Thursday, July 31, 2014

Wednesday, July 30 - Route 66: Two Strangers and an Old Enemy

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 1 Two Strangers and an Old Enemy (27 Sep. 1963)

Tod and Linc, in Cape Coral, Florida working for an air service, search for the owner-missing with his plane in swampland. As the story unfolds it is revealed that the owner, a WWII air ace, was never able to adjust to non-hero civilian life. The unhappy saga includes the man's ex-wife and one-time enemy.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Tuesday, July 29 - A Very British Coup: Episode 1

A Very British Coup (1988) TV Mini-Series

Based on the novel by Chris Mullin, this political thriller stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.

A Very British Coup: Season 1, Episode 1 Episode #1.1 (19 Jun. 1988)

A Very British Coup opens with the election of Perkins, an ex-steelworker from Sheffield, who becomes prime minister in a landslide victory on a manifesto committed to radical policies. But, the establishment is none too pleased with Perkins, and soon the world outside Number 10 - the media, the civil service, the armed services and particularly the Americans - set out to stop him in his tracks.

When he decides that the US bases and missiles must leave the country, the Americans decide it's time that Harry went instead.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Monday, July 28 - Hollywood Story

Hollywood Story (1951)

Hollywood 1950: The successful producer Larry O'Brian arrives in Los Angeles to found a motion picture company. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. He's shown the office where the famous director Franklin Farrara was shot. The case hasn't been solved until now, although there were many suspects. O'Brian becomes fascinated by the subject and wants to shoot a movie about it. He investigates and soon gets into danger himself.

Monday, July 28, 2014

Sunday, July 27 - Claudelle Inglish

Claudelle Inglish (1961)

Diane McBain plays a Southern farm girl who, after getting jilted by fiancee Chad Everett, turns into the town bad girl using men until she meets a bad end.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Saturday, July 26 - How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life & Danger UXB: Just Like a Woman

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968)

When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he finds himself with romantic problems as well.

Danger UXB: Season 1, Episode 3 Just Like a Woman (22 Jan. 1979)

Ash and Machin are recalled to London from a bomb disposal course and attend to a bomb in a school yard that is dangerously close to a telephone exchange. When another bomb is uncovered close by, Ash reluctantly allows Machin to defuse the his first bomb.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Friday, July 25 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dixon Torpedo

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 1, Episode 8 The Case of the Dixon Torpedo (8 Nov. 1971)

Petty crime and international espionage intertwine when the Russian embassy hires Jonathan Pryde to do one job and his own government hires him for another. The private investigator discovers that the two cases-a money-counterfeiting operation and the theft of plans for a Royal Navy torpedo-are linked.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Thursday, July 24 - Undertow

Undertow (1949)

Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Wednesday, July 23 - The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price (1932)

Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields, flees to Montreal and becomes the mail-order bride of down-to-earth farmer Jim Gilson. Their chance for happiness is threatened by Gilson's own stubborness, a lecherous neighbor and the reappearance of Fields.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Tuesday, July 22 - Remember Last Night?

Remember Last Night? (1935)

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night, nobody remembers anything that happened.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Monday, July 21 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Five Hundred Carats

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 2 Five Hundred Carats (5 Feb. 1973)

Tensions reach the breaking point in the small mining town of Kimberley, South Africa, after the daring theft of the DeBeers diamond. Insp. Lipinzki leaves no stone unturned in his hunt for the precious rock. The more he digs, the more deadly become the stakes for everyone in Kimberely.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Sunday, July 20 - Anastasia

Anastasia (1956)

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Saturday, July 19 - Who Was That Lady?

Who Was That Lady? (1960)

David Wilson is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when his wife Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to his old friend, a television writer, Michael Haney, who cooks up a cover story. They convince Ann that David is working undercover for the FBI, and that the kiss was part of a sting. The gullible Ann believes the story. Later, when she sees David and Michael in a restaurant with two women, she suspects that the women are spies, and passes David his empty gun. This touches off a disturbance that is filmed by TV news crews. Some real Russian spies think that David really is an FBI agent, and the spies grab the Wilsons and Haney, take them to a secret chamber beneath the Empire State Building, and give them truth serum...

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Friday, July 18, 2014

Thursday, July 17 - Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

Several prison inmates, to protest brutal guards, substandard food, overcrowding and barely livable conditions, stage an uprising, in which most of the inmates join, and take several guards hostage. Negotiations between the inmates and prison officials are stymied, however, by politicians interfering with the prison administration, and by dissension and infighting in the inmates' own ranks.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Wednesday, July 16 - Maigret: Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

Maigret: Season 1, Episode 2 Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (16 Feb. 1992)

Maigret is visited by Ernestine, the wife of a burglar known as 'Sad Freddie'. Whilst breaking into a house he discovered a body and is so alarmed he has fled the country. The trail leads Maigret to a dentist who lives with his domineering elderly mother. His wife has gone missing but Maigret needs to find a body if he is to provide a link.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Tuesday, July 15 - Blessed Event

Blessed Event (1932)

Early Hollywood bad boy Lee Tracy portrays raspy Alvin Roberts, whose zest for unearthing short marriage-to-maternity spans among Broadway's notables lifts him from lowly clerk to tabloid king. Once on top, he's convinced that no one is exempt from his poison pen. But there are some pinstriped types in town who intend to prove him dead wrong.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Monday, July 14 - Maigret: The Patience of Maigret

Maigret (1992– )

From Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime.

Maigret: Season 1, Episode 1 The Patience of Maigret (9 Feb. 1992) TV Episode

A high profile burglary of emeralds from a jewelry shop seems to bear the trademark of Manuel Palmeri, a master jewel thief confined to his Paris apartment in a wheelchair. Despite his record, Maigret has a fondness for the criminal and after he is found shot to death, the murder investigation becomes his top priority. When the Chief Inspector discovers that the venerable apartment building is owned covertly by Palmari's mistress, he is convinced that the solution to both crimes lies among the surviving tenants of the building, a very eccentric group that includes a deaf-and-dumb Belgian model maker, a gossipy elderly woman with a penchant for parrots, a flashy but unpleasant salesman, and a cantankerous concierge.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Sunday, July 13 - Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno (1935)

Spencer Tracy stars as Jim Carter, a working-class huckster who moves in on an afterlife-themed carnival sideshow. He woos the owner's daughter (Claire Trevor) and helps the old man (Henry B. Walthall) who set the whole thing up grow the business, turning a stodgy scholarly museum into an epic grand guignol-esque attraction. Questionable ethics and dodgy business practices eventually turn that success sour, however, driving away the wife and nearly getting her father killed. Alone and nearly beaten, Carter gets one last shot to redeem himself on his next venture, an ocean-liner dubbed Paradise.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Saturday, July 12 - Private Buckaroo

Private Buckaroo (1942)

A Universal Army enlistment promotion, produced as a musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor & Peggy Ryan. The film's thin plot has James drafted, and joining him is the band's lead vocalist Lon Prentice (Dick Foran), who doesn't believe that Army training and regulations are necessary for anyone of his skill and fame.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Friday, July 11 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 1 The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway (29 Jan. 1973)

When a young woman is poisoned on a London subway train, the police searching for her killer appear to be on the wrong track. Bright young reporter Polly Burton decides to unmask the murderer herself--putting her own safety on the line in the process.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Thursday, July 10 - Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island (1939)

In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell's Island in 1934, reporter Tim Haydon breaks up a crime organization run by racketeer Bull Bransom from within the prison.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Wednesday, July 9 - The Road to Singapore

The Road to Singapore (1931)

In this steamy tale of lust and infidelity in the tropics, William Powell plays a British expat with a scandalous past who romances a married woman.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Monday, July 7 - High Pressure

High Pressure (1932)

William Powell plays Gar Evans, the "world's foremost promoter," hired by Jewish entrepreneur Ginsberg (George Sidney) to boost a new discovery that may turn sewage into artificial rubber. Unfortunately, after Evans and his minions have talked untold suckers into buying stocks in the dubious venture, the inventor (Harry Beresford) goes missing.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Sunday, July 6 - The Good Companions

The Good Companions (1933)

Four separate people in provincial Britain are on the tramp to somewhere after leaving their homes, jobs etc to search for life and adventure. They all converge at Rawsley in the Midlands on a jolly pierrot troupe on its last legs called the Dinky Doos, join them and eventually turn their fortunes around as The Good Companions … after it starts raining.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Saturday, July 5 - Hollywood Shuffle

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Bobby Taylor wants to be a respected actor. From Sam Spade to Shakespeare to superheros, he can do it all. He just has to convince Hollywood that gangstas, slaves and "Eddie Murphy-types" aren't the sum of his talents.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Monday, June 30 - Finney: Episode 4

Finney: Season 1, Episode 4 Episode #1.4 (8 Dec. 1994)

Finney (David Morrissey) becomes involved in the family again, wants to stay in the area to open a new jazz club of his own, make peace with rival families, and repair things with his wayward wife.