Soundtrack: Johnny Green

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast William Bendix · Martin Balsam · Darryl Hickman · Jesse White

Plot Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling's series, "The Twilight Zone," it was Rod Serling's production that lead to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Because TV viewers at the...

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Jane Fonda · Michael Sarrazin · Susannah York · Red Buttons

Plot In the dark years of the 1930s, dance marathons became popular as a way for desperate people to compete for prize money. Sometimes the events would drag on for weeks...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Mark Lester · Ron Moody · Shani Wallis · Oliver Reed

Plot Adaptation of Lionel Bart's musical version of the Dickens classic. Oliver (Mark Lester) is a nine-year-old orphan who's sold to an undertaker by workhouse officials for objecting to his scant...

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Fred Astaire · Jane Powell · Sarah Churchill · Peter Lawford

Plot Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast William Holden · Richard Widmark · Janice Rule · Patrick O'Neal

Plot Suave Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly has little interest in the Civil War except to make some money. But after a long drive to deliver cattle to the Unionists he finds...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Montgomery Clift · Elizabeth Taylor · Eva Marie Saint · Nigel Patrick

Plot In this sumptuous Civil War story, a willful southern belle goes mad out of fear that she may be part black.

Direction George Sidney

Cast Janet Leigh · Ann-Margret · Dick Van Dyke · Bobby Rydell

Plot Conrad Birdie is an Elvis Presley-type rock 'n' roll star who is drafted into the Army, much to the horror of his broke agent, Albert Peterson. In an attempt to...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mario Lanza · Ann Blyth · Dorothy Kirsten · Jarmila Novotna

Plot Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons....

Direction George Sidney

Cast Esther Williams · Red Skelton · Basil Rathbone · Carlos Ramírez

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester

Plot An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ginger Rogers · Lana Turner · Walter Pidgeon · Van Johnson

Plot Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that...

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Richard Chamberlain · James Gregory · Edgar Stehli · Jeanette Nolan

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Vittorio Gassman · John Ericson · Louis Calhern

Plot A rich, young woman, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he plans to finish his study of violin at the conservatory. A...

Direction James Cruze

Cast Ben Lyon · Claudette Colbert · Ernest Torrence · Hobart Cavanaugh

Plot Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Chance plays into his hands...

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Winninger · Donald O´Connor · John Dall

Plot A beautiful female disc-jockey is mistaken for the girlfriend of a geriatric millionaire by the millionaire's grandson.

Direction George Sidney

Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Dan Dailey · Shirley Jones · Vicki Trickett

Plot The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Esther Williams · Akim Tamiroff · Ricardo Montalban · John Carroll

Direction Edward Buzzell · Buster Keaton · Edward Sedgwick

Cast Van Johnson · Esther Williams · Lucille Ball · Keenan Wynn

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Robert Taylor · Geraldine Brooks · Chad Everett · Brenda Scott

Plot A widowed schoolteacher arrives at a Seminole Reservation in the Florida Everglades with his three children. He's determined to bring these Indians into the modern world but his contempt for...

Direction George Sidney

Cast Maria Schell · Theodore Bikel · Veronica Cartwright · Edward G. Robinson

Plot This was part of a series of TV productions intended to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. This one centered around a family of refugees...