Lewis Freedman Movies

  • 1977
    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

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    The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign...

    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
  • 1973
    The Lie

    The Lie

    The Lie

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    An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in...

    The Lie
  • 1968
    An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

    An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

    An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

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    Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman...

    An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
  • 1959
    The World of Sholom Aleichem

    The World of Sholom Aleichem

    The World of Sholom Aleichem

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    This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and...

    The World of Sholom Aleichem
  • 1960
    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh

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    Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this...

    The Iceman Cometh
  • 1971
    Montserrat

    Montserrat

    Montserrat

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    The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid...

    Montserrat
  • 1960
    Play of the Week: Rashomon

    Play of the Week: Rashomon

    Play of the Week: Rashomon

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    Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.

    Play of the Week: Rashomon
  • 1960
    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder

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    Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who reaches for love in response to his work's demise.

    The Master Builder
  • 1959
    Burning Bright

    Burning Bright

    Burning Bright

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    In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to...

    Burning Bright
  • 1960
    The New Girl

    The New Girl

    The New Girl

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    In pursuance of a lucrative government contract, a private company hires its first Black female employee to comply with government regulations...

    The New Girl
  • 1971
    Neighbors

    Neighbors

    Neighbors

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    Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of...

    Neighbors
  • 1971
    Enemies

    Enemies

    Enemies

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    A humble and long-suffering New York waiter finally turns the tables on a regular, insufferable customer who delights in pestering him about the...

    Enemies
  • 1972
    The Shadow of a Gunman

    The Shadow of a Gunman

    The Shadow of a Gunman

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    Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920s, this was the first part of Sean O'Casey's...

    The Shadow of a Gunman
  • 1971
    The Typists

    The Typists

    The Typists

    01971HD

    Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student...

    The Typists
  • 1972
    Poet Game

    Poet Game

    Poet Game

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    Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against...

    Poet Game
  • 1971
    Lemonade

    Lemonade

    Lemonade

    01971HD

    A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing...

    Lemonade
  • 1971
    Birdbath

    Birdbath

    Birdbath

    01971HD

    During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.

    Birdbath
  • 1968
    Akropolis

    Akropolis

    Akropolis

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    A performance based on Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramatic epic poem, first presented at Teatr Laboratorium, Wrocław, Poland, ...

    Akropolis