List of the best Fielder Cook movies: A Big Hand for the Little Lady(1966), Home Is the Hero(1959), How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life(1968), Seize the Day(1986), Prudence and the Pill(1968), Miles to Go Before I Sleep(1974), Miracle on 34th Street(1973), The Homecoming: A Christmas Story(1971) ... ...
Comedy, Western
USA
1966
95 Minutes
Director
Henry Fonda Joanne Woodward Jason Robards Charles Bickford Burgess Meredith Kevin McCarthy Robert Middleton Paul Ford John Qualen James Kenny Alan Collins
lawyer mortician rancher husband wife banker lighthearted thrilling wild west laredo, texas saloon bank ranch gambling family transformation 19th century
Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.
Drama
Ireland
1959
83 Minutes
Director
Walter Macken Eileen Crowe Arthur Kennedy Joan O'Hara Maire O'Donnell Harry Brogan
A man returns to his Irish town after being in jail for five years for murder. His friends try to help him fit in again, but he refuses and secludes himself from the world. Only a pretty girl and his crippled son can still reach him.
Comedy
USA
1968
102 Minutes
Director
Dean Martin Stella Stevens Eli Wallach Anne Jackson Betty Field Jack Albertson Katharine Bard Woodrow Parfrey Alan Oppenheimer Shelley Morrison George Furth
womanizer wife mistress secretary lighthearted amusing playful new york city romance adultery friendship deception love pursuit 1960s
When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he finds himself with romantic problems as well.
Drama
USA
1986
93 Minutes
Director
Robin Williams Richard B. Shull David Bickford Glenne Headly Stephen Strimpell Joseph Wiseman Jayne Heller Katherine Borowitz John Fiedler William Duell
salesman wife father doctor endearing sad brooding melodramatic new york city street loss relationships failing career divorce fall underdog 1950s
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
Comedy
UK
1968
92 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr Ronald Neame David Niven Robert Coote Irina Demick Joyce Redman Judy Geeson Keith Michell
The conflicting and comical attempts by a wealthy London banker and his mistress, together with four other couples, to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptive pills.
Drama
1974
78 Minutes
Director
Martin Balsam Mackenzie Phillips Kitty Winn Pamelyn Ferdin Dorothy Meyer Elizabeth Wilson Florida Friebus Susan Lynn Matthews Wendy Wright-Hay Alma Collins Lillian Randolph
A retired widower (Martin Balsam) offers friendship and guidance to a wayward teenage girl (Mackenzie Phillips) in Boston.
Comedy, Other, Drama
1973
100 Minutes
Director
Jane Alexander Sebastian Cabot David Hartman Roddy McDowall Suzanne Davidson Jim Backus Tom Bosley David Doyle James Gregory Roland Winters Liam Dunn
single mother kris kringle attorney psychiatrist young girl judge amusing charming melodramatic tense department store parade courtroom faith christmas santa claus mother/daughter relationship court battles discovery rivalry
A department-store Santa (Sebastian Cabot) goes to court with a lawyer (David Hartman) to prove he is the real thing.
Other, Drama
1971
100 Minutes
Director
Patricia Neal Richard Thomas Edgar Bergen Ellen Corby Cleavon Little Dorothy Stickney William Windom Andrew Duggan Woodrow Parfrey Judy Norton Mary Elizabeth McDonough
father mother hillbilly grandfather son endearing heartwarming touching countryside household virginia mountain christmas family poverty father/son relationship growing up sacrifice love 1930s
Olivia (Patricia Neal), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) and the rest of the Waltons spend Christmas Eve 1933 anxiously awaiting the safe return of dad.