HALLMARK HALL OF FAME MOVIES (from 1951)
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- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsMaurice EvansWesley AddyNorman Barrs
- StarsDavid AikenJohn ButlerFelisa CondeOne 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansSarah ChurchillFrederick WorlockThe incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
- DirectorHudson FaucettGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansJudith AndersonHouse JamesonMacbeth (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.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiWilfred JacksonHamilton LuskeStarsKathryn BeaumontEd WynnRichard HaydnAlice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsSomar AlbergRalph BellamyLeo BrittThe black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the American Revolutionary War.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansPepito ArvelloVivian BlaineAdaptation 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, awakens one morning to prepare for work, lamenting that she is in love with her brother-in-law Jim. While taking a shower she imagines herself to be the guest of a radio psychiatry show, talking about her problems; Jim married her sister Miriam two years ago, and she has never told him about her feelings towards him. She has just started dating another man, George Hand, who has ardently pursued her despite being married himself, and she has tried to forget about Jim. Miriam tells Georgina that she is pregnant, and Georgina congratulates her; Miriam reports that Jim does not know about it yet, and she is quite upset at the matter. While alone, Georgina has a daydream about giving birth to twins, with her parents serving the roles of hospital staff and Jim as her husband. In her dream, Miriam attempts to take the children but is repudiated by Jim, who says that there is "no real marriage" between them. She interrupts her own daydream in order to rush off to work. Georgina has a series of daydreams involving family and friends throughout the rest of the play.
- DirectorAlbert McCleeryStarsJohn BannerManfred FürstGregory Gaye
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMelville CooperJohn KerrEva Le GallienneMiss Moffat, a schoolteacher in Wales, realizes that one of her working-class pupils is extremely gifted.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonCyril CusackBrutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsBill BeckerPaul DouglasBelle FlowerHarry 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansWalter GreazaJoan GreenwoodThe self-assured John Tanner meets his match in feminist Anne Whitefield.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsSidney BlackmerGeorgia BurkeGreer GarsonA tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisBoris KarloffEli WallachClosely follows a dramatization by playwright Jean Anouilh, 'The Lark' depicts the trial of Joan of Arc plus a few flashback scenes.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsVal AveryTheodore BikelCharles Boyer
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsNorman AtkinsNorman BarrsHenry CalvinA 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsWilliam WarfieldEddie 'Rochester' AndersonHarry BairdGod, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsBeulah BondiDorothy EatonLarry GatesMr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather change this dire situation?
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsMax AdrianLloyd BochnerRichard BuckViola 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 sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
- DirectorSidney LumetGeorge SchaeferStarsFlorence AnglinDick ButtonMatt CrowleyIn 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsNorman BarrsHelena CarrollLiam ClancyIrish 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRichard BowlerAnthony DawsonFelix DeebankTony 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRocco BufanoBeulah GarrickJulie HarrisIn 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsAlfred DrakePatricia MorisonJulie WilsonAn 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.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsRalph BellamyEllen BurstynToni Campbell
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsEdna BestJeannie CarsonJohn ColicosPeter 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 eventually inherit from a distant cousin. Peter arrives to be engaged to the eldest daughter, Kate Pettigrew (Jeannie Carson). Over the next few weeks, he experiences the daily activities and living conditions of an unromantic Victorian England, much to his disappointment. During this time, Peter alienates and frightens Kate, her mother and brother by knowing future events he should not know. However, Peter has fallen in love with the Helen Pettigrew (Janet Munro), who returns the feelings. Peter travels back to his proper time, just before his engagement to Kate dissolves and he changes the future.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsWilliam WarfieldEddie 'Rochester' AndersonHarry BairdGod, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsNorman FellBetty FieldHelen HayesOn 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, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMartin BalsamCharles BickfordRocco BufanoImmigrant 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisChristopher PlummerHume CronynA wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMaurice EvansRichard BurtonRoddy McDowallProspero, 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJudith AndersonEvelyn VardenSiobhan McKennaA Hallmark Hall of Fame production of the classic play, with Dame Judith Anderson and Siobhan McKenna.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJoe AbdullahFelix AylmerHenry BrandonA titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRichard BasehartMarisa PavanGene NelsonA musical version of "Lost Horizon".
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- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsChristopher PlummerEdith EvansJanet MunroHallmark 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,
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJames DalyKim HunterDennis KingA drama detailing the transformation of Barabbas, a thief and murderer, who is chosen to survive by an angry mob and that Jesus shall die.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsDean StockwellThomas MitchellKeenan WynnA 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisJames DonaldBasil RathboneJulie 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.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsHelen HayesBob CraneLillian GishA drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJohn ForsytheDavid WayneMiyoshi UmekiAmerican soldiers on the island of Okinawa find that the local people are a whole lot smarter than they expected.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsJosé FerrerMala PowersWilliam PrinceThe charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisJames DonaldGladys CooperCan Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsTrevor HowardGreer GarsonEric BerryThe rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsNorman BarrsHermione GingoldHurd HatfieldHallmark presented the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah", in the Englihi language came to be written.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJason RobardsKate ReidJack BittnerThe life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRicardo MontalbanBert LahrStanley HollowayNeighboring 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 youngsters fall head-over-heels in love. To end their "feud" the fathers hire a bandit and his henchmen to fake an abduction and allow the son to rout the assailants. The plan works, but the two love birds discover that requited love is much less exciting than forbidden romance and they break off their relationship. Matt, the son, resolves to see the world and receives a severe buffeting, while Luisa, the daughter, has an unhappy romance with the bandit, who steals her most precious possession, her mother's necklace. Matt returns, sadder but wiser, and the two former lovers reunite.
- DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsPaul ScofieldPatrick WymarkSiân PhillipsDocumentary portrait of Winston Churchill the artist, based on his book Painting as a Pastime.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsIon BergerJordan CharneyDennis Cooney
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisDenholm ElliottTorin ThatcherA dramatization of the life and accomplishments of English nurse and hospital reformer Florence Nightingale.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsTrevor HowardJames DalyPamela FranklinRecounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMelvyn DouglasEd BegleyNorman WrightIn 1925, a Tennessee science teacher is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and a mighty courtroom battle ensues.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsMelvyn DouglasKim HunterHurd HatfieldThis movie deals with the sixteenth century conflict between the Catholic Church and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (Melvyn Douglas). After exhaustive research, Galileo concludes that the Aristotelean concept of the Universe is incorrect. It is Galileo's contention, like Copernicus before him, that the Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely another planet, revolving around the sun. This theory is considered heresy by the Church, and before long, Galileo is dragged before Cardinal Bellarmin (George Voskovec), leader of the dreaded Court of the Inquisition.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsPeter UstinovGeraldine PageAnthony QuayleThe last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsDirk BogardeRosemary HarrisRachel RobertsThe 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJason RobardsKate ReidJack BittnerThe life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRobert BurrTamara DaykarhanovaLynn FontanneA 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsNorman AllenClaire BloomMargaret BraidwoodWhen 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. Anne's childhood friend. Shy and inhibited, Anne had few friends other that the Churchills. In time, they would be accused of running the kingdom for their Queen, who suffered from alcoholism and gout.
- DirectorMel FerberStarsJohn ForsytheBrian AveryDick BalduzziA 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 in jeopardy, the governor decides to replace the town's bell, which had been looted by the Fascists.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsGeneviève BujoldRoddy McDowallTheodore BikelA 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJudith AndersonCharlton HestonMichael AllinsonIn 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsBill TraversVirginia McKennaJanet MunroA 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 that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.
- DirectorTom DonovanStarsHerbert AndersonDon DeForePaul DooleyA former big league quarterback, sidelined by a serious head injury, struggles to return to big time football.
- DirectorSid SmithStarsBurl IvesPeter NooneAnita GilletteA 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.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsDavid McCallumOssie DavisGeorge GrizzardStriving 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 performance by mentally-challenged actor Billy Schulman). A Black man who works for Freddie's father also becomes interested in teaching the boy, and becomes a second role model for him. A "Hall of Fame" production.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJudith AndersonMary AdamsElizabeth AshleyA 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 unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
- DirectorJoe LaytonStarsJohnny WhitakerFred GwynneCab CallowayA little shepherd boy newly arrived in Heaven tries to adjust to life in the Hereafter.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsPeter UstinovN'Gai DixonPeter BonerzAn 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 foster father of a small angry inner-city black child (N'gai Dixon), sent to spend the summer with the man during the Vietnam war.
- DirectorDavid PressmanStarsEd BegleyJ.D. CannonLeonard FreyVan Heflin As Joseph Of Arimathea
- DirectorDavid GilesStarsIan McKellenFaith BrookJohn WoodvineHamlet 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.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsGeorge C. ScottBarry SullivanColleen DewhurstAfter the death of their father, two brothers face each other, their past and the consequences of their career decisions.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsPeter UstinovJosé FerrerArnold MossThe Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
- DirectorPatrick GarlandStarsRichard HarrisJenny AgutterGraham CrowdenAn 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.
- DirectorFred CoeStarsJoanne WoodwardRichard KileyPat HingleMary Follet already has a five-year-old son and is pregnant again. Her husband dies in a car accident. How will she survive?
- DirectorK. Balachander
- DirectorFielder CookStarsJames StewartJohn McGiverMarian HaileyElwood 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, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsStephen BoydColleen DewhurstDominic GuardA savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village. Brave local fisherman, Cormac Joyce, decides to fight back.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsOrson WellesLee RemickJoan CollinsLecturer 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.
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsWendell BurtonWilliam HinnantBarry LivingstonA 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".
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsVittorio De SicaMarco Della CavaGuidarino GuidiA 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 with notion "If he could just bring his donkey to the Vatican in Rome, and ask the Pope if he could just place him in the entombed Saint's Chapel, his spiritual presence would cure him. Some how he convinces the compassionate Father to take on this pilgrimage, against all odds.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsAnne BaxterJohn ForsytheKay LenzThree teenage girls try to help their friend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsEddie AlbertTammy GrimesJudith AndersonAn eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsGeorge GrizzardLarry HainesShirley KnightFrank 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.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsBernard ArchardBarbara AtkinsonMaxine AudleyUnable to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson, King Edward VIII has to choose between the crown and love.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsRichard BurtonSophia LorenJack HedleyTwo strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsRichard BurtonVirginia McKennaAngharad ReesThe story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
- DirectorClaude WhathamStarsBrenda BruceChristine BuckleyJohn CollinThe 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.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsPatricia NealClaude AkinsSian Barbara AllenAthletic youth, aware of his terminal illness, refuses to give up.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsRichard BasehartBarry SniderHarry AndrewsGeorge Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsCharles DurningArthur HillHope LangeA 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.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsAlec GuinnessGeneviève BujoldMargaret CourtenayJulius Caesar's arrival in Egypt proves to be more than interesting to the beautiful Cleopatra, ambitious sister to the boy pharaoh.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsEd FlandersJosé FerrerJohn HousemanA 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.
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsFaye DunawayBette DavisJames SloyanIn 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 was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsZdena StudenkováVlastimil HarapesVáclav VoskaIn this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
- DirectorDwight HemionStarsMia FarrowDanny KayePaula KellyAnother live-action musical version of the play, with all-new songs, rather than the ones used in the famous Mary Martin production.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsPamela BellwoodJames FarentinoJohn ForsytheThis sequel to 1969's Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Teacher, Teacher" dramatizes a mentally-challenged teenager's love for his teacher.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsCarroll O'ConnorLeslie AckermanJohn AndersonThe 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 worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.