George Axelrod

The Manchurian Candidate -- In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

How to Murder Your Wife -- A successful syndicated cartoonist (who acts out the adventures he later infuses into his cartoon-strip character, 'Bash Brannigan, Secret Agent') is dedicated to living the bachelor life, complete with a devoted English butler-valet-confidante. Until he awakens one morning after a wild stag party, only to discover that he married the sexy, sensual Italian beauty who popped out of the cake and barely speaks English. What's more...she doesn't believe in divorce. Now, how does the ultimate bachelor get rid of her? With the perfect murder scheme, of course!

Goodbye Charlie begins with a humorous opening sequence, in which Charles Sorel is an inveterate philanderer practicing his wily crafts on women aboard an ocean liner. He is found out by a jealous husband and shot dead, falling overboard into the sea. Through a celestial fluke, Charles' soul enters the well-rounded body of a woman who renames herself Charlie. In this form, Charlie seeks to settle old scores with her murderer as well as several other enemies. As if these complications aren't enough, Charlie's best friend, George Tracy, falls in love with Charlie, knowing full well that she isn't really who she claims to be.

An ad man and a famous Hollywood actress must pretend to be a couple as part of an advertising campaign in this classic satire.

Academy Award-winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, along with Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber, mesmerize a whole new generation of audiences in Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme’s "The Manchurian Candidate." As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it - a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself.

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

This remake of the 1962 film, adapted from the 1959 novel of the same name, tells the story of a veteran who begins to unravel an unfathomable truth - that in the midst of the first Gulf War, soldiers were kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

A successful syndicated cartoonist (who acts out the adventures he later infuses into his cartoon-strip character, "Bash Brannigan, Secret Agent") is dedicated to living the bachelor life, complete with a devoted English butler-valet-confidante...until he awakens one morning after a wild stag party, only to discover that he married the sexy, sensual Italian beauty who popped out of the cake and barely speaks English. What's more...she doesn't believe in divorce. Now, how does the ultimate bachelor get rid of her? With the perfect murder scheme, of course!

William Holden portrays a screenwriter with a script deadline in three days. When he asks secretary Audrey Hepburn to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots. Beautifully shot on location in Paris by famed cinematographer Claude Renoir.

A horny high school student (Roddy McDowall) puts his telepathic powers to good use when he employs them to romance a stuck-up co-ed (Tuesday Weld). What's this Prince Charming's secret? He makes all her dreams come true in this comedy that oscillates between light humor and stuff that's a tad darker. Based on Al Hine's novel lampooning Southern California's youth culture. Like, totally, fer sure!

After impetuously wedding a beauty he just met, a cartoonist fantasizes about getting out of the hasty marriage by plotting his wife's murder in his sketchbook. But will life imitate art when she vanishes and the police show up on his doorstep?