This documentary is a loving look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Speeding through much of his early British...
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1999
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1997
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Throughout the 20th century, women have met the challenges and struggles of balancing work and family. Narrated by Jane...
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1994
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There oughta be a law against TV-movie "title thinker uppers." Lethal Innocence is not a crime or judicial melodrama, but...
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1991
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In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a Marine Officer who is accused of killing a Nazi...
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1990
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Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother living is Boston with her 6-year-old daughter Molly (Asia Viera). She...
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Grandmother
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1988
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In this droll derivation of "Arsenic and Old Lace", former 1940s film ingénues Teresa Wright and Joan Leslie are cast as the...
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1988
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The Fig Tree was the opening installment of the 1987-88 season of PBS' Wonderworks series. Set in 1903 Texas, the story...
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1987
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Bill: On His Own is the laudable made-for-TV sequel to the Emmy-winning 1981 film Bill. Mickey Rooney once more shines as...
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1983
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Casting
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1980
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Christopher Reeve got away from Superman and related costume roles in this dramatic fantasy film, adapted from Richard...
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Laura Roberts
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1980
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New York's Roseland ballroom was in 1977 the traditional gathering place of senior citizens who wanted briefly to relive the...
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May
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1977
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In this thriller, a politician's wife finds her life endangered when she gets herself entangled in a deadly web of murder...
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1976
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Having already exhausted the dramatic possibilities of fire with The Towering Inferno, producer Irwin Allen turns to water in...
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1976
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An all-star "disaster" flick set in an elevator: is there no limit? This made-for-TVer top-bills James Farentino as a bank...
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1974
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Murder on the 13th Floor is a 90-minute episode of the Jimmy Stewart TV series Hawkins. Detective Hawkins (Stewart) tries to...
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1974
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Crawlspace is a quirky made-for-TV movie about a strange young drifter (Tom Harper) who arrives in a small New England town....
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1971
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Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending....
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Mrs. Spencer
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1969
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Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual...
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Santha Dixon
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1969
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An isolated peach farm is the setting for this nail-biting episode, in which Teresa Wright is cast as Stella, the young wife...
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Stella
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1964
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Marion Brown (Teresa Wright) of Cleveland, OH, travels to Newark, NJ, there to meet and murder Bernice Brown (Jean Hale). It...
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Marion Brown
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1964
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A widower for many years, Ben Cartwright finally decides to take another bride, the lovely Katherine Saunders (Teresa...
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Katherine Saunders
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1964
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Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play Teach Me How to...
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Elizabeth Grant
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1958
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Christmas is decommercialized by an elderly man who thinks he is Santa Claus. ~ Rovi...
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1957
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Annie Sullivan
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1957
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Filmed on location, Escapade in Japan stars child actors Jon Provost and Roger Nakagawa. Separated from their parents, Tony...
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Mary Saunders
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1957
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The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who...
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Ruth Simmons
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1956
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The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through...
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Doris Walker
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1955
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Bigotry and interracial adoption form the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when an Army captain and his wife adopt a...
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1955
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1955
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In this experimental 1954 Western, director William Wellman uses black-and-white backgrounds with occasional splatches of...
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Grace Bridges
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1954
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Annie Jones
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1953
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Director Don Siegel keeps the events in Count the Hours moving so quickly that no one has time to ponder the film's huge...
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Ellen Braden
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1953
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Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. He plans to fly to Brazil...
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Laurie Osborne
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1952
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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Edna Miller
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1952
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California Conquest is set in the early 19th century, when California was fighting for its independence from Mexico--and as...
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Julia Lawrence
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1952
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1951
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Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into...
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Ellen Vanner
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1950
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Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving...
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Ellen Wilozek
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1950
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Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99...
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Lark Ingoldsby
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1948
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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Millicent Hopkins
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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Kate Farrell
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1947
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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Thorley Callum
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1947
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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Isabel Drury
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1944
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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Young Charlie Newton
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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Carol Beldon
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Eleanor Gehrig
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1942
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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Alexandra Giddens
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1941
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