Everett Sloane

When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, can't do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer, and Stanley gets worse all the time.

In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...

Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) has it all...but no way out. When he tries to quit show business, his studio boss (Rod Steiger) blackmails him with a secret that could ruin him. A starlet (Shelley Winters) also knows the secret, and when she threatens to talk, Hoff plans murder. Now, Charlie is trapped and could lose everything...including his soul!

"The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays" constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality...

An ex-WWII GI, Ken returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancé and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo, and Angel, begin to pull him out of his spiritual miasma.

Jerry Lewis is the mad medicine man. Before he flunks out of med school, he'll have you in stitches. Even if you don't bust a gut when he sets a patient's hair on fire, you could die laughing during the high-speed ambulance chase.

Rod Serling's tale of ruthless men and ambitious women clawing for control of a billion dollar empire first aired in Jan 1955 on Kraft Television Theater. The hard-hitting teleplay was such a success, earning Serling instant acclaim and the first of his six Emmy awards, that producers Jed Harris and Michael Myerberg helmed a big screen feature with the same director (Fielder Cook) and most of the same cast for United Artists. The result was an acid-etched...

Car trouble strands Tod and Buz in an isolated Mississippi lumber town named for and dominated by its unscrupulous ruler and haunted by a secret.