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The Sound of Music (1965)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Georg Hurdalek, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Cast Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
Plot A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
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West Side Story (1961)
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Director Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Writer Ernest Lehman, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins
Cast Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
Plot Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Edmund H. North, Harry Bates
Cast Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Plot An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Director Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Writer Booth Tarkington, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
Cast Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello
Plot The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Haunting (1963)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Nelson Gidding, Shirley Jackson
Cast Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Plot Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
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The Sand Pebbles (1966)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Richard McKenna, Robert Anderson
Cast Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
Plot In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
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The Set-Up (1949)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March
Cast Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Plot Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Run Silent, Run Deep aka Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer John Gay, Edward L. Beach
Cast Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden
Plot A U.S. submarine commander, obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
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The Body Snatcher (1945)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton
Cast Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Plot A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Ernest Lehman, Rocky Graziano, Rowland Barber
Cast Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
Plot Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
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I Want to Live! (1958)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz, Ed Montgomery
Cast Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
Plot A prostitute sentenced to death for murder pleads her innocence.
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Michael Crichton, Nelson Gidding
Cast James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne
Plot Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster
Cast William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Plot When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.
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Born to Kill (1947)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Eve Greene, Richard Macaulay, James Gunn
Cast Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
Plot A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer William P. McGivern, Abraham Polonsky, Nelson Gidding
Cast Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Plot In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
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Executive Suite (1954)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Ernest Lehman, Cameron Hawley
Cast William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson
Plot When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
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Director Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise
Writer DeWitt Bodeen
Cast Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Plot The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
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The Desert Rats (1953)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Richard Murphy
Cast Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Plot Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.
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Blood on the Moon (1948)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Lillie Hayward, Harold Shumate, Luke Short
Cast Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Plot Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.
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The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Elick Moll, Frank Partos, Dana Lyon
Cast Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan
Plot Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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Two for the Seesaw (1962)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer William Gibson, Isobel Lennart
Cast Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan
Plot Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD.
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Star! (1968)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer William Fairchild
Cast Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig
Plot A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.
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Helen of Troy (1956)
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Director Robert Wise, Raoul Walsh
Writer John Twist, Hugh Gray, N. Richard Nash
Cast Stanley Baker, Rossana Podesta, Brigitte Bardot
Plot The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.
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The Hindenburg (1975)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Richard Levinson, William Link, Michael M. Mooney
Cast George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton
Plot A chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
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Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Michael Blankfort, Jack Schaefer
Cast James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally
Plot With no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.
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Audrey Rose (1977)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Frank De Felitta
Cast Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck
Plot A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.
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Until They Sail (1957)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Robert Anderson, James A. Michener
Cast Jean Simmons, Paul Newman, Joan Fontaine
Plot During WWII, unmarried New Zealand women meet and marry American soldiers who are fighting in the Pacific theater.
