7 Movies Starring Eileen Heckart

The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-09-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

129 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (8898 Reviews)

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Cast:

Writer:

John Lee Mahin (screenplay)

Maxwell Anderson (play)

William March (novel)

Fullplot:

Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most terrible recurring nightmare. And her "perfect" daughter's accomplishments include lying, theft and possibly much, much worse. Only Christine knows the truth about her daughter and only Christine's father knows the truth about her nightmare.

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-12-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (5344 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Wise

Cast:

Writer:

Ernest Lehman (screenplay)

Rocky Graziano (autobiography)

Rowland Barber (with)

Fullplot:

Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However, he is immediately drafted to the army. But they can't keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent.

Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-07-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1334 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Bel Kaufman (novel)

Tad Mosel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

No Way to Treat a Lady

No Way to Treat a Lady

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-03-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1355 Reviews)

Director:

Jack Smight

Cast:

Writer:

John Gay (screenplay)

William Goldman (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-09-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (3182 Reviews)

Director:

Milton Katselas

Cast:

Writer:

Leonard Gershe (screenplay)

Leonard Gershe (play)

Fullplot:

Zandy's Bride

Zandy's Bride

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-05-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (531 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Troell

Genres:

Western

Cast:

Writer:

Lillian Bos Ross (novel)

Marc Norman

Fullplot:

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-10-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Italy

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (5731 Reviews)

Director:

Dan Curtis

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Marasco (novel)

William F. Nolan (screenplay)

Dan Curtis (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Haunted house chiller from Dan Curtis has Oliver Reed and Karen Black as summer caretakers moving into gothic house with their young son. The catch? The house rejuvenates a part of itself with each death that occurs on its premises.

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