Lux Video Theatre: Temporada 5

Temporadas

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• An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.

• An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.

• Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

• A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

• Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.

• The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.

• Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.

• A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

• The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

• An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

• An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

• Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

• A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

• A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

• Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.

• Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

• Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life. The relations between the lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries is interesting.

• Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.

• A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?

• Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

• The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

• What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.