Thu, Jan 3, 1952
A young couple buys a used car from a slick salesman, but soon afterwards the car's brakes fail, and the resulting accident nearly causes their death. Capt. Braddock begins to suspect that this "accident" was more the result of criminal negligence than happenstance, and sets out to prove it.
Tue, Mar 25, 1952
A wealthy young widow begins to date a suave European man. A mutual friend tells her that the European has trouble clearing his fortune with customs, so he needs a certain amount of money. She makes a large loan to the European man, keeping his valuable stamp collection as collateral. Eventually, the European and his collaborators disappear, leaving the young widow to discover that her boyfriend was a fraud, and the stamp collection is almost worthless.
Thu, May 8, 1952
Local businessmen take instantly to John Riley, a geologist who's moving to town from Cleveland. They do their research and find he's a geologist who's made a fortune in locating oil deposits. Simply by acting like a low-key businessman, Riley has the town's leaders happily forking over $100,000 to start drilling on his next well. The investors find out too late that their man is only passing himself off as a real geologist named John Riley.
Thu, Jun 19, 1952
A playwright who has been bummed by Broadway decides to use his script as part of a scam in which he poses as the producer of a new play that he intends to stage on 42nd Street. To do this, he assembles a cast and sells off more than 100% of the phony show. Once the cast is assembled, he begins rehearsals and has the cast learn their dialogue, which is campy and pseudo-dramatic. He then has them perform the play in a theater in front of a live audience. Unfortunately for him and his lady friend, the play turns out to be a roaring success, and the review brings Inspector James Braddock into the case. Acting swiftly, Braddock apprehends the scoundrel and sees to it that the money is returned to his investors.
Thu, Aug 28, 1952
The con artist Stitch discovers two weak spots in the character of the eccentric millionaire Titus Meely: a greed for earning lots of money with small investments and a passion for clairvoyance. Stitch gives himself out as being a famous expert in clairvoyance, who has invented an apparatus for projecting the inner visions of clairvoyants on a film screen. He persuades Meely to invest a huge sum of money in a project, where a clairvoyant will project information for new, epoch-making inventions on a screen.