David Susskind Movies

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

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

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...

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

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...

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians,...

Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the...

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...

Unsold pilot for Carol Lawrence's talk show

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...

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.

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

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

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.

A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles...

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...