The Men Who Made the Movies Raoul Walsh (1973)

In 1972 and 73 film critic Richard Schickel made an 8part series for American public television The Men Who Made the Movies Each episode featured a prominent Hollywood director discussing his career in an oncamera monologue actually an interview with Schickels questions edited out interspersed with generous clips from his most famous films accompanied by somewhat overwrought narration written by Schickel and spoken by Cliff Robertson Its regrettable that Schickel did not include Fritz Lang William Wyler and John Ford in this series all three were alive at the time although Ford was quite ill