Francis Compton

Un millionnaire instable devient jaloux et arrange sa propre mort pour que l'on soupçonne l'amant de sa femme.

Sir Wilfrid, un brillant et expérimenté avocat spécialiste des causes perdues, sort d'un séjour prolongé à l'hôpital et doit, pour des raisons de santé, renoncer à s'occuper d'affaires criminelles trop stimulantes. C'est à ce moment que Leonard Vole, accusé du meurtre de Mme French, vient lui demander son aide. Bien que l'affaire paraisse passionnante, Sir Wilfrid refuse de s'en occuper pour préserver sa santé et conseille un autre avocat, Mr Brogan-Moore, un de ses anciens élèves. Après le départ de Leonard Vole du bureau de Sir Wilfrid, Christine Vole, la femme de Leonard, fait son apparition. Elle est son seul alibi pour le soir du meurtre. Son attitude très froide et son rôle crucial dans l'affaire font changer Sir Wilfrid d'avis, qui décide malgré les recommandations des médecins de s'occuper de cette affaire fascinante.

Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot tells the story of Virginia's role in American Independence (up to the point of voting to propose independence at the Second Continental Congress), from the point of view of John Fry (played by a young Jack Lord), a fictional Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses.

Lorsque le play boy millionnaire Randy Bradford propose le mariage à Gloria Winters, elle accepte avec empressement et les amants s'enfuient. Mais malheureusement pour Gloria, le tuteur de la jeune femme refuse cette situation. Gloria enrage est décide de prouver qu'elle n'a pas besoin d'un tuteur en obtenant un emploi à Wall Street.

Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.

Captain English permits Mr. Walkes to board his ship bound for Bali, only to learn Walkes is unwelcome at virtually every port, forcing English to endure his increasingly unwelcome guest.

DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.