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.