Thursday, July 30 - Hand of Death

Hand of Death (1962)

Working in his isolated desert laboratory, scientist Alex Marsh discovers a gas that will paralyze the mind and render it susceptible to suggestion. Believing this discovery to be a means of averting nuclear war, Marsh continues his experiments despite the objections of his fiancée, Carol, and fellow scientist Tom Holland. Following a mishap in mixing chemicals, Marsh inadvertently kills his assistant by merely touching him. Realizing he carries the touch of destruction, he goes to ask his old friend, Dr. Ramsey, to find an antidote. But it is already too late.

Wednesday, July 29 - When the Clock Strikes

When the Clock Strikes (1961)

Several people gather at an inn adjacent to a prison where a man is scheduled to be executed at midnight. Just as the clock is about to strike midnight, a man comes in and confesses to the crime. He is arrested. The rest of the guests, who have come to retrieve the original inmate's loot from a post office box, now try to get their hands upon the stolen money. Treachery and mayhem ensue. Eventually someone calls the police and everything works out for the best.

Tuesday, July 28 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Fraudulent Photo

Perry Mason: Season 2, Episode 16 The Case of the Fraudulent Photo (7 Feb. 1959)

DA Brander Harris is investigating graft in a hospital project. He meets with Leora Matthews to obtain proof. Leora disrobes and kisses Harris as a photographer takes a picture. It goes to political fixer Marshall Scott who is murdered.

Monday, July 27 - The Power of the Whistler

The Power of the Whistler (1945)

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

Sunday, July 26 - Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Director John L. Sullivan wants to make a social-problems film called 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' When his producers point out that he knows nothing about trouble or poverty, he goes on the road as a hobo. Joined by a down-on-her-luck aspiring actress, the results are hardly the kind of trouble he had in mind. But when the 'experiment' seems to be over, Sullivan falls into more trouble than he ever dreamed of.

Saturday, July 25 - The White Spider

Die weiße Spinne (1963)

When her husband, a gambler, is found killed in a car crash with a white spider as a key ring in his possession (his talisman but also the symbol for one of London's most notorious contract killer gangs) the insurance company refuses to pay for his life insurance and his wife (Karin Dor) is forced to work for her living in a reform society for convicts where she meets Ralph Hubbard (Joachim Fuchsberger) who was recently released from Dartmoor. Scotland Yard strongly suspects the wife of being involved in the killing but also needs to take drastic measures when one leading policeman is found dead as well. They bring in a mysterious Australian crime fighter who prefers to hang on to his anonymity and conducts his interviews hidden from view by a couple of beaming lights. One-eyed men, strange Indians and oh-so altruistic priests all stand in the way of solving the mystery behind the killings that shock London.

Friday, July 24 - Butch Minds the Baby

Butch Minds the Baby (1942)

The Broadway citizen Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan is known far and wide to be involved with criminal activities. Butch is motivated to pursue a life of crime in order to provide the lovely widow Susie O'Neill with the funds to support herself and her little son. Butch is the lookout for a gang of safe crackers. One of them is forced to bring his squalling baby son along with him on the job. Butch is obliged to mind the baby while the safe is being knocked over.

Yeah, I know. That's not what really happens. I couldn't find a good plot summary for this one. Didn't ANYBODY actually watch this movie?

Thursday, July 23 - Two O'Clock Courage

Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Finding himself with a bloodied head, and suffering from amnesia, suave Tom Conway is nearly run over by pretty cab driver Ann Rutherford (as Patty Mitchell). Riding around, Mr. Conway discovers clues to his identity, including five hundred dollars in his suit pocket. A news flash connects Conway to recent murder, but Ms. Rutherford doesn't think her passenger is guilty. The pair try to solve the murder mystery while love blooms.

Wednesday, July 22 - It! The Terror from Beyond Space

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned. By the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that "it" has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth.

Tuesday, July 21 - Old Man Rhythm

Old Man Rhythm (1935)

Wealthy businessman John Roberts Sr. gets reports that his son, John Jr., is falling for a gold digging blonde at college. So he enrolls as a freshman to try to steer Johnny towards the girl he'd like him to marry. He hits upon the idea to have the blonde believe he lost his business, by writing a letter instructing his partner to wire him that his business went broke. But he gives the letter to a school official who forgets to mail it.

Monday, July 20 - Thriller: The Prediction

Thriller: Season 1, Episode 10 The Prediction (22 Nov. 1960)

An elderly stage mentalist makes no pretense that his clairvoyant act is purely for entertainment. But one night he is seized with a vision of a death in the boxing ring. He sends the father of his beautiful stage assistant to warn the manager of the ill-fated boxer, but the bounder makes a bet on his prediction instead and wins big. The whole thing has everyone in the theater spooked. Meanwhile, the mentalist has other visions of death and especially fears for the safety of his assistant, who wants to get married and leave town. Her skeptical fiancé thinks the old man has greedy motives for delivering a dire warning about a twisted road sign, but his predictions are all proving horribly true.

Sunday, July 19 - The Libertine

The Libertine (1968) "La matriarca" (original title)

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

Saturday, July 18 - The Long Hair of Death

The Long Hair of Death (1964) "I lunghi capelli della morte" (original title)

In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, she, too, is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death.

Friday, July 17 - East of the River

East of the River (1940)

Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate. When Nick falls for Joe's girl Laurie, trouble erupts between the two men and also with the gang that has it in for Joe.

Thursday, July 16 - Swing Parade

Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)

Carol Lawrence (Gale Storm), an aspiring singer, goes to a new night club owned by Danny Warren (Phil Regan), whose father Daniel Warren (Russell Hicks) doesn't approve of the club and wants Danny to join him in the family business. Carol is suspected of being a process server and is thrown out of the club. Her job search leads her to the elder Warren's office and he hires her as a process server. She returns but gets a singing job this time so foregoes serving the cease-and-desist notice. The Three Stooges are on hand as waiters and Connee Boswell, Louis Jordan, Will Osborne and Mary Treen provide the music and songs in addition to Gale Storm on "Oh, Buddy" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street."

Wednesday, July 15 - Thriller: The Weird Tailor

Thriller: Season 2, Episode 4 The Weird Tailor (16 Oct. 1961)

When a scholar, Mr. Smith, inadvertently kills his son Arthur during a mystic magic ritual, he tries to make amends by turning to black magic to resurrect his child. Smith designs a unique suit of unearthly material, and hires a financially-stricken tailor to make it to the unique specifications. Meanwhile, the tailor's abused wife turns to a damaged mannequin for solace.

Tuesday, July 14 - The Stand-In

Four Star Playhouse: Season 4, Episode 40 The Stand-In (19 Jul. 1956)

Actress Grace Markham's job consists of being the stand-in for movie star Marion Clayton. Unable to accept that she's untalented, Grace instead becomes embittered and blames the leading lady's popularity for her own dead-end show business career.

Monday, July 13 - A View from a Hill

A View from a Hill (2005)

When young museum curator Fanshawe is sent to catalogue a debt-laden squire's archaeological collection, he uses a pair of homemade binoculars borrowed from his genial host to survey local 'Gallows Hill'. The glasses seem to give him a strange new ability and, ignoring all warnings about their necromantic creator, Fanshawe carries out his historical researches. But the bloody past of the area is best left undisturbed.

Sunday, July 12 - The Wolfpack

The Wolfpack (2015)

Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed, 'The Wolfpack,' the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

Saturday, July 11 - God's Bankers

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002) "I banchieri di Dio" (original title)

This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.

Friday, July 10 - To Beat the Band

To Beat the Band (1935)

Hugh Herbert wants to inherit fifty-nine million dollars, but to collect he needs to marry a widow, and he wants to marry his unwidowed fiancée. Fortunately, Roger Pryor wants to kill himself and offers himself as a very temporary husband.

Thursday, July 9 - The Squeaker

Murder on Diamond Row (1937) "The Squeaker" (original title)

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman). Interested parties: Larry Graeme, cat burglar; his girl, sexy dancer Tamara; Collie, sardonic reporter. Then murder makes apprehension of the Squeaker urgent.

Wednesday, July 8 - Roadhouse Nights

Roadhouse Nights (1930)

Helen Morgan plays a nitery chanteuse whose gangster bosses head a murderous bootleg operation. Charlie Ruggles portrays an ineveterate drinker who frequents Morgan's club; actually, Ruggles is a news reporter whose phony drunkenness is a cover for his investigation of the bootleg ring.

Tuesday, July 7 - The Big Tip Off

The Big Tip Off (1955)

Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoreity by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities. Denton heightens his fame by refusing to reveal the source of his information; the audience knows, however, that Denton's tip-off man is crime kingpin Bob Gilmore (Bruce Bennett), who is in the process of staging a phony telethon to scam the public.

Monday, July 6 - Whispering Footsteps

Whispering Footsteps (1943)

A bank clerk in a small town returns home from a vacation in Indianapolis, and hears a story on the radio about a girl found murdered there. The description of the killer fits him exactly, and when two girls are murdered in his town, suspicion falls on him - especially when he can't provide an alibi for the time the girls were killed.

Sunday, July 5 - The Strip & Millionaires in Prison

The Strip (1951)

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.

Millionaires in Prison (1940)

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Saturday, July 4 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Deck the Halls

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 1, Episode 12 Deck the Halls (22 Dec. 1959)

Herbert T. Gillis finds himself in jail on Christmas Eve after being stripped of his holiday spirit and driven to desperation by his family and customers.

Friday, July 3 - Edge of Hell

Edge of Hell (1956)

In this heart-warming drama, a beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle to eke out a living upon the cruel streets. He is hired to perform at a rich kid's birthday party. There, the beggar is offered $500 for his beloved dog. He refuses and again hits the streets. Soon he becomes so impoverished that he can no longer provide food for his four-legged friend. He returns to the family and sells the dog for $37. The beggar is then beaten and robbed. Later he learns that Flip died. The man soon follows the dog to heaven where they begin performing for God. I don't make this stuff up.

Thursday, July 2 - Mannix: Beyond the Shadow of a Dream

Mannix: Season 1, Episode 8 Beyond the Shadow of a Dream (4 Nov. 1967)

A 26-year-old woman, worth $10 million, hires Intertect to do a background check on her boyfriend. It turns out the woman has spent 10 years in a mental hospital and seems on the verge of cracking up. Mannix suspects something more sinister. The woman is surrounded by shady characters. The detective concludes one of them seeks to drive her back to the mental hospital.

Wednesday, July 1 - Nine Lives Are Not Enough

Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)

Boy crusader Matt works for the Daily News and always breaks the big story. The only trouble is that he usually has the wrong information and the paper must print a retraction. But this time he thinks that he is on the right track. On patrol with his cop friends, they find the body of millionaire Edward Abbott in a cheap boarding house. It could be suicide or murder and Matt goes with murder, but the inquest goes with suicide. So Matt is out of a job, but in love with Jane and goes with his hunches - which put him in the middle of more killings.

Tuesday, June 30 - Wildcat Bus

Wildcat Bus (1940)

A small bus company run by a father/daughter team comes under attack by a group of "wildcatters" who want to put the company out of business so they can take over the profitable Los Angeles-to-San Francisco route.