Saturday, May 18, 2024

Friday, May 17 - Rain

Rain (1932)

In the South Pacific, the passengers of a boat must disembark prematurely at the island of Pago Pago due to a cholera scare. Among them are missionaries Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston) and his wife (Beulah Bondi), and a spirited prostitute, Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford). On the island, Thompson lives it up with the American soldiers stationed in the village, and captures the heart of Sgt. Tim O'Hara (William Gargan). But Thompson's wild ways are too much for Davidson, who tries to convert her.

Friday, May 17, 2024

Thursday, May 16 - Non-Stop New York

Non-Stop New York (1937)

Anna Lee is our heroine, a young English chorus girl; hungry and out of luck in New York and about to board ship for home, she is befriended by a young lawyer who invites her over for a meal. Once inside his apartment, however, the man is promptly murdered by a gang of thugs headed by big smoothy Francis L. Sullivan. Noting that Lee is "the only person alive who knows that we were in that apartment last night"—at least that's what he thinks at the time—Sullivan subtly trails her.

The action moves to London, where the gang attempts to prevent Lee from returning to New York, where the imminent execution of an innocent fall guy will close the case.

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Wednesday, May 15 - The Time Tunnel: One Way to the Moon


Doug and Tony escape death aboard the Titanic only to be hurled ten years into their future aboard a rocket bound for the moon. Problems arise which the astronauts blame on their unwilling stowaways, but the real cause is a saboteur aboard the flight - and the same man, ten years earlier, is in the TicToc complex with a confederate! Doug and Tony must discover the identity of the traitor and stop his plans or else die in space.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Tuesday, May 14 - Bourbon Street Beat: Inside Man


After a close personal friend of Rex is found murdered. He agrees to go undercover into jail to try and crack the alibi of the man he thinks responsible. (A remake of White Heat (1949))

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Monday, May 13 - Hawaiian Eye: The Koa Man


A law firm in Los Angeles hires Tracy to locate Nancy Campbell, who is missing. Tracy qestions her friends, only to figure out that they are covering up for her. Nancy is being threatened by Harry Gulliver, a man with whom Tracy during the Korean War. Gulliver was the machine gunner on Tracy's plane and had been unable to pull the trigger when they were attacked by enemy planes. Now Gulliver plans to kill Nancy, but once again he cannot pull the trigger when Tracy recounts the Korean incident.

Monday, May 13, 2024

Sunday, May 12 - The Streets of San Francisco: The Runaways


Three runaways from Oregon, George, Jack and Sharon Morgan are squatting in an abandoned house. Sharon is very sick, but money is very limited. George decided to break into a local pharmacy after hours to obtain some medicine.

With the child-welfare authorities breathing down his neck, orphaned teenager George Morgan (played by future ChiPs costar Larry Wilcox) desperately tries to hold his family together. Going on the run with his younger siblings, George is forced to steal medicine for his ailing sister--and as a result, faces charges of kidnapping and homicide. Joining Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) as the obligatory Adult Authority Figures in this tense episode is Jeanette Nolan in the role of a judge.

A runaway kidnaps a judge and holds her as ransom for his hospitalized sister

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Friday, May 10 - Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (1945)

In London, soon after railway worker Jim Colte (John Mills) reports for military duty, he suspects that his recent bride, Tillie (Joy Shelton), has been seeing draft dodger and womanizer Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger). Unable to get an approval for leave, Jim goes AWOL and spends a day one step behind Purvis. During his search, Jim must evade the military police and endure air raids. He also receives unexpected aid from one of Purvis' jilted girlfriends and kindly Dr. Montgomery (Alastair Sim).

Friday, May 10, 2024

Thursday, May 9 - The Ghost Camera

The Ghost Camera (1933)

While driving back from a seaside holiday, a young man discovers that a camera has dropped mysteriously into his car. When he develops the negatives, one of the pictures appears to show a murder taking place while the others offer clues to where the event has taken place.

After identifying one of the women in the pictures, she and he go on a search through the countryside to try to locate her missing brother whose camera they believe it to be. Unfortunately, the police also appear to be on his trail, believing that he has just committed a robbery at a jewellery shop.

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Wednesday, May 8 - The Betrayal

The Betrayal (1957)

a man who was blinded during an escape attempt from a German P.O.W. camp, having being betrayed by a fellow prisoner, vows revenge, his only clue is the culprits voice, a voice he hears again 10 years later at a gathering in a London fashion-house, so with the assistance of one of the models he is off on the chase, naturally things do not run smooth, at one point he has the police on his trail

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Tuesday, May 7 - Radio Cab Murder

Radio Cab Murder (1954)

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Monday, May 6 - The Chinese Bungalow


Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas) falls in love with and marries an English woman (Kay Walsh). Walsh is not happy, however, and soon begins cheating on her husband--who, in turn, concocts a plan to torment her and destroy her lover. When Walsh's sister arrives for a visit, she sees all this weirdness and is shocked--and even more shocked when Sing proposes to get rid of his faithless wife and make the sister his next bride!

Monday, May 6, 2024

Sunday, May 5 - Naked City: The Face of the Enemy


Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett (Jack Warden), has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately wants to again become a hero to them, but his efforts turn into tragedy.

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Saturday, May 4 - The Champions: The Ghost Plane


Several American military aircraft have been attacked in the East by 'the Ghost Plane', believed to belong to the Chinese and which flies at an almost impossible speed. A newspaper cutting provides the Champions with a lead that takes them from an Alpine ski resort to a Cambridge laboratory, the workplace of Dr. Newman, an aircraft designer whose plans for a high speed plane were shelved by the British and who is now selling them to the Chinese. Sharron discovers that the components are being shipped out disguised as car parts and will be sufficient to make two hundred and fifty Ghost Planes. She is caught and locked in a freezer from where she must exercise her telepathic powers to alert her fellow Champions to her plight and the progress of the aircraft.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Friday, May 3 - Sherlock Holmes Returns


Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had used on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.

Friday, May 3, 2024

Thursday, May 2 - The Human Jungle: Struggle for a Mind


Liz Kross descends the staircases at Charing Cross tube station, shedding her clothes as she goes and ending up nude on the platform where a bystander saves her from stepping in front of a train. She is arrested and referred to Dr Corder who discovers that she is working as a waitress and a stripper to finance an operation for her father, a fact which he resents and has caused her to subconsciously rebel.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Wednesday, May 1 - Mannix: Eight to Five, It's a Miracle


Mannix is hired to investigate a supposed miracle that has occurred on land owned by a mobster. When a man turns up dead and the mobster's thugs beat on Mannix, the miracle's legitimacy seems highly doubtful. But the motives for faking the miracle are murky, at best. The mobster doesn't stand to gain financially. But Mannix is determined to find the truth.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Tuesday, April 30 - Aloha Bobby and Rose

Aloha Bobby and Rose (1975)

A young garage mechanic (Bobby) and fast food hostess (Rose), who works at a car wash, meet and quickly fall in love. While out on a date one night, Bobby fakes holding up a convenience store. The prank goes horribly wrong, resulting in the death of a young shop keeper. The couple are now on the run from the law and themselves.