Escape! Episodes of the radio program on film!
A list of stories dramatized on Escape (1947-54) in the various versions they appeared as in film and TV. (this list does not include Robert of Huntington or the Voyages of Sinbad; Robin Hood & Sinbad have each been dramatized numerous times, but I'm unaware of versions similar to the radio episodes)
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- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiCharles CrichtonBasil DeardenStarsMervyn JohnsMichael RedgraveRoland CulverGuests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.Pilot episode of Escape: March 21, 1947 (one segment only).
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsFrancis L. SullivanEscape: July 7, 1947
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsSean ConneryMichael CaineChristopher PlummerIn 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.Escape: July 7, 1947
- StarsArthur ShieldsMorris CarnovskyDan O'HerlihyEscape: August 4, 1947
- StarsLeon AskinMary SinclairMorton StevensEscape: August 4, 1947
- DirectorRichard GoodeStarsJoel AshleyAndrew BernardFrank BoylanEscape: August 4, 1947
- StarsAlan WheatleyRobin LloydJosephine GriffinEscape: August 4, 1947
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsCharles LaughtonBoris KarloffSally ForrestNoble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, 20 years after she married his brother (Cavanagh) instead, then passed away during childbirth. Maletroit is determined to have his revenge: the brother has been stowed away in the dungeon for two decades, while he's convinced his disreputable house guest will make a suitably hellish husband for his niece. As luck would have it, the young couple manage to fall in love, and with the help of manservant Voltan (Karloff), they try to make their escape, but not before a final confrontation with Maletroit in the dungeon's crushing deathtrap.Escape: August 4, 1947 ("the Sire de Maletroit's Door")
- DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.Escape: October 1, 1947
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJohn LoderAudrey LongEdgar BarrierA remake of Richard Connell's famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," about a madman who hunts human prey on his personal island habitat.Escape: October 1, 1947 ("the Most Dangerous Game")
- DirectorJoseph MarzanoStarsJoseph MarzanoAs in Richard Connell's famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," the deranged Count Zaroff (Joe Marzano) hunts human beings for sport on his remote island.Escape: October 1, 1947 ("the Most Dangerous Game")
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsRichard WidmarkTrevor HowardJane GreerIn Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.Escape: October 1, 1947 ("the Most Dangerous Game")
- DirectorRalph BrookeStarsWilton GraffJune KenneyWalter BrookeA crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport.Escape: October 1, 1947 ("the Most Dangerous Game")
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyPat WoodellSid HaigA foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.Escape: October 1, 1947 ("the Most Dangerous Game")
- DirectorKen DixonStarsElizabeth KaitanCindy BealDon ScribnerIn the future, two slaves in a distant galaxy escape prison and crash-land on a strange planet. They meet Zed, whose hospitality attempts to hide the fact they are to be hunted for sport.Escape: October 1, 1947 ("the Most Dangerous Game")
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJean DebucourtMarguerite GanceCharles LamyAllan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorJames Sibley WatsonMelville WebberStarsHerbert SternHildegarde WatsonMelville WebberAn avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorIvan BarnettStarsGwen WatfordKaye TendeterIrving Steen1950. Horror. A traveller arrives at Usher mansion to visit his friend Roderick (Kaye Tendeter) and discovers that Roderick and his sister (Gwen Watford) have been inflicted with a strange disease.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorKingman T. MooreStarsStephen CourtleighHelmut DantineJack La RueWhat dark secrets are kept in the moldering house of the Usher family?Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsJohn ConteTom TryonMarshall ThompsonA traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMark DamonMyrna FaheyUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- 1966–197050m7.4 (36)TV EpisodeDirectorKim MillsStarsDavid BuckSusannah YorkDenholm ElliottA young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conflict with her neurotic brother.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorJulián SolerStarsEnrique LizaldeEnrique RochaCarlos López MoctezumaA traveler arrives at the Gerard mansion to visit his old friend, Eric Gerard. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Eric and his sister, Isabel, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Eric's senses have become painfully acute, while Isabel has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Eric tells his guest of an old Gerard family curse: any time there has been more than one Gerard child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorGuerdon TruebloodStarsClifford DavidMichael MacRaeLogan RamseyAt the urgent request of his friend Roderick Usher, a man journeys to the strange House of Usher but becomes enmeshed in the darkness that threatens to destroy not only the last remaining family members but also the very house itself.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsMartin LandauCharlene TiltonRay WalstonIt is the year 1839. Architect Jonathan Criswell receives a letter from his old friend Roderick Usher asking Jonathan to come and see him. Arriving along with his newlywed wife Jennifer, Jonathan finds Roderick and his sister Madeleine aged beyond their years. Roderick tells him how they have both been maddened by a crippling hyper-alertness of senses. In trying to find a way of bolstering the Usher house against frequent earth tremors, Jonathan learns of the unspeakable atrocities and devil worship practiced by Roderick's ancestors. These have brought a curse on the House of Usher, meaning that none of the family can live beyond their 37th year. Jonathan must try to save the house in doing so he will be helping save his friend Roderick and his sister before the Usher curse takes them.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorAlexandre AstrucStarsFanny ArdantMathieu CarrièrePierre ClémentiAfter a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr CepekIn this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic. As the visitor's stay at the mansion continues, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax, and he must choose between his concern for his hosts' safety, and his own.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorJesús FrancoOlivier MathotStarsHoward VernonAntonio MayansLina RomayA young doctor visits the secluded home of his ailing mentor - Eric Usher - who believes the house itself is alive and plotting to drive him insane, manifesting itself through ghostly apparitions.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorAlan BirkinshawStarsOliver ReedDonald PleasenceRomy WalthallAn engaged couple going to the man's uncle's house get into a car accident. The woman becomes trapped in the house with deranged residents and weird happenings.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorMarc Julian GhensStarsCarine FrançoisIsabelle HubertClaudine LarocheA traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- 19957.3 (10)TV EpisodeDirectorJames RyanStarsJeremy CrutchleyGraham HopkinsKruno SimonA stranger visits the isolated home of the Usher family.Escape: October 22, 1947
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsSean NepitaFabrice UzanCurtis HarringtonYoung writer Truman Jones travels to the home of old, eccentric poet Roderick Usher. He is seeking wisdom from an aging poet at his creepy mansion.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorHayley CloakeStarsAustin NicholsIzabella MikoBeth GrantSinister thriller based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic story. Jill uncovers a terrifying secret at the funeral of her best friend who disappeared years earlier and whose twin brother was Jill's lover.Escape: October 22, 1947 ("the Fall of the House of Usher")
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsAnthony PerkinsDorothy StickneyLarry GatesA man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.Escape: November 5, 1947
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBarry O'MooreViolet MersereauCharles AveryOne of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorJoseph DelmontStarsFred SauerIlse BoisJoseph DelmontReluctant to believe that his brother has committed suicide, Gerhard Bern travels to Rotterdam with a detective, and helped by the consul and his charming daughter Ilse he'll try to find the truth about a secret society his brother was connected with. When another member is found dead his suspicions grow even stronger. Both men had insurance policies.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMontagu LoveElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesA colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsAnita BerberConrad VeidtReinhold SchünzelA demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsPaul WegenerMaria KoppenhöferBlandine EbingerA crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsRobert MontgomeryRosalind RussellFrank MorganThe Crown Prince (Robert Montgomery) is to marry the Princess Brenda of Irania, but the Princess declines the arranged marriage. Relieved, Florizel heads for London, with the Colonel (Frank Morgan), where he seeks adventure and a good time. Talking with a stranger, he learns that there is a private club called the Suicide Club. Taking this to be a ruse or a trick, he joins in and sees a mysterious Lady that he has met once before on his way to London. He will find that this club may not be a ruse and that the cold dark stare of this Lady might cost him dearly.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsCarlos CoresJudith SulianGuillermo BattagliaA 24-year-old young man who loses all his money at the roulette table and decides to commit suicide, when he is interrupted by a mysterious man who invites him to join a suicide club. There, through the cards, it is drawn who is going to die. The hero engages in the game and is signaled by the cards. He has only seven days to live, in which he tries in vain to file a police report in his eagerness to disengage from the engagement. In his wandering the streets of London, he meets a woman who insists on accompanying him. His interest in living now has a new motivation.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- StarsBramwell FletcherFrancis L. SullivanOliver ThorndikeEscape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsRalph BellRalph ClantonDonald BukaPrince Florizel and his cohort, Gerard, masquerade under false identities and hit the city in search of adventure. One night in a bar, they encounter a young man who says he does not wish to go on. Claiming to feel the same way, the prince and his friend soon find themselves at the Suicide Club, an organization whose members want to die. Each evening using a deck of cards, the "lucky" next victim is decided, as is the member who must commit the deed and make it look like an accident. Florizel and Gerard's charade ceases to be entertaining when a club member is actually killed.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- StarsAdolphe MenjouA young man's thoughts of suicide vanish when he falls in love - but maybe others want him dead.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorDennis VanceStarsDerrick De MarneyKarel StepanekThomas HeathcoteIn 1900 in London there was a club where wealthy but desperate men who had lost the will to live could gamble - not for gain but for life. One night Prince Florizel drew the ace of spades.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsJohn ConteKerwin MathewsEduardo CiannelliA prince and a Colonel, traveling incognito, meet a young man in a bar. When he says he is planning to join a secret organization called the Suicide Club, the prince begs to be taken along.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRichard DunlapStarsVincent PriceCesar RomeroEverett SloaneIn deep depression, Prince Florizel discovers an organization which helps people to commit suicide. The thing is, they don't like these people to change their minds.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenJerry WarrenCarlos SchlieperStarsErnesto VilchesJohn CarradineChela BonCompilation of two Chilean titles, the first adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club," the second the tale of younger siblings dominated by their evil elder brother.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsEnrique GuzmánPilar BayonaEnrique RochaEscape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorMike VardyStarsAlan DobieBernard ArchardHildegard NeilPrince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorBill GlennStarsPeter HaskellMargot KidderE.J. AndréA man (Peter Haskell) joins a card game where the stakes are a matter of life and death. Sensing foul play, he persuades a young woman (Margot Kidder) to help him reveal the operator of the game (Joseh Wiseman) as a card cheater.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- StarsOleg DalDonatas BanionisIgor DmitrievThe story of the confrontation between Prince Florizel and a cunning and cruel criminal nicknamed the Chairman.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorJames BruceStarsMariel HemingwayRobert JoyLenny HenryA woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRachel SamuelsStarsJonathan PryceDavid MorrisseyPaul BettanyA man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives, only to rediscover his will to live upon meeting the club's only female member.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorZdenek ZelenkaStarsMiroslav DonutilJirina BohdalováZdenek DavidEscape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorRoberto SantiagoStarsFernando TejeroLucía JiménezLuis CallejoAn original black comedy where death is taken for granted. In a social therapy for frustrated suicides the fate of a group of men and women will change drastically when the novel "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson falls into their hands. The task is to play cards: whoever wins has to die and whoever loses has to kill that person. Under these bizarre premises they discover that life may have a more sensible meaning than they had anticipated.Escape: November 12, 1947 ("the Young Man With the Cream Tarts")
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDana AndrewsPeggy CumminsNiall MacGinnisAmerican professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.Escape: November 19, 1947 ("Casting the Runes")
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsRobert EddisonNeal ArdenJohn BarrettMr. Karswell is very easily angered and never forgets a slight. As he is also a man capable of summoning demons from Hell to do his bidding, his quarrel with Dunning may have unfortunate consequences.Escape: November 19, 1947
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsIain CuthbertsonJan FrancisBernard GallagherLike Curse of the Demon (1957), this adaptation is only very loosely based on the original ghost story by M.R. James. However, it does feature eerie scenic views and is directed by Lawrence "Ghost Story For Christmas" Gordon ClarkEscape: November 19, 1947
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsJohn AlvinMarshall BradfordEd CassidyA senator (Adolphe Menjou) tries to break a Presidential convention deadlock.Escape: November 26, 1947 ("the Country of the Blind")
- 1961–19641h9.3 (12)TV EpisodeDirectorRalph NelsonStarsE.J. AndréMiriam ColonRichard EastmanJuan De Nunez finds himself in South America in a remote mountain village where the people (and the animals) have no eyes. In an old book, which they can neither "see" nor understand but regard as a sacred object, he discovers that there is something in the water that has caused this. The old book, written by the early settlers, indicates that their children were born blind, and that THEIR children were born (not only blind) but with no eyes! His love interest, Marina, is somehow different. When he holds a torch in front of her, she can actually follow the light. He determines that she has eyes under her skin, and he believes that he can take her back to the outside world, and with an operation, she would be able to see. This never happens. He ends up staying the village. In the final scene, he turns to the camera and we see that HE no longer has eyes.Escape: November 26, 1947 ("the Country of the Blind")
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsNicholas BelaCharles DarvasMarbeth WrightSoldiers march a condemned man through a rural area to a bridge high above a stream. While a boy plays a drum, one soldier puts a noose around the prisoner's neck and stand him on the bridge's parapet. He thinks of his wife and children, then falls. The rope breaks from his weight, and he stays under water until he's beneath some reeds on the surface. The soldiers fire at him and pursue, but he's able to leave the stream and run for his life. The sunshine, being alive, and thoughts of his wife and children propel him forward. Will he make it?Escape: December 10, 1947 ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyAnker-Spang LarsenIn 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.Escape: December 10, 1947 ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")
- 1955–196230mTV-147.1 (565)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockRonald HowardJuano HernandezIn the Civil War, Union soldiers hang a Confederate farmer for sabotage. The rope breaks and he falls into a river. He swims to safety and begins walking home. Disoriented, he's glad to see plantation staff who guide his befogged travel.Escape: December 10, 1947
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.3 (2.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyAnker-Spang LarsenDuring the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops.Escape: December 10, 1947
- DirectorTom FernándezStarsMaxi RodríguezJosé Antonio LobatoJuan RománIn 1948 a socialist militant is pursued by the Francoist police in Asturias.Escape: December 10, 1947 ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")
- DirectorBrian James EgenStarsBradley M. EgenJody ChansuolmeAaron Jackson"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a psychological thriller that takes many emotional turns and finally catches the audience off guard as it ends with an unsettling, macabre twist.Escape: December 10, 1947
- DirectorJohn Giwa-AmuStarsJames HooperTomos RyanAneurin BarnardA youngster, Khalid, is hung from an old wooden bridge by a hooded gang, but in the confusion he manages to struggle free from the noose. As he runs for his life it is soon revealed that all is not as it seems.Escape: December 10, 1947 ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFrank MayoVirginia ValliFord SterlingMillie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John Woolfolk has lost his wife in an accident and tries to forget by sailing in his yacht aimlessly on the ocean. By chance he drops anchor in a bay of that island. He soon finds out that something is wrong on that island, and furthermore, he falls in love with Millie, who sees in him a chance to get off that island. But Nicholas has threatened her with rape and murder if she tries to escape, and he has found out about her plans...Escape: December 17, 1947
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred HitchcockJohn WilliamsIsobel ElsomBefore leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence. Has he gotten away with his crime?Escape: December 24, 1947
- DirectorGiles FosterStarsRoald DahlRichard JohnsonSiân PhillipsSurgeon James loves his orchids and other ladies. A trip to America gives him and his wife an opportunity for improvements.Escape: December 24, 1947
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsCharlton HestonEleanor ParkerAbraham SofaerThe Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.Escape: January 14, 1948 ("Leinengen vs. the Ants")
- DirectorTed PostStarsBoris KarloffJohn IrelandJeanne BalA composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.Escape: January 21, 1948
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingNeil McCallumAboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.Escape: January 21, 1948 ("Papa Benjamin," one segment)
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsAlfred HitchcockPatricia HitchcockGeoffrey TooneWhen a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.Escape: February 1, 1948 ("the Vanishing Lady")
- DirectorKingman T. MooreStarsFrank DalyFrank GallopArnold MossA nuclear physicist is pursued by an invisible being described as "a soft, shapeless, mindless lump". The blob falls in love with the scientist and begins caressing and fondling him, even when he's giving lectures.Escape: February 22, 1948
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.Escape: May 9, 1948
- DirectorHenning SchellerupStarsJohn BeckPriscilla BarnesAndrew DugganA scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.Escape: May 9, 1948
- DirectorSimon WellsStarsGuy PearceYancey AriasMark AddyHoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.Escape: May 9, 1948
- DirectorMatt CoddStarsDavid HewlettDaniel CaltagironeChristina ColeAn experimental time machine opens a window into the future and mutated monsters (the Morlocks) use it to come back to the present and go on a murderous rampage.Escape: May 9, 1948 ("the Time Machine")
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsRonald ColmanNeil HamiltonRalph ForbesMichael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.Escape: June 6, 1948
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGary CooperRay MillandRobert PrestonThree adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.Escape: June 6, 1948
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsGuy StockwellDoug McClureLeslie NielsenIn 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.Escape: June 6, 1948
- DirectorMarty FeldmanStarsMarty FeldmanAnn-MargretMichael YorkAn aging Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard) takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.Escape: June 6, 1948 ("Beau Geste," parody)
- StarsBenedict TaylorJonathon MorrisAnthony CalfThree brothers of a well-to-do English family join the French Foreign Legion.Escape: June 6, 1948
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsA devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.Escape: July 11, 1948 ("She")
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsA juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is changed to a napkin, and afterward to a tablecloth. Out of the table cloth comes a servant. The servant brings a low table upon which the juggler throws some magic powder. The powder takes fire and blazes up into a large flame, in the midst of which appears a beautiful female. The flame dies away, the lady descends to show that she is alive. She mounts the table again. The juggler leaves the room. The servant falls in love with the lady and proposes marriage, but she fades from view. The juggler reenters and head over heals disappears from the top of the chair. The servant rushes toward the chair, juggler reappears coming out from under the table, seizes the servant and, throwing him to the floor, reduces him to smoke. He disposes of the chair in like manner and dances off.Escape: July 11, 1948 ("She")
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsFlorence AuerWilliam V. RanousA mysterious metal box is bequeathed to Leo, a young Englishman, to be opened on his twenty-fifth birthday. It is opened in the presence of his guardian, and his servant. They find an Egyptian tablet 2,000 years old. The guardian, a linguist, interprets it. It tells how, 2,000 years before, an Egyptian princess and her husband, traveling in Africa, meet a mysterious woman, a queen, called "She," with power over Life and Death. "She" falls in love with the prince, and, in jealous fury, kills him. "She" sends the princess out of the country. "She" has the body entombed to await his reincarnation. The princess leaves an account of her adventure on a tablet; bequeaths it to her descendants, that one may some day find "She," wrest the secret from her, and avenge the ancient wrong. Leo determines to seek "She." The three reach Africa, where they are met by men from "She," who has seen their arrival, in a vision. While awaiting the chief's return, Leo is kissed by Ustane, a beautiful maiden, and she thereby becomes his wife. The Englishmen are set upon by the natives and only saved by the chief's arrival. He conducts them to "She," who finds in Leo the reincarnation of the prince. Leo is overcome by the wondrous beauty of "She." "She" prevails on Leo to bathe in the "Pillar of Life." a mysterious fire, but he hesitates and "She" to encourage him enters the flame, becomes young and radiant, but gradually grows old before his eyes until her form is entirely consumed.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsMarguerite SnowJames CruzeViola Alberti(Part One) The first scene shows us the outer court of the temple in Egypt, in the year 350 B.C. Here Amenartas, the Pharaoh's daughter, waits to meet her love, Kallikrates. He has just taken the vows, becoming a Priest of Isis. She urges him to renounce these vows and flee with her from Egypt. We next see them during the sacrificial ceremony in the temple. The young priest goes about his sacred office constantly feeling the eyes of the woman he loves upon him. At the close of the ceremony he can resist her appeal no longer and they make their escape. They leave the city behind them, and on the desert meet some friendly Arabs. The young priest is weak from fasting, and his wife secures for him the camel owned by an Arab chief, so that they may continue their journey. They thank their Arab friends, leave them, and on foot make their way to the water's edge. After traveling "twice twelve moons" they land with their infant son on the coast of Africa, near a rocky precipice, known as the Negro's Head. In her cave in the hollow mountain, "SHE," the white witch of Africa, who has learned the secret of eternal youth, sees the approach of the Egyptian, by her magic power. "SHE" determines that he is the perfect man, that "SHE" will have him bathe with her in the fires of eternal youth, and together they will rule the world. "SHE" summons him. In his camp in the desert the messengers of "SHE" find Kallikrates, his wife and child, and bring them before "SHE." "SHE" shows the Egyptian the fires of eternal youth and offers him her love, but when he remains true to the love of his wife, "SHE" strikes him dead. His wife, Amenartas escapes with her child. At the riverbank, the wife embarks with her child, whom she calls Tisisthanes. She swears that this child shall return and avenge his father's death, or if not he, his male descendants. Over the smoldering fires of eternal strife "SHE" tries in vain to restore the vital spark to the body of the man she loved. Unable to give her loved one life, "SHE" has his body mummified by a marvelous process, which makes him look as though he did but sleep. Beside her dead love, "SHE" weeps and prays, that though "SHE" cannot restore him to life, some day, though it be in the remote centuries to come, her love will be reincarnated, and return to claim her. (Part Two) We now see a room in England, in the year 1885 A.D. Holly, an Englishman, whose face is so ugly that it has won him the appellation of "the monster," receives, by the will of his friend, the fortunes and custody of that friend's son, Leo Vincent. This child is the direct descendant of the Priest of Isis, whom "SHE" destroyed centuries before. With the child, is sent a letter of instructions and an antique chest. The letter explains that Leo is to open the chest on his twenty-fifth birthday and follow the instructions it contains. Through the ages '"SHE" waits beside the body of her dead love, still praying for his reincarnation and return. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo opens the chest and finds in it the story of his ancient ancestor and the information that although many men of his family had spent their lives in seeking "SHE." None of them had ever found her. Leo also finds instructions to carry out the work, to seek "SHE," learn her secret of eternal youth, and then destroy her. Leo determines to set out on the mission. Leo and his guardian, Holly, approach the shores of Africa, and note the strange rock, the Negro's Head. "SHE," in her cave, sees in a vision, Leo approaching. He strongly resembles his ancient ancestor, and "SHE" firmly believes he is the reincarnation of her ancient lover. "SHE" sends for him. Through rocky caverns Leo's boat glides up the river toward the hollow mountain. At an ancient landing place, now fallen into ruins, Leo's boat is stopped by a tribe of natives, who pay allegiance to "SHE." They blindfold Leo and Holly and lead them to the cave of "SHE." "SHE" welcomes Leo as her lost love. He tells her he has come to destroy her, to revenge the death of his ancestor. "SHE" gives him the knife from her own girdle and. baring her bosom, bids him strike. Before her unveiled beauty, Leo is powerless to destroy her. "SHE" then bids him follow her and leads them through a strange passage. In a rocky cavern "SHE" shows Leo the mummy of his ancient ancestor, and so like is it to the young Englishman, that he feels he is gazing upon himself. "SHE" then destroys the mummy as she feels she has found her living love. "SHE" leads Holly and Leo over a rocky precipice to the cave containing the "fires of eternal youth." "SHE" begs Leo to step into the flame so that he, too, will never die. Leo fears to take the step. To encourage him "SHE" steps first into the flames. The quality of the fire has changed in the centuries since "SHE" last bathed in them. "SHE" suddenly shrivels up before the eyes of the astonished men. "SHE" grows suddenly old, until she resembles an ape. With outstretched arms, and a cry to Leo not to forget her, "SHE" dies. Holly and Leo, half crazed with the terrible sight they have witnessed, find their way back to the native village. They are directed, by an overland route, as to how they can leave the country and they do so. Safely returned to England, Leo, whose golden hair has been turned white from his horrible experience, destroys all records of "SHE," the mysterious. His family has been avenged.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorWilliam BarkerHorace Lisle LucoqueStarsAlice DelysiaHenry VictorSydney BlandAn explorer is the reincarnated lover of a 2000-year-old queen.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorKenean BuelStarsValeska SurattBen TaggartMiriam FoucheEscape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorLeander De CordovaG.B. SamuelsonStarsBetty BlytheCarlyle BlackwellMary OdetteIn Africa an explorer is the reincarnated lover of the 2,000-year-old White Queen.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorLansing C. HoldenIrving PichelStarsHelen GahaganRandolph ScottHelen MackA group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorRobert DayStarsUrsula AndressPeter CushingBernard CribbinsAn Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsSandahl BergmanDavid GossQuin KesslerIn a post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle weird creatures before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorTimothy BondStarsIan DuncanOphélie WinterMarie BäumerLeo Vincey receives a map from his late father, leading him to the legendary city of Kor in search of an explanation for his mysterious ancestry. He is accompanied by his girlfriend Roxanne. He discovers that he is the only descendant of an Egyptian priest who had been executed for the crime of falling in love with the Egyptian Princess. The ruling queen Ayesha, or rather She, is the same Egyptian Princess of centuries ago, her beauty and youth look being preserved by magic. She becomes convinced that Leo is the reincarnation of her former lover, and wants to kill him. Leo and Roxanne will have to fight against surprise attacks on them, but survival in that foreign land with strange customs, is difficult. Leo is terribly attracted to She's beauty, but at the same time he fears for her obscure spirit, and finally he must take a decision - to run away from her, or to love her and die.Escape: July 11, 1948
- DirectorLothar MendesAlexander KordaStarsRoland YoungRalph RichardsonEdward ChapmanAn ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.Escape: September 19, 1948
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsFrank AlbertsonErnie NeversCecilia ParkerA lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.Escape: February 12, 1949
- DirectorPaul MartinStarsHeather AngelNorman FosterRalph MorganBased on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople. The main protagonists are a Jewish businessman, Myatt, a chorus girl, Coral Musker, a Serbian Communist, a criminal, and a Lesbian journalist. Although they are not known to each other their lives become interlinked with tragic and dramatic consequences.Escape: February 19, 1949
- DirectorPrudence FitzgeraldStarsRichard WarnerPeter BirrelSusan BurnetDramatisation of Graham Greene's 1932 novel interlinking plots of individual charactersEscape: February 19, 1949 ("Orient Express")