Robert Montgomery Presents - Season 7
Season 7
Episodes
Dear Emily
A controlling father is ruining his daughter's life with his possessive manner.
Woman in the Window
A college professor falls for the beautiful woman in the painting next to the club that he is a member of. One day he meets her and is invited to her apartment for some champagne and ..... a murder.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
On his own while his wife's away in Europe, henpecked Mr. Monroe decides he'll be the suave and adventurous man of his imagination. In his fantasies, he captures a diamond smuggler and a dangerous escaped convict.
Along Came Jones
A soft-spoken cowboy shows up in a small western town looking for work. The locals mistakenly assume he's a murderous troublemaker, causing great tension when he starts dating the real killer's girlfriend.
The Stranger
Authorities hope that their release a low-level war criminal will lead them to a Nazi Germany leader who "disappeared" after World War II. Following the released man, they're led to a small Connecticut town and a respected professor.
Paper Town
The son of a lumber baron is expected to take over his father's business even though he wants to finish law school.
Tomorrow Is Forever
A woman gives birth to a son following the death of her soldier husband during World War I. She eventually remarries but war invades her life again when her son wants to serve during World War II. To complicate matters, her supposedly dead first husband, still badly injured from his his service, reappears.
Man Lost
A Navy man loses his will to live following the death of his wife. He witnesses an A-bomb test in the Pacific and then goes "on leave" in Hawaii, where he makes positive discoveries about himself.
In a Foreign City
A somewhat weak-minded college graduate has one drink too many at the downtown club. As a lark, he pretends to be a holdup man. The results are most unfunny.
The World to Nothing
A matinee idol realizes that gaining success has lost him all that is important in his personal life. He has alienated his wife, his daughter and his girlfriend. His family, friends and associates will have little to do with him.
Cry Silence
The young wife of a farmer dies in a tragic "accident". The county police officers wonder whether or not the death was accidental.
Isobel
The successful writer of detective stories is the last person to see a young girl alive. The girl, Isobel, also shares the name of the heroine in one of the author's novels.
End of the Rainbow
A factory worker learns from his immigrant brother that there are two kinds of Iron Curtains.
Lucifer
A publishing house manager has, in the course of his career, caused much unhappiness among his colleagues. It's inevitable that he, too, should be made to suffer.
See the Man
A young mechanic hides a shameful secret-- he's unable to read, having left school early because of poverty. He believe his illiteracy stands in the way of him achieving success.
Quality Town
A millionaire oil tycoon who has risen in the ranks from a position as a wildcatter, tries to give his daughter all the material things he lacked.
The Second Day of Christmas
This is the story of the young Hans Christian Anderson's love for singer Jenny Lind and her refusal to give up her singing career.
Three Men from Tomorrow
Three individual one-act stories are told in this episode. Each involves young men facing moral or ethical decisions which will have profound effects on their futures. Act one profiles a high school student who's planning to elope with his girlfriend; Act two looks at a young man who's asked to deal drugs; Act three is the story of a college fraternity president who's supposed to expel one of the brothers.
The End of the Tether
An elderly mariner is making his final voyage as the captain of an unseaworthy boat owned by shady characters. Determined to retire with his dignity, the captain takes the ragged ship out to sea with the intention of wrecking the wreck.
The Tyrant
A father and son are determined to control the town of Prairieview just as their ancestors did. They learn that running a Western town is not as easily done today as a century ago. Among the obstacles the pair encounters is a progressive young lady who runs the local newspaper.
Aftermath
A promising young lawyer must make peace with his own conscience before he can marry the girl he loves. He is haunted by the memory of a murder for which a friend was executed. Believing that he was innocent, the young man must search for the real killer.
Mr. Tutt Baits the Hook
Mr. Tutt a famous small-town lawyer comes to the aid of a young man accused of murder. Combining his skill at fishing with his knowledge of the law, Tutt baits a legal hook to free the accused.
Good Friday, 1865
Lincoln's assassination as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy
The Man Who Vanished
This fantasy centers around a middle-aged businessman who comes the conclusion that the freedom of his youth was worth more than the success and security he now enjoys. But his mental retreat into the past has a startling physical effect. As he dreams of happier days, he becomes dimmer and dimmer--actually begins to fade--in the eyes of the people he knows.
An Excuse for Shanks
A shy, young man in a small town has been disliked by people his whole life. He makes his first real friend, the wife of the local pool hall owner, and falls madly in love with her. Shanks unwittingly becomes a factor is his own downfall.
End of Morning
A school bus is hit by a railroad train and several children are killed. The bus driver is faced with the dreadful responsibility for this tragic accident.
Son of Adam
A man so renowned for his honesty and integrity he has been nicknamed "the saint". But no man is perfect, and the judge learns a few facts of life when he enters politics.
The Briefcase
Two young men, both employed in similar positions by a large business firm, have different ideas about getting ahead. One is ruthless in his ambition, while the other believes in ethics and fair play. A promotion, given to one, has a big effect on both of their lives.
The Secret
A secret black box is guarded by a lumberjack. Others in the camp find this intriguing and speculate about the contents of the box,are they love letters or evidence of a murder.
The Long Way Home
A commuter suffers a heart attack as he is boarding a train in Grand Central Station in New York City, on his way to his home in Connecticut.
Death Insurance
Unhappy with his life and marriage, a mechanic decides to murder his wife to collect the insurance money.
Pistolero
An ex-GI returns to his home in the southwest and opens a gas station. He soon learns that the town is under the control of a crooked politician and decides to do something about it.
Portrait of a Man
The story of a gentle man from his early days in Prague when his "Theory of Relativity" caused a change in the conception of the relationship of man and the universe through to his life in Princeton, N.J. living simply and modestly among his neighbors.
The Baobab Tree
At an African plantation a woman flirts with men and destroys them like the baobab tree does (where this tree grows nothing can live).
Don't Do Me Any Favors
A crooner achieves success only to find that his very life is owned and controlled by a big-time operator who desires money from him and more of it.
Jack Be Nimble
A man is confronted by one of his two wives and commits a crime he unexpectedly is forced to do.
The Right Thing
A man is filled with guilt after the death of girl in a car accident due to his negligent driving.
All Expenses Paid
A salesclerk wins an all expenses paid trip by her store where she was named "Miss Courtesy". In the Bahamas she meets and falls for a playboy.
Who?
A man sees himself as the "Standard Who". There are six other variants of the base "Who", the "Ineffectual Who", the "Solid Who", the "Slob Who", the "Satyr Who", the "Godlike Who" and the "Nasty Who".
Honored Guest
Walter Slezak stars as Krisons Ringo, a recent immigrant to this country, who settles in a small Long Island town. Though he taught in the old country, he cannot get a certificate here, so he takes a job as a school janitor.
Storm Over Swan Lake
An economy minded school board hires a ruthless superintendent who saves money by firing teachers. One teacher objects and this leads to the division of the town's citizens and considerable trouble.
The Soldier Room
A man hides his borderline psychosis pretty well but it does work a hardship on his wife.
An Elephant for Peanuts
A child wants nothing more than to own a baby elephant. His dad makes it easy by being a purchasing agent for a big firm, so the boy simply makes out a purchase order for a baby elephant and gets one!
Dream No More
Dream No More concerns three people. One is John Garroway, a college boy due to come into a fortune on his 21st birthday. The second is Gavin Rhodes, one of John's professors; Rhodes has designs on that fortune. The third is Enid Garroway, John's widowed mother. The summer home of the Garroways' is high on the cliffs of California. John has invited Professor Rhodes for a visit. It's not long before Mrs. Garroway sees through Rhodes' plot and hatches a little counterplot of her own.
A Matter of Conscience
A marriage of some nine years is about to go on the rocks, and the wife decides to face her husband with her own suspicions.
Day of Grace
An ordinary man who receives a copy of tomorrow's newspaper today with the events that haven't yet happened. He sees a chance for spectacular things.
Catch a Falling Star
A falling Hollywood star refuses to face the fact that his acting days are numbered.
Southern Exposure
A Southern aristocrat raises the ire of her neighbors by opening her house to paying guests as a tourist attraction.
Maybe Tomorrow
A woman's dream of happiness despite bitter disillusion from a mother who has dominated her to such an extent as to ruin her live and leave her with nothing but empty dreams of happiness.
The Company Wife
A new couple move to a suburb and the husband becomes an executive in a firm where three other neighbors are employed. The wives believe the newcomer is threatening their security by working to take over one of the husband's jobs and they set out to find out which one.
Mr. Parker's Rhubarb
An accountant is picked to umpire the baseball game between his firm and it's competitor. The ump makes a critical decision against his own team and this doesn't make him a hero around the office or his home.
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