David Raksin Movies

After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan...

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she...

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt...

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry...

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

The story of how the classic epic "Ben-Hur" was made.

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to...

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces,...

A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her...

Prizewinning boxer Johnny Monterez is mad at the world, feeling persecuted because of his Mexican heritage. Worse yet, his right hand is damaged from...

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her...

When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an...

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German...

Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be...

The Passion of Jesus, starting with His arrest and trial, was shot near Madrid and features narration by Sebastien Cabot. Jesus' face is never seen,...

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...