Daniel Petrie Movies

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

Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard...

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a...

Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.

Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun, Sybil) . Sidney Silchester, a...

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

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...

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4...

A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains....

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

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