David Raksin

David Raksin Trailers

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David Raksin (August 4, 1912 – August 9, 2004) was an American composer who was renowned for his work in film and television. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music."

Most Popular David Raksin Trailers

Total trailers found: 92

The Man Who Wouldn't Die Trailer (1942)

27 April 1942

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz Trailer (2004)

19 December 2004

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema.

Cinerama Adventure Trailer (2002)

30 August 2002

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era.

Modern Times Trailer (1936)

05 February 1936

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Right Cross Trailer (1950)

06 October 1950

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

Hollywood Legenden Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

Documentary about Hollywood.

Inflation Trailer (1942)

01 January 1942

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

The Ghost of Flight 401 Trailer (1978)

18 February 1978

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft.

Wings Over Honolulu Trailer (1937)

16 May 1937

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Hollywood's Musical Moods Trailer (1976)

16 February 1976

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into cultural icons, were the musical giants whose compositions defined the very films that captivated a generation of movie-goers.

Pay or Die! Trailer (1960)

27 July 1960

A beautifully rendered, fact-based crime film about a crusading Italian policeman battling Black Hand extortionists in New York’s Little Italy is back on the big screen.

Fallen Angel Trailer (1945)

15 November 1945

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner.

On the Sunny Side Trailer (1942)

13 February 1942

Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio.

Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique Trailer (2003)

21 September 2003

A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique (1924) for which Antheil wrote the music.

Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush Trailer (1980)

01 April 1980

When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned.

The Witness Vanishes Trailer (1939)

22 September 1939

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum.

Midnight Court Trailer (1937)

06 March 1937

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Laura Trailer (1944)

11 October 1944

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Bigger Than Life Trailer (1956)

20 November 1956

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Lady in a Corner Trailer (1989)

11 December 1989

Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, she must also deal with a mole.

Will Penny Trailer (1967)

19 December 1967

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters.

Zappa Trailer (2020)

27 November 2020

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa.

Jubal Trailer (1956)

25 February 1956

Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.

The Day After Trailer (1983)

10 December 1983

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives.

Love Has Many Faces Trailer (1965)

24 February 1965

A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.

The Magnificent Yankee Trailer (1950)

20 December 1950

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Don Juan Quilligan Trailer (1945)

01 June 1945

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

Daisy Kenyon Trailer (1947)

25 December 1947

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara.

These Three Trailer (1936)

18 March 1936

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe.

Irish Eyes Are Smiling Trailer (1944)

19 October 1944

Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.

Circumstantial Evidence Trailer (1945)

20 April 1945

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

Marked Woman Trailer (1937)

10 April 1937

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Carrie Trailer (1952)

17 July 1952

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Trailer (1947)

01 September 1947

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures.

Separate Tables Trailer (1958)

18 December 1958

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.

Whirlpool Trailer (1950)

13 January 1950

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter.

Apache Trailer (1954)

09 July 1954

Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation.

Tampico Trailer (1944)

10 April 1944

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.

Sylvia Trailer (1965)

10 February 1965

Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking.

A Lady Without Passport Trailer (1950)

03 August 1950

An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.

Night Tide Trailer (1961)

01 July 1961

A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon.

Main Street Today Trailer (1944)

25 March 1944

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

The Bad and the Beautiful Trailer (1952)

25 December 1952

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel.

Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music Trailer (2019)

01 November 2019

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.

The Next Voice You Hear... Trailer (1950)

29 June 1950

The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world.

Al Capone Trailer (1959)

25 March 1959

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio.

Invitation to a Gunfighter Trailer (1964)

14 October 1964

In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.

The Redeemer Trailer (1959)

20 March 1959

The Passion of Jesus, starting with His arrest and trial, was shot near Madrid and features narration by Sebastien Cabot.

Forever Amber Trailer (1947)

10 October 1947

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

The Mighty Treve Trailer (1937)

17 January 1937

Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.

A Big Hand for the Little Lady Trailer (1966)

08 June 1966

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.

City Without Men Trailer (1943)

14 January 1943

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.

Bathing Beauty Trailer (1944)

27 June 1944

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Across the Wide Missouri Trailer (1951)

12 October 1951

In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho.

Too Late Blues Trailer (1961)

01 November 1961

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself.

The Big Combo Trailer (1955)

13 February 1955

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

The Homestretch Trailer (1947)

04 May 1947

A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

The Patsy Trailer (1964)

24 June 1964

Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer.

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again Trailer (1970)

16 November 1970

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town.

Suddenly Trailer (1954)

17 September 1954

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them.