Climax!

The Long Goodbye

Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail accused of her murder and tries to solve the case after his release.

Oct 7, 1954

The Thirteenth Chair

When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any one of who may have killed the dead man, but it ends in chaos when the killer strikes again during a blackout.

Oct 14, 1954

Casino Royale

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.

Oct 21, 1954

Sorry, Wrong Number

A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone.

Nov 4, 1954

The Gioconda Smile

The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.

Nov 11, 1954

The After House

A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death who is next.

Nov 25, 1954

An Error in Chemistry

A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, the husband quick to confess.

Dec 2, 1954

Epitaph for a Spy

An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.

Dec 9, 1954

The White Carnation

A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.

Dec 16, 1954

Nightmare in Copenhagen

Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

Dec 30, 1954

The Bigger They Come

Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.

Jan 6, 1955

Escape From Fear

An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.

Jan 13, 1955

The Mojave Kid

The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.

Jan 27, 1955

The Leaf Out of the Book

The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, the successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.

Feb 3, 1955

The Valiant Men

Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate New Year's Eve 1943, an unknown danger lurks nearby.

Feb 10, 1955

The Box of Chocolates

A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking him to try them.

Feb 24, 1955

South of the Sun

They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eight persons did something about his little dream. In so doing, he bound the strangers in an intimate circle, whether they knew it or not. He touched them all in passing and changed their lives and dreams forever, according to their own choices. In one turn of the earth something happened.

Mar 3, 1955

The Great Impersonation

The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.

Mar 10, 1955

The Darkest Hour

An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.

Mar 24, 1955

The Champion

The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashbacks, we see how Midge Kelly rose from the Chicago slums to a world championship.

Mar 31, 1955

Private Worlds

A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.

Apr 7, 1955

Flight 951

A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under an assumed name, he must decide between keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.

Apr 21, 1955

The First and the Last

The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral principles. His concern for his own career puts an innocent man's life in jeopardy.

Apr 28, 1955

The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.

May 5, 1955

No Stone Unturned

A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.

May 19, 1955

A Farewell to Arms

An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try to find a haven from the turbulence around them.

May 26, 1955

The Unimportant Man

The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.

Jun 2, 1955

The Dark Fleece

A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.

Jun 16, 1955

To Wake at Midnight

All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.

Jun 23, 1955

The Dance

Jun 30, 1955

Wild Stallion

A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is attracted at first to the daughter, until he discovers the mother is the one who holds the key to the family fortune.

Jul 7, 1955

The Escape of Mendes-France

Jul 14, 1955

The Healer

A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about his ability after losing a patient during a difficult operation.

Jul 21, 1955

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.

Jul 28, 1955

One Night Stand

In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.

Aug 4, 1955

Edge of Terror

A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob his bank.

Aug 11, 1955

Fear Strikes Out

True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

Aug 18, 1955

Deal a Blow

A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts the manager's somewhat twisted version of the incident and doesn't give his son a chance to explain his side of the matter.

Aug 25, 1955