Screenplay: James Thurber

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Boris Karloff · Fay Bainter

Plot Walter Mitty, a daydreaming pulp-fiction writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidentally meets...

Direction Ben Stiller

Cast Ben Stiller · Kristen Wiig · Adam Scott · Patton Oswalt

Plot The remake of the 1947 film about Walter Mitty, a milquetoast man who lives life vicariously through daydreams in which he envisions himself in a series of heroic, fantastic personas.

Direction William T. Hurtz

Plot A henpecked husband sees a unicorn outside his window--or does he?

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Peter Sellers · Robert Morley · Constance Cummings · Jameson Clark

Plot Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Henry Fonda · Olivia de Havilland · Joan Leslie · Jack Carson

Plot The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because...

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Jack Lemmon · Barbara Harris · Jason Robards · Herb Edelman

Plot Two quirky Manhattanites crash into each other cute at an ophthalmologist's office. Peter is a grouchy cartoonist/author whose vision is failing, divorced mother Theresa is also reluctant to plunge into...

Direction Mayya Buzinova · Iosif Douksha

Direction Gene Deitch

Plot After Wonderland, Alice dreams of going to Paris. A mouse named Francois, the grandson of Anatole, agrees to take her there if she will tell him her favorite cheese. Along...

Direction David Pressman · Alex Segal · Ralph Warren · Yul Brynner

Cast Marc Connelly · George Keane · Don Hanmer · Nancy Franklin

Plot TV Series (1948-1950). 2 seasons. 65 episodes. Produced by the ABC as its television network was just getting off the ground, this program was one of the first dramatic series...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Jack Oakie · George Murphy · Linda Darnell · Walter Brennan

Plot Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited.

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Virginia Mayo · Ronald Reagan · Gene Nelson · Don DeFore

Plot Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her former teacher John Palmer, now a professor at Midwest State... where she decides to begin her new college career....

Direction Lewis Allen · Robert B. Sinclair · Roy Kellino · Erle C. Kenton

Cast John Nesbitt · Frank Baxter · Maurice Marsac · Norbert Schiller

Plot TV Series (1956-1958). 3 seasons. 81 episodes. An anthology drama series.

Direction Melville Shavelson · John Rich · Sheldon Leonard · Danny Arnold

Cast William Windom · Joan Hotchkis · Lisa Gerritsen · Harold J. Stone

Plot TV Series (1969-1970). 26 Episodes. Was a half-hour situation comedy based on the writings of humorist and cartoonist James Thurber, and episodes of the show incorporated stories and cartoons by...