Robert L. Jacks - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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A Matter of Life and Death (1981)

A Few Days in Weasel Creek (1981)

The Day the Loving Stopped (1981)

The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979)

Young Love, First Love (1979)

The Girls of Huntington House (1973)

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Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You've Concealed It Wonderfully

Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Your Diabolic Spell

Biography

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

A Matter of Life and Death (1981)

A Few Days in Weasel Creek (1981)

The Day the Loving Stopped (1981)

The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979)

Young Love, First Love (1979)

The Girls of Huntington House (1973)

The Homecoming (1971)

Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971)

Murder Can Hurt You! (1970)

The Undefeated (1969)

Bandolero! (1968)

Man from Del Rio (1956)

A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

The Killer Is Loose (1956)

The Proud Ones (1956)

White Feather (1955)

Gorilla at Large (1954)

Princess of the Nile (1954)

Prince Valiant (1954)

The Raid (1954)

The Desert Rats (1953)

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Man in the Attic (1953)

Lure of the Wilderness (1952)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Frogmen (1951)

Assistant to the prod

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Man from Del Rio (1956)

Producer (Special)

More Wild Wild West (1980)

State Fair (1976)

Three Coins in the Fountain (1970)

Life Events

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Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You've Concealed It Wonderfully Gobbling up more Tucson scenery, Virginia Leith as Ellen, wealthy sister of Dorothy (Joanne Woodward), whose murder has been officially ruled a suicide, receives a memento, then a phone call (from Bud, Robert Wagner, who committed the murder, and who is apparently now dating her!), then clashes with her cruel father (George MacReady), in A Kiss Before Dying, 1956.

Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Your Diabolic Spell Shooting on location near the Guadalupe Peak Trail outside Tucson, Virginia Leith as heiress Ellen is now totally ensnared by Robert Wagner as Bud, who now has not only sold his murder of her sister as a suicide, but also now killed the guy he set up for having driven her to it, in the byzantine A Kiss Before Dying, 1956, from an Ira Levin novel.

Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) He Knew I Was Lying Following the credits and almost all in one take (by career A-D Gerd Oswald in his first outing as a director) college man Bud (Robert Wagner) has a slippery attitude already in place as well-to-do townie girlfriend Dorothy (Joanne Woodward) tells him she's pregnant, in A Kiss Before Dying, 1956.

Kiss Before Dying, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Always The Girls' Fault Shiftless B-M-O-C Bud (Robert Wagner) meets pregnant girlfriend, whom he calls "Doree" (Joanne Woodward), who wants to set a wedding date, still playing it cagey, and maybe taking a stab at accidentally killing her (?), early in A Kiss Before Dying, 1956, from the Ira Levin novel.

Man On A Tightrope (1953) -- (Movie Clip) There'll Be Plenty Of Charges Notable in that director Elia Kazan had recently surrendered names of Communist Party members to congress, and actor Adolphe Menjou was one of Hollywood’s leading anti-Communists, here playing a Czechoslovak propaganda officer, collared by a superior (Philip Kenneally) for going soft on a wayward circus troupe, in Man On A Tightrope, 1953.

Man On A Tightrope (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Czechoslovakia, 1952 Opening with noise and some scale, shooting on location in Bavaria, Germany, director Elia Kazan introduces leading man Fredric March as circus boss Cernik, Gloria Grahame his wife, Paul Hartman his aide, Terry Moore his daughter, Cameron Mitchell her friend, in the feature Kazan made after Viva Zapata! but before On The Waterfront, Man On A Tightrope, 1953.

Man On A Tightrope (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Show Your Teeth! Ever-interesting work by director Elia Kazan, Gloria Grahame as the maybe-straying circus manager’s wife Zama, determined to flirt with the worried lion tamer (Alex D’Arcy), then another relationship emphasizing idyllic Bavarian locations, with the manager’s daughter Terry Moore and boyfriend Cameron Mitchell, in Man On A Tightrope, 1953.

Man On A Tightrope (1953) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Considered Amusing? Summoned by officials of the communist Czechoslovak government, circus manager Cernik (Fredric March) explains to interrogator John Dehner about his staff, and his difficulty in presenting politically skewed skits, with propagandist Adolphe Menjou listening, in Elia Kazan’s Man On A Tightrope, 1953.

Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) The Pick Of Hitler's Troops Michael Rennie reads for the bang-up opening of Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953, 20th Century Fox's follow up to The Desert Fox, 1951, which some found overly sympathetic to the German cause.

Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) That Fantastic Idiot! Big action sequence, as MacRoberts (Richard Burton) and Smith (Chips Rafferty) curse Carstairs (Charles Tingwell) for rescuing Currie (Michael Pate), leading to heroism and trouble in North Africa, 1941, in Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953.

Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Tight As A Tick Veteran British infantry captain MacRoberts (Richard Burton, his first scene) is awakened and placed in command of a disheveled Australian unit, meeting an old friend (Robert Newton), North Africa, 1941, in The Desert Rats, 1953.

Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Grave Mistake, Sir One of two scenes for James Mason as Field Marshal Rommel (Reprising his role from The Desert Fox, 1951), happening upon captured British infantry officer MacRoberts (Richard Burton) in the medical tent, in Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953.

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