Dick Powell Collection - Volume 1

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From 1952-'56, Dick Powell joined fellow Hollywood luminaries Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer, and David Niven in "Four Star Playhouse" (also known as "Star Performance"), an anthology s eries in which each actor took the lead role on a weekly basis. The series, which ran on CBS, earned 14 Emmy nominations during its run.The Room (1954): An idealistic young doctor attempts to bring modern medicine to a remote Mexican village, but instead finds a cult of superstition and suspicion.A Study In Panic (1955): A columnist who writes an article mocking men who panicked in a blazing building, soon comes to regret it.The Test (1955): A test pilot must put a supersonic fighter through its paces at 30,000 feet while worried to distraction that his 6 year-old daughter may have contracted a fatal disease.Autumn Carousel (1956): A world-weary writer, who has been churning out junk for TV, meets a young girl on the long train ride home from Manhattan, and discovers a chance for redemption. Show more