Monday, April 14 - Crime Against Joe

Crime Against Joe (1956)

Joe (John Bromfield), an unemployed artist living with his mother, is suspected of murdering bar singer Irene Crescent (Alika Louis) during a drinking binge. His alibi -- that he ran into a sleepwalker (Patricia Blake) and helped her home -- is denied by the sleepwalker's father. A friend, waitress Slacks (Julie London), who is secretly in love with him, comes to his aid with a false alibi. When it doesn't hold up, Joe and Slacks must go in search of the real killer themselves.

Sunday, April 13 - Deception

Deception (1946)

Cellist Karel Novak (Paul Henreid) was presumed to be killed during the war; so his sudden return surprises everyone, especially his lover Christine Radcliffe (Bette Davis). She is overjoyed that he is alive, but their reunion is uneasy, as he suspects that she found someone else in his absence. Still, they quickly marry in an attempt to rebuild their lives. At their wedding the jealous behavior of Composer Alexander Hollenius (Claude Rains) leads Karel to suspect that he may be the other man.

Saturday, April 12 - Don't Bother to Knock

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where his girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy. When the girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters, Nell goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance'. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little wacko.

Friday, April 11 - The Long Memory

The Long Memory (1953)

A man is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he didn't commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a pathetic refugee girl is slowly able to get through to him.

Thursday, April 10 - Three Secrets

Three Secrets (1950)

A private plane crashes in the California mountains and a 5-year-old boy survives. Little else is known except the child is an orphan.

Susan Chase believes the boy could be hers. Before she was wed to lawyer Bill Chase, she was involved with a Marine during the war, and became suicidal later, putting their child up for adoption. Bill has never been told Susan's secret.

Newspaper reporter Phyllis Horn investigates the crash. She, too, has a secret, having given birth after a divorce from husband Bob Duffy, who has since remarried.

A third woman, Ann Lawrence, turns up at the crash site as well. Ann was once a chorus girl, involved with wealthy Gordon Crossley, who spurned her after she became pregnant. Scorned, Ann bludgeoned him to death, and served five years in prison for manslaughter, giving up the baby. The boy appears to be hers, but she believes Susan is better qualified to give the child a good home.

Wednesday, April 9 - The Captive City

The Captive City (1952)

A private investigator informs small-town newspaper editor Jim Austin (John Forsythe) of corrupt local activity. When the investigator is killed, Austin believes it's an act of revenge, and his own detective work reveals a network of gambling and corruption. Crime boss Murray Sirak (Victor Sutherland) controls the whole town, including the police. Sirak answers to his own boss, "Mr. Big," who is seemingly untouchable, but Austin risks his life to expose the truth.

Tuesday, April 8 - Hawaiian Eye: Murder, Anyone

Hawaiian Eye: Murder, Anyone (Season 1 Episode 28 - aired Apr 13, 1960)

Tennis bum Barry Logan is suspected of the murder of his boss in an argument over his boss' wife. Fortunately for him, Cricket is his alibi, and she convinces Tom to find the real killer. Tom uses an upcoming tennis tournament to smoke out the murderer.

Monday, April 7 - Crime Traveller: The Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis

Crime Traveller: The Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis (Season 1 Episode 4 - aired Mar 22, 1997)

When Turner sees a news report telling her that Slade has been shot, she travels back in time to try and prevent the shooting. However, if it wasn't for her Slade wouldn't have been shot in the first place it seemed.

Sunday, April 6 - The Champions: Desert Journey

The Champions: Desert Journey (Season 1 Episode 25 - aired Mar 19, 1969)

The cobalt-rich Arab country of El HaMi is on the verge of civil war and must stay united to prevent invasion. The best hope of stability is to restore the Bey, in exile in Rome,but he is reluctant to leave his playboy life-style and Sharron knocks him out so that she and Craig can fly him into El HaMi. A wireless operator at the landing stage warns the Bey's enemies of his arrival, and the journey is continued in a truck across the desert. The Bey is shot by a sniper and tribesmen host the trio but when the Bey learns that Said, his supposed aide, has paid them to kill him, he resolves to resume his rule. The travelers still have to reach the capital, however, and face another attempt on the Bey's life.

Saturday, April 5 - The Kremlin Letter

The Kremlin Letter (1970)

The film concerns an ex-official called Charles Ron (Patrick O'Neal) is recruited in an underground spies ring . They must retrieve at whatever cost a letter that a Cia agent signed by error in a document which promises American assistance to Russia and attack to China if this nation gets nuclear weapon . The group is formed by a priest (Dean Jagger) , a beautiful girl (Barbara Parkins) with ability as safe-cracker , an unscrupulous man called ¨the Whore¨ (Nigel Green) , an uncanny and astute spy (Richard Boone) and even an old drag (George Sanders) . They go inside Russia to find the mysterious letter . They'll confront a cunning head of Soviet Politburó (Orson Welles) and an evil KGB agent (Max Von Sidow) whose wife (Bibbi Andersson) falls in love with the protagonist Ron .

Friday, April 4 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): A Sentimental Journey

My Partner the Ghost: A Sentimental Journey (Season 1 Episode 19 - aired Jan 23, 1970)

Sam Seymour hires Jeff to go to Glasgow and retrieve a valuable 'item'. This turns out to be his girlfriend Dandy Garrison, who has a case chained to her wrist. On arrival back in London, Dandy disappears, fitting Jeff up to appear to be her accomplice. In reality she has gone off with Tony, one of Seymour's men - and they have stolen a very valuable stamp. Dandy tries to double-cross Tony as well, by escaping in a private plane, but Marty brings her down to earth.

Thursday, April 3 - The Steel Trap

The Steel Trap (1952)

A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on the following Monday. He and his wife, who doesn't know what he has done, then take a flight to Brazil. After some difficulties, they get as far as New Orleans, where his wife discovers the reason for their flight and what he has done. She leaves him and returns home. He is now alone with his conscience, and doesn't know if he can get back and return the money to the bank's vault before the start of business on Monday.

Wednesday, April 2 - Two Smart People

Two Smart People (1946)

Criminal Ace Connors agrees to return to New York and stand trial for stealing $500,000 worth of bonds so he can serve a light five-year sentence and enjoy his loot (safely stowed away in the cover of a cook book) when he gets out. Detective Bob Simms is tasked with escorting Connors back to New York.

With five days for the cross-country trip, Connors plans for stops in Texas and New Orleans to have a few final days of fun before he goes to prison. Ricki Woodner, a con artist who met Connors at his hotel, is persuaded by Fly Feletti (a bitter colleague of Connors) to get close to Connors and take the bonds. She joins Connors and Simms on the train and Ricki and Ace start falling for each other.

Feletti wants the bonds and keeps an eye on Ricki to make sure she doesn't double-cross him. After a romantic detour into Mexico, Ace, Ricki, and Simms head to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras celebration, with Feletti close behind.

Tuesday, April 1 - Evelyn Prentice

Evelyn Prentice (1934)

Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves. She eventually finds herself a victim of blackmail and becomes involved in his murder. When another woman is accused of the crime, she begs her husband to defend her.

Monday, March 31 - Merrily We Go to Hell

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentice. Unfortunately their wedded bliss is interrupted when Jerry's play becomes a hit and he hooks up with the wrong woman from his past. Joan decides that turn-about is fair play and picks another man to escort her to various parties around New York. Eventually Jerry quits drinking and sends his girlfriend packing, just in time for Joan to take him back.

Sunday, March 30 - The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps (TV Movie 2008)

Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself. Masquerading as a liberal party pundit, Richard also gets stuck with parliamentary candidate Sir George Sinclair's sister Victoria. They must survive with the secrets and decide who they can trust and how to keep it from others.

Saturday, March 29 - Beat the Band

Beat the Band (1947)

The story has Damon Dillingham, newly-discharged from the Army following WW II, returning home and learning that his partner, Eddie Martin, has invested the savings Damon sent home in a racehorse, rather than using the money to keep their pre-war band together. So, he starts over. A good start is made when Ann Rogers comes on board as the singer, and Gene Krupa also lends a hand.

Friday, March 28 - Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. After Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem to beckon.

Thursday, March 27 - The Cheat

The Cheat (1931)

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler; though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to keep a lid on spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery.

Wednesday, March 26 - Tread Softly Stranger

Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

Johnny Mansell has fled to the Yorkshire steel town of Rawborough, his home town, after racking up large gambling debts in London. He moves into a cramped flat with his brother Dave, a clerk in a local steel mill. Dave's girlfriend Calico, a hostess in a local nightclub, lives close by and their flats have neighbouring flat roof spaces which they often use. Calico comes up with a plan for the brothers to rob the payroll at Dave's workplace to steal enough money to cover Dave's fraud and Johnny's debts.

Everything goes wrong.

Tuesday, March 25 - The Brasher Doubloon

The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy widow Elizabeth Murdock to investigate the theft of a rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, from her deceased husband's private collection. Believing the case to be a fairly routine one, Marlowe soon finds himself confronted by murder and a succession of shady characters and lethal crooks. They’d leads Marlowe to realise that the source of the mystery hinges upon Merle Davis, the timid and neurotic secretary of Mrs Murdock.

Monday, March 24 - Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady (1936)

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton (Jean Harlow), and his dashing friend Bill Chandler (William Powell) are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

Sunday, March 23 - The Girl in the News

The Girl in the News (1940)

Nurse Anne Graham (Margaret Lockwood) is controversially, but rightly, acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies under suspicious circumstances. Changing her name, she gets a position nursing wheelchair-bound Edward Bentley (Wyndham Goldie), little suspecting that his wife and the butler are lovers setting Anne up so that after Bentley is found dead, it looks like a repeat of the earlier crime.

Saturday, March 22 - Love Crazy

Love Crazy (1941)

Steve and Susan Ireland are about to celebrate their 4th wedding anniversary by re-enacting their first date. When Susan's meddling mother interrupts and injures herself. Steve is left to take care of her and when he meets an old flame in the elevator--Susan's mother takes the opportunity to break-up their marriage. She convinces Susan that Steve is cheating on her-Susan files for divorce. Steve has one solution to save his marriage...Pretend he is insane.

Friday, March 21 - I Met Him in Paris

I Met Him in Paris (1937)

Kay Denham is off for a 'fling' in Paris, leaving her staid suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.

Thursday, March 20 - The Lady Refuses

The Lady Refuses (1931)

A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.

Wednesday, March 19 - 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. Is there no stopping him?

Tuesday, March 18 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Could You Recognise the Man Again?

My Partner the Ghost: Could You Recognise the Man Again? (Season 1 Episode 18 - aired Jan 16, 1970)

Jeff recognises racketeer George Roden as being the man who killed rival gangster Jennings and Roden is duly arrested. However his mother has Jeannie abducted as a security against Jeff testifying when her son appears in court. Marty uses his telepathy to locate where Jean is being held and she is saved just in time for her and Jeff to make a dash to the courtroom and see that Roden is punished.

Monday, March 17 - 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 and promises her a movie contract, so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her.

She meets washed-up actress Donny (Blanche Sweet) on the lot and they become friends. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank's storyline is actually a copy of 'Rainbow Girls,' the Broadway stage play. 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 to make demands.

Sunday, March 16 - Decoy: The Sound of Tears

Decoy: The Sound of Tears (Season 1 Episode 27 - aired Apr 14, 1958)

After a man is shot to death in the park, it is determined the bullets came from a gun he had given to his fiancée. Her pet Daschund was also seen at the crime scene. An employee of the victim picks her out of a line up as well, but Casey suspects a frame up.

Saturday, March 15 - Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century (1934)

Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he has been able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard the Twentieth Century Limited. Oscar pulls out all the stops to re-sign his former star, but it's a battle - because Lily, who is as temperamental as Oscar is, wants nothing to do with her former mentor.

Friday, March 14 - Big Business Girl

Big Business Girl (1931)

College graduate Claire McIntyre plans to conquer the business world, while her dropout boyfriend Johnny takes his swing band to Paris. Eventually, Claire catches the eye (in more ways than one) of ad executive Robert Clayton. Between her ability and her legs, she soon rises in the hierarchy. But the unexpected return of Johnny brings on an era of romantic misunderstandings.

Thursday, March 13 - Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Millionaire Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper) becomes smitten with French mademoiselle Nicole de Loiselle (Claudette Colbert) while vacationing on the Riviera. Michael asks her father, the titled but destitute Marquis de Loiselle (Edward Everett Horton), for his daughter's hand, but Nicole balks when she learns that the mercurial millionaire has already been married and divorced seven times. With the help of her platonic friend, Albert (David Niven), Nicole endeavors to change Michael's ways.

Wednesday, March 12 - Crime Traveller: Fashion Shoot

Crime Traveller: Fashion Shoot (Season 1 Episode 3 - aired Mar 15, 1997)

Fashion designer Sonia Duvall has been receiving death threats and despite all the efforts of Slade and the team, is shot on the catwalk.

Tuesday, March 11 - Fast Life

Fast Life (1932)

Two sailors are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all that they succeed in doing is to sink the Admiral's launch. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the World. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.

Monday, March 10 - The Big Shot

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.

Sunday, March 9 - Skyscraper Souls

Skyscraper Souls (1932)

Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. The most notable character is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying for her extravagant globetrotting. Dwight's long time secretary Sarah yearns for them to divorce so her affair with him can be legitimized. Sarah shows her good side by playing mother to the young innocent Lynn Harding, who she employs as an assistant. Beautiful Miss Harding is relentlessly pursued by extroverted bank teller Tom Sheppard, but he is frustrated when Dwight lures her away with power and wealth. Then Dwight ruins everyone's finances in a successful bid to get full control of his skyscraper by manipulating the company's stock price.

Saturday, March 8 - You Only Live Once

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.

Friday, March 7 - Bourbon Street Beat: Six Hours to Midnight

Bourbon Street Beat: Six Hours to Midnight (Season 1 Episode 29 - aired Apr 25, 1960)

Cal has six hours to uncover evidence that a condemned man is innocent of murder.

Thursday, March 6 - Hidden Fear

Hidden Fear (1957)

American policeman Mike Brent (John Payne) arrives in Denmark to help clear his sister of a murder rap in which her partner/boyfriend has been killed, and all the evidence leads to her having been the murderer. Mike works with the Danish Police, but becomes embroiled in a counterfeiters' plot in which the boyfriend was a member.

Wednesday, March 5 - Hawaiian Eye: The Lady's Not for Traveling

Hawaiian Eye: The Lady's Not for Traveling (Season 1 Episode 27 - aired Apr 6, 1960)

A federal agent asks Tracy to help cut through some red tape for a famous female scientist. However, Tracy discovers that the woman is being watched by Red Chinese agents, who plan to kidnap her.

Tuesday, March 4 - Naked City: Without Stick or Sword

Naked City: Without Stick or Sword (Season 3 Episode 24 - aired Mar 28, 1962)

A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.

Monday, March 3 - The Champions: Project Zero

The Champions: Project Zero (Season 1 Episode 24 - aired Mar 12, 1969)

Dr. Travis is shot by the post master in a remote Scottish village as he tries to ring the police and his body later found dumped in London. He is one of several scientists who have disappeared after going to work on something called Project Zero, allegedly under government auspices but actually a rogue project headed by one Dr. Voss.

Richard infiltrates the group by posing as a computer expert and travels to their Scottish base, followed by Sharron and Craig,but his cover is blown and a collar of explosives put around his neck.

He is rescued by the other Champions, who discover that the Project is making a fission gun, which will detonate nuclear warheads. The Champions lead the captive scientists in an attack on the control room but Voss and his staff escape in a plane and use the fission gun to fire on the Champions.

Sunday, March 2 - The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely. When the evidence points to his brother, Brisbane is found stabbed to death in the closet. Archer had a number of enemies, any one of which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one did and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

Friday, February 28 - The Baroness and the Butler

The Baroness and the Butler (1938)

Count Sandor (Henry Stephenson), the current prime minister of Hungary, is surprised to find that his longtime butler, Johann Porok (William Powell), has been elected to parliament. Porok swears to serve Sandor dutifully as a butler, even though he is publicly very critical of his employer as a leader. Sandor's daughter, Baroness Katrina (Annabella), chastises Porok for his political moves, but when the butler confesses his romantic feelings towards her, she begins to see him differently.

Thursday, February 27 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave

My Partner the Ghost [Original title: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) TV Series]: Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave (Season 1 Episode 17 - aired Jan 9, 1970)

Marty claims that his grave is being desecrated, and Jeff discovers a plan to kidnap the heir to a fortune.

Wednesday, February 26 - Mr. Wong, Detective

Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)

Simon Dayton is in fear for his life and seeks the help of Mr. Wong to protect him. Just prior to meeting Mr. Wong, Dayton is found dead in his office in San Francisco without a mark on him. Several witnesses testify Dayton was alone in his office that was locked from the inside. Though the police view Dayton's death as due to a heart attack, Mr. Wong discovers a broken glass ball that contained poison gas.

Among the suspects are agents of a foreign power wishing to stop Dayton's chemicals being sent to use on the foreign power in the form of the same poison gas that killed Dayton, Dayton's business partners who will have Dayton's share of the business come to them after Dayton's death and the actual inventor of the chemical who has been cheated out of profits and recognition by Dayton.

Tuesday, February 25 - The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Bored millionaire Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) concocts and executes a brilliant scheme to rob a bank without having to do any of the work himself. When Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway), an investigator for the bank's insurance company, takes an interest in Crown, the two begin a complicated cat-and-mouse game with a romantic undertone. In an attempt to decipher Anderson's agenda, Crown devises another robbery like his first, wondering if he can get away with the same crime twice.

Monday, February 24 - One More Time

One More Time (1970)

Charles Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) and Christopher Pepper (Peter Lawford) are owners of a nightclub that is about to go under. The two seek help from Pepper's wealthy twin brother, Lord Sydney Pepper, who promptly denies them a loan. Undaunted, Pepper returns once more and finds his brother murdered. He chooses to view the untimely death as an opportunity, posing as his sibling to keep the club afloat -- except his brother was a diamond smuggler, and his accomplices are still after him.

Sunday, February 23 - Seven Miles from Alcatraz

Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)

Alcatraz inmates Champ (James Craig) and Jimbo (Frank Jenks), who were gangsters on the outside, learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor and get the idea that the island prison they call home is sure to be the next attack site. They break out of jail and make it to a tiny lighthouse isle, where they take the few inhabitants hostage. But when Champ and Jimbo uncover a Nazi plot to take over the lighthouse, the crooks must choose to either flee or stay put and stick up for their country.