David Susskind Movies

Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...

Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo...

Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her...

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Two attractive divorcees find that their newly realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old...

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable...

A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.

A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio...

In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri. After...

When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.