William Saroyan Movies

Two plays by William Saroyan portraying writers stymied, inspired, frustrated, excited, listful, wistful, slothful, awed, unnerved, perhaps corrupted...

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the...

There's a guy sitting behind bars in prison. Through the bars, he keeps yelling: "Hey, somebody!" A girl appears at his shouting... She tells him...

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for...

While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.

Television adaptation of the short stories "Laughter" and "The Man with the Heart in the Highlands" by the American writer William Saroyan.

Tonight we are pleased to present the noted director John Brahm. Mr. Brahm has chosen for this evening a bright and amusing story by the Pulitzer...

A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.

In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger...

Director James Whale's last film, it was supposed to be part of an anthology film but was never released. A down on his luck gambler ends up in jail...

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to...

The fourteen-year-old stubborn and arrogant Haik has a dream: to hunt a pheasant. For a long time he tried to a frazzle out his father's hunting gun...

A sexy waitress becomes a house mother in a fraternity house and involves the college in a nationwide women's lib controversy.

Melik's uncle gives travel advice, specifying whom to engage with and whom to avoid. Melik during his whole trip does the opposite of everything he...

Having left their home country for almost 20 years, a mother, her son and her daughter reminisce of their days in Armenia and reflect on how...

Aram falls unrequitedly in love with his classmate Annie. A beautiful story tells the depth of his feelings.

A five-part biographic series about Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series Omnibus, filmed on location in Hodgenville, Kentucky.