Robert Wise Movie Trailers

Visions of Light Trailer (1992)

17 September 1992

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing.

The Informer Trailer (1935)

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.

A Game of Death Trailer (1945)

23 November 1945

A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.

Tribute to a Bad Man Trailer (1956)

30 March 1956

Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers as soon as looks at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock’s ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta.

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal Trailer (1986)

31 July 1986

Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures.

Odds Against Tomorrow Trailer (1959)

15 October 1959

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Two for the Seesaw Trailer (1962)

21 November 1962

After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life.

Destination Gobi Trailer (1953)

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.

Dance, Girl, Dance Trailer (1940)

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.

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins Trailer (2014)

12 October 2014

From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror.

The Battle Over Citizen Kane Trailer (1996)

29 January 1996

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941).

Until They Sail Trailer (1957)

08 October 1957

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

I Want to Live! Trailer (1958)

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.

This Could Be the Night Trailer (1957)

14 May 1957

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

Two People Trailer (1973)

18 March 1973

Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model.

Fifth Avenue Girl Trailer (1939)

22 September 1939

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

The Baby Maker Trailer (1970)

01 October 1970

Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children.

Mademoiselle Fifi Trailer (1944)

28 July 1944

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors.

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years Trailer (1997)

21 January 1997

The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major studio.

West Side Memories Trailer (2003)

01 April 2003

Documentary attached to the 50th anniversary MGM Blu-ray collection of "West Side Story" (1961). Details how this successful stage production was reared and molded into a beautiful cinematic one.

Salzburg Sight and Sound Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

Charmian Carr, who played Liesl in The Sound of Music, takes a tour of the Austrian town of Salzburg, where the location shots of the movie were made.

Happy Birthday, Wanda June Trailer (1971)

09 December 1971

A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.

William Holden: The Golden Boy Trailer (1989)

13 December 1989

It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula Trailer (1997)

15 June 1997

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline.

Making The Earth Stand Still Trailer (2001)

30 June 2001

A documentary about the 1951 sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," featuring clips from the film and interviews with some of the cast and crew about the making of the film.

Buñuel in Hollywood Trailer (2000)

22 February 2000

This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.