Senator Augustus Cole
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Bill - Civil Defense Director
Gene Hackman stars as a Regional Civil Defense official who attempts to convince a skeptical county commissioner to adopt a Community Shelter Planning program. The purpose of the program is to identify fallout shelter space for all of the citizens of the community.
Hardiman Fletcher
국무장관 임명에 대한 상원청문회와 임명을 표결로 밀어붙일 때까지의 며칠동안의 과정을 영화로 만들었는데, 이걸 스릴러처럼 흥미진진하게 연출해낸다. 물론 위원장의 사망과 대통령의 서거라는 극적인 장치가 배치되어 있긴 해도 전체적인 밸런스가 훌륭하다. 극의 무게중심이 여당대표에게서 반대파인 시브 의원과 레핑웰로 넘어갔다가 협박받는 위원장으로 옮겨가는 과정도 자연스럽고. 느끼하면서 온갖 협잡은 다 가지고 있는 듯한 정치인을 찰스 로튼이 멋지게 연기해낸다. 초반에 이 악역같던 인물이 후반부로 가면서 그렇게까지 악의는 없는 보수 정치인의 당연한 몸짓이었다는 점도 캐릭터를 풍성하게 만드는 요소.
Macey
론섬으로 불리우는 래리 로데스는 부랑자다. 그러다가 마르샤 제프리스에게 발견되어 그는 매우 유명한 TV 스타가 된다. 그의 성공은 점점 힘을 갖게 되고, 이 힘은 타락으로 이어지는데.
Governor Newton
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Kendall
The unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine is undergoing psychoanalysis.
Host (Voice)
A hearse driver is drawn into a plot by a beautiful blonde to haul away a man she's murdered and take the body to a cemetery.
Host (Voice)
A distinguished judge who feels that no leniency is deserved in crimes of passion finds himself involved in a crime of passion.
Henry Fulton
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Carberry
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Charles Parks aka Charles Thursday
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Gordon Daniels
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Stanley Regan
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Tyler Craden
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.