Insurance investigator Steve Curry accidentally picks up a case of bank notes. He discovers that the case belongs to Helen Grant, who runs a fur business with her brother Robert. The money is for payment to an escaped convict who has smuggled a consignment of Persian lamb skins from a crook named Zacki. It transpires that the furs are disease-ridden. Pursuing Zacki to his hide-out, Robert is murdered and the money stolen by Steve's friend Tim Bowers.
Real Cute Movie on Last Night!
Monday, January 13, 2025
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Saturday, January 11 - Easy Money
Easy Money (1948)
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered that the coupon apparently never get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds that life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of big money even turns some people into criminals, such as when a coupon checker is tempted by his nightclub-singer girlfriend to cheat the company.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Friday, January 10 - Crime Traveller: Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity & Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kiss-Off
Jeff Slade's world is turned upside down when he discovers his friend Holly has a secret. She can travel in time.
Ernie Walters has just been released after six years in prison. Falsely convicted of a gas station robbery, he now wants to get even with both the detective and the district attorney who convicted him. Wearing a disguise, Ernie robs the local tax office but drops his hotel room key as he makes his escape. He's quickly re-arrested by the same detective who arrested him six years earlier, but the witnesses can't quite identify him. .
Friday, January 10, 2025
Thursday, January 9 - One Step Beyond: The Vision & The Devil's Laughter
On a battlefield during the first World War, a group of French soldiers experience something which causes them to drop their weapons and walk away from the fight. During their subsequent court-martial, each gives his differing account of what he saw, which all seem impossible to believe.
Alfred Ryder stars as convicted and condemned murderer John Marriott, who is on the gallows awaiting to be hanged, desperate and scared for it to be stopped. He strangely gets his wish when the noose breaks, and after Marriott claims to have seen his true cause of death(not hanging) becomes jubilant and defiant to the authorities, who are indeed unable to hang him! He will however not escape justice, as an ironic and abrupt fate awaits him much sooner than he thinks.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Wednesday, January 8 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Who Killed Cock Robin?
My Partner the Ghost [Original title: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) TV Series]: Who Killed Cock Robin? (Season 1 Episode 14 - aired Dec 21, 1969)
Mr. Laverick, a solicitor, approaches Jeff with a bizarre assignment - to act as minder to an aviary of birds belonging to the late, eccentric Mrs. Wentworth Howe. Her will stipulates that her relatives will get a share of her large fortune only if the birds are all dead - and someone does kill one of the birds. However it is the relatives who are dying like flies and soon only one, Sandra, is left - making her the chief suspect. The murderer, however, turns out to be outside of the family but his efforts to kill the birds only end in his own destruction - with a little help from Marty.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Tuesday, January 7 - Busting
Busting (1974)
LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing petty criminals, the team does so while still going after LA kingpin Rizzo. Various fist fights, chases, shootouts and other carnage occur as the two cops go after Rizzo's crime syndicate.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Monday, January 6 - Bourbon Street Beat: Swamp Fire
Rex is hired to find out why the legend of a supernatural swamp phantom is being used to scare Cajun workers away from a bayou oil drilling camp.
Monday, January 6, 2025
Sunday, January 5 - Deadly Visitor
Deadly Visitor TV Movie (1973)
A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by a menacing invisible presence that may be the ghost of a previous tenant or that of his long-lost love.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Saturday, January 4 - Valley of the Zombies
Valley of the Zombies (1946)
Dr. Maynard (Charles Trowbridge) tells Dr. Terry Evans (Robert Livingston) and his nurse, Susan Drake (Lorna Gray), about the theft of ten pints of blood from his lab. Later, he is visited by Ormand Murks (Ian Keith), a man Maynard had once had committed to an insane asylum and who later died from an operation, and Maynard learns that Murks is an example of living death whose abnormality is counter-acted only by blood. The doctor soon becomes Murk's unwilling blood donor. Murks' brother Fred (Earle Hodgins) threatens to expose him and he too is murdered. Terry and Susan find Maynard's body near an abandoned graveyard and this leads them to an estate where a partially obscured sign reads:"Murks Bros.,Undertakers."
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Friday, January 3, 2025
Thursday, January 2 - Revenge of the Zombies
Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Scott Warrington and his hired detective Larry Adams arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death of Scott's sister Lila. Von Altermann, a Nazi who has been creating zombies for the armies of the Third Reich, has turned the deceased Lila into one of the undead as well, but is surprised when she shows signs of free will and challenges Max for control over his zombie thralls.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Wednesday, January 1 - Voodoo Woman
Voodoo Woman (1957)
Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the expedition's evil leader is the perfect subject for his work.
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