Overview of 'Climax!' Season 3 - Movie Intelligence

Episode 1 - Bury Me Later

Release Date: 1956-09-06

An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. With the help of the murdered man's wife, he solves the mystery and unmasks the real killer.

Episode 2 - Burst of Violence

Release Date: 1956-09-13

A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself despised for betraying the South even by his family.

Episode 3 - The Garsten Case

Release Date: 1956-09-20

Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exposed to atomic radiation. With only a week to live, she and her husband decide to perform a series of usually fatal experiments in the name of science, with her as the subject.

Episode 4 - The Fog

Release Date: 1956-09-27

A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-evaluate their lives and those of others close to them.

Episode 5 - Island in the City

Release Date: 1956-10-04

A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the force for alleged brutality to the boy.

Episode 6 - Journey Into Fear

Release Date: 1956-10-11

A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.

Episode 7 - The Midas Touch

Release Date: 1956-10-18

The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. But the townspeople refuse to co-operate.

Episode 8 - Night of the Heat Wave

Release Date: 1956-10-25

After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by characters from the underworld who believe the ex-convict knows where a missing $150,000 star-brilliant is hidden.

Episode 9 - Flight to Tomorrow

Release Date: 1956-11-08

A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.

Episode 10 - Night Shriek

Release Date: 1956-11-15

The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to believe the rumors that he was responsible for the death of his first wife, whose body was never found

Episode 11 - The Chinese Game

Release Date: 1956-11-22

A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his wife for another woman.

Episode 12 - The Secret Thread

Release Date: 1956-11-29

On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates, and, unable to leave, finds himself at the mercy of the leader of the gang that stole the goods.

Episode 13 - Savage Portrait

Release Date: 1956-12-06

After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist decides that the only way he can acquire money is to steal it.

Episode 14 - Strange Hostage

Release Date: 1956-12-20

The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose story no one believes.

Episode 15 - Ten Minutes to Curfew

Release Date: 1956-12-27

A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a violation of his parole.

Episode 16 - Carnival at Midnight

Release Date: 1957-01-03

The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealousy drives him to plot murder.

Episode 17 - The Gold Dress

Release Date: 1957-01-17

Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.

Episode 18 - Circle of Destruction

Release Date: 1957-01-24

A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.

Episode 19 - The Trouble at Number 5

Release Date: 1957-01-31

A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in an attempt to gain the security she longs for, plots to dispose of her employer.

Episode 20 - The Stalker

Release Date: 1957-02-07

A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.

Episode 21 - Stain of Honor

Release Date: 1957-02-14

The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the same office when the son of the killer, who was shot while trying to escape, arrives in town under an alias. The candidate confronts the newcomer and makes it clear he plans to use the assassination to further his own career.

Episode 22 - The Long Count

Release Date: 1957-02-21

After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe owner who tries to rouse him from the depression that threatens his career.

Episode 23 - And Don't Ever Come Back

Release Date: 1957-02-28

A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed. A newspaper reporter seeks to learn if the townspeople will accept the ex-convict in their midst now that it has been proved he was innocent of the crime.

Episode 24 - Night of a Rebel

Release Date: 1957-03-07

A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see him, he decides to run away to the big city to become a success.

Episode 25 - Let It Be Me

Release Date: 1957-03-21

Corruption in the recording industry plays out just as the music plays in.

Episode 26 - Strange Sanctuary

Release Date: 1957-03-28

In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby convent. When he is wounded in a gunfight, they end up hiding out there, though the men from town are a mob out for their blood,sanctuary or not.

Episode 27 - Don't Touch Me

Release Date: 1957-04-04

A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is still tormented by the memory of a murder she witnessed as a child.

Episode 28 - Mad Bomber

Release Date: 1957-04-18

Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a slow, painstaking effort to solve the case.

Episode 29 - Avalanche at Devil's Pass

Release Date: 1957-04-25

Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been following, a man hunting for a drug addict, and a conductor awaiting news of the birth of his first child.

Episode 30 - Strange Deaths at Burnleigh

Release Date: 1957-05-02

At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. The detective sent to investigate is opposed by the townspeople and the doctor's attractive young niece.

Episode 31 - Bait for the Tiger

Release Date: 1957-05-16

Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose as a missing countess entitled to an inheritance. Their plans go haywire when one conspirator is driven to murder.

Episode 32 - The Hand of Evil

Release Date: 1957-05-23

Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructor whose pregnant wife has just inherited half a million dollars.

Episode 33 - The Disappearance of Amanda Hale

Release Date: 1957-05-30

An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her way to the theater, and she narrowly escapes injury from a falling sandbag.

Episode 34 - Mr. Runyon of Broadway

Release Date: 1957-06-06

New York sportswriter Damon Runyon becomes interested in a young boxer and backs him in an upcoming bout, which gamblers try to make him throw by involving his wife in a rigged crap game.

Episode 35 - The Man Who Stole the Bible

Release Date: 1957-06-13

At carnival time in Havana an American salesman rescues an attractive woman from revelers, spends some time with her, and finds his hotel room ransacked when he returns.

Episode 36 - A Taste for Crime

Release Date: 1957-06-20

To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealthy society doctor secretly joins forces with a hunted fugitive.

Episode 37 - The Trial of Captain Wirtz

Release Date: 1957-06-27

During the Civil War, thousands of captured Union soldiers were confined in the Andersonville stockade in Georgia. Conditions there were so bad that over 12,000 prisoners died and the infamous reputation of the Andersonville stockade spread. When the war ended, steps were taken to bring to justice those responsible. The trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison and the charge--conspiracy to commit atrocities and murder among the prisoners. The Union prosecutor is determined to prove that Wirz himself shot down one of the prisoners.

Episode 38 - False Witness

Release Date: 1957-07-04

A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing bum who saw the accident threatens to testify that the death was no accident-- unless the widow and her mother give him cash and a home.

Episode 39 - Payment for Judas

Release Date: 1957-07-11

When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to sell, the other ranchers turn against him, his wife scorns him and her brother is murdered.

Episode 40 - Walk a Tightrope

Release Date: 1957-07-18

A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims he was hired by the victim's wife.

Episode 41 - The High Jungle

Release Date: 1957-07-25

A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is trying to gain control through the proxy votes of the shareholders. The older man approaches his late partner's widow in an effort to gain her support, but learns that she has already promised to help the young man.