Mark Rydell Movies

Based on D.H. Lawrence’s novella about two young women – sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March – who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in…

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted,…

A biopic about the actor James Dean, whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much…

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they…

Vincent Eastman has to choose between his wife of 16 years, Sally, and his new love, Olivia. Frequent flashbacks explain the background to the marriage and the affair.

Gambling: Carolyn, a novelist, is losing her family’s savings at the slots; she’s befriended by a close-up magician who dreams of making it big. A murdered bookie has the cops…

An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius’s grandfather gets the first…

When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get…

Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. The film follows Rose’s career during her last tour, as she’s determined to return to her…

The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage….

Tom and Mae Garvey are a hard working farming couple living with their two children on the east Tennessee farm owned by Tom’s family for generations. They and many of…