Richard Schickel Movies

Career overview of Hollywood legend Frank Capra by Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel.

Documentary short on Marlon Brando included in the DVD extras of The Streetcar Named Desire.

A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

Censorship issues with the film "A Streetcar Named Desire."

A look back at Clint Eastwood's career from the release of Unforgiven (1992)

Short documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

How the play was adapted to Film

This ten-minute segment, heralded as part of a new shorts program, is composed of excerpts from a 1972 audio conversation between Hawks and Peter...

Documentary about the film Where Danger Lives (1950)

Documentary about film.

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious' (1946).

Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.

In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'. Each episode...

Presents testimony from Patricia King Hanson and Richard Schickel and archival input from cinematographer John Alton.

Making-of documentary for Sergio Leone's landmark spaghetti western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

A retrospective look at the brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Dial M for Murder.'

Feature-lenght documentary, divided in three episodes (Storm rising, Storm chaser and Eye of the storm), describing the making of Ryan's Daughter as...

Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.

Career overview of Hollywood director "Wild Bill" Wellman,