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The Best Episodes of Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 1 - First Vice-President
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    #1 - First Vice-President

    S5:E1

    A hard-driving, domineering business executive is determined to become the company's next president. He invites the retiring chairman and his wife to his Long Island home to wine and dine his way into the position. The man's family members, who are fed up with his tyrannical control over them, finally stage a mutiny at the dinner party.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 2 - Private Purkey's Private Place
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    #2 - Private Purkey's Private Place

    S5:E2

    A soldier and his buddies find themselves in Europe at the end of the war. Believing their opinions are as important as those of Army brass and politicians, they formulate their own peace plan and are determined to share it. They work their way into the Paris peace talks and Private Purkey makes sure the world hears his ideas.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 3 - Lost and Found
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    #3 - Lost and Found

    S5:E3

    Dr. Robert Collis works to rehabilitate children, both physically and spiritually, who were held at Belsen, the notorious Nazi prison camp. He invests special efforts to win over Eva, who guards her younger brother so tightly that they can't treat his tuberculosis. This is based on actual events.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 4 - September Time
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    #4 - September Time

    S5:E4

    Marion Shaw, a premiere concert vocalist, takes a forced summer rest in Cape Cod to give her strained voice a chance to recover. The truth slowly becomes obvious to both Marion and her voice coach that her singing days are over. The burden of losing her career is lightened by a handsome man she meets in the resort town.

    Director:Norman Felton
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 5 - The Big Money
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    #5 - The Big Money

    S5:E5

    A World War I hero operates on the belief that money, and lots of it, buys happiness. He jumps into the airplane business, believing it will offer big bucks, but soon fails. He plunges into the stock market and meets a woman, but she soon leaves him because of his iffy finances. His single minded goal of money continues to negatively influence his career choices and his relationships.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 6 - Breakdown
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    #6 - Breakdown

    S5:E6

    Scientist Philip Armstrong returns to England to conduct tests on a top secret government weapon. Dr. Allen, whom he doesn't know, is assigned to work with him. The doctor confides that he's in love with a woman he's just recently met. It turns out that the woman is Armstrong's wife. With the stress of his work and his marriage in shambles, the scientist is on the verge of a crack-up.

    Director:Norman Felton
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 7 - A Criminal Assignment
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    #7 - A Criminal Assignment

    S5:E7

    Wanting to catch other criminals, the British secret service gains the release of a counterfeiter who's dropped into France. He is to produce bills that contain a tiny flaw to be used to pay off the suspected double-dealers. With the plan a success, the ex-con is free to go. Following the war, the counterfeiter disappears and authorities find two perfect plates. Clearly, he couldn't resist the temptation to print a little for himself.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 8 - The Sunday Punch
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    #8 - The Sunday Punch

    S5:E8

    A one-time big name fighter, Tony Marino, is on his way down the boxing ladder, but he still can throw his powerful "Sunday punch." Tony's manager tries to bribe him to take a dive in a fight with up-and-comer Kid Walker. Tony is infuriated and almost wins the fight, though he suffers a dangerous head injury that could have lasting repercussions.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 9 - Cakes and Ale
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    #9 - Cakes and Ale

    S5:E9

    Upon the death of a famed writer, two colleagues competing to write his biography visit his country estate. While there, they meet a charming local barmaid, Rosie, with quite a story to tell: she had married an unsuccessful middle-aged writer and was a major influence that guided him to being a better man and noted author.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 10 - No Picnic at Mount Kenya
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    #10 - No Picnic at Mount Kenya

    S5:E10

    Based on a true story from World War II, Felice Benuzzi was one of 10,000 prisoners of war held at the Kenya camp. Benuzzi and two others manage to escape by successfully scaling down the 17,000-foot high Mt. Kenya.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 11 - Weekend Pass
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    #11 - Weekend Pass

    S5:E11

    A soldier on a three-day weekend pass is determined to paint the town. With $200 and his fiancé, he hits the nightspots in New York City. His girlfriend, though, soon tires of the party life and becomes irritated by his refusal to name a wedding date. After she storms off, he decides to connect with another girl, unaware of what adventures she has in store for him.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 12 - The Deep Six
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    #12 - The Deep Six

    S5:E12

    After far too many months at sea, tensions build among the men and officers of the cruiser U.S.S. Atlantis during World War II. Lt. Alec Austen is already irritated by the constant meddling of his executive and gunnery officers. After months of tedium and threatened danger, the ship encounters a Japanese force in the Aleutians and is thrust into a furious battle for survival.

    Director:Norman Felton
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 13 - Harvest
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    #13 - Harvest

    S5:E13

    A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those of his family. His parents wish him and his brother to stay and work on their small Minnesota wheat farm while both want to escape the tough life and move to the city. It's up to the mother to keep the family together in spirit during their Thanksgiving holiday reunion.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 14 - The Soprano and the Piccolo Player
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    #14 - The Soprano and the Piccolo Player

    S5:E14

    An overweight piccolo player's accompaniment to a soprano's aria is so well-received that the two are suddenly in demand as a duo. As their fame and popularity grow, so does the piccolo player's love for his beautiful partner. As he's trying to muster up the courage to ask her to marry him, he learns that she has become engaged to another. Heartbroken, he disappears, never to be seen or heard from again.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 15 - Really the Blues
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    #15 - Really the Blues

    S5:E15

    Jackie Cooper stars in this biography of jazz great Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow. An unruly youth, his parents put him in a reform school where he first encountered jazz. He eventually became a talented clarinetist and fronted his own combo during the 1920s, but when music trends moved towards big bands, he suffered a rapid decline in fortunes. Mezz endured much mental suffering during this period before being reintroduced to the public by friends like musician Gene Krupa.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 16 - No Visible Means
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    #16 - No Visible Means

    S5:E16

    Tom, a smooth talking gigolo, makes the rounds through the speakeasies of 1920s New York. He's loved by Veronia, a woman with a lot of money, but he loses interest when he meets Iris. She presents herself as a person of society on the verge of big film career. Wedding plans quickly follow, until their lies catch up with both of them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 17 - What About Christmas?
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    #17 - What About Christmas?

    S5:E17

    Individuals throughout an American city end up touching one another in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Among the unrelated people are a lonely old man and his cat, a movie actor hoping to make it home for Christmas, a businessman, and a scientist who chooses to work in his lab on Christmas Eve.

    Director:Norman Felton
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 18 - The Greatest Man in the World
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    #18 - The Greatest Man in the World

    S5:E18

    A publicity-loving mechanic causes a sensation when he flies solo around the world. A newspaper reporter is assigned the job of uncovering this unknown person's secretive past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 19 - The Steady Man
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    #19 - The Steady Man

    S5:E19

    A couple whose child died at birth face a problem adopting a child. The husband, proud of the fact that he can account for every penny they spend, is horrified by the expense and the long wait involved. It's up to the patient wife to talk her husband into dealing with the adoption process.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 20 - A Case of Identity
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    #20 - A Case of Identity

    S5:E20

    While taking the subway home from the Stork Club, a musician is detained by police for a robbing a loan office. One of the clerks identifies him as the criminal and he's eventually sentenced to jail. It is only through the determination of his lawyer that he is finally freed.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 21 - Machinal
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    #21 - Machinal

    S5:E21

    Giving in to the advice of her calculating mother, Helen marries her highly successful and thoroughly revolting boss. Since his very touch repulses her, she ends up in an affair with a young man who eventually betrays her. The climax to her sad life is being sentenced to the electric chair.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 22 - Richard Said No
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    #22 - Richard Said No

    S5:E22

    A ad-man for a perfume company meets his female counterpart at a party when his jealous wife is away.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 23 - The 17th of June
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    #23 - The 17th of June

    S5:E23

    Based on a true story, a man performs heroic acts against Communists in East Berlin during an uprising on June 17th of the previous summer.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 24 - Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star
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    #24 - Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star

    S5:E24

    After much study, a history professor has decided that the end of the world is upon us.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Robert Montgomery Presents Season 5 Episode 25 - Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
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    #25 - Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

    S5:E25

    The adventures of the young Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough are dramatized from the bestseller of the same title. The girls board a luxury ship bound for Europe and are flirted with by a couple of Yankees, but much prefer the company of two sophisticated society men.

    Director:Perry Lafferty
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"First Vice-President" is the best rated episode of "Robert Montgomery Presents" season 5. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/31/1953. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Private Purkey's Private Place".