--Too bad that Gord has misplaced his password...the "kiss of death" for otherwise stalwart Blackboard members. Fond memories of the olden days, Gord--all the best!

OK, Gord, you got me intrigued enough to compile what is close to a definitive list of Lux Video Theater noir remakes. Pretty astonishing, even given what we know about the recycling going on elsewhere (Hour of Stars, Robert Montgomery, etc.)

Perhaps we can eventually put together a full list of these TV noir remakes. This listing, which I don't recall seeing anywhere else previously, would certainly help fill the gap.

I sorted this list by director and in inverse order of screening date (so latest first, earliest last).

Some extremely interesting names attached to many of these episodes--and some that will probably have you scratching your head.

--And could we not make a wild "TV noir" series from some combination of these remakes? I might just write that up as a follow-on...

LUX VIDEO THEATRE
Noir remakes

DIRECTORS
Fred Carney
BETRAYED (4/19/56) Robert Horton, Patrick O;Neal, Marilyn Erskine

Earl Eby
IMPACT (4/26/56) Brian Donley, Leif Erickson, Greta Granstedt, John Hoyt, Angela Greene
THE UNFAITHFUL (1/12/56) Jan Sterling, Hugh Beaumont, Peter Adams
THE WEB (12/1/55) Raymond Burr, Ray Danton, Arleen Whalen
THE HUMAN JUNGLE (10/20/55) Dennis O'Keefe, Joan Vohs, Claude Akins, Russell Johnson
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (6/9/55) Janet Blair, Dan O'Herlihy, Kathryn Givney
SO DARK THE NIGHT (2/24/55) Joseph Schildkraut, Suzanne Dalbert

Richard Goode
THE HARD WAY (5/2/57) Ann Sheridan, Nancy Gates, Stephen Dunn, Tommy Farrell
THE GLASS WEB (11/15/56) Cara Williams, George Nader, Dan O'Herlihy
FLAMINGO ROAD (10/18/56) Joanne Dru, Raymond Burr, Philip Reed, Louis Jean Heydt
IVY (1/19/56) Martha Hyer, Patric Knowles, Robin Hughes, Ellen Corby
COVER-UP (12/29/55) William Bendix, Steve Brodie, Robert Vaughn
SUSPICION (12/8/55) Kim Hunter, Dan O'Herlihy
THE HUNTED (11/17/55) Richard Boone, Helen Westcott, Jerry Paris, Lyle Talbot
THE LADY GAMBLES (10/27/55) Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, Anthony Caruso
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (3/24/55) Frank Lovejoy, Barbara Rush,
THE CHASE (12/30/54) Pat O'Brien, Ruth Roman, James Arness
LADIES IN RETIREMENT (12/9/54) Elsa Lanchester, Claire Trevor, Edith Barrett, Sean McClory
CAPTIVE CITY (11/18/54) Gig Young, Betsy Palmer, Murray Hamilton, Onslow Steves, Dwayne Hickman

Buzz Kulik
WITNESS TO MURDER (1/16/56) Audrey Totter, Onslow Stevens
TWO DOLLAR BETTOR (10/13/55) King Donovan, Karen Sharpe, Gene Lockhart, Diane Jergens
THE EYES OF FATHER TOMASINO [aka THE MIDNIGHT STORY] (9/22/55) Keefe Braselle, Joe DeSantis, Gloria Talbott
THE SUSPECT (6/2/55) Robert Newton, Toni Gerry, John Hoyt
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (3/31/55) Beverly Garland, Fay Bainter, Paul Richards
SO EVIL MY LOVE (1/27/55) Louis Hayward, Marilyn Erskine
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1/6/55) Miriam Hopkins, James Daly, Nancy Gates, John Wengraf
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (12/16/54) Laraine Day, Frank Lovejoy. Ray Collins
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1/28/54) John Derek, Ann Blyth, Raymond Burr, Marilyn Erskine
(the only 60-minute episode of the 1953-54 season; the show expanded to 60 minutes for 1954-55)

David Orrick McDearmon
ONE WAY STREET (2/21/57) George Nader, Nancy Gates, William Talman

Norman Morgan
THE BLACK ANGEL (3/28/57) John Ireland, Anne Bancroft
VICE SQUAD (1/24/57) Pat O'Brien, Gloria Jean, H.M. Wynant
THE GUILTY (10/11/56) Skip Homeier, Ralph Meeker, Carol Ohmart
MILDRED PIERCE (9/20/56) Virginia Bruce, Zachary Scott, Colleen Miller, Patric Knowles
(adapted for TV by Ben Simcoe, who later wrote the script for MURDER BY CONTRACT)
TEMPTATION (4/12/46) Sarah Churchill, John Bentley, Carolyn Craig
THE STEEL TRAP (3/22/56) Howard Duff, Margo Lee

James P. Yarbrough
POSSESSED (2.28/57) Laraine Day, Bruce Bennett, Brian Keith
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1/17/57) Edmond O'Brien, Beverly Garland, John Qualen

So that's 37 titles (if I counted correctly) from seven different directors over the series run. It's possible that the response to the then-rare 60-minute version of A PLACE IN THE SUN influenced the decision to expand to a hour-long format in the following year. And that's when the noir remakes really start to take off on the series...

One last note: James P. Yarbrough is definitely not Jean Yarbrough...two different guys.