The second half of The FBI's sophomore season sees Agents Erskine ((Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) battling threats both foreign and domestic at the behest of Assistant Director Ward (Philip Abbott). The action amps up to all-star heights in the two-part episode "The Executioners," in which the agents take on a fractured La Cosa Nostra with guest performances by Walter Pidgeon, Telly Savalas, Susan Strasberg, Celeste Holm and Robert Duvall. Other guest stars of note in this...

Shortly before the Summer of Love signaled a radical shift in popular culture, the smartly dressed agents of The FBI marshaled their talents to keep the nations safe from a myriad of menaces both foreign and domestic. Under the auspices of legendary executive producer Quinn Martin, The FBI's third season had the craft of creating teleplays "produced with full government cooperation and based on real FBI cases" down to a science - well before today's forensic descendants. Special guest stars...

A meek and mild bank teller awakens one morning from a disturbing dream in which he has killed a man, only to find that his dream may well have been real. Was he sleepwalking? Was he hypnotized? The suspense never lets up in this film noir original (later remade as "Nightmare" with Edward G. Robinson), as the story unravels to reveal an eerie tale of murder and mind control. Stars a young Deforest Kelley (later of Star Trek fame) in his feature film debut.

I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT, BUT...MY BRAIN WAS HANDCUFFED! Can a man commit MURDER in a dream?...Here is the spine tingling, blood freezing answer...different from any mystery you've ever seen!... Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, the king of psychological suspense, Fear in the Night tells the tale of a man who dreams he killed someone, then suspects it was real! Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, and Ann Doran star in this chiller from award winning director Maxwell Shane (The Glass Wall, The Naked...

When the record book closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before he racked up those numbers, Piersall faced a foe much tougher than a 90-m.p.h. fastball: mental illness. Anthony Perkins stars as Piersall in this powerful true story. This marks the filmmaking debut of Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan, the team whose credits include TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. From top to...

Some real Hollywood heavyweights join forces to make this light -- but true- comedy about a clown, a lion, and the US Army. After Fearless Fagan's story was recounted in Life magazine, Hollywood pounced on the chance to bring the big pussycat to the public. Stanley Donen, fresh off the smash hit Singin' in the Rain, took the reins, with famed screen scribe Charles Lederer (His Girl Friday) pitching in on the patter. Janet Leigh brought the glam, while a lion named Fearless Fagan delivered a...

A satirical comedy about an unsophisticated country boy who treks off to Chicago, gets shot by mobsters and awakens to find that he has the powers of Superman.

Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz. A young American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue to be found is the mysterious seal of the White Frog. Another well-done German-made Wallace thriller. From 16mm.

Lynn Markham (Joan Crawford), a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber (Jeff Chandler) who may be harboring a sinister secret. Directed by Joseph Pevney, Female on the Beach is a stylish showcase for Crawford's intense performance and features Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway and Natalie Schafer in key...

Jealousy rears its head in laughter as Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis and Van Heflin battle the green-eyed monster in The Feminine Touch, a snappy screwball comedy cowritten by Ogden Nash. A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is...

One night a village ferryman hears the passenger bell. At the dock, he finds a dark figure waiting to cross the black waters. It's Death, who has come for him. Soon after, young Maria takes over as the new ferryman. One night she gives a ride to a wounded man who is marked for death. But when Death comes she tries to save him. The scene where Maria dances with death is a great moment. She later flees over the dark countryside and hides in a church, but to no avail. With Death at her heals,...

Feud of the Trail places the dashing Tom Tylerr, a B-Western star (and the original Captain Marvel) in dual roles; as a man seeking justice against a band of outlaws, and the band's vicious gang leader. Capably directed by helmer Robert F. Hill (Flash Gordon, Tarzan the Fearless), and shot at the iconic Lazy A Ranch outside of Los Angeles, the film follows Tom Wade, an honorable man with a face that's nearly identical to nefarious gang leader Jack Granger. Using this to his advantage, Wade...

Donald O'Connor headlines the musical comedy Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948) with co-stars Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, of Ma and Pa Kettle fame. When hair tonic salesman Wilbur McMurty (O'Connor) gets caught up in a rivalry between two frontier towns, he finds himself coerced into being the front runner in their annual footrace. The results prove to be hilariously unpredictable and include some lively musical interludes featuring the songs "S'posin," "Me and My Shadow," and the...

As a headline-making murder trial unfolds, three forceful men seek to use it as a springboard to the governorship. A power-hungry prosecuting attorney, a U.S. senator who views the State House as an inside track to the nation's presidency, and a judge whose oversight may be challenged by his career interests clash in ways subtle, overt, and willfully calculated. Will the victor reap the spoils? Released the year before Advise and Consents tale of governmental infighting, the film- noirish...

Director Gordon Douglas remake of Kiss of Death from 1947 tells the story of a convicted bank robber, sent to prison, who must find a psychotic killer that threatened his family and is after the loot from his last heist. Starring Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, and Dolores Michaels with Linda Cristal.

You won't find a pool in a bullring. But you will find glamorous Esther Williams, who, except for one brief water sequence in the lively and colorful film Fiesta, forsakes her trademark swimsuit for the matador's red cape and black montera. Hollywood's Chlorine Queen portrays Maria, who disguises herself as her twin brother Mario (Ricardo Montalban in his first credited U.S. film) and enters the ring in his place after he abandons bullfighting for classical music studies. An Oscar -nominated...

Born into a Mexican show-biz family, petite entertainer Armida (Vendrell) started working on the vaudeville circuit when she was a child. By the time she was eighteen, Armida starred opposite John Barrymore in General Crack and Rin Tin Tin in On the Border. Her quick and spirited delivery, combined with her singing and dancing talent, kept her busy with film roles throughout the 1930s and 40s.Fiesta (1941, Color): The people of El Rancho de los Flores plan to celebrate the homecoming of...

Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart Jose. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes Jose and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.

Manufacturing executive Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) walks through his luxurious Manhattan home, singing Happy Birthday to himself. His family -- from inattentive wife (Verree Teasdale) to insouciant son (Tim Holt) to a giddy daughter (Kathryn Adams) drawn to the family's Marxist-leaning chauffeur -- all ignore the day. Then, Alfred brings home a jobless, level-headed working girl (Ginger Rogers) he meets in Central Park, provides her lodging and the Bordens fall under the influence of this...

The melodies of You've Got That Thing and You Do Something to Me lace the soundtrack, but Hollywood did something to the screen version of the Cole Porter musical Fifty Million Frenchmen: It dropped the songs! At the time, moviegoers frowned on song-and-dance vehicles, so the studio-tinkered result was a frantic contraption of nonstop jokes, sassy pre-Code double entendres and the antics of vaudeville/radio stars Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The slender plot concerns a $50,000 bet that...

To escape an arranged marriage, a young lord (Paul Chang Chung) flees to the hidden mountains of Sichuan to study martial arts from one of the world's greatest fighters. When his master is killed, the young warrior sets out to avenge his death, unaware that he's walking into a deadly battle with the woman (Bik Wan Lo) he left at the altar. The young lord is about to experience the true meaning of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

Wrestling manager Honest "Ham" Hamilton (Jack Oakie) is in hock up to his neck -- and his continental creditors are calling due. So Ham is counting on his star wrestler, Mike Scanlon (Gordon Jones), to take a dive, allowing Ham to settle his tab. Nightclub crooner Robert Densmore (John Boles) has a dilettante debutante fiancee, Marcia (Margot Grahame), who has bet big on Mike, however, and is sitting ringside. Catching Mike's eye, Marcia brings enough heat to bear to inspire Mike to win the...

U.S. airman Ed Hardin pilots a damaged P-47 Thunderbolt toward a perilous but successful belly flop landing at his fighter-group base in the English countryside. The battered aircraft may never wing into the skies again. Hardin will. "Notify the taxpayer to get me another one," he quips. Filmmaker Raoul Walsh (Objective, Burma!) is at the controls of this keep-'em-flying Technicolor adventure, augmenting thunderous sky battles with actual wartime footage. Edmond O'Brien portrays Hardin, who...

Fighting back is the story of Nick Sanders a former GI, honorably discharged from the Army with a pardon on his former crimes. When he returns home he comes back to his wife and son, however, his former past rears its ugly head when a former acquaintance, Sam Lang, imposes on his life. Paul Langton, Jean Rogers, Gary Gray, Joe Sawyer and John Kellogg star in this 1948 classic.