Delbert Mann — Director
Episodes 72
The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.
Read MoreThe Beautiful Bequest
The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.
Read MoreIn Beauty Like the Night
A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.
Read MoreBethel Merriday
A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
Read MoreThe Sudden Guest
A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.
Read MoreA Letter to Mr. Priest
An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.
Read MoreThe Life of Vincent Van Gogh
The tragic life story of the tormented artist.
Read MoreThe Trial of Steven Kent
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
Read MoreThe End is Known
A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.
Read MoreThe Charmed Circle
A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.
Read MoreSense and Sensibility
Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.
Read MoreAnything Can Happen
A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.
Read MoreThe Reluctant Landlord
Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.
Read MoreHigh Tor
Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.
Read MoreThe Touch of a Stranger
A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.
Read MoreA Husband for Mama
The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
Read MoreThe Gambler
A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.
Read MoreThe Man Who Got Away With It
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Torch for a Dark Journey
A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.
Read MoreThe Symbol: Jefferson Davis
Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
Read MoreConfession
The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
Read MoreA Matter of Life and Death
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Let Them Be Sea Captains
Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.
Read MoreNo Medals on Pop
A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.
Read MoreBulletin 120
In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.
Read MoreRoutine Assignment
A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.
Read MoreThe Birth of the Movies
Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.
Read MoreMr. Arcularis
After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.
Read MoreA Secret Island
A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.
Read MoreJustice and Mr. Pleznik
The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.
Read MoreThe Adventures of Hiram Holliday
A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.
Read MoreOperation: Airlift
The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.
Read MorePretend I Am A Stranger
The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.
Read MoreThe Return
An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.
Read MoreCome Alive
An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.
Read MoreThis Time Next Year
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.
Read MoreThe Wayward Season
A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.
Read MoreBy-Line for Murder
A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.
Read MoreWithout Fear or Favor
Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.
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During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.
Read MoreDusty Portrait
A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
Read MoreThe Best Laid Schemes
Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.
Read MoreA Man's Game
A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
Read MoreThe Monument
A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
Read MoreThe Five Fathers of Pepi
A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.
Read MoreThree Sundays
A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.
Read MoreThe Last Hour
A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
Read MoreParole Chief
The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.
Read MoreDouble Jeopardy
A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.
Read MoreThe Reluctant Citizen
A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.
Read MoreThe Recluse
Classic definition of a recluse when an older man withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. Withdrawn from the world; due to heavy trauma in his life.
Read MoreA Little Something in Reserve
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The House in Athens
Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.
Read MoreErnie Barger is 50
Ernie Barger has a startling revelation when he turns 50. The discovery that he is no longer needed by anyone sends him over the edge.
Read MoreHoliday Song
A cantor's faith is renewed.
Read MoreThe Bachelor Party
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
Read MoreUp Above the World So High
A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.
Read MoreThe Glorification of Al Toolum
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The Hangman in the Fog
An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
Read MoreSmoke Screen
A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
Read MoreThe Mother
A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
Read MoreAnd Crown Thy Good
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
Read MoreThe Man in the Middle of the Ocean
A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.
Read MoreMiddle of the Night
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Read MoreAnatomy of Fear
A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,
Read MorePlay Me Hearts and Flowers
A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.
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