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The Big Shot
Originally Aired: September 9, 1948
Suspense #306, "The Big Shot," stars Burt Lancaster as Charlie Morton, a young mining engineer with curly blonde hair and a baby face who has learned to compensate for his innocent appearance with ruthless violence. Morton arrives in Mexico to work for Quinn on an illegal gold operation—setting up a secret stamping mill to process half a million dollars in gold ore and smuggle it out of the country before the government or local bandits discover it. Morton's cut is twenty-five thousand dollars, but his arrogance and barely concealed greed quickly put him at…
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