The Best Episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre Season 2

In San Francisco,an elderly cabinet maker has saved $62,000 and does not want his wife to inherit it when he dies.A lawyer explains how the man can leave it to his intended-an orphaned niece.The man fears his wife is trying to kill him and wants to provide for his niece and her love,an abused deaf and dumb cousin.The man is right-he is murdered.The cousin is blamed and later saves the niece from the murderous wife.

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Writer: N/A

France 1944 and in a secret camp men prepare for a daring mission. The unusual thing is that they are German soldiers who will masquerade as U.S. troops in order to cause confusion and buy time for a last gasp German Offensive. Later,five U.S. G.I.'s travel toward the front lines and begin to suspect each other of being a German infiltrator.

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Jerome Ross

In tiny Cedar Bay a tightly wound,much decorated Korean War veteran has plans to establish a para-military organization called the U.S. Vigilance Committee. Local teenagers show the man no respect and later decide to play a Halloween "prank" on him.The prank causes the re-awakening of a bad experience the man suffered during the war-and may lead to death.

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Writer: N/A

In small-town Hainesville, California a kindly jewelry store owner feels guilty after killing a young Mexican man during a hold-up attempt at his store. The boy's sister is angry and wants revenge. She takes advantage of the jeweler's compassion and loneliness and gets close to him-a little too close for both of them. Later, she finds the man who truly was to blame for her brother's death.

Director: Bernard Girard

Writer: George Kirgo

A military air transport plane on a 15 hour flight from Tokyo to Seattle, Washington has engine and compass problems during a hurricane and wanders into Soviet air space. An emergency landing on uninhabited Russian soil with rough terrain is complicated further by the fact that one of the plane's passengers is an important Soviet defector.

Director: Ron Winston

Writer: Paul Schneider

Just outside of Reno, Nevada, five men with diversely different backgrounds ambush an armored car truck and make away with $3,000,000 in cash. The men make their getaway to Los Angeles using a gas tanker truck in which the money and three of the men are hidden inside. The trip is full of uncertainty as they fight amongst themselves while, unknown to them, a veteran police inspector is cleverly piecing clues together.

Director: Ralph Senensky

Writer: N/A

Gestapo agents pick up resistance leader Bertine, but fail to to recognize the value of their catch. Because Bertine must be silenced before the Nazis realize who he is, his followers arrange for a young assassin to be arrested and place in his cell.

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Writer: N/A

A notorious cat burglar has his activities closely watched by the police so he trains an "apprentice" to carry out his well planned thefts while at the same time providing himself with safe alibis.When the cocky trainee finds he enjoys the money and lifestyle being a "high class thief" brings,he decides to go into business for himself and eliminate the old pro.

Director: Jack Arnold

Writer: N/A

A Texas lawman wants Tom Threepersons, a Cherokee Indian with a reputation as a fighter, to work alongside him in a battle against Prohibition racketeers. But before he commits himself, Tom decides to cross the border into Mexico to see what the other side has to offer.

Director: Alex March

Writer: N/A

Near Bodie Air Force Base, a mild mannered dentist has problems getting respect from his wife and son following a robbery by a junkie over his reluctance to use a gun. Further complicating his life is his slightly mentally disabled son, who finds perverse joy in teasing a somewhat touched and lonely old lady neighbor.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy

Writer: N/A

A one-time college professor,who lost his wife and children in a home fire,has fallen to the level of being a skid-row drunk.He investigates a "solid citizen" when a fellow "bum" is accused of a hold-up and murder-and he changes his life to do it.

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Writer: N/A

A sinister plot to destroy the U.N. by a series of calculated assassinations is discovered.

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: N/A

The intrepid pair, Lt. Lacy and newspaperwoman Karen Lownes, are out to save the United Nations from potential assassinations.

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: N/A

An American wife arrives in Havana,Cuba to beg for the release of her "adventurer" husband who has been jailed on charges of espionage. He actually was in Cuba trying to recover $1,000,000 in Mafia money left behind after The 1958 Revolution. The Communist authorities want the money and the woman enlists a reporter to help her find it and clear her husband. Meanwhile, anti-Castro patriots lurk in the background.

Director: Alex March

Writer: N/A

Four men with various motives plan to "make use of" printing plates recently made in Chicago for a South American country's currency.They will try to commit the crime while on the train from Chicago to Los Angeles from which the plates are being shipped. An unexpected injury could "derail" their attempt.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Don Brinkley

A S.A.C. (Strategic Air Command) bomber on a routine patrol mission from March Air Force Base in the U.S. to Spain-and-back suffers an on-board fire.The co-pilot,who has dodged the responsibility of becoming a lead pilot,is suddenly thrust into command when the pilot is severely injured due to the fire.Can the co-pilot conquer his fears and master his inadequacies?

Director: Leon Benson

Writer: Hank Searls

A French underground hero and a young American hope to escape from a German prison cell in France.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

A story of an insecure jazz singer and her demented manager who is accused of murdering a young girl.

Director: David Lowell Rich

Writer: N/A

An industrial research scientist who "married the boss's daughter" feels pressured to gain a promotion so he can afford her. When the chance to make money by selling company secrets is offered he takes it. Later,to his regret,he finds the choice is no longer his-he will continue to provide information or his wife will die.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Richard Fielder, Harry Essex

When a bomb intended for him kills his wife, DA Paul Maytric resigns to fight the gambling syndicate as a private citizen.

Director: Irving J. Moore

Writer: Howard Browne

Paul Bryan, a lawyer with only a short time left to live, decides to spend his days hobnobbing with the jet-set on the French Riviera.

Director: William A. Graham

Writer: N/A

In Panama, casino operator Rory O'Rourke, a would be railroad builder, becomes involved with a young woman and her son who are fleeing political enemies from China.

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Writer: N/A

A U.S. scientist obsessed with putting an end to war by creating the ultimate weapon, endangers his marriage by neglecting his much-younger wife. He's a perfectionist, which riles his military overseers, who keep pressuring the physicist for quick results, because they fear he'll be nabbed by enemy agents.

Director: Tom Gries

Writer: N/A

After his discharge from the service, Chris Sandoe heads for an almost-abandoned mining town where his sister and brother-in-law are living on credit hoping to strike it rich.

Director: Leon Benson

Writer: N/A

A man plots to get his pregnant wife out of East Berlin by romancing her American lookalike.

Director: Ralph Senensky

Writer: N/A