Robert Wise Trailers
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Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966).
Among his other films are Born to Kill; Destination Gobi; The Hindenburg; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Run Silent, Run Deep; The Andromeda Strain; The Set-Up; The Haunting; and The Body Snatcher. Wise's working period spanned the 1930s to the 1990s.
Often contrasted with contemporary "auteur" directors such as Stanley Kubrick who tended to bring a distinctive directorial "look" to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his (sometimes studio assigned) story to dictate style. Later critics such as Martin Scorsese would go on to expand that characterization, insisting that despite Wise's notorious workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan. Through whatever means, Wise's approach would bring him critical success as a director in many different traditional film genres: from horror to noir to Western to war films to science fiction, to musical and drama, with many repeat hits within each genre. Wise's tendency towards professionalism led to a degree of preparedness which, though nominally motivated by studio budget constraints, nevertheless advanced the moviemaking art, with many Academy Award-winning films the result. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.
Most Popular Robert Wise Trailers
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29 March 1965
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
17 April 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist.
07 December 1979
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.
04 October 2005
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection.
05 February 1990
A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles.
13 December 1961
In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
01 January 1998
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work?
19 December 2004
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema.
15 November 1946
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer.
18 September 1951
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
01 January 1999
Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends.
01 June 1995
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
30 September 1952
A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that wants the land for their own purposes.
19 August 1943
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings.
18 July 1968
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
12 March 1971
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency.
01 August 2014
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more.
31 August 1939
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.
28 March 1963
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House.
26 January 1956
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is.
11 June 2002
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
18 May 1982
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.
27 March 1958
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job.
12 December 2014
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
13 November 1942
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen.
10 July 1942
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
25 December 1975
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security.
01 April 2003
The making of "The Andromeda Strain".
11 November 1948
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute.
14 May 1943
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.
09 May 1935
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend.
18 November 1958
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
30 April 1947
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
01 January 1995
Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman.
31 October 1953
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
21 August 1948
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent.
06 April 1977
A man is convinced that 11-year old girl, Ivy, is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before Ivy was born.
04 July 1956
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
13 December 1989
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.
08 August 1996
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
20 October 1950
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California.
02 March 1944
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
30 August 1940
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque.
17 March 1989
T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city.
02 February 1990
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder.
12 May 1951
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
26 March 1953
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city.
19 May 1996
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz.
03 September 1995
A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden Age.
18 January 2000
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop.
01 July 2013
From Star Trek to The Sound of Music, award-winning director Robert Wise was dedicated, inventive, and ready to tackle any genre.
31 December 1986
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
12 October 1950
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
17 October 1941
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects.
22 September 1939
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
29 March 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
25 May 1945
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver.
20 March 1953
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
17 May 1940
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
