Saturday, May 30 - Walk the Dark Street

Walk the Dark Street (1956)

Dan (Don Ross) returns to L.A. having fought in the Korean War. He meets with Frank (Chuck Connors) the brother of Tommy who was one of the men killed under Dan's command. Tommy wasn't happy at being passed over for promotion and wrote to his brother to say that if he died Dan would be to blame.

Frank explains to Dan that his heart condition means he can no longer go big game hunting and makes him a lucrative offer to have a ‘hunt’ in L.A. with both men armed only with camera guns. Unbeknown to Dan, Frank replaces his camera round with a live bullet and plans to kill him in revenge for his brother's death.

The two men engage in a two-day game of cat and mouse which is complicated by the involvement of Tommy's fiancée and a mix up at a sports shop.

Friday, May 29 - The Lively Set

The Lively Set (1964)

Casey Owens (James Darren) is a self-centered ex-GI whose only passion in life has been cars -- until he meets Eadie (Pamela Tiffin). They go to San Francisco, where he starts building an engine for a wealthy man who wants to enter the Tri-State Endurance Race. Against his boss' wishes, Casey stubbornly insists on building a radical turbine-designed motor and trashes the car. After he's fired, he retrieves the engine and scrapes together the money to enter his own car in the race.

Thursday, May 28 - The Flame

The Flame (1947)

George McAllister (John Carroll), a profligate spendthrift, is jealous of his half-brother Barry McAllister, who has the lion’s share of the family inheritance. But Barry is ill and probably going to die in a few months. Angry at Barry’s success especially measured against his own failures, George hatches a plan: He succeeds in getting his girlfriend Carlotta (Vera Ralston) hired as a nurse to live in the family mansion and take care of his brother (this all happened before the movie started). His family doesn’t know that she and George have a history together, and when Barry falls in love with her, no one suspects that it’s all a scheme for George getting back the family fortune after Barry dies.

But after Carlotta marries Barry, it doesn’t take her long to realize he is a much better person than George and she falls in love with him. While all this is going on, George is having an affair with Helen (Constance Dowling) a woman who lives down the hall in his apartment building, and when her jealous ex-boyfriend Ernie (Broderick Crawford) tails George he learns about the scheme involving Carlotta marrying George. Before long, he threatens George with blackmail, putting his entire ‘long con’ into danger.

Wednesday, May 27 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Flat Two

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965): Flat Two (Season 2 | Episode 11 aired February 1962)

When Louba, a crooked casino owner blackmails a young female gambler, her boyfriend breaks into Louba's flat to confront him, only to find himself interrupting a burglary and being accused on murder.

Tuesday, May 26 - Johnny Dark

Johnny Dark (1954)

Automobile engineer, Johnny Dark, designs a radical new car. When the owner refuses to sponsor the car in a Canada to Mexico Sports-car race, Johnny, with the aid of the owner's granddaughter, steals the car and runs the race against the favored driver, his ex-buddy.

Monday, May 25 - Manhandled

Manhandled (1949)

A stuffy novelist (Alan Napier) suffers recurring nightmares that he bludgeons his rich jewel-horse of a wife (Irene Hervey) to death – with a `quart' bottle of cologne. He then confides his dreams to a psychiatrist (Harold Vermilyea). So when his wife inevitably winds up dead (and her diamonds stolen), he becomes the prime suspect, even though she had been out clubbing with another man (Philip Reed).

The psychiatrist's transcriptionist (Dorothy Lamour) spills the beans to her neighbor Dan Duryea, an ex-cop now doing repo jobs and divorce frame-ups. Then when a signet ring she finds while vacuuming her sofa and pawns brings the police to her door, along with insurance investigator Sterling Hayden, it starts to look bad. It doesn't help that she just blew in from Los Angeles with forged letters of reference...

Sunday, May 24 - That Certain Feeling

That Certain Feeling (1956)

When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.

Saturday, May 23 - The Long Wait

The Long Wait (1954)

On a dark road a hitch-hiker gets picked up by a trucker. The truck crashes, the hitch-hiker burns his hands trying to rescue the driver. The trauma of the crash gives him amnesia. He doesn't know who he is. He gets a job on an oil rig. After he's fired for assaulting a co-worker one thing leads to another and he finds out he's from the town of Lyncastle. As soon as he hits town the cops pick him up on a 2 year old murder rap. He now has a name, Johnny McBride. He allegedly stole $250,000 from the bank he was working at and killed the DA. The cops can't hold him because his fingerprints were burned off! So he sets off to ask some questions and get some answers. He rubs some people the wrong way especially casino owner and all around sleaze bag Servo. It turns out that McBride's co-worker/girlfriend Vera split after the heist, got plastic surgery, changed her name and returned to Lyncastle. There's four women who could be Vera. So of course Johnny has to seduce all of them to find out who the real Vera is! One of the few people who believe in him is his former boss Gardiner, the president of the bank. He offers him money to leave town after all the trouble he's caused. He of course refuses. By this point Servo has had enough, gets all the "Vera's" together to find out who the real one is to trap Johnny. This leads to a violent conclusion and a not too surprising ending.

Friday, May 22 - Runaway Daughters

Runaway Daughters (1956)

Three discontented teenage girls revolt against their parents and trek to Los Angeles in search of new lives.

Thursday, May 21 - Affair in Havana

Affair in Havana (1957)

Mallabee is a millionaire sugar-cane grower in Cuba who blames his wife, Lorna, for an accident that has left him in a wheelchair.

Lorna has been having an affair with Nick, a piano player in a Havana nightclub. Mallabee secretly is aware of this, having hired a private investigator to follow his wife.

The twisted mind of Mallabee has come up with a scheme in which Lorna kills him. She won't do it, but a trusted servant, Valdes, does cause his death by drowning. However, the relationship between Nick and Lorna comes to an unhappy end.

Wednesday, May 20 - Racing Lady

Racing Lady (1937)

Longtime thoroughbred breeder and trainer Tom Martin has a mare, Pepper Mary, he's about to enter in a big race. After the owner of another contender fails to bribe Tom to lose on purpose, his jockey causes Pepper Mary to stumble and fall during the race, causing a career-ending injury to the horse.

Tom's disappointed daughter Ruth concentrates all her efforts on Pepper Mary's filly, Katydid, hoping she, too, can become an outstanding racehorse. Steve Wendel, an automobile mogul who has a stable of horses, buys the victorious horse after Ruth enters her in a Santa Anita claiming race.

To stay with her horse, Ruth reluctantly accepts Steve's offer to come work for him. They travel the racing circuit abroad, where Ruth matures from a tomboy into a sophisticated young woman. She falls in love with Steve, and after a misunderstanding over the disappearance of Katydid before a race, they celebrate as their horse races to another triumph.

Tuesday, May 19 - Britannia Mews

The Forbidden Street (1949)
Britannia Mews (original title)

From a well to do family, Adelaide (Maureen O'Hara), over the objections of her family, marries an impoverished artist Henry Lambert (Dana Andrews) who is later killed in an accident when Adelaide pushes him away. Adelaide is blackmailed for two years by her neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, a spiteful old hag (Sybil Thorndike) who claims to the police that Henry was killed accidentally. Adelaide is still living in the Britannia Mews, when a young barrister, Gilbert Lauderdale (Dana Andrews), shows up who is the living image of Adelaide's late husband. He gets rid of the old woman by threatening to prosecute her for blackmail, eventually reunites Adelaide with her family, and along the way falls in love with her himself... and devise a puppet show that is a big success, and that brings Adalaide to a reunion with her estranged family and marriage to the man who looks like her deceased husband.

Monday, May 18 - The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks

La torre de los siete jorobados (1944)

Set in 19th century Madrid, a young man named Basilio (Antonio Casal) decides to play roulette, hoping to make some money to go on a date with the girl he likes. Suddenly, a mysterious character appears (Félix De Pomés) out of nowhere, and tells Basilio exactly where the ball is going to fall. Winning a small fortune thanks to the stranger, Basilio decides to thank him for the help, only to discover that the mysterious man, named Don Robinson De Mantua, is the ghost of an archaeologist who supposedly committed suicided years (one year) ago. In return for the help at the roulette, Don Robinson asks Basilio to protect his daughter (niece) Inés (Isabel De Pomés) and help her solve his crime, as Don Robinson was actually murdered. And so Basilio gets involved in a mystery that will take him to discover the entrance to the Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks.

Sunday, May 17 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Share Out

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965): The Share Out (Season 2 | Episode 10 - aired February 1962)

A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices. The victims refuse to talk to the police. A police inspector is aware of the racket and persuades a shifty private investigator to work for the gang while reporting back to him. The P. I. joins the crooks, none of whom trusts the others, and each of them tries to enlist his services for their own exclusive advantage. There are two murders and it is not clear until the last surprise twist scene who committed the second murder.

Saturday, May 16 - Jeannie

Jeannie (1941)

Jeannie McLean is a young Scottish women who takes care of her tightfisted father, leaving her no time (and money) for herself. When he dies, she discovers he has left his "fortune" - 297 pounds - to her, nothing to her sisters. She decides to have some fun for a change, starting with a trip to Vienna.

On the way to and in Vienna, a stranger, Stanley Smith, helps her through various difficulties resulting from her inexperience. As they become acquainted, she tells him she is 26, but he soon discovers (from her passport) that she is 22 (it's the other way around).

In Vienna, Jeannie makes the acquaintance of Count Ehrlich von Wittgenstein, while Stanley gets to known a blonde named Margaret. The next day, Stanley sets out to market his invention, a washing machine, while the count takes Jeannie on a tour of the city. She goes shopping for clothes. When Stanley sees her that night, she is completely transformed outwardly. Stanley asks her out, but she is already engaged to go to the opera with the count. Stanley takes Margaret there too. Everywhere the count takes Jeannie, Stanley arranges to be there as well, along with Margaret. Finally, the count asks Jeannie to marry him, but when he learns that she is not rich as he thought (broke, in fact), he breaks it off (and gets punched by Stanley). Jeannie has just money enough left to get home (that's it).

Stanley has great success selling his washing machines, but when he goes to Scotland to find Jeannie, no one knows where she is. As luck would have it, she has found work demonstrating Stanley's product (she's demonstrating a different product at the same trade show). He proposes to her, and after some resistance, she gives in.

Friday, May 15 - Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau (1943)

In a small French town identified as "anywhere", anonymous poison pen letters are sent by somebody signing as "Le Corbeau" (the Raven or Crow). The letters start by accusing doctor Rémy Germain of having an affair with Laura Vorzet, the pretty young wife of the elderly psychiatrist Dr. Vorzet. Germain is also accused of practising illegal abortions. Letters are then sent to virtually all the population of the town, but keep getting back to the initial victim, Dr. Germain. The situation becomes increasingly serious when a patient of the hospital commits suicide with his straight razor after the Raven writes to him that his cancer is terminal.

Laura Vorzet's sister Marie Corbin, a nurse in the infirmary, becomes a suspect and is arrested, but soon new letters arrive. When one letter is dropped in a church from a gallery, it becomes apparent the Raven must be one of the people seated there at the time. They are gathered to re-write the Raven's letters as dictated by Dr. Vorzet, to compare the handwriting. Germain's lover Denise is suspected when she faints during the dictation, only for Laura to be identified by material found on her blotter. Germain agrees to sign an order committing Laura as insane; he is called away to attend Denise, who has fallen downstairs, but before he leaves Laura protests she wrote the Raven's first letters before Dr. Vorzet began dictating them, making him the true Raven. Just as the ambulance takes Laura away, Germain returns to find Dr. Vorzet dead at his desk, his throat cut by the cancer patient's mother as he was writing the Raven's final, triumphant letter.

(Remade as The 13th Letter)

Thursday, May 14 - The 13th Letter

The 13th Letter (1951)

Doctor Pearson (Michael Rennie), who works at a Canadian hospital in the province of Quebec, receives a series of poison pen letters. More letters, all signed with the mysterious picture of a feather, are delivered to others in the small Canadian town. Cora Laurent (Constance Smith), the wife of the main doctor - Dr. Laurent (Charles Boyer) - at the hospital, receives a letter accusing her of having an affair with Pearson. Another letter informs a shell-shocked veteran Mr. Gauthier that he is dying of cancer, causing the distraught man to commit suicide. Quickly, the townsfolk begin pointing fingers at all possible suspects.

Wednesday, May 13 - Ivy

Ivy (1947)

In Edwardian England, Ivy Lexton (Joan Fontaine) is a woman with a taste for the finer things in life. Despairing of her husband Jervis's (Richard Ney), poor prospects, Ivy sees an opportunity in wealthy Miles Rushworth (Herbert Marshall), and is determined to have him, despite being married and having the additional obstacle of her affair with the infatuated Dr. Roger Gretorex (Patric Knowles).

However, Miles shows no interest because she is married. In response, Ivy tries unsuccessfully to persuade her husband to divorce her, then plans to poison him (she plans to poison him? She does poison him, for crying out loud!) and pin the blame on Roger, clearing the way for a relationship with Miles. Inspector Orpington (Cedric Hardwicke) is called in to investigate Jervis' mysterious death.

Tuesday, May 12 - Meet Danny Wilson

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Danny Wilson and partner Mike make a meager living singing in dives and hustling pool. One night they meet entertainer Joy Carroll, who gets them a job at racketeer Nick Driscoll's posh nightclub. But Nick wants a high price: half of Danny's future income. Danny's career skyrockets, but his position at the top of the heap, and his one-sided romance with Joy, prove extremely unstable.

Monday, May 11 - Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball (1942)

The shooting and murder of two guest stars at the Shady Ridge Summer Theatre, operated by Joan Barry, threatens to close the musical "Fun For All." To bolster the show, Joan induces Bill Edwards, who shares joint ownership with her, of the farm the theatre is located on, and Sheriff McKenzie, to hire the Jolly Jesters. They steal the show and, along the way, uncover a spy ring and a bullet-shooting clarinet.

Sunday, May 10 - Decoy: Deadly Corridor

Decoy (1957–1958): Deadly Corridor (Season 1 | Episode 7 - aired 25 November 1957)

A woman dies in custody (of 14 stab wounds), and Casey sets out to pose as a prisoner in order to locate the person responsible.

Saturday, May 9 - It Happens Every Thursday

It Happens Every Thursday (1953)

New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.

Friday, May 8 - Illegal Entry

Illegal Entry (1949)

A body is found in a National Park area by Park Rangers. The only identification is a tattoo from a German concentration camp. It seems that the man had been thrown from an aircraft. Since this is not the first such body found, the Feds are called in.

Cargo pilot Howard Duff agrees to help the Feds investigate the illicit Mexican border immigrant smuggling operation.

Thursday, May 7 - Enter Arsene Lupin

Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)

Ella Raines's valuable emerald is stolen aboard the Orient Express. A handsome stranger helpfully examines her compartment and finds the jewel for her - …but did he actually steal it himself first just to return it?

The stranger, we quickly learn, is the notorious and dashing Arsene Lupin, a jewel thief always just eluding the French police. Inspector Ganimard (J. Carrol Naish) is always a step or two behind Lupin.

Raines's character, meanwhile, is headed home where she lives with her cousins. These sinister cousins (Gale Sondergaard and Miles Mander) claim that Raines has mental problems and needs to rest a lot; they also stand to inherit her emerald if anything happens to her. Korvin befriends Raines, Naish tracks Korvin, the cousins plot deviltry, and everyone worries about the jewel.

Wednesday, May 6 - Flight from Destiny

Flight from Destiny (1941)

After philosophy Professor Todhunter is told he has 6 months left to live, he is barred from teaching by his college so there won't be a scandal if he drops dead in class. Discussing a hypothetical man with 6 months to live with a group of friends, Todhunter asks each what he'd do in his last 6 months. One says he'd commit a "social murder" kill someone who is not a criminal but without whom society would be better off. The professor obsesses on the idea and actually comes across a situation involving two of his friends where he thinks it would be a good idea to act on his obsession.

Tuesday, May 5 - Captive Wild Woman

Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Dr. Sigmund Walters, an expert in glandular research, becomes convinced that his experiments involving lower animal species cannot succeed, so he arranges to have a very intelligent female gorilla kidnapped from the circus and brought to his lab. Using the glands of a patient and the brain of his faithful nurse, he performs transplant surgery on the intelligent simian. When the ape morphs into exotic and sexy Paula Dupree, the experiment seems to be s success. She even finds a place for herself at her old circus assisting lion tamer Fred Mason. Unfortunately when aroused by desire and jealousy over the affections of Mason, her delicate metabolism breaks down, and she regresses to her ape form.

Monday, May 4 - Larceny

Larceny (1948)

Con man Rick Mason (Payne) tries to swindle war widow Deborah (Caulfied) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Rick falls in love with Deborah he has pangs of remorse, but he must contend with his gang boss, Silky (Duryea) and the tough-as-nails moll, Tory (Winters), who is enamored with Rick but is considered Silky's girl.

Sunday, May 3 - Danger Tomorrow

Danger Tomorrow (1960)

Dr. Bob Murray and his wife Ginny move into an old country house where Bob is to assist the local GP. It's not too long before Ginny starts to feel a little uneasy around the place. Being in the residence also kickstarts her dormant psychic ability and Ginny starts to have strange visions and dreams - ultimately uncovering a dark deed from the past.

Saturday, May 2 - Mary Burns, Fugitive

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)

After unknowingly getting involved with gangster Babe Wilson (Alan Baxter), diner owner Mary Burns (Sylvia Sidney) is arrested as an accomplice when Babe kills a government agent. Mary is sentenced to prison and placed in a cell with an informant who breaks her out, hoping she will lead the authorities to Babe. Unaware of Babe's whereabouts, Mary takes a job at a hospital, where she befriends explorer Barton Powell (Melvyn Douglas) -- not knowing that Babe and his henchmen are searching for her.

Friday, May 1 - Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance (1937)

Barbara Blanchard, the daughter of rags-to-riches divorced oilman Jim Blanchard, is going to marry Count Michael Montaine. When Jim receives a telegram from the count insisting upon a settlement of $500,000 before the marriage, he sends word of this to Barbara. However, the radiogram reaches her just after the wedding has taken place.

Furious, she drives off. Her mother Vera is determined to avoid public humiliation and to see her matchmaking scheme completed. Vera has her daughter declared mentally unbalanced and swears out a warrant for her arrest. When Barbara learns of this from the radio, she has her hairdresser Mabel dye her hair blonde. She also switches clothes with her. Barbara sets out for Los Angeles to meet her father's yacht. (However, Vera sends a wireless message to Jim, telling him the couple have reconciled. He believes her and heads to Acapulco instead.)

When police chase her for speeding, she abandons her car. After numerous attempts at hitchhiking fail, she pretends to faint. Bob and his friends the Dooleys both stop. Midge Dooley tells Bob to give her a lift, but he has had a bad experience with a blonde, plus he risks losing his job (driving a new car to California for Willoughby Sproggs as part of a four-car caravan). When she conveniently faints again, Bob gives in, but only until they reach the next town. She claims she is on the run because when she cashed her check from a walkathon she won, it turned out there was no money. At the next town, he loans her $10 and sends her on her way. She tries to send a telegram to her father collect, but cannot because she would have to show some ID. She sneaks back into Bob's car undetected.

On the way to Omaha, when Bob tries to get rid of her, Sproggs finds out about the unauthorized passenger. Barbara claims to be Bob's wife, and Midge backs her up, so Bob is forced to take her along.

When they stop for the night, Bob will not let her share his room. Roy, another one of Sproggs' drivers, tries to pick her up, but Bob knocks him down. She goes to sleep in the car. There she finds a necklace hidden away, which leads her to assume Bob is a thief. Meanwhile, Midge reads a newspaper article about a "blonde gun-moll" wanted in connection with a diamond robbery and thinks Barbara is her. Midge tells Bob.

Eventually, it is all sorted out. Roy turns out to be the jewel thief, Barbara's father will get her marriage annulled, and the couple embrace.

Thursday, April 30 - I Married a Woman

I Married a Woman (1958)

Advertising executive Mickey Briggs is given 48 hours by his boss, Sutton, to come up with a campaign for client Luxemberg Beer and save the company from ruin. Mickey neglects his wife, Janice, who once had been a "Miss Luxemberg" in a successful ad campaign featuring various attractive models.

Janice has just discovered she is expecting a baby, but is unable to inform Mickey, who is too distracted by work. Even when they find time to go to a movie, John Wayne is on screen, being considerate to his screen wife (Angie Dickinson), which makes Janice weepy but Mickey finds unrealistic.

It does give Mickey an idea, however, for a campaign in which "Miss Luxemberg" is now "Mrs. Luxemberg", enjoying family bliss. Sutton loves it, then rejects all the applicants until he decides that Janice herself must return to be "Mrs. Luxemberg". Film footage of their real life is shot without Janice's knowledge.

All goes terribly wrong, with Janice instead suing Mickey for divorce and Sutton's company for $100,000. After flirting with Mickey's wife, best pal Bob Sanders breaks the news that she's pregnant, which makes Mickey try harder to win her back. On a cruise and in love again, the couple is startled to spot John Wayne on board, arguing with his wife.