Tuesday, August 30 - Beyond Tomorrow

Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Melton (Harry Carey), Chadwick (C. Aubrey Smith) and O'Brien (Charles Winninger), rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite three strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. Only two show up, James (Richard Carlson) and Jean (Jean Parker), they fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors, until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots.

Monday, August 29 - Cafe Hostess

Cafe Hostess (1940)

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Sunday, August 28 - Johnny Staccato: The List of Death

Johnny Staccato: The List of Death (Season 1 Episode 21 - aired Feb 2, 1960)

Deported gangster Alieoto slips back into New York. He promises to surrender to the police if Johnny will be his bodyguard for one day during which he wants to arrange visits with his ex-wife, his old girlfriend, and his mother.

Saturday, August 27 - Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village (1944)

In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas, hoping to publish his concerto; he meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a broadway show. Ken's affairs take a turn for the better when he falls for singer Bonnie Watson. But while he labors on orchestration, O'Mara is surreptitiously adapting his tunes to the Greenwich Village Gaieties.

Friday, August 26 - Slander

Slander (1957)

Steve Cochran plays the slick, debonair owner of a notorious gossip magazine who is anxious to break a big scandal to reverse a recent decline in sales. He zeroes in on children's entertainer Van Johnson, a decent, stand-up guy who nonetheless has a secret in his past which would most likely end his suddenly flourishing television career if found out. Johnson can save himself and his wife Ann Blyth and son from disrepute if he "trades" Cochran damaging information he has about a popular movie actress he knew while growing up in a tough neighborhood years ago.

Thursday, August 25 - Family Honor

Family Honor (1973)

Italian-American New York cop Joe Fortunato lost his father to the mob seven years ago. While his mother and uncle want him to seek revenge, he is unsure if he should break his oath as a policeman.

Wednesday, August 24 - Remember Last Night?

Remember Last Night? (1935)

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night that nobody remembers anything that happened.

Tuesday, August 23 - She's Working Her Way Through College

She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)

Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her former teacher John Palmer, now a professor at Midwest State... where she decides to begin her new college career. She rents a room; her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Among romantic complications, Angela helps the downtrodden dramatic arts department put on a potentially popular musical show...but someone's discovered her secret past.

Monday, August 22 - The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident (1965)

Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is aboard a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the Arctic Circle, on assignment to write a profile of Capt. Eric Finlander (Richard Widmark), a hardened anti-communist. Despite the concerns of Munceford, medical officer Chester Potter (Martin Balsam) and others on the ship, Finlander is shadowing a Soviet submarine on patrol in the same area, hoping to make it to surface. The cat-and-mouse game, however, turns deadly serious.

Sunday, August 21 - Killjoy

Killjoy - TV Movie (1981)

The movie centers on the disappearance and murder of a model (Ann Dusenberry) and the people in her life who are considered suspects in her death - a womanizing surgeon (Stephen Macht), a pathologist (John Rubinstein), his scheming doctor mother (Nancy Marchand), the hospital board chairman's wealthy daughter (Kim Basinger), and a shady character (Robert Culp).

Saturday, August 20 - Girl Without a Room

Girl Without a Room (1933)

Tom Duncan, a young Tennessee painter, is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his beautiful new roommate Kay. Their potential relationship is soon threatened when fellow artists start to advise Tom to drink, and he falls in with a notorious gold-digger.

Friday, August 19 - Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. Stephen Kildare, he returns to his parents home to help him with his excessive workload. Dr. Kildaire Sr. is servicing a wide area ever since the doctors in neighboring towns moved elsewhere. Noting that three doctors at Blair General are doing menial jobs because they can't start their own practices, Kildare conceives the idea of building a clinic in Parkersville to be serviced by the three doctors and financed by the townsfolk paying ten cents a week to subscribe to the service. But influential men in Parkersville provide serious opposition to the plan.

Thursday, August 18 - Never Trust a Gambler

Never Trust a Gambler (1951)

A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house, accidentally kills a drunken detective during a fight, and takes his ex-wife hostage during a shootout with the LAPD.

Wednesday, August 17 - Make Mine Mink

Make Mine Mink (1960)

When Lily (Billie Whitelaw), a maid at Dame Beatrice's (Athene Seyler) boarding house, steals a mink coat to give to Beatrice, the other residents of the house organize to return the coat and save Lily from arrest. However, the excitement is a great change from their boring lives, and they decide to start stealing coats for charity purposes. Maj. Rayne (Terry-Thomas) leads the otherwise female group of unlikely thieves -- Nanette (Hattie Jacques), Pinkie (Elspeth Duxbury) and Beatrice.

Tuesday, August 16 - Bachelor Flat

Bachelor Flat (1961)

Anthropology Professor Bruce Patterson (Terry Thomas) has the natural British charm that allures women automatically. When his fiancée Helen Bushmill (Celeste Holm) is abroad for an extended time, he has to fight the neighborhood ladies and his students away. Helen has failed to tell him that she has a seventeen year old daughter Libby (Tuesday Weld) who shows up at her mother's home unaware that she in engaged. Bruce's neighbor Mike (Richard Beymer) and his mischievous dachshund also get mixed up in the all the shenanigans happening around the "bachelor flat."

Monday, August 15 - Married Too Young

Married Too Young (1962)

Tommy (Harold Lloyd Jr.) and Helen (Jana Lund), a 17-year old high school couple feeling guilt over their physical desires decide to marry. They cross the state line and have a ceremony performed by a justice of the peace. Their parents discover the marriage, and complain to the justice of the peace, who scolds the parents for the upbringing that led to this result. Tommy becomes involved in a car theft ring, and takes Helen with him to deliver a stolen car. Chased by the police, they drive off a cliff, but survive, and are taken before a judge who offers them probation if their parents will do a better job of raising them.

Sunday, August 14 - Below the Deadline

Below the Deadline (1946)

A veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner (Ramsay Ames), persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.

Saturday, August 13 - Be My Guest

Be My Guest (1965)

A family move from London to Brighton to take over a run down guesthouse. The son, Dave Martin (David Hemmings), and his friends Ricky (Steve Marriot), Phil (John Pike) and his girlfriend, the Texan model Erica (Andrea Monet), reconvene their old beat group The Smart Alecs in order to enter a musical contest, 'Amateur Upstarts', with the view to drumming up publicity for the business.

The group write a song called Be My Guest and rehearse it at the Brighton Hippodrome for the contest's producer Milton H. Bass. However, Bass's stage manager Artie Clough (Tony Wager) and his glamorous girlfriend, the pop singer Wanda (Joyce Blair), recognise the song's hit potential and hatch a plan to rip off the boys by conning them into selling it for a song - no pun intended! - and give it to a popular local act, the dubiously named Slash Wildly and The Cutthroats. They plot to rig the contest so they win and sign the band before Milton H. Bass does and top the charts with Be My Guest claiming it as their original work...

Friday, August 12 - Working Girls

Working Girls (1931)

Two sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.

Thursday, August 11 - Voices

Voices (1973)

After her young son accidentally drowns, a woman has a breakdown and is finally placed in a mental hospital. After her release, her husband takes her for a weekend at a secluded country mansion, hoping to help her recover. However, things at the mansion aren't quite what they seem to be, the couple begin to feel an uneasy and oppressive presence, and the mother starts to see things that may, or may not, be hallucinations.

Wednesday, August 10 - Riffraff

Riffraff (1947)

A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer, combination private eye, agent, and con man, who can "fix" anything for a fee. Nightclub singer Maxine is on Dan's side... or is she? The rest is lighthearted, white-suited tropical intrigue.

Tuesday, August 9 - Neptune's Daughter

Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Aquatic dancer Eve Barrett (Esther Williams), now partnered with Joe Backett (Keenan Wynn) in a swimsuit design company, tries to prevent her sister, Betty (Betty Garrett), from falling in love with Jose O'Rourke (Ricardo Montalban), a suave South American polo player. Unbeknownst to Eve, Betty has actually fallen for Jack Spratt (Red Skelton), a masseuse who is posing as Jose. To protect her sister, Eve finds the real Jose, agrees to a date and also falls in love.

Monday, August 8 - Johnny Staccato: Double Feature

Johnny Staccato: Double Feature (Season 1 Episode 20 - aired Jan 28, 1960)

Johnny is accused of a murder committed by a look-alike hit man.

Sunday, August 7 - Red Light

Red Light (1949)

When army chaplain Jess Torno (Arthur Franz) is shot and killed, his brother, San Francisco businessman Johnny Torno (George Raft) sets out to discover who did it.... and to take vengeance before the police can stop him. His only clues are Franz's last words and a missing Gideon Bible.

Saturday, August 6 - Violent Road

Violent Road (1958)

An out-of-control test rocket causes death and destruction and requires the relocation of the rocket development plant. Trucker Mitch Barton (Brian Keith) assembles a team of several other men for a nearly suicidal mission to drive three trucks to move the rocket fuel—hydrazine, nitric acid, and concentrated hydrogen peroxide—safely over a rough mountain road within three days. Fuel developer George Lawrence (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) feels responsible for a safe passage and comes along.

The men take the dangerous job for an exorbitant fee of 5,000 dollars each and discuss what they will do with the money. When his brother Ben is too drunk to drive, race car driver Ken takes his place. Frank Miller, determined to provide for his nagging wife, takes the job. He prevents a possible explosion by closing a valve on a nitric oxide tank with his bare hand and dies of his injuries.

Detoured by breakdowns, fatigue and a treacherous terrain, plus a runaway school bus, Mitch and the men arrive at their destination and receive their pay.

Friday, August 5 - Naked Alibi

Naked Alibi (1954)

Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows.

Thursday, August 4 - Escape Me Never

Escape Me Never (1947)

In 1900 Venice, Fenella is engaged to composer Caryl Dubrok until she hears that young widow Gemma and her baby are staying with a composer named Dubrok--then the engagement is off and so is she for the mountains. There she meets, and is intrigued by, Sebastian, not knowing that he is the composer with whom Gemma and baby are staying. When she learns about him, Gemma demands that Fenella choose (what?), but she cannot, so Gemma and Sebastian leave to be married. They go to England to write his ballet and Caryl and Fenella are re-engaged. But Fenella still loves the fun-loving Sebastian.

Wednesday, August 3 - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)

Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency, is asked by the assistant of James Calendar to investigate the suicide of his son, Mark. About the same age as Mark, Cordelia is resourceful in her investigation, but smitten with the dead son and becomes obsessed with his memory and his increasingly suspicious death. She interviews his friend, Andrew, and his girlfriend, Isobel. She is also interested in James Calendar's assistant, Elizabeth Leaming, who seems to have a more than natural interest in Mark. She is thrown down an abandoned well and later chases her assailant, Andrew...

Tuesday, August 2 - Johnny Staccato: Night of Jeopardy

Johnny Staccato: Night of Jeopardy (Season 1 Episode 19 aired Jan 21, 1960)

A big time counterfeiter believes Johnny has his engraving plates. When he and Waldo are threatened Johnny is given 2 hours to find them.

Monday, August 1 - Croupier

Croupier (1998)

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet, and against his better judgement, he takes a job as a croupier. He finds himself drawn into the casino world and the job gradually takes over his life; his relationship with girlfriend Marion begins to deteriorate. One gambler in particular catches his attention: Jani, whom he starts to see outside of working hours - a serious violation of casino rules. Jani is down on her luck; under pressure from her creditors she approaches Jack, asking him to be the inside man for a planned heist at the casino. Jack carefully considers the odds; it all looks so simple, but even a professional like Jack can't predict the cards he will be dealt.

Sunday, July 31 - Highway Patrol: Christmas Story

Highway Patrol: Christmas Story (Season 1 Episode 39 - aired Jun 25, 1956)

Laura Spaeth decides to leave her workaholic husband Ted just before Christmas. She takes their 6-year-old daughter Julie and leaves to spend the night at the Brentwood Motor Lodge before going on to spend Christmas at her sister's home. Julie is discovered missing from their cabin on Christmas Eve morning. Laura calls the Highway Patrol and Dan Mathews and Sergeant Corey initially grapple with a series of false leads. Ultimately, Dan deduces that Julie left the lodge on her own to mail her letter to Santa Claus. He decides to focus the search on any costume-wearing "Santas" in the area. Dan's hunch proves correct when Julie wanders to a nearby rescue mission and asks the bell-ringing "Santa" for help.