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51. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama
An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Don Herbert, Nancy Reagan, Lee Marvin
Votes: 432
52. 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
53. Valerie (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Western
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker
Votes: 392
54. Gas (1981)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people ... See full summary »
Director: Les Rose | Stars: Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Helen Shaver
Votes: 385
55. Take Me to Town (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A pretty saloon entertainer escapes the marshal's custody and hides in a small town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see their father re-married.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Lee Patrick
Votes: 385
56. Pharos of Chaos (1983)
PG-13 | 119 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary profile of actor Sterling Hayden .
Directors: Manfred Blank, Wolf-Eckart Bühler | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Charles Brauer, Wolf-Eckart Bühler
Votes: 365
57. The Eternal Sea (1955)
Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama, War
Rear Adm. John M. Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) fights to stay on after losing a leg on an aircraft carrier in World War II.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger
Votes: 359
58. The Golden Hawk (1952)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, History
The seafaring adventures of French privateer Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo during the Franco-Spanish-English war of the 17th century.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton
Votes: 358
59. 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
60. The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957–1962)
105 min | Comedy, Family, Talk-Show
Originally airing during late-night, Tonight Starring Jack Paar was an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. After 1959, it was officially known as The Jack Paar Show.
Stars: Hugh Downs, Jose Melis, Jack Paar, Cliff Arquette
Votes: 324
61. The Outsider (1979)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.
Director: Tony Luraschi | Stars: Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn, Niall O'Brien
Votes: 323
62. National Geographic Explorer (1985– )
120 min | Documentary, History
A weekly series of short documentary segments funded by the National Geographic Society and done in the style of the National Geographic Specials. In 2003, the show was re-branded National ... See full summary »
Stars: Salvatore Vecchio, Peter Coyote, Lisa Ling, Ryan Duffy
Votes: 316
63. Angel's Leap (1971)
95 min | Crime, Drama
The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Jean Yanne, Senta Berger, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 297
64. The Come On (1956)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White
Votes: 277
65. Battle Taxi (1955)
82 min | Drama, War
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson, Leo Needham
Votes: 268
66. Timberjack (1955)
Passed | 94 min | Western
In the late 1800s Montana, two competing logging operators clash over ownership of a logging railroad, land and timber clear-cutting rights.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou
Votes: 239
67. Blaze of Noon (1947)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Drama
In the 1920s, four brothers fly for the fledgling U.S. Air Mail Service.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix
Votes: 217
68. Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
Approved | 67 min | Western
A double-crossed partner left for dead seeks revenge against the wishes of a woman who nursed him back to health and fell in love with him.
Directors: Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Mary Beth Hughes
Votes: 213
69.
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1977)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young Vito Corlenone rises up the mafia hierarchy.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan
Votes: 206
70. Fighter Attack (1953)
Approved | 80 min | War
World War II action in Italy involving fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, J. Carrol Naish, Joy Page, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 200
71.
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1977)
140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Michael manages the responsibilities of being a mafia don. Kay grows complacent with her husband's tightening of the crime syndicate, and danger looms due to a mysterious traitor.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan
Votes: 197
72.
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1977)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hitman Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo is hired by the Tattaglia and Barzini families to kill off Don Vito Corleone, the most powerful mafia Don in New York. Vito survives the assassination, and... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan
Votes: 187
73.
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1977)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Michael Corleone adapts to a life of solitude, Sonny grapples with his sister's abuse, and Vito seeks council.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan
Votes: 185
74.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
Days of Wine and Roses
(1958)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Piper Laurie, Charles Bickford, Malcolm Atterbury
Votes: 177
75.
Banacek (1972–1974)
Episode:
Fly Me- If You Can Find Me
(1974)
TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A jetliner blows its tires as it emergency lands in a middle-of-nowhere kind of small Nevada town. Through crippled, by dawn it's completely gone, and the pilot on guard duty dead. Banacek flies out to find the missing plane.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: George Peppard, Sterling Hayden, Victoria Principal, Jack Kelly
Votes: 169
76. Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1973–1981)
60 min | Talk-Show
The Tomorrow Show was an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder.
Stars: Tom Snyder, Kelly Lange, Clare Boothe Luce, William C. Rader
Votes: 146
77. Der Havarist (1984)
100 min | Drama
An adaptation of actor Sterling Hayden's autobiography, WANDERER, with three different actors portraying Hayden in his various aspects, with special focus on Hayden's brief flirtation with ... See full summary »
Director: Wolf-Eckart Bühler | Stars: Burkhard Driest, Rüdiger Vogler, Hannes Wader, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 146
78. Bahama Passage (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 145
79. Journey Into Light (1951)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
A minister embittered by his wife's suicide turns away from God. He ends up among the bums of skid row before he finds meaning again through the love of a missionary's blind daughter.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Viveca Lindfors, Thomas Mitchell, Ludwig Donath
Votes: 143
80. Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Western
A bandido forces a pilot to fly him and some gold bars to the coast, but when the plane is shot down, they make the trip cross-country, accompanied by the bandit's nubile daughter, leaving a trail of love and death behind.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Carlos Múzquiz
Votes: 141
81.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Les Rand Story
(1957)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Sterling Hayden, Sallie Brophy
Votes: 130
82. Virginia (1941)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Helen Broderick
Votes: 128
83. Cinema (1964–1975)
30 min | Documentary
Weekly film magazine, featuring film reviews, interviews with celebrities and historical lookbacks.
Stars: Michael Scott, Michael Parkinson, Brian Trueman, Clive James
Votes: 121
84. The Albatross (2016)
TV-PG | 7 min | Animation, Short
In the center of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer's solitary fishing trip is disrupted by a strange creature from the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Directors: Joel Best, Alex Jeremy, Alex Karonis | Star: Sterling Hayden
Votes: 106
85. The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The award winning bing play of Mary Chase came to television in 1958. It tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd (Art Carney), a personable chap who drinks a little, and befriends a "pookah", a ... See full summary »
Stars: Tim O'Connor, James Valentine, Hurd Hatfield, John Colicos
Votes: 105
86. Bertolucci Shoots '1900' (1976 TV Movie)
Unrated | 62 min | Documentary
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Gianni Amelio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Robert De Niro
Votes: 84
87. Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)
30 min | Drama
Goodyear Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC.
Stars: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Peter Leeds
Votes: 69
88.
The Starlost (1973–1974)
Episode:
Voyage of Discovery
(1973)
60 min | Sci-Fi
Devon tours a huge spaceship, the ark, to discover who built it and where it's taking them. In Each episode Devon meets someone and finds out a little bit more about it.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Sterling Hayden
Votes: 67
89. Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Documentary
A ten episode Tv series on cinephilia, in which contributors to both American and French films are interviewed.
Stars: Michel Boujut, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 64
90. Ternos Caçadores (1969)
115 min | Drama
A family of four people (parents and two children, one of them still a kid) live by the sea. The father studies the migratory flights of birds. One day, there appears an escaped prisoner on... See full summary »
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Maureen McNally, Susan Strasberg, Stuart Whitman
Votes: 63
91. Le grand départ (1972)
71 min | Drama
A mysterious man, who calls himself Cain, withdraws from the world masquerading as a holy man and brings with him a young girl, Innocence, promising that they will soon reach paradise, ... See full summary »
Director: Martial Raysse | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anne Wiazemsky, Gilles Raysse, Lucienne Hamon
Votes: 57
92.
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Episode:
Part 1
(1982)
TV-PG | 137 min | Drama, History, War
The drama begins in 1859 when John leaves the Geyser family farm for Pennsylvania, where he gets a job as an artist correspondent for the paper owned by his uncle, Jacob Hale, Sr.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Stacy Keach, John Hammond, Julia Duffy, Robin Gammell
Votes: 54
93.
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Episode:
Part 2
(1982)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, History, War
May 1862 the War between the States continues with the Peninsula Campaign. The Hales and the Geysers attend a barn dance. Luke Hale joins the Confederate Balloon Corps. Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Stacy Keach, John Hammond, Julia Duffy, Robin Gammell
Votes: 49
94.
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Episode:
Part 3
(1982)
TV-PG | 131 min | Drama, History, War
Beginning at Gettysberg, including a dangerous mission by Jonas, through to the end of The Civil War, where the Geyser and Hales have changed forever.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Stacy Keach, John Hammond, Julia Duffy, Robin Gammell
Votes: 46
95. Celebrity Playhouse (1955–1956)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Angela Lansbury, Scott Brady, Howard Duff, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 42
96. Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)
Game-Show
A game show where noted Canadian journalists guess the news story associated with the mystery guests and then conduct interviews with them.
Stars: Pierre Berton, Fred Davis, Gordon Sinclair, Betty Kennedy
Votes: 38
97. The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953–1954)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Everett Sloane, John Beal, Donald Cook, Kent Smith
Votes: 33
98.
Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode:
The Necessary Breed
(1957)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
A bounty hunter tracks a man to his home town. After he kills the man, he stops in to visit his wife. His wife tells him she can't live that type of life anymore and is leaving him. He says he can't change.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Jean Willes, James Griffith, Carlyle Mitchell
Votes: 32
99.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
Old Man
(1958)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Geraldine Page, Milton Selzer, James Westerfield
Votes: 15
100.
Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode:
Points Beyond
(1958)
30 min | Drama
An adaptation of the science fiction short story "Of Missing Persons" by Jack Finney (author of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS) about a travel agency that sells tickets to a halcyon, unspoilt planet to customers who are weary of life.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Julie Adams, Raymond Greenleaf, Joseph Holland
Votes: 9