Screenplay: Mel Dinelli

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Dorothy McGuire · George Brent · Kent Smith · Ethel Barrymore

Plot Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion....

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast James Mason · Joan Bennett · Geraldine Brooks · Henry O'Neill

Plot After discovering the dead body of Bea Harper's lover, Bea's mother Lucia hides the body under the assumption that it was her daughter who killed the man. Martin Donnelly comes...

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Barbara Hale · Bobby Driscoll · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Plot Young Tommy Woodry gets used to telling fantastic but harmless lies to his family and friends because he's bored. They get used to it. That's unfortunate for Tommy, because almost...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Louis Hayward · Lee Bowman · Jane Wyatt · Dorothy Patrick

Plot The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. His crippled brother John...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Ralph Meeker · Lee Aaker

Plot The Stilwins are on vacation to an isolated beach in Mexico. Walking on a deserted jetty, Doug Stilwin gets his leg trapped under one of the logs. All attempts to...

Direction Harry Horner

Cast Ida Lupino · Robert Ryan · Taylor Holmes · Barbara Whiting

Plot Helen Gordon hires Howard Wilton as a handyman to do chores around her house. She doesn't know what she's let herself in for. Insecure and paranoid, Wilton thinks everyone, including...

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Claude Rains · Charles Bronson · Claire Carleton · Lowell Gilmore

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Eleanor Parker · Richard Boone · Joan Blondell · Hugo Haas

Plot Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes...

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Loretta Young · Barry Sullivan · Bruce Cowling · Margalo Gillmore

Plot Invalid George Jones is both physically and mentally ill. He mistakenly believes his wife Ellen and his doctor are having an affair and also planning to kill him. He writes...

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Christopher Plummer · John Phillip Law · Sam Wanamaker

Direction Harry Keller

Cast Colleen Miller · Charles Drake · Rod Taylor · Josephine Hutchinson

Plot Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted...