Madame de . . . (Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Saturday, Nov. 29 - The Earrings of Madame de...
Madame de . . . (Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Friday, Nov. 28 - Chain of Evidence
The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department has Steve Nordstrom being released from prison after serving a sentence for a dance-hall assault on Carl Fowler for insulting Steve's girlfriend Harriet Owens. Steve is given time off for good behavior and is out on probation thanks to the efforts on his behalf by Lieutenant Andy Doyle. One night, after taking a truck-driving job, Steve is waylaid by the revengeful Fowler and is savagely beaten, causing him to lose his memory. Wandering aimlessly around, he meets genial businessman Morton Ramsey who hires him to work around his house as a handyman. Ramsey's wife Claire is having an affair and is planning to have her husband murdered, and sees an opportunity to frame Steve for the murder. He plan works, and all the evidence is against the memory-clouded Steve when Ramsey is found dead.
Friday, November 28, 2014
Thursday, Nov. 27 - Greenwich Village
In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas, hoping to publish his concerto; he meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a broadway show. Ken's affairs take a turn for the better when he falls for singer Bonnie Watson. But while he labors on orchestration, O'Mara is surreptitiously adapting his tunes to the Greenwich Village Gaieties.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Wednesday, Nov. 26 - Route 66: I Wouldn't Start from Here
Tod and Linc, driving through rural Vermont, become lost and have car trouble. They encounter an elderly farmer who helps them. He is widowed with no children and lives with no conveniences such as electricity or telephone. Sadly, his method of making a living and his existence are doomed by the modern world.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Tuesday, Nov. 25 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Ripening Rubies
An ex-con makes a rookie mistake-trying to sell a stolen ruby necklace back to the craftsman who made it. The jeweler, Bernard Sutton, soon discovers that a string of high-society women are losing their expensive adornments. Shunning the heavy-handed approach of the police, he sets his own trap to catch the thief.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, Nov. 24 - Thriller: Rose's Last Summer
An aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Sunday, Nov. 23 - Circus of Fear
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Saturday, Nov. 22 - Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this...
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Friday, Nov. 21 - Blondie Johnson
Story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Thursday, Nov. 20 - The Hatchet Man
Wong Low Get (Edward G. Robinson) is the most highly respected hatchet man of his Tong. Having sworn total allegiance, he cannot turn down an order, even one to kill his best friend Sun Yat Ming (J. Carrol Naish). His friend forgives him in advance of his execution, begging only that Wong raise his daughter Toya San (Loretta Young) as his own. Wong does as he has sworn, but as she grows up, he falls in love with her. She marries him out of a sense of obligation, but a handsome younger gangster, Harry En Hai (Leslie Fenton), gets her to leave Wong, disgracing him and leading to a shocking turn of events.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, Nov. 19 - Safety Last!
Country boy (Lloyd) heads to the big city to seek success. While working as a clerk in a department store, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone who can bring more customers to the store. He then arranges for a friend, a "human fly," (Strother) to climb the face of the store building as a publicity stunt. Unfortunatly the "human fly" is a wanted man, and when "The Law" (Young) shows, our hero must make the climb, himself. At each ledge he encounters new difficulties, climaxing in the famous 'clock scene.'
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Tuesday, Nov. 18 - Mr. Lucky: Bugsy
A man that a Mob Boss is looking for hides out on the Fortuna II. Mr. Lucky and Andamo, initially unaware of this fact, later help the man.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Monday, Nov. 17 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Cautious Coquette
Perry has to navigate his way through a hornet's nest of murder, hit-and-run, secret marriage, and a missing witness in this episode.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Sunday, Nov. 16 - Playtime
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Saturday, Nov. 15 - Escape Me Never & An Unsuitable Job For a Woman
It is Venice, 1900, and Fenella is engaged to composer Caryl Dubrok until she hears that an unmarried woman named Gemma and child is staying with a composer named Dubrok. So the engagement is off and so is she for the mountains. There she meets and is intrigued by Sebastian, but she does not know that he is the composer that Gemma is staying with. When she learns about him, Gemma demands that she choose but Fenella cannot so Gemma and Sebastian leave to be married. They go to England to write his Ballet and Caryl and Fenella are re-engaged. But Fenella still loves the fun-loving Sebastian.
A rather loose adaptation of the P. D. James novel. Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency, is asked by the assistant of James Calendar to investigate the suicide of his son, Mark. About the same age as Mark, Cordelia is resourceful in her investigation, but smitten with the dead son and becomes obsessed with his memory and his increasingly suspicious death. She interviews his friend, Andrew, and his girlfriend, Isobel. She is also interested in James Calendar's assistant, Elizabeth Leaming, who seems to have a more than natural interest in Mark.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Friday, Nov. 14 - Maigret: Maigret and the Night Club Dancer
Arlette, a beautiful but alcoholic stripper in a sleazy club, comes forward to police to report overhearing a murder plot at the club targeting a countess. Shortly thereafter her testimony becomes inconsistent, and she recants it. Shortly thereafter she is found murdered as well as the countess whose death she predicted. When Maigret investigates (shortly thereafter) her colorful private life he discovers the club owner as well as one of his valued assistants, Inspector Albert LaPointe, among her most ardent admirers.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, Nov. 13 - Thriller: The Mark of the Hand
A young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wednesday, Nov. 12 - Calling Homicide
Lieutenant Andy Doyle of the Los Angeles Sheriff's homicide department, while investigating the mysterious car-bombing death of a young policeman, discovers that the strangling-murder of Francine Norman, owner of a modeling school, is linked with the first killing.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Tuesday, Nov. 11 - Strange Fascination
A middle-aged concert pianist falls hard for a much younger woman, leading to disaster.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Monday, Nov. 10 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Assyrian Rejuvenator
Inflated claims about the powers of an expensive elixir put private investigator Romney Pringle in pursuit of a ruthless con man. The trickster has reason to believe that his customers won't complain, but Pingle sets out to destroy the crooked business and profit in the process.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Sunday, Nov. 9 - A Step Out of Line
A trio of law abiding poker buddies decide to take "a step out of line," by robbing a currency exchange vault, to solve their money problems.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Repeat Performance & Danger UXB: Cast Iron Killer
Sheila Page, a Broadway star, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her Producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different.
Ash is ordered to take a defused bomb direct to a scientist working on a way to get around the booby-trap timer.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Friday, Nov. 7: The Star and the Story: Payment in Kind
Detective Tom Preston's wife, Aimie, is in the hospital and needs the individual talents of her skilled surgeon, Dr. Linden. The doctor tells Preston that he must turn himself in for the murder of a young woman. Preston is shocked and refuses to believe the doctor. He investigates and finds out that the woman was blackmailing the doctor. A lot of evidence points to the doctor...but also points to a crook that Preston has been trying to convict.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Thursday, Nov. 6 - What's Good for the Goose
A middle aged banker picks up two young free minded women on his way to a banker's convention and falls head over heels for one of them.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, Nov. 5 - The Bedford Incident
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to the breaking point.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Tuesday, Nov. 4 - Boardwalk Empire: Boardwalk Empire & Thriller: La Strega
An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law, conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.
Boardwalk Empire: Season 1, Episode 1 Boardwalk Empire (19 Sep. 2010)
January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. At a countdown-to-midnight blast at Babette's Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody, a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as "Man Friday" to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan, will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.
Three men try to drown a young woman, fearing she's a witch. A wandering painter pulls her from the river, refusing to believe in such rural superstition. The young artist shelters her, but her elderly aunt who rules the 18th Century Italian countryside via supernatural power, plots to keep her niece as a sorcerer's apprentice - no matter what.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Monday, Nov. 3 - To Trap a Spy
The pilot for the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," re-edited and released to theaters as a feature.
Patricia Crowley plays an everyday housewife who is recruited by Robert Vaughn to thwart her old high school flame (Fritz Weaver), of late a millionaire megalomaniac.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Sunday, Nov. 2 - A Guide for the Married Man & Secret Agent (aka Danger Man): Say it With Flowers
Ed convinces his best friend Paul that he should fool around with other women in order to preserve his happy marriage. Ed illustrates his point with a series of vignettes acted out by a lot of famous celebrities.
An agent that is sometimes used by M9 has disappeared and Drake is sent to Switzerland to find out what has happened. He finds that he is supposed to have died 3 months, ago but someone has withdrawn money out of his account recently.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Saturday, Nov. 1 - A Fever in the Blood
A district attorney, a US Senator, and a Superior Court judge are all possible candidates for governor. All three meet in official or unofficial ways when a socialite is found murdered and her estranged husband, nephew of a former governor, stands accused.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Friday, Oct. 31 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Love Is a Science
Dobie forsakes poetry and sets to studying science so he can become a wealthy doctor and win Thalia's greedy heart. This episode introduces Zelda Gilroy and features her and Dobie's first meeting.
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