Abraham Polonsky Movies

While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive...

NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice....

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one...

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market...

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel...

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to...

Based on information from FBI cases, this documentary investigates the dark years of American cinema and attempts to discover the mechanisms leading...

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major...

Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on...

A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her...

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in...

Short documentary about Polonsky and his Hollywood years.

Documentary about American filmmaker Abraham Polonsky.