Friday, Feb. 27 - Lady Killer

Lady Killer (1933)

When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though, the police catch up with him, and he runs to hide out in Los Angeles. There he stumbles into the movie business and soon rises to stardom. He has gone straight, but his newfound success arouses the interest of his old criminal associates, who are not above blackmail.

Thursday, Feb. 26 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Superfluous Finger

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 7 The Superfluous Finger (11 Mar. 1973)

Asked to perform an unnecessary amputation, a London surgeon calls on his colleague, Prof. Van Dusen, to learn the reason for the gruesome request. Van Dusen's investigation leads him to a country house; a mad, gun-toting aristocrat; and an incident three years earlier.

Wednesday, Feb. 25 - She's Got Everything

She's Got Everything (1937)

Carol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father has left her with huge debts and no resources to pay them. Aunt Jane suggests that Carol marry a South American millionaire, but, Carol refuses and vows to find a job instead. Waldo, a bookmaker, and Aunt Jane plot the perfect scheme. They arrange for Carol to be hired as a secretary for rich bachelor racetrack enthusiast and coffee magnate, Fuller Partridge.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 - Mr. Lucky: That Stands for Pool

Mr. Lucky: Season 1, Episode 5 That Stands for Pool (21 Nov. 1959)

Mr. Lucky and Andamo find that betting on the outcome of a pool (billiards) game involves more than money - it also involves their life or death.

Monday, Feb. 23 - Smartest Girl in Town

Smartest Girl in Town (1936)

Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick Smith instead; he welcomes the confusion of identity and sets out to win her by force of personality alone.

Sunday, Feb. 22 - Try and Get Me!

The Sound of Fury (1950)

Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a good honest family man living in California who just can't catch a break. Struggling financially and upset that he can't support his family, he falls in with small time hoodlum Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges) who convinces him to join him in robbing gas stations. However, things start to get out of control as they kidnap the son of a wealthy family to hold for ransom. But what follows will have far reaching consequences for all involved.

Saturday, Feb. 21 - How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband. When after several months he decides to kill off Bash's wife in the cartoon, his wife misinterprets his intentions and disappears. Which leads the police to charge him with murder.

Friday, Feb. 20 - These Glamour Girls

These Glamour Girls (1939)

Lana Turner plays a Jane, a taxi dancer at the Joy Lane Dance Hall who meets Phil (Lew Ayres), a college student from an old family who's at the Joy Lane slumming with his pals. While drunk, he invites her to the big weekend at Knightsbridge College. When she arrives, he's forgotten who she is and he already has a date. He convinces her to stay anyway, and while having a good time, she gets a glimpse of what the upper class is really like and what's important to them: background, the right schools, social standing, and money.

Thursday, Feb. 19 - Downstairs

Downstairs (1932)

At the wedding of Albert and Anna, Karl, the new chauffeur, arrives. Albert is the head butler, second generation to the Baron. Karl soon seems out of place as a servant, and Albert tells him so. But Karl is a cad. Whenever he gets the chance, he will try to seduce Anna, who is not wise in the ways of the world. He lies without question if it is to his advantage and charms money out of Sophie, the old cook. He disrupts the household and then blackmails the Baroness to keep from being sacked.

Wednesday, Feb. 18 - Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party (1934)

Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Tuesday, Feb. 17 - Vanity Street

Vanity Street (1932)

Nifty and fast-paced pre-Code film has Helen Chandler homeless and starving, so she tosses a brick through a drugstore window so she can be arrested and get some food and sleep. But the tables are turned by big-hearted cop (Charles Bickford), who takes her under his wing and into his apartment to look after her. He also gets her a job as a chorus girl where she attracts the attention of slimy Val (George Meeker) who preys upon women. Seems he's also been robbing fading star Fern Cavan (Mayo Methot) blind, and when she quits her starring role in the show, he cleans out her safe and leaves her flat, using the money to lure Chandler into his "high life." Chandler takes the bait after she gives up waiting for Bickford to take a romantic interest in her. But when the faded star realizes her money is gone, she goes into action.

Monday, Feb. 16 - Route 66: A Cage in Search of a Bird

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 9 A Cage in Search of a Bird (29 Nov. 1963)

Tod and Linc, in Denver, Colorado, become involved in the story of an Depression Era bank robber and a pretty young woman. The robber, never caught and now an old man, has selected her to report his crime and collect the reward in order to give her "a fresh start". Her former "business partner" and the passing of time complicate things.

Sunday, Feb. 15 - Masques & Martin Kane Private Eye: The Nevans Murder Trail

Masques (1987)

Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci) poses as a reporter to interview a popular television personality (Philippe Noiret) he believes is responsible for the disappearance of his sister. The struggling actress had taken a job as a companion to the star's sickly ward Catherine (Anne Brochet). Roland discovers Catherine is being drugged by her benefactor who has stolen her inheritance and possibly committed murder.

Martin Kane (1949–1954) "Martin Kane, Private Eye" (original title) TV Series

Private detective Martin Kane works in New York solving crimes. Depending on the year, Kane was either smooth and suave or hard bitten and the cooperation he received from the police depended on the year. The only constant was Happy McMann's tobacco shop where Kane hung out.

The Nevans Murder Trail "Martin Kane, Private Eye" The Nevans Murder Trail (original title)

When Arthur Talbot testifies that Harry Nevans gunned down a business associate the accused man promises that he will exact his revenge on his shy bookkeeper even if he is convicted. When the bookkeeper's wife receives a phone call from a woman stating she will kill Talbot per Nevans orders, she goes to Martin Kane for protection.

Saturday, Feb. 14 - The Princess Bride & Ready, Willing and Able

The Princess Bride

...groan... At least the beer was good.

Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

Musical play writers Ross Alexander (as Barry Granville) and Lee Dixon (as Pinky Blair) work out a song and dance while their pants are being pressed. The enthusiastic duo may have a tuneful Broadway hit on their hands. A backer mandates they hire an English actress to star, and agent Allen Jenkins (as J. Van Courtland) goes to pick her up. But Mr. Jenkins accidentally signs similarly named Ruby Keeler (as Jane Clarke), putting the show in jeopardy - she's no actress, but she is "Ready, Willing and Able".

Friday, Feb. 13 - The Loveless (Commentary)

The Loveless (1981)

The film was originally titled "US 17" after the highway in Georgia where it takes place. Distributors renamed it "Breakdown" for its worldwide premiere at a film festival in Switzerland.

Debut feature film directed by Kathryn Bigelow (but co-directed with Monty Montgomery).

Debut credited role in a movie of Willem Dafoe.

...and more!

Thursday, Feb. 12 - The Mayor of 44th Street

The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

George Murphy plays Joe Jonathan, a nice-guy Broadway agent who attempts to help a paroled racketeer and a kid involved in a street gang, only to see that duo try to take control of his operations.

Wednesday, Feb. 11 -The Loveless

The Loveless (1981)

Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.

Tuesday, Feb. 10 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Holst

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 6 The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Holst (4 Mar. 1973)

The dangers of revolutionary Russia come to quiet Copenhagen when a countess from St. Petersburg flees to the Danish capital, claiming her anarchist brother-in-law is trying to kill her. The case falls to local cop Lt. Holst, who struggles to make sense of it all.

Monday, Feb. 9 - Mr. Lucky: The Money Game

Mr. Lucky: Season 1, Episode 4 The Money Game (14 Nov. 1959)

New "regulars" at the Fortuna II's roulette wheel include a beautiful, wealthy divorcée and a studious, eccentric professor. This could somehow coincide with a recent rash of counterfeit money entering the Port of Los Angeles.

Sunday, Feb. 8 - Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady (1936)

Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is filed a 5 million dollars claim by Connie Allenbury for having printed she is a marriage-breaker, he organizes the unconsummated marriage of Gladys and the don Juan Bill Chandler. The goal is to catch Connie alone with a married man.

Saturday, Feb. 7 - A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head (1959)

Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his sensible 12-year-old son. When Tony wants stolid brother Mario to bail him out again, Mario makes conditions: give up Ally, or at least get married to a "nice, quiet little woman" of his selection. Tony and Ally just play along to be diplomatic, but then the woman in question proves to look like Eleanor Parker

Friday, Feb. 6 - Dead of Night

Dead of Night (1977) TV Movie

This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of no vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.

Thursday, Feb. 5 - Maigret: Maigret's Boyhood Friend

Maigret: Season 2, Episode 4 Maigret's Boyhood Friend (4 Apr. 1993)

Leon Florentine, an old school acquaintance of Maigret, shows up at the detective's home asking for help in the shooting death of his mistress. Maigret has only obvious distaste for the unkempt, disheveled Leon, who has survived since boyhood by sponging, lying, and conning his way through life. Although the dead woman allowed him to live with her rent free, her busy social life included four other lovers, all of whom were unaware of the other's existence. When they were scheduled to arrive, Leon would discreetly leave the apartment, but if they arrived unexpectedly, he would perversely hide in the wardrobe. The plot becomes even more complicated when Maigret finds out that Leon was in the wardrobe when the murder was allegedly committed.

Wednesday, Feb. 4 - Party Husband

Party Husband (1931)

PARTY HUSBAND is a saucy pre-coder starring Dorothy Mackaill and James Rennie as a modern young couple who believe marriage should allow each to maintain his/her individuality and friends. At first everything goes well; they are happy together and each pursues a career. They continue to ignore warnings from her mother (Helen Ware) and close friend (Dorothy Peterson). Then along comes a flirtatious writer (Mary Doran) who sets her sights on Rennie. Mackaill is warned again by her boss (Donald Cook) who once had an affair with Doran. As Doran moves in on Rennie, the marriage starts to falter.

Tuesday, Feb. 3 - Roxie Hart

Roxie Hart (1942)

After her husband shoots a burglar in their apartment, Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers) is talked into pretending she did it by a newsman and a theatrical agent who promise to sign her for a vaudeville tour. Realizing she'll become a household name overnight, Roxie agrees and becomes the center of an outrageous trial.

Monday, Feb. 2 - Thriller: The Hollow Watcher

Thriller: Season 2, Episode 20 The Hollow Watcher (12 Feb. 1962)

An Irish mail-order bride marries into a family in North Carolina, with a scheme to steal their hidden fortune. She murders her autocratic father-in-law and hides his body inside a scarecrow--but the vengeful scarecrow is now stalking her.

Sunday, Feb. 1 - The War Between Men and Women

The War Between Men and Women (1972)

Peter (Jack Lemmon), a cartoonist, has successfully avoided marriage for his entire life.until he meets Theresa (Barbara Harris). Peter and Theresa couldn't be more wrong for one another, but Cupid has a sense of humor and soon the pair finds themselves dangerously close to living happily ever after. If they can overcome a flirtatious ex-husband, clashing lifestyles and Peter's potential blindness, the might just see their relationship for what it is - true love.

Jan. 31 - Big Eyes & The Sleeping Car Murder

Big Eyes (2014)

A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

The Sleeping Car Murder (1965) "Compartiment tueurs" (original title)

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.