2026 Movie Catalog

David Susskind Archive: Howard Hughes The Watergate Connection

Dir: David Susskind

This 2 part 1973 program delves into the various ways that Howard Hughes was tangentiallyand directly involved in many aspects of the Watergate saga. At the time, Hughes was one of the wealthiest men in America and he spread largess all across the political landscape in an attempt to control those to whom he gave and to keephis private business interests out of the light of public scrutiny.

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David Susskind Archive: I Was A Hitman For The Mafia

Dir: David Susskind

It's 1973, and "Joey" the Hitman has just written a book about his career in crime. He boasts that he has murdered thirty five men under contract from the Mafia and three as acts of revenge. This is a candid and disturbing interview by David Susskind with a man who says that a psychiatrist once told him that "he was the coldest man that he ever met".

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The Diary Of Anne Frank

Dir: Alex Segal

The story is based on a stageplay which was in turn based on the actual diary of Anne Frank, whose family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942, sharing a very small space with several others. We watch her grow up in this claustrophobic setting, starting at age 13 and spending more than two years there until the group was discovered.

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