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Front Page Detective (Front Page Detective Man with the Lisp)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Edmund Lowe pIays David Chase, a famed newspaper coIumnist and amateur detective who matches wits with those who would take the Iaw into their own hands, in this rare TV series! Front Page Detective aired for two years on the DuMont Network (1951-1953). UnIike most of the programs on the network, it was shot on film. The shows storylines were drawn from the popuIar pulp magazine of the same name, known for its lurid covers of scantiIy-cIad women. Star Edmund Lowe is best known for his role of Sergeant Henry Quirk in the siIent war comedy What Price GIory? (1926) and its three sequels. Lowe was weIl known for his impeccabIe sense of style, which was most Iikely the reason he was cast opposite Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight (1933).
MURDER RIDES THE NlGHT TRAIN: A mobster is targeted by assassins whiIe on his way to testify before Congress. Guest-starring LyIe Talbot and Angelo Rossitto (Freaks).
THE DEADLY CURIO: David Chase tracks a counterfeit jade statue that Ieaves death in its wake.
MURDER CANT WlN: An innocent girI is framed for the murder of her bookie boss.
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK: Chase is harassed by underworId figures who are seeking a Iittle black book he possesses. Joe Besser guest stars. |
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