Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot him, the second wants him for one last heist.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30 - Once a Thief
Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot him, the second wants him for one last heist.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Friday, May 29 - The Thing That Couldn't Die
A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old chest buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Thursday, May 28 - Scandal Sheet
George Bancroft plays a tough big-city newspaper editor determined to print the news no matter whose life it may destroy. His one weakness is wife Kay Francis who he adores. Francis doesn't return his affection and turns to suave banker Clive Brook. Bancroft learns of the affair from his news photographer, who snaps a shot of the pair embracing in Brook's apartment window. He kills Brook, and then returns to his office to dictate the story before turning himself in.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Wednesday, May 27 - Four Star Playhouse: Face of Danger
A reporter meets with a 100-year-old woman to ask about her life in the Old West. Her family keeps insisting she lived an upright and charming life in those frontier days, but she remembers the torrid affair she had with notorious outlaw Laramie Cole.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Tuesday, May 26 - Don't Bet on Blondes
Small-time racketeer "Odds" Owen and his associates go into the semi-legitimate insurance business, but his first big client is a southern-colonel ne'er-do-well who wants to insure his daughter against getting married. Owen's muscle successfully chases off her various suitors, thereby avoiding the risk of having to pay out against the policy, but Owen himself falls in love with her, placing him in a dilemma, caught between the heart and the wallet.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Monday, May 25 - The Front Page
Billy Wilder’s 1920s period piece, The Front Page (1974) tells the tale of Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon), a top-flight Chicago-based journalist who seeks to escape his job for greener pastures–a new life together with his fiancé. On the eve of the execution of Earl Williams, an alleged murderer and communist sympathizer, Hildy’s managing editor, Walter Burns (Walter Matthau) pulls every trick out of the book to keep Hildy in town and on the job.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Sunday, May 24 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Crimson Kiss
Fay Allison and her roommate Anita are found unconscious by Fay's aunt, Louise Marlow, who calls her attorney Perry Mason in desperation. In the girls' apartment Perry and Della discover a key that leads them to the body of Carver Clement.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Friday, May 22 - Kid Glove Killer
First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van Heflin as the head of a city crime lab who solves the murder of the town mayor by analyzing evidence from the crime.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Thursday, May 21 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: It Takes Two
As usual, Dobie is short of money since his father won't give him any, this issue which he believes is a big obstacle to getting a girl. It becomes a huge issue with the latest object of Dobie's affections, Poppy Herring, a girl new to the school. Poppy is looking for a specific type of person to become her life mate, Dobie who is willing to say anything to meet Poppy's expectations. The biggest issue for her is that her mate should want children, exactly three, a boy and two girls who she already has pictured in her mind. What may kibosh Dobie's relationship with Poppy is Mr. Pomfritt's class on heredity, miserly and "cruel" (in Dobie's own words) Herbert's genes which Poppy does not want in her children's bloodline, despite Poppy not yet having met Dobie's father. So Dobie goes on a mission to show Poppy that Herbert is a sweet, kind and generous man.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Wednesday, May 20 - You Never Can Tell
When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway (Peggy Dow) is besieged by fortune hunters. After the German Shepherd is poisoned and Ellen is accused of the crime, King's spirit is granted special permission to go back to earth in human form and help clear Ellen's name. Returning as private eye Rex Shepherd (Dick Powell) and aided by a former racehorse named Goldie (Joyce Holden), King puts his nose to the ground in a dogged attempt to sniff out his killer's name.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Tuesday, May 19 - Jimmy the Gent
Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin to apparently upright competitor James Wallingham. He counters by adding a veneer of respectability to his own operation. Meanwhile he exposes Wallingham for a fraud.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Monday, May 18 - Thriller: The Premature Burial
Sydney Blackmer stars as Edward Stapleton, a wealthy man who has a morbid fear of being buried alive, and after a near-fatal close call with this dreadful fate, goes to great lengths to ensure that premature burial will not happen again, since he is cataleptic. His fiancée Victorine (played by Patricia Medina) plots to kill him with her young lover Julian (played by Scott Marlowe) on their honeymoon, but the carefully prepared plan does not go as they expect. Boris Karloff and William Gordon costar as Doctor friends of Edward's who seek to protect him.
Monday, May 18, 2015
Sunday, May 17 - Payment on Demand
Bette Davis plays a woman with two grown daughters who learns that her husband wants a divorce. She reviews her life and tries to adjust to being alone.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Saturday, May 16 - Love Letters & Sleepers: Welcome Home
During World War II, Roger Morland (Robert Scully) persuades his friend Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten) to pen passionate love letters to Victoria Remington (Jennifer Jones). Believing that Morland is the author of the letters, she marries him. But Morland's deception sets in motion a dire chain of events that locks Victoria in a world of fear and clouded memories. So begins a tale of intrigue, love and suspense, as Quinton returns home in search of Victoria, the woman he loves. But once he finds her, he risks driving her over the edge with the knowledge of her past life.
The jig is up and the sleepers are going in. Nina begins to regret her success when she learns the truth. Meanwhile, Comrade Zorin is out of the mental hospital and back in command of the mission.
Friday, May 15 - Face of Fire
Monk Johnson (James Whitmore) works for a local doctor and is a friend of everyone in town, when disaster strikes. The doctor's house catches on fire and Johnson's face is completely burnt as he rushes in to save the physician's young son. After he recuperates, his grotesque appearance alienates his former friends to the point where they are aggressive, threatening, and ready for violence.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Thursday, May 14 - Crooks Anonymous
Kleptomaniac (Phillips) wants to marry his girlfriend (Christie) but it's conditional on him going straight. After being tempted to pull off a safe cracking job, he's caught in the act and offered salvation via the benevolent guardian angel society known as "Crooks Anonymous" (when you're tempted to offend, just dial "uncrook" for assistance), led by former thief Wilfrid Hyde-White. Phillips proves to be a willing if troubled case, with guardian angel Stanley Baxter ready to test his honesty with ruses that Phillips routinely fails. But it turns out that not everyone is as rehabilitated as they portray.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Wednesday, May 13 - A Window in London
While on his way to work one morning, a man looks at the window of the train and sees a young woman being murdered. When he investigates the crime, he discovers a foul-tempered illusionist, Zoltini, who has a turbulent relationship with his young wife, Vivienne.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Tuesday, May 12 - Appointment With a Shadow
An alcoholic, Paul Baxter has ruined his career as a reporter. After passing out in Pat O'Connell's bar, he is taken home by his friend, police lieutenant Spencer, to his sister Penny, who is romantically involved with Spence. Penny has a tip on a story that could change her brother's life, but will reveal it only on the condition that Paul can go 24 hours without drinking. Hungover and shaking, Paul tries.
He needs to be sober and alert at 7 p.m. when a fugitive criminal, Dutch Hayden, is supposed to show up at a restaurant. Spence has information that Hayden has undergone plastic surgery to alter his appearance and is about to leave the country.
Paul makes it on time, but in rocky shape. An accident causes his clothing to be soaked in liquor. Hayden arrives with his stripper girlfriend, Flo Knapp, but just as Spencer's men shoot him dead, Paul spots the real Hayden, whose face has not been changed at all. It's a set-up.
Every attempt made by Paul to persuade Spencer and Penny of the mistake goes for naught because they are certain that he was drunk. When he sets about proving Hayden is alive, Flo takes him captive at gunpoint. Only in the end does Spence realize that Paul was right all along
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Monday, May 11 - Thriller: Guillotine
Set in 1875 France, this episode deals with a condemned man (played by Alejandro Rey) awaiting execution on the guillotine who learns of a legal loophole that if his appointed executioner dies before sentence is carried out, he will receive a full pardon. He then enlists the aid of his wife Babette (played by Danielle DeMetz) to insinuate herself into the life of the executioner (played by Robert Middleton) by whatever means necessary, and poison him.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Friday, May 8 - Mannix: Warning: Live Blueberries
Mannix is hired by an old friend to find his college-age daughter, who is living in a commune. Mannix soon discovers the commune has secrets that can be deadly to discover. One college basketball player has already died.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Thursday, May 7 - I've Got Your Number
The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she innocently does a favor for gangster Nicky. Terry gets Marie a job with financier Schuyler; but Nicky has new plans for her.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Wednesday, May 6 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Angry Mourner
Sam Burris awakens his wife Betsy, saying he heard a shot at a neighbor's cabin. Through binoculars they spy Belle Adrian prowling about the house. Fortunately, Perry Mason on vacation comes to Belle's aid when she is charged with murder.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Tuesday, May 5 - Havana Widows
Mae and Sadie, impecunious chorus girls, chisel some money from an admirer and head for Havana to "dig gold" among the millionaires. Posing as rich widows, they prepare to fleece wealthy Deacon Jones, but his penniless son Bob catches Mae's eye. The whole enterprise is endangered when Herman, their original cash source, shows up.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Monday, May 4 - Thriller: What Beckoning Ghost?
When a concert pianist envisions her own coffin in her drawing room, she doubts her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ's funeral music in the isolated, haunted mansion. Wealthy, but plain Mildred's been housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sensual sister and ne'er-do-well husband, who Mildred dangles on a short financial leash.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Sunday, May 3 - Agatha
A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Saturday, May 2 - Trapeze
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act.
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Friday, May 1 - Hold That Blonde
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Thursday, April 30 - Behind the Headlines
Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But when Mary is kidnapped while thinking she is getting a scoop on a big story, Eddie and Mary, (ie. the print media and the radio media), must work together to rescue her.
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