John Collier Movies
Some Call It Loving
R 1973
After a man living in Los Angeles purchases a sleeping beauty from a carnival, he wakes her and finds she is not what he expected. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
Evening Primrose
1966
A melancholy poet meets a beautiful vagabond while spending the night in a darkened department store in this made-for-television drama starring Anthony Perkins and...
The War Lord
1965
The painstakingly accurate historical drama The War Lord is predicated on the old practice of le droit du seigneur. Norman knight Charlton Heston, in charge of an 11th century...
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Magic Shop
1964
Adapted by John Collier from a story by H.G. Wells, this episode is built around the talents of child actor John Megna, best remembered for his role as the Truman...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Spy
1961
The wife of Captain Morgan (William Kendall) is missing, and private detective Henry Frute (Eric Barker) is hired to find her. Morgan suspects that his wife has...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Maria
1961
After an all-night binge, carnival owner Leo Torbey (Norman Lloyd) discovers he has purchased a trained monkey, whom Torbey's wife, Carol (Nita Talbot), despises at...
The Twilight Zone: The Chaser
1960
Scripted by Robert Presnell, Jr. from a short story by John Collier, this Twilight Zone episode focuses on Robert Shackleforth (George Grizzard), a lovestruck young...
Leave It to Beaver: Forgotten Party
1959
David Manning (John Collier), an old friend of Beaver's who now lives several miles away, invites Beaver (Jerry Mathers) to his birthday party one week in advance....
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Anniversary Gift
1959
Myra Jensen (Barbara Baxley) loves her pets more than she does people -- and that includes her long-suffering husband, Hermie (a pre-Dragnet and pre-M*A*S*H Harry...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back for Christmas
1956
Domineering Hermione Carpenter (Isobel Elsom) wants to take a trip to America and then return home to home to England for Christmas, but her henpecked husband Herbert...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: De Mortuis
1956
Middle-aged professor Clarence Rankin (Robert Emhardt) is spending his day off filling a hole in his basement with cement. His friends Wally Long (Henry Jones) and...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: None Are So Blind
1956
Like so many other Hitchcock "heroes," Seymour Johnston (Hurd Hatfield) thinks that he has planned the perfect murder. Disguising himself as another person, Seymour...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Wet Saturday
1956
Season two of Alfred Hitchcock Presents begins with a droll but sinister little mood piece, directed by Hitchcock himself. Cedric Hardwicke heads the cast as wealthy and...
The Fountain of Youth
1956
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I Am a Camera
1955
Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. Set in pre-Hitler Berlin, the film details the curious,...
The Story of Three Loves
1953
This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous Lover," James Mason plays Charles Coudray, a...
Roseanna McCoy
1949
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with...
Deception
1946
Deception is an operatic rehash of the 1929 film Jealousy. Music teacher Bette Davis--who evidently has a large student pool, judging by the size of her penthouse...
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her Cardboard Lover as her final film. Set in Florida, the...
Elephant Boy
1937
The unusual amalgam of documentary maven Robert Flaherty and pure-entertainment producer Zoltan Korda resulted in the 1937 money-spinner Elephant Boy. In his screen...