Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Monday, December 30 - The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion


Minou (Lassander) is the wife of Peter (Pier), a financially-struggling businessman. She becomes the target of a menacing stranger who convinces Minou that her husband has murdered a business partner; unless she submits to a sadistic relationship with the stranger he will expose the husband to the police.

Monday, December 30, 2024

Sunday, December 29 - Made in Italy

Made in Italy (1965)

Vignettes of Italian life include a fickle widow (Virna Lisi), and a Roman mother (Anna Magnani) trying to cross a busy street

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Saturday, December 28 - Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady: Part 1


1910. Mycroft Holmes asks his brother Sherlock and Dr. Watson to travel to Vienna and find the stolen plans and prototype for an electromagnetic bomb detonator. Once there, they are reunited with Irene Adler, who has once more taken up her former profession as an opera singer.

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Friday, December 27 - The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups (1973)

The seven-ups are a secret, elite New York detective squad who are very effective in catching criminals, even if their tactics are questionable. However, what one of the detectives doesn't know is that one of his informants is mastermind of a plot to kidnap loan sharks. The kidnappers get to their victims by impersonating police officers. While investigating one of the disappearances, one of the seven-ups gets spotted and is killed. The situation puts the seven-ups in a precarious position because it looks like they are tied to the kidnappings. So now one detective has to find the murderers and clear the seven-ups' soiled reputation.

Friday, December 27, 2024

Thursday, December 26 - The Screaming Skull


David McCallum is Luke Pratt, physician with an interest in research.

Estranged from his wife (Carrie Nye) after the death of her son, Pratt finds solace in alcohol. All that changes when the doctor’s brother, Ollie (Vincent Gardenia) shows up and plants a diabolical idea in his head. It doesn’t take long for Luke to come up with what he thinks will be a foolproof plan to kill his wife. It’s after his wife’s murder that spooky things start happening, first to Luke and then to his brother.

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Wednesday, December 25 - Lovejoy: Last Tango in Lavenham


Tink announces his retirement from the antique trade to open up a pub, and advises Lovejoy to marry Charlotte. Lovejoy's imminent eviction from the Felsham barn for non-payment of rent is another reason he decides to pop the question. Charlotte at first hesitates, but finally says 'yes' during an auction in which she is selling a pack of Victorian love letters for him. Complications arise when Jane returns from America and contemplates buying Felsham Hall, and Charlotte's father is attacked by "nighthawks" who pillage archaeological digs.

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Tuesday, December 24 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Passage at Arms


Mrs. Pollard, a wealthy widow, tells March of her brief fling with a young Frenchman. She was much in love with him but after a few weeks, the cad dumps her, taking all of her expensive jewelry with him. She learned that he is a member of the French fencing team and is now in London to compete in a tournament.

Sadly, Mrs. Pollard is later found dead and Inspector Goron of the Surete comes to London to assist in the investigation.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Monday, December 23 - The Last Run

The Last Run (1971)

A former getaway driver from Chicago (George C. Scott) has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job, involving driving a dangerous crook and his girl-friend to France. However, the job turns out to be a double-cross and the trio are pursued back to Portugal where they make one last stand on the coast while the enemy assassins attempt to gun them down.

Monday, December 23, 2024

Sunday, December 22 - Dead End

Dead End (1937)

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin (Humphrey Bogart) returns home to visit to the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother (Marjorie Main), who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey (Claire Trevor), now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave (Joel McCrea), a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Saturday, December 21 - Hawaiian Eye: Second Fiddle


Tom and Tracy are hired by a professional violinist to guard his very valuable violin. What the musician doesn't know, however, is that his ex-wife and his current wife's ex-boyfriend are out to kill him. They cause him to have a heart attack and then take away his medication, but Tracy gets him to the hospital and saves his life. Undaunted, the murderous duo plans another attempt on the violinist's life.

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Friday, December 20 - Back from the Dead

Back from the Dead (1957)

After his new wife Mandy (Peggy Castle) has a seizure, Dick Anthony (Arthur Franz) finds that she has become possessed by the spirit of his first wife Felicia, who drowned six years earlier. Dick's sister-in-law Kate (Marsha Hunt) suspects that Felicia's mother is somehow responsible and goes to occultist Maitre Renall (Otto Reichow) for help.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Thursday, December 19 - The Outfit

The Outfit (1973)

A small-time criminal, named Macklin's released from prison, and discovers his brother has been killed by a pair of mob killers. What he didn't know was the bank his brother robbed was owned by the syndicate. When he's almost hit by a killer, he pays mobster, Jake Menner a visit and demands reparation.

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Wednesday, December 18 - Sunday in the Country

Sunday in the Country (1974)

Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unwilling to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.

Tuesday, December 17 - The Hot Rock

The Hot Rock (1972)

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Monday, December 16 - The Human Jungle: Enemy Outside


A dockworker has a breakdown while operating a crane and is sent to the hospital mental ward. Dr. Corder tries to win his confidence and address his obsession with the rays of the Sun, while another patient tries to stir discord.

Monday, December 16, 2024

Sunday, December 15 - Bourbon Street Beat: Twice Betrayed


Sgt. Al Bogart does a favor for Cal Calhoun and in return wants Calhoun to return the gesture. It's a shadow job on a crook named Sid Lucas. Bogart wants no questions asked and no other cops involved. Cal is puzzled but because of Bogart's sterling reputation as a steady, reliable desk cop he accepts the job. Bogart wants to be in on one great headline grabbing arrest before his retirement and he is convinced Lucas can lead him to Taylor Ferguson...a bar owner who's cheating the IRS. At least that's the story he tells Calhoun.

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Saturday, December 14 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): But What a Sweet Little Room


After Anne Fenwick is killed by gold-digging boyfriend 'Bunny' de Crecy, her niece Julia, unaware of Anne's fate, asks Jeff to locate her, telling him that she attended a seance given by Madame Hanska every week. At Jeff's bidding, Jeannie poses as a recent widow wanting news of her husband - but Elliot, a man who befriends her, exposes her to Madame Hanska, as Marty discovers. Marty 'appears' to the medium and frightens her into admitting the scam whereby she sends lonely rich women into de Crecy's clutches; and Jeff confronts de Crecy in the room where he killed Anne, with Marty contributing to an explosive situation.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Friday, December 13 - The Haunting of Rosalind


A young woman's romantic attraction for her brother's handsome guest takes a weird turn when he announces that he's going to marry her sister. She soon senses the presence of a spirit in the house and finds that it's the ghost of the man's first wife and he have been her killer.

Friday, December 13, 2024

Thursday, December 12 - Crowhaven Farm

Crowhaven Farm (TV Movie 1970)

A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Wednesday, December 11 - Air Hawks

Air Hawks (1935)

Barry Eldon is the owner of an airline company that is competing with a rival company for a lucrative air-mail contract with the government. While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barry's line, the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray-machine that will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power and crash. Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldon's line before he, aided by Renee Dupont, can find out what is causing his airplanes to crash.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Tuesday, December 10 - Cry of the Werewolf

Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

Nina Foch stars as a gypsy high Priestess, Celeste, whose mother was a lycanthrope passing the affliction to her. She kills a museum owner who has been delving into Foch's mother's history. The man's scientist son, Bob(Stephen Crane) and future Transylvanian wife, Elsa(Osa Massen) decide to follow a few leads through some burnt written words that his late father was penning for a forthcoming novel to be published about the infamous Marie La Tour and her werewolf lineage.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Monday, December 9 - Criminals of the Air

Criminals of the Air (1937)

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a place for obtaining quick marriages on the Mexico side, Mark obtains the job of pilot on "The Honeymoon Express."

Monday, December 9, 2024

Sunday, December 8 - Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth (1941)

Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000 for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's already raised. Gwen secretly gives T.T.'s new partner Steve Bennett the $10,000 and asks him to double it. Later in a discussion with T.T., business partner Dick and client Van, about truth in business Steve bets the $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. Having already accepted an invitation for a weekend on T.T.'s houseboat, Steve is subjected to 24 hours of attempts to get him to lie or divulge the bet, which would lose him (and Gwen) the $10,000.

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Saturday, December 7 - In Search of Anna

In Search of Anna (1978)

Tony has just been released from jail, and his friends are convinced he has the money from his last robbery. However, Tony just wants to find his old girlfriend, Anna, and hits the road searching for her.

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Friday, December 6 - Sleuth

Sleuth (1972)

Based on the renowned play by Anthony Shaffer, this mystery finds Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), a middle-class hair salon-owner. When Wyke, who is seemingly content to split from his wife strikes an unusual deal with Tindle, it sets into motion a fierce game of one-upmanship between the two, with the stakes growing increasingly higher.

Friday, December 6, 2024

Thursday, December 5 - The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

Liza Madden (Marlene Dietrich) is a single and independent Broadway star who, when she discovers an abandoned baby, is suddenly stricken with motherly instinct. She needs to be married in order to adopt, so when she takes the baby to pediatrician Dr. McBain (Fred MacMurray), she proposes a marriage of convenience. McBain agrees, under the proviso of receiving money from her for his research. They go ahead with the phony marriage -- only to find they share a genuine attraction.

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Wednesday, December 4 - The Sunshine Makers

The Sunshine Makers (2015)

The untold story of two idealistic young underground chemists at the heart of the American psychedelic revolution. A real-life 'Breaking Bad' for the psychedelic set, this documentary reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufactured a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard for quality LSD, Orange Sunshine, as they tried to stay one step ahead of the feds.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Monday, December 2 - Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Monday, December 2, 2024

Sunday, December 1 - Highway Patrol: Counterfeit & Suspected Cop


An apparently legitimate print shop is involved in the printing of counterfeit payroll checks used to bilk unsuspecting merchants.


The distraught daughter of a deceased gemologist accuses Officer Johnson of stealing valuable uncut jewels from her late father's car.

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Saturday, November 30 - The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug (1965)

Special Agent Lee Barrett (George Maharis) joins forces with Ann Williams (Anne Francis), a general's daughter, to recover a biological weapon stolen from a secret government lab. Learning that the pathogen could destroy all life on Earth, they focus their attention on a mysterious millionaire who may have orchestrated the theft. After annihilating a small town in Florida, the villain turns his attention to Los Angeles -- and the duo must race to stop the city's destruction.