Mystery of the 50s: I'm the Law / I Spy / Into the Night (DVD)

The long arm of the law hand-delivers six tales of crime and punishment, 1950s TV-style.

"I Spy" (1955-1956):

Bits and Pieces: The sardonic spymaster Anton (Raymond Massey) hosts and narrates a WWI story set at a Warsaw hotel, where beautiful German super spy Maria Sorrell uses her wiles to wheedle secret information out of lovestruck Russian soldiers caught in her web.

The Green Coat: In Cairo, Napoleon Bonaparte carries on a secret affair with the wife of one of his captains. English spies conspiring to kill "The Little Colonel" make the captain aware of his wife's infidelity - and plant in his mind the idea that Napoleon deserves to die.

"I'm the Law" (1952-1953):

O Sole Mio : Gangster movie great George Raft is on the right side of the law as George Kirby, a NYC police lieutenant. When an accountant is slain in Central Park, Kirby pins a lieutenant's badge on the murdered man's young son and makes him his partner in the search for the killer.

The Cowboy And The Blind Man : The plot complications pile up to Big Sleep-sized proportions as Lt. Kirby takes on a case where the suspects include some unusual show biz characters: a beautiful sharpshooter, a blind song plugger and a singing cowboy!

"Into The Night" (1950):

A shadowy figure, "the man who walks by night," introduces two bizarre tales of the unknown: "Music and Murder" and "Never Go Back."

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