Franklin J. Schaffner Movies

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon,...

Almost everyone who worked with director Franklin J. Schaeffer on the film is interviewed here, including George C. Scott (this piece was done before...

A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves...

Charlie, working in the garment industry, refuses to pay the protection money demanded by racketeers. After his father Vito is beaten up Charlie...

Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family...

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.

A woman is accused by a poison-pen letter of murdering her husband.

Documentary short featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the 1973 film "Papillon." The film stars Steve McQueen and is based on the life story of...

Major Gaylord grapples with a vexing command in the Korean War. Aired by Studio One in Hollywood, sponsored by Westinghouse.

A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.

Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge.

What really happened to the famous film star Lylah Clare, whose life (and death) forms the subject of a proposed new movie?

Business mogul's son David Grant uses his father's power to extricate himself from problems - until implication in a woman's death tests David's...

Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the...

High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur...

Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), The Boys from...

The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.

A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Studio One, Season 2, Episode 34