Kraft Theatre

- Season 9

(1955)

A prep school student named Percy Washington becomes friends with his schoolmate John Unger. Percy invites John to spend the holidays at his family's isolated Montana mansion. It sits atop a mountain of solid diamond. John begins to worry about his safety when he learns the the father, Mr. Washington, is paranoid about his wealth. He shoots down planes that fly over the house and then kills the pilots. The crazed patriarch does the same with children who drop in.

A little girl sells the winning ticket in a church raffle to a woman of questionable morals. This causes quite an uproar.

At a roadside diner, a trucker feels his marriage threatened by his wife's ex-boyfriend. The wife is losing faith in their relationship because of his long absences on the road.

Despite having no political aspirations or experience, Mrs. Bibb is asked to fill the seat of her deceased husband. Aiding her is her husband's assistant, Ned, who is engaged to the Bibbs' daughter. Events take an ugly turn when it Ned is suspected of having taken a bribe from a contractor.

A professor is part of a team of spies who insure absolute conformity in a future society. When his blind allegiance begins to drift, the state makes efforts to put him back in his place.

The bullet-riddled body of a big-time gambler is brought to the morgue in this tongue-in-cheek comedy. Out of the blue, a naive young waitress steps forward to claim the dead man's remains. Soon, she finds herself with three boyfriends: a mortician, a tough police officer and the murdered crook's business partner. Soon she's being taken on her "last ride" and she manages to even charm the gunman.

A delicatessen owner who buys an Irish Sweepstakes ticket in a friend's name. When it wins $28,000, trouble abounds for the poor man.

Set in a summer place that's been shut down now that summer's over, a small boy begins to suspect that his best friend, a handyman, is a murderer.

A French village woman's day of judgment comes after the village is liberated from the Nazis. She was a collaborator and now the collective contempt of the populace comes down upon her.

Although he hasn't made a film in years, an aging Viennese director, living in the United States, is fiercely proud of the great film that he made decades ago. He convinces himself that the ideal way to regain his vanished glory would be to remake that film, and even to have his wife play the role that she created in it.

A woman who still thinks of herself as a Southern belle deludes herself into believing that her unattractive daughter is a popular beauty. The girl's schoolmates stage a humiliating joke that make both women realize things are not as they liked to imagine.

A young woman finds it hard to find a husband in a ghost town. She becomes friends with a grizzled old gold prospector who's being driven crazy by his nagging wife.

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A woman, in love with a young sailor, is confronted by her ex-husband. The vindictive man is determined that she will never have another lover. To prevent a showdown between the dangerous ex and her boyfriend, she races to get onboard a plane out of town with the sailor.

An author who has several best-sellers to his credit now finds himself back at the bottom. He returns with his fiancé to his old college campus hoping to recapture the inspiration that he has lost.

A Boston girl rebels against Beacon Hill tradition.

A young boy finds a wounded, dying man hiding in his family's boat house. The man, a prospector who has just killed his partner in a dispute, at first frightens the boy, but as the two begin to get to know each other, they become friends. Eventually the boy suspects that the man might not be all he claims to be.

A man who in a drunken rage killed a neighbor is released from prison after serving five years. Paddo returns home and takes out his rage on his friends and family members. His son Willie stands up to the brute and proves that Paddo is neither needed nor wanted by the family.

A robber marches into a bank president's office and demands that he cash a worthless $70,000 check. As an incentive, the criminal's partner has broken into banker's home and has a gun held to his wife's head. The thugs have given the banker exactly five minutes to decide between his money or his wife.

In a retelling of Arthur Godfrey's downfall, top TV producer Charley Faye hires his old friend "Boom Boom" Cannon to star in a show, and then unceremoniously fires him. The callous move endears Charley to no one; he finds himself under attack from network executives, the press, and even his wife.

On a morning that an investment banker's car won't start, he straps on his daughter's roller skates to catch his train. This turns out to be so convenient that he starts doing it every morning. Soon, this candidate for town council has attracted more attention than he ever wanted from his employer, political friends and the newspapers.

A poor Georgia family farms cotton on the land around Snapfinger Creek. According to a local legend, if you snap your fingers three times while crossing the creek, your wish will come true. The daughter puts this superstition to use when she falls in love with a man whom she fears is above her means.

An 18-year-old tomboy suddenly discovers her womanhood when her mother takes in a boarder. With the arrival of a traveling salesman in her home, the young woman packs up her sweatshirts and becomes quite the feminine girl.

The Fool Killer is a mythical figure who chops the heads off of those who make fools of themselves. In the days after the American Civil War, a young boy who is haunted by this creature in his dreams. When he runs away from home he encounters the beast in the flesh.

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

A sergeant and two other soldiers are going stir crazy serving on an isolated South Pacific atoll. Needing more points to rotate back to the United States, the men fabricate their own small guerrilla war.

A big city real estate mogul gets involved in a shady tax deal. Facing exposure, he plans to flee the country, leaving his son-in-law behind to take the blame. His daughter learns of his scheme and puts a stop to it.

The death of their child almost wrecks the marriage of a truck driver and his wife. Then one night, he goes against company regulations and picks up a Mexican waif on the road.

Jeff Peters uses his personal magnetism to fleece the mayor of a hick town, run a shady matrimonial agency and establish a monopoly on the rot-gut whiskey business. Peters is joined in these schemes by a right-hand man and a beautiful widow. The trio thinks that they are unstoppable until they meet up with a former master of the con game.

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Death takes the form of a Spanish dancer. A young woman, unaware that her life will soon be over, is drawn to a dancer she sees in a club. Her overprotective father tries to keep her away from this fatal romance.

Thaddeus Stevens, the powerful leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives, wishes to punish the South following the American Civil War. First it was President Abraham Lincoln and now his successor Andrew Johnson who opposes Stevens' plans of retribution. An angered Stevens begins the process of impeaching Johnson in 1868.

Aboard a New York to Chicago Express train, a master criminal pulls off a sensational heist. Posing as an insurance salesman, he steals a priceless collection of currency from a bonded messenger and then challenges the victim to prove he did it.

A 17-year-old boy feels unwanted living in cramped quarters with his brother's family. He sets out to find a place to call home with little success. He quickly learns that moving in with a pair of crabby old maid aunts is a mistake.

Before a woman learns the shocking truth about her husband, that he is a Communist, she must endure emotional stress at his hands. She's horrified to discover a corpse in their house, and even more frightened when it mysteriously disappears. To cover his tracks, the husband tries to convince her that her sanity is slipping.

A teenage informer serving in a reform school for juvenile delinquents fears for his life. He's been placed with members of a rival gang to gain information.

A UFO crashes into an Air Force plane carrying top secret information. The reporter who witnessed the crash tries to get details for a news story, but is stone-walled at every turn by military brass.

A young woman hides from life because of a starfish-shaped scar on her face. Nevertheless, she has fallen for a wonderful man who convinces her to live and love.

A man from private industry, who was brought by his former boss and good friend into the government in connection with an intercontinental missile program, finds himself subject to multiple pressures: personal, political, and interdepartmental.

An attractive young woman flirts with a store clerk at a pawn shop, inviting him to join her for lunch. While he's gone, the store is robbed and the owner is killed. The clerk is without an alibi because the woman with whom he dined worked for the criminals.

A broken-hearted woman who lost her child at birth desperately wants another child. She and her husband turn to the black market to adopt an infant because the legal route is so cumbersome and slow. They become attached to a particular child but its nurse tries to convince the couple to do things properly.

A comedian in Czechoslovakia discovers that the Communist government does not appreciate his jokes at their expense. He and his wife are forced to flee the country for their lives.

A successful and religious rancher enjoys great prosperity as his cattle stock rises. The one thing he most wants, a son, is the very thing that he's denied. Frustrated and angry, he curses God. Soon, his property is threatened by fire and his wife walks out. He comes to believe that he is being punished for his blasphemy.

Anna has been held under the thumb of her invalid father, being a virtual slave to his demands, for her whole life. With his death, she only sees more of the same from her three domineering brothers. Her only hope comes in the form of a charming repairman.

A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.

Although a model witnesses a murder, she's unable to identify the killer. This doesn't keep her from being sought by criminal so she keeps a detective and a reporter with her at all times. The catch is that either one of those men could be the murderer.

As part of its law school training, a college stages mock trials for students to gain experience. One of its mock trials turns real when the city's mayor is put on the stand and the misuse of taxpayers' money is revealed.

Trading on the name of his highly respected late father, a young man is talked into running for his office as state governor. He would be executive in name only, answering to a group of corrupt politicians who are backing his run.