Daniel Petrie Movies

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately...

A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British...

A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting...

Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many...

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a...

A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.

A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.

An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to...

A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a...

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a...

The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.

A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.