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Climax! TV Series 1954 - 1958
Climax! (later known as Climax Mystery Theater) is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color (using the massive TK-40A color cameras pioneered and manufactured by RCA, and used primarily by CBS' arch-rival network, NBC). Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live, and although the series was transmitted in color, only black-and-white kinescope copies of some episodes survive to the present day. Here we have a great selection of 18 Rare kinescope surviving episodes DVD 1 CASINO ROYALE stars Barry Nelson as James Bond in the very first appearance of box offices longest running franchise. American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. AN ERROR IN CHEMISTRY - Starring William Lundigan, Edmond O'Brien, Lon Chaney Jr. 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. TRIAL BY FIRE stars Linda Darnell & Forrest Tucker. Linda Darnell made her TV debut in this drama about a small town near Los Angeles is almost destroyed by fire, a newspaper editor discloses a note from a 13-year-old boy threatening arson. DVD 2 WILD STALLION stars Paul Henreid, Mary Astor & Richard Long in this adaptation of a William Faulkner story. 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. DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE Starring Michael Rennie & Sir Cedrick Hardwicke in the classic Stevenson tale features the great British actors Michael Rennie (Day The Earth Stood Still, The Third Man, Lost in Space) and Sir Cedric Harwicke (Alfred Hitchcock's Rope) doing a Gore Vidal adaptation of the famous story by Robert Louis Stevenson. FOUR HOURS IN WHITE starring Dan Duryea, Ann Rutherford & Steve Mcqueen - trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another. DVD 3 THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN starring Thomas Mitchell & John Carridine. Huck and Tom discover buried treasure, while trying to keep it secret from Huck's father. PUBLIC PIGEON NUMBER ONE Starring Red Skelton & Ann Rutherford. Red plays a hapless man who is tricked into being a boiler room hustler for phony Uranium mine stock con men who have him believing they're G-men and he's helping the government. He's caught and sent to prison, but without his catching on, the real FBI and the warden get him to escape so he can recover the crooks' stolen cash. NIGHT OF EXECUTION starring Vincent Price & Nina Foch. A mother watches her cruel and destructive husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps. DVD 4 A PROMISE TO MURDER stars Louis Hayward & Peter Lorre from a story by Oscar Wilde. At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy. THE FIFTH WHEEL stars Peter Lorre, Arthur Treacher & James Gleason in a fun story about Two hapless bank robbers hide their loot in the spare tire of a stolen car that is seized by the finance company the owner owed money to and sold to an Episcopal Priest. THE LOU GEHRIG STORY starring Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Harry Carey & James Gregory - Baseball's "Iron Horse," whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity with the help of his wife, and of his teammate, catcher Bill Dickey. DVD 5 STRANGE SANCTUARY starring Michael Rennie, Ceasar Romero & Noah Berry Jr - In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must hide out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby convent. TRAIL OF TERROR - starring Robert Preston as a homicide detective and a vengeful woman track a killer. A doctor is murdered and a police lieutenant wants to find the killer. The vengeful widow wants the man dead. JACOB AND THE ANGEL with Gig Young, June Lockhart, Eva Gabor, Otto Kruger & Keye Luke. A lawyer's career has been damaged by alcoholism, tries to redeem himself by defending a boy accused of murder. He finds later that his own guilty conscience is on trial. DVD 6 KEEP ME IN MIND starring Johnny Desmond, James Dunn & Jackie Coogan. Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like the little boy who cried wolf, he discovers when he actually can identify a cop-killer, the cops and the newspapers and his press agent don't believe him. But the killer knows he isn't lying and determines to kill him next. SCREAM SILENCE starring Anne Francis, Skip Homeier and Sydney Blackmer - A troubled young woman (Anne Francis) confesses to murdering her abusive father, but a psychiatrist doesn't believe she did it. THE VOLCANO SEAT - Michael Rennie, Albert Salmi, Patricia Cutts This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a dangerous mission. |
