Monday, Sept. 29 - Dangerous When Wet

Dangerous When Wet (1953)

The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet.

Sunday, Sept. 28 - Mr. Ricco & Black Books: The Big Lock-Out & He's Leaving Home

Mr. Ricco (1975)

Accused murderer Frankie Steele walks free, thanks to the efforts of San Francisco defense lawyer Joe Ricco. Then a pair of cop killings strikes the city. All signs point to the newly released Steele as the perpetrator. Convinced that Steele isn’t behind the murders, Ricco launches an inquiry and runs up against a police lieutenant assigned to birddog him, evidence planted by a racist cop and several assassination attempts on Ricco himself.

Black Books: Season 1, Episode 5 The Big Lock-Out (27 Oct. 2000)

Following a burglary Bernard buys a sophisticated alarm system which results in Manny getting locked inside the shop and Bernard stuck outside in the rain. Fran is no help as she took her phone off the hook to listen to the sexy man reading the shipping forecast.

Black Books: Season 1, Episode 6 He's Leaving Home (3 Nov. 2000)

Manny finally gets fed up with Bernard's constant abuse and demands, so he leaves for a better life. However, he doesn't get far when he meets a man at Kings Cross station who wants to make him a star. Meanwhile back at the shop Fran and Bernard are arguing more and more about Manny's departure.

Saturday, Sept. 27 - The Cry of the Owl

The Cry of the Owl (1987) "Le cri du hibou" (original title)

Christophe Malavoy is a depressed but polite and gentlemanly Peeping Tom who introduces himself to the object of his obsession (Mathilda May) and becomes the target of her pathologically jealous husband, who is egged on by Malavoy’s own vindictive former wife.

Friday, Sept. 26 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Cell 13

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 3 Cell 13 (12 Feb. 1973)

Irked by the grandiose boasts of the warden of Grangemoor prison, Prof. Van Dusen wagers he can escape from the vaunted high-security facility in less than a week. Daring him to "think his way out," the prison staff accepts the challenge.

Thursday, Sept. 25 - Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty (1934)

Three shady characters - Larry, Jean, and Dan - want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. They hire two recent Olympic champions as editors to give legitimacy: Barbara Hilton, an English diver, and Don Jackson, a U.S. swimmer. When Jackson and Hilton object to the magazine's contents, they send him on a worldwide search for beauty, for youthful paragons of fitness. When Barbara and Don want out of the partnership to start their own fitness farm, the trio hatches a plan to bilk the kids.

Wednesday, Sept. 24 - The Untouchables: Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll

The Untouchables: Season 1, Episode 6 Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll (19 Nov. 1959)

A deranged gangster kidnaps the right-hand man of mobster Dutch Schultz, then steals the horse Schultz was planning to bet on in the Kentucky Derby.

Tuesday, Sept. 23 - The Brighton Strangler

The Brighton Strangler (1945)

After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, an actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

Monday, Sept. 22 - Route 66: Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms?

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 4 Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms? (18 Oct. 1963)

Tod, working in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a luxury hotel, is both amused and irritated by a female efficiency expert. She is a driven high-strung workaholic perfectionist with few social skills. Recognition of her regulated life and it's flaws are something she has never noticed. Meanwhile, Linc gets honored with the job of judge at the Aquatennial beauty contest.

Sunday, Sept. 21 - Croupier & The Studio Murder Mystery & more...

Croupier (1998)

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet, and against his better judgement, he takes a job as a croupier. He finds himself drawn into the casino world and the job gradually takes over his life; his relationship with girlfriend Marion begins to deteriorate. One gambler in particular catches his attention: Jani, whom he starts to see outside of working hours - a serious violation of casino rules. Jani is down on her luck; under pressure from her creditors she approaches Jack, asking him to be the inside man for a planned heist at the casino. Jack carefully considers the odds; it all looks so simple, but even a professional like Jack can't predict the cards he will be dealt.

The Studio Murder Mystery (1932)

The temperamental diva starring in a Hollywood period epic is murdered on camera. Because the scene in done on an underlit set, it's difficult for Inspector Carr to identify the killer, but Dr. Crabtree finds other clues that lead him to the killer.

Saturday, Sept. 20 - Paris Blues & Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read

Paris Blues (1961)

Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, who are vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds Paris more exciting than America and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and Eddie wants to stay for the city's more tolerant racial atmosphere.

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read (2012)

Someone once said of jazz legend Erroll Garner that playing the piano for him was as easy as breathing is for you or for me. In a triumphant career that lasted forty years, Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation, and made an indelible mark on the jazz world. And yet his story has never been told. Until now.

Friday, Sept. 19 - Maigret: Maigret and the Mad Woman

Maigret: Season 1, Episode 4 Maigret and the Mad Woman (1 Mar. 1992)

An elderly widow is sure someone is following her and entering her flat when she's away. Maigret assumes she is having senior moments and assigns a subordinate to escort her home. When the woman is found smothered to death, the detective is plagued with guilt and vows to apprehend her killer. The only suspects are her only relatives: her middle-aged daughter who disliked her mother, her paid gigolo, and her wastrel grand nephew who sponged off the victim.

Thursday, Sept. 18 - Cafe Hostess

Cafe Hostess (1940)

Jo (Ann Dvorak) finds herself stuck employed at the infamous Club 46, working as a dancehall girl and rolling unsuspecting customers for their money with the help of piano player Eddie Morgan (Douglas Fowley). When sailor Dan Walters (Preston Foster) comes to the club, he falls for Jo, even though she tries to take his wallet. Dan attempts to get Jo out of the club to marry her, but Eddie has other plans, and only one of them is going to get what they want.

Wednesday, Sept. 17 - Bait

Bait (1954)

Middle-aged Marko is searching for a lost gold mine for nearly 20 years. To share expenses for a prospecting expedition he teams up with bright young Ray Brighton . When they find the mine Marko decides he doesn't want to share with his partner and plans to murder him. He figures that after the two of them spend the winter together with Marko's trashy young wife in a shack far from civilization, he will sooner or later catch them in adultery, and he can use the "unwritten law" to kill Brighton and thus escape punishment from the law. But the plot backfires.

Tuesday, Sept. 16 - The Saint: The Pearls of Peace

The Saint: Season 1, Episode 6 The Pearls of Peace (8 Nov. 1962)

The Saint is visited by Joss Hendry, whose fiancee, Brad, disappeared in Mexico, some years earlier, trying to search for the pearls of San Domingo. She has recently heard from Brad to say that he has the pearls and she wants the Saint to go and get them for her. When the Saint eventually meets Brad he finds he has been blinded after a fight and is dependent on the plain but adoring Consuelo, who feeds his delusion that he has actually located valuable pearls. The Saint decides he will help the couple at the expense of the greedy Joss.

Monday, Sept. 15 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Maynard's Farewell to the Troops

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 1, Episode 5 Maynard's Farewell to the Troops (3 Nov. 1959)

Maynard receives his draft notice and Mr. Pomfitt and Dobie host a testimonial farewell dinner for him. This episode introduces Michael J. Pollard as Maynard's beatnik cousin Jerome.

Sunday, Sept. 14 - Sweet Love, Bitter

Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)

Loosely based on the life of Charlie Parker, the film chronicles the struggles of Richie "Eagle" Stokes (Dick Gregory), a self-destructive jazz saxophone player, with addiction and the decline of his career and follows his friendship with down-and-out college professor David Hillary (Don Murray).

Saturday, Sept. 13 - Five Miles to Midnight

Five Miles to Midnight (1962) "Le couteau dans la plaie" (original title)

Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has crashed with no survivors. Waking from sedation after the funeral, Lisa finds Robert in their flat, injured but alive. He was thrown clear of the crash by a lucky twist of fate. He now plans to collect the $120,000 insurance he took out at the airport. Once Lisa collects the money and turns it over to him, she will finally be rid of him. She attempts to get advice from Stewart, but he has been replaced by David Barnes. Lisa's life becomes a tortuous ordeal, at work, at home, faced with a fugitive husband and a growing love for David, who suspects everything. Finally her nightmare concludes when she finally gets the check and meets Robert. As they drive to the Belgian border, he reveals he never intended giving her up to Barnes or anyone else. If she dares go, he will tell the police all and she will be arrested--as accessory to fraud. Lisa realizes she must take the desperate step to freedom. Once taken, there is no turning back.

Friday, Sept. 12 - Murder on a Honeymoon

Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

On vacation, schoolteacher/detective Miss Withers flies to Catalina Island; on landing, a passenger is found mysteriously dead. With local authorities unwilling to make waves over a natural (they hope) death, Miss Withers interests her old friend Inspector Piper in the case; for reasons of his own, he flies out to take over the investigation. He should know better than to try taking over from Miss Withers.

Thursday, Sept. 11 - Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary (1933)

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Wednesday, Sept. 10 - The Man From Toronto

The Man from Toronto (1933)

Charming romantic comedy in which two strangers, a widow Leslie Farrar (Jessie Matthews), and a Canadian bachelor, Fergus Wimbush (Ian Hunter), are bequeathed a fortune if they marry each other within a year. Leslie masquerades as a maid and the two fall in love, but when Fergus learns of her deception, he angrily threatens to return to Canada.

Tuesday, Sept. 9 - Pickup

Pickup (1951)

Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married.

Monday, Sept. 8 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Affair of the Tortoise

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 1, Episode 10 The Affair of the Tortoise (22 Nov. 1971)

To solve the murder a rich but ill-mannered government official from Haiti, PI Martin Hewitt has several pieces of evidence to consider: a dead tortoise, a voodoo doll, a bloodstained axe, and a note from "an avenger." The one thing he doesn't have is a body.

Sunday, Sept. 7 - A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair (1948)

A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty, hears rumors that cafe singer Erika, former mistress of a wanted war criminal, is "protected" by an American officer, and enlists Captain John Pringle to help her find him... not knowing that Pringle is Erika's lover.

Saturday, Sept. 6 - On the Beach

On the Beach (1959)

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Friday, Sept. 5 - Below the Deadline

Below the Deadline (1946)

A veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner (Ramsay Ames), persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.

Thursday, Sept. 4 - Riff-Raff

Riffraff (1947)

A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer, combination private eye, agent, and con man, who can "fix" anything for a fee. Nightclub singer Maxine is on Dan's side... or is she? The rest is lighthearted, white-suited tropical intrigue.

Wednesday, Sept. 3 - Three Steps North

Three Steps North (1951)

Dishonorably discharged after a four-year stint in a military prison for dabbling in black markets while stationed in Italy during World War II, former US soldier Frank Keeler (Lloyd Bridges) wants to discreetly recover a stash of money he buried near Amalfi prior to his arrest, however this turns out to be more difficult than expected when the police become interested in him and start tailing him, while local shady characters guess the purpose of his presence. Whew!

Tuesday, Sept. 2 - Highway Dragnet

Highway Dragnet (1954)

Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.

Monday, Sept. 1 - The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers (1964)

Three American lovelies room together in Madrid and all manage to get themselves into seemingly unhappy relationships with fellows.

Sunday, August 31 - Make Haste to Live

Make Haste to Live (1954)

Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her own death, tape-recording a message for her teenage daughter which (in flashback) tells of her involvement with Steve Blackford, who has very good reason to hate her. Chris is determined and resourceful, but Steve has had 18 years to plan revenge.