The Time of Your Life
based on William Saroyan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, unfolds in a San Francisco waterfront bar where a group of colorful patrons reveals their stories, dreams, and struggles. James Cagney stars as Joe, a laid-back philosopher encouraging others to live fully. This heartwarming and witty drama celebrates the beauty of human connections amidst life’s complexities.
Episodes
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Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
S2023 E74 - 1h 19m
A doting father (Spencer Tracy) faces a series of comic trials when his newlywed daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) announces she is expecting her first child. The family comedy also stars Joan Bennett and Don Taylor.
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Life with Father (1947)
S2023 E73 - 1h 57m
A turn-of-the-century businessman (William Powell) presides over his family of four red-headed boys with straitlaced efficiency, but it is the mother (Irene Dunne) who really rules the roost. The film co-stars Edmund Gwenn and a young Elizabeth Taylor.
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The Joe Louis Story (1953)
S2023 E71 - 1h 27m
Coley Wallace stars in the title role as the film follows the boxer's rise from a poor background to become the world heavyweight champion, and ultimately America's first true black sports hero.
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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
S2023 E70 - 1h 16m
Starring the baseball legend himself, the film shows his struggles to maintain his dignity while enduring the harassment and prejudice of being the first African-American to break organized baseball’s color barrier.
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Man in the Attic (1953)
S2023 E69 - 1h 22m
In 1888 London, a landlady rents a room to research pathologist (Jack Palance). She soon begins to suspect that her new lodger could be the one behind a string of murders, that the newspaper refers to as “Jack the Ripper”.
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The Bigamist (1953)
S2023 E68 - 1h 16m
Harry Graham (Edmond O'Brien) and his wife (Joan Fontaine) are trying to adopt a baby. When the adoption agency director (Edmund Gwenn) starts to investigate Harry’s background, he soon uncovers more than he expected. Lupino also stars.
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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
S2023 E67 - 1h 20m
A middle-class couple inherits a decrepit movie house in a tiny British town, along with the theater's doddering employees including perpetually drunken projectionist (Peter Sellers).
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His Girl Friday (1940)
S2023 E66 - 1h 31m
Howard Hawks’ comedy classic pits ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) trying to move on from the newspaper business and her marriage to her editor (Cary Grant). The fast-talking duo wages a war of words in this fast-paced battle of the sexes that also stars Ralph Bellamy.
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Beat the Devil (1953)
S2023 E61 - 1h 29m
Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get a vast fortune of uranium out of East Africa. Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre co-star in this film directed by Bogart’s long-time friend John Huston.
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Captain Kidd (1945)
S2023 E60 - 1h 20m
Charles Laughton plays the infamous 17th century pirate in this swashbuckler. When the King of England asks pirate Kidd to escort ships plying treasures from India, he must outwit his own band of cutthroats, as well as his top gunner (Randolph Scott).
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Our Town (1940)
S2023 E57 - 1h 29m
Film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play covers the lives and events of two families in the village of Grover’s Corners. George (William Holden) and Emily (Martha Scott) meet as teenagers and succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying, and bearing a child of their own.
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The Proud Valley (1940)
S2023 E56 - 1h 16m
Paul Robeson stars as David Goliath, a young man with a beautiful singing voice who faces the harsh realities of life as a coal miner in his Welsh community. After a deadly explosion closes the mine, the villagers find themselves out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
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