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  • Kraft Theatre (1947)

    1. Kraft Theatre

    Episode: 

    A Christmas Carol

    (1952)
    1947–19581hTV Episode
    An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
    StarsEric BerryPhillip BradyEva Condon
  • A Macabre Legacy (1940)

    2. A Macabre Legacy

    19401h 23m
    4.7 (33)
    A brilliant plastic surgeon uses his skills to mutilate the faces of his cheating wife and her lover.
    DirectorJosé BohrStarsMiguel ArenasConsuelo FrankRamón Armengod
  • Brigitte Helm in A Daughter of Destiny (1928)

    3. A Daughter of Destiny

    19281h 48m
    6.2 (477)
    A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.
    DirectorHenrik GaleenStarsBrigitte HelmPaul WegenerIván Petrovich
  • Sindbad the Sailor (1952)

    4. Sindbad the Sailor

    1952
    StarsJayantBhagwan PalavRanjan
  • Frank Lackteen, Rodd Redwing, Frances Rey, Nick Thompson, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, and Chief Yowlachie in Singin' in the Corn (1946)

    5. Singin' in the Corn

    19461h 5mApproved
    7.3 (28)
    Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance. A gambling ring, led by Honest John Richards, will gain possession of the town if it is not returned to the Indians. The latter believe the town is haunted, because of the schemes of Honest John, and do not want it.
    DirectorDel LordStarsJudy CanovaAllen JenkinsGuinn 'Big Boy' Williams
  • María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala (1946)

    6. María Magdalena, pecadora de Magdala

    19461h 35m
    7.0 (33)
    DirectorMiguel Contreras TorresStarsMedea de NovaraLuis AlcorizaTito Junco
  • Ulla Jacobsson and Ulf Palme in Herr Arnes penningar (1954)

    7. Herr Arnes penningar

    19541h 28m
    5.4 (82)
    Three Scottish mercenaries killing all living in a rectory , but a little girl survive.
    DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsUlla JacobssonUlf PalmeCarl-Hugo Calander
  • Paul Henreid and Patricia Medina in Siren of Bagdad (1953)

    8. Siren of Bagdad

    19531h 13mApproved
    5.3 (234)
    In ancient Baghdad, a magician uses his powers and his magic box to save slave girls.
    DirectorRichard QuineStarsPaul HenreidPatricia MedinaHans Conried
  • The Temptress and the Monk (1957)

    9. The Temptress and the Monk

    19571h 28m
    5.6 (25)
    DirectorEisuke TakizawaStarsYumeji TsukiokaRyôji HayamaOsamu Takizawa
  • A la sombra del puente (1948)

    10. A la sombra del puente

    1948
    5.6 (8)
    In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
    DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsEsther FernándezDavid SilvaAgustín Irusta
  • Adam and Eve (1949)

    11. Adam and Eve

    19491h 27m
    5.7 (28)
    Eva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her.
    DirectorMario MattoliStarsErminio MacarioIsa BarzizzaGianni Agus
  • The Original Sin (1948)

    12. The Original Sin

    19481h 45m
    6.9 (103)
    An apple juice producer can't decide between his wife and his secretary and tries to commit suicide. Being committed to psychiatry, he falls asleep and dreams of adventures as Adam and Eve in heaven and hell.
    DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsBobby ToddBettina MoissiJoana Maria Gorvin
  • Actor's Studio (1948)

    13. Actor's Studio

    Episode: 

    The Tell-Tale Heart

    (1949)
    1948–1950TV Episode
    In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
    StarsWarren StevensRussell Collins
  • 14. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

    195130mTV Movie
    The Mazarin Stone, a yellow diamond which is part of the British Crown jewels, has been stolen. Sherlock Holmes is hired by the British government to retrieve it.
    DirectorAlan BromlyStarsAndrew OsbornPhilip KingJeremy Spenser
  • Actor's Studio (1948)

    15. Actor's Studio

    Episode: 

    The Canterville Ghost

    (1949)
    1948–1950TV Episode
    In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?
    DirectorFred CarrStarsMarc ConnellyEdward AshleyJohn Shay
  • Actor's Studio (1948)

    16. Actor's Studio

    Episode: 

    O'Halloran's Luck

    (1949)
    1948–1950TV Episode
    Tim O'Halloran travels from Ireland to America for his love, Kitty Malone. He gets a job on the railroad, where he meets the leprechaun, Rory. Out of this encounter, strange and wonderful things happen for all.
    DirectorFred CarrStarsMarc ConnellyGeorge ReevesCloris Leachman
  • Alakh Niranjan (1950)

    17. Alakh Niranjan

    1950
    DirectorDada GunjalStarsDurga KhoteNirupa RoyD.K. Sapru
  • Alerte au sud (1953)

    18. Alerte au sud

    19531h 50m
    6.2 (46)
    When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.
    DirectorJean DevaivreStarsJean-Claude PascalGianna Maria CanaleErich von Stroheim
  • Muertos de risa (1957)

    19. Muertos de risa

    19571h 15m
    6.3 (30)
    Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
    DirectorAdolfo Fernández BustamanteStarsAdalberto MartínezMaría VictoriaRenée Dumas
  • La muerte enamorada (1951)

    20. La muerte enamorada

    19511h 27m
    7.3 (60)
    Rivas is an insurance sales man who hadn't been lucky in his life. He offered many times to live less years in exchange of a better live. Tasia (the dead) came for him, since he had wasted all the years to live. Tasia offer him some extra days for living in exchange to stay with him at home to understand better this world.
    DirectorErnesto CortázarStarsMiroslavaFernando FernándezJorge Reyes
  • 21. Death in the Hand

    194843mShort
    A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.
    DirectorA. Barr-SmithStarsEsme PercyErnest JayCecile Chevreau
  • Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953)

    22. Kaidan Saga yashiki

    19531h 37m
    6.2 (28)
    A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.
    DirectorRyôhei AraiStarsShinobu ArakiKôtarô BandôTakaji Fukui
  • Vedhala Ulagam (1948)

    23. Vedhala Ulagam

    19482h 40m
    8.5 (18)
    DirectorA.V. MeiyappanStarsT.R. MahalingamK. SarangapaniP.R. Mangalam
  • Mona Maris and Gilbert Roland in The Desert Hawk (1944)

    24. The Desert Hawk

    19444h 45mApproved
    6.4 (50)
    Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph. They do not know that the current-Caliph on the royal-throne is the evil twin-brother of the man they think he is.
    DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsGilbert RolandMona MarisBen Welden
  • 25. Dassehra

    1956
    DirectorChaturbhuj DoshiStarNirupa Roy

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