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Season 2

Thriller - Season 2

1962
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
TV Season
Season 2 - Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on works by authors such as Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch and Charlotte Armstrong. (imdb)

Directed by:

Ida Lupino
Ida-Lupino
86 total credits
Credits include: High Sierra, The Hitch-Hiker and On Dangerous Ground
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,
John Brahm
John-Brahm
64 total credits
Credits include: The Twilight Zone, Hangover Square, The Lodger, The Locket and The Mad Magician
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,
Herschel Daugherty
Herschel-Daugherty
26 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Winchester 73, The Light in the Forest, The Victim and The Door Without a Key
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,
John Newland
John-Newland
42 total credits
Credits include: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, One Step Beyond, Thriller and Crawlspace
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Starring:

Boris Karloff
Boris-Karloff
127 total credits
Boris Karloff, whose real name was William Henry Pratt, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or "Karloff the Uncanny"... (wikipedia)
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,
Henry Daniell
Henry-Daniell
43 total credits
Credits include: The Great Dictator, Witness for the Prosecution, The Philadelphia Story, The Body Snatcher and Lust for Life
polygon
,
Ed Nelson
Ed-Nelson
48 total credits
Credits include: Who Am I?, A Bucket of Blood, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Night of the Blood Beast and Teenage Caveman
polygon
,
Alan Napier
Alan-Napier
84 total credits
Credits include: The Sword in the Stone, Batman, Marnie, The Court Jester and Criss Cross
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,
Audrey Dalton
Audrey-Dalton
17 total credits
Credits include: Separate Tables, Titanic, Mr. Sardonicus, The Monster That Challenged the World and My Cousin Rachel
polygon
,
Doris Lloyd
Doris-Lloyd
43 total credits
Credits include: The Time Machine, The Letter, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Tarzan the Ape Man and My Name Is Julia Ross
polygon
,
David Frankham
David-Frankham
12 total credits
Credits include: 101 Dalmatians, Tales of Terror, Return of the Fly, Master of the World and Thriller
polygon
,
Patricia Barry
Patricia-Barry
27 total credits
Credits include: Sea of Love, Kitten with a Whip, Playback, Crowhaven Farm and The Tattooed Stranger
polygon
,
Peter Brocco
Peter-Brocco
26 total credits
Credits include: What's the Matter with Helen?, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Homebodies, The Balcony and The Four of Us Are Dying
polygon
,
Richard Peel
Richard-Peel
9 total credits
Credits include: The Notorious Landlady, Judgment Night, Thriller, I Was a Teenage Thumb and Hill 256
polygon
,
Paul Newlan
Paul-Newlan
13 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, The Brain Center at Whipple's, Pirates of Tripoli, Prisoners of the Casbah and Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?
polygon
,
Lillian O'Malley
Lillian-OMalley
8 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Static, Revenge and My Fair Ernest T. Bass
polygon

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Thriller - Season 2

1962
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
TV Season
Your probable score

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What Beckoning Ghost?
A woman sees her own coffin and questions her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ in their spooky mansion. Housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sexy younger sister and ne'er-do-well husband, nothing is as it seems.
Guillotine
France, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole allowing him to be pardoned if the executioner dies before his execution. He then enlists his wife in a scheme to make sure that this improbable scenario comes to pass.
The Premature Burial
An aging millionaire survives being buried alive, but his devilish fiancée plans to take advantage of his next cataleptic seizure, by marrying him and then making sure he stays in his grave. Then the gorgeous Victorine will inherit his estate, and run off with her young lover, a painter. But the cataleptic millionaire and his loyal physician Dr. Thorn take every possible measure to allow him to survive another mistaken entombment.
The Weird Tailor
A man seeks to resurrect his son by using a suit crafted using black magic.
God Grante That She Lye Stille
In 1661 Elspeth Clewer is burned as a witch, cursing her family with her dying breath. Three hundred years to the day afterward, Lady Margaret Clewer returns to her ancestral home to claim her inheritance and finds the ghost of Elspeth trying to seize her body so she can walk the Earth once more.
Masquerade
A family of possible cannibals or vampires or just plain murdering thieves menace a married couple, the Denhams, but Mr. Denham laughs off the scary Southern hotel as a joke. The Denhams got lost on their second honeymoon and sought shelter in a spooky hotel, but got locked in. Beautiful Rosamond Denham is appalled to find the Carta family home has a private jail cell, containing haggard female relative Ruthie Carta, who pleads for Charlie and Rosamond to release her.
The Last of the Sommervilles
Dragging a murder victim to burial is just one chore a servant undertakes to become the last Sommerville standing, to win a wealthy old woman's inheritance. As a distant relative, Ursula steps up her elimination contest when a closer, desperate Sommerville arrives to drain off some of his aunt's estate for a business bailout.
Letter to a Lover
After the murder of a London doctor, emotionally disturbed Sylvia Lawrence secretly sends a letter to her ex-lover Donald revealing that her husband Andrew is holding her a virtual prisoner at their remote vacation home; Andrew claims to be protecting her but what is he really hiding? And why is he being blackmailed by the late doctor's nurse?
A Third for Pinochle
Ostensible milquetoast Maynard Thispin plans on killing his cold, overbearing and stingy wife, unaware a pair of nosy sisters across the street have just killed a man themselves. Maynard has a cozy love-nest planned for himself and a young paramour named Babs but his overbearing and penurious wife of 27 years is a hindrance to his plans. So the would-be Lothario hastens his plan of removing Mrs. Thispin from his life.
The Closed Cabinet
A medieval curse has hung over the Mervyn family for three hundred years, dictating that there will be a murder in the clan in every generation. A young visitor becomes obsessed with breaking the curse by solving the riddle of the mysterious locked cabinet in the murder room.
Dialogues with Death
Two tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, an elderly morgue attendant can speak to the cadavers in his charge and he learns the identity of the gunman who killed a noted racketeer. In the second story, a greedy nephew returns to his family home in the Lousiana bayou to claim his inheritance but why does his dotty old aunt insist that he is dead?
The Return of Andrew Bentley
White magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.
The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
Cissy Hawk's farm keeps gaining massive blue ribbon hogs, while the passing drifters she hires magically disappear. Well-read grifter Jason Longfellow figures he'll last a lot longer at her Isle of Aiaie via blackmail, but seductive Cissy keeps local Sheriff Ulysses wound around her finger tighter than a pig's tail.
Portrait Without a Face
Six months after an artist is mysteriously murdered, a blank canvas in his studio begins filling itself in, portraying the crime and building up to the revelation of the killer's identity.
An Attractive Family
Family that kills together seeks to stay together in style, by icing the heir of one of their victims, before she comes into her inheritance. If the heiress audits the books, she'll discover that the family has already blown her share of the estate. Her newlywed sister was backed off a cliff while having her photo snapped, so the younger sister is understandably leery of heights, but not of her very understanding new in-laws.
Waxworks
A murder outside a traveling wax museum attracts the attention of the police--and a European detective who claims that the wax figures of murderers are brought to life by black magic so they can kill again.
La Strega
After a young woman and her penniless lover defy her her grandmother's wishes, the old lady uses witchcraft to make their lives unpleasant.
The Storm
Woman & her jumpy black cat Baba increasingly besieged by amorous loon of a cabbie, power outages, and menacing sounds throughout her isolated home during a devastating storm. The newlywed just returned early from 2 weeks caring for her sister. As she prays for her husband's arrival, she decides to confront strange sounds emanating from the storm cellar.
A Wig for Miss Devore
An aging actress tries for a comeback in a film about a witch hanged for murder. As a stunt she insists on wearing the historical woman's wig, which turns out to be cursed, changing her into a literal man-killer.
The Hollow Watcher
An Irish mail-order bride marries into a family in North Carolina, with a scheme to steal their hidden fortune. She murders her autocratic father-in-law and hides his body inside a scarecrow--but the vengeful scarecrow is now stalking her.
Cousin Tundifer
A killer's descendant plots to quickly inherit what he thinks works rightfully be his, when his ill, rich uncle Pontifex, takes up with Queenie De Lyte, a stripper turned art fancier. Tundifer looks exactly like his evil ancestor, a portrait of whom hangs in the family home, whose expensive renovation may include a portal to a prior century.
The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Penniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
Flowers of Evil
A faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a medical school. The skeleton keeps returning, however--and screaming.
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Undertaker Carl Somers murders his nagging wife so he can head west to marry a wealthy spinster. The joke's on him though: eloping with the old maid gets her disinherited, leaving him with another unwanted wife. A new doctor in town hiding from a murder charge comes in handy at this point.
The Bride Who Died Twice
In a Latin American country, a sinister Colonel forces the Governor's daughter to marry him but she dies on their wedding night - or does she?
Kill My Love
A young man's obsessive devotion to his fiancée curdles into paranoia after he becomes convinced she is secretly betraying him.
Man of Mystery
A public relations man writes a book exposing an ex-client, a secretive international financier, is murdered when it's finished. A reporter investigates, but everyone he tries to interview, dies under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, the financier gets a comic fired because he's obsessed with ensnaring the funny-man's girlfriend, a leggy nightclub singer.
The Innocent Bystanders
Jacob Grant and John Paterson, a pair of Victorian-era bodysnatchers, turn to murder to supplement their income. First they take Grant's visiting sister-in-law, then set their sights on the unsuspecting boarders.
The Lethal Ladies
2 twisted tales of timid people hitting their breaking point. A philandering investor dreams of independence from his wife, a wealthy, bold geologist, but when his latest scheme plummets down the big board, Myron plots murder. Alice Quimby's entire life is her work at a university library, but she's passed over to be chief librarian, in favor of Dr. Wilford Bliss, a martinet who's going to clean house, forcing her out before she can collect her pension.
The Specialists
An elite team of federal agents is formed to take down an international ring of jewel thieves.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Ida Lupino
Ida-Lupino
86 total credits
Credits include: High Sierra, The Hitch-Hiker and On Dangerous Ground
polygon
,
John Brahm
John-Brahm
64 total credits
Credits include: The Twilight Zone, Hangover Square, The Lodger, The Locket and The Mad Magician
polygon
,
Herschel Daugherty
Herschel-Daugherty
26 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Winchester 73, The Light in the Forest, The Victim and The Door Without a Key
polygon
,
John Newland
John-Newland
42 total credits
Credits include: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, One Step Beyond, Thriller and Crawlspace
polygon

Starring:

Boris Karloff
Boris-Karloff
127 total credits
Boris Karloff, whose real name was William Henry Pratt, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or "Karloff the Uncanny"... (wikipedia)
polygon
,
Henry Daniell
Henry-Daniell
43 total credits
Credits include: The Great Dictator, Witness for the Prosecution, The Philadelphia Story, The Body Snatcher and Lust for Life
polygon
,
Ed Nelson
Ed-Nelson
48 total credits
Credits include: Who Am I?, A Bucket of Blood, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Night of the Blood Beast and Teenage Caveman
polygon
,
Alan Napier
Alan-Napier
84 total credits
Credits include: The Sword in the Stone, Batman, Marnie, The Court Jester and Criss Cross
polygon
,
Audrey Dalton
Audrey-Dalton
17 total credits
Credits include: Separate Tables, Titanic, Mr. Sardonicus, The Monster That Challenged the World and My Cousin Rachel
polygon
,
Doris Lloyd
Doris-Lloyd
43 total credits
Credits include: The Time Machine, The Letter, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Tarzan the Ape Man and My Name Is Julia Ross
polygon
,
David Frankham
David-Frankham
12 total credits
Credits include: 101 Dalmatians, Tales of Terror, Return of the Fly, Master of the World and Thriller
polygon
,
Patricia Barry
Patricia-Barry
27 total credits
Credits include: Sea of Love, Kitten with a Whip, Playback, Crowhaven Farm and The Tattooed Stranger
polygon
,
Peter Brocco
Peter-Brocco
26 total credits
Credits include: What's the Matter with Helen?, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Homebodies, The Balcony and The Four of Us Are Dying
polygon
,
Richard Peel
Richard-Peel
9 total credits
Credits include: The Notorious Landlady, Judgment Night, Thriller, I Was a Teenage Thumb and Hill 256
polygon
,
Paul Newlan
Paul-Newlan
13 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, The Brain Center at Whipple's, Pirates of Tripoli, Prisoners of the Casbah and Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?
polygon
,
Lillian O'Malley
Lillian-OMalley
8 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Static, Revenge and My Fair Ernest T. Bass
polygon

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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