Dragnet: The Big Glasses (1955)
The wife of elderly Alfred Shroder (Edward Keane) is missing, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have been assigned to find her. Although Shroder insists that his wife merely left town, his daughter Ella (Joyce McCluskey) suspects that the old man is lying, citing his history of domestic violence. A pair of broken glasses, recovered from Shroder's backyard furnace, turns out to be the key to this particular mystery. Based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of February 15, 1953, this is one of several original black-and-whiteDragnet episodes readily available on the public-domain VHS and DVD market. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Jack Webb
Synopsis of Dragnet: The Big Glasses
The wife of elderly Alfred Shroder (Edward Keane) is missing, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have been assigned to find her. Although Shroder insists that his wife merely left town, his daughter Ella (Joyce McCluskey) suspects that the old man is lying, citing his history of domestic violence. A pair of broken glasses, recovered from Shroder's backyard furnace, turns out to be the key to this particular mystery. Based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of February 15, 1953, this is one of several original black-and-whiteDragnet episodes readily available on the public-domain VHS and DVD market. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Dragnet: The Big Glasses
- Edward Keane - Alfred Rudolph Shroder
- Don "Red" Barry - Mike Armstrong
- Joyce McCluskey - Ella Ryburn
- Director(s):
- Jack Webb
- Writer(s):
- John Robinson
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