Saturday, April 27, 2024

Friday, April 26 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): All Work and No Pay


Jeannie believes that Marty is trying to contact her when objects begin to move around in her house but it is a ploy by the Foster brothers, spiritualists down on their luck, who offer to pay Jeannie to send them clients anxious to hear messages from loved ones who have crossed over. Sensing a scam, Jeff sends Laura, an actress, to pose as a widow and engage the Fosters. He and Jeannie arrive at the Fosters' home and believe, erroneously, that they have killed her. However, the brothers attempt to murder Jeannie and Jeff by propelling objects using electricity.

Friday, April 26, 2024

Thursday, April 25 - Bourbon Street Beat: Kill with Kindness


A rich old woman has collected a group of misfits around her, dreaming that her act of kindness will change their lives. Cal discovers someone is trying to poison her, but who, and more importantly, how?

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Wednesday, April 24 - Highway Patrol: Armored Car


Under the direction of Tiny Elton, Don Brueger and Rusty Schilling hijack an armored car and take it to a remote area with a $25,000 payroll AND guard Bill Franklin still in the back. Elton utilizes a ruse to get Bill's wife Lea into his car. He then drives to the armored car's location and threatens to kill her if Franklin does not come out with the money. Bill complies, but the three take the money and keep Lea hostage in an attempt to ensure their safe passage. When they find themselves trapped in their car at a Highway Patrol roadblock, Dan Mathews knows that Elton is capable of killing Lea whether or not the car is released, and he finds himself in one of the most intense confrontations of his career.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Tuesday, April 23 - Hawaiian Eye: A Dime a Dozen


David Blair (Donald May), keeps the combination to a military safe in his wallet. He and Lynn (Shirley Knight) have fallen in love, in spite of his engagement to Rikki Whitman (Joanna Barnes). His wallet is stolen, but the cash returned to the guard gate. The next morning, the safe is missing $9,000. Rikki learns that he is confined to quarters pending the outcome of an investigation carried out by Tracy Steele. Rikki dumps David and pursues Tracy, who is not interested in her. Dan Holt (Wayne Heffley) is the one who took the wallet and robbed the safe. Once the money is recovered, Rikki attempts to reconnect with David, but he chooses to remain with Lynn.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Monday, April 22 - The Champions: The Iron Man


The Champions are required to prevent an assassination attempt on the life of the vain, womanizing El Caudillo,who is known as the Iron Man, former ruler of South American pocket state La Revada, now in exile in the south of France. So as not to alert him to their true purpose the trio pose as new domestic staff. Sharron's super powers detect and foil the presence of a sniper but the would-be killers send El Caudillo a box of cigars, which are poisoned. He is about to light one. . .

Monday, April 22, 2024

Sunday, April 21 - Outside the Law

Outside the Law (1956)

Ray Danton plays an Army Staff Sergeant who has been called back from Europe to help the U. S. Treasury crack a counterfeiting case which has been plaguing them for 15 years. Danton had been permitted to join the Army as a condition of his parole, having been imprisoned for a minor offence when younger. He has done well in the army, been promoted, won a medal, was wounded, the whole lot. He is now offered the chance to have his "slate wiped clean" for his earlier crime by cooperating in solving the case. 

The head of the enquiry team in Washington is his own father! They are severely estranged and tensions run high between them. 

The reason why Danton is considered important is that he knew a member of the counterfeiting gang who was recently murdered. He is asked to call on that man's widow (played by Leigh Snowden) and see if he can glean any information on the gang.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Saturday, April 20 - Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady (1933)

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Rich playboy Tod Newton discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Friday, April 19 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): A Disturbing Case


Hearing Jeff talk to Marty, Marty's wife Jeannie believes he has snapped and he is referred to a psychiatric unit run by Dr. Conrad. Marty goes to visit him and learns that Conrad is a criminal who hypnotizes people into giving him their valuables, but Conrad gets Jeff to tell him about Marty and then erases him from Jeff's memory by using drugs.

Friday, April 19, 2024

Thursday, April 18 - Naked City: Show Me the Way to Go Home


A young man with emotional problems becomes violent when his mother wants him to be mentally evaluated at Bellevue. After assaulting her boyfriend, the NYPD attempts to find him - and his missing knife. Meanwhile, he is attracted to a charitable girl who is trying to help a confused old woman to find her way home.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Wednesday, April 17 - The Siege of Sidney Street

The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)

In London 1911 a stand off is sparked between Russian anarchists fund raising to help the fight to liberate Latvia and 100 police officers. A young woman trapped in the middle thinks back to the events that led up to the siege, mainly a failed robbery that results in the death of two of the anarchists.

The plot is a dramatised version of true events. . .

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Tuesday, April 16 - All That Money Can Buy


A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Monday, April 15 - The Case of Charles Peace

The Case of Charles Peace (1949)

A picture framer named Charles Peace turns second-story man in 1870s Victorian England and winds up hanged for murder.

Monday, April 15, 2024

Sunday, April 14 - The Last of the Knucklemen

The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)

The foreman of a mining company in the Australian outback, who goes by the name of Tarzan (Gerard Kennedy), keeps his hard-drinking gang of men in line by virtue of his brawling skills. One of the men, known as Pansy (Michael Preston), has a habit of irritating all his coworkers -- and, when he mouths off one too many times for Tarzan's liking, the two of them decide to settle their differences once and for all with a bare-knuckle fight that grabs everyone's attention.

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Saturday, April 13 - Alias John Preston

Alias John Preston (1955)

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.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Friday, April 12 - An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls (1954)

Based on the play by J.B. Priestley, this British mystery follows Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) as he investigates the apparent suicide of Eva Smith (Jane Wenham), a young working-class woman. Paying a visit to the wealthy Birling household, Poole arrives in the middle of a dinner party and slowly reveals how each family member, including stern patriarch Arthur Birling (Arthur Young) and his uptight wife, Sybil (Olga Lindo), could have had a hand in Eva's death.

Friday, April 12, 2024

Thursday, April 11 - Naked City: Which Is Joseph Creeley?


A man sentenced to die for the coldblooded murder of another man, is given an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. When the tumor is removed, he becomes a docile individual with no memory of the murder he committed. He is retried. Will he be found not guilty this time?

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Wednesday, April 10 - A Killing in a Small Town


In a quiet Texas town, Candy Morrison and her husband, Dale, seem to live an ordinary life -- but that all changes when she begins sleeping with her husband's friend Stan Blankenship. When Stan's wife winds up dead -- the victim of a brutal ax murder -- Candy's arrest leaves the community in disbelief. And, as her attorney Ed Reivers attempts to prove her innocence, he makes a shocking discovery about his client.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Tuesday, April 9 - Burke's Law: Who Killed What's His Name?


The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to solving the mystery is locating one of perpetrators, a man so average in appearance that nobody can clearly describe him.

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Monday, April 8 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): My Late Lamented Friend and Partner


Private eyes Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are gathering information to allow Fay Sorrensen to divorce her cheating husband but he murders her and makes it look like a heart attack. Marty is suspicious but is killed by a hit-and-run driver before he can prove that Sorrensen is a murderer.

His white-suited ghost gets Jeff to meet him at his grave in the cemetery and they expose the murderer between them. However, Marty has been out of his grave beyond the dawn and must wander the Earth as a ghost for the next century, though only Jeff can see him.

Monday, April 8, 2024

Sunday, April 7 - Confessions: Two Faces of Evil


From the Christmas eve murder of a police officer, 2 confessions come forward; (1) Robert Paul Berndt, has a rather heavy criminal background, (2)'William Mothershed, is a college student with no previous record. Both confessions stand up well to scrutiny.

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Saturday, April 6 - Highway Patrol: 2 Episodes


A thief named Wally steals expensive automobiles, then has one of his two female accomplices (Ann and Norma) forge registration certificates and sell the cars upstate in well-to-do suburbs before their status as stolen cars is widely known. Dan Mathews finds out about the scheme when Officer Dorsey brings in a car theft suspect named Joe Ramo. When Ramo actually turns out to be a victim, Dan and Officer Dorsey check out "cars for sale" ads in higher-income areas upstate. Posing as "Mr. Daniels", Dan answers an ad placed by Ann and is offered a near-new luxury sedan for $3,900. When her background story proves false, Dan and Officer Dorsey enlist the aid of the Lakewood National Bank to set a trap for the three thieves.


Haldor Mattern believes he is a famous concert violinist and is capable of being urbane and refined one moment and homicidal the next. When he escapes from Riverhead Hospital, Dan Mathews and his officers set up roadblocks and pursue all leads. Unsuspecting James Wilson offers Mattern a ride and is subsequently murdered. Mattern assumes Wilson's identity and gives a ride to occasional concert pianist Eileen Haley. When Wilson's body is found, Dan is able to surmise the direction in which Mattern is traveling. Mattern becomes highly upset when Eileen Haley looks at his hands and asks about the extent of his musical background. He stops the car abruptly and starts to slowly strangle her. Dan arrives in time to discern what is happening in the parked car and must use guile to try to prevent Mattern from committing a second murder.

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Friday, April 5 - The Human Jungle: A Woman with Scars


Geoffrey Petlen is worried that his youngest wife Eleanor has severe mental health problems, at a dinner party she places her crystal stemware down the easte disposal, and later shoots a trio of swans on a lake. Corder does his best for his patient.

Dr Corder believes that Eleanor has deep rooted issues. Before long Dr Corder has issues of his own. Eleanor claims that he attacked her and is suing him.

Now Dr Corder is fighting for his reputation. It seems Eleanor is hell bent on revenge, Dr Corder once treated her married lover, a music conductor and Dr Corder told him to break the affair.

Friday, April 5, 2024

Thursday, April 4 - Bourbon Street Beat: Portrait of Lenore


Rex is called in when a famous painting "The Lenore" is stolen from a local art gallery. His expertise and cunning are required when a mysterious woman approaches the gallery with an offer to return the painting.

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Wednesday, April 3 - Hawaiian Eye: Shipment from Kihei


Rancher Bart Harrison (Gerald Mohr) at Kihei on the island of Maui hires Tracy to find who and why his cattle are being stolen on their way to market. Tom Lopaka signs on as a Hawaiian cowboy (paniola) to see what's going on. Local businessman Fred Noble (Mark Roberts) is married to Bart's former lover Emily (Joan Vohs). Because of the past relationship, Bart suspects Fred of the cattle theft, after Fred finds a set of altered bookkeeping records, and believes he's being framed. Tracy suspects that Fred and foreman Jose Kosster (H.M. Wynant) might be partners in the cattle thefts.

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Tuesday, April 2 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: 2 Episodes


Colonel March is back in Paris and enjoying the company of Inspector Goron of the Surete at a bar.

While having a glass of Carcazon which seems off to Goron. He discusses with the Colonel their differing methods of detection.

Goron prefers to use the heart. The Colonel uses his head and prefers logic.

When a customer called Phillipe in the bar dies. It turns out that he was poisoned and he was also a monk as well a connoisseur of Carcazon.

The culprit might be Francois who was with Phillipe. It turns out that Francois was also a monk who came to Paris and fell in love.

Now Francois has returned to his remote monastery and taken a vow of silence. A monastery that makes Carcazon.

Goron meanwhile suspects the singer in the bar, the one who seemed close to Francois.


A young man, Guy Wallingford, bursts into March's office and exclaims "They've stolen the monkey." Guy explains that he he had already talked to Inspector Ames and that Ames told him to go to March saying that March "handled the monkey business end of the profession." Guy is a brilliant but mentally unstable scientist who works at the lab of the eminent scientist, Sir George Watkins. Guy and two other researchers are doing cancer research using monkeys to test their theories. Guy insists one of the test monkeys has been substituted. Guy becomes increasingly distraught and when he later is found dead from gas, Ames readily believes it to have been suicide. There is a very clever solution to the mystery which March in his usual urbane manner sorts out.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Monday, April 1 - Egypt by Three

Egypt by Three (1953)

3 Tales of Egypt include a knife thrower's love triangle, cholera (aka bubonic plague) and Mecca, and con men and holy bread (and diamonds).

Monday, April 1, 2024

Sunday, March 31 - The Champions: To Trap a Rat


Junkie Jane Purcell crashes her car after getting a fix, making her the twelfth drug addict in London to collapse in the wake of being fed a lethal new drug. Sharron poses as an addict and, having successfully tagged along with the recovered Jane, locates the main dealer, shadowing him to the zoo, where he meets up with a peanut seller. The drugs are actually hidden in the peanuts. Craig, realizing that this is the Mr. Big, gets to meet him but he is walking into a trap, involving a foreign embassy. As ever, a Champion must be rescued by colleagues.

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Saturday, March 30 - Skip Tracer

Skip Tracer (1977)

An accomplished repo man from Vancouver takes a new hire under his wing, while their morals and limits are tested on the job.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Friday, March 29 - Naked City: The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff


Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-ambitious wife who'll leave him if he won't go along with her scheme. The child's mother is afraid to go to the police, but a nosy neighbor pieces together the story for the detectives. The husband is torn about the crime, because he loves children, but his wife is bitter from having to parent her younger siblings.

Friday, March 29, 2024

Thursday, March 28 - Pier 5, Havana

Pier 5, Havana (1959)

Miami businessman Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) arrives in Havana in the wake of the revolution, looking for his army buddy Hank (Logan Field), a hard-drinking mechanic who has suddenly vanished. Steve follows a trail that leads him to the apartment of his old flame -- Hank's current wife, Monica (Allison Hayes) -- and to a boat shop where he is beaten up by strangers and warned to leave Cuba. He discovers that Hank's disappearance is linked to a conspiracy to depose Fidel Castro.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Wednesday, March 27 - Goodnight, My Love

Goodnight, My Love (TV Movie 1972)

Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Tuesday, March 26 - The Salzburg Connection

The Salzburg Connection (1972)

An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the photographer seems to have vanished, leaving a near panic-stricken wife and a sinister, secretive brother. Before he knows it, the lawyer finds himself mixed up with spies, assassins, and the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis during World War II of people who collaborated with them.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Monday, March 25 - Bourbon Street Beat: The Black Magnolia


Laura Montgomery hires Cal to help her find the $75,000 in cash that her grandfather had hidden somewhere on the riverboat Mississippi Queen over forty years ago.

Monday, March 25, 2024

Sunday, March 24 - Highway Patrol: Motel Robbery


Karen Edwards, her older sister Joan, and Joan's husband Bart rob motels by using trickery rather than violence. Their robbery of the upscale Monticello Hotel goes awry when the manager returns to the office unexpectedly and Bart is forced to shoot him. Though critically injured, the manager is able to give Dan Mathews essential information about the perpetrators. At Karen's urging, the increasingly reckless Bart goes ahead with his plans to rob the Eagle Motel at gunpoint. Joan is fearful of facing a murder charge and gives a description of Bart and his vehicle when she and Karen are stopped by a Highway Patrol officer. Dan Mathews spots the car, and is ultimately forced to face Bart in a man-to-man gun battle.

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Saturday, March 23 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Snooky Martinelli?


At a jet-set party, it appears to Tim and Les that the victim of a fatal shooting is - - - - Burke! Was Burke really the victim and who was the shooter among the party guests: a wrestler, a racecar driver, a nightclub pianist, a professional ""houseguest"", or a sexy barefoot ""angel""? Or was it a playboy's glamorous wife, who has a ""perfect alibi""? After the killer takes another shot, the question becomes - was the actual victim the intended victim?

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Thursday, March 21 - The Invisible Man: Man in Disguise


After a crook masquerades as the Invisible Man in order to smuggle a supply of cocaine from Paris to London, Brady teams up with the police, in the form of the attractive Sergeant Winter (Jeanette Stark), in order to run them to ground...

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Wednesday, March 20 - The Invisible Man: The White Rabbit


French authorities call Peter when a doctor brings in a rabbit she says materialized before her eyes. It was found just outside the family estate of Mssr. Roche, a Nazi collaborator during the war. The two investigate, learning that the secretive man has been funding research on invisibility for years, hoping to create an invisible army with which he'll dominate France.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Tuesday, March 19 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Murder Is Permanent


There is murder at the beauty parlour.

Mrs Greer is an old friend of Colonel March who has sent Colonel Ames to see her because Mrs Greer's dog was poisoned.

Ames was not too pleased with this assignment. Later Mrs Greer is found dead in her beauty parlour.

Suspects range from Mrs Greer's staff to her daughter in law. None of whom liked her very much

Colonel March seems to have got all of them to confess but only one of them is the real murderer.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Monday, March 18 - There's Always a Woman

There's Always a Woman (1938)

Melvyn Douglas is a former detective with the D.A.'s office who has opened his own office. However, there are no clients after a few months, so he returns to the D.A. Sally, his wife, is supposed to close the office, but when a Mrs. Fraser (Mary Astor) enters, Sally passes herself as a detective and gets the case - plus a retainer. It then becomes a competition between husband and wife to see which one will solve the case, which becomes more complicated, involving murder and blackmail.

Monday, March 18, 2024

Sunday, March 17 - Highway Patrol: Ex Con


Reformed ex-con Al Baldwin is unpleasantly surprised when former cell-mates Tom Wright and Frank Jennings visit his rural garage and tell him of their plan to steal $12,000 in cash from the regular farm combine shipment. When Al refuses to help, Wright's wife Delle holds Al's wife Cathy at gunpoint while the robbery takes place. The money is taken as planned, but guard Sid Wells is murdered and Sergeant Walters quickly finds the abandoned truck. He and Dan Mathews investigate and deduce that the Baldwins are in trouble when the nervous Al introduces Tom Wright as his new "helper". They lure Wright away from the house and capture him, but find that they must utilize a high-risk ruse in order to get close enough to rescue the Baldwins and capture Delle Wright and Frank Jennings.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Saturday, March 16 - Calling Paul Temple

Calling Paul Temple (1948)

A woman is found dead on a train, and the name "Rex" has been written on the pull-down blind. It is the third in a mysterious string of "Rex" murders, all carried out on trains. And soon there's a fourth murder. All the victims are discovered to have been the wealthy patients of a doctor who specialises in nervous disorders.

The detective novelist Paul Temple and his wife Steve are called in to help Scotland Yard's Sir Graham Forbes solve the case before the serial killer strikes again. While at a nightclub, they receive a message from singer Norma Rice concerning the murders. But before Sir Graham has the chance to speak to her she dies, falling down the stairs in the middle of her second number, What's Cooking in Cabaret?.

The suspects include the Egyptian therapist Dr Kohima, his mysterious secretary Mrs Trevelyan, and a salesman, Hugh Pryse of the Quick Boil Kettle Company (in the next carriage when one of the murders takes place).

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Friday, March 15 - Honey West: The Gray Lady


A charming jewel thief operating in Hollywood gives Honey West the slip.

It's the old I've dropped my contact lense trick!

When a spoilt film star arrives with a valuable diamond. Honey and Sam know what the next likely target will be for the thief.

Sam even sets up a television in a hotel that watches you.

However there is an inside man.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Thursday, March 14 - Personal Property

Personal Property (1937)

In London, businessman Claude Dabney, who is in partnership with his father Cosgrove Dabney in the family's ladies' undergarments company, and widowed American socialite Crystal Wetherby, are engaged to be married. What neither Claude or Crystal knows is that the other is only marrying for money, Claude who needs Crystal's non-existent money to finance the struggling company, and Crystal who needs Claude's non-existent money to pay off her debts while continuing to live in a means to which she has now been accustomed.

Crystal, from a humble background, made her way to Europe having won a contest, met big game hunter Wetherby, who became her first husband, on board the transatlantic sailing, he leaving her with all these debts upon his passing.

Their situation becomes more complicated when Claude's brother, ne'er-do-well but good-hearted Raymond Dabney, is released from prison, he serving time for robbery. While Raymond's mother is on his side, his father and brother just want to get rid of him, they willing to pay him off to leave town and their lives for good, he holding out for a better deal than their offer.

When Raymond meets Crystal, not knowing who she is let alone that she is Claude's fiancée, he falls in love with her at first sight. Although she wants nothing to do with him, he is able to infiltrate her life. The complication with Raymond entering the picture is ratcheted up a notch when he learns both about her debts and she being Claude's fiancée, he thus seemingly holding the trump cards in what happens with this collective.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Wednesday, March 13 - The Riverside Murder

The Riverside Murder (1935)

Robert Norman is shot dead at his home. Inspector Winton arrives on the scene to investigate the murder and finds that it has occurred shortly before an important meeting between a group of five financiers of whom Norman was one. Budding journalist Claire Haines also manages to talk her way into the house in an attempt to impress her editor by gathering exclusive news on the murder. The other financiers realize they are also in danger when another one of their number is murdered.

Inspector Winton sets a trap for the killer using one of the financiers as bait.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Tuesday, March 12 - Blind Spot

Blind Spot (1958)

An American Army officer, Robert Mackenzie is laid up in a military hospital waiting for an operation. He has lost his sight due to a head injury. The medical types need to wait for the injury to heal before operating to repair his eyesight. Mackenzie is invited off base to attend a party at a fellow officer's place. He gets a ride but is dropped off at the wrong address.

He enters the house and stumbles over a dead body. The killers, Ronan O'Casey and George Pastell see that Mackenzie is blind, so they give him a belt on the head and dump him down a flight of stairs. Mackenzie wakes up in a hospital with assorted bruises etc. He tells everyone about tripping over a body but no one believes him.

Several months later he has his vision restored. He now spends his time trying to prove his story. He is soon mixed up with diamond smugglers, killers and a crooked aircraft mechanic, Gordon Jackson. Also in the mix are the father, John Le Mesurier and sister, Delphi Lawrence of a supposedly dead pilot.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Monday, March 11 - The Man Outside

The Man Outside (1967)

McLean is called back to London where he gets fired after sticking up for his assistant, who's caught selling information to the Russians. Soon he's contacted by George Venaxas a Greek operative who want's to sell information on the whereabouts of a Russian secret police official hiding in London. McLean hesitates, but agrees. The plan backfires when both the CIA and KGB are willing to do anything to get their hands on the Russian defector. Venaxas is murdered, and a trail of double crosses follows.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Sunday, March 10 - Date Bait

Date Bait (1960)

A Troubled young man, Brad, returns home after six months rehab. On his first night he starts a fight in dance club with a man named Logan because he was dancing with Sue, a girl whom Brad is in love with. Brad's older brother ends the fight just to beat Logan up later himself. Although Sue's strict father is strongly against her relationship with Logan, they secretly get married in Las Vegas. Soon Brad's love turns to obsession and at the same time he falls back into using drugs. Sue's father takes matters into his own hands.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Saturday, March 9 - Laughing Sinners

Laughing Sinners (1931)

This one is about a chorus girl-type who gets jilted, hooks up with a Salvation Army man, then is enticed back to the old sinful ways for a night with the man who jilted her and finally realizes she is better off with the good guy and the good morals.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Friday, March 8 - Life in Danger

Life in Danger (1959)

Hazel Ashley, an emotionally unstable adolescent, meets a casual labourer and befriends him. At the same time, news comes that Miller, a convicted child murderer, has just escaped from a nearby lunatic asylum.

Hazel goes missing, and when local villagers led by Major Peters search for her, they find her in a barn with the labourer, whom they assume is the escaped killer. Peters shoots and wounds him. When the police arrive they report that Miller has previously surrendered himself.

Friday, March 8, 2024

Thursday, March 7 - The Amazing Mr. Williams

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary--or is he married to his job? For every time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar.