is airing on ABC during the 1966-1968 seasons, chronicles the adventures of a 4-man team of Allied commandos patrolling the North African desert and targeting Field Marshal Rommel’s Afrika Korps. The team uses chutzpah and a modified truck armed with a .50-caliber machine gun to attack, harass and wreak havoc on the vaunted Afrika Korps.
California tells a pre-statehood story about an army deserter, who leads a wagon train, chances upon a poker-playing saloon queen, seeks a fortune during the gold rush, and stands up to a megalomaniac squeezing farmers by overpricing water. The army deserter risks everything to stop the megalomaniac from making California his personal empire.
is about a man convicted of embezzlement because he’s too soft-hearted to reign-in his free-spending wife. After he goes to prison, his wife begins working for a wealthy businessman. Soon, the wife and businessman fall in love, much to the ire of the businessman’s secretary and former lover. In a jealous rage, the secretary shoots the wife, but the businessman claims responsibility and ends up in the same prison as the soft-hearted husband. The deceased wife’s husband and her lover have a prison show-down.
Day Of Reckoning:
SHE WANTED THE ROMANCE THAT WAS DENIED TO HER! (original herald – all caps)
is a humorous look at women battling for bargains in a department store. Sally and Dorothy are neighbors. Dorothy is excited about a big sale at a downtown clothing store, but Sally isn’t interested. Dorothy suffers mishaps taking the bus downtown, but arrives to see Sally already there. The doors open, the crowd pushes in and the two neighbors are at odds again and again.
is a specialty short film produced and narrated by Pete Smith, a publicist and short subject filmmaker, who earned 14 Academy Award nominations and two “Best Live Action Short Film” Academy Awards. In “Things We Can Do Without,” a fellow named Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and shows pieces of furniture, which while modern are much more trouble than the progress is worth.
is the story of an American intelligence agent assigned to protect the US ambassador to Japan from assassination. Because the ambassador refuses to cooperate, a communist spy easily plants a time bomb in the embassy. The agent must race against time to neutralize the bomb. Unfortunately, performing his job means alienating his love interest, who wants nothing to do with the espionage racket.
chronicles the arrest and court martial of a respected black cavalry sergeant accused of raping and killing a white woman, then murdering her father, his superior officer. The story is told through flashbacks. After his arrest, the sergeant escapes captivity during an Indian raid. But he returns voluntarily to warn fellow cavalrymen of an ambush, thus saving their lives. After returning to captivity, the sergeant faces an all-white jury likely to convict him. But a local white man breaks down during questioning and makes a startling admission.
chronicles the collision course of a Navy jet pilot and a commercial airline pilot. The Navy jet’s radio and navigational equipment have malfunctioned, leaving the pilot unaware he’s dropped in altitude into the path of the oncoming airliner. Flashbacks show the problematic lives of crew and passengers in the moments before catastrophe. The last 20 minutes are a cinematic thrill-ride.
is set in a fictional Arab country, ruled by a tyrannical monarch, and operated by Americans who run the Zahrain Oil Company. The government captures a prominent resistance leader and transports him and others to a prison for execution. The resistance leader’s followers attack the police van, crack it open and release the prisoners, who include an American embezzler. The fugitives race across the country towards the border.
is about an Army officer who returns to his Tennessee hometown to persuade kinfolk to let the US Government build a missile base on their land. The officer meets distant relatives on his mother’s side, including a blond, look-alike cousin. The officer persuades his uncle to sell one side of his mountain provided nobody interferes with his moonshining.
is about a young millionaire who escapes a blackmailing showgirl by enrolling in a remote Nevada college. There, he meets a pretty postal worker, whose gambling father will lose his ranch because he’s indebted to gangsters. The millionaire and the postal worker convert the ramshackle property into a luxurious dude ranch for divorcees. Complications arise when the showgirl catches up to the millionaire.
is about a pre-inaugural assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. When a New York detective learns of the assassination plot, he informs superiors who refuse to believe it. The detective tosses his badge and resigns. Then he boards the New York to Washington train, which Lincoln rides incognito with protection from Allan Pinkerton and his agents. The detective doesn’t know whom to trust and the climax is a nail-biter.
