Arch Oboler

Arch Oboler

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Arch Oboler (December 7, 1907–March 19, 1987) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in radio, films, theater and television. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particularly the horror series Lights Out, and his work in radio remains the outstanding period of his career. Praised as one of broadcasting's top talents, he is regarded today as a key innovator of radio drama. Radio historian John Dunning wrote, "Few people were ambivalent when it came to Arch Oboler. He was one of those intense personalities who are liked and disliked with equal fire." Oboler was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Leon Oboler and Clara Oboler, Jewish immigrants from Riga, Latvia. He was brothers with Eli M. Oboler. Arch Oboler briefly attended the University of Chicago prior to dropping out to pursue a full-time writing career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arch Oboler licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Arch Oboler
  • Popularity: 0.5171
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1909-12-07
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Arch Oboler Movies

  • 1958
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    Hi Grandma!

    Hi Grandma!

    1 1958 HD

    A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.

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  • 1951
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    Five

    Five

    6.592 1951 HD

    The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.

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  • 1947
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    The Arnelo Affair

    The Arnelo Affair

    5 1947 HD

    A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

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  • 1947
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    The Arnelo Affair

    The Arnelo Affair

    5 1947 HD

    A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

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  • 1945
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    5.3 1945 HD

    A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

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  • 1945
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    5.3 1945 HD

    A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

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  • 1945
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    5.3 1945 HD

    A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

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  • 1945
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    5.3 1945 HD

    A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

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  • 1953
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    The Twonky

    The Twonky

    3.727 1953 HD

    A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

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  • 1952
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    Bwana Devil

    Bwana Devil

    4.6 1952 HD

    British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

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  • 1952
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    Bwana Devil

    Bwana Devil

    4.6 1952 HD

    British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

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  • 1951
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    Five

    Five

    6.592 1951 HD

    The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.

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  • 1951
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    Five

    Five

    6.592 1951 HD

    The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.

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  • 1943
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    Gangway for Tomorrow

    Gangway for Tomorrow

    5.3 1943 HD

    Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.

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  • 1940
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    Escape

    Escape

    7.4 1940 HD

    An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

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  • 1945
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    Strange Holiday

    Strange Holiday

    6.4 1945 HD

    An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

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  • 1945
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    Strange Holiday

    Strange Holiday

    6.4 1945 HD

    An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

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  • 1966
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    The Bubble

    The Bubble

    4.3 1966 HD

    A couple encounter mysterious atmospheric effects in an airplane and find themselves in a town where people behave oddly.

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  • 1966
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    The Bubble

    The Bubble

    4.3 1966 HD

    A couple encounter mysterious atmospheric effects in an airplane and find themselves in a town where people behave oddly.

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  • 1953
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    The Twonky

    The Twonky

    3.727 1953 HD

    A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

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  • 1953
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    The Twonky

    The Twonky

    3.727 1953 HD

    A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

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  • 1947
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    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    5.1 1947 HD

    The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

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  • 1961
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    1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports

    1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports

    6 1961 HD

    A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.

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  • 1966
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    The Bubble

    The Bubble

    4.3 1966 HD

    A couple encounter mysterious atmospheric effects in an airplane and find themselves in a town where people behave oddly.

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  • 1951
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    Five

    Five

    6.592 1951 HD

    The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.

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  • 1958
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    Hi Grandma!

    Hi Grandma!

    1 1958 HD

    A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.

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  • 1958
    imgMovies

    Hi Grandma!

    Hi Grandma!

    1 1958 HD

    A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.

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  • 1958
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    Hi Grandma!

    Hi Grandma!

    1 1958 HD

    A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.

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  • 1972
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    6 1972 HD

    A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name.

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  • 1961
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    1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports

    1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports

    6 1961 HD

    A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.

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  • 1961
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    1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports

    1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports

    6 1961 HD

    A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.

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  • 1948
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    On Our Merry Way

    On Our Merry Way

    5.563 1948 HD

    Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?

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  • 1973
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    Domo Arigato

    Domo Arigato

    1 1973 HD

    A young college student and a former G.I. on his way home from a tour in Viet Nam meet in Japan and decide to explore the country together.

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  • 1973
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    Domo Arigato

    Domo Arigato

    1 1973 HD

    A young college student and a former G.I. on his way home from a tour in Viet Nam meet in Japan and decide to explore the country together.

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  • 1973
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    Domo Arigato

    Domo Arigato

    1 1973 HD

    A young college student and a former G.I. on his way home from a tour in Viet Nam meet in Japan and decide to explore the country together.

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  • 1945
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    Strange Holiday

    Strange Holiday

    6.4 1945 HD

    An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

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  • 1986
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    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    6.6 1986 HD

    Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.

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