Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show’s star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Tag: USA
An aging motorcycle gang assemble for a twenty-five-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies.
A small-town newspaperman begins to suspect that a wave of murders committed in the area may not be the work of a serial killer but a monster.
League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia’s short-lived mystery series based on the “Nero Wolfe” novels by Rex Stout. Taking over from Edward Arnold as crabby, corpulent consulting detective Nero Wolfe is Walter Connolly, who despite his physical resemblance to the Stout original is not all that well suited for the role. Sitting in his greenhouse surrounded by his beloved orchids, Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders seemingly tied in with a long-ago Harvard hazing prank that went tragically awry.
Based on a true story. After an adopted boy’s parents are killed, he and his grandfather go on the run to prevent the boy being handed into the state’s custody.
Fresh out of law school, Kevan Harris is hired by her dead father’s ex-partner, Frank Murchison, and immediately ‘falls into bed’ with him. She then falls in love with his son, Gregory, who is fighting his father over his mother’s will. Along the way, she learns about her father and his relationship with the ruthless Murchison.
When Gus Steward’s wife announces that she wants to divorce him, he starts thinking about committing suicide. His 14 year old son Alex notices this and desperately tries to prevent him from doing so and to give his father *a reason to live*.
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.