Movies by John Forsythe

Scrooged

Scrooged

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

Tail Gunner Joe

Tail Gunner Joe

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Everything But the Truth

Everything But the Truth

Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.

The Letters

The Letters

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.

Shadow on the Land

Shadow on the Land

Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.

Cry Panic

Cry Panic

A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.

Murder Once Removed

Murder Once Removed

Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.

Mysterious Two

Mysterious Two

Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.

Terror on the 40th Floor

Terror on the 40th Floor

A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry." It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, ...

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.

The Healers

The Healers

The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.