Robert Montgomery Presents - Season 5
Season 5
Episodes
First Vice President
A hard-driving, domineering business executive is determined to become the company's next president. He invites the retiring chairman and his wife to his Long Island home to wine and dine his way into the position. The man's family members, who are fed up with his tyrannical control over them, finally stage a revolt at the dinner party.
Private Purkey's Private Peace
A soldier and his buddies find themselves in Europe at the end of the war. Believing their opinions are as important as those of Army brass and politicians, they formulate their own peace plan and are determined to share it. They work their way into the Paris peace talks and Private Purkey makes sure the world hears his ideas.
Lost and Found
Dr. Robert Collis works to rehabilitate children, both physically and spiritually, who were held at Belsen, the notorious Nazi prison camp. He invests special efforts to win over Eva, who guards her younger brother so tightly that they can't treat his tuberculosis. This is based on actual events.
September Time
Marion Shaw loses her voice and her singing career is over, she retreats to Cape Cod and meets a man who gives her a new purpose in life.
The Big Money
A man believes that money can buy happiness when he not only loses his money but his girl.
Breakdown
A scientist faces a mental breakdown on the brink of an important research experiment.
A Criminal Assignment
The British Secret Service release a known counterfeiter into France to find two plates which they were unable to locate.
The Sunday Punch
Prize fighter Tony Marino discovers that his greatest weakness is his own sense of honesty and decency.
Cakes and Ale
Local barmaid Rosie has quite a story to tell about her marriage to an unsuccessful middle-aged writer and helped to guide him to becoming a successful one.
No Picnic at Mt. Kenya
Based on a true story from World War II, Felice Benuzzi was one of 10,000 prisoners of war held at the Kenya camp. Benuzzi and two others manage to escape by successfully scaling down the 17,000-foot high Mt. Kenya.
Weekend Pass
A soldier on a weekend pass is determined to paint the town in New York City's hotspots.
The Deep Six
A story of life aboard a Navy cruiser in the Aleutians;the clash of personalities and the presence of the Japanese enemy.
Harvest
A farm family looks forward to the coming Thanksgiving with joy, until a series of setbacks completely changes their life.
The Soprano and the Piccolo Player
An overweight piccolo player's accompaniment to a soprano's aria is so well-received that the two are suddenly in demand as a duo. As their fame and popularity grows, so does the piccolo player's love for his beautiful partner. As he's trying to muster up the courage to ask her to marry him, he learns that she has become engaged to another. Heartbroken, he disappears, never to be seen or heard from again.
Really the Blues
Jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow was born in Chicago, Illinois. Jazz was in his blood and so was his opium addiction and jail time. Working at Capone's club during prohibition he really knew the blues.
No Visible Means
Tom, a smooth talking gigolo, makes the rounds through the speakeasys of 1920s New York. He's loved by Veronia, a woman with a lot of money, but he loses interest when he meets Iris. She presents herself as a person of society on the verge of big film career. Wedding plans quickly follow, until their lies catch up with both of them.
What About Christmas?
Story about three people, one a lonely old man and his cat, one an actor waiting for his big break and an obsessed scientist on Christmas.
The Greatest Man in the World
A mechanic causes a sensation when he flies solo around the world.
The Steady Man
A young married couple try to adopt a child.
A Case of Identity
A musician is accused and identified as the man who robbed an insurance company office in a New York suburb, despite his protestations of innocence.
Machinal
A young office worker marries her employer, whom she doesn't love and after several years of boredom and unhappiness she meets an attractive man.
Richard Said No
A publicist for a French perfumer runs into trouble when he meets a female French publicist at a party, during his jealous wife's absence.
The 17th of June
A man becomes a hero during the uprisings in East Berlin on the 17th of June.
Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star
A history professor decides that the world is coming to an end.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
The adventures of Cornelia and Emily aboard a luxury ship bound for Europe.
Land of Happiness
In 1895, a sophisticated woman of Copenhagen accompanies her husband, a pastor to his new parish. It's located on the rustic and isolated Faero Islands of the North Atlantic.
Such a Busy Day Tomorrow
An old man believes he has outlived his usefulness.
The Paradise Cafe
A piano player with big dreams is surrounded by more dreamers.
The Quality of Mercy
Angry patrons call for the police when the baby of an immigrant couple cries in a movie house.
The Pink Hippopotamus
Story about a professional spy behind the Iron Curtain.
My Little Girl
A reporter father thinks he's done a good job of raising his child. Unfortunately, he starts to have doubts about her integrity.
For These Services
Conflict between father and son, both doctors, about practice of medicine.
The Pale Blonde of Sand Street
A young sailor meets a blonde and give her his lucky coin. With it, she makes a wish for him to disappear from her life. When the wish comes true, she begins to haunt ships looking for the man she really loves.
Big Boy
The conflict between generations is played out between an old railroad man and his son over steam powered trains versus the new diesel engine.
No Need of Favor
A young artist who has lost his vision falls in love with and marries his secretary, a woman of great inner beauty but "plain Jane" looks. When an operation restores the artists' sight, his wife becomes insecure because she can never match the vision of beauty he had of her in his mind.
The Wages of Fear
Four men face danger at every turn driving truckloads of nitroglycerine through jungle country to Guatemala's to oil fields.
Pilgrim's Pride
Taking his client to a meeting in the country, a businessman finds his daughter there with a house full of party guests.
Sky Block
Farmland across the Midwest is turned into desert by someone wielding a destructive "drought machine".
The Power and the Prize
An American businessman falls in love with a refugee from behind the Iron Curtain, while in Europe. When he brings the girl back to the States, he must fight the prejudice of his associates.
Once Upon a Time
A bride and groom recall the days of their courtship, and the people they might have married - if.
The Patriot from Antibes
Based on an actual case taken from the files of the French police, it involves a handsome young baron and his beautiful wife, a trunkful of uranium and a fortune in francs.
Great Expectations: Part 1. The Promise
In the first of this two-part adaptation of Dickens'Great Expectations, a young man with an inheritance, Pip, suffers through problems that arise due to his friendship with an escaped criminal.
Great Expectations: Part 2. The Reality
In the second of this two-part adaptation of Dickens'Great Expectations, Pip gets his own apartment, falls in love and has another encounter with the criminal Magwitch.
In His Hands
A young doctor's true love suffers an incurable, deadly disease.
The Expert
In this comedy, a noted author and lecturer on the subject of marital bliss can not speak from personal experience. He has a hard time explaining why a strange woman in her pajamas is feeding him breakfast.
Story on 11th Street
A lonely widower with a seven-year-old son wants to rebuild a happy home for the child.
It Happened in Paris
An American couple broadcast a weekly radio show from Paris, enthralling their listeners back home with stories of their extended honeymoon in France. In reality, the man and woman are not married, can't stand each other, and bicker constantly. That's why they're unhappy when the sponsor wants to renew their contracts.
Patricia
A society girl defies family opposition to her desire for the Bohemian life. She enters an art school and promptly falls in love with an older instructor, who rejects her attention.
Home Town
The story of a country boy who goes to the big city where he meets a super publicity man and a city-slicker girl.
About Sara Caine
An overbearing young female reporter is determined to better her father, competing against him in the coverage of a news story.
Invitation to Murder
A publisher who has received a manuscript with damaging statements about many prominent people invites the author and all of those he mentions to a party. The publisher suggest to his guests that the best method of retaliation would be for one of them to murder the author.
Personal Story
At the peak of his career, an architect suffers an heart attack. He takes the doctors' advice to slow down to such an extreme, he's barely living his life.
A Matter of Luck
A down-and-out singer finally gets a chance at success, but something prevents him from taking advantage of the opportunity.
The People You Meet
A comedy about the trials and tribulations involved in the Boston pre-Broadway tryout of a new play.
Ten Minute Alibi
There are many who despise the scoundrel who runs off with other men's girlfriends and then blackmails the men who want their lady loves to return to them
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