John Korty Movies

The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her...

Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him....

Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her...

The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in this beautifully crafted documentary. A wonderful...

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.

The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the Mafia....

This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the...

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She...

Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was...

A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her...

A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.

A man tries to record a crocodile eating crisp crackers, but he doesn’t hear the cracker sound twice. So he decides to go in the crocodile's...

Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces...

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.