A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
Sunday, November 17 - One Step Beyond: The Dark Room
An American photographer in France asks her new landlady for models with interesting faces. When a haunted-looking man shows up in her room she is thrilled; but the reason for his sadness will prove to be as horrible as who - or what - he really is.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Saturday, November 16 - Once Upon a Honeymoon
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
American burlesque dancer Ginger Rogers jumps at the opportunity to marry a wealthy Austrian baron (Walter Slezak). Little does she know her new husband is a Nazi. Enter radio news correspondent Cary Grant, who falls for Ginger while trying to do a story on her husband. He follows the pair all over Europe. When she's forced to face just who her husband is and what is really going on in the world, Ginger decides to flee with Cary.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15 - The Human Jungle: Wild Goose Chase
Mary (Francesca Annis) is a bright promising student. She has placed herself under great pressure to try to get into an Oxbridge university.
The episode opens with Mary who is babysitting to stage a robbery and ties herself up. Her hysterical reaction arouses suspicion.
The neighbourhood is on the lookout for the culprit. An odd job man called Jones with an interest in gardening is arrested for the robbery.
The police superintendent (Tony Steedman) is not convinced that Jones is the culprit and thinks that he is mentally ill.
Dr Corder finds himself taking an interest in both Mary and Jones. Corder figures that Jones is a recovering alcoholic who is on the edge of a breakdown.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Thursday, November 14 - The Frozen Ghost
The Frozen Ghost (1945)
When famous radio hypnotist Alex Gregor (Lon Chaney Jr.) accidentally causes the death of an audience member during a broadcast, his guilt leads him to break off his engagement to Maura Daniel (Evelyn Ankers) and take a job at a wax museum. Jealousy over the attention paid to his new co-worker causes mentally unbalanced sculptor Rudi Poldan (Martin Kosleck) to lash out at museum owner Valerie Monet (Tala Birell) and her niece Nina (Elena Verdugo) in a horrifying fashion.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Wednesday, October 13 - Hawaiian Eye: Bequest of Arthur Goodwin
The widow of the late Arthur Goodwin hires Tracy to help break her husband's will. It seems that Arthur left the family business to his secretary, who seems bound and determined to run it into the ground.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12 - Where There's Life
Where There's Life (1947)
Michael Valentine (Bob Hope) is happily employed as a radio show host in New York City and is set to marry his sweetheart, Hazel (Vera Marshe). But his life is turned upside down when a distant and unknown relative, the king of Barovia, is shot in an assassination attempt. Now Michael must take up the crown, but first he must make it out of Manhattan with lovely General Grimovitch (Signe Hasso), avoiding would-be killers as well as Hazel's tough policeman brother (William Bendix).
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Monday, November 11 - Satan Met a Lady
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Sardonic detective Shane, thrown out of one town for bringing trouble, heads for home and his ex-partner's detective agency. The business is in a sad way, and Shane, who has had the forethought to provide himself with a 250-dollar commission from an old lady on the train, is welcomed with open arms. When pretty Valerie Purvis walks in the next day willing to pay over the odds to put a tail on the man who did her wrong, Shane's way with the ladies looks like paying off yet again. But things start to go wrong when his partner is murdered, and Shane himself comes home to find his apartment wrecked by a gentlemanly crook who comes back to apologise -- and to tell him a fascinating fairy-story about the fabled Horn of Roland that looks like not being so mythical after all. Miss Purvis wants protection. The police want answers. And all sorts of people want the 'French horn'... but Shane is one jump ahead of everyone all the way. Well, almost.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Sunday, November 10 - The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
In San Francisco, wealthy Ruth Wonderly (Bebe Daniels) hires amorous gumshoe Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) and his partner, Miles Archer, to trail her sister's kidnapper, Floyd Thursby. Wonderly's story is revealed as a ruse when both Archer and Thursby are later found murdered. Soon, Spade discovers that Wonderly and three other criminal oddballs -- including rotund Casper Gutman (Dudley Digges) -- are in search of an elusive jewel-covered statuette known as "the Maltese Falcon."
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Saturday, November 9 - One Step Beyond: Night of April 14th
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Friday, November 8 - The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
In this noir classic, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam's partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese falcon.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7 - The Champions: The Mission
On the face of it Winthrop House Mission in rural Surrey is a home for down-and-outs, run by Dr. Pederson, but it is in fact a cover. Pederson helps criminals escape by performing plastic surgery to give them new faces. Sharron and Craig pose as gangsters requiring this service but when Craig recognizes Pederson as an ex-Nazi who performed operations in Dachau, he aims to kill them both. Fortunately Richard is on hand, masquerading as a down-and-out to telepathically communicate the plan to his colleagues.
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