This is the tribute he so richly deserves.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, Oct. 29 - International House
Professor Wong has invented a television machine and invites everyone to see it at China's International House Hotel. Every time Tommy Nash attempts to wed his fiancée Carol Fortescue he comes down with an illness, and when he breaks out in a rash the hotel is quarantined. Into this hotel flies Professor Quail in his auto-gyro.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Wednesday, Oct. 28 - Danger Signal
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason (Zachary Scott) relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch (Faye Emerson) and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne (Mona Freeman), has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Tuesday, Oct. 27 - Cry of the Hunted
A state prison officer (Barry Sullivan) chases an escaped convict (Vittorio Gassman) to the Louisiana bayou.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, Oct. 26 - Another Language
Stella and Victor have eloped and are returning from their honeymoon in Europe. Back in the States, Stella meets Victor's family and the honeymoon is over: the family, dominated by Victor's manipulative mother, find Stella -- a free spirit -- pretentious and aloof. The marriage starts to fall apart when Victor begins siding with his family instead of his wife.
Monday, October 26, 2015
Sunday, Oct. 25 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Momentum & The Twilight Zone: Spur of the Moment & Lloyds of London
Richard Paine decides to steal money from his former boss that he is owes him anyway, and it turns to an unnecessary and ironic murder.
While out horseback riding on June 13, 1939, 18 year-old Anne Henderson comes across another rider, a middle-aged woman dressed in black, who chases after her. She's terrified and races home. It's the day of her engagement party. She's supposed to marry Robert Blake but childhood friend David Mitchell wants her to break it off and marry him instead. As for the woman in black, she is someone who knows Anne quite well.
Jonathan Blake (Tyrone Power) becomes a waiter at Lloyd's Coffee House in the early days of the shipping insurance firm Lloyd's of London. Determined to climb high, he joins a Lloyd's syndicate and becomes rich and successful. A romance with the wife (Madeleine Carroll) of a brusque aristocrat (let's not forget George Sanders) ensues, ending in a climactic duel at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Finding his childhood friend, Lord Nelson, in charge of the naval fleet, Blake acts to help win the Battle of Trafalgar. Only there wasn't a duel, and he knew about his childhood friend's position all along. Who writes this nonsense?
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Saturday, Oct. 24 - Ruggles of Red Gap & Is There Sex After Death?
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Friday, Oct. 23 - If I Had a Million
Tycoon John Glidden, dying though still vigorous, is so dissatisfied with his relatives and associates that, rather than will his money to any of them, he decides to give it away in million-dollar amounts to strangers picked from the city directory. He picks a meek china salesman; a prostitute; a forger; two ex-vaudevilleans who hate road hogs; a condemned man; a mild-mannered clerk; a boisterous marine; and an oppressed inmate of an old ladies' home.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Thursday, Oct. 22 - Espionage: The Weakling
An American commando is sent to occupied France to contact the underground, but he's captured and suffers through horrific torture by the Nazis protecting what he believes to be a top military secret.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Wednesday, Oct. 21 - Secret Agent: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
An M9 agent, Meredith, has been captured in Sofia and is being tortured to make him identify local agents, which threatens M9's operations in the area. With the help of a local agent, Drake manages to break Meredith out of captivity after three days of torture. However, he is still being affected by the torture and Meredith mistakenly kills another M9 agent who was looking after him. This makes it difficult for Drake to safely leave Sofia.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Tuesday, Oct. 20 - Thanks a Million
Singer Eric Land (Dick Powell) and the dancers and orchestra he travels with are stuck for work -- until their manager, Ned (Fred Allen), has the band play before a speech given by a dull gubernatorial candidate. When Eric's singing impresses the crowds, Ned convinces the politician to have the group perform before each event. Soon the crowd demands that Eric run for office, and despite the uncertainly of his girlfriend, Sally (Ann Dvorak), Eric agrees when he finds out he can be on the radio.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Monday, Oct. 19 - The Avengers: Propellant 23
Steed and Cathy travel to Marseilles to pick up a flask of a secret new rocket fuel. When they arrive at the airport, they find the bottle gone and their contact dead. The pair battle foreign agents to regain the propellant.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Sunday, Oct. 18 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Decoy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Creeper & Kongo, Untamed Africa
Secretly in love with a married singer, Gil Larkin learns that she is being abused by her husband. Confronting the man in his office, Gil is knocked unconscious, only to awaken and learn he's being framed for the husband's murder - and must now discover who is really behind the crime.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1, Episode 38 The Creeper (17 Jun. 1956)
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment building when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god. He rules the local natives through superstition and stage magic and he rules the few white people through sadism, keeping them virtual prisoners. He lives for the day he can avenge himself horribly on the man who stole his wife and crushed his spine.
Untamed Africa (1933) Join the Hubbard family - father, mother and two small children - on safari. Encounter giraffes, hippos, leopards and crocodiles; share the terror when a grass fire engulfs the Hubbards' camp; share the fun when pet monkeys join the expedition; and witness a hyena/lioness battle and a heart-stopping lion attack on the Hubbard's oxen.
Saturday, Oct. 17 - Ghostwatch & Danger UXB: The Quiet Weekend
The BBC gives over a whole evening to an 'investigation into the supernatural'. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind 'The most haunted house in Britain', expecting a light-hearted scare or two and probably the uncovering of a hoax. They think they are in control of the situation. They think they are safe. The viewers settle down and decide to watch 'for a laugh'. Ninety minutes later the BBC, and the country, was changed, and the consequences are still felt today.
Ash and Susan go off for a quiet weekend away but Ash is recalled to deal with an unexploded bomb and Susan returns home to find her husband waiting for her.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Friday, Oct. 16 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Couchville, USA
All Dobie wants is six dollars so he can take Thalia to the junior prom, but Dobie's Dad won't give it to him until Dobie admits he hates his father. A gentle satire on psychiatric trends of the day.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Thursday, Oct. 15 - So This Is New York
Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by Ring Lardner, the film traces country bumpkin Morgan's progress as he uses an inheritance to take a trip with his wife (Virginia Grey) and sister-in-law (Dona Drake) to the New York of the 1920s.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Wednesday, Oct. 14 - The Avengers: Mr. Teddy Bear
One-Ten is convinced that the man is murdered while being interviewed on a live television show was the victim of a hired-killer called "The Teddy Bear." He concocts a plot to trap him using John Steed as bait and Cathy Gale as the woman who wants to hire an assassin to murder him.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, Oct. 13 - The Haunted Strangler
A writer investigating the execution of a serial killer known as "The Haymarket Strangler" 20 years previously begins to suspect that the wrong man might have been hanged. However, when he picks up a scalpel used by the murderer, he finds himself possessed by the killer's spirit and begins committing similar murders.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Monday, Oct. 12 - White Woman
The ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a singer facing deportation. He offers her a miserable existence of abuse and loneliness. She finds a bright spot with a handsome plantation worker. Unfortunately, her jealous husband sends him into headhunter country. When the man returns unscathed, the bullying supervisor is surprised for he figured the worker for a coward. The natives then revolt and an escaped convict helps the lovers make it to safety. Or something like that.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Sunday, Oct. 11 - Keith Richards: Under the Influence
A portrait of Keith Richards that takes us on a journey to discover the genesis of his sound as a songwriter, guitarist and performer.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Saturday, Oct. 10 - 99 Homes & Ninotchka
A father struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real estate broker who's the source of his frustration.
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Friday, Oct. 9 - Alias John Preston
Wealthy John Preston arrives in small town Deanbridge. He invests in local businesses and gets involved in community affairs. Eventually, he meets a local belle, Sally, and wins her from her current boyfriend. She agrees to marry him. Then, he begins to have strange dreams about Sylvia, a beautiful woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles the scheming woman, but is then confronted by a strange Frenchman. He tells his dream to Dr. Walton, who feels Preston is suppressing things in his past, and should regain his memory before marrying Sally.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Thursday, Oct. 8 - The Match King
Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation of everyone and employment of femmes-fatale, he parlays this into a match monopoly, expanding over many countries. Finally he meets a woman so gorgeous she turns his head away from a business that needs constant financial manipulation to survive. Based on the real career of Ivar Kreuger.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, Oct. 7 - Lady Scarface
A police detective (Dennis O'Keefe) and his photographer girlfriend (Frances Neal) hunt a gang led by a woman (Judith Anderson).
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Monday, Oct. 6 - Blind Spot
Jeffrey Anders is a down-on-his luck mystery writer who drunkenly blunders into his publisher's office one day with an idea for a new story. He has concocted a story where a dead body is found inside a locked, bolted room. He also has a simple solution for the mystery. Unfortunately, later his publisher is found dead inside a locked, bolted room and Anders can't remember the solution he told when he was drunk! Of course, Jeffrey is the main suspect since he was the last one to see the guy alive. He starts seeking out people he may have told the solution to. Then, those people start turning up dead as well.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Monday, Oct. 5 - Martin Kane: The Beauty Queen Murder aka Trip to Bermuda
Kane is hired to protect a diamond studded crown that a beauty queen will wear at a ball sponsored by a cosmetics company in Bermuda. The lovely blonde is found dead in her hotel bathtub and there's no shortage of murder suspects - her ex-boyfriend, the wealthy playboy she spurned on the ocean liner, and the wife of the man with whom she engaged in romantic trysts back in New York.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Sunday, Oct. 4 - Corridors of Blood
In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted. In order to provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction, he falls in with a den of murderers who use his signature to sell cadavers to the local hospital.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Saturday, Oct. 3 - M Squad: The Man Who Went Straight
Ballinger gets a tip from John Clavell, that an old drug dealer Manny Franchette is coming back into town to re-establish his old network. Clavell wants no part of it, having decided to got straight.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Friday, Oct. 2 - I Stole a Million
Bilked by a finance company, a cabby (George Raft) turns criminal to get even and hides out with his wife (Claire Trevor).
Friday, October 2, 2015
Thursday, Oct. 1 - Female Jungle
A blonde actress is murdered across from a bar. An off-duty cop has been getting pleasantly sloshed, but becomes worried about his innocence when he finds out he was seen leaving the establishment with a blonde, but doesn't remember. As he investigates, he interviews a columnist who was going with the actress, a caricaturist who drew the victim, the caricaturist's wife who works at the bar, and the caricaturist's lover, and slowly begins to put the pieces of the deadly puzzle together.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Wednesday, Sept. 30 - The Devil's Party
Four boys and a girl form a gang in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City, and in the course of committing a crime they start a fire, leading to one of them being caught and sent to the reformatory. Years later, the five of them make a practice of meeting once a year. Marty, the one who had been caught, now runs a night club and gambling house, while Helen is a singer who performs there. Jerry is now a priest, while the two O'Mara brothers have become policemen. On the night of their reunion, the O'Mara brothers are called to investigate the death of one of Marty's customers. Marty knows that two of his enforcers are responsible, so he sends them back to cover up the evidence. But one of the O'Mara brothers confronts them, with violent results that will set the former friends against one another.
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