Walter Matthau Movies

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

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

A retrospective look at 60 years of great moments in film comedy, from the 1920s to 1982.

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...

Two plays by William Saroyan portraying writers stymied, inspired, frustrated, excited, listful, wistful, slothful, awed, unnerved, perhaps corrupted...

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

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

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.

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.

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

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

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

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...

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

A documentary hosted by Walter Matthau, which discussed and showed examples from cinematic comedy classics. Long portions of the documentary were...