Four Star Playhouse

A man learns that he is suspected of murdering his wife, whom he now claims never existed.

After sending the terrified wife of an acquaintance home with a little comfort the night before, a bar owner is horrified when she turns up dead.

A refined man stands outside of a home, trying to convince strangers who pass by to retrieve his silk hat from inside the house.

A notorious criminal returns to his hometown after 15 years, and a young man wants to join him in notoriety...even in death at the hands of police.

A doctor caring for natives on a tropical island is dismissed by the bully owner of the island who discovered a discrepancy in his medical past.

After obtaining a woman's purse, a reformed pickpocket reads a letter about her sick son and decides to grant his dying wish to meet his father.

A young boxer quickly rises through the ranks and secures a championship match -- which he soon discovers is a fixed fight.

After encountering an old acquaintance with a large sum of money on a train, a man later learns that this acquaintance is wanted for embezzlement.

A woman with a reputation of being hard of hearing secretly gets a hearing aid, and starts overhearing the terrible things they've kept from her.

At the theater, a man seated in the box imagines himself playing each of the characters in the drama being performed onstage.

The adoptive father of an orphan boy is overjoyed when his wife becomes pregnant, but she views the orphan as a threat to their "natural" family.

After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much younger woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust.

A sea captain on his final voyage learns that there is a bomb on his ship, timed to go off soon after reaching port.

On a late night subway car, five passengers try to determine which of them is a homicidal maniac, the subject of a city-wide manhunt.

A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories.

After a guilt-ridden bank employee sends a signed confession of theft to his boss, he discovers his potential wealth and races to get the letter back.

On the verge of senatorial candidacy, a politician's world is at risk when the married woman he'd had an affair with in his youth contacts him.