George Schaefer — Director (12)
One Touch of Venus (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
One Touch of Venus
director: George Schaefer actor: Janet Blair / Russell Nype
While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill's successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.
The Deadly Game (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Deadly Game
director: George Schaefer actor: George Segal / Trevor Howard
other title: Deadly Game / Die Jäger
Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.
Pendulum (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pendulum
other title: ペンダラム / Nacht ohne Zeugen
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Macbeth (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Macbeth
director: George Schaefer actor: 莫里斯·埃文斯 / 朱迪丝·安德森
other title: 麦克白 / "Hallmark Hall of Fame" Macbeth
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
An Enemy of the People (1978) [Movie]
An Enemy of the People
other title: 全民公敌 / 人民公敌
It’s winter in a small southern Norwegian town in the late nineteenth century. After years of struggling, Dr. Thomas Stockmann and his family – his wife Catherine, their young adult daughter Petra, and their two adolescent sons Ejlif and Morten – have returned to town after being away for five years up north, he now well respected and successful as the medical resident of the Health Institute at Kirsten Springs, where he is also a board member. He devised the springs and institute as a center of therapeutic benefits on his own, but developed it with his brother, the town mayor, Peter Stockmann, who is the board chair. They have reinvigorated what was the financially crumbling town. Peter takes credit for giving Thomas this air of respectability, something that has never been important to Thomas, who would rather be seen as a man of conviction in doing the right thing. In this respect, Petra takes after her father.