Rescher's first motion picture was Elia Kazan's acclaimed 1957 drama A Face in the Crowd. His subsequent film credits included 1960's Murder, Inc. (with Seymour Cassel), 1968's Rachel, Rachel, 1969's John and Mary, 1971's A New Leaf (with Graham Jarvis), and 1974's Claudine. He worked on his first made-for-TV movie, The Third Girl from the Left, in 1973, after which he rarely worked on features again.