Four Star Playhouse

Season 1 Episode 11 - Man in the Box

1953 · 25 min

TV-PG

Theater-goers are surprised to see actor Victor Sherman at the play, considering what happened a year earlier. As the play proceeds, the man in the box imagines himself playing each of the characters in the drama being performed onstage.

Subtitles: English

Starring:Charles Boyer Harry Bartell James Craven Dorothy Green Christine Larson Herbert Heyes Isabel Randolph Todd Karus Patricia Morison

Directed by:Robert Florey

S01:E01 - My Wife Geraldine

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

S01:E02 - Dante's Inferno

Willie Dante owns a bar and gambling house called Dante's Inferno. One night, the wife of an acquaintance tells Willie that her husband has threatened her. Willie comforts her and sends her home, but she turns up dead the next day.

S01:E03 - The Lost Silk Hat

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

S01:E04 - Backstage

A well known actor encounters a woman attempting suicide by jumping off a bridge. He persuades her to let him put her up at a hotel for the night, but he accidentally provided fake stage money for her room.

S01:E05 - Welcome Home

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

S01:E06 - The Island

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.

S01:E07 - The Officer and the Lady

A reformed pickpocket in Paris obtains the purse of an attractive woman. He reads a letter telling about her dying son, and he decides to grant the boy's wish to meet his father.

S01:E08 - Knockout

A young man follows a quick trajectory from beginning boxer to the middleweight championship match. The night before the championship fight, he learns that the match is fixed, with him as the chosen winner.

S01:E09 - The Man on the Train

William encounters an old acquaintance, John Dwerrihouse, on a train with 75,000 pounds. Only later did William learn that Dwerrihouse had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling 75,000 pounds from the train company.

S01:E10 - Sound Off, My Love

A woman with a reputation of being hard of hearing secretly gets a hearing aid, and starts overhearing people making fun of her. Everyone knows her husband is having an affair, but she also discovers that he is trying to kill her.

S01:E11 - Man in the Box

S01:E12 - No Identity

Mitch Carver befriends and eventually adopts an orphan boy. Mitch's wife is pregnant with their first child, and she treats the boy as a threat to the natural family that she wants to have.

S01:E13 - The Man Who Walked Out on Himself

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

S01:E14 - The Last Voyage

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

S01:E15 - Night Ride

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.

S01:E16 - The Ladies on His Mind

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

S01:E17 - To Whom It May Concern

A bank employee mails a letter to his boss confessing to stealing $7000 and includes the stocks he bought with the money. As he puts a gun to his head, he sees in the paper that the stocks' worth have gone through the roof.

S01:E18 - Shadowed

Burt Stroude is about to be chosen as the party's senatorial candidate. At the same time, he hears from the married woman he'd had an affair with in his youth. She's dying and wants him at her bedside.

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