A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.

Little Man, Big World

Reginald Rose

The Great Conspiracy

The Doctor's Wife

Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.

The Kill

A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.

The Square Peg

A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.

The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.

Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.

The Love Letter

An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.

The Incredible Mr. Glencannon

A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.

Plan For Escape

An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.

The Formula

The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.

I Am Jonathan Scrivener

A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

The Hospital

A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.

The Great Lady

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus

A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.

Young Man Adam

A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.

Black Rain

The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George.  This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.

The Trial of John Peter Zenger

The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.

Signal Thirty-Two

A young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.

To a Moment of Triumph

A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.

Mark of Cain

The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.

The River Garden

Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.

The Walsh Girls

An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.

The Show Piece

An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?

My Beloved Husband

The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.

The Garretson Chronicle

After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.

A Breath of Air

A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.

The Edge of Evil

A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.

At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March

Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.

Shadow of the Devil

A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.

The Magic Lantern

An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.

The Fathers

A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.

Along Came a Spider

A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.

Birthright

A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.

King Coffin

Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.

The Laugh Maker

A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.

Fly with the Hawk

A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.

Rendezvous

A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.

Conflict

In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

The Paris Feeling

An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.

Greed

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

Beyond Reason

An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom   on their Paris honeymoon trip.

End of the Honeymoon

After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.

The Shadow of a Man

A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops,   double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.

The King in Yellow

Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.

The Roman Kid

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

Flowers from a Stranger

A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.

Sentence of Death

The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.

The Gathering Night

The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.

Letter from Cairo

A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.

Look Homeward, Hayseed

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

The Storm

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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