Monday, September 30, 2013

Sunday, Sept. 29 - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Saturday, Sept. 28 - Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge (1976)

A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is to steal and subsequently sell enough cars (sometimes the same car more than once) to buy a new Ferrari.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Friday, Sept. 27 - Special Branch: Hostage

Special Branch: Season 3, Episode 12 Hostage (27 Jun. 1973)

The daughter, Karen Stark, of the German ambassador, Michael Gambon, is kidnapped from her school by three Arab terrorists. They demand a quarter million pounds for her safe return. Special Branch gets the call and Detective Inspectors, George Sewell, Patrick Mower and Bill Rowland get the case

Friday, September 27, 2013

Thursday, Sept 26 - M Squad: The Platter Pirates & Force of Habit

M Squad: Season 2, Episode 39 The Platter Pirates (26 Jun. 1959)

A D.J threatens to reveal the influence of racketeers in the music industry. Before he can go to air with the information he is gunned down. M squad are brought in to solve the mystery of the death as well as the validity of the information he was going to reveal

M Squad: Season 2, Episode 6 Force of Habit (31 Oct. 1958)

Val Mooney, hiding out from the cops, sees the perfect opportunity to evade them. When his wife's brother is killed in a massive warehouse fire, he forces her to identify the body as-- VAL MOONEY.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Wednesday, Sept. 25 - Show Them No Mercy

Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and Rochelle Hudson) soon discover to their horror that the house is being used as a hideout for a gang of kidnappers.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Tuesday, Sept. 24 - She Devil

She Devil (1957)

A terminally-ill woman will die unless an experimental drug is administered by a scientist who has developed a serum from fruit flies. Her life is saved, but she has developed extraordinary methods of survival and becomes seemingly indestructible.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Monday, Sept. 23 - M Squad: The Second Best Killer & Dead or Alive

M Squad (1957–1960)

The hard-hitting adventures of tough Lieutenant Frank Ballinger, a member of the Chicago Police Department's M Squad, an elite crime-fighting unit

M Squad: Season 3, Episode 17 The Second Best Killer (15 Jan. 1960) TV Episode

Herbie Ryder gains fame for stopping a bank robbery. After a media interview he is shot and killed. Ballinger is brought in in the belief that organized crime has ordered the hit.

M Squad: Season 2, Episode 2 Dead or Alive (26 Sep. 1958) TV Episode

A pair of gun crazy kids are loose in Chicago-- and a young reporter is defending them in the press against Ballinger and "police brutality".

Monday, September 23, 2013

Sunday, Sept. 22 - The House of the Seven Hawks

The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)

Robert Taylor stars as John Nordley, an opportunistic charter boat captain who’s always willing to skirt the rules if the price is right. When Nordley’s passenger dies on a clandestine voyage from England to Holland, the Dutch police want answers — as well as the cryptic map the dead man was carrying. Now, to clear his name, Nordley must team up with the man’s daughter, Constanta (Nicole Maurey), and follow a dangerous trail of clues to a fortune in sunken treasure.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Saturday, Sept. 21 - Mister 880

Mister 880 (1950)

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 10 years.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Friday, Sept. 20 - Special Branch: You Won't Remember Me

Special Branch: Season 3, Episode 11 You won't remember me (20 Jun. 1973)

A recently engaged couple is placed under heavy surveillance due to the groom-to-be's international ties. While Craven is skeptical of the girl's guilt, he doggedly purses the case nonetheless.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Thursday, Sept. 19 - The Right Side

The Right Side

Bill and Mary (Ann Savage) are young parents whose marriage is threatened by Bill's gambling habit. Embracing the church-going life saves the family.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Wednesday, Sept. 18 - Apology for Murder

Apology for Murder (1945)

Snappy "Daily Tribune" reporter Kenny Blake (Hugh Beaumont) falls hard for oddly attractive Toni Kirkland (Ann Savage) when he barges in her mansion to interview her tycoon husband, Harvey, and before you know it, she's suggesting he bump off her spouse. They rig the killing to make it look like an accident but when Kirkland's business partner is tried and sentenced to death for the murder, Kenny's editor gets a hunch something's not right and starts his own investigation

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Tuesday, Sept. 17 - No Escape

No Escape (1953)

When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Monday, Sept. 16 - The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys

The Untouchables: Season 1, Episode 2 Ma Barker and Her Boys (22 Oct. 1959)


Ness has tracked down the notorious bank robber Ma Barker, a woman who turned her back on religion in order to lead a life of crime with her sons.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Sunday, Sept. 15 - I Love You Again

I Love You Again (1940)

While alone on a cruise, the upstanding teetotaler, Larry Wilson, receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotten persona of man-about-town and swindler, George Carey. Deciding to get what he can out of his position as Wilson, he returns to Wilson's hometown to continue the pretense. The only trouble is he takes a serious shine to his wife, Kay, and doesn't at all agree that Larry should be letting her go.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wednesday, Sept. 11 - A Dangerous Profession

A Dangerous Profession (1949)

Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette, a brokerage clerk, as a suspect in the securities robbery in which a policeman was killed, and Kane goes with him when the detective searches Brackett's apartment, and Kane finds that Brackett's wife, Lucy, is his former sweetheart. She insists her husband is innocent and pleads with Kane to get him out on bail but she has only $4,000 of the $25,000 needed. A mysterious emissary puts up $12,000 and Kane, over Farley's protest, makes up the rest from the company's money. Brackett is murdered after his release. For Lucy, Kane investigates and finds that Brackett had dealings with night club owner Jerry McKay and a hoodlum named Roy Collins. Suspecting McKay was in back of the robbery, Kane begins a campaign in which he himself behaves like a crook, and demands a heavy bride from McKay for his silence. Farley denounces this tactic, and is met by Kane for a payment also, or he will be branded in league with the crooks.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Tuesday, Sept. 10 - 36 Hours to Kill

36 Hours to Kill (1936)

Public Enemy #1 boards a train to go claim a sweepstakes winning when he encounters an undercover G-man intent on collaring him and a news reporter in disguise who wants the scoop.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Sunday, Sept. 8 - Confirm or Deny

Confirm or Deny (1941)

Don Ameche is an American newspaperman waiting for the Germans to invade London in "Confirm or Deny," a 1941 film also starring Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, and Eric Blore. Ameche plays the conniving, fast-talking Mitch, who meets Jennifer (Bennett) during an air raid and falls for her. When his office building is bombed, he moves the staff into the basement of a hotel and persuades someone to let him use a teletype machine to give him a 40-minute lead on the other papers when the invasion happens. He arranges for Jennifer to be loaned out as a teletypist. Meanwhile, Mitch becomes angry that the censor (John Loder) isn't letting him report on some of the news.