HALLMARK HALL OF FAME MOVIES (from 1951)
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1. Amahl and the Night Visitors (I) (1952 TV Movie)
45 min | Music
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: David Aiken, Rosemary Kuhlmann, Leon Lishner, Bill McIver
2. Hamlet (1953 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Director: Albert McCleery | Stars: Maurice Evans, Wesley Addy, Norman Barrs, Francis Bethencourt
Votes: 23
3. Amahl and the Night Visitors (1954 TV Movie)
Music, Musical
One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
Stars: David Aiken, John Butler, Felisa Conde, Rosemary Kuhlmann
Votes: 9
4. King Richard II (1954 TV Movie)
Drama
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Maurice Evans, Sarah Churchill, Frederick Worlock, Kent Smith
5. Macbeth (1954 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his King and takes the throne for himself.
Directors: Hudson Faucett, George Schaefer | Stars: Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson, House Jameson, Richard Waring
Votes: 25
6. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney | Stars: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 154,062 | Gross: $1.07M
7. The Devil's Disciple (1955 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama
The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the American Revolutionary War.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Somar Alberg, Ralph Bellamy, Leo Britt, Sarah Churchill
Votes: 12
8. Dream Girl (1955 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Adaptation of the stage play of the same name by Elmer Rice, about a frequently daydreaming woman and her love life. Georgina Allerton, a young bookstore cashier and aspiring novelist, ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Maurice Evans, Pepito Arvello, Vivian Blaine, Jose Duval
9. Cradle Song (1955 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Albert McCleery | Stars: John Banner, Manfred Fürst, Gregory Gaye, Alf Kjellin
10. The Corn Is Green (1956 TV Movie)
Drama
Miss Moffat, a schoolteacher in Wales, realizes that one of her working-class pupils is extremely gifted.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Melville Cooper, John Kerr, Eva Le Gallienne, Joan Lorring
Votes: 7
11. The Taming of The Shrew (1967)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Votes: 8,685 | Gross: $8.00M
12. Born Yesterday (1956 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Harry Brock is beginning to move up in the world. So, naturally, he wants his girlfriend to be a little less uncouth. As long as she doesn't start thinking.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Bill Becker, Paul Douglas, Belle Flower, Arthur Hill
Votes: 12
13. Man and Superman (1956 TV Movie)
90 min
The self-assured John Tanner meets his match in feminist Anne Whitefield.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Maurice Evans, Walter Greaza, Joan Greenwood, Malcolm Keen
14. The Little Foxes (1956 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Georgia Burke, Greer Garson, Lauren Gilbert
Votes: 35
15. The Lark (1957 TV Movie)
Closely follows a dramatization by playwright Jean Anouilh, 'The Lark' depicts the trial of Joan of Arc plus a few flashback scenes.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Eli Wallach, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 32
16. There Shall Be No Night (1957 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Val Avery, Theodore Bikel, Charles Boyer, Katharine Cornell
17. The Yeomen of the Guard (1957 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A presentation of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta taking place around the Tower of London. Phoebe is interested in prisoner Colonel Fairfax while his jailer is taken with the lovely Phoebe. Complications ensue.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Norman Atkins, Norman Barrs, Henry Calvin, Barbara Cook
Votes: 11
18. The Green Pastures (1957 TV Movie)
Drama
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: William Warfield, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Harry Baird, Terry Carter
Votes: 22
19. On Borrowed Time (1957 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy
Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather change this dire situation?
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Beulah Bondi, Dorothy Eaton, Larry Gates, Margaret Hamilton
Votes: 18
20. Twelfth Night (1957 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino ... See full summary »
Director: David Greene | Stars: Max Adrian, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Buck, William Cottrell
Votes: 20
21. Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958 TV Movie)
90 min | Family, Musical
In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal.
Directors: Sidney Lumet, George Schaefer | Stars: Florence Anglin, Dick Button, Matt Crowley, John Fiedler
Votes: 87
22. Little Moon of Alban (1958 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WW I she finds herself caring for what she considers the enemy. Then she begins to fall in love with soldier Kenneth Boyd.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Norman Barrs, Helena Carroll, Liam Clancy, Tom Clancy
Votes: 21
23. Dial M for Murder (1958 TV Movie)
Drama
Tony Wendice hasn't got much money to pay for his expensive tastes, but he does have a rich wife. However, she has a lover and so might leave him - if she lives long enough.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Richard Bowler, Anthony Dawson, Felix Deebank, Maurice Evans
Votes: 29
24. Johnny Belinda (1958 TV Movie)
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Rocco Bufano, Beulah Garrick, Julie Harris, Betty Lou Holland
Votes: 17
25. Kiss Me, Kate (1958 TV Movie)
90 min | Musical
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and a gangster looking for some money owed to them.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Julie Wilson, Bill Hayes
Votes: 73
26. The Christmas Tree (1958 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Ellen Burstyn, Toni Campbell, Carol Channing
Votes: 27
27. Berkeley Square (1959 TV Movie)
Fantasy, Romance
Peter Standish (John Kerr) travels back in time to 1780's London, switching places with his ancestor, Peter Standish. There, he meets the Pettigrew family, who lives in the house he will ... See full synopsis »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Edna Best, Jeannie Carson, John Colicos, Sheila M. Coonan
Votes: 7
28. The Green Pastures (1957 TV Movie)
Drama
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: William Warfield, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Harry Baird, Terry Carter
Votes: 22
29. Ah, Wilderness! (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Norman Fell, Betty Field, Helen Hayes, Abigail Kellogg
Votes: 14
30. Winterset (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Martin Balsam, Charles Bickford, Rocco Bufano, Louis Filett
31. A Doll's House (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Hume Cronyn, Randy Gaynes
Votes: 82
32. A Christmas Festival (1959 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Judith Anderson, John C. Becher, Charles Bolender, Dick Button
33. The Tempest (1960 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Maurice Evans, Richard Burton, Roddy McDowall, Tom Poston
Votes: 190
34. Cradle Song (1960 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A Hallmark Hall of Fame production of the classic play, with Dame Judith Anderson and Siobhan McKenna.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Judith Anderson, Evelyn Varden, Siobhan McKenna, Barry Jones
35. Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960 TV Movie)
A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Joe Abdullah, Felix Aylmer, Henry Brandon, Howard Caine
Votes: 19
36. Shangri-La (1960 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A musical version of "Lost Horizon".
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Richard Basehart, Marisa Pavan, Gene Nelson, Alice Ghostley
Votes: 34
37. The Golden Child
Drama | Announced
Follows the suburban nightmare that examines what it's really like to be a mother today. Centered on a group of diverse moms, their sources of worth and what causes their pain.
38. Time Remembered (I) (1961 TV Movie)
Drama
Hallmark presents Jean Anouilh's romantic drama about a prince mourning the death of a ballerina he fell hopelessly in love with, and his aunt who recruits young milliner to distract him from grieving,
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Edith Evans, Janet Munro, Barry Jones
39. Give Us Barabbas! (1961 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
A drama detailing the transformation of Barabbas, a thief and murderer, who is chosen to survive by an angry mob and that Jesus shall die.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: James Daly, Kim Hunter, Dennis King, Leonardo Cimino
Votes: 28
40. The Joke and the Valley (1961 TV Movie)
Drama
A young drifter wanders into a frontier town and becomes involved in a murder when he finds a body. The people of the valley take the death of an unpopular man as a joke.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Thomas Mitchell, Keenan Wynn, Russell Collins
41. Victoria Regina (1961 TV Movie)
77 min | Biography, Drama, History
Julie Harris portrays the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her romance with Prince Albert through her diamond jubilee in 1897.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Julie Harris, James Donald, Basil Rathbone, Pamela Brown
Votes: 37
42. Arsenic and Old Lace (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Helen Hayes, Bob Crane, Lillian Gish, Fred Gwynne
Votes: 280
43. Teahouse of the August Moon (1962 TV Movie)
Comedy
American soldiers on the island of Okinawa find that the local people are a whole lot smarter than they expected.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: John Forsythe, David Wayne, Miyoshi Umeki, Paul Ford
Votes: 69
44. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Not Rated | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 4,573
45. Pygmalion (1963 TV Movie)
75 min
Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Julie Harris, James Donald, Gladys Cooper, George Rose
Votes: 18
46. Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963 TV Movie)
76 min | Biography, Drama
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Trevor Howard, Greer Garson, Eric Berry, Norman Barrs
Votes: 40
47. The Patriots (1963 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Howard St. John, John Fraser, Laurinda Barrett
Votes: 72
48. A Cry of Angels (1963 TV Movie)
Drama
Hallmark presented the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah", in the Englihi language came to be written.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Norman Barrs, Hermione Gingold, Hurd Hatfield, Kathryn Loder
49. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1964 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Jason Robards, Kate Reid, Jack Bittner, Burt Brinckerhoff
Votes: 20
50. The Fantasticks (1964 TV Movie)
Musical
Neighboring widowers plot to romantically unite their son and daughter by pretending to feud and forbidding the two children to associate with each other. Their scheme works and the two ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Bert Lahr, Stanley Holloway, Susan Watson
Votes: 56
51. The Other World of Winston Churchill (1964 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary portrait of Winston Churchill the artist, based on his book Painting as a Pastime.
Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Paul Scofield, Patrick Wymark, Siân Phillips, Lady Birley
Votes: 21
52. The Magnificent Yankee (1965 TV Movie)
Biography
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Ion Berger, Jordan Charney, Dennis Cooney, Grover Dale
Votes: 14
53. The Holy Terror (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A dramatization of the life and accomplishments of English nurse and hospital reformer Florence Nightingale.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Julie Harris, Denholm Elliott, Torin Thatcher, Kate Reid
Votes: 14
54. Eagle in a Cage (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Trevor Howard, James Daly, Pamela Franklin, George Rose
Votes: 20
55. Inherit the Wind (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
In 1925, a Tennessee science teacher is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and a mighty courtroom battle ensues.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Ed Begley, Norman Wright, Diane Baker
Votes: 81
56. Lamp at Midnight (1966 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
This movie deals with the sixteenth century conflict between the Catholic Church and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (Melvyn Douglas). After exhaustive research, Galileo concludes that ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Kim Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, William Kerwin
Votes: 33
57. Barefoot in Athens (1966 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page, Anthony Quayle, Eric Berry
Votes: 80
58. Blithe Spirit (1966 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Roberts, Ruth Gordon
Votes: 75
59. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1964 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Jason Robards, Kate Reid, Jack Bittner, Burt Brinckerhoff
Votes: 20
60. Anastasia (II) (1967 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
A group of swindlers convinces a girl suffering from amnesia that she's the daughter and sole surviving child of Czar Nicholas II in order to collect the vast amount of money she would inherit.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Robert Burr, Tamara Daykarhanova, Lynn Fontanne, Brenda Forbes
Votes: 19
61. Soldier in Love (1967 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
When Princess Anne ascends to the English throne in 1702, she lifts to royal eminence two of her closest friends, John Churchill, one of the Crown's illustrious soldiers, and his wife Sarah... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Norman Allen, Claire Bloom, Margaret Braidwood, Roderick Cook
Votes: 15
62. A Bell for Adano (1967 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintroduce democracy, but his efforts are hindered by his commanding general. Placing his career... See full summary »
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: John Forsythe, Brian Avery, Dick Balduzzi, Harry Bellaver
Votes: 15
63. Saint Joan (1967 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Drama
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her trial.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Roddy McDowall, Theodore Bikel, James Daly
Votes: 30
64. Elizabeth the Queen (1968 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Judith Anderson, Charlton Heston, Michael Allinson, Alan Caillou
Votes: 88
65. The Admirable Crichton (1968 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Janet Munro, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 147
66. A Punt, a Pass, and a Prayer (1968 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
A former big league quarterback, sidelined by a serious head injury, struggles to return to big time football.
Director: Tom Donovan | Stars: Herbert Anderson, Don DeFore, Paul Dooley, Nancy Dussault
Votes: 21
67. Pinocchio (1968 TV Movie)
90 min | Musical
A musical fairy tale. The wondrous story of the wood-worker whose affection for the puppet he has so skilfully carved changes the toy into a real boy. But that is only the beginning.
Director: Sid Smith | Stars: Burl Ives, Peter Noone, Anita Gillette, Mort Marshall
Votes: 22
68. Teacher, Teacher (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Striving to reassemble his life, alcoholic teacher Hamilton Cade accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child," only to find that young Freddie is mentally-challenged (an outstanding ... See full summary »
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: David McCallum, Ossie Davis, George Grizzard, Billy Schulman
Votes: 53
69. The File on Devlin (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Judith Anderson, Mary Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Barry Cahill
Votes: 18
70. The Littlest Angel (1969 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Family, Fantasy
A little shepherd boy newly arrived in Heaven tries to adjust to life in the Hereafter.
Director: Joe Layton | Stars: Johnny Whitaker, Fred Gwynne, Cab Calloway, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 381
71. A Storm in Summer (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
An emotionally powerful story written by Rod Serling, about a hostile elderly Jewish man (Peter Ustinov), as the proprietor of an upstate New York delicatessen, who becomes the reluctant ... See full summary »
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Peter Ustinov, N'Gai Dixon, Peter Bonerz, Anne Collings
Votes: 56
72. Neither Are We Enemies (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Van Heflin As Joseph Of Arimathea
Director: David Pressman | Stars: Ed Begley, J.D. Cannon, Leonard Frey, Jay Hammer
Votes: 14
73. Hamlet (I) (1970 TV Movie)
Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Ian McKellen, Faith Brook, John Woodvine, Susan Fleetwood
Votes: 78
74. The Price (1971 TV Movie)
90 min
After the death of their father, two brothers face each other, their past and the consequences of their career decisions.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: George C. Scott, Barry Sullivan, Colleen Dewhurst, David Burns
Votes: 30
75. Gideon (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Peter Ustinov, José Ferrer, Arnold Moss, Eric Christmas
Votes: 37
76. The Snow Goose (1971 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
An aging artist who lives a solitary life as a lighthouse keeper in an Essex fishing village assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose.
Director: Patrick Garland | Stars: Richard Harris, Jenny Agutter, Graham Crowden, Freda Bamford
Votes: 449
77. All the Way Home (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Mary Follet already has a five-year-old son and is pregnant again. Her husband dies in a car accident. How will she survive?
Director: Fred Coe | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Kiley, Pat Hingle, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 54
79. Harvey (1972 TV Movie)
76 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, ... See full summary »
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: James Stewart, John McGiver, Marian Hailey, Helen Hayes
Votes: 1,144
80. The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972 TV Movie)
72 min | Drama
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village. Brave local fisherman, Cormac Joyce, decides to fight back.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Colleen Dewhurst, Dominic Guard, Deryck Barnes
Votes: 12
81. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Comedy
Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than anyone expects.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Joan Collins, Don Knotts
Votes: 94
82. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1973 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A lot of shorts, friends, and music make Charlie Brown and friends very happy to see what happens with Charlie Brown in this fruitbowl of a show called, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Wendell Burton, William Hinnant, Barry Livingston, Mark Montgomery
Votes: 294
83. The Small Miracle (1973 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Family
A small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick donkey. Hearing the stories of St Frances on how he loved cared, even cured animals, comes up ... See full summary »
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marco Della Cava, Guidarino Guidi, Umberto Raho
Votes: 87
84. Lisa, Bright and Dark (1973 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Three teenage girls try to help their friend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Anne Baxter, John Forsythe, Kay Lenz, Anne Lockhart
Votes: 147
85. The Borrowers (1973 TV Movie)
Unrated | 81 min | Family, Fantasy
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, Judith Anderson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 377
86. The Country Girl (1974 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up - but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: George Grizzard, Larry Haines, Shirley Knight, John Lithgow
Votes: 17
87. Crown Matrimonial (1974 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
Unable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Bernard Archard, Barbara Atkinson, Maxine Audley, Peter Barkworth
Votes: 11
88. Brief Encounter (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach
Votes: 702
89. The Gathering Storm (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees, Lesley Dunlop
Votes: 268
90. All Creatures Great and Small (1975 TV Movie)
92 min | Biography, Drama
The story of a young veterinarian's apprenticeship to a somewhat eccentric older vet in the English countryside, and the young man's hesitating courtship of the daughter of a local farmer.
Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: Brenda Bruce, Christine Buckley, John Collin, Jane Collins
Votes: 929
91. Eric (1975 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
Athletic youth, aware of his terminal illness, refuses to give up.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Patricia Neal, Claude Akins, Sian Barbara Allen, Mark Hamill
Votes: 143
92. Valley Forge (1975 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, War
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Richard Basehart, Barry Snider, Harry Andrews, Alan Cauldwell
Votes: 86
93. The Rivalry (1975 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
A television adaptation of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Abraham Lincoln did verbal battle with Stephen Douglas, his opponent for a U.S. Senate seat, over the issue of slavery.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Charles Durning, Arthur Hill, Hope Lange, Stephen Manley
94. Caesar and Cleopatra (1976 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Julius Caesar's arrival in Egypt proves to be more than interesting to the beautiful Cleopatra, ambitious sister to the boy pharaoh.
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Alec Guinness, Geneviève Bujold, Margaret Courtenay, Iain Cuthbertson
Votes: 53
95. Truman at Potsdam (1976 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama
A dramatization of the World War II Potsdam Conference of July 1945 with U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Ed Flanders, José Ferrer, John Houseman, Barry Morse
96. The Disappearance of Aimee (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama
In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Bette Davis, James Sloyan, James Woods
Votes: 759
97. Beauty and the Beast (1978)
91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Jana Brejchová
Votes: 1,816
98. Peter Pan (1976 TV Movie)
120 min | Musical, Family, Fantasy
Another live-action musical version of the play, with all-new songs, rather than the ones used in the famous Mary Martin production.
Director: Dwight Hemion | Stars: Mia Farrow, Danny Kaye, Paula Kelly, Lynsey Baxter
Votes: 244
99. Emily, Emily (1977 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
This sequel to 1969's Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Teacher, Teacher" dramatizes a mentally-challenged teenager's love for his teacher.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Pamela Bellwood, James Farentino, John Forsythe, Paul-Emile Frappier
Votes: 11
100. The Last Hurrah (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Leslie Ackerman, John Anderson, Dana Andrews
Votes: 48
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