Monday, July 30 - And Soon the Darkness

And Soon the Darkness (1970)

Jane and Cathy, two English women in their early twenties, are on a cycling tour. While traveling in rural France, they begin to disagree about the route. Cathy would prefer to take things in at a leisurely pace, while Jane is trying to stick to strict schedule. After arguing, they part ways. When her friend fails to rejoin her, Jane begins to worry and returns to the last place she saw her. Cathy has vanished. Alone and with a limited knowledge of French, Jane doesn't know who to trust as she frantically searches for her missing friend.

Sunday, July 29 - The Gamblers

The Gamblers (1970)

Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.

Saturday, July 28 - The Spanish Gardener

The Spanish Gardener (1956)

The story of a British diplomat called Harrington Brande who is relocated to Cataluña, Spain, after his marriage falls by the way side. Taking his young son Nicholas with him, Harrington is perturbed when Nicholas forms a loving and trusting friendship with the estate gardener Jose. Bitten by jealousy and tortured by his own inadequacies as a father, Brande becomes nasty and spiteful, and it gets to the point where he will stop at nothing to break up the friendship. All of which is keenly observed by the shifty, and often drunk butler, whom it seems has a very vested interest in the family proceedings.

Friday, July 27 = These Wilder Years

These Wilder Years (1956)

Detroit business tycoon, Steve Bradford, tells his board of directors without explanation that he is taking a leave of absence. He travels to his small hometown, where it turns out that his goal is to find a son he put up for adoption 20 years before.

Steve turns to Ann Dempster, who runs an orphanage, explaining how he has achieved success in life, but feels a void left by his absent and unknown son. Ann explains that she is ethically required to conceal the identity of foster children and parents. Steve tries charming her, cajoling, even bribing, to no avail, then brings in his lawyer, James Rayburn, to seek other ways of finding the boy.

Although he has befriended Ann, he betrays her with a charge of fraud, resulting in a courtroom hearing that could cost her both her vocation and reputation. A furious Ann digs up records that prove how Steve specifically expressed no wish to ever see his child 20 years before.

At the orphanage, meantime, he strikes up an acquaintance with a young lady, Suzie, expecting a baby, abandoned by the child's father. Steve takes a personal interest in the girl, particularly after she is involved in an auto accident and needs surgery that she fears could endanger the baby.

With the case dismissed, and Steve overcome with guilt goes bowling where he is approached by a young man who turns out to be his missing son, claiming he'd been following the progress of the trial. They have a heart to heart and part with no plans to be in each other's lives. Steve believes that this seemingly coincidental meeting was privately arranged by Ann out of the goodness of her heart which turns out to be true. Steve adopts Suzie so she doesn't have to give up her child. Suzie names her son after him.

Thursday, July 26 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough (Season 1 | Episode 35 - aired 4 July 1955)

Malcolm MacGregan will lose his family's Scottish castle if he can't make the mortgage payment, by midnight.

Malcolm McGreggan seeks Holmes's help in solving a mystery of an apparent ghost who always prevent the selling of the painting of his ancestor. (Presumably, the painting is by the aforementioned Gainsborough.)

Wednesday, July 25 - Playmates

Playmates (1941)

Lulu Monahan (Patsy Kelly), the press agent for John Barrymore (John Barrymore),is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser (Kay Kyser), plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.

Tuesday, July 24 - Miss Sadie Thompson

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)

In the Pacific after the war, a U.S. Marine unit that includes Sgt. Phil O'Hara (Aldo Ray) is awaiting discharge when missionary Alfred Davidson (Jose Ferrer), physician Dr. Robert McPhail (Russell Collins) and singer Sadie Thompson (Rita Hayworth) arrive at the base. The soldiers are delighted by the spirited, friendly Sadie, and Phil falls in love with her. Davidson, however, unearths a secret in Sadie's past and, blocking her attempt to leave the island, demands that she repent.

Monday, July 23 - Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young niece his bride.

Sunday, July 22 - Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity (1956)

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. Pilot Robert Ryan is able to get the plane back into flying condition; unfortunately he discovers that the plane will only be able to carry five of its eleven passengers to safety. Fortunately, 3 are already dead and old people and murderers are expendable.

Saturday, July 21 - Cry of the Banshee

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Monomaniacal witch hunter Lord Edward Whitman (Vincent Price) cruelly persecutes the peasants in his corner of Elizabethan England, manufacturing charges and meting out punishment without regard to justice. While trying to wipe out a coven of witches, he fails to take into account the possibility that real witches might have real power. He is unprepared when Oona (Elisabeth Bergner), the head of the coven, transforms a trusted member of Whitman's household into a vehicle of demonic vengeance.

Friday, July 20 - Star of Midnight

Star of Midnight (1935)

Friend Tim Winthrop asks criminal lawyer and amateur detective Clay Dalzell to find his girl, Alice, who disappeared a year earlier without a trace. When they go to the theater with Clay's would-be fiancée, Donna Mantin, Tim recognizes the star, Mary Smith, as his girl, and yells "Alice," after which she bolts from the stage and disappears once again. Reporter Tommy Tennant knows why she bolted, but before he can tell Clay the reason, he is shot dead and Clay is wounded slightly in Clay's apartment. The many suspects include Roger Classon and his wife, Jerry, who are looking for Alice to testify and save Roger's friend from the electric chair for a murder he didn't commit; Abe Ohlman, the producer of Mary's show; and gangster Jimmy Kinland who seems to know more than he's telling. It's up to Clay, with the help of Donna, to trap the murderer and find Alice.

Thursday, July 19 - The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars (1938)

Tommy McCoy, the son of a destitute former Vaudeville star, earns money by singing in pool halls. When his father Brian discovers his talent for boxing, he pushes Tommy into the ring but continually gambles away his son's winnings. Tommy's accidental killing of one of his old friends during a boxing match earns him the moniker "Killer McCoy" and forces him to consider leaving boxing altogether. However, his spendthrift father has already sold his contract to Jim Carson, a respected investment banker who runs a booking operation on the side under the name of Cain. Tommy's growing love for Carson's daughter Sheila threatens to bring the separate worlds into collision.

Wednesday, July 18 - Show Girl in Hollywood

Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)

'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets Donny, a washed-up veteran actress (Blanche Sweet), on the lot who becomes her friend. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank's storyline is actually a copy of 'Rainbow Girls' stage play from Broadway. They call Jimmy, the author and Dixie's boyfriend, for the rights and he goes to Hollywood to produce it as a movie. Dixie gets the lead. But things start going wrong when Dizzy Dixie, spurred on by the fired Director Buelow, thinks that she is better than the picture or the studio and starts making demands.

Tuesday, July 17 - Letter from an Unknown Woman

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

The film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman who falls in love with a concert pianist. Set in Vienna in 1900, the story is told in a complex flashback structure as the pianist, Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan), comes upon a letter written to him by Lisa Berndl (Fontaine), a girl who has been in love with him for years. Stefan is in the process of fleeing Vienna on the eve of fighting a duel. As he prepares himself for the nocturnal journey, the letter arrives. It begins, "By the time you read this letter, I may be dead." As Stefan sits back in his study to read this letter, it turns out to be a confession of unrequited love from Lisa. The story flashes backs to when Lisa was 14 years old and Stefan was her neighbor. After following Stefan with a girlish obsession, the romance gets much more serious, and they have a brief encounter. Stefan promises to come back to her after a concert tour, but he never does. Meanwhile, Lisa marries another man when she discovers that she is pregnant with Stefan's child. When she runs into Stefan years later, he doesn't remember her and tries to seduce her. After Stefan reads the letter, he wants to rush to her side, but now poor Lisa is dying from typhus.

Monday, July 16 - Snowbound

Snowbound (1948)

A group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps. From "The Lonely Skier" by Hammond Innes.

Sunday, July 15 - The Bishop Murder Case

The Bishop Murder Case (1930)

In this film based on S.S. Van Dine's detective novel, quick-witted private investigator Philo Vance (Basil Rathbone) is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow, with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin," which is curiously signed "The Bishop." Vance is on the case, but the pressure to uncover the Bishop's identity heats up when more bodies begin to turn up with nursery rhymes attached.

Saturday, July 14 - A Lion Is in the Streets

A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)

Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Gradually, she realizes that Hank's popularity is the fruit of his expert manipulation of everyone he knows. She's further taken aback when she meets sexy swamp girl Flamingo, who considered Hank hers and is murderously jealous. Now Hank starts crusading against a crooked cotton buyer, and swiftly rises toward political power.

Friday, July 13 - You Only Live Once & The Undying Monster

You Only Live Once (1937)

Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.

The Undying Monster (1942)

With its history of murder and suicide, the affluent Hammond family is seemingly cursed. When deaths on the British clan's estate draw the involvement of Scotland Yard, investigator Bob Curtis (James Ellison) arrives to look into the mysterious matter. Oliver Hammond (John Howard) and his sister, Helga (Heather Angel), are among the relatives who must contend their family's dark secret, which involves the legend of a werewolf.

Thursday, July 12 - Danger UXB: The Pier, With Love from Adolf & The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Danger UXB (1979): The Pier (Season 1 | Episode 12 - aired 26 March 1979)

Brian is posted back to 347 Section, which relocates to Brighton to remove land mines laid in 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion that never came. Susan and Brian become engaged before he leaves. The former Private John Brinckley, Non-Combatant Corps, has joined the Royal Engineers and been commissioned as a bomb disposal officer. He is assigned to Brian for further training and seasoning. 347 Section is assigned a seaside pleasure pier where anti-personnel mines have been hidden under the decking. Ivor Rogers, still in command of 97 Company, instructs Brian to delegate the work (clearly grooming him for command); but when Lieutenant Brinckley is killed by an unmarked mine, Brian must resume clearing the explosives. While attempting to defuse a device installed on the slipway of the life boat station, he is badly injured when it goes off and blows him into the water.

Danger UXB (1979): With Love from Adolf (Season 1 | Episode 13 - aired 2 April 1979)

The pregnant Norma and Gordon Mulley prepare to marry. A bomb just misses 347 Section's barracks and Mulley is nearly asphyxiated when he falls into its camouflet. Brian's difficult recovery strains his relationship with Susan near to breaking point as he worries about being invalided out of the service. He refuses to see anyone or attend the wedding until Sergeant James visits him and succeeds in breaking through his depression. Brian is restored to active service but when he is promoted to captain and transferred to what seems a meaningless position in Somerset, he feels useless. Ivor offers him an unofficial chance to defuse a recently discovered and relatively routine bomb dropped years before. Dismantling the fuse, however, Brian finds a note inside that says 'With Love from Adolf.' The series ends with Captain Ash and Sergeant James blowing up the defused Hermann with a block of plastic explosive.

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

In prison and awaiting execution, Dr. Victor Frankenstein recounts to a priest what led him to his current circumstance. He inherited his family's wealth after the death of his mother when he was still only a young man. He hired Paul Krempe as his tutor and he immediately developed an interest in medical science. After several years, he and Krempe became equals and he developed an interest in the origins and nature of life. After successfully re-animating a dead dog, Victor sets about constructing a man using body parts he acquires for the purpose including the hands of a pianist and the brain of a renowned scholar. As Frankenstein's excesses continue to grow, Krempe is not only repulsed by what his friend has done but is concerned for the safety of the beautiful Elizabeth, Victor's cousin and fiancée who has come to live with them. His experiments lead to tragedy and his eventual demise.

Wednesday, July 11 - Danger UXB: Butterfly Winter, Dead Letter & That Lady in Ermine

Danger UXB (1979): Butterfly Winter (Season 1 | Episode 10 - aired 12 March 1979)

Ash and the men of 347 Section tackle Hitler's latest deadly invention, the butterfly bomb, designed to kill a man at 25 yards. Meanwhile, Salt breaks orders again, but for the last time.

Danger UXB (1979): Dead Letter (Season 1 | Episode 11 - aired 19 March 1979)

A large UXB in the London Underground brings Ash face-to-face with a new type of fuse. Meanwhile, Susan may not be forever lost.

That Lady in Ermine (1948)

In this musical comedy, Hungarian soldiers invade Countess Angelina's (Betty Grable) castle, and her husband immediately escapes, leaving her to fend off the advances of Col. Teglas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). One of her ancestors, Francesca (also Grable), was forced to deal with a similar situation many years earlier, which is documented in a portrait hanging in the castle. By night, Francesca leaves the confines of the portrait and helps Angelina grapple with her growing feelings for the colonel.

Tuesday, July 10 - Danger UXB: Seventeen Seconds to Glory & Witness to Murder

Danger UXB (1979): Seventeen Seconds to Glory (Season 1 | Episode 9 - aired 5 March 1979)

Ash learns how to dispose the new German land mines, thanks to the help of naval experts. The bad news is that Susan has decided to return to her husband.

347 Section cooperates with the Royal Navy to deal with a bomb that has a 17-second fuse. Ash decides to ask Susan to marry him.

Witness to Murder (1954)

Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer (George Sanders), who first takes steps to convince police she is crazy, but she has ally in a sympathetic policeman (Gary Merrill).

Monday, July 9 - Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town & The Haunted Palace

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)

When Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) wins a trip to New York City, he and Ma (Marjorie Main) need a babysitter for their 15 kids. Fugitive "Shotgun" Mike Munger (Charles McGraw), pretending to be a poet, offers to take care of the kids if the naive Kettles will drop off a package for him in New York. As Munger attempts to control the rambunctious brood, his partner, Little Joe (Jim Backus), repeatedly tries to get Ma and Pa to give up the package, containing the loot from their most recent robbery.

The Haunted Palace (1963)

Condemned warlock Joseph Curwen (Vincent Price) curses a New England village just before being burned alive. More than a century later, Curwen's kindly great-great grandson Charles Ward (also Price) arrives in town and moves into Curwen's old mansion. Caretaker Simon Orne (Lon Chaney Jr.) helps Charles and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) adjust to their new home. The ancient curse, however, takes hold of Joseph, awakening inside him a long-dormant evil passed on through blood.

Sunday, July 8 - The Mouthpiece

The Mouthpiece (1932)

When a hot young prosecutor learns that a man he got convicted and executed was in fact innocent, he quits his DA job and becomes a defense attorney. He grows rich and powerful defending guilty racketeers, but eventually sees the errors of his ways.

Saturday, July 7 - The Wild World of Batwoman & The Big Shot

The Wild World of Batwoman (1966)

In this zero budget cheapie a busty Batwoman enlists her beauteous bevy of Batgirls (when they are not dancing the jerk) to help her regain a mad scientist's invention (an atom bomb made out of a hearing aid) before a costumed ne'er-do-well, Rat Fink, can glom onto it for his own purposes.

The Big Shot (1942)

Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. Duke and Lorna get some time together again after he stages a prison break, but if he stays with her his old friend George will have to take the rap for killing one of the guards.

Friday, July 6 - Broadway Hostess

Broadway Hostess (1935)

Ted Lucky Lorimer, a familiar figure in Broadway nightclubs, gets Winnie Wharton an audition as a nightclub singer. With the help of Lucky and piano player Tommy Blake, Winnie is successful, and Lucky appoints himself as her manager, forcing Big Joe Jarvis, the owner, to pay her an exorbitant salary. Winnie rapidly acquires wealth and fame. Tommy loves Winnie, but seeing her obvious love for Lucky, he keeps silent. Lucky, however, does not return her feelings. He is in love with socialite Iris Marvin, but their affair is hindered by their class difference. In order to earn the money that will make him her social equal, Lucky opens a gambling salon. Ronnie, Iris' snobby brother, loses a lot of money and steals the family jewels, which he uses to pay his debt to Lucky. The theft is reported, and when the jewels are found in Lucky's possession, he is arrested. To bail Lucky out of jail, Winnie gives her last money to a dishonest lawyer and is left penniless. Iris, learning that Ronnie is the guilty one, uses her influence to free Lucky and they are married. Tommy tells Lucky that Winnie is broke, and he secretly backs her in a show. Afraid that Lucky will reveal his guilt, Ronnie shoots him. While at Lucky's bedside, Winnie realizes that he and Iris are happy together and agrees to marry loyal Tommy.

Thursday, July 5 - Candlelight in Algeria

Candlelight in Algeria (1944)

British spy Alan Thurston (Mason) is trying to get hold of a camera to bring to the British Consulate in Algiers. It has pictures of the location of a top-secret meeting place of the Allied commanders regarding the invasion of North Africa. Tailing him is RNO (repugnant Nazi official) Dr. Muller, who knows of the camera. Thurston breaks into the Algerian residence of American civilian Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann), with Muller in hot pursuit. Thurston persuades her to help him in his quest for the camera, since he is too notorious and would be arrested on sight in Algiers. There then follows a tense and taut cat-and-mouse game with Nazi officials and our two co-heroes.

Wednesday, July 4 - Girl in the Headlines & Danger UXB: Bad Company

The Model Murder Case (1963) Girl in the Headlines (original title)

Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders are called in to investigate the murder of a glamorous model. It becomes apparent the girl had led a chequered life and that her acquaintances included drug dealers. Jordan Barker and Hammond Barker are reluctant to help but when the police finally make an arrest, another murder occurs in a seedy Soho Jazz café.

When a beautiful girl is murdered, Inspector Birkett finds that she had some famous friends who don't want publicity.

Danger UXB (1979): Bad Company (Season 1 | Episode 8 - aired 26 February 1979)

A new commanding officer's methods of discipline border on the psychotic, and the overworked men of 347 Section consider mutiny. Meanwhile, Ash and Susan discuss their future.

Tuesday, July 3 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985): The Speckled Band (Season 1 | Episode 6 - aired 29 May 1984)

As she fears for her life, Helen Stoner seeks Sherlock Holmes' assistance. She lives with her step-father Dr. Grimesby Roylott, a difficult man who is prone to bouts of temper. She tells Holmes that some years previously, her older sister Julia had died in unexpected circumstances. She had asked Helen if she ever heard the sound of a whistle at night. Helen admitted that she had not. Just a few weeks before she was to marry, Julia came tumbling out of her room, screaming; she died within minutes. Now Helen, who is also soon to be married, finds that her step-father has moved her into her late sister's room. During her first night there, she hears the whistle that her sister had asked about.

Monday, July 2 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breakdown

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962): Breakdown (Season 1 | Episode 7 - aired 13 November 1955)

Joseph Cotten plays William Callew, a callous businessman with little regard for human emotion. After a long-time employee weeps uncontrollably after losing his job, Callew unsympathetically condemns his lack of self-control. However, poetic justice is about to ensue. After becoming involved in a ghastly car collision with a truck of chain-gang prisoners, Callew wakes up paralysed from head to toe, but conscious enough to thinking logically. The fleeing prisoners offer hope of rescue, but instead – believing him to be dead – seize the opportunity to loot his clothing. Despite regaining slight movement in a single finger, nobody seems to recognise that Callew is still alive, and he seems destined to be buried that way.

Sunday, July 1 - Flaxy Martin

Flaxy Martin (1949)

Attorney Walter Colby (Zachary Scott) has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his sultry girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin (Virginia Mayo), who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice. Aided by the beautiful Nora Carson (Dorothy Malone), Walter searches for Flaxy and gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Saturday, June 30 - The Cracksman

The Cracksman (1963)

Charlie Drake plays honest locksmith Ernest Wright whose problem is that he cannot resist the challenge of a lock. First he is duped by a debonair con man into opening a car. He is caught by the police but is released on probation. Next the same man fools him into breaking into a house, and he lands in jail for a year. When he is released, he gets tricked into opening a safe, for which he receives a three-year jail sentence and an undeserved reputation as a master thief. Upon his release he finds himself as a pawn being manipulated by two gangs into a safe-cracking scheme but, with the help of undercover police woman Muriel played by Nyree Dawn Porter, he helps trap the crooks and clear his name.