Roddy McDowall Movies

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by...

American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the morale of the soldiers in World War II. Hosted...

A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister's behest and makes painful discoveries about himself along the way.

Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his...

Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of the most thrilling scenes the disaster genre has...

Mowgli's Brothers is a 1976 television animated special created by legendary animator Chuck Jones. It is based from the first chapter of Rudyard...

An exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.

Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "12 Angry Men."

Documentary about the making of "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944).

Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded...

A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent...

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Documentary on the career of Lauren Bacall.

Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is profiled in "Crazy About the Movies: Dennis...

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

The majority of Earth's fighter squadron becomes incapacitated after using poisoned food discs. Buck, Wilma and Duke Denton fly to the distant planet...

A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with Shirley Temple, Margaret O'Brien, and numerous...

After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.