Daniel Petrie Movies

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect....

Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of...

In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush....

A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a...

A pitcher of a major-league baseball team finds out that his teammate and pal is desperately trying to hide that he is dying of a terminal disease so...

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for...

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great...

Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their close relationship is threatened when John Macy,...

A dramatization of the relationship between Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating...

Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4...

Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun, Sybil) . Sidney Silchester, a...

A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.

During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly...

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a...

A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains....

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a...

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.