Dabbs GreerFilmography

The Green Mile

Actors: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Gary Sinise

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility Read More

Ally McBeal: Alone Again

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

Little Giants

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, John Madden, Shawna Waldron, Mary Ellen Trainor

Synopsis: A successful retired jock and his geeky younger brother play out their sibling rivalry by coaching rival little league football teams in this family comedy. Ed O'Neill plays the older brother, Kevin O'Shea, a former Heisman Trophy winner whose gridiron exploits have made him a local hero in his Read More

House IV: Home Deadly Home

Actors: Terri Treas, William Katt, Scott Burkholder, Melissa Clayton, Denny Dillon

Synopsis: After two unsuccessful attempts to turn the House horror franchise into a collection of unrelated haunted-house stories (even ditching the House moniker prior to distribution of the third film, The Horror Show), the producers opted for a direct sequel (more or less) to the first film in the Read More

Pacific Heights

Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

Sundown

Actors: David Carradine, Jim Metzler, Morgan Brittany, Maxwell Caulfield, M. Emmet Walsh, Bruce Campbell

Synopsis: Director Anthony Hickox (Waxwork) crafted this entertaining bit of horror-western fusion about the vampiric residents of a remote, dusty desert town who have chosen to derive their sustenance from a plasma-manufacturing plant in an attempt to put aside their monstrous nature and peacefully Read More

Roseanne: Lobocop

Synopsis: When Roseanne takes on a second job working nights at the Lobo Lounge, it cuts into her love life. Dan gets advice from his friend Andy (Robert Miranda), while Jackie offers what she can to Roseanne.To steal away some time with her, Dan decides to dress up like a tough greaser kid and fight for Read More

Two Moon Junction

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Kristy McNichol, Martin Hewitt, Burl Ives

Synopsis: Zalman King wrote and directed this soft-core Harlequinesque Romance that plays like Tennessee Williams meets Fredericks of Hollywood. April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn) is the daughter of a powerful senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern family. April is engaged to marry the Read More

Evil Town

Actors: James Keach, Michele Marsh, Doria Cook, Robert Walker, Jr., Dean Jagger

Synopsis: This silly horror film stars Dean Jagger in a zoned-out performance as a mad scientist whose experiments in halting the aging process have reduced the residents of Smalltown, U.S.A. to shambling zombies. Since his serum requires massive amounts of extracted human pituitary fluid, Jagger is ever on Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 09

Synopsis: Little House on the Prairie commences its ninth season with a new title -- Little House: A New Beginning -- and minus the series' longtime stars Michael Landon and Karen Grassle. When Charles Ingalls (Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and their younger children (both "natural" and Read More

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Actors: Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: A former baseball player (Alan Arkin) has descended into alcoholism, and meets up with a has-been entertainer (Carol Burnett) when both spot a briefcase containing secret documents. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 08

Synopsis: Season eight of Little House on the Prairie finds Mary Ingalls Kendall (Melissa Sue Anderson, formerly a series regular and now a "special guest star") moving to New York, where her husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer), has joined his father's law firm. Back in Walnut Grove, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 07

Synopsis: After many setbacks, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) finally marries Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler) in the two-part opener of Little House on the Prairie's seventh season. Wedding bells also ring for Laura's childhood nemesis (but now good friend), Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim), who weds Percival Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 06

Synopsis: Season six of Little House on the Prairie bids goodbye to Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and her new husband, Adam Kendall (Linwood Boomer) -- at least on a regular weekly basis. With Mary and Adam having moved to the Dakotas, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) is now the oldest daughter in her Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 05

Synopsis: Devastating financial reverses, prompted by the closing of the town mill, force several Walnut Grove citizens to pack up and move out as Little House on the Prairie enters it fifth season. Among those leaving are Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and their Read More

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

Synopsis: This made-for-television film Winds of Kitty Hawk, chronicles the efforts of the Wright Brothers to become the first men to build a functioning, motor-powered airplane, as well as their rivalry with Glenn Curtiss. While the movie is a little too leisurely paced, the aerial sequences are excellent. Read More

God Bless Dr. Shagetz

Emergency!: Upward and Onward

Synopsis: An upcoming Chief's examination has Captain Stanley (Michael Norell) more uptight than usual, due to the "bad blood" between himself and his former commander (William Boyett). Meanwhile, an actor (Leon Ames) who plays a doctor on a popular soap opera checks into Rampart as a patient, driving Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 04

Synopsis: Season four of Little House on the Prairie finds the Ingalls' household increased from five to six after Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle), wife of series protagonist Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), gives birth to another daughter, named Grace. At the same time, the Ingalls' farmer friend Isaiah Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Dead or Alive

Synopsis: With this episode, Richard Hatch "officially" becomes a series regular in the role of Dan Robbins, the brash new partner of veteran SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). The case at hand involves Larry Dobbs (Howard Duff), the wealthy father of a girl who has been raped and murdered. Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 03

Synopsis: Victor French and Bonnie Bartlett, heretofore guest stars in the roles of Isaiah and Grace Edwards, graduate to regular status as Little House on the Prairie enters its third season. The opening episode, "The Collection," features country legend Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, in the Read More

The Rockford Files: Where's Houston?

Synopsis: At the request of Rocky's old friend Peter Preli (Dabbs Greer), Jim (James Garner) agrees to deliver the ransom for Peter's kidnapped granddaughter Houston (Lane Bradbury). Soon afterward, Houston turns up safe and sound--and Peter is found murdered. Suspected of committing the crime, Jim tries to Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 02

Synopsis: Season two of Little House on the Prairie opens with Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) losing his "outside" job when Lars Hanson (Karl Swenson) is forced to close Walnut Grove's mill. Back at home, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) begins to notice signs that her eyesight is fading (she Read More

The Greatest Gift

Synopsis: The Greatest Gift stars Glenn Ford as Reverend Holvak, a poverty-stricken small-town preacher. He struggles to keep his family and his rapidly dwindling congregation together in a small Southern town. Throughout this made-for-TV movie, Holvak is under attack from two fronts: the remonstrative Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 01

Synopsis: Its premise established by a two-hour TV movie in March of 1974, Little House on the Prairie begins its first season with Wisconsin farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and daughters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert), and Carrie (Lindsay Read More

White Lightning

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: When the police pick up Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) for running moonshine, they agree to let him out of jail if he will help them capture the key figures in his moonshine operation. Since the suspected ring leader is the man who killed Gator's little brother, he agrees to help out the cops to Read More

Adam-12: Venice Division

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are surrounded by a group of more colorful victims and perpetrators than usual when they're assigned to the Venice Division. In a lighter moment, the two cops haul in a publicity-seeking starlet (played by that fabulous Oscar-night Read More

The F.B.I.: Sweet Evil

Synopsis: This time Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is on the trail of armed robbers Beau Parker (Andrew Prine and Cass Linden (Melissa Murphy), a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Tagging along for the ride is Cass's baby-faced kid sister Mary Linden (Jo Ann Harris), who not only gets a thrill out of Read More

Ironside: House of Terror

Synopsis: The centerpiece of this episode is an allegedly haunted house, where over the course of many years several people have mysteriously vanished. The niece of the San Francisco police commissioner makes a bet that she can spend one night in the house--whereupon she disappears as well. Investigating Read More

Rage

Actors: George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, Nicolas Beauvy

Synopsis: The second of actor George C. Scott's rare directorial efforts (his first being the 1970 television film The Andersonville Trial), this drama, produced at the height of the Vietnam War, was critical of the military's weapons testing. Scott stars as Dan Logan, a single father living with his Read More

Bonanza: Terror at 2:00

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Steve Ihnat

Synopsis: Steve Ihnat guest-stars as a self-proclaimed journalist named Gans, who shows up with his entourage in Virginia City to cover the signing of a treaty between the Paiute Indians and the Army. In truth, however, the rabidly racist Gans plans to kill everyone at the ceremony with his Gatling Gun. It Read More

The F.B.I.: Dynasty of Hate

Synopsis: Rancher Drake Farron (Earl Holliman) has always considered his younger brother James (Bryan Montgomery) to be a thorn in his side. With this in mind, it is only natural that Drake should hire two-bit thug Lee Chard (Henry Silva) to murder his brother. When this scheme goes awry, Chard opts for a Read More

Ironside: Warrior's Return

Synopsis: Ironside(Raymond Burr) is certain that John Walala (Ned Romero), a Native American silversmith who was recently paroled on a theft charge, is not guilty of a jewel robbery. Unfortunately, the evidence indicates that the heist could only have been pulled off by Walala--or at the very least, someone Read More

The Cheyenne Social Club

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry

Synopsis: James Stewart and Henry Fonda star in this light-hearted western comedy, directed by Gene Kelly. In 1870 Texas, John O' Hanlan (James Stewart), an itinerant cowboy, receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a business establishment called the Cheyenne Social Club in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read More

The F.B.I.: The Architect

Synopsis: The titular "architect" in this episode is Arthur McBride (Monte Markham), so named for his brilliant execution of complex crimes. Escaping from a federal prison with two cohorts named Borden (Billy Dee Williams) and Deal (Dabbs Greer), the brash McBride laughs at the fact that he's "graducated" Read More

Bonanza: What Are Pardners For?

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Innocent Hoss Cartwright is thrown in jail, suspected of complicity in a bank robbery. The real bandits are a pair of Easterners named Luke (John Beck) and Calvin (Hamilton Camp), who'd been drawn to the west after reading an abundance of dime novels. Hoping to live up to the exploits of their Read More

Bonanza: A Matter of Faith

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Lou Frizzell

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 20, 1970, "A Matter of Faith" served to introduce new Bonanza regular Mitch Vogel in the role of Jamie Hunter. The son of an itinerant rainmaker, Jamie is unofficially adopted after his dad's death by Ponderosa hand Dusty Rhodes (Lou Frizzell. Despite the skepticism Read More

Ironside: Puzzlelock

Synopsis: Former cop turned assistant DA Mel Grayson (Simon Oakland) uses his experitise in the realm of "circumstantial evidence" to sinister advantage. Murdering his wife, Grayson arranges the evidence to make it seem as though the woman has been killed by a burglar. By the time Ironside (Raymond Burr) Read More

The F.B.I.: Journey Into Night

Synopsis: Escaping from federal prison, David Starret makes a beeline to Albany, New York, where he kidnaps his son Cliff (Michael Kearney) from the boy's foster parents. Upon discovering that Cliff is suffering from leukemia, Starret dedicates himself to acquiring the necessary medical attention for his Read More

Bonanza: The Lady and the Mountain Lion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Richard Haydn, Alyce Andrece

Synopsis: The mellifluous Richard Haydn is cast as Malcolm the Magificent, a seedy travelling magician. To fool the yokels, Malcolm uses his twin daughters in his act: Jan (Alyce Andrece) is sweet and demure, while Janice (Rhae Andrece) is a pool-playing hellion. A comedy of errors ensues when Joe and Hoss Read More

Petticoat Junction: Ring-a-Ding-Ding

Synopsis: Bea Benaderet (Kate Bradley) does not appear in this episode, in which Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) and husband Steve (Mike Minor) solemnly promise each other never to remove their wedding rings. Alas, Betty breaks her promise, whereupon she accidently drops her ring down the kitchen sink drain. Uncle Read More

The F.B.I.: The Runaways

Synopsis: Future film director Ron Howard is cast as 14-year-old Jess Orkin, who runs away from home after mistakenly believing that he has killed his uncle. During his flight, Jess linkes up with John Evans (J.D. Cannon, a genuine killer who is planning to rob and murder a wealthy Pennsylvania farm family Read More

The F.B.I.: The Ninth Man

Synopsis: Having captured seven of the nine men responsible for a two-million-dollar armored car robbery, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is anxious to locate the other two men--and of course, the money. Meanwhile, Anita Hale (Anne Helm), the wife of "robber number eight" Emory Hale (Murray Read More

The Fugitive: The Shattered Silence

Synopsis: As "Ben Lewis", Kimble (David Janssen) eludes a police dragnet and escapes to the Northwest. But "escape" turns out to be a relative term when Kimble is waylaid by John Mallory (Laurence Naismith), a hermit who dropped out of civilization back in 1953--and who, desperate for companionship, holds Read More

Bonanza: Judgement at Olympus

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: While visiting the remote community of Olympus, Candy is accused of murdering the son of town boss A.Z. Wheelock (Arch Johnson). Things don't look very rosy for the Ponderosa ranchhand: Determined to see Candy hang, Wheelock has paid off both the district attorney and a drunken eyewitness. Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 2: The Experiment

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: By Force and Violence, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) steps up his search for kidnap victim Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin). Meanwhile, Bob's ex-convict father Max (Arthur Hill) reluctantly launches the final stage of an elaborate robbery that will net the kidnapper a cool Read More

The F.B.I.: The Hostage

Synopsis: Enemy agents Sava (Edward Mulhare), Karn (Diana Hyland) and Veltran (David Frankham) pool their efforts to kidnap prominent European statesman Anton Dieter (Anton Dieter). Their plan is to exchange Dieter for a Communist agent currently in Federal custody. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) Read More

The F.B.I.: By Force and Violence, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) investigates the kidnapping of Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin), the long-estranged son of ex-convict Max Griswold (Arthur Hill). What Erskine doesn't know is that the boy has been abducted by one of Max's former prison Read More

Bonanza: A Christmas Story

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Wayne Newton, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Not surprisingly, "A Christmas Story" originally aired on December 25, 1966. Wayne Newton returns to Bonanza in the role of singer Andy Walker, who herein agrees to perform at the annual Oprhan's Christmas Benefit. The fly (or grinch) in the ointment is Andy's crooked uncle/manager Thaddeus Cade Read More

The Fugitive: Wine Is a Traitor

Synopsis: While employed at the winery owned by Pete Crandall (James Gregory), Kimble (David Janssen) happens to be on hand when the leader of a grape picker's strike is murdered by Crandall's treacherous son Carl (Roy Thinnes). As the only witness to the killing, Kimble could easily clear his fellow worker Read More

The Fugitive: A Taste of Tomorrow

Synopsis: Under the alias "Alan Mitchell", Richard Kimble (David Janssen) links up with another fugitive from justice, Joe Tucker (Fritz Weaver). Falsely accused of embezzlement, Tucker has returned to his home to town for the purpose of killing the man whose testimony sent him to prison. Normally, Kimble Read More

The F.B.I.: The Divided Man

Synopsis: The FBI investigates a possible case of sabotage when a chemical plant is blown up. What Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) doesn't realize is that the "saboteur", research chemist Roger Mason (Bradford Dillman), was driven by neither politics or monetary gain, but by mental illness. A schizophrenic Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Positive Negative

Synopsis: Sleazy George Emory (Ted DeCorsia) presents retired general Roger Brandon with an offer he may not be able to refuse: Unless Brandon steps down as head of an anti-crime commission, Emory will make public several compromising photographs of Brandon's wife Laura (Bettye Ackerman). Much to Emory's Read More

Shenandoah

Actors: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth

Synopsis: The year is 1863. Wealthy Virginia landowner Charlie Anderson (James Stewart), a man of peace despite his autocratic behavior, steadfastly refuses to take sides in the Civil War. Bit by bit, Anderson's isolationism--and his way of living--is torn apart.
Charlie's daughter, Jannie Anderson (Rosemary Forsyth Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: 100 Terrible Hours

Actors: Carl Reiner, Fred Clark, Dabbs Greer, Howard Wendell, Harry Stanton

Synopsis: During a magazine interview, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) recalls his first job interview with Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) -- which, quite frankly, he can barely remember at all. It seems that, just before the all-important interview, Rob, then a radio DJ, had participated in a stunt wherein he was obliged to Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work

Actors: Reta Shaw, Dabbs Greer, Alfred Ward, James Frawley, Jerry Hausner

Synopsis: As the staff of "The Alan Brady Show" prepare for the series' annual summer hiatus, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) flashes back to his first year as Brady's head writer. On the occasion of the summer layoff, Rob suddenly found himself unemployed and virtually penniless -- and with a pregnant Laura (Mary Tyler Moore Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sad Sicilian

Synopsis: Enrico Bacio (Anthony Caruso), tyrannical patriarch of a Sicilian-American clan, is convinced that a charming young scoundrel named Paulo Porro (Fabrizio Mioni) will literally be the death of him. It seems that there is a centuries-old vendetta between the Bacio and Porro families, and Bacio is Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Barney Fife, Realtor

Actors: Amzie Strickland

Synopsis: Hoping to increase his income, Deputy Barney begins moonlighting as a real estate salesman. His first client is Andy, who is resistant to the notion of selling his house and purchasing another. As it turns out, however, Barney's big sale is thwarted when he fails to take into consideration that Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands

Synopsis: Nancy Banks (Joyce Bulifant) may not be too bright, but she is intensely loyal. Finding it impossible to believe that her brother Rodney (Dick Davalos) embezzled from his job to gamble at the race track, Nancy sets about to help Rodney in any way she can. Could it be that Nancy's zeal has resulted Read More

The Outer Limits: Children of Spider County

Synopsis: In Volume 21 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the alien patriarch of a family searches for clues to the disappearance of his Earth-born children. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 1

The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 2

The Fugitive: Corner of Hell

Synopsis: On the run from both Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) and a rural sheriff (Dabbs Greer), Kimble (David Janssen) ends up on a patch of land controlled by a family of murderous moonshiners. The Sheriff refuses to venture any further in their pursuit of Kimble, warning Gerard of terrible consequences should Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy's Vacation

Actors: Allan Melvin

Synopsis: Taking a long-overdue vacation, Andy leaves Barney and Gomer in charge of the jailhouse. No sooner has Andy left than the boys have managed to lock themselves in the cell. Later on, Barney and Gomer successfully catch a crook (Allen Melvin)--who not only promptly escapes, but does so twice! Read More

Roustabout

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

The Fugitive: Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet

Synopsis: Travelling under the name of "Richard Clark", Kimble (David Janssen) is arrested for hitchhiking by Marshall Joe Bob Simms (Pat Hingle). Though he enjoys a reputation as a prince of a fellow, Simms is actually a scheming sadist who uses prisoners like Kimble as slave labor, forcing them to work on Read More

The Twilight Zone: Valley of the Shadow

Actors: Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, David Opatoshu, James Doohan, Suzanne Cupito

Synopsis: Stranded in the remote mountain town of Peaceful Valley, reporter Philip Redfield looks on in amazement as a dog and cat seemingly vanish into thin air. Apparently, Peaceful Valley houses some sort of deep dark secret -- which has naturally aroused Redfield's journalistic instincts. He may Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skeleton's Closet

Synopsis: The citizens of Cliffside Heights hire Perry (Raymond Burr) to press a libel suit against novelist Richard Harris (Michael Pate), the author of a Peyton Place-style "roman a clef." A financial settlement is reached, but turned down by publisher Albert McCann (David Lewis), who for some reason is Read More

The Untouchables: Globe of Death

Synopsis: Bruce Gordon makes his final series appearance as Frank Nitti in this episode. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) would like to find out how Nitti was able to smuggle a drug shipment from the Orient without arousing any suspicion whatsoever. Likewise interested in Nitti's "magic trick" is one of his Read More

Bonanza: Five Into the Wind

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathleen Crowley

Synopsis: When their driver is killed, Joe Cartwright and several other stagecoach passengers are stranded in the desert, 50 miles from the nearest town. The little party is forced to rely upon ill-tempered, violent fur trapper Howard Benson (Kelly Thordsen) for survival. Exacerbating an already tense Read More

The Fugitive: Fear in a Desert City

Synopsis: En route to Death Row after being wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) escapes his captor Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) in a spectacular train crash. For the next four TV seasons, Kimble will live the life of The Fugitive, travelling from town to town, state Read More

Showdown

Actors: Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: In this western adventure set in a Mexican border town, two prisoners Foster and Pickett (Audie Murphy and Charles Drake), who are chained to a stake, somehow escape with other prisoners. They are led by cruel outlaw Lavalle (Harold J. Stone) who steals $12,000 in securities. Later the two Read More

The Untouchables: Canada Run

Synopsis: Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) hopes to expand his bootlegging empire across the US-Canadian border, setting up headquarters in the small Canadian fishing town of St. Brenden's. Meanwhile, Nitti's rival Joe Palakopoulos (Simon Oakland) has already gained a foothold in St. Brenden's, setting himself up Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Lazarus

Synopsis: His curiosity aroused, Paladin (Richard Boone) decides to find out why a man named Boise Peabody (Strother Martin) has purchased a gaudy costume for a chorus girl. It turns out that Peabody is under the impression that he is terminally ill, and figures he has nothing to lose to fulfill his Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Bed Jacket

Actors: Parley Baer, Hope Summers

Synopsis: Aunt Bee begins dropping not-so-subtle hints that she'd like a new bed jacket for her birthday. By the time Andy finally catches on, the only bed jacket in town has been purchased by Mayor Stoner. Offering to buy the "extravagant" gift from Stoner, Andy is forced to part with a precious Read More

The Twilight Zone: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

Actors: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer

Synopsis: Andy Devine stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties. Despite his constant gas-bagging about his alleged past acts of heroism, no one believes Frisby's tall tales -- no one, that is, except a team of space aliens, who accept Frisby's lies at face value. On the verge of being whisked Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Attempted Marriage

Actors: Sandy Kenyon, Dabbs Greer, Ray Kellogg

Synopsis: Coming across an old wedding gift, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) notices that the inscription suggests that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) had somehow been trying to weasel out of the marriage. Explaining the situation to son Ritchie (Larry Mathews), Laura flashes back to the days preceding the wedding, beginning Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: One Angry Man

Actors: Sue Ane Langdon, Patsy Kelly, Herbie Faye, Lee Bergere, Dabbs Greer

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is called for jury duty in a trial where the defendant is gorgeous Marla Hendrix (Sue Ane Langdon). Naturally, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is jealous over Rob's close proximity to such a beautiful and desirable woman. The situation isn't helped at all when, in the jury room, Rob Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Sheriff Barney

Actors: Howard McNear

Synopsis: In need of a new sheriff, the nearby town of Greendale offers the job to deputy Barney, on the basis of a newspaper story praising the efficiency of the two-man Mayberry police department. Realizing that Barney would be in way over his head, Andy contrives to make himself scarce so that Barney can Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Left-Handed Liar

Synopsis: Now working as a health club instructor, former college athletic star Ward Nichols (Ed Nelson) hopes to marry Casey Daniels (Maggie Pierce), the niece of his boss Bernard Daniels (Les Tremayne). Unfortunately, Nichols' estranged wife Veronica (Leslie Parrish) refuses to let him go, and claims to Read More

The Untouchables: The Lily Dallas Story

Synopsis: Making a rare TV appearance after falling victim to the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist, Larry Parks guest stars as minor hoodlum George "Blackie" Dallas, a character obviously inspired by real-life outlaw "Machine Gun" Kelly. Egged on by his ambitious wife Lily (Norma Crane), Dallas kidnaps millionaire Read More

Bonanza: Broken Ballad

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Culp

Synopsis: Robert Culp guest-stars as former gunfighter Ed Payson. When he tries to buy supplies from general store owner Will Cass (Dabbs Greer), he is coldly refused service; it seems that, before hanging up his guns, Ed killed Will's son. Befriending Ed, Adam Cartwright tries to mollify Cass, but things Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lavender Lipstick

Synopsis: It looks as if Karen Lewis (Pat Breslin), a minor employee of lipstick manufacturer Silas Vance (James Bell), has been caught red-handed as an industrial spy when a bank book containing two huge deposits and a rival manufacturer's phone number is found in her desk. Her boss accuses Karen of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor

Synopsis: Lt. Tragg (Ray Collins) can't believe his eyes: traditional courtroom rivals Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and DA Hamilton Burger (William Talman) are working together to save a man from a murder charge! The man in question is Jeff Pike (J. Pat O'Malley), who years earlier had saved Burger's life. Read More

The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox

Synopsis: One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the eight-part Swamp Fox featured another flamboyant frontiersman hero who wore coonskin-style headgear and whose adventures were introduced with a catchy, memorable theme song. Read More

Cash McCall

Actors: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: In this routine business-story-cum-romantic-comedy, James Garner is Cash McCall, a wheeling and dealing tycoon, and Natalie Wood is Lory Austen, the daughter of failing businessman Grant (Dean Jagger). McCall's expertise lies in acquiring businesses about to go belly up, attaching them to Read More

Day of the Outlaw

Actors: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Set in an isolated, snow-covered town in the far West, this story has a renegade army officer named Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) and his henchmen riding into the town threatening their worst to the men and women there. Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) decides to agree to Bruhn's demands for someone Read More

The Lone Texan

Actors: Willard Parker, Grant Williams, Audrey Dalton, Douglas Kennedy, June Blair

Synopsis: A routine western with a classic theme, the "lone Texan" of the title is Clint Banister (Willard Parker) who finds trouble at home when he returns after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. Given his military history, he is hardly welcomed with open arms. In addition to the animosity of Read More

Last Train From Gun Hill

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), the town marshal, has only two clues to their identity, a fancy saddle with the initials "C.B." that one of the men left behind, and Read More

Edge of Eternity

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Rian Garrick

Synopsis: A well-dressed older man drives a car along the winding mountain road adjacent to the Grand Canyon. Another man lies in wait for him where the road ends. They fight, and the car and one of the men plunge into the mile-deep gorge. Thus begins a series of four killings that fall into the lap of Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Superman Silver Mine

Synopsis: Dabbs Greer essays a dual role in this episode as Texas philanthropist Mr. Pebbles and his criminal lookalike Dan Dobey. When Pebbles offers to donate one of his silver mines to the Metropolis Children's Camp Fund in the name of Superman (George Reeves), Dobey kidnaps Pebbles and takes his place Read More

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Actors: Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Richard Benedict

Synopsis: One of the best of the medium-budgeted science fiction flicks of the 1950s, It! The Terror from Beyond Space is set in "the future" (1973, to be exact). An rescue ship travels out to Mars to retrieve the only survivor of a space probe that has experienced some sort of cataclysm. That survivor Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fugitive Nurse

Synopsis: Perry's client Janet Morris (Bethel Leslie) is charged with poisoning her husband Dr. Morris (Sheppard Strudwick), who has been reported killed in a plane crash. As it turns out, however, the crash victim is not Dr. Norris but instead David Kirby (Dabbs Greer); Norris has faked his demise so he Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Texas John Slaughter

Synopsis: Of the many TV miniseries produced by Walt Disney for his various weekly anthologies of the '50s and '60s, only Tales of Texas John Slaughter came close to matching the "Davy Crockett" programs in popularity and longevity. Based on fact, the 17-episode saga of Texas Ranger-turned-rancher John Read More

I Want to Live!

Actors: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Wesley Lau

Synopsis: Grim, almost unbearably intense, I Want To Live is the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) a perjurer, prostitute, liar and drug addict. The product of a broken home, Graham works as a shill, luring gullible men into crooked card games. She attempts to go straight Read More

My Man Godfrey

Actors: June Allyson, David Niven, Jesse Royce Landis, Robert Keith, Eva Gabor

Synopsis: The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957 remake. David Niven steps into the old William Powell role as hobo-turned-butler Godfrey, while June Allyson does her best in the Carole Lombard part as Irene Bullock, the Read More

The Vampire

Actors: Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, German Robles

Synopsis: Small-town doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) is given some strange pills by a dying elderly researcher. Later, when Paul gets a severe headache, his young daughter accidentally gives him the mystery pills. He's later puzzled by a series of strange deaths in which all the blood was drained from the Read More

The Spirit of St. Louis

Actors: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Marc Connelly

Synopsis: A misfire for all concerned, The Spirit of St. Louis can be chalked up as a courageous failure. At age 48, James Stewart was far too old to be convincing as 27-year-old "Lone Eagle" Charles Lindbergh. Director Billy Wilder, a past master of cynical pessimism, was clearly the wrong choice to helm Read More

Young and Dangerous

Actors: Mark Damon, Lili Gentle, Edward Binns, Frances Mercer, Dabbs Greer

Synopsis: A wild young buck settles down and becomes a decent fellow after he falls in love with a sweet young girl in this youth drama. He is a delinquent with a reputation when they meet. During their first date, they end up at the police station. Her protective parents are outraged and forbid her to see Read More

Pawnee

Actors: George Montgomery, Bill Williams, Lola Albright, Francis McDonald, Robert Griffin

Synopsis: George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself rejected by both the Pawnee tribe and the white community. He manages to attain a job as a wagon train scout, but even in this position of respect and authority he is treated with Read More

Baby Face Nelson

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Christopher Dark, Leo Gordon, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the unflinching, trigger-happy member of the infamous Dillinger gang that besieged the Midwest circa 1933. Rooney is Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis and Carolyn Jones his gun Read More

Chain of Evidence

Actors: Don Haggerty, Claudia Barrett, Tina Carver

Synopsis: Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon is cast against type as a mean-spirited reform school alumnus in Chain of Evidence. Despite the boy's volatile temper, police lieutenant Bill Elliot is convinced that Lydon is a good kid underneath. Elliot's faith in his fellow man is sorely tested when Lydon is Read More

Gunsmoke: Prairie Happy

Synopsis: Dodge City is in a panic over rumors of an impending attack by the Pawnee Indians. Matt (James Arness) is skeptical of these rumors, since it doesn't seem logical that the Pawnees would announce their plans ahead of time. It turns out that the instigator of the panic is a man named Tewksbury Read More

Gunsmoke: Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Synopsis: Neil and Sarah Amber (Paul Richards, Gloria McGhee) are a struggling prairie couple, trying but failing to make a go of their tiny farm, and plagued by the prissy righteousness of Sarah's brother Peak (Ainslee Pryor). Thus, Mr. Amber must not only work harder than ever for the sake of his wife Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: There Was an Old Woman

Synopsis: A young Charles Bronson is cast as con artist Frank Bramwell, who in concert with his equally larcenous wife Lorna (Norma Crane) intends to fleece a wealthy old eccentric named Monica Laughton (Estelle Winwood), who has a habit of hanging funeral wreaths on her door when she believes that someone Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Belfry

Synopsis: Mountaineer Clint Ringle (Jack Mullaney) harbors an obsessive love for schoolmarm Ella Marsh (Patricia Hitchcock) , but she is engaged to another man. In an insane fit of jealous rage, Clint murders his "rival," then eludes the authorities by hiding in the belfry of the schoolhouse where Ella Read More

Gunsmoke: The Killer

Synopsis: Future action-film superstar Charles Bronson is cast against type as Crego, a coward who has built up a reputation as a fast gun by only challenging kids and oldsters who aren't quite as quick on the trigger. Goading his victims into slapping leather, Crego kills every one of them--and Matt (James Read More

Hot Cars

Actors: John Bromfield, Joi Lansing, Mark Dana, Ralph Clanton

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an amiable car salesmen must begin selling stolen vehicles to pay for his sickly baby son's medical expenses. He tries to escape the gangsters who have been strong-arming him. Meanwhile, a policeman is investigating the crooks. When he gets too close, they kill him and frame Read More

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones

Synopsis: Don Siegel's classic exercise in psychological science fiction has often been interpreted as a cautionary fable about the blacklisting hysteria of the McCarthy era. It can be read as a political metaphor or enjoyed as a fine low-budget suspense movie, and it works well either way. Kevin McCarthy Read More

D-Day, the Sixth of June

Actors: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'Brien, John Williams

Synopsis: We don't see much of Omaha Beach in D-Day, the Sixth of June. Instead, the film concentrates on a romantic triangle involving American officer Robert Taylor, British officer Richard Todd and the lovely Dana Wynter. Taylor and Todd spend the last hours before D-Day reminiscing about Wynter. The Read More

Hot Rod Girl

Actors: Lori Nelson, John Smith, Chuck Connors, Frank Gorshin, Roxanne Arlen

Synopsis: American-International's Hot Rod Girl is a whole lot less exploitaitonal than its title. Chuck Connors stars as Ben, a policeman who hopes to stem an outbreak of juvenile delinquency. Overcoming great obstacles--most of them created by prejudiced adults--Ben hopes to build a drag strip, where Read More

The McConnell Story

Actors: Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore, Frank Faylen, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does her usual as McConnell's anxious, waiting-nervously-at-home wife. Assigned to the medical corps during WWII, McConnell takes private flying lessons so that he'll qualify for Read More

The Seven Little Foys

Actors: Bob Hope, James Cagney, Milly Vitale, Angela Clarke, George Tobias

Synopsis: With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try something different. The Seven Little Foys was the first of Hope's two "straight" biopics (the second was 1956's Beau James). Though not completely abandoning his patented Read More

Foxfire

Actors: Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea, Mara Corday, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: For full appreciation of the culture-clash drama Foxfire, it is crucial that the viewer accept Jeff Chandler as a Native American--not much of a stretch, since he'd previously been thoroughly convincing as Cochise in Broken Arrow. Chandler plays Jonathan Dartland, a half-breed Apache mining Read More

The Scarlet Coat

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anne Francis, George Sanders, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably subtle menace by Robert Douglas, while his principal co-conspirator, Major John Andre, is essayed by Michael Wilding. The largely speculative storyline concerns the efforts Read More

Gunsmoke: Season 01

Actors: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: The original radio version of Gunsmoke was in its third year on the air when the TV version made its CBS network bow on September 10, 1955. Replacing radio's William Conrad as Matt Dillon was tall-in-the-saddle James Arness, whose chief claim to fame at that time was his portrayal of the title Read More

Seven Angry Men

Actors: Raymond Massey, Debra Paget, Dennis Weaver, Jeffrey Hunter, Larry Pennell, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: In Seven Angry Men, Raymond Massey stars as controversial 19th-century abolitionist John Brown, a role he'd previously essayed in 1940's Santa Fe Trail. Without glossing over Brown's murderous fanaticism and cold-bloodedness, the film manages to invoke a degree of sympathy for the man, whose Read More

The Desperado

Actors: Wayne Morris, Jimmy Lydon, Beverly Garland, Rayford Barnes, Dabbs Greer

Synopsis: The third of four Wayne Morris B-westerns for Allied Artists, Desperado casts Morris as fugitive gunman Sam Garrett. The early reels are devoted to Tall Cameron (James Lydon) and Ray Novac (Rayford Barnes), who run afoul of the post-Civil War Texas State Police, as represented by sadistic Captain Read More

Bitter Creek

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Carleton Young, Beverly Garland, Claude Akins, Jim Hayward

Synopsis: Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by Wild Bill Elliot. Though officially prohibited to do so by the Production Code, the film is motivated by revenge. Elliot arrives in Bitter Creek seeking retribution for the Read More

Living It Up

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark

Synopsis: The 1954 Martin-and-Lewis romp Living It Up is an amusing remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred. More specifically, it is the film version of the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, which was based on Nothing Sacred. The heroine of the original undergoes a sex change to become feckless Homer Read More

Private Hell 36

Actors: Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Private Hell 36 was one of the last feature-length efforts by Filmmakers, a company created by producer Collier Young and his then-wife Ida Lupino. Young and Lupino also wrote the script for this grim crime melodrama, wherein two detectives Cal Bruner (Steve Cochran) and Jack Farnham (Howard Duff Lupino Read More

Riot in Cell Block 11

Actors: Neville Brand, Emile G. Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon, Robert Osterloh

Synopsis: The best film of Don Siegel's career to date, this surprisingly intelligent B-picture describes the dramatic arc of an organized rebellion at Folsom prison. The inmates, who are sick of living conditions which include rundown cells, brutal guards, dreadful food, and the presence of the seriously Read More

Rose Marie

Actors: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: 1954's Rose Marie is the third film version of the 1924 Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein-Rudolph Frinl operetta of the same name. Though not a completely faithful adaptation, this version is closer to the original than the (admittedly enjoyable) Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald version of 1936. Ann Blyth Read More

House of Wax

Actors: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: This simplified (but lavish) remake of the 1933 melodrama The Mystery of the Wax Museum was the most financially successful 3-D production of the 1950s. In his first full-fledged "horror" role, Vincent Price plays Prof. Henry Jarrod, the owner of a wax museum, whose partner, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts Read More

Affair with a Stranger

Actors: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Mary Jo Tarola, Monica Lewis, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: Told in flashback, Affair with a Stranger recounts the deteriorating marriage of playwright Victor Mature and model Jean Simmons. The union is strained by the death of Jean's baby and the pressure of Victor's career. A scheming actress (Monica Lewis) makes a play for Mature, leading Jean to file Read More

Trouble Along the Way

Actors: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson

Synopsis: "Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but by Steve Williams, the fictional college athletics instructor played by John Wayne in Trouble Along the Way. Recently divorced, Williams has trouble finding a job due to his Read More

Half a Hero

Actors: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the story concerns one Ben Dobson (Skelton), whose wife Martha (Jean Hagen) talks him into leaving the big city and moving into a suburban housing development. Read More

Dream Wife

Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Eduard Franz

Synopsis: Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care of her husband. However, he's fallen in love with Priscilla "Effie" Effington (Deborah Kerr), who has an exciting career with the State Department that she has no intention Read More

Remains to Be Seen

Actors: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern, Angela Lansbury, John Beal

Synopsis: June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. The victim is Allyson's wealthy uncle, and since she can't account for her actions at the time of the crime, Our Heroine is the principal suspect. The real Read More

Mr. Scoutmaster

Actors: Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow, Frances Dee, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: Robert Jordan is a television star. Robert Jordan likes things orderly, on time and properly executed. In his world children are to be seen, not heard. So why would Mr. Jordan want to become the master of a rambunctious band of Boy Scouts? Ratings. His staff figures that if learns how to interact Read More

China Venture

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Barry Sullivan, Jocelyn Brando, Leo Gordon, Richard Loo

Synopsis: In late 1944, an American guerilla unit led by Capt. Matt Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) learns that a Japanese plane carrying Admiral Amara (Philip Ahn) has crashed in China, in warlord-held territory. Reardon and his men are placed under the command of Naval Intelligence officer Commander Bert Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Five Minutes to Doom

Synopsis: Season Two of the Adventures of Superman opened with a bang, and a new level of sophistication in the writing and directing, with "Five Minutes To Doom". Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Noel Neill) are at the death house in state prison to try and get an interview out of Joe Winters Read More

Room for One More

Actors: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, George Winslow, Iris Mann, Randy Stuart, Clifford Tatum, Jr., John Ridgely, Lurene Tuttle

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors Cary Grant and Betsy Drake. Though she already has three children of her own, New Jersey housewife Anna Rose (Drake) adopts several kids born into less fortunate Read More

The Bad and the Beautiful

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film's industry's most interesting glimpses at itself. Actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell Read More

Scarlet Angel

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning, Bodil Miller, Whitfield Connor, Amanda Blake

Synopsis: Nineteenth-century saloon gal Roxy McClanahan (Yvonne DeCarlo) manages to inveigle herself into the uppermost rungs of polite New Orleans society. But Roxy has not reckoned with her old friendly nemesis, merchant seaman Frank Truscott (Rock Hudson), whose bankroll Roxy had lifted back in her Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Superman on Earth

Synopsis: The sole survivor of the doomed planet Krypton is the baby son of scientist Jor-El (Robert Rockwell) and Lara (Aline Towne), who providently place the child in a rocketship and blast him to earth just before their planet explodes. Rescued by a farm couple named Kent, the infant, renamed Clark Read More

Diplomatic Courier

Actors: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Hildegarde Neff, Stephen McNally, Karl Malden

Synopsis: When undercover secret agent Tyrone Power is thwarted in his efforts to obtain a vital document with details of the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia by the death of the courier at the hands of two Russian agents, played by Mario Siletti and Charles Buchinski (aka Charles Bronson), it becomes his Read More

Monkey Business

Actors: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Howard Hawks hoped to capture the screwball comic fervor of his 1938 film Bringing Up Baby with his 1952 comedy Monkey Business. As in the earlier film, Cary Grant stars as an absent-minded professor involved in a research project. This time he's a chemist seeking a "fountain of youth" formula Read More

We're Not Married

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne

Synopsis: Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star "omnibus" film, We're Not Married. The unifying factor of this enjoyable seriocomedy is provided by justice-of-the-peace Melvin Bush (Victor Moore), who learns to his horror that Read More

Above and Beyond

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates

Synopsis: Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the mission. Robert Taylor stars as Col. Paul Tibbetts, commander of the Enola Gay. Once selected for this extremely dangerous mission, Tibbetts must hand-pick a crew worthy of the Read More

She Couldn't Say No

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress named Corby (Jean Simmons), who visits the small town of Progress, Arkansas, hoping to repay a good deed. It seems that, when Corby was a child, the villagers had all Read More

Call Me Mister

Actors: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Benay Venuta

Synopsis: The original Broadway musical Call Me Mister was a plotless revue. By the time the property made it to the screen, however, a storyline was grafted on and much of the revue's funnier (and dirtier) material was weeded out. Betty Grable stars as an American USO entertainer Kay Hudson, touring the Read More

Father's Little Dividend

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1950 comedy hit Father of the Bride finds Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett returning as Stanley and Ellie Banks, the parents of newlywed Kay Dunstan (Elizabeth Taylor). In the first film, Stanley Banks was forced to endure the chaotic events leading up to the wedding. This time Read More

The Unknown Man

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek (Keefe Brasselle) of a murder rap. When it's all over, however, Rudi lets slip a careless comment which leads Mason to believe that his client was guilty after all. Using the evidence at Read More

California Passage

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita Rodriguez, Jim Davis, Gerald Perreau-Saissine

Synopsis: Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine Western produced and directed by the dependent Joseph Kane. Mara plays Beth Martin, an Easterner traveling west to be reunited with her brother, Bob (Bill Williams). But Bob Read More

Try and Get Me

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke

Synopsis: The Sound of Fury is better known by its general release title, Try and Get Me. Based on Jo Pagano's novel The Condemned, the film recreates a dismal chapter in American history. In 1933, the otherwise peace-loving citizens of San Jose, CA, were stirred up by blind hatred into forming a mob and Read More

Storm Warning

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: In Storm Warning, Ginger Rogers stars as a schoolteacher visiting relatives in an unnamed small town. She happens to witness the beating death of a man at the hands of the KKK. Rogers soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by this vigilante group, and that her loutish brother-in-law Steve Cochran Read More

The Damned Don't Cry

Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime melodrama. The story opens as she cowers insider her old home, fearing the inevitable arrival of the murderous gangsters pursuing her. Her tragic tale unfolds via flashback. Read More