Movies: Walter Matthau

A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni....

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin....

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clas...

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties....

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking....

A bored housewife poses as a call girl for a movie star sex-symbol, hoping she can prove to her husband, the star's agent, that she is still desirable to other men and thereby, rekindle the spark in their marriage....

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder...

Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein....

A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers....

An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career....

An evening of Christmas music from stars living in Beverly Hills, California....

A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of an atomic bomb that fell on New York City....

Jack Benny's 1968 TV specials features topical references including a parody of The Graduate....

Carol Channing hosts musical variety special with guests Walter Matthau, George Burns, U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chorale, The Association, Eddy Arnold....

Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter Matthau in what is probably the actor’s finest dramatic role, airshow pilot turned crop duster turned bank robber...

A documentary hosted by Walter Matthau, which discussed and showed examples from cinematic comedy classics. Long portions of the documentary were devoted to the comedy teams of Abbot & Costello and Laurel & Hardy, and to the films of director Ernst L...