Robert Montgomery Presents - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
The Awful Truth
Rumors of infidelity in her first marriage threaten Lucy Satterly impending nuptials. She asks her ex-husband to tell her fiance that she never strayed. He agrees, though he believes he's lying thorough his teeth. Complicating matters is the arrival of the man who was supposedly her secret lover.
The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a dying man to keep an eye on troubled daughter.
Arrowsmith
Dr. Arrowsmith works his way up the medical ladder to become a respected scientist who discovers how to kill bacteria. He is sent, along with his wife, to the Caribbean to stop the bubonic plague.
The Petrified Forest
A failed writer who's hitchhiking wanders into an Arizona diner and befriends a young girl whose family runs the business. Events take an unexpected turn withe the arrival of a killer who takes everyone hostage.
Rio Rita
The Canterville Ghost
A young girl moves with her family into ancient Canterville Hall, and begins seeing a ghost. The spirit is that of Sir Simon de Canterville, an ancestor from the 17th century cursed because of an act of cowardice during his life.
The Philadelphia Story
In this screwball comedy, a wealthy Philadelphia socialite's impending marriage is complicated by blackmail, reporters, an ex-husband, drinking, and many misunderstandings.
Mrs. Mike
A young Boston woman is sent to live with her uncle in the wilds of Canada. While there, she falls in love with and marries Mike Flannagan, a Mountie. The hardships of frontier life spent with the man she loves proves to be exciting and fulfilling for Mrs. Mike.
Kiss and Tell
An average American teen-aged girl, Corliss Archer, vows to keep her mouth closed about her brother's secret marriage.
Victoria Regina
Helen Hayes recreates her famed Broadway role in this adaptation of the Laurence Housman play. This dramatic biography offers insight into he life of the beloved Queen Victoria.
Quicksand
A young man finds himself sinking deeper in the "quicksand" of suspicion and fear.
A Star Is Born
Young unknown Esther Blodgett comes to Hollywood to be a star and marries matinee idol Norman Maine. As her popularity begins to rise, he follows a downward path into oblivion thanks to his alcoholism.
The Last Tycoon
Set in Hollywood, a film producer seems to be living the American dream. Though he has an impressive career, he suffers health problems and is not married to the woman he really loves.
The Young in Heart
The Carlton family are impostors and con artists who make their living with shady card games and mooching off of rich suckers. Traveling by train, they latch onto lonely and rich old Miss Fording, saving her life when it derails. Full of gratitude, she invites them to live with her in London home. The Carltons believe they have finally struck it rich.
Dark Victory
A wealthy young society woman faces blindness and death when she's diagnosed with a brain tumor. Thinking she's cured, she falls in love with and marries the doctor who performed her surgery. Later, she suffers an emotional breakdown upon learning that she has but months to live.
Stairway to Heaven
In this fantasy story, a pilot learns that his life has been pre-determined to end at a certain time. He temporarily evades his fate because of a snafu on the part of his heavenly emissary and his love of a WAC.
The Bishop's Wife
A bishop asks for help from above to help him build a new cathedral. The heavenly being sent to Earth to help the bishop ends up falling in love with his wife.
Ladies in Retirement
A retired actress is visited by her companion's two deranged, older sisters. Its not long before the actress regrets allowing the loonies into her home as murder and blackmail soon follow.
The House of Seven Gables
In this adaptation of the classic Hawthorne novel, the bankrupt members of the Pyncheon family of Boston battle for possession of the gloomy Seven Gables mansion.
For Love or Money
A young woman seeks shelter during a thunderstorm at the country home of middle aged actor Preston Mitchell. She stays on as his secretary and the two eventually fall in love.
Three O'Clock
Convinced that his wife is having an affair, a husband plants a bomb that will kill her and destroy the house. Before he can leave, a couple of burglars break in and tie him to a post in the basement. As the clock ticks away on the bomb, Robert Montgomery narrates.
When We Are Married
In this comedy, a church organist has been a little too forward in his courting a young woman for three stuffy leaders of the church. They lecture the young man who, in turn, reveals a secret about each of the men's marriages.
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