The Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Ernie Wigman is tired of the bar he owns and wants to get rid of it. Rich, his bartender, might be a good customer for it, only Rich doesn't seem to have the cash.

Director: Alex March

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The story of jazz singer Lee Wiley, her failed marriage to bandleader Jess Stacy.

Director: Sydney Pollack

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In her secluded mansion, crippled Isobel Cain receives loving care from her husband Morgan and her twin sister Vicky. But the two have more than Isobel's welfare at heart: they're planning to poison dear Isobel and live happily ever after on her money.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

Law student Darryl Cooper invites an ambitious D.A. to meet his fraternity brothers in 'the griddle,' a political question and answer session. The D.A. accepts, but soon wishes he hadn't, five years ago, he sent Darryl's brother to the gas chamber. Now, Darryl intends to use the griddle to prove his brother's innocence, and to destroy the D.A.'s career.

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Writer: David Ellis

Fred Piper, a jet-setting private eye who takes on cases no one else can solve. Right now he's trying to find out what happened to a missing millionaire, a task made difficult by the millionaire's wife. For some reason, she doesn't want Piper to question her identical twin sister (note the title ""Double Jeopardy"").

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The admiral's wife dies, he tries to begin again and get along with his son.

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On December 21, 1866 eighty men rode out of Fort Phil Kearny to support a wood-cutting expedition that had come under attack. The wood was necessary to build the fort. They were led out onto the Bozeman Trail and ambused in the pass by the Sioux and wiped out. The leader of the Sioux tribe was Chief Red Cloud.

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Admiral Holloway has one big problem, his daughters! When suitors come knocking, they usually end up running.

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Virginia Cloyd is the widow of a notorious criminal. Early one morning, Virginia calmly walks into a police precinct office--armed with a pistol and vial of nitroglycerine. In a measured voice, she announces that she intends to wait for detective James Lassiter, the man responsible for the death of her husband. She also declares that she intends to kill Lassiter, in full view of the other cops.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Evan Hunter

Four Kings is a World War II drama where four prisoners are serving life sentences. They are pulled out of jail by the US military and given an opportunity for a pardon. The ""brass"" isn't asking for much: all the four lifers are expected to do is sneak into Germany and steal the secret plans for the V2 missile.

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Two suitors drive a beautiful woman crazy with their pursuit of her.

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Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.

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A deadly game of cat and mouse, where everything isn't what it seems to be.

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Under Stalin, it was inconceivable that anyone could publish a book attacking Soviet injustice. But under Khrushchev, a limited but distinct thaw has taken place. Prime evidence of this change was open publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, an exposé of Stalin's labor camps where the author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, himself did time. Tonight's adaptation of the novel is set in 1951 in Siberia. A group of prisoners persuade the authorities to transfer them to warmer work by promising to top the previous work record on the first day. But if they fail, it's back to laying barbed wire in the snow. One officer, Lieutenant Volkovoi, would like nothing better.

Director: Daniel Petrie

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A popular but improvident songwriter, after spending all of his royalties, agrees to marry an heiress, not because of her money, but because of her lack of money. You see, both plan to file a joint income tax return, thereby enjoying the bounty of the IRS' ""deductible"" system. This will keep them both solvent until they can recoup their fortunes.

Director: Jess Oppenheimer

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In Hollywood, private eye Adam Steele investigates the murder of a colleague who was working for a ruthless business tycoon. Steele?s search for motive and murder leads up several blind alleys-but all are somehow connected with his friend's employer.

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Things seem to be closing in on campaign manager Parker Hite: he can't get any supporters for his candidate, and his marriage is beginning to collapse.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

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Two friends are betrayed by the woman they love.

Director: Paul Almond

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When folksinger Richie Darden fails to show up for a performance, his girlfriend Cress thinks club owner Mig Semple should put Richie's expensive guitar in his safe. And Cress has the right idea--two customers are planning to steal the instrument.

Director: Paul Stewart

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A pair of illicit lovers have been murdered, and prosecuting attorney Abe Perez is going all out to get a conviction against the dead man's wife, a wealthy socialite who used to date Perez.

Director: Ron Winston

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Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.

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A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has no memory of anything that happened before he wakes up. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.

Director: James Goldstone

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Comedy about a gangster who hires a ""personnel psychologist"" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.

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After being captured the fliers resort to all kinds of mischief to disrupt the plans of the enemy.

Director: Sydney Pollack

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Hannah King has two reasons for being in Rome: to win back her husband, who's courting an Arabian princess; and to land a role in Italian director Aldo Carmenelli's new art film.

Director: Lawrence Dobkin

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