Twilight (1998): Robert Benton’s Neo-Noir Thriller, Starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, James Garner

Robert Benton directed and co-wrote (with Richard Russo) Twilight, a dull neo-noir thriller, starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976): Altman’s Revisionist Western, Starring Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Duvall (*AMOUR)

Robert Altman directed Buffalo Bill and the Indians (aka Sitting Bull’s History Lesson), a revisionist Western film, based on Arthur Kopit’s 1968 play, “Indians.”

Rack, The (1956): Arnold Laven’s Courtroom Drama, Starring Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, and Walter Pidgeon

In "The Rack," Paul Newman gives a strong emotional performance as Edward W. Hall, Jr., a young Army captain charged with collaboration during the Korean War and brought to a court-martial.

 

Until They Sail (1957): Robert Wise’s Middling War Melodrama, Starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman

Paul Newman was reunited with director Robert Wise, who had catapulted him to stardom in “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” for his third MGM loan-out from Warner in the WWII melodrama “Until They Sail.”