David Susskind Movies

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption...

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their...

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

Unsold pilot for Carol Lawrence's talk show

In the year AIDS was first defined by the CDC, this 1982 program is a human rights debate between religious scholars and notable gay New Yorkers.

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to...

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their...

An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social...

A no-nonsense diplomat of the Soviet Union, Nina Ivanovna Ninotchka Yakushova arrives in Paris to ensure the sale of jewels seized during the Russian...

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes...

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't...

An anti-Communist propaganda film produced by the United States Information Agency for the indoctrination of the children separated by Operation...

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...