Theodore's World

HE DEAD PART OF THE HOUSE: After the death of her mother, a haunted nursery and three dolls help a young girl reconnect with her dad.

Starring: Richard Talmadge “The Dare Devil of the Screen”
Co-Starring: Janet Chandler, Tom Ricketts, and the Metzetti troupe
Director: Bernard B. Ray

In this rough-and-tumble Poverty Row production, a visitor to the City of Angels is lured into a scheme when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang!

Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Wera Engels, Leslie Fenton
Directors: Frank R. Strayer, Erich von Stroheim (uncredited)

A romantic triangle between an amorous Austrian Captain, a fugitive American gangster, and a beautiful Russian refugee, set during WW I at an Austrian-Italian border outpost.

Stars: James Gregory, Rebecca Welles, Henry Corden
Director: Allen H. Miner

Jane Cooper may be on parole, but she intends to improve her status by ditching her nobody boyfriend for a wealthy gangster. She moves up the food chain earning the nickname “the Jinx” as each of her ex-beaus meets a tragic end. This doesn’t go unnoticed by Ruditsky or the mob.

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Laraine Day, Patty Duke, and Dennis Hopper
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: Johann David Wyss (novel by)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), aired October 12, 1958

The timeless novel by Swiss author Johann David Wyss gets a Live NBC Television adaptation. Watch for a young Patty Duke and Dennis Hopper as members of a family shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island.

Alcoholic Ellen Grayson summons her husband Harry to her isolated house to announce their marriage is over, after which he crashes his car. Helen is then visited by a man, the exact double of a much younger Harry, whose account of the love his has for his wife moves her to seek reconciliation.

Dr. Atl is exonerated from a murder charge during the Mexican Revolution by a death mask revealing a monster’s grip.

HE CAPTAIN’S GUESTS: A married couple from New York rent an old house along the New England coast that the locals consider a very unhappy place. The husband begins to take on the personality of the long-dead sea captain who previously lived there.

Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Ann Harding, Walter Huston, and Erich Von Stroheim
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Lillian Hellman (original story and screenplay)
A peaceful Ukrainian farming village must suddenly contend with the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s assault on the Soviet Union. Featuring an impressive ensemble cast with Fraley Granger is his first big screen role!

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