Studio One(1948–1958)

Kyra Zelas

Kyra Zelas is a very unusual girl, the doctor diagnoses her as being in the final stages of tuberculosis, when young Dr. Scott gives her an untested injection which miraculously heals her, leaving everyone surprised.

The Rival Dummy

The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy

The Outward Room

A mentally disturbed woman tries to lead a normal life.

Mrs. Moonlight

A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.

The Light That Failed

A war artist, Dick Helder, follows the British army into battle and experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.

The Storm

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

Battleship Bismarck

Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.

Concerning a Woman of Sin

A literary agent seeks to represent the author of a sensational new screenplay and is surprised to find out that the author is only nine years old.

The Husband

A woman fears her late husband Connor has returned to haunt her.

Two Sharp Knives

A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.

Of Human Bondage

Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.

At Mrs. Beam's

At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.

Henry IV

A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.

Jane Eyre

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Mary Poppins

A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.

The Inner Light

An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.

Riviera

Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.

Beyond Reason

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

Give Us Our Dream

A widow named Mrs. Marsan lives in an apartment complex and pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. She is happiest when unsuspecting lovers argue and she can focus her opera glasses on them. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity.

The Rockingham Tea Set

A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.

Father and the Angels

The story of a minister whose church is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery and who desires to build a new house of worship in a better place.

The Loud Red Patrick

A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.

Flowers from a Stranger

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

The Wisdom Tooth

A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.

The Willow Cabin

An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.

The Dreams of Jasper Hornby

A wounded robber hands his loot to Jasper Hornby before dying. The rest of his gang begins a door-to-door search for the money.

The Dusty Godmother

A reporter for a major newspaper and his wife divorce. The court awards custody of their child to the wife.

The Survivors

Peter Decker returns from the American Civil War with a grudge against his neighbor, an army brigade troop leader. The showdown takes place according to the rules of the Wild West, where guns settled all conflicts but those rules are slowly being replace by civilization, and the rule of law.

Passenger to Bali

A freighter captain agrees to take on an innocent looking passenger who proves to be a fountain of evil and impossible to get rid of.

The Scarlet Letter

Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.

Walk the Dark Streets

Janice Morel is an aging actress who works in a run-down nightclub. One night she's discovered naked in her hotel room, knifed to death.

Torrents of Spring

A man falls in lust with another, abandoning his beloved Gemma in favor of a fling. Unhappy and unfulfilled with his decision he seeks out his beloved Gemma once again.

The Horse's Mouth

Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.

Miracle in the Rain

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

A Wreath of Roses

Camilla feels lonely and insecure that her husband is more interested in painting than spending time with her. Camilla steps into an unlikely affair with Richard Elton, a dangerous liar.

The Ambassadors

A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.

The Room Upstairs

A hard-boiled private eye receives a call from a small-town policeman who suspects an auto accident which involves the daughter of a prominent citizen is connected with the finding of the body of a young girl in the river.

The Man Who Had Influence

The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.

The Taming of the Shrew

A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic

Zone Four

A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."

There Was a Crooked Man

The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.

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.

The 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.

The 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!

Mighty 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.

Colonel 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.

Macbeth

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

They 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.

The Hero

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.

A 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.

The King in Yellow

A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.

The Dangerous Years

The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.

Mutiny 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.

The 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".

The 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.

Sara 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.

The Paris Feeling

In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

The Devil in Velvet

A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.

Waterfront 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.

The 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.

Burden of Guilt

The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters

A Candle for St. Jude

The story of young, talented ballet dancers

Pagoda

The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.

Success Story

Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.

Letter 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.

Ten 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.

The Wings of the Dove

An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.

The Vintage Years

A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.

Miss Hargreaves

Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.

The Story of Meg Mallory

The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.

Pontius Pilate

The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances

Hold Back the Night

A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.

Lily, the Queen of the Movies

Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.

The Deep Dark

A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.

Treasure Island

The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.

They 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.

A 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.

Abraham 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

Captain-General of the Armies

A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.

Lovers 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.

International 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.

There Was a Crooked Man

A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

Jane Eyre

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

The 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.

One 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.

The 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.

Stan, the Killer

A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.

The Happy Housewife

The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.

A Special Announcement

An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.

A Man's World

A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.

The Open Door

When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.

The Crimes of Peter Page

The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.

American Primitive

A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.

The Pilot

This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.

The Landlady's Daughter

When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.

Portrait of a Citizen

Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.

Rachel

Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.

Career

A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.

A Christmas Surprise

A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.

Goodbye Piccadilly

A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.

Love at Fourth Sight

A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.

The Dark Corner

Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.

The Five Dollar Bill

A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.

Dead of Noon

A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.

Tale of the Comet

Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.

A Walk in the Forest

A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.

The Hollywood Complex

When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.

The Defender (Part 1)

A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.

The Defender (Part 2)

A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.

A Child Is Waiting

Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.

Walk Down the Hill

During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.

A Member of the Family

Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.

The Years in Between

A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.

The Playwright and the Stars

A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.

The Rice Sprout Song

A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.

The Traveling Lady

Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.

Eight Feet to Midnight

A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army

The Out-of-Towners

A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.

Babe in the Woods

A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.

The Man Who Wasn't Himself

Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.

The Weston Strain

A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.

The Furlough

A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.

The Mother Bit

A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.

The Staring Match

Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.

The Goodwill Ambassadors

An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.

Death and Taxes

Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.

A Matter of Guilt

A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.

Love Me to Pieces

A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.

In Love with a Stranger

Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis's parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.

The Human Barrier

A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.

My Mother and How She Undid Me

Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.

The Unmentionable Blues

A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.

Rudy

Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.

Guitar

A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.

Zone Four

A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."

Look Homeward, Hayseed

The Kill

Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.

The Square Peg

A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.

The Doctor's Wife

A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.

Little Man, Big World

A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.

The Great Conspiracy

The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.

The 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.

The Incredible Mr. Glencannon

An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.

Plan For Escape

A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.

The 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.

I Am Jonathan Scrivener

The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.

The Hospital

A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

The 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.

The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

Young Man Adam

A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.

Black 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.

The 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.

Signal Thirty-Two

The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.

To 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.

Mark 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.

The 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.

The Walsh Girls

Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.

The Show Piece

An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.

My 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?

The Garretson Chronicle

The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.

A 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.

The 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.

At 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.

Shadow 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.

The Magic Lantern

A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.

The Fathers

An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.

Along Came a Spider

A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.

Birthright

A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.

King Coffin

A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.

The Laugh Maker

Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.

Fly 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.

Rendezvous

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.

Conflict

A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.

The Paris Feeling

In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

Greed

An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.

Beyond Reason

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

End of the Honeymoon

An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.

The 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.

The King in Yellow

A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.

The 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.

Flowers from a Stranger

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

Sentence 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.

The 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.

Letter 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.

Look 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.

1984

An adaptation of the dystopic novel concerning one man's rebellion against a totalitarian society

Hound-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.

Silent 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.

Music 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.

Letter 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.

Another Caesar

A weak man masquerades as a hero in a Latin American republic.

Crime 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.

Camille

A modern dress adaptation of the classic story of a terminally ill prostitute who falls in love with a man of means.

A 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.

Buffalo 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.

Confessions of a Nervous Man

The story about how the success of Axelrod's play ""The Seven Year Itch"" affected him

Dry Run

The heroic story of Captain Robert I. Olsen aboard the Angler, a submarine that rescued 135 people through heavily mined waters.

All My Love

A spoiled rich girl matures into a lovely lady when she learns compassion and tenderness from three loves.

Cinderella '53

A modernized musical of the classic story

Master of the Rose

A small group of people in Belgium try to safeguard a painting of the Nativity from Nazi plundering.

The Runaway

A Brooklyn bus driver drives off to Miami in a city bus and is apprehended by the police.

The 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.

A Criminal Design

An unemployed writer working as a press agent for an American dress designer in Italy becomes innocently involved in smuggling. [RF]

A Favor for a Friend

An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.

Herman Came By Bomber

A war orphan is smuggled into the U.S. by a pilot.

Man 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.

Dark Possession

An anonymous letter writer creates fear and havoc in the lives of three sisters.

The Role of a Lover

A former child star disappears during a Broadway play.

Side 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.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

A writer's undercover assignment backfires when he cannot produce the evidence needed to free himself from jail.

Thunder on Sycamore Street

Neighbors attempt to run a respected citizen out of town when they learn he is a former convict.

The Expendables

A story about Russian emigrants

Paul's Apartment

Paul realizes that his beautiful new wife is more interested in his belongings than she is in him.

Stir Mugs

Parolees in war service decide to escape on the night of V-J Day rather than return home.

Jack Sparling, Forty-Six

A successful businessman's achievements aren't enough as he drives himself for a higher more powerful position.

A 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.

Romney

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.

Cardinal 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.

Fear 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.

Castle 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.

A 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.

The 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.

The 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.

A 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."

Fandango at War Bonnet

A man searches for the truth that may save another man's life in a Western showdown.

Screwball

Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.

The Small Door

A reclusive man has troubles with a greedy gas meter man who thinks there is money hidden in the old apartment.

A 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.

Home 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.

The Hero

A former Big League pitcher disappears from the fields after one of his pitches fatally injures a player. The pitcher turns gambler but a boy causes him to reform himself.

The 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."

Sue Ellen

A man searches for his missing fiancée following a shipboard romance.

The 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.

Experiment 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.

The Secret Self

An influential Washington hostess tramples ruthlessly on members of her society set to further the political career of a young lawyer.

U.F.O.

An editor of a tiny newspaper with a circulation of eighty tries to put his small town "on the map" with an outrageous story.

The Storm

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

Let Me Do the Talking

A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.

The Medium

Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.

Not So Long Ago

An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.

The Outward Room

A story about psychological breakdown and recovery

Blind Alley

A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.

Holiday

The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.

Julius Caesar

A modern dress adaptation of the classic play

Berkeley Square

When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.

Redemption

Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.

Moment of Truth

Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.

Julius Caesar

A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics

The Glass Key

When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder, a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.

Shadow and Substance

A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.

Flowers from a Stranger

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

The Dybbuk

A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.

Boy Meets Girl

A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.

Smoke

"Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.

June Moon

A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.

Like 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.

Three Empty Rooms

Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.

A Likely Story

A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.

Uncle Ed and Circumstances

Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""

A Most Contagious Game

In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.

Private 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.

Split 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.

Shakedown 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.

The Judge and the Hangman

In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.

Julie

A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.

The 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.

Blow Up at Cortland

The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.

The 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?

Miracle 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.

Fair 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.

Dino

Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.

The 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.

Johnny August

Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.

A Public Figure

A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.

My 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.

The 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.

Manhattan 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.

Circle of Guilt

A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.

Always 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.

A 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.

Flower 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.

The 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.

The Tale of St. Emergency

An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.

This 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.

The 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.

Regarding 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.

I Do

A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.

The 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?

The Genie of Sutton Place

In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.

The 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.

Family 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.

The Power

A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.

Flight

A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.

Snap 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.

Mr. 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.

The 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!

Song 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.

Emmaline

A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.

An Incident of Love

A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.

The 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.

Something Ventured

A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.

Giulio

In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.

A 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.

Cauliflower 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.