Bert Lytell as Self - Host
Episodes 267
Dinner at Eight
Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor--and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.
Read MoreRebecca
Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.
Read MoreCounsellor-at-Law
An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.
Read MoreAngel in the Wings
An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.
Read MoreStreet Scene
Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.
Read MoreThis Thing Called Love
A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.
Read MoreCamille
Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a ""respectable"" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.
Read MoreAn Inspector Calls
When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.
Read MoreI Like It Here
Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.
Read MoreSuspect
20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancée's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.
Read MoreParlor Story
An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife.
Read MoreA Christmas Carol
The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Read MoreThe Old Lady Shows Her Medals
The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited for tea - are discussing the tactics of trench warfare with the confidence of people who have never been near the Front.
Read MoreRamshackle Inn
An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and gets what she bargains for.
Read MoreCyrano de Bergerac
The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, wooed by the beauty of the words, falls in love with Christian, not realizing that it is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her passion.
Read MorePapa Is All
Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.
Read MorePride and Prejudice
The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.
Read MoreDark Hammock
In a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an ingenious though slow murder by poison. She has succeeded in making it seem that Marvin is dying through natural causes. However, she is forced unexpectedly to play hostess to two women who have come to Florida. The women stay longer than they planned because they have begun to suspect what Coral is up to. In a series of exciting scenes they discover just what is going on and prevent Marvin's death.
Read MoreThe Late Christopher Bean
Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of the greatest paintings, which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood the artist -- besides, she had been married to him!
Read MoreThe Story of Mary Surratt
After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would ultimately lead to her inglorious place in history - John Wilkes Booth.
Read MoreTwelfth Night
Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her.
Read MoreSt. Helena
On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mistress all this begins to weigh heavy on him as he continues to be haunted by spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire. Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared in the sky.
Read MoreThe Druid Circle
An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl. The professor uses this to humiliate the young people, unconsciously venting upon them his own perverse cruelty for the disappointment suffered in his own life.
Read MoreQuality Street
Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years, Phoebe desperately wants to rekindle his affections.
Read MoreDinner at Antoine's
The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.
Read MoreBecky Sharp
A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.
Read MoreAnd Never Been Kissed
A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.
Read MoreWhat Makes Sammy Run?
The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.
Read MoreMr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies
Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.
Read MoreRomeo and Juliet
Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.
Read MoreThis Time, Next Year
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.
Read MoreIt Pays to Advertise
With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.
Read MoreSummer Formal
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.
Read MoreJenny Kissed Me
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The priest makes clumsy endeavours to make Jenny attractive to the boys.
Read MoreDark of the Moon
A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.
Read MoreFor Love or Money
A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.
Read MoreThe Five Lives of Richard Gordon
Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot water.
Read MoreYou Touched Me!
The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest daughter's hand in marriage. Everyone believes it's an attempt to secure an inheritance.
Read MoreThe Fourth Wall
The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.
Read MoreEnter Madame
A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.
Read MoreA Murder Has Been Arranged
A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.
Read MorePretty Little Parlor
A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.
Read MoreThree Cornered Moon
Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.
Read MoreWhat Every Woman Knows
A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.
Read MorePride's Castle
Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.
Read MoreThe Little Sister
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
Read MoreThe Lonely
An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.
Read MoreThe Queen Bee
A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
Read MoreSomething's Got to Give
A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.
Read MoreThe Last Tycoon
A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.
Read MoreBecause of the Lockwoods
The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.
Read MoreDamion's Daughter
A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.
Read MoreThe House of Seven Gables
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.
Read MoreThe Promise
A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
Read MoreMedical Meeting
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The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.
Read MoreMist on the Waters
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
Read MoreThe Beautiful Bequest
The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.
Read MoreThe Strange Christmas Dinner
A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.
Read MoreIn Beauty Like the Night
A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.
Read MoreLittle Boy Lost
An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.
Read MoreBethel Merriday
A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
Read MoreMurder at the Stork Club
A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
Read MoreThe Marriages
In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.
Read MoreUncle Dynamite
Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.
Read MoreThe Sudden Guest
A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.
Read MoreAnn Rutledge
The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed
away at age 22 of typhoid fever.
Read MoreA Letter to Mr. Priest
An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.
Read MoreHometown
Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.
Read MoreThe Life of Vincent Van Gogh
The tragic life story of the tormented artist.
Read MoreThe Uncertain Molly Collicutt
A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.
Read MoreThe Trial of Steven Kent
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
Read MoreThe Second Oldest Profession
An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.
Read MoreNocturne
In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged: Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.
Read MoreDirty Eddie
Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.
Read MoreThe End is Known
A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.
Read MoreThe Man in the Black Hat
A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.
Read MoreThe American
An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.
Read MoreBrat Farrar
Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.
Read MoreThe Charmed Circle
A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.
Read MoreSemmelweis
Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.
Read MoreSense and Sensibility
Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.
Read MoreThe Bump on Brannigan's Head
A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.
Read MoreAnything Can Happen
A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.
Read MoreHear My Heart Speak
A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.
Read MoreThe Reluctant Landlord
Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.
Read MoreThe Tentacles
A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.
Read MoreHigh Tor
Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.
Read MoreThe Long Run
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Dear Guest and Ghost
A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.
Read MoreThe Touch of a Stranger
A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.
Read MoreThe Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street
Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.
Read MoreA Husband for Mama
The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
Read MorePortrait in Smoke
A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.
Read MoreThe Gambler
A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.
Read MoreThe Power Devil
A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.
Read MoreThe Man Who Got Away With It
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I'm Still Alive
A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.
Read MoreTorch for a Dark Journey
A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.
Read MoreWacky, the Small Boy
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Decoy
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Leaf out of a Book
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The Symbol: Jefferson Davis
Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
Read MoreThe Lost Diplomat
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Confession
The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
Read MoreThe Great Escape
The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.
Read MoreA Matter of Life and Death
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Kitty Doone
A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.
Read MoreLet Them Be Sea Captains
Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.
Read MoreThe Man Who Bought a Town
A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.
Read MoreNo Medals on Pop
A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.
Read MoreThe Dark Corridor
The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.
Read MoreBulletin 120
In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.
Read MoreParnassus on Wheels
In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.
Read MoreRoutine Assignment
A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.
Read MoreHour of Destiny
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The Birth of the Movies
Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.
Read MoreMr. Arcularis
After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.
Read MoreA Secret Island
A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.
Read MoreThe Visitors
A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.
Read MoreJustice and Mr. Pleznik
The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.
Read MoreRescue
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The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.
Read MoreThe Fast Dollar
A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.
Read MoreOperation: Airlift
The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.
Read MoreDr. Hudson's Secret Journal
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
Read MoreCase History
A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.
Read MoreI Want to March
The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".
Read MorePretend I Am A Stranger
The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.
Read MoreTelevision Story
A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.
Read MoreThe Return
An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.
Read MoreEphraim Tutt's Clean Hands
Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm.
Read MoreCome Alive
An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.
Read MoreNight at the Vulcan
When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.
Read MoreThis Time Next Year
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.
Read MoreWomen of Intrigue
In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.
Read MoreThe Wayward Season
A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.
Read MoreBy-Line for Murder
A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.
Read MoreRequiem for a Model A
After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.
Read MoreMarcia Akers
A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".
Read MoreThe Education of a Fullback
A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.
Read MoreA Little Night Music
Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
Read MoreIncident at Golden's Creek
An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
Read MorePerspective
The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
Read MoreThe Sisters
The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
Read MoreWithout Fear or Favor
Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.
Read MoreSegment
During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.
Read MoreTender Age
The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
Read MoreDusty Portrait
A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
Read MoreThe Best Laid Schemes
Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.
Read MoreThe Room Next Door
A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.
Read MoreThe Basket Weaver
The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.
Read MoreWe Were Children
A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.
Read MoreA Cowboy for Chris
A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
Read MoreA Man's Game
A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
Read MoreFlight into Darkness
A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.
Read MoreThe Monument
A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
Read MoreA Letter to Mr. Priest
The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.
Read MoreBratt Farrar
No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.
Read MoreThe Five Fathers of Pepi
A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.
Read MoreThree Sundays
A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.
Read MoreThe Last Hour
A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
Read MoreHoliday Song
The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.
Read MoreThe Thin Air
A young girl's disappearance on the night of her engagement party leads investigators and her fiancee on a long perplexing case that ends in a London pub 24 years later.
Read MoreThe Black Sheep
A reformed playboy has quite a time explaining his escapades to the mother of the girl he decides to marry.
Read MoreUncertain Heritage
The story of a young man struggling against his father's domination after his father has been dead for several years.
Read MoreThe Winter of the Dog
This plot revolves around American troops stationed in China after WWII.
Read MoreParole Chief
The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.
Read MoreTempest of Tick Creek
The story of two brothers and a missing uncle who returns suddenly bringing with him a chest which the brothers assume contains gold. The brothers want their share but so does the uncle's jilted bride and son.
Read MoreMagic Morning
A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.
Read MoreDouble Jeopardy
A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.
Read MorePride's Way
The story from incidents in the life of Benedict Arnold and how Arnold's family suffers by his traitorous acts against his country.
Read MoreTwo for One
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The Reluctant Citizen
A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.
Read MoreMr. Pettengill Here
A dancer becomes so eager for success that her ambition nearly ruins her career.
Read MoreWings on My Feet
DANCE- DANCE- DANCE- The struggle is real for this young dancer.
Read MoreThe Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts "escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. ...
Read MoreThe Gesture
Misaligned plot twists for this lost episode.
Read MoreThe Velvet Mitten
A man becomes entangled with a flighty woman during a convention.
Read MoreA Young Lady of Property
Wilma a 15-year-old girl has dreams of becoming a movie star but after her mother's death she is sent to live with her aunt, her father is too weak and unreliable. She wishes to be back at her home with her father.
Read MoreThe Recluse
Classic definition of a recluse when an older man withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. Withdrawn from the world; due to heavy trauma in his life.
Read MorePrinter's Measure
An old typesetter in a printing works fears the new machinery which will make him redundant - and perhaps render his whole working life pointless.
Read MoreA Little Something in Reserve
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Marty
Marty Pilletti is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better. He has very low self-esteem however and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. At one of those dances he meets ...
Read MoreThe Way of an Eagle
The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.
Read MoreBaby and Me
In a family of eccentrics the five year old daughter stands out for her diva like behavior. Her mother, a retired actress, and her happy go lucky father accept her behavior while her older brother cares only about scouting.
Read MoreExpectant Relations
The struggle of a middle-aged woman who tries to win an inheritance from a rich uncle.
Read MoreThe House in Athens
Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.
Read MoreThe Big Deal
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The Cipher
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Ernie Barger is 50
Ernie Barger has a startling revelation when he turns 50. The discovery that he is no longer needed by anyone sends him over the edge.
Read MoreThe Rainmaker
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
Read MoreHoliday Song
A cantor's faith is renewed.
Read MoreThe Bachelor Party
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
Read MoreThe Girl With the Stopwatch
A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.
Read MoreThe Train to Trouble
A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.
Read MoreUp Above the World So High
A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.
Read MoreThe Sixth Year
A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father
Read MoreThe Midnight Caller
Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.
Read MoreThe Glorification of Al Toolum
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The Hangman in the Fog
An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
Read MoreSmoke Screen
A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
Read MoreA Game of Hide and Seek
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Statute of Limitations
The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.
Read MoreThe Dancers
A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.
Read MoreThe Broken Fist
The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.
Read MoreThe Mother
A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
Read MoreThe King and Mrs. Candle
The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.
Read MoreAnd Crown Thy Good
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
Read MoreThe Shadow of Willie Greer
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
Read MoreAdapt or Die
An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.
Read MoreFriday the Thirteenth
3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.
Read MoreMan Drowning
A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.
Read MoreThe Catamaran
A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.
Read MoreThe Man in the Middle of the Ocean
A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.
Read MoreStar in the Summer Night
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Run Like a Thief
Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.
Read MoreMiddle of the Night
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Read MoreMan on the Mountaintop
Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.
Read MoreTime of Delivery
A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,
Read MoreCrime Without Motive
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
Read MoreBeg, Borrow or Steal
The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.
Read MoreCatch My Boy on Sunday
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
Read MoreRun, Girl, Run
An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.
Read MoreWalk Into the Night
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
Read MoreAnatomy of Fear
A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,
Read MoreA Sense of Justice
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
Read MoreThe Assassin
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
Read MorePlay Me Hearts and Flowers
A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.
Read MoreShadow of the Champ
A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.
Read MoreWatch Me Die
He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.
Read MoreThe Bold and the Brave
The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance in his effort to make him a better student than he was.
Read MoreLetter of Recommendation
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
Read MoreThe Pardon-Me Boy
A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, the son reveals that he held out for the acquittal of the defendant.
Read MoreThe Ghost Writer
The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.
Read MoreTotal Recall
A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.
Read MoreBlack Frost
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
Read MoreIncident in July
Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...
Read MoreThe Death of Billy the Kid
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
Read MoreA Room in Paris
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
Read MoreThe Miss America Story
The Philco Corporation and ABC network televised the first live Miss America broadcast on Saturday September 11, 1954. Twenty seven million viewers from coast to coast shared the thrills of the Boardwalk Hall audience as they watched from their own homes as California's Lee Meriwether captured the title for 1955. Bob Russell was the emcee. For the first time, the pageant also featured it's first "Illuminated Night Parade" down the Boardwalk.
Read MoreThe Outsiders
The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.
Read MoreA Man is Ten Feet Tall
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
Read MoreA Business Proposition
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The Mechanical Heart
A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.
Read MoreOne Mummy Too Many
Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter confusion.
Read MoreThe Trees
A little girl returns from a fresh air camp to her slum district home and brings a sapling with her. The tree is planted in the parking. Ridicule of the family's efforts to keep it alive comes from all sources. Angered, the father sets out to get more trees planted, trouble brews.
Read MoreChristmas 'Til Closing
A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.
Read MoreRise Up and Walk
A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.
Read MoreThis Land is Mine
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The Starlet
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Kyria Katina
The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?
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