader of the duo, and Judd Steiner is Straus' introverted counterpart. Both boys -- gay lovers -- are the products of affluent, privileged upbringings, and both consider themselves above conventional structures of morality. Exercising their overwhelming feelings of superiority, the two students decide to kill a young boy. Rather than repenting for their crime, Steiner and Straus then set out to further the experiment by lending aid to the authorities. Inevitably, the duo is captured and prosecuted for the murder. Defense attorney Jonathan Wilk steps in and attempts to save the boys from execution, despite never receiving any explanation from the young culprits of their crime.


Barabbas

Richard Fleischer

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when the Jews chose Christ in his place. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiator arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons.


Mr. Majestyk

Richard Fleischer

The script of Mr. Majestyk was Elmore Leonard's attempt to concentrate on the plight of Chicano migrant workers, instead the film that hit screens was extensively reshaped into a standard Charles Bronson vehicle. Hoping to make a living as a watermelon farmer, Battle-weary Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk (Bronson) settles down in rural Colorado. Despite his new-found pacifism, Majestyk can't seem to stay out of trouble, and he lands in jail, where he plots a breakout engineered by Mob boss Frank Renda (Al Lettieri). Majestyk finds himself the main target of the Mob after offering to bring in Renda in exchange for his own freedom. It is bad enough when the crooks begin roughing up Majestyk's field hands; but when they ruthlessly machine-gun his entire melon crop, they've gone to far. Teaming up with Chicano labor activist Nancy Chavez (Linda Cristal), Majestyk decides to track down the mobsters one by one and mete out retribution.


The Boston Strangler

Richard Fleischer

The Boston Strangler is a gripping account of the real-life serial killer who stalked the Boston Common, leaving behind a trail of dead young women, and the detective who helped solve the case. Detective Phil DiNatale ultimately gets on the trail of a schizophrenic plumber named Albert De Salvo and cracks one of the most horrifying serial murder cases in U.S. history.


Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Richard Fleischer

Based on the Hugh Lofting series of stories, Doctor Dolittle is a magical, musical extravaganza that follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, played by Oscar winner Rex Harrison. Dolittle, a kindly veterinarian living in an animal-filled apartment, learns that his parrot speaks 468 animal languages. Dolittle has the parrot teach him all of them and soon he finds himself making friends with his animals - enjoying their company more than humans.


Mandingo

Richard Fleischer

Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, Mandingo takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.