Front Page Detective. You Kill Me. 1951 Dumont Network.

Edmund Lowe stars as David Chase, a newspaper columnist solving mysteries with his pretty secretary named Eve. In this episode David Chase reads in the paper he has been killed in a car accident. They must solve the riddle of who wants him dead, before the real David Chase REALLY ends up dead. Produced by Jerry Fairbanks using the Multicam system he invented in 1947. This three camera system of filming TV shows is still in use today. Content transferred from our 16mm film print.

[@vestibulate]

I've never seen an episode of this show in such pristine condition- the show, not myself. Many thanks for the upload.

[@ClaudiaGale-wv9tz]

😂

[@brendabadih8855]

Edmund Lowe is so watchable w amusing inflections in hus dialog. Very enjoyable. Born in 54.

[@patriciajrs46]

The outfits of that Era were so spectacular. I like them a lot.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Isn't it amazing how shows like this from the 50s can be so clear & yet stuff from some of the 70s are unwatchable?

[@KeithE4]

The '70s stuff was watchable. It's been garbage and/or lame remakes since 2010.

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

because people watch them. if they didn't, they wouldn't make them

[@kellybrown685]

This is a superb quality print for a 1951 tv show. THANK YOU

[@MoviecraftInc]

You're very welcome

[@esmeephillips5888]

Jerry Fairbanks, stunt pilot and cinematographer turned producer, had used Multi-Cam with 16mm film since 1947. This DuMont series went out the same year as the premiere of 'I Love Lucy', in which Karl Freund and Desi Arnaz adapted three-camera shooting for sitcom (on 35mm stock) in front of a live audience. They copped most of the credit for innovation. However, 'Amos and Andy', also at CBS, was simultaneously using the technique. Desi acknowledged Fairbanks's priority. Mr and Mrs Ball became multimillionaire studio owners. Fairbanks went bust, though he recouped later.

[@kellybrown685]

Wow. The quality of this episode is OUTSTANDING. Someone spent a great deal of time restoring the original material. Thank you!

[@MissouriOldTimer]

the women back in the 40's, 50, had such class, no weird hair dos, scrap iron hanging from every place. and tattoos that makes them look like a page out of the comic strip.

[@gplunk]

And those are their great grandaughters....

[@helencats1]

…. And what were the men like….

[@MissouriOldTimer]

@@helencats1 they took pride in themselves too, neat hair cuts, clean clothes not full or intentionally make holes.

[@patriciajrs46]

So true. Sheer class. ( or is it shear). Sorry.

[@Boogaboioringale]

MissouriOldTimer : Even the crooks wore suits.

[@gregorymcleod1347]

Really good episode! I love watching these shows!💕💕

[@viennapalace]

What a great (if corny) show. I'm a fan! Thanks for sharing it. I look forward to watching more.

[@ednammansfield8553]

Never seen or heard of this show before but understandable as I live in the UK and brought up on British crime series in the 1950's. American series didn't really get screened until the Streets of San Francisco and other popular ones like Highway Patrol and the Untouchables. I quite enjoyed this episode. Thanks for the upload and greetings from here in the UK.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you enjoyed it...greetings from the USA!

[@nedludd7622]

This is amusing and a good take on the dead man who comes back to see what others think of him.

[@Prof.Tarfeather]

The quality of these are superb. I've never heard of Actor Edmund Marlow before? What a distinguished and sophisticated man who has that charm that attracts women.

[@fromthesidelines]

2:30- One of Burt Mustin's earliest TV appearances. He started out late as an actor, and appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies until his death in 1977.

[@orbyfan]

I think he started out late as a human being, and was born old; however, he never seemed to age, and was still pretty spry into his 90s. He did a musical number during a guest appearance on Tonight with Johnny Carson in 1974.

[@johnzeszut3170]

@@orbyfan I remember Burt as old man Gus from the firehouse on "Leave It To Beaver".

[@CountryBwoy]

He was one of my favorite old dudes in the Andy Griffith Show

[@marybuckley4375]

2:02; "My funeral proved very interesting for me" What a great line!

[@SuperIliad]

You Kill Me, USA 1951. Paula Drew as Sharon Richards; Betty Ball as Eve Brooks; Al Hill as Benny; Edmund Lowe as David Chase; Dayton Lummis as Mike Breckner; John Marshall, Detective; Walter McGrail as Art Kradick; Doris Merrick as Letty Tyson; Burt Mustin as Morturary Attendant; Mike Ragan as Lefty; Sandra Spence as Vangie Sands.

[@ergbudster3333]

"Let me take your coat." he says, then throws it down on the couch.

[@magicbulletdancers]

Hey ty 👍 what a great show (ep) and a beautiful print ! Wow 💥

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks!

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Thank you for presenting silent film-pre-code star Edmund Lowe in Front Page Detective from 1951 on DuMont. Nice clear print. Also featuring Dayton Lummis as the gunman in the last segment. He played Graham McNamee, sportscaster, in The Winning Team (1952), starring Ronald Reagan as baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.

[@amazinggrace5503]

I really like this show alot . Whoever did the background music was a genius. I wish more people had his common sense .Loud obnoxious music gets on my nerves.

[@lennypopkin4728]

Not to mention that most of it now is random background music - not specific to the action.

[@brianfreel1473]

a lot

[@jdrancho1864]

Edmund Lowe, born in 1890, was 61 years old when he played David Chase. Betty Ball (not a stripper name) was prolly in her mid-twenties. Hollywood at the time never had a problem pairing older actors with actresses old enough to be their daughter as their love interest, even tho Ball only appeared in two episodes. Her career in movies only lasted from the early to the mid-Fifties, with only six credits in her IMDB listing, which has no biographical info. Interestingly, Doris Merrick, who played George Tyson's wife, only died four years ago in 2019 at the ripe old age of 100. Sandra Spence (Vangie Sands), the blond bombshell in this episode, was 26 at the time. She was active during the decade of the Fifties, but died at an early 50 years old in 1974/

[@theIzzyfurreal]

Edmund Lowe was around 60 when this episode first aired. How old do you think his "love" interest Eve was? Probably not even 30! An early 50's TV suspension of belief!

[@wb1644]

Awesome episode, awesome episode. Thank you for sharing.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Our pleasure!

[@slendermane6663]

One very loud typewriter. Good shoe. Loved everything about it.

[@gplunk]

85 wpm; easy.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Ed Sullivan always put on a really big shoe.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on December 7, 1951.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Which one was a bigger bomb?

[@13699111]

Excellent!!!

[@user-ys1zc3gp9s]

Classic actors! I miss them!

[@jeremybear573]

Fantastic channel! Thank you for these wonderful uploads!

[@MoviecraftInc]

Our pleasure!

[@jacksugden8190]

Just stumbled on this gem, all new actors and a new series, will watch some more to enjoy.

[@Theywaswrong]

Pretty elaborate sets and production for the period and for Dumont. Compare to Tales of Tomorrow, another Dumont show.

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Outstanding!

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thank you kindly!

[@PolymathCrowsbane]

When I first watched this, I thought the Betty Ball character was actually being played by Eve Arden. She sounds a lot like her, and the character’s name is Eve Brooks (as in Our Miss…but, of course, she was Connie). I guess it was a certain voice type at the time.

[@im1who84u]

24:42 Look where that gun is pointing when it went off. She either shot the floor or the chair but not her husband.

[@brianfreel1473]

He was really upset about Stevens burnt to a crisp in his car

[@madderhat5852]

Well, Stevens was working class. 🧐

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Actually, he was really burned up about it. Must have been a ... hot ... car. Maybe it was actually Donald Crisp in the driver's seat.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Notice how David Chase [Edmond Lowe] slips up during his dictation of addressing the envelope, and initially asks his assistant to address it to "Betty ... er ... LETTIE Tyson". Naturally, such a slip can occur in real life, but he may have been thinking of Betty Ball, who played "Eve Brooks". Also, although he dictates the letter be addressed to number "eight six six" [8-6-6], a closeup of the envelope shows it has been addressed to number "six six" [6-6]. (Any wonder why Dumont folded on Monday, August 6, 1956?)

[@rogerrendzak8055]

When I first saw Eve (Betty Ball), walk into the room, when WE first see her, the 1st. thing that came into my mind, was Lucille Ball. But wait, this woman's surname, is ALSO Ball!!! Could this possibly be, Lucille's sister (if she, has one)????

[@tonypanzarella9387]

She had only one sibling, a brother, Fred, who was four years younger. The children consisted of Two Balls, No Strikes.

[@rubiconklbrutorowman7577]

Entertaining comedy basically!

[@bftdr]

this was written by ppl who wrote radio programs. you can turn off the video and you can still understand what's going on.

[@KeithE4]

Burt Mustin looked 90 then (he was 67). His acting career lasted over 25 years until his death in 1977 at age 93.

[@gmanette188]

Ty

[@MoviecraftInc]

You're welcome!

[@susanfaulkner2304]

"Is he dead ?" "As a herring".😮

[@pressureworks]

2:29 Burt Mustin !!!!!!!

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Very entertaining. Chase's affair with the lovely Eve is ok assuming Chase is 45 tops, and she 30 min....apart from that, (the illusion of TV), all good!

[@pgh45rpms]

2:28 - Burt Mustin

[@gsmith5140]

Cute!

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Historical social attitudes exemplified in old movies: the aged Lothario pressuring women and taking advantage of his position. She didn't seem to be uninclined to respond positively.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

In those days, women wanted to get married and leave the work force.

[@im1who84u]

20:19 Get a load of that tie he's wearing.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Is that a tie? I thought he forgot to remove his bib on from dinner.

[@im1who84u]

11:00 It looks like he's up a few floors. How did someone on the outside get up to that window to fire a shot through it?

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Back then, buildings had "fire escapes". [Google it, if you were born after 1967.]

[@maynardsmoreland]

That's got to be the youngest I've ever seen Burt Mustin.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

You can find a picture of him in his early 20's, when he was the goal tender for the hockey team at Pennsylvania Military College [known today as "Widener University"]. Mr. Mustin is in the university's athletic "ring of honor".

[@im1who84u]

1:35 Just wondering why later in the movie no one is missing or looking for Stephens?

[@tonypanzarella9387]

He made an ash of himself.

[@leilal8053]

Hood movie 🎬. 😊

[@im1who84u]

11:02 What in the world are the police doing at his door in the middle of the night?

[@tonypanzarella9387]

At 12:32, one of them says, "Some woman tipped us off to get up here".

[@madderhat5852]

Edmond Lowe was 61 when he made this. A bit creepy .

[@pmullins8821]

Exercise in STUPIDITY !! Can't stand it, ABORT!! ABORT!! ABORT!! 😱

[@KeithE4]

Lighten up, Francis!