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1. Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.
Director: Harry Kooperstein | Stars: Natalie Wood, Lauren Bacall, Jim Backus, Martin Balsam
Votes: 77
2. 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
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 333,026
4. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.
Stars: Richard Kiley, Betsy Palmer, Edward Andrews, Biff McGuire
Votes: 198
5.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
Tomorrow
(1960)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Richard Boone, Kim Stanley, Chill Wills, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 25
6.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Defender: Part 1
(1957)
60 min | Drama
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Martin Balsam, Steve McQueen, William Shatner
Votes: 126
7. Goodyear Playhouse (1951–1957)
60 min | Drama
The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.
Stars: Walter Matthau, David White, Constance Ford, Kim Stanley
Votes: 113
8. Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1963)
60 min | Drama
Documentary dramas, plays that were based on true stories, were the forte of Armstrong Circle Theater. Many movie actors and actresses got their start here.
Stars: Douglas Edwards, Sandy Becker, Bob Sherry, John Cameron Swayze
Votes: 123
9. Gregory Peck: His Own Man (1988)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
HIS OWN MAN One of Hollywood's most enduring and popular stars draws on his memories to tell the amusing and touching story of how it was when the studios ruled supreme, and how a shy and ... See full summary »
Directors: Gene Feldman, Suzette Winter | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Fonda, Walter Gotell
Votes: 124
10.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Defender: Part 2
(1957)
60 min | Drama
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19-year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Martin Balsam, Steve McQueen, William Shatner
Votes: 75
11. Studio One (1948–1958)
60 min | Drama
A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
Stars: Betty Furness, Paul Branson, Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair
Votes: 329
12. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise
Stars: Bob Hope, Jack Weston, Jack Kelly, John Francis
Votes: 239
13. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
60 min | Drama
This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity ... See full summary »
Stars: Bert Lytell, Jay Jackson, Bob Stanton, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 137
14.
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
Episode:
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
(1955)
Drama
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
Directors: Robert Mulligan, Hal Tulchin | Stars: Florence Anglin, Martin Balsam, Joe Comadore, Joanna Douglas
Votes: 24
15. Rendezvous (1957– )
30 min | Drama
An anthology series of short stories told to acquaintances by a man named John Burden.
Stars: Charles Drake, Gordon Tanner, Gaylord Cavallaro, Paul Massie
Votes: 33
16.
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
Episode:
The Death of Billy the Kid
(1955)
Drama
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
Directors: Robert Mulligan, Hal Tulchin | Stars: Joseph Anthony, Muriel Berkson, Michael Conrad, Matt Crowley
Votes: 17
17. Suspense (1949–1954)
25 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, Robert H. Harris, John Baragrey
Votes: 358
18. The Man in the Moon (1991)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon
Votes: 18,471 | Gross: $2.85M
19. Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Approved | 124 min | Drama
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White
Votes: 2,479
20. The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
60 min | Drama
This live series featured adaptations of other works (novels, plays, et cetera) plus original works for the show. It was primarily dramas, but a few musicals also were presented. The show ... See full summary »
Stars: Luis Van Rooten, Robert Emhardt, Loïs Bolton, Robert Dryden
Votes: 98
21.
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
Episode:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(1958)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Viveca Lindfors, Eva Le Gallienne
Votes: 27
22. Summer of '42 (1971)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance
During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Votes: 9,130 | Gross: $7.38M
23. Same Time, Next Year (1978)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A married man and a married woman end up sleeping with each other, and decide to meet at the same place every year on the anniversary of their one night stand. As the years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Alan Alda, Ellen Burstyn, Ivan Bonar, Bernie Kuby
Votes: 6,672 | Gross: $19.70M
24. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi
Votes: 5,485
25. Fearful Symmetry (1998 Video)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary about the adaptation of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird into a film.
Director: Charles Kiselyak | Stars: Mary Williams, Horton Foote, Robert Mulligan, A.B. Blass
Votes: 228
26.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Set-Up for Death
(1952)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Mobster Kip Caley is released from prison after serving ten years and proclaims he's "going straight." His old criminal cronies, however, intend to involve him in a hold-up after breaking ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Mary Sinclair, Brian Keith, Robert Emhardt, John Marley
Votes: 39
27. The Moon and Sixpence (1959 TV Movie)
Drama
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy
Votes: 72
28. 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
29.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Kiss Me Again, Stranger
(1953)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. Elderly Mrs. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced he's the murderer. She calls ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Mulligan, Lela Swift | Stars: Maria Riva, Richard Waring, Esther Mitchell, Denis Green
Votes: 42
30. Come September (1961)
Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin
Votes: 4,079 | Gross: $14.17M
31. Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams
Votes: 2,160
32. The Great Impostor (1960)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 1,708
33. The Other (1972)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky
Votes: 6,985 | Gross: $0.48M
34. The Seven Lively Arts (1957– )
60 min | Music
Stars: John Crosby, Jason Robards, Steven Hill, Henry 'Red' Allen
Votes: 20
35.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Career
(1953)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Fay Bainter, Tonio Selwart, Murray Matheson, Miriam Goldina
Votes: 34
36.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
The Black Prophet
(1953)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Convinced that the sinister "Mad Monk" Rasputin will bring about the fall of Russia with his growing power over the royal family, a group of noblemen take action. Serge Soudekine invites ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Boris Karloff, Leslie Nielsen, Howard Ledig, Carl Don
Votes: 43
37. The Stalking Moon (1968)
G | 109 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Apache, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Apache son.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay
Votes: 3,180
38. The Rat Race (1960)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Oakie, Kay Medford
Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $7.41M
39. The Nickel Ride (1974)
PG | 99 min | Crime, Drama
In Los Angeles, a criminal begins to think that his accomplices want to get rid of him.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, John Hillerman
Votes: 719
40.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Traveling Lady
(1957)
60 min | Drama
Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, despite her husband Henry's propensity for getting into big trouble.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Mildred Dunnock, Betty Furness, Ann Hennessey, Steven Hill
Votes: 12
41.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Nightmare at Ground Zero
(1953)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The Nevada Proving Ground is set for another nuclear bomb blast at 4 AM. A harried artist is rushing to finish the mannequins he's been hired to construct that will populate a house at ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: O.Z. Whitehead, Louise Larabee, Calvin Thomas, Lonny Chapman
Votes: 83
42.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Remember Me?
(1952)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Cloris Leachman, Martin E. Brooks, Frieda Altman, Henry Sharp
Votes: 42
43.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Black Baronet
(1953)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy, who was found stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Martyn Green, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 29
44.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
A Time of Innocence
(1952)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secretary, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Patricia Hitchcock, Guy Spaull, Louise Larabee
Votes: 38
45.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
The Duel
(1953)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Madeleine does not care for Raoul, the officer her father intends for her to marry. Instead, she loves Lt. Andre Duport. Her father intends to send her back to Paris and put a stop to their... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Eva Gabor, Roger Dann, Arnold Moss, Harold Gordon
Votes: 36
46. 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
47.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
F.O.B. Vienna
(1953)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Lawrence Stevens, an American engineer, accompanies a shipment of lathes to an electrical factory in Vienna. A female reporter tells him about the huge black market for industrial machinery... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Walter Matthau, Jayne Meadows, Mike Kellin, Robert Webber
Votes: 35
48.
Rendezvous (1957– )
Episode:
The Funmaster
(1958)
Drama
A young couple explore an amusement park that is closed for the winter. They meet a man who was recently fired from the park after an injury. After trapping them, he tells them of his plans to blow up the park.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Charles Drake, Keenan Wynn, Timmy Everett, Molly McCarthy
Votes: 14
49. Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
In Texas, a woman and her young daughter head down to another town where the girl's irresponsible, hotheaded and immature father has just been released from prison on parole.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray, Paul Fix
Votes: 2,019
50.
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
Episode:
A Tale of Two Cities
(1958)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Max Adrian, Douglas Campbell, Francis Compton, James Donald
Votes: 16