Most of the largely forgotten show was uncovered by film historian Jim Schoenberger in 1981, with the ending (including credits) found later. Though this marks the first onscreen appearance of the secret agent, Nelson's Bond is played as an American spy working for the 'Combined Intelligence Agency'. An episode of the American dramatic anthology series Climax!, the show was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, and stars Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, and Linda Christian.

It is one of her best television roles and she is very moving as the girl who falls in love only once.' Casino Royale' is a live 1954 television adaptation of the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. This was one of the last, really, of McGuire's romantic roles and she is typically beautiful, charming, and lovely in it. Pale Horse, Pale Rider was a beautiful love story set in 1918, with the backdrop of WWI and the Spanish Flu, from which more Americans died than did American soldiers in WWI. Another excellent episode of Climax, and they are basically one hour long live films, was Katherine Ann Porter's 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider.' It starred Dorothy McGuire and John Forsythe, the second of their live television performances (they had earlier starred in a 1951 live remake of Dark Victory).

She acted on television from 1950 to 1965 and really expanded her range of acting this was a typical great one as the grieving wife who almost goes against her values but is able to right her mistake at the last minute. Preston was great in this as the police detective, and Lynn gave one of her typically latter day great tv performances. It was a live tv production, about the murder of a Dr., Lynn's husband. One of them was 'Trail of Terror' with Robert Preston and Diana Lynn in 1957. I have only seen a few of these shows, they are pretty rare to see.

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