Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year, and he's been having a hard time making a go of it. Keith Drinkell, as the peddler of farm products (called a "higgler" in England), is married to Jane Carr in a one-hour drama, "The Higgler," on the Masterpiece Theater.
Keith Drinkel
Harvey Witlow
Mary Wimbush
Mrs. Witlow
Jane Carr
Sophy Daws
Sheila Ruskin
Mary Sadgrove
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Sadgrove
Daphne Heard
Cassandra
Michael Raghan
Amos
Daphne Goddard
Farmer's Wife
Philip Dunbar
Best Man
Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year, and he's been having a hard time making a go of it. Keith Drinkell, as the peddler of farm products (called a "higgler" in England), is married to Jane Carr in a one-hour drama, "The Higgler," on the Masterpiece Theater.
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.