A pretty young graduate student is caught in the cross-fire of an emotional conflict between her father and her fiance.

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Buzz Kulik

Perished Leaves

Waiting for Onorio

Story of a once successful business executive whose delusions of grandeur cost him a career and a fortune.

Message in a Bottle

The story of two ex-GI's in a secluded hunting lodge. One brings home a bride, and she is the woman who jilted the buddy ten years earlier.

The Second Meeting

Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.

Witness for the Prosecution

The story of an ex-GI who makes some amazing discoveries when he goes to Europe to return a necklace stolen during the War by one of his buddies.

Return to Alsace

Even the haunting spectre of death fails to dampen the gaiety of an anniversary celebration when it is pitted against a plucky woman's resolve.

Anniversary

Story about a doting mother of an ungrateful, headstrong, adopted daughter.

The Moon for Linda

Harry discovers that his best friend is responsible for a storage in the company's books.

Guilty Knowledge

A frustrated piano teacher longs for recognition as a concert performer. A wealthy young matron offers to sponsor his concerts - against the wishes of his wife, who feels that the sponsor's interests are more than professional.

The Cruel Time

A hungry and jobless former football star is embarrassed when he secures a job as a waiter at a hotel. He discovers too late that he is to serve dinner at a reunion of former classmates.

The Return of Socko Bernard

Story of a cantankerous millionaire who arouses the ire of his family by changing his will.

Will Power

A prison escapee seeks shelter on a fruit farm.

Lady of Suspicion

Story of a penniless waiter who tries to give his daughter a better way of life.

The Moment of the Rose

The story set in a frontier cabin, involves three self-appointed vigilantes hunting down a Confederate soldier turned horse thief.

Three Just Men

Millie loves flowers and constantly beseaches Tim to bring her a bouquet. Tim thinks flowers are sissy and refuses to buy them. An argument ensues and leads to a black eye for Millie, court proceeding and a sentence that Tim bring his wife a bouquet for 10 consecutive nights or spend 30 days in jail.

A Bouquet for Millie

Comedy of a country girl in the city, who uses her rooftop vegetable garden to win her man from the clutches of a movie siren.

Call Off the Wedding

The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps a sadistic killer at a wedding.

All Dressed in White

A chronic bachelor is plagued by women in a small community overrun by them.

The Bachelor of Grandby Oaks

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

A Place in the Sun

A nagging wife suspects her husband of trying to kill her.He gives her some pills for her headache and she thinks he has given her poison.

The Small Glass Bottle

The story of a sharecropper's wife and a banker who both lost sons in Korea.

Shall Not Perish

A prize fight manager double-crosses his boxer pal.

Final Round

An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's attentions.

Borrowed Wife

A once famed Viennese throat specialist is struggling to establish a practice in America.

Miracle at the Waldorf

A brainy secretary gives up her career to be the wife of a "shrinking violet" construction engineer.

Call Me Mrs.

The story of a man who posed for 30 years as a hero of the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916.

The Exposure of Michael O'Reilly

A deaf mute tries to find love and a career despite her handicap and parental opposition.

Spent in Silence

The story of a teenager preparing to wed after graduation from high school, who is shocked when her fiance, the school's football hero, disgraces himself.

The Way I Feel

A young veterinarian saves the life of a boy's dog

and gives a cynical gambler a lesson in human kindness and understanding.

Pick of the Litter

A schoolteacher with a malicious teenage student trying to ruin the teachers reputation.

The Girl Who Couldn't Cry

A young woman is distraught over her secure but loveless marriage to an elderly man.

Gavin's Darling

A man is freed from a loveless marriage by the death of his invalid wife and becomes suspect until the unscrupulous nurse comes into question.

A Chair for a Lady

A famous novelist attempts to prevent her daughter's marriage to the son of a stage star.

Two Dozen Roses

Drama about a spinster teacher who is brought to trial by the school board on charges of prejudice. She is accused of flunking the son of a wealthy man because of an injustice the man committed against her.

The Queen's English

A railroad agent is forced to a crucial decision when an attempt to wreck a train from his post is attempted.

Blind Fury

Lee suffers paralysis but the the love of a good man Nick helps her in her recovery.

I'll Never Love Again

The outside witness is a window washer who, while performing his task, has his attention drawn to a supposedly respectable couple. He indeed overhears them discussing a murder plan designed to get rid of the man who could send them to jail. What is he going to do?

The Outside Witness

A headstrong Italian immigrant and restaurant owner deserts his family in a fit of temper because his wife won't obey him and sign a bill of sale.

A wealthy bachelor dies suddenly, leaving his lawyer with unWritten instructions that the woman he loves should benefit from his estate. He never names the woman and the lawyer is forced to play detective, which results in complications.

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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