In Time enough at last: Burgess Meredith plays a bank teller and avid reader who is the lone survivor of an H-Bomb attack and finally finds the time to read. In The monsters are due on Maple Street: Hysteria grips a small community as residents suspect a power failure has been caused by invaders from outer space disguised as humans. In Nightmare at 20,000 feet: William Shatner sees a gremlin on the wing of his plane. In The odyssey of flight 33: Air...

When Jed and Martha Richards agree to raise young, orphaned Daniel, Jed is delighted. Martha, still grieving for her two little girls who died on the trek West, can't help comparing them to this awkward, dirty young boy who annoys her at every turn. Danny's innocent heart is finally able to rescue hers on a snowy Christmas Eve.

Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic.