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1.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Father and Son
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders refuses to lend money to his son Sam, who is anxious to win over a cheap showgirl.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Davis, Frederick Worlock
Votes: 563
2.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
The Greer Case
(1957)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Richard Joy, Melvyn Douglas, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Edmund Gwenn
3. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
Stars: Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford
Votes: 419
4. The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
93 min | Comedy
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 1,285
5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, Lillian O'Malley, John Williams
Votes: 19,354
6. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Mystery
Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 41,332
7. The Millionaire (1955–1960)
30 min | Drama
In this hit 1950s TV series, a millionaire indulges himself giving away $1 million apiece to persons he has never met.
Stars: Marvin Miller, Paul Frees, Roy Gordon, Russ Conway
Votes: 606
8. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
25 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In this science-fiction anthology series host Truman Bradley introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's, concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy.
Stars: Truman Bradley, Michael Fox, Marshall Thompson, Peter Hansen
Votes: 445
9. It's a Dog's Life (1955)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Jeff Richards, Jarma Lewis, Edmund Gwenn, Dean Jagger
Votes: 525
10. Matinee Theatre (1955–1958)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A daily anthology show, featuring original material, as well as adaptations of literary classics.
Stars: John Conte, Peter Hansen, Sarah Churchill, Johnny Crawford
Votes: 133
11. The Star and the Story (1955–1956)
30 min | Drama
Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors and actresses that went onto bigger things.
Stars: Henry Fonda, Hugh Sanders, Frank Lovejoy, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 63
12. The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Keith Richards, Mona Freeman, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 42
13.
The Star and the Story (1955–1956)
Episode:
The Great Shinin' Saucer of Paddy Faneen
(1955)
30 min | Drama
Paddy Faneen is the town storyteller and McGinnis is his chief skeptic. Problem is, McGinnis' grandson Terry wants to marry Paddy's granddaughter Sheila and Paddy's latest yarn about a flying saucer is causing turmoil between the 2 clans.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Arthur Shields, Sheila Connolly, Harry Shannon
Votes: 9
14.
The Millionaire (1955–1960)
Episode:
The Walter Carter Story
(1955)
30 min | Drama
Walter Carter has had mental care and has had hallucinations about receiving a fortune since a business failure has broke him hurting his partners so those associates and his family believe that his million is imaginary.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Marvin Miller, Edmund Gwenn, Hugh Beaumont, Julie Jordan
Votes: 15
15.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
A Visit from Dr. Pliny
(1955)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Quirky strangers appear at the research institute. They have curious ideas, and unexplained knowledge. Local researchers aren't sure if they are legitimate or if they are dangerous nuts. What will happen if they are allowed into the lab?
Director: Henry S. Kesler | Stars: Truman Bradley, Edmund Gwenn, William Schallert, Juney Ellis
Votes: 36
16.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Strange Doctor Lorenz
(1955)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A physician who is losing the use of his hands due to X-ray radiation seeks out a mysterious beekeeper who is apparently able to cure the most severe burns.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Truman Bradley, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Curtis, Kristine Miller
Votes: 33
17.
Matinee Theatre (1955–1958)
Episode:
Santa Is No Saint
(1955)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A stern business man believes his children should be told the truth about Santa Claus.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: John Conte, Jean Byron, Edmund Gwenn, Anita Louise
18.
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955)
Episode:
Man Who Liked Little People
(1955)
Comedy
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Edmund Gwenn
19. Them! (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Votes: 24,227
20. The Student Prince (1954)
Approved | 107 min | Musical, Romance
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern
Votes: 994
21.
The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode:
Come On, Red
(1954)
30 min | Drama
While reading Faust, a man falls asleep and dreams he makes a pact with the devil.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Edward Earle, Sam Flint, Jay C. Flippen, Edmund Gwenn
22. The Bigamist (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 4,737
23. Mister Scoutmaster (1953)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Family
Snobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch.... See full summary »
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow, Frances Dee
Votes: 480
24. The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953 TV Special)
113 min
The 25th Academy Awards and the first time the ceremony is broadcast on television. Held on March 19th, 1953 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, it is hosted by Bob Hope and honors the films of 1952.
Directors: Bill Bennington, John Rich | Stars: Bob Hope, Anne Baxter, Edgar Bergen, Jacques Bergerac
Votes: 215
25.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
Guardian of the Clock
(1953)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Ludwig Stössel, Una Merkel, Roland Winters
26. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
30 min | Drama
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
Stars: Philip Carey, Laraine Day, Willis Bouchey, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 276
27. Les Miserables (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 1,130 | Gross: $2.40M
28. Sally and Saint Anne (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
Sally O'Moyne, a good-natured but awkward school-girl lives with her extended and eccentric Irish-American clan. One day at school, unable to find her lunch bucket, Sally says a prayer to ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 144
29. Bonzo Goes to College (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
The educated chimp moves in with a college football coach's family.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Drake, Gigi Perreau
Votes: 163
30. Something for the Birds (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Enviromentalist Anne Richards goes to Washington D. C. to fight for getting legislation passed to save the last remaining sanctuary of the almost-extinct California Condor. She enlists the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Victor Mature, Patricia Neal, Edmund Gwenn, Larry Keating
Votes: 233
31.
The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode:
Heart of Gold
(1952)
30 min | Drama
James Lindsey insists his children Fitzjames and Violet face reality when Christmas fantasies are strong, but when their snowman comes to life and starts providing magical experiences, his ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Anita Louise, Tommy Rettig, Beverly Washburn
Votes: 23
32. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.
Stars: James Mason, Irene Dunne, Robert Paige, Walter Coy
Votes: 338
33. Peking Express (1951)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama, Film-Noir
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn, Marvin Miller
Votes: 156 | Gross: $2.40M
34.
The Frank Sinatra Show (1950–1952)
Episode:
Episode #2.12
(1951)
Music
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Boyd, Edmund Gwenn, Marilyn Maxwell
35. Mister 880 (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 1,972
36. Louisa (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
To her family's discomfiture, grandmother Louisa starts dating two men...a grocer and her son's boss.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 549
37. For Heaven's Sake (1950)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An angel disguises himself as a crusty old rancher in order to visit Earth and help an unborn child find suitable parents.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 508
38. A Woman of Distinction (1950)
85 min | Comedy
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Carter
Votes: 546
39. Pretty Baby (1950)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
A working girl rises in an ad agency after impressing a baby-food client with her lifelike dolls.
Director: Bretaigne Windust | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 428
40. The Frank Sinatra Show (1950–1952)
60 min | Music
The Frank Sinatra Show (also known as Bulova Watch Time) was an American musical variety series hosted by Frank Sinatra from 1950 to 1952.
Stars: Frank Sinatra, June Hutton, Ben Blue, The Whippoorwills
Votes: 45
41. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
G | 76 min | Drama, Family
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen
Votes: 666
42. Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans' families.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 1,143
43. Hills of Home (1948)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Drama
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the ... See full summary »
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh
Votes: 674
44. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 54,957 | Gross: $2.65M
45. Life with Father (1947)
Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Family
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 6,400
46. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Approved | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart
Votes: 1,814
47. Thunder in the Valley (1947)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam (Edmund Gwenn),who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son Davis (Lon McAllister). ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Votes: 55
48. Undercurrent (1946)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Middle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 3,554
49. Of Human Bondage (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 755
50. Bewitched (1945)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Addison Richards
Votes: 673