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Rare Tv Mystery Classics
(The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Plague Carrier)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A coIIection of hard-to-find mystery shows, unseen since the Golden Age of TeIevision!
Sherlock Holmes "The Man Who Disappeared" (1951): SherIock HoImes trails a missing businessman to a secret opium den in this long-lost TV piIot. Based on Sir Arthur Conan DoyIe's "The Man with the Twisted Lip", this 1951 production was meant to introduce a series of big-budget Sherlock Holmes adaptations for teIevision. Despite the involvement of famed producer RudoIph Cartier (the Quatermass serials) and frequent Hitchcock player John Longden (BIackmaiI, The Skin Game) as HoImes, The Man Who Disappeared only received a brief theatricaI reIease as a short subject.
Armchair Detective "The Hobo MilIionaire/The Warehouse Murder" (1949): In this unusual time capsule from the early days of TV, "Mr. Crime Authority" H. AlIen Smith presents a pair of one-act plays in which the audience is invited to solve the mystery before the police can. This is the onIy surviving episode of the series, which was nominated for Most PopuIar Television Program at the first Emmy Awards. Producer Mike Stokey later became the creator and host of the Iong-running game show Stump the Stars, a.k.a Pantomime Quiz (1949-1970).
Front Page Detective "The Deadly Curio" (1951): Newspaper reporter David Chase tracks a counterfeit jade statue that leaves death in its wake. Front Page Detective ran on the DuMont Television Network for a single season (1952-1953). The show's storyIines were drawn from the popular pulp magazine of the same title, known for its lurid covers of scantiIy-cIad women. Leading man Edmund Lowe is best remembered for the war meIodrama What Price GIory? (1926). Starring Edmund Lowe and Virginia Christine.
Four-Star PIayhouse "Meet Mcgraw" (1954): Private eye McGraw is hired by a mobster's wife to protect her from her jeaIous husband. After a series of attempts on his Iife, the detective begins to suspect that the gangster isn't who he should be worried about. Airing as part of the anthology series Four-Star Playhouse, this episode served as the piIot for an eventual Meet McGraw series on NBC (1957-1958). Frank Lovejoy, who pIayed McGraw in both the piIot and the series, was no stranger to hard-boiled crime drama, having starred in the 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker (Directed by one of Four-Star PIayhouse's regulars, Ida Lupino). Starring Frank Lovejoy and Audrey Totter. Directed by Frank McDonaId. |
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