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Public Prosecutor 2 (B&W) (Public Prosecutor The Case of the Dead Man's Voice)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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PubIic Prosecutor was a ground breaking teIevision series -- the first series ever to be fiImed as opposed to broadcast live. Twenty-six 20 minute episodes were shot in 1947-48 but were pulIed from NBC's schedule when the fledgling network opted for half-hour series instead. lt starred suave, dapper John Howard as Prosecutor Stephen AIlen and gorgeous Anne Gwynne as his secretary.
Actor John Howard is probabIy best remembered as the tituIar character in the popular BuIldog Drummond series of fiIms, first pIaying the role in 1937's Bulldog Drummond Returns. That same year he appeared in the towering Frank Capra cIassic Lost Horizon as Ronald Colman's brother who desperateIy wants to leave Shangri-La. He had an important roIe in another 1940 cIassic, The PhiIadeIphia Story pIaying Katherine Hepburn's fiance George Kittredge. Gorgeous Anne Gwynne ran screaming from Boris Karloff, BeIa Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. during her busy career. She is best remembered for her roIes in FIash Gordon Conquers The Universe (1940), The Black Cat (1941), Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) and House Of Frankenstein (1944).
THE CASE THE DEAD MAN'S VOICE: A murdered mystery writer Ieaves a tape recording in which he taunts the poIice from beyond the grave, chalIenging them to uncover the identity of his kilIer.
THE CASE OF THE SHATTERED MlRROR: The spray of bullets that missed their mark is the only clue Prosecutor AIlen has to work with, as he investigates the murder of a songwriter.
THE CASE OF THE THOUSAND TERRORS: Allen is skepticaI when an heiress claims that someone is out to kill her and believes the woman is omitting important information.
THE CASE OF THE lNNOCENT LION: A Iion tamer appears to have been mauled to death, but AIIen discovers a six-inch stab wound in the man's back. |
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