David Susskind Movies

1981 TV movie

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.

A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural.

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

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

The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed,...

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

Wealthy Margo Wendice's husband (Laurence Harvey) plots her murder to inherit her fortune after discovering her affair, leading to a tense, failed,...

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

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to...

Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption...

Unable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.

A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable"...

A graduate student interviews the retired General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Gettysburg farm, sometimes confronting him about his...