girl and fiance argue about carnival - goes in, watches show about murderers - displays about their deeds. is told to wait, as she has questions - he does not return, leaving her alone with likenesses of murderers. forced to find way out.
The story of a hunted criminal who loses his nerve.
A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.
An espionage agent on the run.
Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.
Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.
A documentary based on the activities of the voice of Radio Free Europe and its impact on the people behind the Iron Curtain. The story is based on the passengers and crew of the train that recently passed thru from Czechoslovakia to the American zone. General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, is a special guest on the program.
A tale of pirates and buried treasure.
A tale of pirates and buried treasure.
Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down.
With the cryptic words "Mikki Knows" from the lips of her dying father, a young socialite hunts down the murderer of her parent.
Mrs. Collins returns to town during a raging storm after a three week stay with her mother. Despite the warnings of everyone at the train station that she should stay at a hotel, because of the storm and a killer on the loose, she returns to her empty house. She regretfully discovers that she is not alone.
The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for trouble, have decided the new guy is really a G-man working on the case.
The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.
Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone.
A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.
The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.
In 1913, an Italian intelligence Colonel is on the run from his own agency because the government things he is a spy. But when a spy is later uncovered in his office, and as the Colonel flees, the spy confesses that he is not working alone.
American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.
The story of a woman's brush with death when she undersold the emotion of fear.
Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.
The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.
Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing.
A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.
A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.
A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective starts snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.
Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.
Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death.
In 1880 France, wealthy Danielle is determined that her husband, Victor, becomes a success in politics. She pays 2 million francs to the elderly Premiere Marcord to name Victor the minister of justice and, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. The unscrupulous Marin, who presently holds that title, steals the letter and threatens to make it public and destroy Marcord. It is up to Danielle to find the letter and save the government.
A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.
A young woman's body is found by her classmate in a small farming town. We learn that she had received a corsage and a love note from a secret admirer and was on her way to discover who he was when she met her demise.
A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.
A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.
Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies him with cash. Billy has a history of being involved with young women who suddenly die.
Tale is of a will-o'-the-wisp jewel thief whose area of operations is a Mediterranean resort. Six suspects are involved before the thief is captured.
A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.
Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a piece and both become extremely sick from arsenic poisoning. Accusations of attempted murder fly between the members of the love triangle as each accuses the other of poisoning the candy.
Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of 'Sally Forth' comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea" -
an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.
A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.
A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.
Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.
A female secret agent operating in 1952 Budapest is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her thoughtlessness, she loses a valuable document resulting in her life being in jeopardy.