Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

1950
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

7.6 | en | Drama

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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EP52  The Last Act
Sep. 12,1957
The Last Act

A fading actress is determined to control the lives of everyone around her, especially her family. She sets out to disinherit her grandson because she doesn't approve of the young French girl he is in love with.

EP51  Old Witch, Old Witch
Sep. 05,1957
Old Witch, Old Witch

A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for him to make a ton of money.

EP50  Diagnosis - Homicide
Aug. 22,1957
Diagnosis - Homicide

An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.

EP49  Judge Not
Aug. 15,1957
Judge Not

A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.

EP48  Barren Harvest
Aug. 08,1957
Barren Harvest

A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.

EP47  Dark Hammock
Aug. 01,1957
Dark Hammock

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EP46  High Tension
Jul. 25,1957
High Tension

The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.

EP45  Summer Return
Jul. 18,1957
Summer Return

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EP44  The Softest Music
Jul. 11,1957
The Softest Music

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EP43  Who is Picasso?
Jul. 04,1957
Who is Picasso?

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EP42  The Latch Key
Jun. 27,1957
The Latch Key

A bus crash results in the deaths of several passengers, whose identities are in dispute. A scorched latch key seems to be the key to the mystery, and in a series of flashbacks the passengers on the bus unfold the story.

EP41  Edge of Doubt
Jun. 20,1957
Edge of Doubt

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EP40  Design for November
Jun. 13,1957
Design for November

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EP39  Payment in Kind
Jun. 06,1957
Payment in Kind

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EP38  Paris Calling
May. 30,1957
Paris Calling

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EP37  The Armed Venus
May. 23,1957
The Armed Venus

The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.

EP36  Death Do Us Part
May. 16,1957
Death Do Us Part

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EP35  Stand-In for Murder
May. 09,1957
Stand-In for Murder

A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.

EP34  The Hard Way
May. 02,1957
The Hard Way

Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

EP33  The Man Who Played God
Apr. 25,1957
The Man Who Played God

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

EP32  The Taggart Light
Apr. 18,1957
The Taggart Light

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EP31  Adam Had Four Sons
Apr. 04,1957
Adam Had Four Sons

Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.

EP30  The Black Angel
Mar. 28,1957
The Black Angel

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

EP29  The Great Lie
Mar. 21,1957
The Great Lie

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

EP28  Eileen
Mar. 14,1957
Eileen

Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing to do with a man who's only a groom. Nevertheless, Barry determines to claim Eileen for his own.

EP27  One Way Passage
Mar. 07,1957
One Way Passage

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

EP26  Possessed
Feb. 28,1957
Possessed

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

EP25  One Way Street
Feb. 21,1957
One Way Street

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

EP24  Dark Victory
Feb. 14,1957
Dark Victory

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.

EP23  The Undesirable
Feb. 07,1957
The Undesirable

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EP22  One Sunday Afternoon
Jan. 31,1957
One Sunday Afternoon

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

EP21  Vice Squad
Jan. 24,1957
Vice Squad

When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his ends, including trumped up charges to persuade his only witness to cooperate or detaining some call girls to coerce their madam to help him. In the meantime he deals with everyday police business, juggling seemingly trivial matters with more serious ones.

EP20  To Have and Have Not
Jan. 17,1957
To Have and Have Not

During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.

EP19  Just Across the Street
Jan. 10,1957
Just Across the Street

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EP18  It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Jan. 03,1957
It Happened on Fifth Avenue

A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

EP17  Michael and Mary
Dec. 27,1956
Michael and Mary

After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.

EP16  Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue
Dec. 20,1956
Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue

Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.

EP15  Christmas in Connecticut
Dec. 13,1956
Christmas in Connecticut

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

EP14  Old Acquaintance
Nov. 29,1956
Old Acquaintance

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

EP13  The Gay Sisters
Nov. 22,1956
The Gay Sisters

Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.

EP12  The Glass Web
Nov. 15,1956
The Glass Web

A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.

EP11  Jezebel
Nov. 08,1956
Jezebel

A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.

EP10  You Can't Escape Forever
Nov. 01,1956
You Can't Escape Forever

A newspaperman is given the "advice to the lovelorn" column to write after an argument with his boss. He resents the assignment but the job pays off when he gets the beat on the hottest story of the day.

EP9  Because of You
Oct. 25,1956
Because of You

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

EP8  Flamingo Road
Oct. 18,1956
Flamingo Road

A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.

EP7  The Guilty
Oct. 11,1956
The Guilty

Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.

EP6  Now, Voyager
Oct. 04,1956
Now, Voyager

Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.

EP5  Only Yesterday
Sep. 27,1956
Only Yesterday

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EP4  Mildred Pierce
Sep. 20,1956
Mildred Pierce

After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.

EP3  The Top Rung
Sep. 13,1956
The Top Rung

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EP2  Road of Fear
Sep. 06,1956
Road of Fear

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EP1  The Wayward Saint
Aug. 30,1956
The Wayward Saint

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Released: 1950-10-02 | Released Producted By: J. Walter Thompson Agency , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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F Gwynplaine MacIntyre 'Lux Video Theatre' was the television version of an extremely popular radio show. 'Lux Radio Theatre', hosted by no less a personage than Cecil B. DeMille, was an anthology series featuring radio dramatisations of popular films ... often starring the same big-name actors who had appeared in the films. It was during a radio performance on 'Lux Radio Theatre' that Helen Hayes was tagged 'the first lady of the American stage'.'Lux Video Theatre' employed a format similar to its radio predecessor: this was an anthology series, featuring adaptations of prestigious works. For copyright reasons, the video incarnation tended to dramatise stage plays in addition to offering tele-versions of movies. (At this time, the film industry strongly distrusted the television industry, believing that moviegoers would stop going to cinemas if they could stay home and watch TV.)The 31 December 1951 episode of 'Lux Video Theatre' starred Boris Karloff in a dramatisation of Irish playwright Lord Dunsany's one-act drama 'The Jest of Hahalaba'. The original play was a single brief two-hander, really more of a skit. For purposes of 'Lux Video', Dunsany's 10-minute play is expanded and 'opened up' to fit the 30-minute time-slot. The script adaptation is by David Shaw, the direction by Richard Goode.Boris Karloff stars as Sir Arthur, a dissipated Englishman obsessed with black magic. (This character appears to be at least partly inspired by the notorious Aleister Crowley, who conducted his life as if he were a fictional character.) Sir Arthur goes to the theatre to witness a performance of the magician Yannu (played by supercilious actor Arnold Moss, a poor man's Vincent Price). Although Yannu is ostensibly a conjuror, a mere stage-magician, Sir Arthur has reason to believe that Yannu is a sorceror with genuine magical abilities. Indeed, Yannu offers Sir Arthur an intriguing deal: in exchange for a vast sum of money, Yannu will persuade the demon Hahalaba to provide him with tomorrow's newspaper, so that Sir Arthur can read the news a day before it happens.SPOILERS COMING. The deal is made, and Sir Arthur eagerly reads tomorrow's stock market quotations and racing results. But what's this other item in the paper? Why, it's Sir Arthur's obituary! Oo-er! He clutches his chest and pops his clogs, thus making the obituary come true.Boris Karloff's performance here is not one of his shining moments, but that's hardly his fault. The staging and camera work in this very low-budget production are leaden. The attempts to depict a London street on an American soundstage are laughable, including a 'Here now, what's all this' constable and a street hawker selling pretzels!Lord Dunsany wrote a staggeringly large number of plays, quite a few of which were performed in the West End, but I believe that 'The Jest of Hahalaba' was actually written as what used to be called a 'chamber play': meaning that it was intended to be *read*, like a short story, rather than to be performed by actors. Indeed, this particular material works better as a short story. It's always a pleasure to see Boris Karloff -- a disciplined and understated actor -- but this material is beneath him.
Single-Black-Male In the 1954-55 season when James Mason was host, Buzz Kulik plied his trade as a director on this show before moving on to direct episodes of 'The Twilight Zone'. Charles Bennett, famous for his Hitchcock and DeMille collaborations in the 30's and 40's also wrote 'The Browning Version' which was aired on the 7th April 1955.