Robert Montgomery Presents - Season 5

Robert Montgomery Presents - Season 5

Season 5

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Datesaoût 31, 1953 - sept. 13, 1954
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Episodes

First Vice President
Season 5Episode 160 min

First Vice President

A hard-driving, domineering business executive is determined to become the company's next president. He invites the retiring chairman and his wife to his Long Island home to wine and dine his way into the position. The man's family members, who are fed up with his tyrannical control over them, finally stage a revolt at the dinner party.

août 31, 1953
Private Purkey's Private Peace
Season 5Episode 260 min

Private Purkey's Private Peace

A soldier and his buddies find themselves in Europe at the end of the war. Believing their opinions are as important as those of Army brass and politicians, they formulate their own peace plan and are determined to share it. They work their way into the Paris peace talks and Private Purkey makes sure the world hears his ideas.

sept. 7, 1953
Lost and Found
Season 5Episode 360 min

Lost and Found

Dr. Robert Collis works to rehabilitate children, both physically and spiritually, who were held at Belsen, the notorious Nazi prison camp. He invests special efforts to win over Eva, who guards her younger brother so tightly that they can't treat his tuberculosis. This is based on actual events.

sept. 14, 1953
September Time
Season 5Episode 460 min

September Time

Marion Shaw loses her voice and her singing career is over, she retreats to Cape Cod and meets a man who gives her a new purpose in life.

sept. 21, 1953
The Big Money
Season 5Episode 560 min

The Big Money

A man believes that money can buy happiness when he not only loses his money but his girl.

sept. 28, 1953
Breakdown
Season 5Episode 660 min

Breakdown

A scientist faces a mental breakdown on the brink of an important research experiment.

oct. 5, 1953
A Criminal Assignment
Season 5Episode 760 min

A Criminal Assignment

The British Secret Service release a known counterfeiter into France to find two plates which they were unable to locate.

oct. 12, 1953
The Sunday Punch
Season 5Episode 860 min

The Sunday Punch

Prize fighter Tony Marino discovers that his greatest weakness is his own sense of honesty and decency.

oct. 19, 1953
Cakes and Ale
Season 5Episode 960 min

Cakes and Ale

Local barmaid Rosie has quite a story to tell about her marriage to an unsuccessful middle-aged writer and helped to guide him to becoming a successful one.

oct. 26, 1953
No Picnic at Mt. Kenya
Season 5Episode 1060 min

No Picnic at Mt. Kenya

Based on a true story from World War II, Felice Benuzzi was one of 10,000 prisoners of war held at the Kenya camp. Benuzzi and two others manage to escape by successfully scaling down the 17,000-foot high Mt. Kenya.

nov. 2, 1953
Weekend Pass
Season 5Episode 1160 min

Weekend Pass

A soldier on a weekend pass is determined to paint the town in New York City's hotspots.

nov. 9, 1953
The Deep Six
Season 5Episode 1260 min

The Deep Six

A story of life aboard a Navy cruiser in the Aleutians;the clash of personalities and the presence of the Japanese enemy.

nov. 16, 1953
Harvest
Season 5Episode 1360 min

Harvest

A farm family looks forward to the coming Thanksgiving with joy, until a series of setbacks completely changes their life.

nov. 23, 1953
The Soprano and the Piccolo Player
Season 5Episode 1460 min

The Soprano and the Piccolo Player

An overweight piccolo player's accompaniment to a soprano's aria is so well-received that the two are suddenly in demand as a duo. As their fame and popularity grows, so does the piccolo player's love for his beautiful partner. As he's trying to muster up the courage to ask her to marry him, he learns that she has become engaged to another. Heartbroken, he disappears, never to be seen or heard from again.

nov. 30, 1953
Really the Blues
Season 5Episode 1560 min

Really the Blues

Jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow was born in Chicago, Illinois. Jazz was in his blood and so was his opium addiction and jail time. Working at Capone's club during prohibition he really knew the blues.

déc. 7, 1953
No Visible Means
Season 5Episode 1660 min

No Visible Means

Tom, a smooth talking gigolo, makes the rounds through the speakeasys of 1920s New York. He's loved by Veronia, a woman with a lot of money, but he loses interest when he meets Iris. She presents herself as a person of society on the verge of big film career. Wedding plans quickly follow, until their lies catch up with both of them.

déc. 14, 1953
What About Christmas?
Season 5Episode 1760 min

What About Christmas?

Story about three people, one a lonely old man and his cat, one an actor waiting for his big break and an obsessed scientist on Christmas.

déc. 21, 1953
The Greatest Man in the World
Season 5Episode 1860 min

The Greatest Man in the World

A mechanic causes a sensation when he flies solo around the world.

déc. 28, 1953
The Steady Man
Season 5Episode 1960 min

The Steady Man

A young married couple try to adopt a child.

janv. 4, 1954
A Case of Identity
Season 5Episode 2060 min

A Case of Identity

A musician is accused and identified as the man who robbed an insurance company office in a New York suburb, despite his protestations of innocence.

janv. 11, 1954
Machinal
Season 5Episode 2160 min

Machinal

A young office worker marries her employer, whom she doesn't love and after several years of boredom and unhappiness she meets an attractive man.

janv. 18, 1954
Richard Said No
Season 5Episode 2260 min

Richard Said No

A publicist for a French perfumer runs into trouble when he meets a female French publicist at a party, during his jealous wife's absence.

janv. 25, 1954
The 17th of June
Season 5Episode 2360 min

The 17th of June

A man becomes a hero during the uprisings in East Berlin on the 17th of June.

févr. 1, 1954
Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star
Season 5Episode 2460 min

Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star

A history professor decides that the world is coming to an end.

févr. 8, 1954
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Season 5Episode 2560 min

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The adventures of Cornelia and Emily aboard a luxury ship bound for Europe.

févr. 15, 1954
Land of Happiness
Season 5Episode 2660 min

Land of Happiness

In 1895, a sophisticated woman of Copenhagen accompanies her husband, a pastor to his new parish. It's located on the rustic and isolated Faero Islands of the North Atlantic.

févr. 22, 1954
Such a Busy Day Tomorrow
Season 5Episode 2760 min

Such a Busy Day Tomorrow

An old man believes he has outlived his usefulness.

mars 1, 1954
The Paradise Cafe
Season 5Episode 2860 min

The Paradise Cafe

A piano player with big dreams is surrounded by more dreamers.

mars 8, 1954
The Quality of Mercy
Season 5Episode 2960 min

The Quality of Mercy

Angry patrons call for the police when the baby of an immigrant couple cries in a movie house.

mars 15, 1954
The Pink Hippopotamus
Season 5Episode 3060 min

The Pink Hippopotamus

Story about a professional spy behind the Iron Curtain.

mars 22, 1954
My Little Girl
Season 5Episode 3160 min

My Little Girl

A reporter father thinks he's done a good job of raising his child. Unfortunately, he starts to have doubts about her integrity.

mars 29, 1954
For These Services
Season 5Episode 3260 min

For These Services

Conflict between father and son, both doctors, about practice of medicine.

avr. 5, 1954
The Pale Blonde of Sand Street
Season 5Episode 3360 min

The Pale Blonde of Sand Street

A young sailor meets a blonde and give her his lucky coin. With it, she makes a wish for him to disappear from her life. When the wish comes true, she begins to haunt ships looking for the man she really loves.

avr. 12, 1954
Big Boy
Season 5Episode 3460 min

Big Boy

The conflict between generations is played out between an old railroad man and his son over steam powered trains versus the new diesel engine.

avr. 19, 1954
No Need of Favor
Season 5Episode 3560 min

No Need of Favor

A young artist who has lost his vision falls in love with and marries his secretary, a woman of great inner beauty but "plain Jane" looks. When an operation restores the artists' sight, his wife becomes insecure because she can never match the vision of beauty he had of her in his mind.

avr. 26, 1954
The Wages of Fear
Season 5Episode 3660 min

The Wages of Fear

Four men face danger at every turn driving truckloads of nitroglycerine through jungle country to Guatemala's to oil fields.

mai 3, 1954
Pilgrim's Pride
Season 5Episode 3760 min

Pilgrim's Pride

Taking his client to a meeting in the country, a businessman finds his daughter there with a house full of party guests.

mai 10, 1954
Sky Block
Season 5Episode 3860 min

Sky Block

Farmland across the Midwest is turned into desert by someone wielding a destructive "drought machine".

mai 17, 1954
The Power and the Prize
Season 5Episode 3960 min

The Power and the Prize

An American businessman falls in love with a refugee from behind the Iron Curtain, while in Europe. When he brings the girl back to the States, he must fight the prejudice of his associates.

mai 24, 1954
Once Upon a Time
Season 5Episode 4060 min

Once Upon a Time

A bride and groom recall the days of their courtship, and the people they might have married - if.

mai 31, 1954
The Patriot from Antibes
Season 5Episode 4160 min

The Patriot from Antibes

Based on an actual case taken from the files of the French police, it involves a handsome young baron and his beautiful wife, a trunkful of uranium and a fortune in francs.

juin 7, 1954
Great Expectations: Part 1. The Promise
Season 5Episode 4260 min

Great Expectations: Part 1. The Promise

In the first of this two-part adaptation of Dickens'Great Expectations, a young man with an inheritance, Pip, suffers through problems that arise due to his friendship with an escaped criminal.

juin 14, 1954
Great Expectations: Part 2. The Reality
Season 5Episode 4360 min

Great Expectations: Part 2. The Reality

In the second of this two-part adaptation of Dickens'Great Expectations, Pip gets his own apartment, falls in love and has another encounter with the criminal Magwitch.

juin 21, 1954
In His Hands
Season 5Episode 4460 min

In His Hands

A young doctor's true love suffers an incurable, deadly disease.

juin 28, 1954
The Expert
Season 5Episode 4560 min

The Expert

In this comedy, a noted author and lecturer on the subject of marital bliss can not speak from personal experience. He has a hard time explaining why a strange woman in her pajamas is feeding him breakfast.

juil. 5, 1954
Story on 11th Street
Season 5Episode 4660 min

Story on 11th Street

A lonely widower with a seven-year-old son wants to rebuild a happy home for the child.

juil. 12, 1954
It Happened in Paris
Season 5Episode 4760 min

It Happened in Paris

An American couple broadcast a weekly radio show from Paris, enthralling their listeners back home with stories of their extended honeymoon in France. In reality, the man and woman are not married, can't stand each other, and bicker constantly. That's why they're unhappy when the sponsor wants to renew their contracts.

juil. 19, 1954
Patricia
Season 5Episode 4860 min

Patricia

A society girl defies family opposition to her desire for the Bohemian life. She enters an art school and promptly falls in love with an older instructor, who rejects her attention.

juil. 26, 1954
Home Town
Season 5Episode 4960 min

Home Town

The story of a country boy who goes to the big city where he meets a super publicity man and a city-slicker girl.

août 2, 1954
About Sara Caine
Season 5Episode 5060 min

About Sara Caine

An overbearing young female reporter is determined to better her father, competing against him in the coverage of a news story.

août 9, 1954
Invitation to Murder
Season 5Episode 5160 min

Invitation to Murder

A publisher who has received a manuscript with damaging statements about many prominent people invites the author and all of those he mentions to a party. The publisher suggest to his guests that the best method of retaliation would be for one of them to murder the author.

août 16, 1954
Personal Story
Season 5Episode 5260 min

Personal Story

At the peak of his career, an architect suffers an heart attack. He takes the doctors' advice to slow down to such an extreme, he's barely living his life.

août 23, 1954
A Matter of Luck
Season 5Episode 5360 min

A Matter of Luck

A down-and-out singer finally gets a chance at success, but something prevents him from taking advantage of the opportunity.

août 30, 1954
The People You Meet
Season 5Episode 5460 min

The People You Meet

A comedy about the trials and tribulations involved in the Boston pre-Broadway tryout of a new play.

sept. 6, 1954
Ten Minute Alibi
Season 5Episode 5560 min

Ten Minute Alibi

There are many who despise the scoundrel who runs off with other men's girlfriends and then blackmails the men who want their lady loves to return to them

sept. 13, 1954

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