Saturday, December 31, 2022

Friday, December 30 - Our Wife

Our Wife (1941)

Jerry Marvin, a talented musician and composer, wallows in drunken self-pity after he is divorced by his wife Babe. Along comes new love Susan, who rescues Jerry and provides him with fresh inspiration to complete his trumpet concerto. He performs it, it's a hit, and the jubilant Jerry and Susan plan to marry. There's just one hitch: Now Babe wants him back... and the unscrupulous ex-wife will stop at nothing to recapture her man.

Friday, December 30, 2022

Thursday, December 29 - A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

In West Berlin at the height of the Cold War, British spy Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is tasked with the dangerous assignment of finding and assassinating the treacherous KGB agent Krasnevin, who has killed many undercover British agents. He's given a new partner, Gatiss (Tom Courtenay), to help eliminate the deadly Russian. What neither his bosses nor his partner know, however, is that Eberlin himself is Krasnevin, a double agent whose secret identity his Moscow bosses don't want compromised.

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Wednesday, December 28 - Fools' Parade

Fools' Parade (1971)

Mattie Appleyard (James Stewart) has spent the last 40 years behind bars and is finally out. A model prisoner and a hard worker, Appleyard saved up over $25,000 while in prison and entrusted the money to prison guard "Doc" Council (George Kennedy). Appleyard, along with his two ex-con friends, plans to become a respectable citizen by using the money to open a general store -- but it soon becomes clear that Doc and an unscrupulous banker have no intention of letting him go straight.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Tuesday, December 27 - Three Hats for Lisa

Three Hats for Lisa (1965)

Three young Cockneys take a day off work to meet a foreign movie star at Heathrow Airport. She joins them and their taxi driver while she collects some typically British hats. The main rule of the game is to steal a hat from its wearer, so the film is a musical chase around Swinging Sixties London, evading press and police.

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Monday, December 26 - The St. Louis Bank Robbery

The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)

George Fowler is introduced to a gang planning to rob a bank in St. Louis that they expect will have $100,000 on hand on an upcoming Friday. George is drawn into the plan as the gang's driver by Gino, an old girlfriend's older brother. As the gang goes about its planning, George and Gino have to find a way to live for the next two weeks and they turn to Gino's sister, Ann, for help. George is hoping to go back to college and the money he would make would go a long way to helping him do that. Not trusting George to keep his nerve, the gang's leader John Egan moves him to the inside, but the robbery doesn't go off as planned.

Monday, December 26, 2022

Sunday, December 25 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: O Youth and Beauty!

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: O Youth and Beauty! (Season 6 Episode 8 - aired Nov 22, 1960)

Cash Bentley is having a hard time coping with middle age. A one-time champion hurdler, he now drinks a bit too much and doesn't quite earn enough money to pay for the lifestyle he would like to provide for his family, such as a membership at the local country club. Despondent he decides to try one last "race," with tragic results.

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Saturday, December 24 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes TV Movie (1987)

Boston private eye Jane Watson (Margaret Colin) works with her great-grandfather's partner (Michael Pennington), unfrozen after 51 years.

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Friday, December 23 - A Girl in a Million

A Girl in a Million (1946)

After divorcing his nagging wife, researcher Tony (Hugh Williams) takes charge of a government project in a remote setting, with only two assistants, Prendergast (Basil Radford) and Fotheringham (Naunton Wayne), and a butler (Wylie Watson). The men's solitude is disrupted by the arrival of Gay Sultzman (Joan Greenwood), a young woman traumatized into muteness when her evacuee ship was torpedoed. Initially annoyed with her presence, the men soon find themselves mesmerized by Gay's silence.

Friday, December 23, 2022

Thursday, December 22 - Shadow of Fear

Shadow of Fear Original title: Before I Wake (1955)

Returning home to England from the United States following news of her father's sudden death in a boating accident, April Haddon meets her stepmother Florence for the first time. The former nurse of her mother, she had married April's father after her death. April finds that in the few years she has been away her stepmother has completely changed the house, the old furnishings replaced with modernist art and the old family housekeepers replaced by a maid with loyalty to her new mistress.

When her father's will is read, it becomes clear that the redrawn will Florence had been expecting had never been completed and the old will still stands, leaving most of his inheritance to April in three weeks when she turns twenty one. Convinced that Florence intends to murder her first, April turns to an old friend the local doctor to help her.

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Wednesday, December 21 - I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble (1948)

A wealthy politician, Ralph Johnston, has hired detective Stuart Bailey to investigate his missing wife's background. Bailey discovers that the wife had been a dancer under her maiden name of Jane Breeger and had left her Oregon home town with Buster Buffin, a nightclub entertainer, who says Jane changed her name to Janie Joy and enrolled at UCLA. Buffin is killed before Bailey can question him further.

Norma Shannon shows up, looking for her sister Jane, but when Bailey shows her a photograph of the missing woman, Norma says it's not her. Bailey learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girlfriend to enter college after she stole $40,000 from the club where she worked, owned by a man named Keller.

The detective eventually learns that Johnston had killed his wife when he had himself discovered her past, in order to avoid a scandal, and that he had hired the detective in order to frame him for the killing.

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Tuesday, December 20 - Paid to Dance

Paid to Dance (1937)

Government undercover agents William Dennis (Don Terry) and Joan Bradley (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells) are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda (Arthur Loft) and his henchman Nifty (Paul Fix). Dennis sets himself up as a theatrical booking agent, and shows his power by the opening and closing of Miranda's Paradise Club at will.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Monday, December 19 - Murder in Reverse

Murder in Reverse (1945)

William Hartnell plays a man suspected of murdering a love rival after being cuckolded by his wife. He goes to prison for 15 years but comes out convinced his 'victim' is still alive.

Monday, December 19, 2022

Sunday, December 18 - The Girl Said No

The Girl Said No (aka With Words and Music) (1937)

Jimmy, a bookie cum horse buying agent, meets a beautiful dance hall girl. After leading him on, and out of his money, she rejects him. Jimmy hatches a scheme to wreak revenge on her. He pretends to be a talent agent and that she is his new discovery. he promises to make her a stage star. He engages an out of work Gilbert & Sullivan troupe on a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in order to convince the girl that he is for real. All goes well and his scheme works. The only problem is that the girl now loves him, as does the entire, previously down on their luck troupe of players.

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Saturday, December 17 - Kiss Her Goodbye

Kiss Her Goodbye (1959)

An attractive young couple's car is broken down on the side of the road on a hot afternoon in rural Florida. The young man refuses help from the local police who stops to help but then asks a young farmer looking on nearby to take them into town. The farmer agrees to do this attracted by the girl.

Suffering from what is now known as arrested development, the girl has a six-year-old mind in a 19 year old body and that brings trouble from the men drooling over her in this Florida wasteland. Stritch is a young widow with a baby, perhaps too big-hearted for her own good, and even though she knows about Farrell's situation, hires her simply because of her feelings for Farrell's brother, Hill. Of course when Farrell becomes too close with one of the local young man, violence ensues because of her child like nature, bringing heartache for everybody.

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Friday, December 16 - Date with Death

Date with Death (1959)

A homeless guy gets kicked off a freight train and finds a car containing the body of the local town's new chief of police. He pulls the body out and drives into town, assuming the role of the dead man. He is then assigned the task of ridding the town of big-time racketeers.

Friday, December 16, 2022

Thursday, December 15 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? TV Movie (1980)

Bobby Jones, the cheerful son of a vicar, discovers a dying man on the rocks at the foot of some cliffs. The man's final, enigmatic words prompt Bobby to play amateur sleuth and resolve the mystery of the stranger's death.

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Wednesday, December 14 - The Driver's Seat

The Driver's Seat Original title: Identikit (1974)

Elizabeth Taylor, in one of her least-known performances, stars as a deranged, psychotic spinster looking for a man to whom she can give herself - completely. Set in Italy's romantic and tragedy-filled Rome, she embarks on a series of chilling adventures as she seeks to keep a date with a mystery lover - but when she finds him, she demands much more than love... She demands murder.

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Tuesday, December 13 - Inside Out

Inside Out (1986)

Suffering from agoraphobia, New Yorker Jimmy Morgan (Elliott Gould) leads a life of near-solitude in his apartment, but he finds plenty of ways to get by without stepping foot onto the city streets below, including home deliveries, call girls and house calls. However, Morgan's regular visitors -- friend Jack (Howard Hesseman) and prostitute Amy (Jennifer Tilly) -- recognize his problem and push for his recovery. Morgan instead spirals into self-destructive behavior but soon must face his phobia.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Monday, December 12 - Theodora Goes Wild

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) is secretly the author of a salacious novel written under a pen name. She must hide her identity from the residents of her small, conservative Connecticut town, who disapprove of the book. When Theodora goes to New York to visit her publisher (Thurston Hall), she meets the book's cover artist, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who tries to convince her to reveal herself as the real author. When Theodora falls for Michael, she soon finds that he has secrets of his own.

Monday, December 12, 2022

Sunday, December 11 - The Hard Way

The Hard Way (1943)

Ambitious Helen Chernin (Ida Lupino) pushes her talented younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with broken down song-and-dance man Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) so that the two women can leave the dirty steel town where they live. Runkel's partner Paul Collins (Dennis Morgan), however, sees through Helen's plan.

Helen continues driving her sister's career and eventually Katherine becomes a star on Broadway, while Runkel and Collins' act flounders. Success soon goes to Katherine's head and she becomes a fast-living party girl.

Time passes and Helen and Katherine run into Paul, now a successful band leader. He and Katherine soon fall in love. The two sisters eventually have a showdown on opening night of Katherine's latest show when Katherine discovers that Helen is also in love with Paul.

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Saturday, December 10 - Villain

Villain (1971)

Of East London, Vic Dakin dotes on his aged and largely bedridden mother. He is also the leader of a criminal gang whose proceeds are largely from the regular collection of "protection money" from their victims. Vic often uses brutal violence against enemies as well as "friends" to prove a point, the violence in and of itself which he seems to relish.

While not a regular means to money, Vic decides that his gang will work on a tip to rob a factory payroll, which, somewhat against his wants, will entail working with fellow criminal Frank Fletcher, who understands such a job better than Vic or anyone on his team.

Making the job more complex at this time are: the police being after Vic for the vicious attack on one of Vic's associates who acted as a police snitch; and Vic's association with Wolfie Lissner, who procures sexual services for a number of people, including some fairly high profile ones, and who often acts as Vic's "on demand" sexual partner.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Friday, December 9 - Who Killed Teddy Bear

Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)

Sal Mineo, wearing tight pants, a tight shirt and a tight jacket, is a busboy obsessed with record spinner Juliet Prowse. He makes dirty phone calls to her and follows her around NYC. Prowse suspects cop Jan Murray of being the perp and her lesbian boss Elaine Stritch thinks she's just plain crazy.

Friday, December 9, 2022

Thursday, December 8 - Horror of Dracula

Horror of Dracula Original title: Dracula (1958)

On a search for his missing friend Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen), vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is led to Count Dracula's (Christopher Lee) castle. Upon arriving, Van Helsing finds an undead Harker in Dracula's crypt and discovers that the count's next target is Harker's ailing fiancée, Lucy Holmwood (Carol Marsh). With the help of her brother, Arthur (Michael Gough), Van Helsing struggles to protect Lucy and put an end to Count Dracula's parasitic reign of terror.

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Wednesday, December 7 - Crosstrap

Crosstrap (1962)

Geoff and his wife have rented an isolated countryside bungalow to enable Geoff to finish his latest book without any distractions. Upon their arrival, they see a dead man in the bathtub and before they can report the discovery they are confronted by a gangland boss, and his henchmen who have been using the empty property as a hide-out.

Meanwhile another gang is trying to horn in on the action. Mayhem results.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Tuesday, December 6 - Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

In this sequel to "Knock On Any Door", the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father's footsteps...to the electric chair.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Monday, December 5 - Johnny Staccato: Solomon & Space Is the Place


High-profile attorney Solomon Bradshaw is desperate for a defense of his wealthy client Jessica Winthrop who is charged with murdering her husband. Bradshaw is utterly convinced of her innocence, yet Mrs. Winthrop refuses to answer any questions in her own defense, maintaining that it would violate her self-avowed pacifist ideals. Bradshaw intends to hire private detective Johnny Staccato to commit perjury in court and provide an alibi for Mrs. Winthrop. Johnny agrees on the condition that he is given the opportunity to meet Mrs. Winthrop first. In her holding cell, Johnny interrogates her and many shocking revelations are exposed.


Sun Ra--space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With Black Power on the rise, Ra disembarks and proclaims himself "the alter-destiny." He holds a myth-vs.-reality rap session with black inner-city youth at a rec center, threatening "to chain you up and take you with me, like they did you in Africa," if they resist his plea to go to outer space. He duels at cards with The Overseer, a satanic overlord, with the fate of the black race at stake. Ra wins the right to a world concert, which features great performance footage of the Arkestra. Agents (white) sent by the Overseer attempt to assassinate Ra, but he vanishes, rescues his people, and departs in his spaceship from the exploding planet Earth.

Monday, December 5, 2022

Sunday, December 4 - The Fiction-Makers

The Fiction-Makers (1968)

Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his authors, a secretive recluse called Amos Klein who writes a popular series of spy novels.

When he arrives at Klein's house in the country, he hears a woman's screams and several gunshots. Rushing to the rescue, he finds a woman tied up and gripping a revolver behind her back. He discovers that she is "Amos Klein", a woman who adopted a male pen name to increase sales of her novels. She explains that she has to be able to do everything her character in the novels does and that she was just doing some research. The pair are soon kidnapped by a group of people who claim to be members of S.W.O.R.D., the evil organization from Amos Klein's novels. Their leader, "Warlock", the mastermind of the group, mistakenly assumes that Simon Templar is Amos Klein and that the woman is his secretary. The kidnappers want Amos Klein to plot a grandiose heist.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Saturday, December 3 - Thieves' Highway

Thieves' Highway (1949)

A war-veteran-turned-truck driver Nico "Nick" Garcos arrives at home to find that his foreign-born father, a California fruit farmer, has lost his legs and was forced to sell his truck. He learns that his father was crippled at the hands of an unscrupulous produce dealer in San Francisco, Mike Figlia. Garcos vows revenge.

Garcos goes into business with Ed Kinney, who bought the Garcos truck, and drives a truckload of apples to San Francisco, where he runs into Figlia when his truck is immobilized with a suspiciously cut tire, blocking Figlia's busy wholesale stand, and cannot be towed.

Figlia hires a streetwalker, Rica, to seduce and preoccupy Nick in her room while his men unload the apples without Nick's permission. Figlia later pays Nick for his fruit, but that night his goons waylay and rob Nick of the cash.

Meanwhile, Kinney is killed when his own truck mechanically fails, veers off the road, and burns after speeding out of control down a long hill. Polly, Nick's hometown sweetheart, then arrives in the city ready to marry him, but leaves disillusioned after she finds him recovering from his beating in Rica's apartment and with no money. Nick and a friend finally confront the cowed bully Figlia at a tavern, and have him arrested, restoring Nick's family honor. Nick and Rica happily drive off and plan to get married.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Friday, December 2 - Gumshoe

Gumshoe (1971)

Ginley (Albert Finney) is a nightclub bingo caller eager for a career change. On his thirty-first birthday, he advertises himself as a private eye in the newspaper. He dons a trench coat, and begins engaging others in rapid-fire dialogue as if he were Humphrey Bogart, or some Dashiell Hammett creation.

Soon after, Ginley is phoned by a fat man, who gives him a package containing a gun, a photograph, and a large sum of money. Eventually Ginley is investigating a case involving smuggling of weapons as well as drugs. Ginley also finds himself at odds with his unsupportive brother, who offers Ginley payment to break off his investigations.

Eventually Ginley learns of his brother-in-law's involvement in the crimes at hand. Ginley faces a series of daunting tasks: solving the crimes, bringing justice to the smugglers (and a murderer), as well as maintaining his safety and sanity in the process.

Friday, December 2, 2022

Thursday, December 1 - Diary of a High School Bride


A 17-year-old high-school senior must justify her wedding to a 24-year-old law student to both her parents and her unbalanced ex-boyfriend.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Wednesday, November 30 - Robbery

Robbery (1967)

Based on the infamous "Great Train Robbery," this film follows Paul Clifton (Stanley Baker) as he forms a team to carry out an ambitious heist of cash from a government mail train traveling from Scotland to London. Clifton feels it necessary to add incarcerated money expert Robinson (Frank Finlay) to the group, so he organizes a jailbreak to free him as well. Although the theft succeeds, the criminals are still hounded by Scotland Yard detective Langdon (James Booth).

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Tuesday, November 29 - Train of Events

Train of Events (1949)

It begins with a train that is heading for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing and then flashes back and tells four different stories about some of the passengers.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Monday, November 28 - Her First Romance

Her First Romance (1951)

Margaret O' Brien is a girl who goes through the things that young teen-age girls go through - dating the guys, competing with other girls for the attention of a guy, robbing her father's safe to get her boyfriend's attention...

Monday, November 28, 2022

Sunday, November 27 - Libel

Libel (1959)

A Canadian commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden (Sir Dirk Bogarde) at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney (Sir Dirk Bogarde). The Canadian, the baronet, and the actor were all prisoners in the same German camp during the war and escaped together. One of them disappeared during the escape. Was he Sir Mark or Welney?

The tabloids have a field day with the Canadian's accusations, and Lady Margaret Lodden (Olivia de Havilland) urges her husband to sue for libel and engage the distinguished barrister Sir Wilfred (Robert Morley). The long drawn-out case is made complex by the fact that Sir Mark is not quite sure of his identity. Injured in the war, he stutters on occasion and has difficulty remembering portions of his life.

As the evidence sways back and forth in court, it begins to appear that Sir Mark is an impostor and the possible murderer of the missing baronet. Even his wife is convinced of his guilt and turns against him. She denounces him as a stranger who stole her love.

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Saturday, November 26 - It Started in Paradise

It Started in Paradise (1952)

An ambitious young fashion assistant, Martha (Jane Hylton), convinces her mentor, Alice (Martita Hunt), to take a sabbatical in order to refresh her creative juices. The older designer does so, and Martha immediately sweeps in with her own designs, which are accepted with praise from the fashion world. Martha solidifies her career as a trendsetter over the next 10 years, but her own assistant, Alison (Muriel Pavlow), begins to make moves to overtake her just when Martha needs her most.

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Friday, November 25 - A Killer Walks

A Killer Walks (1952)

This is a story about two brothers, Ned (Laurence Harvey) and Frankie (Trader Faulkner), living on a farm with their old grandmother. Ned despises being a farm labourer and befriends a girl from the city. She does not like a farm life either and dreams of having her own hair saloon.

Frankie is a somnambulist and one night he kills a bull with his gun. He also has many knives. This gives Ned a frightening idea: What if he stabs his grandmother with a knife and blame Frankie for the murder? Then he will be the owner of the farm and buy a hair saloon to his beloved one.

Friday, November 25, 2022

Thursday, November 25 - The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister.

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Wednesday, November 23 - Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet (1952)

Broderick Crawford stars as the editor-in-chief of a scandal sheet. He runs into an ex-wife whom he dumped years earlier, before changing his name and climbing to his current position. The woman wants to spoil his success, so he kills her. Of course, such a sensational and mysterious murder is just the kind of thing his newspaper covers, and the story, much to Crawford's chagrin, makes his paper more popular than ever. Reporters Donna Reed and John Derek are getting closer and closer to the truth, and Crawford, though he tries to throw them off his scent, is basically trapped by his position.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Tuesday, November 22 - Railroaded!

Railroaded! (1947)

Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend, mob collector Duke Martin, to stage a robbery of the day's take (any conniving was done before the movie started). But the caper turns violent; a cop and Duke's partner are shot; and Duke arranges for innocent Steve Ryan, owner of the car (laundry van) they stole, to be framed. At first homicide detective Mickey Ferguson thinks Steve is guilty, despite his attraction to Steve's sister Rosie. And the suave but ruthless Duke won't hesitate to keep it that way with more of his perfumed bullets...

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Monday, November 21 - The Big Night

The Big Night (1951)

George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. That night, George's adored father Andy is savagely beaten by sportswriter Al Judge. Traumatized and unable to learn why it happened, George goes gunning for Judge. His mission becomes an odyssey through the town's seamy side, and his coming of age is more of a trial by fire than he bargained for.

Monday, November 21, 2022

Sunday, November 20 - The Trespasser

The Trespasser (1947)

Stephanie "Stevie" Carson, a newspaper reporter (no, she's not a reporter yet), and Denny Butler (Danny Butler - he's in charge of the newspaper morgue), and the feature editor (Bill Monroe) on the same newspaper, set out to track down a gang of literary forgers who are making a fortune off of selling fake first editions.

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Saturday, November 19 - Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild (1953)

In a hypothetical country in South America, Jeff Dawson and his partner Dutch Peterson have invested all their savings in a lease contract to explore oil. However, their expectation ruins when bandits blow the derrick of the oil well with dynamite and they get stranded in the town without any money. In despair, they accept the risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise US$ 800.00 and Dutch is shot in the leg by road thieves; but Jeff discovers that their employer is a trickster and they area not paid for their job. When their former friend Paco Conway meets them, Jeff finds that he is a local tycoon and is married with Marina Conway, who had a past with him. Paco hires Jeff his foreman to help him with his eighteen oil wells while Dutch is recovering in the hospital. Meanwhile the criminals press Paco to pay US$ 50,000.00 otherwise they will blow his wells and Marina revives her love and desire for Jeff, leading the trio to a tragedy.

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Friday, November 18 - I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Glamorous starlet Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis) is murdered, and the cops want to pin the killing on her manager, fast-talking Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature). But the more Vicky's sensible sister, Jill (Betty Grable), finds out about Frankie, the less she suspects him of the crime. As Jill and Frankie fall in love, the detective in charge of the case (Laird Cregar) develops a morbid obsession with punishing Frankie...

Friday, November 18, 2022

Thursday, November 17 - The Money Trap

The Money Trap (1965)

Joe Baron (Glenn Ford) is a debt-ridden detective married to free-spending Lisa (Elke Sommer). During a homicide investigation he learns that Dr. Van Tilden (Joseph Cotten), who alleges he shot a burglar, also moonlights as a narcotics supplier. Believing Van Tilden's money stash is ripe for the picking, he plans a robbery. Things get dicey when Baron's partner, Delanos (Ricardo Montalban), demands a share and he discovers that the burglar's widow is his former flame, Rosalie (Rita Hayworth).

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Wednesday, November 16 - Man Beast

Man Beast (1956)

Connie Hayward (Virginia Maynor) is concerned about her brother who disappeared during his scientific expedition into the Himalayas, where he was searching for the elusive yeti. Determined to find him, Connie sets out to scale the Himalayas and locate his camp. During her trek, she survives attacks by groups of vicious yetis. When she arrives at her brother's final campsite, she encounters a mysterious native guide, Varga (George Skaff), who harbors a sinister secret.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Tuesday, November 15 - Betrayed

Betrayed (1954)

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf" (Victor Mature). As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Monday, November 14 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Outlaw in Town

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Outlaw in Town (Season 6 Episode 7 - aired Nov 15, 1960)

Tony Lorca arrives in a small town in the middle of a blizzard to a less-than-pleasant reception in the local saloon. One of the locals says he's seen him before but leaves the saloon before trouble starts. Lorca loses his gun in a poker game at which point the same local returns with a sheriff's poster: Lorca is a wanted man with a $5,000 reward on his head. Seeing no way out, Lorca auctions himself to the highest bidder, offering to turn himself in without a fuss. His plan is to spend the money and have a good time before he meets the hangman. Turns out he killed the saloon girl's husband some time ago and she has something else in mind.

Monday, November 14, 2022

Sunday, November 13 - Moontide

Moontide (1942)

Bobo (Jean Gabin), a lonely longshoreman with a nasty drinking problem, awakes after a rough bender with no memory of the night before and an unsettling suspicion that he has killed someone. Deeply rattled, he buries himself in work on a remote barge and finds a new distraction after rescuing a suicidal waitress (Ida Lupino) from the cruel waters. Soon love blossoms between this melancholy pair, but Tiny (Thomas Mitchell), Bobo's jealous pal, has dark plans to regain Bobo's full attention.

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Saturday, November 12 - Wind Across the Everglades

Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

An Audubon Society agent (Christopher Plummer) fights a poacher (Burl Ives) of plume birds in early 1900s Florida.