Joseph Manduke

Directing

Joseph Manduke

Born — Died

1928-03-07 — 2020-03-01

Place of birth

New York, New York, U.S

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

A New Leaf poster
7.3

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

A New Leaf

1971

Alice's Restaurant poster
6.2

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.

Alice's Restaurant

1969

Cornbread, Earl and Me poster
6.8

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

Cornbread, Earl and Me

1975

Omega Syndrome poster
4.8

An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.

Omega Syndrome

1986

Firehouse poster
5.0

Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974.

Firehouse

1973

Kid Vengeance poster
5.4

Tom, a teenager, teams with a black gunfighter named Isaac to avenge his family.

Kid Vengeance

1976

Behind the camera

A New Leaf poster
7.3

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

A New Leaf

1971

Alice's Restaurant poster
6.2

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.

Alice's Restaurant

1969

Cornbread, Earl and Me poster
6.8

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

Cornbread, Earl and Me

1975

Omega Syndrome poster
4.8

An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.

Omega Syndrome

1986

Firehouse poster
5.0

Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974.

Firehouse

1973

Kid Vengeance poster
5.4

Tom, a teenager, teams with a black gunfighter named Isaac to avenge his family.

Kid Vengeance

1976

Hard Day at Blue Nose poster
NR

Backwoods officers try to uncover clues about the mysterious death of a young woman at a dude ranch.

Hard Day at Blue Nose

1974

Are You My Mother? poster
NR

Teenage girl is stunned to discover that her mother is not deceased, but mentally ill living in an institution.

Are You My Mother?

1986

The Gumshoe Kid poster
4.0

Originally bound for Harvard, Jeff joins the family detective business to save his mother and sister from eviction. He learns the ropes quickly when a gangster hires him to find out if his bombshell fiancee is two-timing him. Shadowing her every movement - and eyeing her every curve - Jeff lands in real hot water, not to mention a hot shower, when thugs kidnap her lover and try to get him. Now they're both on the run - from the mob, from the police (who might be working with the mob), and from his mother (who might pose the biggest danger of them all)!

The Gumshoe Kid

1990

The Gumshoe Kid poster
4.0

Originally bound for Harvard, Jeff joins the family detective business to save his mother and sister from eviction. He learns the ropes quickly when a gangster hires him to find out if his bombshell fiancee is two-timing him. Shadowing her every movement - and eyeing her every curve - Jeff lands in real hot water, not to mention a hot shower, when thugs kidnap her lover and try to get him. Now they're both on the run - from the mob, from the police (who might be working with the mob), and from his mother (who might pose the biggest danger of them all)!

The Gumshoe Kid

1990

Jump poster
9.0

A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.

Jump

1971

Murder and the Computer poster
NR

After coming under suspicion for a computer technician's murder, six hackers team up to try to find the real killer.

Murder and the Computer

1973

No artwork available
6.5

Four guys who look and sound moderately like the Beatles play a plethora of Lennon/McCartney classics, while footage of memorable sixties events flashes by.

Beatlemania

1981

No artwork available
9.0

A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.

Nicky's World

1974

Rockets' Red Glare poster
4.0

The story of a Vietnam vet forced into the dark world of the Mob in order to support his handicapped brother.

Rockets' Red Glare

2002

Rockets' Red Glare poster
4.0

The story of a Vietnam vet forced into the dark world of the Mob in order to support his handicapped brother.

Rockets' Red Glare

2002