
Playhouse 90 (1956)
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John Frankenheimer — Director
Episodes 27
Forbidden Area
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
Read MoreRendezvous in Black
A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
Read MoreThe Family Nobody Wanted
A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.
Read MoreThe Ninth Day
Events in the aftermath of World War Three.
Read MoreThe Comedian
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
Read MoreThe Last Tycoon
A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Read MoreIf You Knew Elizabeth
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Winter Dreams
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Clash by Night
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
Read MoreThe Fabulous Irishman
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Read MoreThe Death of Manolete
The last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador.
Read MoreA Sound of Different Drummers
In a dystopian society, reading is forbidden.
Read MoreThe Troublemakers
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The Thundering Wave
Middle-aged actress Victoria Maxwell comes to terms with her destructive lifestyle as she struggles with the lead role in a Broadway-bound play. Matters are complicated by the fact that she is co-starring opposite her estranged husband, Allen Grant, whom she never stopped loving.
Read MoreThe Last Man
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The Violent Heart
Photographer Paul is invited to a French estate to take pictures but a romance develops with the lady of the house. A sudden death creates a suspicion of murder.
Read MoreRumors of Evening
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Bomber's Moon
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War II Germany, but keeps on going and won't tolerate a young lieutenant losing his nerve under the strain, who refuses to continue.
Read MoreA Town Has Turned to Dust
A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
Read MoreDays of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Read MoreFace of a Hero
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The Blue Men
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Read MoreFor Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
Read MoreJourney to the Day
Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
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