Thursday, March 28, 2024

Wednesday, March 27 - Goodnight, My Love

Goodnight, My Love (TV Movie 1972)

Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Tuesday, March 26 - The Salzburg Connection

The Salzburg Connection (1972)

An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the photographer seems to have vanished, leaving a near panic-stricken wife and a sinister, secretive brother. Before he knows it, the lawyer finds himself mixed up with spies, assassins, and the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis during World War II of people who collaborated with them.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Monday, March 25 - Bourbon Street Beat: The Black Magnolia


Laura Montgomery hires Cal to help her find the $75,000 in cash that her grandfather had hidden somewhere on the riverboat Mississippi Queen over forty years ago.

Monday, March 25, 2024

Sunday, March 24 - Highway Patrol: Motel Robbery


Karen Edwards, her older sister Joan, and Joan's husband Bart rob motels by using trickery rather than violence. Their robbery of the upscale Monticello Hotel goes awry when the manager returns to the office unexpectedly and Bart is forced to shoot him. Though critically injured, the manager is able to give Dan Mathews essential information about the perpetrators. At Karen's urging, the increasingly reckless Bart goes ahead with his plans to rob the Eagle Motel at gunpoint. Joan is fearful of facing a murder charge and gives a description of Bart and his vehicle when she and Karen are stopped by a Highway Patrol officer. Dan Mathews spots the car, and is ultimately forced to face Bart in a man-to-man gun battle.

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Saturday, March 23 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Snooky Martinelli?


At a jet-set party, it appears to Tim and Les that the victim of a fatal shooting is - - - - Burke! Was Burke really the victim and who was the shooter among the party guests: a wrestler, a racecar driver, a nightclub pianist, a professional ""houseguest"", or a sexy barefoot ""angel""? Or was it a playboy's glamorous wife, who has a ""perfect alibi""? After the killer takes another shot, the question becomes - was the actual victim the intended victim?

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Thursday, March 21 - The Invisible Man: Man in Disguise


After a crook masquerades as the Invisible Man in order to smuggle a supply of cocaine from Paris to London, Brady teams up with the police, in the form of the attractive Sergeant Winter (Jeanette Stark), in order to run them to ground...

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Wednesday, March 20 - The Invisible Man: The White Rabbit


French authorities call Peter when a doctor brings in a rabbit she says materialized before her eyes. It was found just outside the family estate of Mssr. Roche, a Nazi collaborator during the war. The two investigate, learning that the secretive man has been funding research on invisibility for years, hoping to create an invisible army with which he'll dominate France.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Tuesday, March 19 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Murder Is Permanent


There is murder at the beauty parlour.

Mrs Greer is an old friend of Colonel March who has sent Colonel Ames to see her because Mrs Greer's dog was poisoned.

Ames was not too pleased with this assignment. Later Mrs Greer is found dead in her beauty parlour.

Suspects range from Mrs Greer's staff to her daughter in law. None of whom liked her very much

Colonel March seems to have got all of them to confess but only one of them is the real murderer.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Monday, March 18 - There's Always a Woman

There's Always a Woman (1938)

Melvyn Douglas is a former detective with the D.A.'s office who has opened his own office. However, there are no clients after a few months, so he returns to the D.A. Sally, his wife, is supposed to close the office, but when a Mrs. Fraser (Mary Astor) enters, Sally passes herself as a detective and gets the case - plus a retainer. It then becomes a competition between husband and wife to see which one will solve the case, which becomes more complicated, involving murder and blackmail.

Monday, March 18, 2024

Sunday, March 17 - Highway Patrol: Ex Con


Reformed ex-con Al Baldwin is unpleasantly surprised when former cell-mates Tom Wright and Frank Jennings visit his rural garage and tell him of their plan to steal $12,000 in cash from the regular farm combine shipment. When Al refuses to help, Wright's wife Delle holds Al's wife Cathy at gunpoint while the robbery takes place. The money is taken as planned, but guard Sid Wells is murdered and Sergeant Walters quickly finds the abandoned truck. He and Dan Mathews investigate and deduce that the Baldwins are in trouble when the nervous Al introduces Tom Wright as his new "helper". They lure Wright away from the house and capture him, but find that they must utilize a high-risk ruse in order to get close enough to rescue the Baldwins and capture Delle Wright and Frank Jennings.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Saturday, March 16 - Calling Paul Temple

Calling Paul Temple (1948)

A woman is found dead on a train, and the name "Rex" has been written on the pull-down blind. It is the third in a mysterious string of "Rex" murders, all carried out on trains. And soon there's a fourth murder. All the victims are discovered to have been the wealthy patients of a doctor who specialises in nervous disorders.

The detective novelist Paul Temple and his wife Steve are called in to help Scotland Yard's Sir Graham Forbes solve the case before the serial killer strikes again. While at a nightclub, they receive a message from singer Norma Rice concerning the murders. But before Sir Graham has the chance to speak to her she dies, falling down the stairs in the middle of her second number, What's Cooking in Cabaret?.

The suspects include the Egyptian therapist Dr Kohima, his mysterious secretary Mrs Trevelyan, and a salesman, Hugh Pryse of the Quick Boil Kettle Company (in the next carriage when one of the murders takes place).

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Friday, March 15 - Honey West: The Gray Lady


A charming jewel thief operating in Hollywood gives Honey West the slip.

It's the old I've dropped my contact lense trick!

When a spoilt film star arrives with a valuable diamond. Honey and Sam know what the next likely target will be for the thief.

Sam even sets up a television in a hotel that watches you.

However there is an inside man.