David Raksin Movies

When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her...

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the...

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an...

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry...

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German...

A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

A portrait of the film-composer David Raksin, made for German television. Released in 1994.

A documentary on American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) featuring excerpts from Leger's Ballet Mecanique (1924) for which Antheil wrote the...