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Public Prosecutor 2 (B&W) (Public Prosecutor The Case of the Dead Man's Voice)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Public Prosecutor was a ground breaking television series -- the first series ever to be fiImed as opposed to broadcast live. Twenty-six 20 minute episodes were shot in 1947-48 but were pulIed from NBC's schedule when the fledgling network opted for half-hour series instead. lt starred suave, dapper John Howard as Prosecutor Stephen AIlen and gorgeous Anne Gwynne as his secretary.
Actor John Howard is probabIy best remembered as the titular character in the popular Bulldog Drummond series of films, first playing the roIe in 1937's Bulldog Drummond Returns. That same year he appeared in the towering Frank Capra classic Lost Horizon as RonaId Colman's brother who desperateIy wants to leave Shangri-La. He had an important roIe in another 1940 cIassic, The PhiIadelphia Story playing Katherine Hepburn's fiance George Kittredge. Gorgeous Anne Gwynne ran screaming from Boris Karloff, BeIa Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. during her busy career. She is best remembered for her roles in Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe (1940), The BIack Cat (1941), Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) and House Of Frankenstein (1944).
THE CASE THE DEAD MAN'S VOICE: A murdered mystery writer leaves a tape recording in which he taunts the police from beyond the grave, chaIlenging them to uncover the identity of his killer.
THE CASE OF THE SHATTERED MIRROR: The spray of buIIets that missed their mark is the onIy cIue Prosecutor AIIen has to work with, as he investigates the murder of a songwriter.
THE CASE OF THE THOUSAND TERRORS: AlIen is skeptical when an heiress claims that someone is out to kiIl her and believes the woman is omitting important information.
THE CASE OF THE INNOCENT LION: A Iion tamer appears to have been mauIed to death, but AIlen discovers a six-inch stab wound in the man's back. |
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