Rod Serling — Playwright (21)

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Night Gallery (1969)
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other title: ...und die Alpträume gehen weiter / 夜間畫廊 …
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.

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A Long Time Till Dawn (1953)
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Just out of prison Joe Harris looks to restart his life. His wife Barbie has moved and the one man who can tell him where refuses to do so. Enraged, Joe beats the old man senseless and runs away to his father's home, where he also finds his wife. A police detective comes around about the beating (which will soon to become a murder) and Joe insists he's innocent. Joe tells his wife and father he's a changed man and he's only a suspect because of his prior conviction. Barbie and Fred struggle with their desire to believe Joe's plea versus their fear he'll never change.

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铮铮铁骨 (1997)
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other title: Im Angesicht meines Feindes / In The Presence of Mine Enemies …
1942年波兰华沙犹太人区的一名犹太教士拯救自己的同胞,尽管纳粹日益疯狂的暴行,但他们仍团结在一起与纳粹斗争。...卡罗维发利专供战火影视

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Patterns (1955)
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other title: Kraft Television Theatre “Patterns”
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

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The Comedian (1957)
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other title: Playhouse 90: The Comedian / 喜剧演员
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.

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Patterns (1956)
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other title: Morgen trifft es dich / Rapaces …
Engineer-turned-executive Fred Staples is excited to start his new job at the big firm that acquired his factory. But before long, he realizes he’s being groomed to replace Bill Briggs, a friendly long-timer who’s lost favor with the cruel CEO, Walter Ramsey. Rather than fire Briggs, Ramsey sabotages and humiliates him in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent Staples his new right-hand man.

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Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)
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other title: 迷离魔界 / The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics …
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theatre," a young woman attends a movie only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.

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The Rack (1956)
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阿诺德·拉文 actor: 保罗·纽曼 / 温戴尔·柯瑞 …
other title: 叛谍 / 拷问台
本片改编自名编剧家洛塞林的电视剧本,描写被敌军俘虏的爱德华.霍尔上尉在回到美国后,由于霍尔的父亲是职业军人,他的弟弟则在战中丧生,所以军事检察官并不希望进行这场审判。证据对霍尔不利,所以他的辩护律师企图用霍尔遭酷刑的理由向陪审团求情...

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A Storm in Summer (2000)
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other title: 夏日暴风雨
An old Jewish shop owner Mr. Shaddick ('Peter Falk') suddenly finds himself responsible for a little black boy named Herman Washington ('Aaron Meek') trying to escape the chaos of Harlem as part of a sponsorship program. At first, Mr. Shaddick wants nothing more than to get rid of the kid, but to spite the well to do lady who tries to take him over to her home, he decides to take Herman in. As time goes on, Mr. Shaddick finds himself caring about Herman and has the misfortune of being the bearer of bad news, which reminds him of when he received a telegram himself.