Barbara Wooddell

Mike Keegan, policier bien sous tous rapports, devient tout à coup le garde du corps de Claire Gregory, jeune femme riche qui a été le témoin du meurtre d'un de ses amis assassiné par le gangster Joey Venza. Traité d'abord en domestique, Mike pénètre peu à peu dans la vie de sa protégée jusqu'à devenir son amant. Il se sépare alors de sa femme Ellie pour vivre avec Claire. C'est alors que Venza prend en otage Ellie et leur fils Tommy.

La secrétaire de Victor Grandison, animateur d'une série criminelle à la radio, est retrouvée pendue dans la maison de son patron. Le fiancé de celle-ci, policier de son état, est revenu de la Guerre et suspecte Grandison d'avoir maquillé un meurtre en suicide. Sous une fausse identité, il essaye de confondre le vrai coupable en s'introduisant dans son intimité. De son côté, Grandison fait appel à un tueur pour s'en débarrasser...

Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his family but a look-a-like outlaw causes suspicion to fall back on him.

The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.

Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.

Joe Morse, jeune et ambitieux avocat, gère les affaires de Joe Tucker, puissant gangster new-yorkais contrôlant les paris. Il cherche à réunir, en une organisation tentaculaire, les différentes branches familiales de la pègre. À cette fin, il échafaude une vaste machination dont sera victime son propre frère Léo, petit bookmaker ruiné.

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality.

Frank James et supporte mal essaie d'arrêter un Drifter impitoyable qui a adopté le nom de son frère mort afin de reproduire ses crimes.

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.