Joseph L. Mankiewicz Movies

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that...

Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Catherine Moreau is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress...

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who...

A documentary about the making of the 1950 film "All About Eve."

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...

A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.

Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most...

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a...

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and...

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her....

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't...

The younger brother of a police captain is a wanted fugitive, so when the captain railroads his brother's former criminal partner, the partner's...