David Niven Collection - Volume 1

From 1952-1956, David Niven joined fellow Hollywood luminaries Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer and Dick Powell in Four Star Playhouse (also known as Star Performance), an anthology series 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, including one for Boyer in 1956 for Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series.

NIGHT RIDE (1953): Paranoia turns to mob violence when passengers on a subway car feat that one of them is an escaped killer.

VILLAGE IN THE CITY (1956): A world famous painter sets his brilliant mind to detective work when he learns that his favorite model has been brutally murdered.

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE (1955): A con man sets up a phony orphanage in an attempt to swindle a young heiress our of her fortune.

FULL CIRCLE (1955): A young actress plans to commit suicide in the apartment of a critic whose scathing review trashed her performance.

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