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- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsCary GrantJosé FerrerPaula RaymondWhile on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.Brooks is adept at maintaining the tension.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsStewart GrangerPier AngeliGeorge SandersAfter a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsHumphrey BogartEthel BarrymoreKim HunterWith his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsHumphrey BogartJune AllysonKeenan WynnSet in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRichard WidmarkKarl MaldenElaine StewartIn 1953 at Fort Bliss, Texas, two Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsLana TurnerPier AngeliCarlos ThompsonAmerican woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsElizabeth TaylorVan JohnsonWalter PidgeonAn American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.An engrossing romantic drama that tells a good story with fine performances and an overall honesty of dramatic purpose.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsGlenn FordAnne FrancisLouis CalhernA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.Glenn Ford, Morrow and Poitier are so real in their performances under the probing direction by Brooks that the picture alternatingly has the viewer pleading, indignant and frightened before the conclusion.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRobert TaylorStewart GrangerLloyd NolanIn 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.Russell Harlan's admirably low-key cinematography complements writer/director Brooks' down-beat tone.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBette DavisErnest BorgnineDebbie ReynoldsWhen Jane Hurley tells her parents Tom (a struggling cab driver) and Agnes (a domestic engineer) that she is marrying Ralph Halloran, Agnes starts planning a big wedding, even though Jane and Ralph don't want it and Tom cannot afford it.Overall, the performances are good and there are occasionally amusing and touching momemts in the otherwise talky, mostly drab, affair under Richard Brooks' direction.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRock HudsonDana WynterSidney PoitierIn British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.Bold handling of crude unbridled passion, of violently conflicting ideas, and of earthy humor makes up The Brothers Karamazov.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsElizabeth TaylorPaul NewmanBurl IvesBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.An intense, important motion picture.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterJean SimmonsArthur KennedyA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.Brooks honors the spirit of Lewis' cynical commentary on circus-type primitive exhortation with pictorial imagery that is always pungent. He also has written dialog that is frank and biting.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsPaul NewmanGeraldine PageShirley KnightA drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.It's a glossy, engrossing hunk of motion picture entertainment, slickly produced by Berman.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsPeter O'TooleJames MasonCurd JürgensAfter being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.Brooks, while capturing the spirit of adventure of the novel, only superficially catches the inner emotional and spiritual conflict of its hero.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterLee MarvinRobert RyanAn arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.Exciting explosive sequences, good overall pacing and acting overcome a sometimes thin script.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRobert BlakeScott WilsonJohn ForsytheTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip -- and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsJean SimmonsJohn ForsytheShirley JonesA middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.A well-developed and acted and potentially significant 'woman's movie' unfortunately drowns in Brooks' over indulgences and over-writing.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsWarren BeattyGoldie HawnGert FröbeBank security expert Joe Collins and call girl Dawn Divine plot to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn are weirdly interesting together.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsGene HackmanCandice BergenJames CoburnA pair of ex-Rough Riders, a former prostitute, a gunfighter, an aging cowboy and an English gentleman enter a 700-mile horse race through the Southwest desert in 1908.A finely crafted, epic Western about a cross-country horseback endurance race.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsDiane KeatonRichard GereTuesday WeldDedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.Diane Keaton gives an absolutely fearless performance in a sexual thriller whose ending will leave audiences trembling.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsSean ConneryGeorge GrizzardRobert ConradA TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.Wild proceedings are packed with convoluted intrigue.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRyan O'NealCatherine HicksGiancarlo GianniniAn investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry - professional gambling.The opening segments of the movie are simply odd, distracting and unconvincing. It's the movie's final act that is sick.