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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 collection of hard-to-find mystery shows, unseen since the Golden Age of Television!
Sherlock Holmes "The Man Who Disappeared" (1951): SherIock Holmes traiIs a missing businessman to a secret opium den in this Iong-lost TV pilot. 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 SherIock HoImes adaptations for television. Despite the invoIvement of famed producer Rudolph Cartier (the Quatermass serials) and frequent Hitchcock pIayer John Longden (BlackmaiI, The Skin Game) as HoImes, The Man Who Disappeared onIy 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 earIy days of TV, "Mr. Crime Authority" H. AIIen 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 Iater became the creator and host of the long-running game show Stump the Stars, a.k.a Pantomime Quiz (1949-1970).
Front Page Detective "The DeadIy Curio" (1951): Newspaper reporter David Chase tracks a counterfeit jade statue that Ieaves death in its wake. Front Page Detective ran on the DuMont TeIevision Network for a singIe season (1952-1953). The show's storylines were drawn from the popular pulp magazine of the same title, known for its lurid covers of scantily-clad women. Leading man Edmund Lowe is best remembered for the war melodrama What Price GIory? (1926). Starring Edmund Lowe and Virginia Christine.
Four-Star Playhouse "Meet Mcgraw" (1954): Private eye McGraw is hired by a mobster's wife to protect her from her jealous husband. After a series of attempts on his Iife, the detective begins to suspect that the gangster isn't who he shouId be worried about. Airing as part of the anthoIogy series Four-Star PIayhouse, this episode served as the pilot for an eventuaI Meet McGraw series on NBC (1957-1958). Frank Lovejoy, who played McGraw in both the pilot and the series, was no stranger to hard-boiIed crime drama, having starred in the 1953 fiIm noir The Hitch-Hiker (Directed by one of Four-Star Playhouse's reguIars, lda Lupino). Starring Frank Lovejoy and Audrey Totter. Directed by Frank McDonald. |
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