Richard Wilson — Director (8)
Wall of Noise (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wall of Noise
director: Richard Wilson actor: Suzanne Pleshette / Ty Hardin
other title: Il muro dei dollari / Zwei Frauen um Joe
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
Pay or Die! (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pay or Die!
other title: Pagare o morire / Pay or Die
A beautifully rendered, fact-based crime film about a crusading Italian policeman battling Black Hand extortionists in New York’s Little Italy is back on the big screen. In addition to Ernest Borgnine’s brilliantly sensitive portrayal as Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino, this engrossing picture is deftly photographed by Lucien Ballard, beautifully scored by David Raksin with a stellar supporting cast including Zohra Lampert and Alan Austin. Literate, suspenseful and emotionally moving, this memorable film remains the definitive depiction about the emergence of the Mafia in America.
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Invitation to a Gunfighter
director: Richard Wilson actor: Yul Brynner / Janice Rule
other title: Invito ad una sparatoria / Convite a Um Pistoleiro
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Al Capone (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Al Capone
director: Richard Wilson actor: Rod Steiger / Fay Spain
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Man with the Gun (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Man with the Gun
director: Richard Wilson actor: Robert Mitchum / Jan Sterling
other title: Sangue caldo / Sozinho Contra a Cidade
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out.