Original title
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released
10/5/1951
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
8
Number of episodes
376
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
A middle-aged woman begins a romance with a car-racing playboy.
A US Customs Officer breaks up a narcotics smuggling ring.
A society woman from Washington, D.C. joins the Army Corp.
A woman falls in love with the Doctor she meets at the train station after she gets a cinder in her eye
An old woman is ignored by her family, that is until she wins a sizable amount of money.
A man abandons his dream of Presidency to work at saving the Whig party.
A woman is assigned the job of ghost-writing the memoirs of Aimee Durant, a flamboyant Wild West gal.
A man wishes to write the great American novel, but a fatal illness changes his life's direction
Two employees are dead at a post office hold-up. There is one survivor, but the press paints him as a coward.
A woman finds romance at a remote wireless station in Nova Scotia.
Baro, a fearless young member of the underground network helps the persecuted flee.
A man having been rejected by a society girl ventures West, upon his success out West he returns and plots revenge against another upper class family.
A man marries a woman who has lost her voice; unfortunately, when her voice returns she doesn't shut up.
In order to cut even more corners, the penny-pinching owner of a hotel also plays maid.
When Claggart is found murdered after making false accusations of mutiny against Billy Budd, it leads to Billy's court-martial and trial.
A wealthy woman finds herself engaged to two suitors at the same time.
An Italian girl helps five American POWs.
A millionaire leaves his riches to his spinster sister, and the town's corrupt politicians try to gain control of the estate.
The troubled life of Mary Todd Lincoln and her influence on her husband.
A prize fighter continues to box to pay his debts.
Architect Hayden Chart, recovering from the death of his wife, begins anew overseas.
A widowed older farmer falls in love with the much younger woman he hires.
A musician is torn between his music and the love of a woman.
Grandpa has a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging in his home and is overwhelmed when the real Mr. Roosevelt comes to visit.
A pianist must choose between his music career and love.
The life of artist Grandma Moses who began her career in her 70's, capturing rural scenes of life and celebrations in upstate New York.
A doctor devotes her life to finding a serum to battle a disease sweeping Korea, the country that claimed her husband and son.
A widow supports her family through painting and ceramics.
Members of Steamer were attacked by Hamadan, a crazy musician, and blown away by magic wind.
After the escape of three convicts, a woman home alone fears they might harm her.
A doctor becomes engaged to a socialite and problems arise when his pretty nurse complicates matters.
Outlaw Monte Clovis comes to Kingdale to settle some business. He's come to claim his woman, Mary, and the child she was carrying when he was sent to the hoosegow. Monte wants a shoot out with his former best friend, Cal, who married to Mary and has since "gone straight." Meanwhile, Monte's old gang rides into town to hold up the bank.
A woman dreams of becoming a successful musical star, but her level-headed boyfriend brings her back down to Earth.
A chambermaid becomes distraught when her daughter goes missing, and a businessman falls for the maid during their search for the daughter.
A department-story employee is implicated in the death of a customer.
Story of China Smith, a disreputable, disheveled Irishman making his living on the lucrative Singapore rackets.
A newspaper reporter puts her life on the line to rescue a young girl being held captive by her gangster boyfriend.
A traveling salesman fills in for a friend on a date and has his life changed.
An insurance investigator's secretary uses a mink coat as bait to help her boss trap jewel thieves.
A man's niece complicates a rapport he has with monsters.
A reclusive woman's life is disrupted when her greedy nephew visits.
A group of teenagers construct a rocket to travel into space.
The widowed father of four boys must deal with one of them who is getting romantic ideas.
A cynic is caught in the trap of his effort to be on both sides of the French Revolution.
A nightclub entertainer meets and marries a millionaire.
A psychiatrist is bamboozled by two patients, each claiming the other wants to kill someone.
A husband and wife team up to do a little detective work and find themselves in the middle of a heist.
A big, ugly man discovers romance.
An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.
A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.
A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.
A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.
A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.
When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.
The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.
An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.
A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.
A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.
A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.
A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.
A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.
On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.
After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.
A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.
A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.
A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.
Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.
After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.
A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.
A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.
Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.
A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.
A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.
An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.
A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.
An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.
Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.
When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.
A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.
A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.
Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.
Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.
A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.
A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.
An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.
A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.
A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.
Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.
A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.
A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.
Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.
A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.
Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.
A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.
An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue
A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.
A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.
After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.
An architect finds that romance can hurt a working relationship.
Embezzler Mark Andrews trains a dog as a killer to exact revenge from his ex-boss.
A crime-bent college student's carefully laid plans for robbery boomerang.
Prospector Jake Simpson unwittingly allows a killer to join his search for a gold mine.
A farmer tries to strike up a romance with the Professor of animal husbandry.
After three other cargo planes have mysteriously disappeared, an army air corps crew is informed that their plane is carrying a hidden time bomb. Since a powerful storm has made visibility virtually nil, the airmen desperately search their craft for the explosives. The Episode was Directed by Ted Post and stars Charles Bronson as Sgt. Roy Smith, and Pitt Herbert as Rouke.
A long-ago crime is exposed in a letter disrupts the comfortable life of a married couple
A man blinded by an accident is forced to borrow money from a racketeer in order to support his wife.
Aspiring artist Mark Norton is financed by his father---who thinks he's studying agriculture.
Two brothers fall for the same girl.
An honest man learns that he can save his daughter from being swindled only by resorting to fraud himself.
Despondent shop girl Norma Bailey decides to end it all by gas asphyxiation. Before it can take effect, a young man breaks in and stops it, but he's there by chance, running from the police, pursuing him for a stolen diamond bracelet. Later, Norma falls in love with him and tries to persuade the victim not to press charges.
A heartless businessman has spent the last three weeks in a single room of his home. He's developed a psychosomatic affliction which makes it unable for him to turn the room's doorknob. He refuses to leave until he can open the door himself, and refuses psychiatric help. A family with a sick child takes refuge in his home during a severe storm against his wishes.
The wife of a fugitive from the law escapes with him to a far away island. Their tiny refuge becomes the scene of great emotional and physical upheaval with the arrival of a mysterious detective and a tropical storm.
In the 1870s, Texas Ranger Earl Webb must escort wanted gunman John Fenner by passenger train through the state of Louisiana to get back home. However, the long, grueling journey is fraught with danger, including many of Fenner's trigger happy relatives trying to free the prisoner.
An opponent of a boxer who goes blind during a fight is tormented by the fact that he may have caused the blindness.
A baker discovers talents other than baking during the holidays.
Vi divorces her husband after he be comes involved with crooks and goes to prison for a gas station holdup. She gets on with her life with her son and new husband. Seven years later, out of prison, Marty shows up at the amusement park shooting gallery she operates. He's angry and wants her to know he's good with a gun.
A young policeman's daily contact with ugliness and heartbreak shakes his faith in humanity.
A colorful outlaw is the object of a boy's hero-worship.
An adventurer impersonates the lost Dauphin to elude Napoleon's men.
An officer comes to the aid of his friend who is being sought for murder.
A man heads out west to get rich mining gold and breaks a lot of promises along the way.
A police lieutenant serving time in a state penitentiary is trying to obtain evidence for a man facing execution on a false charge.
While leading a safari, a professional hunter encounters the judge who sentenced his innocent brother to death for a crime he did not commit.
A young woman is forced to choose between two detectives who love her.
A retired actress defends a woman on a murder charge.
An ex-pilot's restlessness threatens his marriage.
A corporal in Napoleon's army faces death for his alleged romantic involvement with Josephine.
An Army lieutenant is held captive by a troubled G.I.
A man returns to an island to claim buried gold.
After an argument with his wife, a man embarks on an auto trip that throws him into contact with an escaped killer.
A young actress must decide between marriage and a stage career.
An engineer, caught in a romantic triangle, is almost killed by the woman he loves.
On a hospital ship, a Navy doctor tries to help a wounded marine who has lost the will to live.
Angry townspeople persecute a deputy sheriff who tries to defend a girl accused of murder.
A beauty parlor owner finds herself caught in the middle of escaping criminals.
A trio is trapped by a raging blizzard. Their group is joined by a thug who managed to escape a plane wreck.
Three Americans are arrested in a small South American country as a revolution is about to take place. The authorities believe that one of the three is the leader of the revolt and threaten to kill all three men unless the ring-leader comes forward.
A retired sea captain has problems when he finds a whale washed up on his doorstep after a storm.
A vacationing bookkeeper gets involved in a bizarre struggle for life and treasure with an escaped convict.
No-nonsense sailor Bunter signs on as first mate on a sailing ship helmed by an eccentric skipper. The Captain is a firm believer in spiritualism which Bunter dismisses as idiotic superstition. But one strange night, Bunter falls on the deck, saying he's seen a ghost. The next morning, his hair is completely white.
After two years on Devil's Island, a prisoner escapes and is befriended by a policeman.
Napoleon sends one of his Brigadiers (Claude Dauphin) on a special mission to the King of Spain.
Small town police are about to search the swamps for the murderer of a local cop when a man emerges from the bayou. He says he's a detective on the trail of a payroll thief and shot the robber/cop killer in a shootout. The man shows off a bag full of the stolen money which he says he retrieved and must return to the city immediately. Before he can catch a train out of town, the deputy realizes the "detective" isn't who he claims to be and a chase back into the swamps ensues.
In the Old West, a boy's life is jeopardized by gunmen who want to take control of his father's land.
A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselves in a liferaft with only one canteen of water.
A reporter's girlfriend tries to keep him from stepping into a deadly trap set by his vicious managing editor.
In ancient Rome, a general's daughter falls under the spell of her enemy -- the invading Hannibal.
A young sheepman is torn between a blacksmith's daughter and a woman who promises to help him win a fortune at cards.
A destitute pilot takes the only flying job offered him, then begins to suspect that his employers are criminals.
A recluse, locked in an elevator, faces death.
A small army garrison is surrounded by Apaches who threaten to wipe out the entire command unless an Indian prisoner is set free.
A Hollywood columnist solves the mysterious disappearance of a silent film star.
Returning to his home town, a gunman (John Ireland) betrays an outlaw buddy to obtain reward money.
A suspect in a diamond robbery cleverly outwits thieves who think he has the store.
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The honest proprietor of a roadside cafe tries to help both a wayward boy and his own brother, an escaped killer.
A comedy about a tenderfoot in the Old West.
A young man, greedy for wealth, resorts to murder to get it.
The Sensation Club worships the unusual and the bizarre. What better thing for Garman to bring before his fellow sensation-seekers than a man he believes is being sought for murder by the police?
A wanted Latin American jeopardizes his life to aid fellow passengers in a plane crash.
A driver tries to find out why his trucks are being stolen
Texas Ranger Walden accepts the hospitality of an Oregon sheriff and his daughter while on the trail of a man wanted for murder. He learns his quarry, Sam Gates, is nearby and the sheriff agrees to help him fulfill the order of the law. Several locals ask the ranger to reconsider arresting Gates because he was only acting in self defense. Plus, he's now a family man, married to the sheriff's daughter.
On a second honeymoon with his wife, a judge gets a chance to test his theory that there is a criminal type that will not kill under any circumstances.
A debonair jewel thief discovers there's no honor among thieves.
A man in a small New England town is suspected of having something to do with the disappearance of his rival.
A detective uses his masculine charm to solve his cases. His method is to befriend the suspected murderer's sweetheart and gain her confidence.
A man moves from the big city to a small town and works for the local newspaper which only covers good news.
An Army misfit is ridiculed by his fellow soldiers when a prank backfires.
Tom Novak (Stephen McNally) journeys to the Dakotas to find a wife and a ranch site. Although he finds them, another man asserts prior claim to both.
Floods followed by a landslide find Mona Tyrrel trapped in her home with Zakka - a young man who is a complete stranger to her.
Joe Tierney has had years of experience with the telephone company and its underground cable system. Some hoods decide to kidnap him and learn the location of a bank alarm.
A couple's quiet South Seas island paradise life is disrupted by strangers with a tale of a man lost at sea.
A rookie reporter is assigned to cover the final voyage of a schooner and gets caught up in the drama when the ship begins to sink.
A Civil War veteran is eager to teach the ways of peace and democracy to the frontiersmen of the new state of Oregon.
An embezzler gets the chance to impersonate a Scotland Yard Officer. As such, he is assigned to search for a murderer.
A former basketball player, once jailed for accepting a bribe, must move from one city to another as his reputation catches up with him.
In ancient Sicily, a sculptor is sentenced to be a galley slave for insulting a tyrant who rules the island.
An ambitious mayor has a tough time trying to explain what he was doing in the company of a gorgeous blonde on election eve, when his wife was away.
A gunslinger and his brother confront a crazed killer in a spooky Western ghost town.
When a sea captain refuses to toss a man overboard because he is ill, the crew causes a mutiny and tosses both captain and sick man adrift in a boat.
A niece is the traveling companion for her wealthy aunt and they stay overnight at a tourists' home and find themselves among gangsters.
An elderly storekeeper keeps his young friend enthralled with tales of his days as an Indian fighter.
Federal agent Sam Ireland is assigned to a lawless border town. Sam takes a room in a boarding house suspected of being the center of a human smuggling. The agent finds himself distracted by the fairer sex.
Dollars disappear when a mysterious blonde appears at closing time in a bank. The teller is hard pressed to explain the discrepancy in the day's receipts.
A mild-mannered architect harbors a secret love of the more violent forms of sport. He gets his big chance when a boxer in need of a manager moves next door.
Young Jeff Latham stops at a roadside diner and ends up working there. After meeting a nice local girl, everything seems to be going his way. Things get complicated when he unwittingly gets involved with criminals working out of the diner.
A western town is dominated by one family. When one of them is murdered, a stranger in town finds himself the object of a lynch mob.
A girl witnesses the shooting of a druggist. But she doesn't go along with the identification of a suspect made by other witnesses.
After nearly 30 years of dull routine, a shipping clerk signs on with a ship as a sailor. But on the eve of embarkation, he meets up with more exciting fare in port.
A member of the British Civil Service whose job it is to produce identity cards for the War Office, is tempted to use his skills for illegitimate purposes when his son becomes a fugitive.
A guest finally finds her way to O'Connor's insolvent fishing lodge in the High Sierras. But her car is flashy, her purse empty and her only luggage a revolver.
A father and son need another mule so they can join the wagon train. But they come across criminals who want more than they can offer for the transaction.
The last of a line of famous fencers falls in love with a girl who scoffs at fencing.
The romance of a nurse suffers a setback when a doctor turns down a chance to establish a private practice.
A policeman who wants to be a district attorney kills an old friend in a gun duel. He now has to reckon not only with the public, which thinks of him as a killer, but with angry mobsters.
A small town postmaster, storekeeper and justice of the peace has his hands full when a young eloping couple attempts to "borrow" gasoline from his locked pump.
An aging senior airline pilot is about to be promoted to operations chief, but feels he is being "grounded" due to his age. When he makes his farewell flight he learns that things are changing.
A large state-decreed construction project overwhelms a small rural town that is dominated by a gruff but soft-hearted old soldier. His niece is young and craves romance, and finds it in the construction foreman, who's very much at odds with the townsfolk and especially a man that fancies himself as her boyfriend.
The owner of a roadside diner is falling for his new waitress, but his young assistant is suspicious of her. The report that a dangerous killer is in the vicinity changes the picture.
Pvt. Henri Baptiste, decorated French soldier of World War I, obtains a leave and visits his home village, only to find it devastated.
A lawyer goes to a small Wyoming town in search of the heir to a strange legacy. Two claimants show up, each with verbal proof of his rightful claim, and this puts the lawyer in the role of a Solomon to decide which is the heir.
A young assistant district attorney suspects a trap has been baited for an indigent artist accused of stealing money from an art gallery.
An ex-GI suffering from amnesia returns to his home town in an attempt to regain both his memory and an inheritance.
An efficiency expert on his first assignment and an outspoken secretary lock horns over how things are done.
After working in a department store for forty years, a man decides to go on a sea voyage.
Trainer Bradley Taylor enlists the aid of a mule to train a frisky harness-race horse.
A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.
The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.
A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.
A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.
A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.
A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.
After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.
Reno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.
Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.
A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.
An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.
In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.
A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.
In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.
When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.
The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.
A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.
A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.
A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.
A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.
A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.
No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.
A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.
A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.
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The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.
An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.
A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.
A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.
After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Mr. Gallup heads for the States on another ship. Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.
When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse, but is trapped just the same and faces death.
The story of the destroyer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.
A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.
Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.
After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.
A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.
Mountie Sgt. Douglas Renfrew is sent back to the Northwest Territory to reopen a murder investigation. The gun which killed a man has turned up, and its owner is the key suspect. Renfrew is nursed back to health following a mountain lion attack by the daughter of the murdered man. She claims the man he's seeking is no longer alive.
The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.
A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.
Sgt. Childs wants to be a cook in the Air Force, but he keeps getting assigned duties like Hangar Chief. He gets himself assigned to a general's flight so he can show off his kitchen skills, but the general's dietitian has other ideas.
When all of an aging Finnish lumberjack's family is wiped out in one night, he turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident, because he needs someone to love.
An aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.
An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.
A woman tells her man she'll marry him, if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting. But as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet, he becomes involved with train robbers.
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.
A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.
Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.
Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.
A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear
When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.
A woman who has devoted herself to her career decides she is never to wed. She proceeds to buy a house and build a life that doesn't involve having a family. But she is pleasantly surprised about what happens next.
A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.
A hard man in business is on the receiving end of the squeeze play when his daughter is threatened by a blackmailer who wants $25,000 in exchange for her reputation.
A bachelor talks his best friend into breaking his engagement. But after he meets the man's ex-fiance, he begins to fall in love with her himself.
A dedicated director has had the loving support and understanding of his wife during the years in which he mastered his craft. After he wins an Oscar for a picture he directed, they find they are rapidly drifting apart.
An American secret agent fighting to get control of a South American oil well poses an Englishman to thwart enemy agents.
A Southern girl discovers that Confederate soldiers are not receiving letters from home. She therefore decides to deliver letters from her neighbors to their sons and sweethearts.
A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.
During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.
After a series of train robberies and stagecoach hold-ups, the Wells Fargo Company assigns special agent Jim Hardie to capture the outlaws.
A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.
Joe McQuade is a respected and honest detective, who is in line for a promotion. His daughter needs an operation and a racketeer offers him money.
Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion. After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.
A house detective believes all women to be unfaithful until he meets a certain beautiful young lady.
The story of an artist who moves into a cheap tenement apartment to decide whether or not to marry, but instead of peace of mind finds herself in the middle of terror.
A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.
An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons, and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.
An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.
A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.
A lonely woman, tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.
Marriage is the furthest thing from the mind of one-armed tramp, Tom Triplet -- then he sees Lucy Nell Crater, a deaf-mute girl with angelic innocence.
A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.
Harry Carstairs wakes up feeling young and adventurous. His wife, however, doesn't share his romantic mood, so Harry wanders off to the park. He intends to read the financial page, but finds himself being stared at by a beautiful girl.
Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.
On the trail to visit his old friend Dan, former gunfighter Britt Ponset meets an escaped murderer nursing a grudge and plotting to kill Dan. Britt's job now is to warn Dan and help him prepare for the inevitable showdown.
A mousy little button salesman gets thrown out of his hotel when it is taken over by a new chain, because he wore outlandish clothes.
Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.
An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.
A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.
Professor Stephen Bolt, a teacher of criminology, hears a strange story from a guest lecturer: a man dies suddenly. While his wife is arranging the burial, the corpse disappears
A drifter takes a temporary job at a stagecoach station but refuse a permanent one from manager Henry Maguire. As he's ready to move on bandits arrive threatening Henry and daughter Bess. The cowboy makes a crucial choice.
A nun is bothered by the cloister's leaky roof, so, after learning she has come into an inheritance, she decides to do something about it.
Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.
A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.
Pietro and Francesca live in a little Italian village on the Mediterranean. She's the cook in a ramshackle hotel and he's the waiter, but he rebels at spending his life picking up crumbs and plots big business deals at the waterfront. His association with Rubio, an evil fisherman frightens Francesca, but she is powerless to dissuade Pietro from entering into a scheme with Rubio to rob a pair of American tourists.
A dancer repeatedly receives death threats by mail and phone calls.
A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.
A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.
A defense attorney is met with antagonism when he arrives in a small town to help a boy already convicted by public opinion of stealing $8,000.
A gangster pursued by the police convinces a crooked plastic surgeon to alter his face to look like a respected banker so the thug can kill and assume the identity of the respected citizen
Two policeman who are partners on a dangerous beat vie for the love of the same woman.
Eddie Martin is making lots of money at his job, and he's happy. Not so his wife, who thinks Eddie should work behind a desk and wear a gray-flannel suit. In an effort to help her husband get ahead, she throws a dinner party for the boss.
A man serving a long sentence finds his only ticket out is through parole and good behavior.
On a boat headed for Panama, a brash, overdressed girl tries desperately to make friends with other passengers. But her outlandish appearance and loud voice make her an object of ridicule.
A wealthy, domineering wife schemes her husband's death.
After Prof. Rhys Lorenz is blinded in an accident, he becomes bitter at the world.
An American flier's plane crashes in the Chinese jungle. A lovely Eurasian girl joins the flier in an attempt to escape the Communists.
A widow with a gambling problem owes everyone money, including the landlord who's wanting to evict her. She desperately wants to buy a pricey birthday gift for for her young son, who lives with disapproving relatives. If only she could have a little luck.
The true story of electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz. Even as a child in Germany, Charles was lonely, preferring to devise inventions rather than play with other children. As he grows to young manhood, Steinmetz applies his brilliant mind to problems of electrical engineering.
A wife finds a letter in the pocket of her suave husband and learns he's been seeing a young woman. She suspects he's been cheating, but he says she's the daughter of a friend and simply reminds him of his youth. The wife decides to get to the bottom of it all by having the "chick" join them for dinner.
A reformed outlaw has trouble going straight.
A home-loving man's marriage has become a dull routine until he becomes interested in a young widow who moves next door.
In Paris, columnist Mary Andrews runs into an old friend, Dutch Morgan. She agrees to play the role of Dutch's wife, from whom he's separated, when he visits a family that helped him when he was shot down in World War 2.
A humble peasant is simple and naive - until he illegally sells a horde of antique statuettes to an unscrupulous dealer. The new found wealth complicates his life and nearly destroys his marriage.
Bill Carter suspects that his present wife is still in love with her first husband. He allows his jealousy to threaten his marriage and ruin his life.
Battle-hardened Sgt. O'Malley dedicates himself to the task of making a seasoned soldier out of an irresponsible private.
A trio of jewel thieves, two men and a woman, take refuge from the police in a small town where the girl was raised. Tension mounts as the three strive to remain undetected while their attitude toward each other begins to change.
Arriving on the lonely French Island of Tuamotu in the South Pacific in the late summer of 1939, an Army doctor discovers his medical school classmate and finds that he must help him conquer his addiction to morphine.
After he is presented with a citation for saving a child's life, Frankie Nevada is impressed with his role of hero. When he becomes more concerned with his press clippings than with finding a job, his girlfriend as well as his friends turn against him.
A trip to Japan by a businessman becomes a complicated love affair when his boss asks him to visit his Japanese wife and child whom he had left behind.
A clothing salesman lets a lady friend talk him out of using his customary high-pressure sales techniques. But his sales drop, and the boss is forced to take him off the road.
After years as a hen-pecked husband, Hully Brown decides to leave his overbearing wife and make a new life for himself.
A psychiatrist takes refuge in the home of a stranger when one of her patients tries to run over her with his car. (He didn't take the news that he was going to be committed very well.) After stalking the house and terrorizing the pair for hours, the patient finally leaves. The doctor and homeowner attempt to escape, but the deranged man returns, more desperate than before to break into the house.
An ex-con tries to force his son's acceptance to an elite college by attempting to blackmail the man who must approve the entrants.
A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.
While her husband is away on a business trip, a lonely housewife becomes infatuated with another man. When he threatens her with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, she searches frantically for a solution to her problem.
Photographer Calvin is interested in pretty Suzanne only as a model, but she thinks of Calvin as a prospective husband. Only when Suzanne's irate father visits the studio does Calvin realize her intentions.
A Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard is assigned the task of solving a baffling murder of an attractive London model
A British movie star finds himself in a miserable situation: All he wants to do is rest, but he's forced to judge a beauty contest, and the participants don't give him a moment's peace.
A poor Frenchman (Vincent Price) is mistaken upon his arrival in England for another man from France expected to arrive at that time. He is brought to the home of Mr. Smith, an apparently wealthy art connoisseur, and his lovely daughter (Valerie French). He soon finds out that both Mr. Smith and the expected Frenchman (Jonathan Harris) are involved in a scheme to sell a fake Corot painting.
A poor working girl fears she will not be accepted by her husband's socially prominent family. On her way to a first meeting with her in-laws, she has a series of wacky daydreams about them.
A New York City reporter arrives in a small town where two recent murders have the locals terrified. Vigilantes have decided that a man from the wrong side of the tracks is the killer. The police chief, however, believes there's a big secret in the town that points to the guilty party.
Revolutionists under the heel of a dictator are aided by an American newsman who becomes involved and lends a hand to help make the revolution a success.
Dr. John Carter, a rather starchy young physician from Boston, is on his way to San Francisco. When a frontier town is stricken by a smallpox epidemic, the doctor reluctantly joins forces with the lawless Belle Starr to rush aid to the stricken people.
A wife tries to make a last-ditch phone call to save her husband from the electric chair.
A young man follows his father's footsteps and becomes a police officer. He learns that one of his Dad's old buddies who's still of the force is on the make. The rookie offers the lieutenant a chance to "go straight" if he'll help him get evidence against the mob. That's when he learns that it could be deadly to expose the corruption.
George Slattery is being ridden hard by his parole officer since getting out of jail for murder. He's fallen for a nice woman in the neighborhood, but a small-time gangster thinks she belongs with him. The constant harassment by the thug and his goons is testing George's ability to keep his fists in check and himself out of prison.
A honest cab driver who has fallen on hard times joins a gang planning to commit an armored car robbery.
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.
A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.
The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.
Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.
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