![Dragonwyck [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514HEF27JNL._SL75_.jpg) | Dragonwyck [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
Buy used from: $23.99 **** 1946. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. New-York state, 1844. The last descendant of an old Dutch family marries a farmer girl with the hope that she will give him a son. A gothic drama that already contains some of Mankiewicz's favorite themes.
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 | Somewhere in the Night (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.77 **** 1946. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. An amnesiac tries to find out alone in Los Angeles the man who could reveal him his identity. Another great film noir of the Fox collection."
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 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.49 **** 1947. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Nomination for the 1948 Film Academy award in the Best Cinematography category. A young widow falls in love with the ghost of a seaman. This romantic and sentimental film of the fantasy genre is, like GUYS AND DOLLS, a curiosity in Mankiewicz's filmography.
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 | A Letter to Three Wives
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.83 ***** 1949. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Two Film Academy awards (Best Director and Best Screenplay) and a nomination in the Best Picture category. Addie Ross writes to three women that she's just left town with one of their husbands. Masterpiece.
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 | House of Strangers (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.18 ****1/2 1949. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. NYC in the early 30's. When the government starts to examine how Gino Moretti's familial bank really works, the old Italian born godfather must face three of his four sons who wants to forsake him. First-rate film noir.
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 | No Way Out (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.38 *** 1950. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. One nomination for the Academy awards (screenplay). In this social film noir, a racist hoodlum, played by Richard Widmark, taxes a black doctor with the murder of his wounded brother and Linda Darnell doesn't know where's the truth.
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 | All About Eve
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.39 ***** 1950. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 14 nominations and 6 Academy awards. One of the rare American masterpieces awarded by the Film Academy. 58 years later, this movie still delivers.
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 | People Will Talk
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.55 **** 1951. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A charismatic doctor falls in love with a patient and must defend himself when informers search his past.
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![5 Fingers [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5105BH94WFL._SL75_.jpg) | 5 Fingers [VHS]
Buy used from: $4.25 ***** 1952. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on a true story, the film earned two nominations for the Oscars, one Golden Globe (screenplay) and the 1953 Edgar Allan Poe award. A servant at the British embassy in Ankara delivers top secrets documents to the Germans. Masterpiece.
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 | Julius Caesar
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.73 ****1/2 1953. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Five nominations for the Academy awards but only one win in the Best Art Direction category. An all-star cast with Marlon Brando, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson and Edmond O'Brien. Brando's speech at the Capitol is outstanding.
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 | The Barefoot Contessa
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.98 ***** 1954. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Academy award and Golden Globe earned by Edmond O'Brien. Huge and incredibly intelligent movie featuring an idealistic Spanish dancer lost in Hollywood. Masterpiece.
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 | Guys & Dolls (Widescreen Deluxe Edition)
Buy used from: $4.81 **** 1955. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The antepenultimate Samuel Goldwyn production earned four nominations for the Academy awards and two Golden Globes. Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons are never ridiculous.
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 | The Quiet American
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.54 ****1/2 1958. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Is Audie Murphy a spy or an idealist ? Michael Redgrave doesn't hesitate much when the American starts to court his Vietnamese mistress. Excellent adaptation of the Graham Geene novel.
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 | Suddenly, Last Summer
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.99 ***** 1959. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Three nominations for the Academy Awards and Golden Globe for Elizabeth Taylor. Outstanding screenplay by Tennessee Williams filled with symbols and cymbals. Masterpiece.
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 | Cleopatra
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $12.48 ***** 1963. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Four Academy Awards. First seen on a small TV set, then several times in theaters and finally on DVD. CLEOPATRA is not your usual peplum, it's a geyser of sublime scenes bound to stay in our collective unconscious. Indispensable.
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![The Honey Pot ( Anyone for Venice? ) ( It Comes Up Murder ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518MFA0BJ0L._SL75_.jpg) | The Honey Pot ( Anyone for Venice? ) ( It Comes Up Murder ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
Buy used from: $24.99 ***** 1967. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A firework of wit and unforgettable lines and a lesson of mise-en-scene. Indispensable.
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 | There Was a Crooked Man...
Buy used from: $4.68 ***** 1970. Produced and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. How to transform the screenplay of a western dealing with a daring prison escape into a smart and satiric film about honesty and prison reforms ? Well, just ask Mankiewicz, one of the top directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. An indispensable DVD in the honest man's library.
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 | Sleuth
Buy used from: $39.99 ***** 1972. Written by Anthony Shaffer from his own play and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Earned the 1973 Edgar Allan Poe Award and four nominations for the Academy awards. A murder mystery movie and a sublime film about humiliation. Masterpiece.
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