An elderly watchmaker stops a beautiful young blonde from committing suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. They eventually marry, and things go well until a man from the woman's somewhat unsavory past shows up and attempts to blackmail her.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Wednesday, March 30 - The Girl on the Bridge
An elderly watchmaker stops a beautiful young blonde from committing suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. They eventually marry, and things go well until a man from the woman's somewhat unsavory past shows up and attempts to blackmail her.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Tuesday, March 29 - An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Vincent Price recites four Edgar Allen Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Monday, March 28 - The Tomb of Ligeia
Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligea, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena. Fell is something of a recluse, living in a small part of a now ruined Abbey with his manservant Kenrick as the only other occupant. He remains infatuated with his late wife and is convinced that she will return to him. While all goes well when first married, he returns to his odd behavior when they return to the Abbey from their honeymoon. The memories of Ligea continue to haunt him as well as her promise that she would never die.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Sunday, March 27 - Artists & Models
In this musical comedy, Mac (Jack Benny), head of his own advertising agency, is charged with finding a queen of the Artists and Models Ball. Mac's client Alan Townsend (Richard Arlen) is sponsoring the ball and wants a non-professional, from the social register. The problem is that Mac already promised the title to his girlfriend, model Paula (Ida Lupino). Ready for her big break, Paula travels to Miami to meet Alan and convince him she's a socialite. Alan is charmed by her, both professionally and personally.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Saturday, March 26 - The Woman in White
Drawing instructor Walter Hartwright is en route to the castle of Count Fairlie when he briefly meets a distraught woman dressed entirely in white. Upon reaching his destination, he's shocked to discover that the girl he is to teach, Fairlie's niece Laura, is the spitting image of the woman he met. Even more strangely, house guest Count Fosco seems to know something about the lady in white that he's not telling.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Friday, March 25 - Bobby Ware Is Missing
Bobby and his friend Mickey ride their bikes to a construction site after school. They decide to hike to the top of a hill but get into trouble when there's a rock slide; they're trapped on a ledge with no way out.
Bobby's parents and Mickey's dad soon have the police looking for the boys, but the search is complicated when a ransom note is received, which Mickey's father insists on secretly paying.
As it turns out, the ransom note was delivered by someone who knew the boys were missing and was trying to cash in, and the search is back on. One more problem awaits: the area where it's suspected the boys might have gone hiking is about to be dynamited by a granite company.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Thursday, March 24 - Thriller: The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
In a lab mishap, chemist Dr. Frank Cordell is exposed to an experimental gas that causes him to turn into a homicidal maniac when he hears the sound of ringing bells.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Wednesday, March 23 - The Marked One
A blackmailer demands the plates used in a forgery plot for which Don Mason served time. Don doesn’t know where they are but when his small daughter Mary, living apart with her mother, is threatened he starts hunting for them.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, March 22 - Murder Can Be Deadly
After a drunken night out with the boys, Tom (Tony Wickert) takes the voluptuous Jo (Liz Fraser) back to her place. But as they enter her bedroom Jo discovers that her boyfriend has been stabbed to death and threatens to accuse Tom of the stabbing unless he helps dispose of the body. After arriving home the next morning and remembering very little, Tom learns that he is wanted for murder by the police. In order to prove his innocence, Tom has to stay one step ahead of the police in a race against time to discover the true identity of the killer.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Monday, March 21 - Taxi!
When a veteran cab driver, Pop Riley (Guy Kibbee), refuses to be pressured into surrendering his prime soliciting location outside a cafe, where his daughter works, the old man's cab is intentionally wrecked by a ruthless mob seeking to dominate the cab industry. Upon learning of the "accidental" destruction of his cab (and along with it his livelihood), the old man retrieves his handgun and shoots the bullying man known to be responsible, which lands him in prison, where he dies of poor health in fairly short order.
Pop's waitressing daughter, Sue (Loretta Young), is asked by a scrappy young cab driver, Matt (James Cagney), to lend moral support to a resistance movement populated by other drivers, who are also experiencing similar strong-arm tactics by the same aggressive group of thugs. However, after enduring the crushing loss of her father, Sue undergoes a complete ethical reversal about the notion of fighting back, feels thoroughly sickened by the violence and bloodshed, and she angrily tells the drivers as much.
Her unpredictably willful but passionate rant instantly lands her on Matt's bad side, although he eventually has a redemptive change of heart, then seeks to charm Sue into becoming his girlfriend. Other complications arise shortly thereafter, putting their loving relationship in jeopardy, which all too often tends to involve Matt's inability to control his own quick and fiery temper.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Sunday, March 20 - Odds Against Tomorrow
Disgraced former police officer David Burke (Ed Begley) is looking for a way to make some quick money. When he decides to rob a bank, he calls on mean ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) and black entertainer Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to help him pull off the heist. Johnny is reluctant to agree but is forced to reconsider because of his significant gambling debts, while racist Earl balks because of Johnny's involvement. Ultimately, though, they must work together to get the job done.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Saturday, March 19 - The Devil and Miss Jones & Jokum Fest 2015
Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn) goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York department store to identify agitators trying to form a union, after seeing a newspaper picture of his employees hanging him in effigy. He befriends fellow clerk Mary Jones (Jean Arthur) and her recently fired boyfriend Joe O'Brien (Robert Cummings), a labor union organizer. Through his firsthand experiences, he grows more sympathetic to the needs of his workers, while finding unexpected love with sweet-natured clerk Elizabeth Ellis (Spring Byington).
Shawn Stecker's documentary of the 13th annual Victory Heights Blues and Jazz festival.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Friday, March 18 - Darkroom: The Rarest of Wines
An obnoxious son is unhappy with his share of his mother's inheritance...the family house and its furnishings. He sells everything he can and spends the money on rare and expensive wines. While drinking one of the wines, his sister translates the Italian label to discover too late that the wine he is drinking is poisonous.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Thursday, March 17 - Midnight
When out-of-work showgirl Eve (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris with no work in sight, she asks taxi driver Tibor (Don Ameche) to drive her from club to club. But the more time she spends with Tibor, the more Eve realizes that he is falling for her. Unwilling to accept his feelings, Eve escapes to a charity concert, meets the charming Georges (John Barrymore) and disguises herself as a Hungarian baroness. But love-struck Tibor is not willing to let Eve go without a fight.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Wednesday, March 16 - Darkroom: Exit Line & Who's There?
Who's There? Episode aired 15 January 1982 Barry finds his upstairs neighbor Steve waiting in the dark with a gun for his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, to come home.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Tuesday, March 15 - Corruption
Peter Cushing plays Sir John Rowan, a plastic surgeon whose young fashion model and fiancée’s face (Sue Lloyd) is badly disfigured in an accident, caused in part by a jealous rage of his. Rowan pledges to reverse Lynn's disfigurement, experimenting with laser technology to revive her skin, eventually coming up with a cure-all, a Frankensteinian transplantation of glands. Driven by combination of guilt and love, Rowan goes on a murder spree, killing young women in order to use their glands to restore his fiancée’s beauty. The couple goes off on holiday to a seaside cottage and all is fine until her face starts to show signs of deterioration. In need of more surgery and a new "donor" the couple tries to entice a young girl (Wendy Varnals) who they meet at the beach and take back to their cottage. Complications ensue, first because Rowan doesn't want to commit another murder, and then because this girl isn't what she seems to be.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Monday, March 14 - The Red House
Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete isn't getting around on his wooden leg like he used to. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete gets quite agitated and warns him of screams in the night, of terrors associated with the red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring. Meg begins falling in love with Nath, but his girlfriend Tibby has other plans for him. Meanwhile they all get closer to real danger and the dark secret of the red house.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Sunday, March 13 - His Butler's Sister
Delighted by news from her half-brother Martin (Pat O'Brien) about his many successes in Manhattan, small-town Midwestern girl and aspiring singer Ann (Deanna Durbin) packs it up and heads to the Big Apple. Ann arrives at Martin's supposed address, only to discover him working as a butler in the home of a famed writer of Broadway musicals, Charles Gerard (Franchot Tone). When Martin refuses to get Ann a coveted audition with his employer, she schemes to meet the elusive composer.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Saturday, March 12 - The Beat Generation
Police Sergeant Dave Culloran is in search of a rapist who preys on young married women. The trail takes him to the poetry-filled coffee houses. Dave interviews rape victims and coldly gathers information until his wife becomes pregnant (very possibly by the rapist), leading to an eventual showdown.
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Friday, March 11 - Behind the News
City Editor Vic Archer assigns student reporter Jeff Flavin to veteran newsman Stuart Woodrow, primarily to get on Woodrow's nerves. Jeff has long admired Woodrow, but is saddened to see the cynical and unprofessional state to which Woodrow has declined. Woodrow, for his part, tries to cure Jeff of his idealism and cause him to leave the newspaper business. Jeff, though, sticks to his guns and saves Woodrow's reputation by filing a big scoop under Woodrow's name after Woodrow had missed it. When a special skill (he hablas espanol) of Jeff's enables him to learn the truth about a sensational murder case, Jeff tries to bring Woodrow into the investigation, in hopes not only of solving the murder but of rescuing Woodrow's ideals and career.
Friday, March 11, 2016
Thursday, March 10 - The Pretender
Corrupt stockbroker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) embezzles from his wealthiest client, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), before deciding to propose marriage. Already engaged, Claire refuses and doesn't identify her fiancé, provoking Holden to turn to a gangster to find the man and murder him. While the assassin waits for a newspaper announcement with a picture to identify the fiancé, Claire suddenly agrees to marry Holden -- who then panics when their engagement picture is printed.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Wednesday, March 9 - Canon City
At the Colorado State Penitentiary, inmates Carl Schwartzmiller (Jeff Corey) and Jim Sherbondy (Scott Brady) conceive a daring prison break. While a group of prisoners subdue a guard and take him hostage, Carl and Jim, along with 10 others, make their escape to nearby Canon City, Colo. As the fugitives terrorize residents of the city, taking local families hostage in their own homes, Warden Roy Best (Roy Best) devises a plan to get the prisoners back -- dead or alive.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Tuesday, March 8 - Black Tuesday
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning - a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning's robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Monday, March 7 - Fingers at the Window
Lew Ayres is an out-of-work actor who stumbles into a plot by the villainous Basil Rathbone to stir up a bunch of apparently random ax murders in Chicago.
Monday, March 7, 2016
Sunday, March 6 - The Strangler
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Saturday, March 5 - Girl Crazy
Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Friday, March 4 - Virtue
This fast-paced comedy-drama features Pat O'Brien as an honest, enterprising cab driver and Carole Lombard as Mae, a prostitute he mistakes for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Mae's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair that she tries to hide from her husband.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Thursday, March 3 - Four Sided Triangle
Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of her for himself. The experiment, at first deemed a success, seems to have worked only too well as the duplicate, Helen, is such an exact copy that she also loves Robin, not Bill.
Wednesday, March 2 - Thriller: Well of Doom
Fiendish Moloch and his huge creature Styx kill a chauffeur and kidnap his passengers, who are en route to a bachelor party. The two abductees (a bridegroom, who's heir to an English country estate, and the estate overseer), are forced to slog through foggy moors to an ancient Gothic fortress. As dawn approaches, the diabolic pair push their captives to speed up, because the demonic creatures fear the coming of light.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Tuesday, March 1 - Man-Proof
Mimi Swift (Myrna Loy) has been chasing self-absorbed ladies' man Alan Wythe (Walter Pidgeon) for years, but he's looking for a woman with a bigger pocketbook than Mimi can provide. She's crushed when Alan finally announces he's getting hitched, and matters are made worse when it turns out he's taking Mimi's rich pal, Elizabeth (Rosalind Russell), as his bride. But after suffering through the indignity of being a bridesmaid at the couple's wedding, Mimi decides she's can't give up on Alan yet.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Monday, Feb. 29 - Gold Dust Gertie
When the film begins, you see Gertie (Winnie Lightner) marrying and subsequently divorcing a couple guys. Now, years later, these two guys (played by the popular stage comics, Olsen and Johnson) have just married sisters and are anticipating great lives working for a swim suit company. However, the old guy in charge (Gillingwater) has no idea either was previously married and they are afraid to tell him because he's such a stiff moralistic old coot. However, hiding this prior marriage is a problem since the Gertie the gold-digger comes to work for the same company...and soon she has her sights set on the boss!
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