Kraft Theatre

- Season 10

(1956)

A young man searches for revenge.

Al Kendall has climbed from delivery boy to ownership of a dress manufacturing plant. Now facing bankruptcy, he hires an arsonist to burn the plant down so he can collect the insurance. When the building goes up in flames, a man is unexpectedly killed, leaving Kendall facing a murder charge.

In this somewhat unvarnished look at the life of baseball phenomenon Mickey Mantle, he's shown to be a sullen and uncommunicative young man during his early years in the big leagues. Using documentary films and re-enactments, his life is traced from childhood through his appearance in the 1956 World Series.

A young Marine recruit undergoes rigorous combat training at a Marine boot camp.

During the Red Army's siege of Nazi-held Budapest in 1945, a 15-year-old girl witnesses a tense meeting between an Orthodox Jew and injured German, a Hungarian soldier finding his stolen food is useless and, amid the horrors, a couple becoming married.

A mysterious woman traveling on a small freighter charms the other passengers with her good cheer. She says that she's a schoolteacher from Vienna but is she? She says that it's her first trip, but the captain is sure that she has sailed with her before.

A juvenile delinquent gives the wife of his father's boss a ride home. En route, he gets into a race with another boy, and accidentally runs over a woman. Members of his gang threaten his passenger to keep her from telling police what she knows about the accident.

After being accused by a little girl of kidnapping and murdering her sister, a salesman finds his reputation permanently damaged. Despite being exonerated of all charges, he still finds himself having to prove his innocence to his family and co-workers.

A frantic father helps police search for his traveling wife and daughter. The child had been bitten by a rabid dog and needs medical attention immediately.

A father takes his son on a hunting trip, hoping their two very different personalities will finally bond. Instead, matters are made worse when the father is humiliated by a pair of sadistic duck hunters.

A young boy wanders into a bank vault with a timer that prevents it from being opened for 72 hours. The burglar-proof door is attacked by welders, construction workers, and the like trying to break in and rescue the child.

A pair of convicts, the leader and his psychopathic follower, attempt a prison break. The two take over the isolation wing of a penitentiary and hold a couple of guards hostage. Then negotiations start with the warden and a shady politician.

While being held as prisoners during the Korean War, one man betrayed several of his fellow soldiers to get better treatment from the Communists. Following the war, the traitor who's been dubbed "Teddy Bear" by the other prisoners opens a road-side diner. One day, an intense, limping man comes into the diner. He's a former prisoner whose best friend was killed because of Teddy Bear's actions. He has come to avenge his friend's death.

A stubborn old woman woman at a residence for the elderly sacrifices much to create a good home for an abandoned child.

A young lawyer is urged by the local political boss to run for the district attorney's office. Wanting to fight for justice, he debates accepting the politician's support. Though he despises the boss' methods, he feels he can accomplish much good with the man's endorsement.

In the Kentucky Hills during the 1920s, legends have grown about the Coxes, the surviving family of an old mountain feud. One day, their self-imposed isolation is rudely threatened by the arrest of the son on a charge of murder.

A powerful diplomat and a possible Russian spy are among the passengers on a transatlantic flight thought to have a bomb aboard. As tension builds, a French detective goes about the job of determining if it's simply an empty threat and who might be behind such a deed.

Wanting to add to his war glory and prove the ineffectiveness of civil defense, an ex-Army sergeant forms his own group of storm troopers. They stage a make-believe "invasion" of a small town to make their point. Things turn serious when the police arrive with their real bullets.

A hardened mountain man is lying wounded in a cave after killing the last member of the family with whom he's been feuding. A lovely young mute woman comes by and nurses the grizzled outdoorsman back to health. After his recovery, he comes down from the hills to win her over, showing surprising tenderness for a man with his history.

A young country boy with a guitar skyrockets to the top as a rock 'n roll idol. With his religious background, he finds himself constantly at odds with his sleazy manager. This is especially evident at the funeral of the singer's grandmother. A hymn that he's supposed to sing turns into a rock'n tune.

The story of the discovery of life-saving insulin.

A young man couldn't say "I do." He flees his upcoming wedding to a snooty rich girl and ends up in Brussels. That's where he becomes involved with "The Dresden Doll," a gorgeous woman who is also a black marketeer.

A successful businesswoman gives up her career to marry. She finds it impossible to make the adjustment and turns to alcohol.

An American salesman who is about to return home from Brussels after an unsuccessful business trip is offered $10,000 to smuggle diamonds to the U.S. He agrees and promptly has the gems stolen. He then frantically goes in search of the thief.

On July 11, 1804, the former US Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton fight a duel with US Vice President Aaron Burr in New York which results in Hamilton's death.

On a foggy night in the Atlantic Ocean, two passenger ships collide. In the rescue, one life is lost. During the Coast Guard investigation which follows, it turns out that Captain Sorrenson of the S.S. Wingate served under Captain Trawley of the S.S. Red Star for many years. There also appears to be some personal conflict between the two men.

A British pathologist conducts an autopsy on a corpse to discover the cause of death. He's shocked to discover that the unidentified man died of the bubonic plague. Scotland Yard is very interested, as are a couple of foreign agents.

Conflict develops between an old sheriff and his ambitious, young deputy as the two pursue a killer on the loose.

A European child of American foster parents is kidnapped and flown to the Russian-controlled sector of Vienna. The Communists believe that the boy is a descendant of the late Tsar Nicholas II.

A man visiting the United States contracts a deadly blood disease that is curable only by a rare drug; there is only one dose of the drug remaining in the world and it's being rushed to the sick man. The taxi driver who is bringing the dosage is suffering from the same disease.

A young man comes into the life of a childless married couple, functioning in many ways as a son. Trouble begins when he and the wife fall in love and begin plotting the death of the clueless husband.

An ambitious musician is driving hard to make it to the big time. He becomes enamored with an older singer, but she turns down his advances.

The teenage son of a deported gangster is trying to map his future. The boy is debating whether to follow in his father's footsteps or follow his mother's advice and choose a legal occupation.

A woman who has been away for years recovering from a mental illness returns to find her life quite different. She comes home to a daughter who does not remember her and a husband who has since remarried.

In the lawless Southwest of the United States in the 1850s, bounty hunters are on the rampage. With Mexico offering $500 cash for the scalps of Native Americans, Jed Heath risks his life and ranch to save them from a band of money-crazed marauders.

A high fashion photographer of beautiful models has serious problems with his life and career, leading him to turn to drink. The faith of a young woman allows him to salvage both.

A mousy bank clerk whose hobby is collecting guppies attends his 20th anniversary college reunion. He assumes an outgoing persona for the occasion and impresses the alumni with his gregarious ways.

In the Old West, a good-hearted but irresponsible husband is finally set on the right path by a patient wife and courageous son.

A man schemes to win back his wife by using unusual and desperate methods. A pair of young newlyweds come to his aid.

A young hitchhiker is picked up in a small town on suspicion of robbery and murder. A headline-seeking columnist takes up his cause for publicity and eventually gets the kid freed. Having relished the attention, the teen decides to make another headline for himself.

The Strategic Air Command is losing some of its best personnel to jobs in the private sector. One unit commander makes it his mission to convince his men to choose the Air Force as a career.

An attorney awaiting a judgeship learns that his delinquent brother has murdered a man in London's Soho district. Fearing the bad publicity will disrupt his appointment, the lawyer does his best to cover up the crime. When a derelict is conveniently named as the prime suspect and sentenced to hang, the murderous brother remains silent.

An elderly actor has a chance at a career comeback in television. He has great trouble remembering his lines to the crew tries to rig up an electronic contraption to help him. A young script girl comes up with a better solution.

A 15-year-old Puerto Rican boy who comes to New York to live with his sister must choose between going to school or being bullied by the neighborhood toughs trying to recruit him into their gang.

An executive in a corporation is forced out of his job and makes a major career change. Forced to take a less-than-glamorous position, he finds that he really likes being a shoe salesman.

A hillbilly couple find themselves the center of national attention when the mother gives birth to sextuplets. The husband protects his wife and six boys from sightseers and reporters with his shotgun. Thanks to all the media attention, the mother's brother becomes a popular TV personality.

A psychotic actor goes to extremes to keep his ex-girlfriend from going out with another man. When she falls in love with a new man, the couple become the target of threats and violence from the berserk thespian.

Four dangerous desperadoes are heading into a peaceful Western town. The young sheriff gets no support from the merchants who fear a shoot-out will ruin the town's reputation or the locals who are simply afraid. He's left with just his gun and sense of duty to take on the deadly quartet.

A singing star visits New York and is surprised to encounter his teenage daughter who he hasn't seen since she was a baby. Despite the efforts of the manager to prevent any father-daughter bonding, the entertainer starts to want the closeness that comes from family and children.

A publisher is frightened at the prospect of losing his vision and perhaps his business. To prepare himself, he devises methods to move around his office and gets used to listening to information rather than reading it.

A woman from the Midwest travels to New York to appear on a game show, not knowing that she'll confront the husband who left her twenty years earlier. She goes nuts on national television.

A decorated ex GI fears that he is the victim of the "killer instinct" when he shoots a fleeing bandit. Does this stem from an evil instinct or from a sense of justice? Another violent crisis, however, proves his anxiety unfounded.

The wife of a scandal-magazine publisher tries to maintain her social position in a small residential community, despite the scorn her husband's magazine provokes. To build circulation, the husband decides to print a scandalous story about one of his wife's friends.