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- Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
- Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When the local minister buys a used car, he does not realize that bank robbers have hidden their loot in the spare tire.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Huck and Tom discover buried treasure, while trying to keep it secret from Huck's father.
- A little known adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
- American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss Le Chiffre while monitoring his actions.
- 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.