Movies: Lorne Greene

  • 1979
    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (1979)

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

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    Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 19...

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
  • 1957
    Mayerling

    Mayerling (1957)

    Mayerling

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    Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot h...

    Mayerling
  • 1953
    1984

    1984 (1953)

    1984

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    George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. Episode 1 of Season 6 of Studio One's anthology series....

    1984
  • 1958
    The Gift of Love

    The Gift of Love (1958)

    The Gift of Love

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    Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts....

    The Gift of Love
  • 1966
    Bonanza: Ride the Wind

    Bonanza: Ride the Wind (1966)

    Bonanza: Ride the Wind

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    The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe signing up as a rider. Adding to his concerns, the Paiute Indians don't want the Pony Express riding across their land, and the manager's assistant, C...

    Bonanza: Ride the Wind
  • 1953
    Farewell Oak Street

    Farewell Oak Street (1953)

    Farewell Oak Street

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    This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park...

    Farewell Oak Street
  • 1962
    The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

    The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962)

    The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

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    A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches....

    The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
  • 1966
    Christmas with Lorne Greene

    Christmas with Lorne Greene (1966)

    Christmas with Lorne Greene

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    The Bonanza star hosts this yuletide half-hour with the UNICEF Children's Choir on their imaginary trip to the Charles Dickens-era of England....

    Christmas with Lorne Greene
  • 1950
    The Cliff Hangers

    The Cliff Hangers (1950)

    The Cliff Hangers

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    Over a gleaming ice field and up steep cliffs of bare rock, the camera follows members of the Alpine Club of Canada. Before they set out we are introduced to the climbers' basic equipment and learn the uses of rope and ice axe. Excitement mounts as t...

    The Cliff Hangers
  • 1974
    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (1974)

    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

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    Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet fa...

    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
  • 1977
    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)

    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

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    The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial....

    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
  • 1975
    Tidal Wave

    Tidal Wave (1975)

    Tidal Wave

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    Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and...

    Tidal Wave
  • 1968
    Rowan & Martin at the Movies

    Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)

    Rowan & Martin at the Movies

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    This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out that trumpet player Herb Alpert is the only other performer listed in the credits who is actually there...

    Rowan & Martin at the Movies
  • 1941
    Heroes of the Atlantic

    Heroes of the Atlantic (1941)

    Heroes of the Atlantic

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    A view from Canada of the North Atlantic convoy route during the Battle of the Atlantic, presented in the framework of the turnaround of a single convoy at Halifax, Nova Scotia....

    Heroes of the Atlantic
  • 1980
    Klondike Fever

    Klondike Fever (1980)

    Klondike Fever

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    This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898....

    Klondike Fever
  • 1980
    A Time for Miracles

    A Time for Miracles (1980)

    A Time for Miracles

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    Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when...

    A Time for Miracles
  • 1971
    The Harness

    The Harness (1971)

    The Harness

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    A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with her eight-year-old son....

    The Harness
  • 1941
    Churchill's Island

    Churchill's Island (1941)

    Churchill's Island

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    The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library and Archives Canada in 2005....

    Churchill's Island
  • 1969
    Destiny of a Spy

    Destiny of a Spy (1969)

    Destiny of a Spy

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    A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent....

    Destiny of a Spy
  • 1940
    Home Front

    Home Front (1940)

    Home Front

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    This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda films. In Home Front, the various WWII-era social contributions of women are highlighted. From medicine to industrial labour to hospitality, educatio...

    Home Front