As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.

The Miracle of the Bells

1948

English

6.6

♡ 6

56%

Irving Pichel Director

Ian Wolfe as Grave Digger

Sidney D'Albrook as Man

George Chandler as Max

Dorothy Neumann as Miss Millhouser

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.

The Bride Wore Boots

1946

English

5.9

♡ 2

15%

Irving Pichel Director

Forbes Murray as Judge #2

Diana Lynn as Mary Lou Medford

Minerva Urecal as Minor Role

Walter Baldwin as Mr. Hodges - Postman

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

They Won't Believe Me

1947

English

7.2

♡ 3

76%

Irving Pichel Director

Irene Tedrow as First Woman

Harry Harvey as Judge Charles Fletcher

George Morrell as Rancher

Don Beddoe as Thomason

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

O.S.S.

1946

English

6.6

♡ 3

33%

anti-nazi resistance

Drama

oss (office of strategic services)

Irving Pichel Director

Jean Del Val as Conductor

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Ellen Rogers / Elaine Duprez

Don Beddoe as Gates

Jack Lambert as German Lieutenant

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.

Something in the Wind

1947

English

6.5

♡ 4

56%

Irving Pichel Director

Donald O'Connor as Charlie Read

Ethelreda Leopold as Fashion Show Model

Betty Blythe as Society Matron

Charles Winninger as Uncle Chester Read

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

Temptation

6.5

Irving Pichel Director

Arnold Moss as Ahmed Effendi

William A. Boardway as Banquet Guest

Paul Lukas as Sir Meyer Isaacson

Suzanne Cloutier as Yvonne Dupont

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

The Great Rupert

1950

English

6.4

♡ 2

50%

Irving Pichel Director

Harold Goodwin as Callahan - FBI Man

Lester Dorr as Eddie - the Bartender

Don Beddoe as Mr. Haggerty

Terry Moore as Rosalinda Amendola

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.

Tomorrow Is Forever

1946

English

7.3

♡ 9

60%

Irving Pichel Director

Richard Long as Drew Hamilton

John Wengraf as Dr. Ludwig

Ian Wolfe as Norton

Amzie Strickland as Ship Passenger

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Swamp Water

1941

English

7.0

♡ 4

70%

Irving Pichel Director

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Bud Dorson

John Carradine as Jesse Wick

Anne Baxter as Julie

Ward Bond as Tim Dorson

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.

Santa Fe

1951

English

6.2

♡ 3

29%

Irving Pichel Director

Paul Stanton as Col. Cyrus K. Holliday

Frank Hagney as Railroad Worker

Charles Evans as Stevenson

William Haade as Union Veteran

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

The Most Dangerous Game

1932

English

7.1

♡ 20

100%

Irving Pichel Director

Joel McCrea as Bob

William B. Davidson as Captain

Fay Wray as Eve

Steve Clemente as Tartar

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

The Miracle of the Bells

The Bride Wore Boots

They Won't Believe Me

O.S.S.

Something in the Wind

Temptation

The Great Rupert

Tomorrow Is Forever

Swamp Water

Santa Fe

The Most Dangerous Game