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True stories from the casebooks of police departments and courtrooms across America are brought to life in this gritty crime anthology from the early 1950s, considered the golden age of television drama. Hosted by veteran Hollywood character actor and triple Oscar nominee, Charles Bickford, these four episodes deliver hard-boiled sagas of real criminals and the dedicated men in uniform who work tirelessly to bring them to justice.The Case Of The Hot Stock: A heartless lothario romances a...

Johnny Randall is forbidden to go near a race track by his mother, who is still grieving the loss of her husband, a champion driver that perished in an accident at the Indianapolis Speedway. He goes to work for his dad's former mechanic, Breezy Bradley, who now repairs midget racers in California. Johnny is tempted onto the track and everyone is amazed at the boy's ability. To conceal his identity from his mother, Johnny dons a mask, and a mysterious masked driver wins every major race. Things...

Rocky Jones (Richard Crane) zooms into action with a life-and-death mission in "Crash of the Moons", a feature-length presentation of a three-part story from the TV series, "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger." Two inhabited planets locked in constant orbit are dealt a lethal fate when astronomers predict that they will collide with one another, ultimately destroying both civilizations! Rocky and his team must race against time to save the lives of their respective citizens, while trying to persuade...

The Texas Rangers match wits with a murderous gang of gold-robbing hombres - but the lawmen get nothing but interference from the beautiful owner of the smelting plant they're trying to save from bankruptcy.Dave O'Brien, James Newill and Guy Wilkerson are the star-packers, trying to protect shipments of high-grade gold ore so that Joan Manning's small smelting facility, and the area's miners, can continue to operate. But a large and corrupt corporation wants the plant shut down, going so far...

Harold leaves his fiancee Mildred behind to make it in the big city. Despite his best efforts, he is unable to find anything better than working as a lowly clerk at DeVore's department store. Harold still sends Mildred expensive gifts in spite of the meager salary, and hopes to save up enough money to marry her. When DeVore's manager offers a $1,000 prize to anyone who can attract an enormous crowd to the store, Harold convinces his acrobatic roommate Bill to scale the store's 12-story facade...

Vowing to avenge the murder of his elderly father, cowboy Jim Reid (Tom Keene) heads through rough border territory hoping to join up with his younger brother, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman.While on the road, Jim meets Roxy, a young blonde on her own burning mission to get even with her boyfriend Red, who just jilted her. By an strange twist of fate, Red is the bandit who killed Jim's father. This offbeat relationship becomes even more interesting when Jim and Roxy stumble across a...

Produced in Europe for American audiences, the "Sherlock Holmes" 1954 TV series captures the essence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and themes. Ronald Howard (son of film star Leslie Howard) stars as the intensely analytical Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson (H. Marion Crawford) and antagonized by the Inspector Lestrade (Archie Duncan).The Case of the Night Train Riddle: A boy disappears from his train compartment after fighting with his father. The child's governess believes that he has run...

Rex Bell's 1932-33 Monogram Westerns, turned out by the same production team that would shortly achieve great success with John Wayne as its star, are a notch above other independently made horse operas of the early sound period. Exploiting the likability of their amiable star, they films stress comedy, and in addition they eschew timeworn genre conventions in favor of fresh settings and situations. Fighting Texans opens in a clothing store, Lucky Larrigan at a polo match. Both are...

In four action-packed episodes of the popular wild-west adventure series, thrilling sagas of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley unfold in the dusty town of Diablo. Chasing outlaws from the saddle of her trusty horse, Target, Annie keeps law and order with Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig at her side. Helping them is Annie's younger brother Tagg, always eager to solve the town's exciting mysteries of suspense. A fictional account of the life of the famous star of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show,...

The Italian "poliziotteschi" film was a new kind of crime picture in ascendance during the 1970s. With hard-bitten loner heroes and brutal, often over-the-top violence, these movies reflected the escalating crime rates and political turmoil in Italy at the time. Many of them were popular enough to be dubbed into English and given a theatrical release in the United States. CRIME BOSS (1972): Hitman Antonio Mancuso struggles to make a name for himself in the underworld. Years ago, his mobster...

These sensationalistic - and sometimes shockingly insensitive - vintage documentaries about native Africa are presented for historical purposes only.

Paul Christian, the noble town doctor, is on a crusade. In an effort to alleviate the plight of the poor and sickly residents of Squatter's Town, the physician initiates a project to build them housing. The sole hitch is that the only available property is owned by a wealthy spinster, who mistakenly regards the good doctor's efforts to secure her property as a marriage proposal. Adding to the confusion, an unhealthy dose of class prejudice from the wary townsfolk and an outbreak of infectious...