Movies by Robert Mulligan
As a director:
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Woman in Love / Ice from Space (2008)
Cast: Paul Newman, Arnold Moss, Gaby Rodgers …
Directed by: Don Medford, Robert Mulligan
A few years before he became a big-screen icon, Paul Newman appeared in these episodes from the early-1950s TV series "Tales of Tomorrow" and "Suspense." In "Ice from Space," the American…
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Set in 1950s Louisiana, this coming-of-age drama follows a 14-year-old tomboy as she tries to cope with her budding sensuality and a rivalry with her older sister. Trouble begins to brew when…
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Clara's Heart (1988)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Kathleen Quinlan …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
While vacationing in Jamaica to get over her baby daughter's death, Leona Hart (Kathleen Quinlan) strikes up a friendship with perceptive maid Clara Mayfield (Whoopi Goldberg). Soon, she…
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Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Cast: Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
A mischievous ghost tries to stop his widow from marrying a stuffy bore in this supernatural comedy. Widowed three years, Kay (Sally Field) still misses her Broadway choreographer husband,…
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Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Cast: Alan Alda, Ellen Burstyn, Ivan Bonar …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Although they're married to other people, accountant George and housewife Doris engage in a 25-year affair, meeting only once a year for a romantic weekend together. The otherwise…
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The Other (1972)
Cast: John Ritter, Uta Hagen, Lou Frizzell …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Set in bucolic 1935 Connecticut, director Robert Mulligan's chiller follows identical Perry twins Niles (Chris Udvarnoky) and Holland (Martin Udvarnoky) as a string of tragedies befalls…
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Summer of '42 (1971)
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
This quiet coming-of-age movie features a pitch-perfect mood of nostalgia and a haunting score. Teenaged Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his friends Oscy and Benjie are spending the summer of 1942…
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The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
William (Michael Sarrazin) is a young man frustrated by the suffocating normalcy of life. His patience with authority finally begins to disintegrate when he pleads guilty to manslaughter…
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
In Arizona, ex-cavalryman Sam Varner (Gregory Peck) meets Sarah (Eva Marie Saint), a white woman recently rescued from the Apaches, and her 9-year-old son. After learning the boy is wanted by…
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Cast: Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Sandy Dennis stars as Sylvia Barrett, a green but idealistic young teacher who takes a job at a tough inner-city high school. Troubled by the apathy of both her students and fellow teachers,…
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Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Cast: Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Faithful wife Georgette (Lee Remick) arrives in Texas to join her shiftless, no-good husband, Henry (Steve McQueen), who's just been paroled from the state penitentiary. Henry hopes for…
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Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
When teenager Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) rises from beach-dwelling obscurity to Hollywood celebrity overnight, she quickly discovers that the glitter of 1930s-era Tinseltown hides a dark…
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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
A Catholic salesgirl discovers she's pregnant after a one-night stand with a womanizing musician. As the two strangers spend the day trying to find a doctor to perform an abortion, they…
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Southern comforts abound in this big-screen adaptation of Harper Lee's novel as lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck, in an Oscar-winning role) defends an innocent black man (Brock Peters)…
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The Spiral Road (1962)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
An opportunistic MD (Rock Hudson) travels to the jungles of Indonesia to work with a legendary humanist doctor (Burl Ives) who's been doing groundbreaking work with lepers. Unlike the…
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Come September (1961)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Millionaire Robert Talbot arrives at his posh Italian villa for a vacation, but there are a few unwelcome surprises in store for him. The villa's manager has rented the place out as a…
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The Rat Race (1960)
Cast: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Oakie …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
When Midwesterner Pete Hammond Jr. (Tony Curtis) moves to New York to become a jazz musician, he discovers that the big city is treacherous, although his tentative friendship with forlorn…
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Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
This absorbing biopic stars Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, whose talents on the baseball diamond take him to the Major Leagues as a Red Sox outfielder -- and whose desire to please his…
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Peer Gynt / Suspicion / Of Human Bondage (1941)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Betty Hanisee, Lucielle Powell …
Directed by: Paul Nickell, Robert Mulligan, David Bradley …
Witness the powerful performances that launched Charlton Heston's impressive acting career. In addition to the thrilling "Suspicion" (an episode from the TV series "Suspense"), Heston…