Mel Stuart

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: Against The Grain (1998)

Cast: Richard Gere Mel Stuart   

Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 

Length: 60min

Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, and Sally Field host this documentary TV series with clips from movies cited in the American Film Institute's controversial 100 Greatest Films special (aired June 16, 1998 on CBS). The AFI list irritated numerous movie...

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The Hobart Shakespeareans (2004)

Cast: Mel Stuart   

Tags: Biography 

Length: 60min

Mel Stuart's documentary The Hobart Shakespeareans shows how one talented teacher is changing the lives of his at-risk students by exposing them to great literature and mathematics. Rafe Esquith teaches fifth-grade in a dangerous section of Los...

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Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987)

Cast: Sean Connery Mel Stuart Roger Moore Timothy Dalton George Lazenby   

Length: 59min

Documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart, whose previous subjects have ranged from JFK to Mao Tse-Tung, focuses his attention on everyone's favorite dinner-jacketed spy in Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond. Roger Moore, who'd played Bond from 1973...

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Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)

Cast: Mel Stuart Stockard Channing   

Tags: Biography Visual Arts Art History Graphic & Applied Arts 

Length: 60min

Man Ray, famed Dada artist, expatriate, and innovator, is the subject of this PBS American Masters Series episode. Stockard Channing hosts this in-depth documentary. Several interviews with the artist himself and other archival footage aptly covers...

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The White Lions (1981)

Cast: Michael York Mel Stuart Donald Moffat Roger E. Mosley Glynnis O'Connor   

Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family 

Length: 96min

This easy-going television movie is about Chris McBride (Michael York), a real-life naturalist who brings his wife and daughter to an African wildlife preserve to join him in a research project. The area has a special meaning to him because he was...

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The Chisholms (1979)

Cast: Elmer Bernstein Mel Stuart Rosemary Harris Brian Keith Robert Preston   

Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Western 

Length: 300min

The Chisholms was a three-part miniseries adapted by Evan Hunter from his own novel. Covering the years 1842 through 1844, the dramatization follows the westward trek of the Chisholm family. Patriarch Robert Preston is driven from his midwestern...

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Ruby and Oswald (1978)

Cast: Mel Stuart Brian Dennehy Frederic Forrest Michael Lerner Michael Pataki   

Tags: Political Drama Drama Docudrama 

Length: 133min

Producer/director Mel Stuart, who'd previously worked with David L. Wolper on the historical-recreation series Appointment with Destiny, applies the same docudrama techniques to the feature length Ruby and Oswald. Framed in the form of a documentary,...

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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)

Cast: Sophia Loren Rip Torn Mel Stuart Theresa Saldana Fred Karlin   

Tags: Biopic 

Length: 150min

This made-for-television biography chronicles the life of Italian actress and beauty Sophia Loren, from her childhood in Naples to her international stardom. Joanna Crawford adapted the screenplay from A.E. Hotchner's biographical book. ~ Kristie...

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The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)

Cast: Mel Stuart Stephanie Zimbalist Tom Bosley David Dukes Tovah Feldshuh   

Tags: Disaster Film Docudrama Drama 

Length: 100min

This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

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