Thursday, March 30 - Girls on the Loose

Girls on the Loose (1958)

A gang robs a payroll and during the robbery, a guard is seriously injured. It's no surprise when the gang turns out to be all women, lead by glamorous nightclub owner Mara Corday. She involves her sister (Barbara Bostock) in the robbery by having her drive the getaway car while not telling her what they are all up to. Once the sister finds out, it is too late for her. 

The other gang members have different reactions to their committing of the crime. Riddled with guilt, the religious Abby Dalton appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown and a threat to keeping her mouth shut. Another one (Joyce Barker) takes pleasure in the fact that as the group gets smaller, her intake of the payroll money gets larger. Finally, French girl Lita Milan seems to be intent on spending her money getting drunk. 

Corday is not happy when her sister begins spending time with a police investigator (Peter Mark Richman) and does all she can to thwart the romance...

Wednesday, March 29 - Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Young English boy (Ronald Sinclair) wants a jockey (Mickey Rooney) to ride his horse in an upcoming race. But the jockey's an arrogant jerk who doesn't want anything to do with the kid. Enter cutie Judy Garland, the niece of Rooney's landlady. She befriends Sinclair and gets Rooney to agree to ride his horse. Things are complicated when Mickey's crooked dad asks him to throw the race.

Tuesday, March 28 - Jamboree

Jamboree (1944)

Freddie Fisher and his Schnickelfritz Band, and Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadors are two bands. Both bands are vying for the same radio spot and outwit themselves by impersonating each other.

Monday, March 27 - Double Deal

Double Deal (1950)

Buzz Doyle (Richard Denning) arrives in town and soon ends up working for a guy who is trying to strike oil. But, oddly, the man's biggest rival is his very own sister and she seems willing to do just about anything to ensure that the well comes up dry. First, she tries to hire away Buzz and when he won't throw in his lot with her, she has him beaten. Soon folks start dying.

And there's a girl...

Saturday, March 25 - Juke Box Rhythm

Juke Box Rhythm (1959)

Lighthearted musical about a beautiful princess who arrives in New York City to pick her coronation wardrobe under the thumb and serious guidance of her aunt, the Countess, who doesn't approve of NYC or that "immoral music" the princess seems to like.

Well, first night in town our princess sneaks out of her room and into the "Spring Hop" fraternity dance being held in her hotel where she meets handsome, singing Riff Manton (Jack Jones), a real ringer for a young Ricky Nelson. Soon it's agreed that Riff can take her to a classical concert - instead he sneaks her to the "Bop Inn" where the kids are swinging and George Jessel appears in person to sing and do comedy patter with the audience.

And meanwhile - Riff is busy with a plan to try and get the princess to buy her wardrobe from a struggling fashion designer who has offered Riff the money in exchange for the recognition - which Riff plans to invest in his theatrical producer dad's upcoming new show "Juke Box Jamboree".

Friday, March 24 - Carnival Rock

Carnival Rock (1957)

A nightclub owner, Christopher 'Christy' Cristakos, falls in love with the club's singer, Natalie Cook. However, the singer is in love with Stanley, a local businessman/gangster. After the gangster wins control of the club, Cristakos, the previous owner, begins to perform comic routines between the acts at the night club as part of his (Cristakos) plan to win Natalie back. Eventually, the gangster and the singer marry, which causes the previous owner to leave alone.

Thursday, March 23 - Quiet Weekend

Quiet Weekend (1946)

The ordinary and extraordinary adventures of a British family and their various guests during a weekend in their country cottage : the son and his socialite flirt hated by his adoring cousin, the local magistrate having a salmon poaching night, and so on...

Denys (Derek Farr) brings his girlfriend Rowena (Helen Shingler) to stay with him and his family at their country house. His cousin Miranda (Barbara White) does not approve. Meanwhile, friend and local magistrate Adrian (Frank Cellier) is convinced to take part in a spot of salmon poaching...

Wednesday, March 22 - School for Husbands

School for Husbands (1937)

Two married men who neglect their wives become concerned when they begin spending time with Leonard Drummond, a handsome and charming novelist with a notorious reputation as a womaniser. They hatch a plan to see if their wives are conducting affairs which involves pretending to go to Paris then returning unexpectedly. However complications ensue when their car breaks down on the way back from Newhaven. The long night that follows really becomes a test of the fidelity and love of their wives.

Tuesday, March 21 - Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands (1931)

After rescuing two workers during a steel mill accident, Dick Brunton (Joel McCrea) is invited to the home of his boss, Arthur Parker (Robert McWade), as a show of thanks. There, Parker's daughter, Dot (Dorothy Mackaill), takes a liking to him and sets out to win him over. Dick and Dot marry, and he receives a promotion, thanks to Dot's pleading with her father. Soon, though, Dot becomes preoccupied with her social life, giving little attention to Dick, who begins to doubt her fidelity.

Monday, March 20 - Three Husbands

Three Husbands (1950)

After a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish -- granted to all newcomers -- he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.

Sunday, March 19 - Twin Husbands

Twin Husbands (1933)

John Miljan wakes in a strange room with a headache. A butler enters and calls him by an unfamiliar name, but soon breaks down and confesses he is an actor, hired to play the role of a butler for a brief time. It turns out that Shirley Grey and Monroe Owlsley -- the wife and secretary of the man Miljan is to imitate -- are in a plot to steal the last $200,000 in the estate and fly to South America, and Miljan bears an uncanny resemblance to him, which will aid their plans. They do not, however, know who Miljan really is.

Saturday, March 18 - Misbehaving Husbands

Misbehaving Husbands (1940)

Henry Butler (Harry Langdon) is a devoted husband and reputable store owner until an accidental tumble with a blonde mannequin leads to a string of wild rumors. When he misses a surprise (his 20th anniversary) party because he's working late, his wife, Effie (Betty Blythe), hears he was seen canoodling with a mysterious and attractive blonde at his shop -- so she files for divorce. Now Henry must clear his name, with the help of friend Bob Grant (Ralph Byrd), before he loses both his wife and his store.

Friday, March 17 - Main Street After Dark

Main Street After Dark (1945)

Ma Dibson, her son, daughter and daughter-in-law happily greet son Lefty as he is released from prison. The family makes its living by stealing from (mostly) servicemen who the two younger women meet in bars. Ma insists that Lefty lay low since a local policeman is watching him closely. But old habits die hard and the entire family runs afoul of the law after a local bar owner is shot during an attempted robbery.

Thursday, March 16 - Curtain Call

Curtain Call (1940)

When the story begins, Donald Avery (Alan Mowbray) is on vaction...but folks keep pestering him because he's a famous Broadway producer. In particular, Helen Middleton (Barbara Read) has the nerve to try to get him to read her play...even though she's never written or published anything before. He essentially blows her off...telling her to submit the play to his secretary.

The trip is suddenly canceled when Avery's producer, Jeff Crandall (Donald McBride) calls him in a panic...their leading lady, Charlotte Morley (Helen Vincent) is talking about walking as soon as her contract is over...and she only owes them one more play. So, Jeff tries to pull a fast one...and looks for the worst play he can find...and it turns out to be Helen's. His notion is to tell Charlotte she'll have to star in this god-awful play....and teach her a lesson in humility. There's a problem with his plan...Charlotte loves the play and insists they do it!

Wednesday, March 15 - Beware, My Lovely

Beware, My Lovely (1952)

Helen Gordon hires Howard Wilton as a handyman to do chores around her house. She doesn't know what she's let herself in for. Insecure and paranoid, Wilton thinks everyone, including Helen, is against him. He suffers from memory lapses and extreme mood swings. She's soon a prisoner in her own house after Wilton locks the doors and tears out the telephone. His mood swings from violence to complacency but after Helen gets a message to the police via a telephone repairman, she finds he is still in the house.

Tuesday, March 14 - Florida Special

Florida Special (1936)

Newspaper reporter Bangs Carter and his rich buddy Wally Tucker end up on the Florida Special train bound for Florida with jewel thieves and Wally's ex-girlfriend. Bangs falls for a passenger, Jerry Quinn, along the way as they try to catch the crooks (not Bangs, it was Wally).

And don't forget the dyspeptic miser, kidnapping, gangsters, &c.

Monday, March 13 - Long Shot

Long Shot (1939)

Harry Davenport has had a string of terrible losses and has lost his stable and his ranch. He wills his last good horse to niece Marsha Hunt and pal Gordon Jones, sets the horse free, and fakes his own death. Miss Hunt and Mr. Jones proceed to figure out what to do, with the usual misunderstandings along the way.

Sunday, March 12 - Always Goodbye

Always Goodbye (1938)

Barbara Stanwyck is unwed mother Margot Weston, who gives her baby son up for adoption, only to regret it five years later, when she meets Roddy (Johnnie Russell) and then his adopted, widowed father Phillip Marshall (Ian Hunter). She soon becomes a part of their lives, Roddy adores her, and she saves Phillip from what would have been a disastrous second marriage. 

Soon Phillip falls for Margot, and marriage to him would give her back her son, without having to reveal the truth to Phillip. There's just one problem: her heart belongs to Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall), the doctor turned researcher, whose wanderlust kept them apart for five years. Now he's back and ready to settle down, leaving Margot with a difficult choice to make: a life with the man she loves, or a marriage without love that'll give her a life with her son.

Saturday, March 11 - The Third Eye

The Third Eye Original title: Il terzo occhio (1966)

Franco Nero plays a young count/taxidermist named Mino,who lives with his domineering mother and a loyal family servant Marta in a Gothic residence.The elderly widowed Countness doesn't want his son to marry his beloved Laura.To achieve her goals Marta cuts the brake cable on Laura's car causing the vehicle to roll off an embankment and into a lake and murders the Countess pushing her down the stairs.This is the beginning of Mino's madness.He takes Laura's body and preserves it and starts picking up women and choking them to death in the presence of his preserved love.

Friday, March 10 - Finger of Guilt

Finger of Guilt Original title: The Intimate Stranger (1956)

Richard Basehart has moved on from his womanizing days in the US to steadier waters in the UK with wife Faith Brooke and now works as a successful producer for his wife's father Roger Livesey. 

During the production of his latest project, which stars one of his former flames Constance Cummings, he receives several letters from a person he doesn't know, claiming they had an affair. Initially thinking it's an attempt at blackmail, he shrugs it off. But when his wife also receives a letter, they decide enough is enough, and they visit the woman, Mary Murphy. 

When she persists in her story, even in front of the police, Basehart starts to have doubts. Could he really have forgotten?! Soon things start to fall apart for him, as Murphy's story, fabricated or not, starts to threaten his marriage as well as his career.

Thursday, March 9 - Dick Tracy - Episodes 7 & 8

Episode 7: The Ghost Town Mystery

After the raid at the dock, Tracy's team finds a clue that the Spider is interested in Death Valley Johnny, a prospector with a hidden gold mine. Gordon steals the location of the mine and shoots Johnny, and Tracy uses detective work to find the mine and the ghost town nearby where he and Steve Lockwood engage the Spiders men. Tracy falls down a mine shaft during the fracas and is sitting duck for the Spider's men.

Episode 8: Battle in the Clouds

Saved by Steve Lockwood and Mike McGurk and foiling the Spider's ghost town plot, Tracy meet Betty Clayton who is a test pilot on a top secret speed plane her father H.D. developed. Dick takes a test ride and stops a hijack attempt of the plane by one of the Spiders minions. When H.D. is kidnapped by Gordon Tracy (wanting the planes for he plane???), Dick rescues the scientist and they escape in the speed plane until Gordon and his flying wing shoot the escaping duo down.

Wednesday, March 8 - Emergency Call

The Hundred Hour Hunt Original title: Emergency Call (1952)

Joy Shelton brings her young daughter, Jennifer Tafler, to the hospital. The child is dying of a rare form of leukemia. She needs a complete transfusion or she will die in barely more than four days. Unfortunately, she has an even rarer blood type. There are only three people in Britain who have the same blood type. One is Freddie Mills, a has-been boxer who disappeared after his manager, Sid James, told him to take a dive. The second is Earl Cameron (still alive in his 102nd year as I write this), a seaman who refuses to give his blood. The third is Geoffrey Hibbert, wanted for murder and in hiding. Jack Warner is the Scotland Yard inspector leading the search. He says it's a nice change from his usual murder beat.

Tuesday, March 7 - Confidence Girl

Confidence Girl (1952)

Con man Roger Kingsley convinces the Los Angeles police that, acting as an insurance company's investigator, he can help them apprehend a notorious swindler, a woman named Mary Webb.

Kingsley sets a trap at a department store and nabs Webb as she steals a mink coat. But while the store detective is contacting police, Webb, who is actually Kingsley's girlfriend, is permitted to escape. However, Kingsley has gained the trust of the police.

In a second scam, Webb and Kingsley bilk a pawnshop owner out of several thousand dollars. She then prepares for their biggest con yet, a stage act at Johnny Gregg's nightclub in which Webb will pose as a clairvoyant. Her psychic powers amaze Gregg's customers, but the act is just an elaborate ruse.

The suspicious police set a trap. A dentist named Braddock is implicated in a murder, but while trying to save the life of whom she believes to be an innocent man, Webb is tricked into confessing her scam in front of the club's entire audience. She and Kingsley are taken to jail.

Monday, March 6 - Johnny You're Wanted

Johnny You're Wanted (1956)

John Slater is driving his lorry towards London when a girl jumps onto the road in front of him and begs a ride. Down the road a piece, he stops at a cafe for some coffee and a phone call. When he returns to his truck, he finds her gone, shrugs his shoulders and continues on.... and finds her dead further down the road. The police investigation finds it a murder, and Slater finds himself right in the hapless thick of it, along with strong woman Joan Rhodes (in her movie debut) and stage psychic Garry Marsh, along with an investigation into drug trafficking.

Sunday, March 5 - The Town Went Wild

The Town Went Wild (1944)

Like Romeo and Juliet, next door neighbours David Conway and Carol Harrison are deeply in love with each other though their fathers have been feuding for a lifetime. With David due to go to the Alaskan Territory for engineering work for the United States Government, the pair decide to elope. David gets his best friend, Carol's brother Bob to witness their wedding at a Justice of the Peace in a neighbouring town using Millie, who has an infatuation with Bob to drive them to the town in her car and act as another witness.

Arriving at the Justice of the Peace, their wedding has to be delayed as state law requires the couple to post banns of marriage in the local newspaper for three days prior to the wedding. Returning to their own town, David prepares the banns to be published as soon as possible and goes to the local town hall to obtain his birth certificate for his government posting. The clerks discover that due to the fathers of Bob and David fighting when the children were born, the two infants were mixed at the hospital with David being a Harrison and Bob being a Conway. Not only is Carol set to marry her brother, but the intention to do so faces a fifteen year prison sentence.

Saturday, March 4 - Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman (1953)

An attractive blonde drifter (Beverly Michaels) arrives in town on a bus and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. She sets her sights on the bar's handsome owner (Richard Egan), who is married to an alcoholic waitress there, (Evelyn Scott), who inherited the lounge from her father. Michaels seduces Egan and schemes for the pair to sell the bar without the wife's knowledge and skip to Mexico together. Before they can, a boarder at the rooming house where Michaels is staying that she had enticed then jilted, (Percy Helton), discovers her plans and attempts blackmail.

Friday, March 3 - The Great Bookie Robbery: Episode 3

The Great Bookie Robbery TV Mini Series (1986) (Episode 3)

Part 3 and conclusion of the story of the armed robbery of 50 bookmakers in Melbourne in 1976, organised by a group of thieves, one of them on a 7 day leave from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. The robbery netted $1.7 million and no one has yet been charged with the crime.

Thursday, March 2 - I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)

During the "Red Scare" of the 1950s, FBI agent and Slovenian-American Matt Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy) poses as a Communist to infiltrate the U.S. Communist Party. Unable to tell his friends and family about the undercover mission, Matt is deemed a traitor to his country and condemned by everyone close to him. Although Matt often doubts his dangerous task, he remains undercover to bring the Communists to justice and protect a faltering member (Dorothy Hart) from her vindictive party.

Wednesday, March 1 - Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark (1941)

The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiance and a friend to further this goal. Wally is "The Fox", a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.

Tuesday, February 28 - Family Honeymoon

Family Honeymoon (1948)

Bachelor botany professor Grant Jordan marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of his former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg, so the kids come along on the honeymoon. After misadventures en route, they make it to the Grand Canyon, only to find Minna there, still scheming.