"Baby Doll" (1956) had Malden playing a man frustrated by a teenaged wife. The film was condemned by the Legion of Decency and did not air long. He starred in dozens of films from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, such as "Fear Strikes Out" and "Time Limit" (both 1957). The latter picture was Malden's only directing credit of a film, but when Delmer Daves was taken ill during the shooting of "The Hanging Tree" (1959), Malden took over direction of the movie for two weeks — "Pollyanna" (1960), "Birdman of Alcatraz","Gypsy", "How the West Was Won" (all 1962), "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), and "Patton" (1970), playing General Omar Bradley.