Abandoned
Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola.
Joseph M. Newman
Casts & Crew
Dennis O'Keefe
Gale Storm
Marjorie Rambeau
Raymond Burr
Will Kuluva
Jeff Chandler
Meg Randall
Jeanette Nolan
David Clarke
Mike Mazurki
Sid Tomack
Ruth Sanderson
William Frambes
Perc Launders
Steve Darrell
Clifton Young
Frank Cady
Marcella Cisney
Edward Clark
Bert Conway
Sally Corner
Mary George
Dick Gordon
Beatrice Gray
Billy Gray
Bruce Hamilton
Jerry Hausner
Charles Jordan
Edwin Max
Francis McDonald
Howard M. Mitchell
Virginia Mullen
Franklin Parker
Maudie Prickett
Felice Richmond
Dick Ryan
Earl Smith
Brick Sullivan
William Tannen
Stuart Wilson
Isabel Withers
Also Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cleverest counterfeiters who ever baffled the agents of the U.S. Treasury department.
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
Director Joseph M. Newman's 1959 version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs tale stars Denny Miller as the jungle vine-swinger.
Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.