Norman Leavitt

Görkem ve şaşaa bakımdan çok az film, Cecil B. De Mille'nin 1956 yapımı destansı "On Emir"iyle karşılaştırılabilir. En büyük film setlerinden biri kurularak Mısır ve Sina Yarımadası'nda çekilen filmde, Firavun'un (Yul Brynner) evinde ayrıcalığı olmasına rağmen insanları özgürlüğe kavuşturmak için bundan vazgeçen Musa'nın (Charlton Heston) hayatı anlatılıyor. Hem de Cecil De Mille'in bizzat kendisinin az rastlanır takdimiyle... Mısır Prensi, Musa, bir Musevi olarak gerçek mirasını ve halkının kurtarıcısı olarak büyük misyonunu öğrenir. Tüm yeni doğan erkek Musevileri ele geçiren Mısır Firavunu 1. Ramses'ten kaçmak için bebek Musa Nil üzerinde kamış sepetle yolculuğuna başlar. Firavunu kızı Bithiah tarafından kurtarılır, evlat edinilir ve erkek kardeşi Firavun Seti'nin sarayında büyütülür. Musa Seti'nin beğenisini ve veliaht prenses Nefertiri'nin sevgisini kazanırken Seti'nin oğlu Rameses'in de nefretini üstüne çeker...

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

1956 yapımı yönetmen William Wyler'in savaşı sorgulayan filmi. Quakerlar'ın yaşadığı kasabadaki kiliseye gelen subay, dini inançları nedeniyle savaşa gitmeyi reddeden erkeklerle konuşur ve onları savaşa katılmaya çağırır.Bütün ülkeye yayılan savaş yakında kasabalarını da etkileyecektir. Jessamyn West'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan filmde Cooper ve Dorothy McGuire anne baba rolünde çok başarılı.6 dalda Oscar'a aday olan Cannes Film Festivali'nde En iyi Film Ödülü almıştır. Film kan dökmeyeceksin, beraber yaşayalım isimleriyle de bilinir.

Çekirgenin Günü, Büyük Buhran sonrası Hollywood ve California’nın kavurucu güneşi altında kâbusa dönüşen Amerikan rüyası hakkında. Başarısız bir ressam, maço bir kovboy, saf bir taşralı, güzel ama yeteneksiz bir yıldızcık, fahişeler, horoz dövüşçüleri… Nathanael West, parlak yıldızların gölgesinde yaşam mücadelesi veren bir grup kaybetmeye mahkûm, umutsuz ve yozlaşmış karakterin portresini grotesk bir üslupla çiziyor.

Elwood P. Dowd, annesi öldükten sonra onun evine taşınan ablası Veta ve yeğeni Myrtle ile yaşamaktadır. Veta kızı için uygun bir damat adayı aramakta; ancak pek de çekici olmayan Myrtle, insanların dayısının tuhaflıklarından rahatsız olması nedeniyle bir türlü kimse ile tanışamamaktadır. Çünkü Elwood, kendisinden başka kimsenin göremediği bir pooka olan, 2 ayak uzunluğunda beyaz bir tavşan olduğunu iddia ettiği Harvey adında hayali bir arkadaşı ile yaşamaktadır. Kardeşi Vita ne zaman eve birini davet etse, Elwood konukları Harvey ile tanıştırmaya çalışmakta ve bu ilginç durumu yadırgayan konukları kaçırmaktadır. Elwood'un yüm yaşamı dostu Harvey' le birlikte her gün aynı bara gitmek, ona ve Harvey'e alışık bar sakinleri ile sohbet edip margarita içmektir. Fakat Elwood insanların ona deli gözüyle baktığının farkında değildir. Tüm iyi niyeti ile insanlara yardımcı olmaya, onlarla sohbet edip onları dinlemeye çalışmaktadır.

1927 yılında Atlas Okyanusu'nu uçakla tek başına geçen ilk pilot olan Amerikalı Charles Lindbergh'in maceralı yolcuğunun öyküsünü anlatan film adını bu öncü havacının rekorunu kırarken bindiği uçağın adından almıştır. Lindbergh, uçağı satın alabilmesi için gerekli olan parayı kendisine inanan dokuz St. Louis’ li iş adamı ve bankacıdan bulduğu için uçağına bu adı vermişti.Ünlü öncü havacı Charles Lindbergh'in 20 Mayıs 1927'de New York'tan tek motorlu ve eksik donanımlı bir uçakla tek başına havalanıp 33,5 saat süren bir yolculuktan sonra 21 Mayıs'ta Paris'e inerek bu alanda bir ilki başardığı maceralı yolculuğun öyküsünün anlatıldığı filmde Charles Lindbergh'i canlandıran James Stewart bu rol için oldukça yaşlı bulunmuştu. Film çekildiğinde 48 yaşında olan Stewart 25 yaşındaki Lindbergh'i oynuyordu.

New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.

1920'lerin kırsal kesim Amerika'sında bir din tacirinin hikâyesini anlatıyor. Din ve inancın çıkar amaçları yönünde sömürülmesi üzerine bu önemli film, Burt Lancaster ve Shirley Jones'a birer Oscar getirmişti. Ayrıca Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy ve şarkıcı Patti Page de var * Din, dindarlık, vaizlik üzerine yapılmış en iyi filmlerden biri, belki de en iyisi. Burt Lancaster coşmuş bu filmde. Jean Simmons da azize rolünde çok iyi. Espriler harika. Pek az akıcı filmden biri. Gerçi Hıristiyanlık üzerine ama evrensel bir yanı var.

Abby McClure, üç oğlu olan bir dul kadındır. Bir gün, Jake Iverson onu bir partiye davet eder. Abby'nin akrabaları Maxine ve Harry, onları birleştirmeye çalışınca Jake rahatsız olur ve partiyi terk eder. Daha sonra bir dükkânda karşılaşan Abby, Jake'den özür diler ve tekrar görüşmeye başlarlar. Kısa sürede evlenirler, ancak işler planlandığı gibi gitmez: Abby'nin oğulları ile Jake'in kızı Stacey anlaşamaz, hatta evdeki köpekler bile kavga eder. Aile hayatı beklediklerinden daha zorlu olur.

Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and-dance man as the team grooms him to become a star. But as the date of a high-stakes appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show grows near, they begin to fear that the only astonishing thing about Stanley is his utter lack of talent.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Andy Taylor is the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

"İnsanoğlunun bildiğinin ötesinde beşinci bir boyut vardır. Uzay kadar geniş ve sonsuzluk kadar zamansız bir boyut. Işık ile gölge, bilim ile hurafe arasındaki orta yoldur ve insanın korku çukuru ile bilgisinin zirvesi arasında yer alır. Bu, hayal gücünün boyutudur. Alacakaranlık Kuşağı dediğimiz bir alandır." Her bölümde farklı oyuncularla, farklı konuların işlendiği, bilim kurgu, korku ve gerilim öğelerini barındıran beş sezonluk dizi, bu türdeki dizilerin öncülüğünü yapmaktadır.

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

During the administration of President Ulysses Grant, Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon solve crimes, protect the President, and foil the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States.

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.