Jack Smight — Director (22)
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The Sound of Jazz (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Sound of Jazz
director: Jack Smight actor: Coleman Hawkins / Danny Barker …
The Sound of Jazz is an historic episode from the "Seven Lively Arts" anthology series featuring jazz greats in concert. Hosted by John Crosby, it offers some fascinating performances from Count Basie, Billie Holliday, Thelonious Monk and many more. This 58-minute program is a truly original and unique broadcast from CBS Studio 58 in New York on December 8, 1957.
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The Longest Night (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Longest Night
director: Jack Smight actor: David Janssen / James Farentino …
The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
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Double Indemnity (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Double Indemnity
director: Jack Smight actor: Richard Crenna / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: Assurance sur la mort
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
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Rabbit, Run (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Rabbit, Run
director: Jack Smight actor: James Caan / Anjanette Comer …
other title: Coniglio, non scappare / Nichts wie weg, Rabbit
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
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Kaleidoscope (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Kaleidoscope
director: Jack Smight actor: Warren Beatty / Susannah York …
other title: La truffa che piaceva a Scotland Yard / Jogador Romântico …
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
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The Traveling Executioner (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Traveling Executioner
director: Jack Smight actor: Stacy Keach / Bud Cort …
other title: Der reisende Henker / La Balade du Bourreau …
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
director: Jack Smight actor: Paul Newman / Sylva Koscina …
other title: Guerra amore e fuga / Frække Frigg …
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
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Harper (1966) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Harper
director: Jack Smight actor: Paul Newman / Lauren Bacall …
other title: Detective's Story / Harper, privatdetektiv …
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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Airport 1975 (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Airport 1975
director: Jack Smight actor: Charlton Heston / Karen Black …
other title: Airport '75 / Aeroporto 1975 …
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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Loving Couples (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Loving Couples
director: Jack Smight actor: Shirley MacLaine / James Coburn …
other title: Quattro passi sul lenzuolo / Ein Walzer vor dem Frühstück …
Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not.
Walter is so caught up in his career that he fails to keep up with Evelyn. So when she falls for the charms of Greg, a real estate Romeo, it takes Walter by surprise. Even more so, because he finds out about it from Stephanie, Greg's deserted TV weather girl girlfriend.
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Damnation Alley (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Damnation Alley
director: Jack Smight actor: George Peppard / Jan-Michael Vincent …
other title: L'ultima odissea / Straße der Verdammnis …
Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
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The Third Day (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Third Day
director: Jack Smight actor: George Peppard / Elizabeth Ashley …
other title: Der dritte Tag / El tercer día …
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
No Way to Treat a Lady
director: Jack Smight actor: Rod Steiger / Lee Remick …
other title: Non si maltrattano così le signore / Bizarre Morde …
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
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The Screaming Woman (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Screaming Woman
director: Jack Smight actor: Olivia de Havilland / Ed Nelson …
other title: L'enterrée vive / L'Enterrée vive
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
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Fast Break (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fast Break
director: Jack Smight actor: Gabe Kaplan / Harold Sylvester …
other title: Die Chance seines Lebens
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.