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- In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby convent. When he is wounded in a gunfight, they end up hiding out there, though the men from town are a mob out for their blood,sanctuary or not.
- During the 1860s in Wisconsin, a 12-year old boy becomes the head of his family when both parents die. On Christmas Eve he finds a way to provide homes for his five younger brothers and sisters.
- Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.
- A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his health, he faces an even greater terror when he finds his own guilty conscience is on trial.
- A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.
- A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.
- Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.
- A young lawyer is strangely agitated when his aunt takes up with a palm reader. His agitation increases as the palm reader's predictions for him come true.
- Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another.
- When the local minister buys a used car, he does not realize that bank robbers have hidden their loot in the spare tire.
- Red plays a hapless man who is tricked into being a boiler room hustler for phony Uranium mine stock con men who have him believing they're G-men and he's helping the government. He's caught and sent to prison, but without his catching on, the real FBI and the warden get him to escape so he can recover the crooks' stolen cash.
- A little known adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
- Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like the little boy who cried wolf, he discovers when he actually can identify a cop-killer, the cops and the newspapers and his press agent don't believe him. But the killer knows he isn't lying and determines to kill him next.
- Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
- Long-time New York Yankee star, first baseman Lou Gehrig battles ALS with the help of his wife, and of his teammate, catcher Bill Dickey. The disease cuts short Gehrig's great baseball career, and kills "The Iron Horse" within a few years.
- A rich southern widow's daughter has an older man engaged to marry her, a distinguished Argentine ex-officer. But he's actually a money seeking gigolo who sneaks out to see another girl every night.When he realizes the mother controls the wealth, he starts romancing her. The outraged son plots a murderous revenge against him.
- A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, the husband quick to confess.
- American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss Le Chiffre while monitoring his actions.
- Based on incidents in her autobiography, "The Gay Illiterate," the story of Louella Parsons is told in a series of flashbacks, from the early twenties to 1948.
- Huck and Tom discover buried treasure, while trying to keep it secret from Huck's father.
- A recreation of the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison during the Civil War. The charge--conspiracy to commit atrocities and murder among the prisoners.
- An affair between an English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I.
- A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely mercenary reasons. He sponsors a young artist and goes to great lengths to keep his protege's canvases valuable.
- A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing over a body holding a broken bottle in his hand. The girl in love with him is convinced he is innocent and helps him try to prove it.
- To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealthy society doctor secretly joins forces with a hunted fugitive.
- A Babe Ruth League team is perpetually in last place, because its compassionate manager tends to pick youngsters no other team wants. When the team has a chance to place in the finals, he turns down a boy's plea to pitch in the big game, and the boy then runs away from home.
- An account of the career - and violent death - of a notorious real-life mobster.
- As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, who tells her he's just killed a man. When the two women return home the patient, who is waiting for them, pulls a gun, forces the daughter into a room, and locks the door.
- Two children plant a garden in the grounds of a church.
- A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed. A newspaper reporter seeks to learn if the townspeople will accept the ex-convict in their midst now that it has been proved he was innocent of the crime.
- Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been following, a man hunting for a drug addict, and a conductor awaiting news of the birth of his first child.
- Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts differently.
- Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose as a missing countess entitled to an inheritance. Their plans go haywire when one conspirator is driven to murder.
- A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself despised for betraying the South even by his family.
- An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. With the help of the murdered man's wife, he solves the mystery and unmasks the real killer.
- When a husband on a honeymoon cruise vanishes, the wife reports his disappearance to the captain. He says there is no record of them as passengers on the ship, and the cabin number she has given is non-existent.
- The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealousy drives him to plot murder.
- A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.
- Dr. Giffin patient Margaret Corey presents him with an exceptional challenge. She has three other distinct personalities and he must get to the reason for the dysfunction plus try to merge the identities into one.
- A woman vacationing off the New England coast reports that she witnessed a murder while walking in the woods. But no one in the small island town believes her except a reporter who finds a shoe at the scene of the alleged crime.
- When a 16-year-old, neglected by his movie producer father, gets in trouble, his father doesn't believe his claim of self-defense.
- A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is still tormented by the memory of a murder she witnessed as a child.
- A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob his bank.
- An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
- An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
- A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.
- A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is ordered to leave at once. He soon learns that the ruthless man after whom the town is named looks on any stranger as his potential murderer.
- A young major league baseball player, Jimmy Piersall (Tab Hunter), battles mental illness and a harsh upbringing to succeed as a Boston Red Sox outfielder. Based on the memoir of the same title by Piersall. Made into a movie in 1957 starring Anthony Perkins as Piersall.
- After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorney finds that his partner believes he took the case for publicity reasons.
- Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the effect of subzero weather on men supplied only with tents and meager rations. One of the men goes berserk from the strain and wrecks the group's radio so that no one can notify headquarters of their location.
- A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman traveling under an assumed name, he must decide between keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.
- A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.
- When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate, a veteran nuclear physicist and his aides have to climb the rickety tower to disarm the bomb.
- A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.
- Janet Reese takes a job at the home of Steve Corbett, wealthy real-estate man, caring for his young child. She learns that Corbett's wife has only recently died, under mysterious circumstances. Soon Janet begins to fear for her own life.
- A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story himself.
- Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sheriff to whom he's handcuffed, a compassionate young social worker, a preacher, and the hotel owner's disturbed wife who claims she's a countess.
- A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the force for alleged brutality to the boy.
- A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.
- A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing bum who saw the accident threatens to testify that the death was no accident-- unless the widow and her mother give him cash and a home.
- Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that her facade of sweetness and gentleness conceals a scheme to destroy his marriage.
- New York sportswriter Damon Runyon becomes interested in a young boxer and backs him in an upcoming bout, which gamblers try to make him throw by involving his wife in a rigged crap game.
- A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic attack, barricades himself in his apartment.
- After meeting a woman who tells him she desperately needs money for an operation for her mother, a young man agrees to go along with a friend planning a robbery.
- When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the man's son, want no part of him. Then two brothers who have vowed revenge on the gunfighter ride into town.
- The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to believe the rumors that he was responsible for the death of his first wife, whose body was never found
- A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see him, he decides to run away to the big city to become a success.
- After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by characters from the underworld who believe the ex-convict knows where a missing $150,000 star-brilliant is hidden.
- The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's taken a trip to New York, slowly become convinced she's been murdered.
- A woman becomes the bait in a trap to catch a ruthless traitor.
- A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.
- Scottish nationalist Ian Hamilton leads a group of like minded countrymen in stealing the games Stone of Scone. They intend to spirit it from London back to Scotland.
- In trying to clean up the local bookmakers, the Washington, D.C. Police Department becomes convinced that members of the force are accepting payoff money, Lt. Todd Thoman is assigned the task of discovering the crooked cops.
- In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
- Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
- When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to sell, the other ranchers turn against him, his wife scorns him and her brother is murdered.
- While waiting for a phone call that will confirm or deny his request for a job back at his old firm, Matthew Quade relives his past.
- An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.
- The career of Oscar winning writer Art Shaddick has gone downhill since 1929. Suddenly, a young writer appears with a great script, and it's a golden opportunity for Art to rise to greatness again.
- TV version of the ahead-of-its-time film Private Worlds (1935), starring 'Claudette Colbert' repeating her role as a very caring psychiatrist facing discrimination in a mental hospital because she's female. Also has a much more progressive view of mental illness than usual in the era. Based on a story by the novelist Phyllis Bottome (_Mortal Storm, The (1940)_.
- As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.
- After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist decides that the only way he can acquire money is to steal it.
- An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their dull, monotonous routine. They fall in love, and then discover a way to cash in on a $70,000 insurance claim.
- A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living room and she is accused of murder.
- Engineer Frank Colby and his staff have developed a nose cone capable of launching into outer space -- a year's work, they think. Suddenly the Army sets a new deadline - 90 days.
- A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.
- A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.
- While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat up the boyfriend and kidnap the woman.
- While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a plot to murder her.
- Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but he claims he's too busy to see her.
- On the Mexican border, a wealthy Texas cattleman is mistaken by a beautiful young woman as one of the local peasants. Amused when she offers him five dollars to run an errand, he agrees to cross the border and pick up a package for her.
- After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment on a plane, a woman takes a job as nurse to an alcoholic, who in a drunken stupor gives her $5,000 to recoup her losses and later reports to the police that the money was stolen.
- At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. The detective sent to investigate is opposed by the townspeople and the doctor's attractive young niece.
- The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose story no one believes.
- A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a violation of his parole.
- On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a businessman recently gone blind is in one office dictating a suicide note to his wife, while in another office a young man is trying to persuade his fiancee to help him rob the firm she works for so they can be married.
- A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing, until the ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death.
- Leo Carson, a self-made millionaire, realizes too late that his family have chosen destructive lifestyles and his own mistakes have caused harm to all.
- Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
- A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking him to try them.
- A ruthless professional boxer, Midge Kelly (Rory Calhoun), tramples anyone he can to get to the top, including his loyal brother Connie (Tommy Cook). This is a TV version (adapted by Rod Serling) of the Ring Lardner story, filmed in 1949 as Champion, with Kirk Douglas as Midge, Arthur Kennedy as Connie.
- A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his wife for another woman.
- A middle aged spinster decides to go to the country for the summer with her friend. They end up becoming involved in a murder mystery.
- A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.
- An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
- A detective is assigned to investigate a series of murders in which the killer left a heart-shaped tattoo on each of his victims.
- A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
- Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they're being followed by a blackmailer.
- An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her way to the theater, and she narrowly escapes injury from a falling sandbag.
- A young heiress marries a dancer after a whirlwind courtship, but soon comes to suspect he's responsible for the mysterious disappearance of his former dancing partner.
- When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears for the child's life. But she can't convince her friends or the police that the man is a pathological liar and a menace.
- Keith Dorrant realizes his dream when offered the appointment as chief prosecutor for the Crown but his brother Larry is involved with a murder and creates a threat to the family name.
- A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-evaluate their lives and those of others close to them.
- Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exposed to atomic radiation. With only a week to live, she and her husband decide to perform a series of usually fatal experiments in the name of science, with her as the subject.
- A short man who's sensitive about his height picks a fight on the job over the issue. Then his wife gives him a pair of shoes designed to make him look taller.
- The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for a man and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
- Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.
- The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.
- As young lawyer Timothy Colt rises in a large Manhattan law firm, the conflict between ethics and ambition are constantly thrust upon him, shaking his beliefs to the core.
- Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructor whose pregnant wife has just inherited half a million dollars.
- One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to the belief that English law is infallible. Because of his fixation he even stands trial for a murder he did not commit.
- A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about his ability after losing a patient during a difficult operation.
- A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is trying to gain control through the proxy votes of the shareholders. The older man approaches his late partner's widow in an effort to gain her support, but learns that she has already promised to help the young man.
- An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love with the same woman, in whose apartment the freedom fighter takes refuge after being wounded.
- After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, a successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.
- After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe owner who tries to rouse him from the depression that threatens his career.
- Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a slow, painstaking effort to solve the case.
- A young sailor collapses on the estate of a wealthy Englishman in the Orient and, upon reviving, is offered a strange bargain in exchange for his life.
- At carnival time in Havana an American salesman rescues an attractive woman from revelers, spends some time with her, and finds his hotel room ransacked when he returns.
- The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. But the townspeople refuse to co-operate.
- The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
- An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is offered part of a fortune in confiscated gems in return for letting a former Nazi officer use his passport.
- A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husband is away, her mother-in-law inadvertently suggest the "perfect escape."
- A song plugger making his daily rounds meets an attractive young singer in a recording executive's waiting room and, by passing himself off as her manager, begins climbing to the top of the music world.
- Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent decides he must dig up some publicity to make the up-coming movie pay-off. He pressures Julie, a young starlet, to pose as Spain's secret love.
- On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates, and, unable to leave, finds himself at the mercy of the leader of the gang that stole the goods.
- The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, one of the very few broadcasts in color at that time. I remember because my father was trying out, on loan, a new color television set, and we saw this broadcast as a test of the color quality of the broadcast and of the set. The quality was good for this broadcast, as I recall, but not for all broadcasts.
- The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rome narcotics ring arrives from the United States with an investigator at her heels.
- A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.
- A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.
- A young man is visiting the sister of a friend who was killed in South America when the woman claims she's being poisoned by her doctor stepfather and begs the young man to help her.
- In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and after awhile begins trying to cajole them into adopting him permanently.
- A TV version of the Bayard Viellet play about a séance held to trap a murderer among the attendees.
- A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in an attempt to gain the security she longs for, plots to dispose of her employer.
- The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother
- Lt. Commander Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate New Year's, an unknown danger lurks nearby.
- A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
- While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he begins to date a pretty Japanese dancer, which upsets his American girlfriend.
- An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.
- In 1880s Texas, cattlemen resent the intrusion of homesteaders on their grazing lands. When cattleman Mannon Tate's brother is sentenced to hang for the murder of a homesteader, Tate makes a desperate attempt to prevent the execution.
- A wealthy young woman breaks down and is placed in a sanitarium after being thrown over by the man she loves. Her psychiatrist becomes suspicious when the man reappears and claims he wants to marry her.
- All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.
- On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.
- Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.
- A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to cheat on his final exam.
- The crew of an Air Force air tanker plane must deal with a member of the RAF assigned as captain for training. On their first long-range mission the crew has to deal with a fuel leak that threatens to blow the plane up
- True story of an air refueling squadron who must train a new RAF Commander. On their first long range mission, they must deal with a fuel leak.
- A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims he was hired by the victim's wife.