Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)

A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.

During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to…

A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is thr…

A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs…

A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper adve…

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in rea…

A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exa…

Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up,…

It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy…

A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attendi…

Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.

Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant w…

A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the…

A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then m…

A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.

A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the seclude…

A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties whe…

Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his…

A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.

A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock…

A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of France by a scheming c…

Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is so…

A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind h…

A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor…

In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for hi…

A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and da…

In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubb…

A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.

An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnesse…

A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgs…

A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends…

In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her wid…

On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extra…

Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.