Franklin J. Schaffner Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Prim, quiet Jane Eyre finds work as a governess at the house of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Despite his aloofness, this haunted older man stirs up...

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

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

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

Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy on a...

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

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...

A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother,...

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

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

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.