Franklin J. Schaffner Movies

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the...

High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur...

After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.

Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy on a...

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon,...

A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother,...

Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge.

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court...

A woman is accused by a poison-pen letter of murdering her husband.

Major Gaylord grapples with a vexing command in the Korean War. Aired by Studio One in Hollywood, sponsored by Westinghouse.

Charlie, working in the garment industry, refuses to pay the protection money demanded by racketeers. After his father Vito is beaten up Charlie...

Almost everyone who worked with director Franklin J. Schaeffer on the film is interviewed here, including George C. Scott (this piece was done before...

Prim, quiet Jane Eyre finds work as a governess at the house of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Despite his aloofness, this haunted older man stirs up...

Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), The Boys from...

A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.

A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Studio One, Season 2, Episode 34

The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.