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Join host John Newland, your guide into the world of the unknown, in this classic TV series that aired in 1959. Based on unexplained real life stories, we are taken beyond the five senses through dramatizations of supernatural happenings to everyday people.Midnight: A struggling writer falls in love with a mysterious and beautiful woman while walking across a fog-enshrouded London Bridge. The woman's charms are as deadly as they are alluring.Delia: A man, disenchanted with the world, meets a...

Four episodes from early TV anthology series spotlight famous film stars close to either the beginning or the ending of their big-screen careers.Dick Powell's role as a television producer began with the formation of Four Star Productions in 1952. The debut offering of what would become a persuasive and powerful force within the newly developing television industry was the anthology series, "Four Star Playhouse" (1952-1956). Powell oversaw production and appeared as various characters along...

Moonlight on then Range (1937, B&W): Jeff Peters (Fred Scott) sets out to track down his twin brother "Killer" Dane (also Scott), a hate-maddened rustler and killer. The two men are dead ringers, leading to confusion for Jeff's new gal Wanda. It also leads to a perilous situation for Jeff. Dane's crimes have the locals in a lynching mood, and Jeff stands an even chance of being the one who gets hung on sight. Starring Fred Scott, Al St. John, Lois January, Dick Curtis, Frank LaRue; Directed by...

Return to the violent years of the Prohibition Era in these true stories of New York's notorious gangland bootleggers, bookmakers, thugs and killers - straight from the man who arrested them all. Based on the memoirs of Detective Barney Ruditsky, commanding officer of the city's famed Gangster Squad, "The Lawless Years" focuses on organized crime and high-profile gangsters, as did "The Untouchables," which debuted the very same year.BIRTH OF THE ORGANIZATION: A protracted gang war leaves 23...

On the cusp of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the generation that had fought in World War II struggled to find ways to discuss sex with their children. Paranoia about the expanding pornography industry and the spread of venereal disease only added to the confusion. These four films take us back to a different time, when sex was a four-letter word. PERVERSION FOR PROFIT (1965): Produced by "Citizens for Decent Literature, Inc.", this remarkable film warns audiences that exposing children...

Gangster turned legitimate businessman, Martin Martin, is indicted for a long-since forgotten murder and discovers that the star witness is Dane Cory, his accomplice in the killing. Fearing the outcome of a criminal trial, Martin confronts his former partner and is ambushed. Seriously wounded and seeking retribution, he finds shelter in an abandoned building, where he befriends an injured dog. He learns that the dog is owned by a little girl whose mother is providing Cory with a safe place to...

Father Jerry Donovan has spent his life on the harsh streets of Hell's Kitchen in New York City - first as a member of a street gang and then as a pastor. After the savage murder of his brother, long lost childhood friend Mike O'Mara (William Gargan) brings the priest's dark past to light as Father Donovan tries to undo the mistakes of his misspent adolescence.The street-wise priest, who can use his hands for punches as well as for prayer, delves into the murder investigation and another old...

The night before he's to be sworn in as the city's new District Attorney, Lawrence Dale (Edmund MacDonald) is killed in a car crash. Police are puzzled, wondering what the body of the notorious gangster, Dixie Logan was doing in the same wreck. It takes a shrewd and resourceful newspaper reporter, George Mitchell (Russell Wade) to discover that the young DA is crooked and that he had framed the gangster on a murder charge. To complicate this tale of crime and vengeance in the big city, rival...

This four-episode volume of shows from the golden age of TV drama presents stories from three of the best anthology series of all time: The Star and the Story ("Payment in Kind," "Dark Stranger"), Four Star Playhouse ("The Wild Bunch"), and TV Reader's Digest ("America's First Great Lady").Payment in Kind: Detective Tom Preston (Howard Duff) finds himself in a troubling dilemma when the doctor that saved his wife's life confesses to a murder. Guest starring Beverly Garland, Steven Geray and...

Bank teller Bob Hunter is branded a coward when he fails to thwart an armed holdup. Even his girlfriend, Betty Winton, gives up on him when he is fired and his reputation in the tough town of Highland is ruined. He joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in an attempt to redeem himself. Bob is elated when he is assigned to Highland to crack the same gang of bank robbers that destroyed his life. All seems lost when he is kicked off the force for brawling with a fellow officer. Worse still, the...

A handsome, young Ronald Reagan stars as Johnny Jones in the lavish World War II pep rally, This Is The Army. Johnny is a strapping young lad torn between his strong sense of military duty and his burning passion for girlfriend Eileen Dibble (Joan Leslie). Uncle Sam's call to arms against Germany and Japan is too great and so Johnny sadly tells his lover that she must wait until after the war to become Mrs. Jones. Eileen then spurns her beau when he is inducted into the unit producing the...

Mary Pickford stars in this epic tale of love and loss set against the backdrop of World War I, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Pickford is Angela Moore, a young American who plans to marry an expatriate German, Karl Van Austreim. As Karl finalizes his plans to become an American citizen, World War I breaks out in Europe, forcing him to return to Germany to enlist. As the war rages, Angela worries about the fate of her love. She travels to Europe on an ocean liner, which is sunk by a U-boat....