Cast: James Burke

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast James Burke

Synopsis Connections is a ten-episode documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science & Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle....

Direction John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged aboard.

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · James Burke · Edward Brophy

Synopsis It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in...

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Bette Davis · Robert Montgomery · Fay Bainter · Betty Lynn

Synopsis Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly between Carey and Linda as they go to Indiana to...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rita Hayworth · Larry Parks · Marc Platt · Roland Culver

Synopsis Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show....

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Broderick Crawford · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process...

Direction George Marshall

Cast James Stewart · Paulette Goddard · Horace Heidt · Charles Winninger

Synopsis It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's caliber to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, the owner of a struggling music store whose...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Ray Milland · Hedy Lamarr · Macdonald Carey · Mona Freeman

Synopsis Johnny Carter, performing sharpshooter, is asked to help a beleaguered group of copper A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them,...

Direction John Farrow

Cast George Sanders · Wendy Barrie · Jonathan Hale · Jerome Cowan

Synopsis Simon Templar, the Saint, travels to San Fransisco to solve crime mysteries within the police department.

Direction Jack B. Hively

Cast George Sanders · Wendy Barrie · Jonathan Hale · Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis The Saint plays a "modern-day Robin Hood" in order to clear his friend, Henry Fernack, who was framed by mobsters. They run into a series of murders.

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Sterling Hayden · Edmond O'Brien · Dean Jagger · Laura Elliott

Synopsis Edmond O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Joan Blondell · May Robson · Edward Everett Horton

Direction Anthony Willis · Luke Bellis

Cast James Burke

Synopsis Historian James Burke continues his journey through random historical connections that together have shaped our world and provide important clues to our future.

Direction Peter R. Smith · Barbara Altounyan · Michael Robinson

Cast Judith Hann · Raymond Baxter · Michael Rodd · Howard Stableford

Synopsis Long running BBC TV series looking at what's new in science and technology.

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Wayne Morris · Margaret Lindsay · William Gargan · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Direction John Farrow

Cast Barry Fitzgerald · Diana Lynn · Sonny Tufts · Dick Foran

Synopsis Martin Donovan's compulsive gambling leaves him constantly broke and under arrest from a gambling-house raid. He also places bets for tenants of his boardinghouse, who lose their money and ability to pay the rent. Martin's daughter, Connie, is courted by...

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Bing Crosby · Frances Farmer · Bob Burns · Martha Raye

Synopsis Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but...

Direction Benjamin Stoloff · Lew Landers

Cast Jack Oakie · Lucille Ball · Ruth Donnelly · Bradley Page

Synopsis Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lanny Morgan has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison, in one crazy stunt after another. His latest scheme has Annabel pretending to be a maid in order to research her next screen role. Her...

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Mona Barrie

Synopsis Ellery and his police-inspector father (Charley Grapewin) are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack (Blanche Yurka). There’ve been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to...