Screen Director's Playhouse

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
Screen Director's Playhouse

Screen Director's Playhouse

6.5 | en | Drama

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

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EP35  High Air
Sep. 12,1956
High Air

Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.

EP34  The Day I met Caruso
Sep. 05,1956
The Day I met Caruso

On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by his voice, as he sings arias from Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, and Pagliacci, as well as the World War I tune ""Over There.""

EP33  Bitter Waters
Aug. 01,1956
Bitter Waters

In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between the young couple, until the society matron mother brings her own past to bear on their relationship.

EP32  Apples on the Lilac Tree
Jul. 25,1956
Apples on the Lilac Tree

A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.

EP31  The Carroll Formula
Jul. 18,1956
The Carroll Formula

A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in Wonderland.

EP30  White Corridors
Jul. 11,1956
White Corridors

An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is imagining things.

EP29  Partners
Jul. 04,1956
Partners

A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.

EP28  Every Man Had Two Wives
Jun. 13,1956
Every Man Had Two Wives

In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town, determined to come face to face with his childhood sweetheart.

EP27  What Day is it?
Jun. 06,1956
What Day is it?

A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until a singing telegram arrives. Music by Leon Klatzkin. Songs: Yankee doodle boy, Mary's a grand old name by George M. Cohan; When you're a clown by Jeff Bailey, Jack Latimer; arrangements by Walter Sheets, Russell Garcia

EP26  The Dream
May. 16,1956
The Dream

In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upset when the boy tells her of meeting a baron who offers to take him aboard ship for a journey to the West Indies.

EP25  A Ticket For Thaddeus
May. 09,1956
A Ticket For Thaddeus

A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to the police he was at fault even though he wasn't.

EP24  Claire
Apr. 25,1956
Claire

A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she stood helplessly by while the first wife drowned.

EP23  Markheim
Apr. 11,1956
Markheim

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EP22  The Sword Of Villon
Apr. 04,1956
The Sword Of Villon

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EP21  It's a Most Unusual Day
Mar. 14,1956
It's a Most Unusual Day

A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

EP20  One Against Many
Mar. 07,1956
One Against Many

A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.

EP19  Affair in Sumatra
Feb. 22,1956
Affair in Sumatra

A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.

EP18  Cry Justice
Feb. 15,1956
Cry Justice

Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is released from prison and seeks revenge.

EP17  Prima Donna
Feb. 01,1956
Prima Donna

A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference for baseball.

EP16  Number Five Checked Out
Jan. 18,1956
Number Five Checked Out

A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.

EP15  It`s Always Sunday
Jan. 11,1956
It`s Always Sunday

A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.

EP14  Hot Cargo
Jan. 04,1956
Hot Cargo

A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policeman who falls in love with her.

EP13  Titanic Incident
Dec. 28,1955
Titanic Incident

A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, but the tables seem to turn as the ship goes down.

EP12  The Silent Partner
Dec. 21,1955
The Silent Partner

Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy discovery is marred, however, by a man who calls both of them has-beens.

EP11  Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
Dec. 14,1955
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.

EP10  Rookie of the Year
Dec. 07,1955
Rookie of the Year

A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies shows a style reminiscent of a former all-time great banned from baseball for accepting a bribe.

EP9  Tom and Jerry
Nov. 30,1955
Tom and Jerry

It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom has a woman on the side named Lola. Their dear friends, Father O'Dowd and attorney Mr. Garrity coax Tom and Jerry into seeing sense and save the couple's marriage.

EP8  The Brush Roper
Nov. 23,1955
The Brush Roper

Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.

EP7  The Final Tribute
Nov. 16,1955
The Final Tribute

A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gentle elderly doctor he will someday replace.

EP6  The Life of Vernon Hathaway
Nov. 09,1955
The Life of Vernon Hathaway

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.

EP5  Want ad Wedding
Nov. 02,1955
Want ad Wedding

A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.

EP4  Arroyo
Oct. 26,1955
Arroyo

A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a wounded young woman, who reports that an Indian raid has wiped out her wagon train.

EP3  Midsummer Daydream
Oct. 19,1955
Midsummer Daydream

A young man who wants desperately to get married finds ""The"" girl in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smooth, sophisticated gambling man.

EP2  Day is Done
Oct. 12,1955
Day is Done

During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.

EP1  Meet The Governor
Oct. 05,1955
Meet The Governor

A ""bumpkin-type"" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.

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Released: 1955-10-05 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

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