Alan K. Rode

Irving Rapper is, in many ways, Hollywood's forgotten man. After getting his start as a "dialogue director" at Warner Bros. in the mid 30's, he became synonymous with the studio's "women's pictures" and rose in prominence as one of Bette Davis's most consistent collaborators, including on her biggest commercial success, Now Voyager (1942). He was a rebel who led the studio in suspensions for chronically refusing to direct the scripts handed to him by the brass, waiting instead for material that better suited his interests and thematic preoccupations. He was also one in a secretive fraternity of gay directors who had to conceal their identities and shield their private lives from potential public ruination. Daniel Kremer takes you through an unexamined and misunderstood life of a man of great artistic inclination who expressed his innermost yearnings covertly through his work in motion pictures.

A documentary by Steven C. Smith and Eddie Muller exploring the life and work of author Cornell Woolrich.

Steven C. Smith and Alan K. Rode’s documentary about director John Reinhardt.

A documentary by Steven C. Smith and Alan K. Rode featuring interviews with Chris Wrather and Gretchen (Castle) Bernfeld.

A history of the Eagle-Lion Studio.

In it, film noir expert Alan K. Rode and critic Constantine Nasr offer an enthusiastic but very fair assessment of Douglas' career and personal life as well as some of the big films he made that are now considered timeless classics. The program was produced exclusive for Via Vision Entertainment.

An all-new documentary about filmmaker Anthony Mann and his time making films for Universal Studios in the 1950's.

Film noir expert Eddie Muller and others discuss the classic film Trapped.

Behind the scenes of "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950)

Documentary about the use of 3-D technology in Inferno (1953) and the advent of CinemaScope, in 1953 in the film The Robe (1953).