Studio One (1948)
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Episodes 5
The Angelic Avengers
Two sisters move to a remote village in France to work for a retired English clergyman and his wife. They soon discover that there is an evil that pervades the home and attempt to overcome the evil that faces them.
Read MoreThe Little Black Bag
The story deals with the heroic efforts of nearly 40 years ago of Charles Seymour Whitman, New York County district attorney, to suppress attempts by gambling elements to gain control of city government. Whitman's prosecution of Police Lt. Becker after the officer was found to be implicated in the 1913 assassination of gambling boss Herman Rosenthal.
Read MoreThe Idol of San Vittore
The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!
Read MoreMighty Like A Rogue
A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
Read MoreColonel Judas
A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
Read MoreThey Serve the Muses
A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
Read MoreA Bolt of Lightning
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during The Revolutionary War.
Read MoreThe King in Yellow
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
Read MoreThe Dangerous Years
The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.
Read MoreMutiny on the Nicolette
A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.
Read MoreThe Legend of Jenny Lind
P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
Read MoreThe Innocence of Pastor Muller
The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.
Read MoreSara Crewe
When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.
Read MoreThe Paris Feeling
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
Read MoreThe Devil in Velvet
A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.
Read MoreWaterfront Boss
The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.
Read MoreThe Other Father
Andrew Dynes, suffers from nearly every frustration a male can be expected to harbor. Bullied at his underpaid job, no longer in love with his wife but lacking strength to tell her, Dynes finds solace with a woman 20 years younger.
Read MoreBurden of Guilt
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
Read MoreA Candle for St. Jude
The story of young, talented ballet dancers
Read MoreSuccess Story
Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.
Read MoreLetter from an Unknown Woman
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Read MoreTen Thousand Horses Singing
James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.
Read MoreThe Wings of the Dove
An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
Read MoreThe Vintage Years
A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.
Read MoreMiss Hargreaves
Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
Read MoreThe Story of Meg Mallory
The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.
Read MorePontius Pilate
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
Read MoreHold Back the Night
A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.
Read MoreLily, the Queen of the Movies
Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
Read MoreThe Deep Dark
A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.
Read MoreTreasure Island
The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
Read MoreThey Came to Baghdad
In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.
Read MoreA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln
The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln
Read MoreCaptain-General of the Armies
A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
Read MoreLovers and Friends
A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.
Read MoreInternational Incident
An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.
Read MoreThere Was a Crooked Man
A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered
Read MoreThe Blonde Comes First
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
Read MoreThe Rockingham Tea Set
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.
Read MoreThe Last Thing I Do
An irascible curator of a rare book collection plans the destruction of a rival professor whose research had discredited some of his most cherished theories 20 years before.
Read MoreThe Man They Acquitted
After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
Read MoreOne in a Million
A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.
Read MoreThe Good Companions
A touring concert party named 'The Dinky Doos' are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.
Read MoreStan, the Killer
A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.
Read MoreThe Happy Housewife
The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.
Read MoreThe Shadowy Third
The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.
Read MoreThe Square Peg
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
Read MoreThe Doctor's Wife
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
Read MoreLittle Man, Big World
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
Read MoreThe Great Conspiracy
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
Read MoreThe Love Letter
Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.
Read MoreThe Incredible Mr. Glencannon
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
Read MorePlan For Escape
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
Read MoreThe Formula
An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
Read MoreI Am Jonathan Scrivener
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
Read MoreThe Hospital
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
Read MoreThe Great Lady
A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.
Read MoreThe Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Read MoreYoung Man Adam
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
Read MoreBlack Rain
A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
Read MoreThe Trial of John Peter Zenger
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
Read MoreSignal Thirty-Two
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
Read MoreTo a Moment of Triumph
A young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
Read MoreMark of Cain
A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
Read MoreThe River Garden
The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
Read MoreThe Walsh Girls
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
Read MoreThe Show Piece
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
Read MoreMy Beloved Husband
An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
Read MoreThe Garretson Chronicle
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
Read MoreA Breath of Air
After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
Read MoreThe Edge of Evil
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
Read MoreAt Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
Read MoreShadow of the Devil
Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
Read MoreThe Magic Lantern
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
Read MoreThe Fathers
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
Read MoreAlong Came a Spider
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
Read MoreBirthright
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
Read MoreKing Coffin
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
Read MoreThe Laugh Maker
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
Read MoreFly with the Hawk
A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
Read MoreRendezvous
A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
Read MoreThe Paris Feeling
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
Read MoreBeyond Reason
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
Read MoreEnd of the Honeymoon
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
Read MoreThe Shadow of a Man
After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.
Read MoreThe King in Yellow
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
Read MoreThe Roman Kid
Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.
Read MoreFlowers from a Stranger
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
Read MoreSentence of Death
A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
Read MoreThe Gathering Night
The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
Read MoreLetter from Cairo
The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
Read MoreLook Homeward, Hayseed
A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
Read MoreHound-Dog Man
Twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney wants a dog for Christmas and gives hints when he buys his dad a dog collar for Christmas and his mom a bowl just the right size for dog food.
Read MoreSilent the Song
Opera diva Marcia Vernon loses her voice. Though Mark, her irresponsible husband, and Carol, her secretary, are both devoted to her, they otherwise oppose each other. Marica's surgery and the aftermath bring surprising revelations to all three.
Read MoreMusic and Mrs. Pratt
A wealthy 70-year-old woman believes money can do everything, especially if one has as much as 70 million, the estimated fortune of Jenny Pratt. Piano tuner Jack O'Hara comes to Mrs. Pratt's home to tune her piano and finds himself living in her mansion, seven hours of daily piano practice for a year.
Read MoreLetter of Love
Captain Miles reads the pathetic appeals of his buddy to his young wife back home that she write to him. Miles finds himself hating the unknown woman, until he has the opportunity to meet her and discover the trouble.
Read MoreAnother Caesar
A weak man masquerades as a hero in a Latin American republic.
Read MoreCrime at Blossom's
A double murder has taken place at the cottage of the Merrymans. When they arrive at their cottage, they are bombarded by inquisitive neighbors about what transpired to their former tenants.
Read MoreA Bargain with God
A priest working the Mission Church on Bowdoin Street in Boston is threatened with condemnation. The church is in such disrepair and with no funds to rebuild, the situation is hopeless. The Mission affects the lives of everyone in the neighborhood, even garage mechanic Johnny and his wife Jebby as well as the wealthy Lydia Brunall all come to see Father Ferris.
Read MoreBuffalo Bill is Dead
An old cowboy makes his living riding in a Wild West show and reminisces on the days when he fought side-by-side with Buffalo Bill Cody.
Read MoreConfessions of a Nervous Man
The story about how the success of Axelrod's play ""The Seven Year Itch"" affected him
Read MoreAll My Love
A spoiled rich girl matures into a lovely lady when she learns compassion and tenderness from three loves.
Read MoreCinderella '53
A modernized musical of the classic story
Read MoreMaster of the Rose
A small group of people in Belgium try to safeguard a painting of the Nativity from Nazi plundering.
Read MoreThe Runaway
A Brooklyn bus driver drives off to Miami in a city bus and is apprehended by the police.
Read MoreThe Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners
A group of school children perform what appears to be a play, but it progresses into a trial when the school janitor is accused of murder.
Read MoreA Criminal Design
An unemployed writer working as a press agent for an American dress designer in Italy becomes innocently involved in smuggling. [RF]
Read MoreA Favor for a Friend
An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.
Read MoreHerman Came By Bomber
A war orphan is smuggled into the U.S. by a pilot.
Read MoreMan of Extinction
The writer of murder mysteries acts out the crimes before putting them to paper. There's a real plot twist when a dead man turns up in her house.
Read MoreDark Possession
An anonymous letter writer creates fear and havoc in the lives of three sisters.
Read MoreThe Role of a Lover
A former child star disappears during a Broadway play.
Read MoreSide Street
A young married couple live in a New York neighborhood and share a babysitter and maid of all work with another couple. When this paragon of domesticity decides to wed the two husbands are hard put to break up the romance.
Read MoreBeyond a Reasonable Doubt
A writer's undercover assignment backfires when he cannot produce the evidence needed to free himself from jail.
Read MoreThunder on Sycamore Street
Neighbors attempt to run a respected citizen out of town when they learn he is a former convict.
Read MoreThe Expendables
A story about Russian emigrants
Read MorePaul's Apartment
Paul realizes that his beautiful new wife is more interested in his belongings than she is in him.
Read MoreJack Sparling, Forty-Six
A successful businessman's achievements aren't enough as he drives himself for a higher more powerful position.
Read MoreA Handful of Diamonds
When scandal and financial ruin threaten newspaper tycoon Frank Leslie, his wife Miriam uses cunning and imagination to restore her husband's reputation.
Read MoreRomney
A 9-year-old boy and his misunderstanding father come under close scrutiny as the drama delves into the deeper corners of a frightened boy's mind to search out the reasons for his fears. The story unravels a strong mood and mystery which centers around Romney.
Read MoreCardinal Mindszenty
Opposed to communism and Nazi rule during World War II, the Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty was imprisoned as an enemy of the state and sent to prison. During his trial it was revealed that his confession was obtained by torture, hypnosis and drugs.
Read MoreFear Is No Stranger
Two young women are found murdered in a small California town. A district attorney finds himself in a dilemma when he finds his daughter daring the man who is the prime suspect in the homicide case.
Read MoreCastle in Spain
A man and woman meet in town after both had been arguing with their respective spouses back home. They decide to team up and make a big day of it.
Read MoreA Man and Two Gods
A diplomatic attache of a military state is ordered by his government to kill a suspected spy. The government then arrests him for murder. The attache is torn between two "Gods": the decrees of his country and the commandments of God.
Read MoreThe Death and Life of Larry Benson
Larry Benson was reported missing on the battlefield more than three years ago and the entire town is excited about his unexpected homecoming.
Read MoreThe Strike
Major Gaylord recounts an experience during World War II when he was obliged to fire on an American soldier in the dead of night on a Pacific island.
Read MoreA Letter to Mr. Gubbins
A couple start receiving mysterious letters with hints on how to make money. They watch the accuracy of the advice, which is always perfect, then sell everything to follow a "hot tip."
Read MoreFandango at War Bonnet
A man searches for the truth that may save another man's life in a Western showdown.
Read MoreThe Small Door
A reclusive man has troubles with a greedy gas meter man who thinks there is money hidden in the old apartment.
Read MoreA Guest at the Embassy
The case began with the impending marriage in Paris of the American ambassador's daughter to one of his attaches. Suddenly, a young woman appears professing to be the secret love of the attache. The young diplomat sets out to prove that he has never seen the intruder before.
Read MoreHome Again, Home Again
A girl returns to her hometown after failing to find stardom on Broadway. She finds herself growing bitter, avoiding her friends until she meets a drama coach at a nearby University who changes her life around.
Read MoreThe Magic Monday
The story of a typical American family and what happens when the parental generation yields to the typical yen of young folks in moderate circumstances to "get away from it all."
Read MoreThe House of Gair
During a storm in the Scottish moors at the House of Gair, a writer and his rich aunt become involved with a swindler which winds up in an unexpected murder.
Read MoreExperiment Perilous
A young pianist is ill with tuberculosis and is cured physically by a young scientist but the serum she takes causes a distortion of her mind.
Read MoreThe Secret Self
An influential Washington hostess tramples ruthlessly on members of her society set to further the political career of a young lawyer.
Read MoreTwelve Angry Men
A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.
Read MoreThe Education of HYMAN KAPLAN
An irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults wages his personal war with the English language.
Read MorePrelude to Murder
A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.
Read MoreThe Boy Who Changed the World
The life story of the famous inventor
Read MoreFatal in My Fashion
A Paris dressmaker's model is stabbed to death during the showing of new gowns.
Read MoreThe Man Who Owned the Town
An arrogant gambler in Cripple Creek controls the village until a stranger comes along to usurp his powers.
Read MoreAn Almanac of Liberty
When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.
Read MoreLet Me Go, Lover
A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.
Read MoreThe Deserter
After serving seven years in prison for desertion, a bitter soldier tries to start a new life.
Read More12:32 A.M.
A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.
Read MoreTwo Little Minks
A New England Christmas story
Read MoreThe Cuckoo in Spring
A young art dealer visits the home of a miserly connoisseur and discovers a pretty girl as well as some very valuable paintings.
Read MoreThe Missing Men
A young private investigator finds himself trapped by a web of circumstantial evidence and his name linked to that of a homicidal mugger. The tension mounts as he strives to clear himself.
Read MoreGrandma Rolled Her Own
Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.
Read MoreSail with the Tide
A beautiful but icy singer is devoted exclusively to her art and her equally icy French officer who succumbs to her charms.
Read MoreIt Might Happen Tomorrow
A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.
Read MoreThe Silent Women
A sheriff travels to a rural Maine island to investigate the case of a missing young woman. While there, he learns many odd things about the place and it's inhabitants.
Read MoreA Stranger May Die
Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.
Read MoreManhattan Duet
Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.
Read MoreThe Broken Spur
In a shabby western town about 1900, a stranger gets off the train, goes to the sheriff's office, and kills him. His mild-mannered son takes over his position and tries to find the killer and avenge his father's death.
Read MoreThe Eddie Chapman Story
Eddie Chapman was the only Briton to win the Iron Cross in World War II. But was he really working for the Germans? Or was he a highly-placed double-agent?
Read MoreDonovan's Brain
The brain of a billionaire who dies in an accident is kept alive and makes plans for global domination.
Read MoreMillions of Georges
A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.
Read MoreThe Conviction of Peter Shea
The dying words of a young woman, the victim of a hit-and-run driver, point towards stock-broker Peter Shea. He maintains his innocence, even as he's found guilty and sent to prison.
Read MoreMiss Turner's Decision
Spinster Melissa Turner is at a crossroads in life concerning her future. She must decide whether to pursue Forest, sad reclusive acquaintance or prepare for a life alone.
Read MoreCross My Heart
Feeling misunderstood and unwanted by her parents, a girl decides that she must run away.
Read MorePassage of Arms
In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.
Read MoreAffairs of State
Irene is the plain niece of an elder statesman, who comes to Washington to aid her uncle. She seems an ideal match for a bachelor senator up for re-election. But her uncle and husband-to-be don't realize just how ideal she really is!
Read MoreMrs. Brimmer Did It!
Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.
Read MoreSummer Pavilion
In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.
Read MoreA Picture in the Paper
A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.
Read MoreStrange Companion
The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.
Read MorePigeons and People
A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.
Read MoreOperation Home
A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.
Read MoreThe Spongers
An elderly man has lost touch with his son when he receives a surprise visit from his son and his wife who come for a visit. They find that a pair of parasitic drifters have moved in with the old man and are "sponging" off him.
Read MoreThe Incredible World of Horace Ford
Horace Ford longs for his childhood but it was not as idyllic as he remembers it.
Read MoreHeart Song
He used to be a Hollywood bigwig but now Jonah Silver is a casting director at a small studio. A young woman seeking a job pays him a visit.
Read MoreFor the Defense
A young lawyer bucks public opinion in his defense of an accused killer. When the killer suspect escapes while visiting the scene of the crime with the lawyer, life becomes very unpleasant for the defender.
Read MoreThe Day Before the Wedding
A mother announces on the day before her daughter's wedding that she is going to divorce her husband.
Read MoreSane as a Hatter
A man with a Robin Hood complex has a penchant for liquidating people whose lives he considers worthless in order to give their money to more deserving people.
Read MoreA Terrible Day
A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry.
Read MoreThe Tall Dark Stranger
A woman is found strangled in a plush hotel room and sitting dazedly by is an ex-convict who tells police he is guilty. Flashback to ten years before when the man and woman first met and events leading up to the slaying with a tall dark stranger.
Read MoreJulius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Read MoreThe Prince and the Puppet
A pair of puppeteers seek funds for a trailer tour and do a show for a wealthy man's party with unusual results.
Read MoreThe Secret
A young wife invites her rival to dinner and sees that her husband is still interested in the old flame. He takes the woman home and is gone for several hours. In the morning, the woman is found dead in her hallway, the victim of a fall down the stairs that could have been accidental or could have been murder.
Read MoreThe Voysey Inheritance
In the early 1900s, a man who is about to take over the family investment firm finds that his father has played fast and loose with some of his clients' money.
Read MoreA Chance at Love
A store owner in a small Iowa town goes to New York and meets a model. He falls in love with her and tries to figure a way to let the model continue her work and still become his wife.
Read MoreMama's Boy
A family is torn by divided and misplaced loyalties of a possessive mother who controls her two sons.
Read MoreLike Father, Like Son
An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
Read MoreThree Empty Rooms
Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.
Read MoreA Likely Story
A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.
Read MoreUncle Ed and Circumstances
Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""
Read MoreA Most Contagious Game
In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
Read MorePrivate History
A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.
Read MoreSplit Level
Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.
Read MoreShakedown Cruise
A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.
Read MoreThe Judge and the Hangman
In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.
Read MoreThe Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
Read MoreBlow Up at Cortland
The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.
Read MoreThe Strongbox
After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?
Read MoreMiracle at Potter's Farm
Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.
Read MoreFair Play
A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.
Read MoreThe Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
Read MoreJohnny August
Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.
Read MoreA Public Figure
A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.
Read MoreMy Son Johnny
A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.
Read MoreThe Silent Gun
A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.
Read MoreCircle of Guilt
A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
Read MoreAlways Welcome
A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.
Read MoreA Favor for Sam
A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.
Read MoreFlower of Pride
A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.
Read MoreThe Laughter of Giants
A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.
Read MoreThe Tale of St. Emergency
An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.
Read MoreThis Will Do Nicely
A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.
Read MoreThe Arena
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
Read MoreRegarding File Number 4356
A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.
Read MoreThe Drop of a Hat
The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?
Read MoreThe Genie of Sutton Place
In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.
Read MoreThe Star-Spangled Soldier
A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.
Read MoreFamily Protection
A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.
Read MoreSnap Your Fingers
A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.
Read MoreMr. Arcularis
While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.
Read MoreThe Luck of Luke McTigger
Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!
Read MoreSong for a Summer Night
A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.
Read MoreAn Incident of Love
A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.
Read MoreThe Ballad of Yermo Red
Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.
Read MoreSomething Ventured
A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.
Read MoreA Day Before Battle
On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.
Read MoreCauliflower Heart
A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.
Read MoreDark Morning
A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.
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