David Saber Movies
- 1962
After he is seen literally throwing his money away, eccentric businessman Gus Dalgran (Otto Kruger) is locked up in a mental instution. Dalgran's far from loyal employees decide to use his absence as an opportunty to double-cross him, whereupon he escapes--and then things really get out of hand! Can it be that Dalgran was merely feigning insanity to cover up the murder of his duplicitous nephew Kenneth (Don Dubbins)? And what clues will Perry Mason find while visiting the military base which also figures into the story? Featured in the cast is a young Burt Reynolds, as well as soap-opera veteran John Larkin, who had previously starred in the radio version of Perry Mason. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1957
After a bloody shootout in which three members of an outlaw gang are killed, Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) brings in the sole surviving outlaw, Jack Brand (Lawrence Dobkin), who claims that Matt never gave the others a chance. When he is forced to shoot Brand as well, Matt is confronted by the dead man's friend Stanger (Russell Johnson), who accuses the marshal of being a sadist who enjoys killing. Worried that there is some truth in this, Matt turns in his badge, vowing to spend the rest of his life fishing. No one is happier about Matt's "retirement" than Kitty (Amanda Blake). . .until circumstances tragically alter the situation. This episode is based on a classic Gunsmoke radio broadcast, originally heard April 2, 1955. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1956
Mountaineer Clint Ringle (Jack Mullaney) harbors an obsessive love for schoolmarm Ella Marsh (Patricia Hitchcock) , but she is engaged to another man. In an insane fit of jealous rage, Clint murders his "rival," then eludes the authorities by hiding in the belfry of the schoolhouse where Ella works. What Clint hadn't counted on was the town's' decision to hold a memorial service for the murdered man in that selfsame schoolhouse. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
