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Saturday night, June 5, 1948, time, 10 p.m. On a small ranch 10 miles south of Cranston, Irwin County, Texas, Milton Thomas was counting a large sum of money preparatory to locking it up for the night. As he was counting, his dog Rags appeared to be nervous. Thomas tried to quiet him.... 

Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls! 

Two members of a movie crew arrive at a ghost town to shoot a picture. Two desperate criminals have arrived there ahead of the movie crew, but the Hollywood types think the two crooks are a practical joke.

A comedy/gangster story about two boxes. One box contains an ermine coat, the other has a bomb. Which is which? 

Lou has collected for the Red Cross and built a TV. The men discuss sailing and girls. Lou wrote a song and wants to sing.

A man is lucky enough to be the one millionth visitor to the Los Angeles airport...or is he? The lucky guy seems to be very interested in that free trip to Brazil, and for a very interesting reason! Al Jessant dreamed up a publicity stunt for the bureau of better business promotion whereby the one-millionth person to walk through the gate at the airport would be photographed for the newspapers and receive various prizes including a flight to anywhere in the world. A woman was just about to walk through when a man in a rush pushes in front of her.

Maude Haskin was living in fear that her husband was going to kill her, but in the papers the headlines stated it was her husband, Harry Haskins, who had been murdered a week ago last Wednesday with an ice pick

A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true.

When a man kills a stranger in a hit-and-run accident, his not-too-loving wife decides to frame him.

Dr. Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing, and still thinks she’s a passionate bargain for any man completely unconscious of the fact that her only motivation in life is to humiliate, dominate, and finally destroy any man she can get her hands on. But that didn’t matter because she had three million dollars, and Dr. Ferrari had already made up his mind if his plans worked out that he was going to kill her....

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police.

"Case History of Edgar Lowndes" is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr. Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams....

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom!

"The Beast Must Die" is a powerful story of vengeance and retribution. Herbert Marshall plays the part of Felix Laine, a writer by profession of detective novels, who was planning to kill a man. He didn’t know his name, where he lived, or what he looked like, but he knew that he was going to find him and kill him. He recorded all of the details in a diary, which was either the best murder novel he had ever written, or an incriminating document.

The Blackout Killer is hiding somewhere aboard a ship. Olivia De Havilland stars as Judith Webster, who found herself embarked upon a journey into darkness. It is 1939, shortly before England and Germany were at war. Judith was in London serving as travelling companion to wealthy American Mrs. Prescott. When Mrs. Prescott died, Judith had promised to arrange her a burial at sea. It was on this journey that she learned of the “Blackout Killer” and feared that he was the man she had befriended and fallen in love with.

Harry Andrews was a laughing happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have dreams about Aaron Burr - dreams in which Burr would be mean to his friend Alexander Hamilton, dreams that became nightmares that began to plague him....

A man who has just finished writing a symphony hears the exact same symphony on the radio. He had just set down the last note on paper - he was happy and weary and full of peace. There was a radio near the couch. He sat down and turned it on and felt great horror as he heard the music playing on the radio, the music that he had just set down on paper. Then as the music finished, the announcer said, you have just been listening to Eulogy for Orchestra Opus 42 by Henri Lefevre. But who was Henri Lefevre?

A man driving across country (with a beautiful hitchhiker) is shot at everywhere he goes. "Death Went Along for the Ride" is a suspense play that tells of fear, suspicion, and dangerous adventure on a long highway from California to New York. 

A story about two ham radio fanatics who are working on a secret defense weapon and talking to each other by shortwave. One of them is killed while talking to the other on the air. Is the other one a suspect?

A young girl about to inherit a fortune is going mad. A picture of a man in her room comes closer and closer to her. There is a picture hanging on a wall. You look at it casually, an extraordinary picture. You’ll say skillfully done. Look at those fine brush strokes, those superb colors, but isn’t the subject matter a little bizarre? It is something more than just bizarre, but let us begin from the beginning with the death of Benjamin Powell.