Thursday, February 27, 2025

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.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Monday, February 24 - One More Time


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.

Monday, February 24, 2025

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.

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Saturday, February 22 - That Lady in Ermine

That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by the Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader.

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Friday, February 21 - The Undying Monster

The Undying Monster (1942)

Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.

Friday, February 21, 2025

Thursday, February 20 - Broadway Hostess

Broadway Hostess (1935)

Wini Shaw plays a small town girl on her rise to stardom as a night club singer who is nevertheless not as fortunate with love. Pianist Tommy falls for her, even though he suspects she's in love with her manager Lucky. Lucky claims he doesn't want to get married, but is in fact in love with socialite Iris, who brings him into her circle of rich snobs, including her brother, a hot-tempered drunk with a huge gambling problem.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Wednesday, February 19 - The Mouthpiece

The Mouthpiece (1932)

When a hot young prosecutor learns that a man he got convicted and executed was in fact innocent, he quits his DA job and becomes a defense attorney. He grows rich and powerful defending guilty racketeers, but eventually sees the errors of his ways.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Tuesday, February 18 - Shock

Shock (1946)

Anabel Shaw checks into a San Francisco Hotel awaiting her serviceman husband. Bad weather has delayed him, so, instead of curling up with a cozy mystery, she witnesses a murder from the balcony of her suite. Next morning, her husband finds her in a state of complete catatonia. A psychiatrist (Vincent Price) is summoned, who turns out to be none other than the murderer.

Checking sight angles from the balcony to his apartment across the way, Price realizes that Shaw's trancelike state no doubt stems from her seeing him take a candlestick to his older, inconvenient wife. He whisks her off to that chamber of horrors, his Private Sanitarium, to find out what she remembers. He and his accomplice/mistress Lynn Bari devise a scheme to make Shaw, and everyone else, think she's delusional – that she views everyone as a murderer. Meanwhile, however, a fluke of circumstance leads the police to reopen the case of Price's wife, whose death had been contrived to look accidental. Next, Price and Bari escalate their therapy to dangerous insulin-shock treatments. . .

Monday, February 17, 2025

Sunday, February 16 - Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder (1954)

Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer (George Sanders), who first takes steps to convince police she is crazy, but she has ally in a sympathetic policeman (Gary Merrill).

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Saturday, February 15 - Shockproof

Shockproof (1949)

After having served 5 years in prison for killing a man while defending her disreputable lover, Harry (John Baragrey), Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight) is set for parole. Her parole officer, Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde) is determined to make Jenny go straight. For lack of other prospects, Griff finds Jenny a job in his own home, something totally against regulations. At first, Jenny still has feelings for Harry, but as Griff shows her more compassion and care, she falls in love with him - which Harry seems to encourage, because he has plans to crush Griff and his dreams of political office, and the situation soon becomes even more dangerous.

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Friday, February 14 - The Unfaithful

The Unfaithful (1947)

Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Friday, February 14, 2025

Thursday, February 13 - Hangover Square

Hangover Square (1945)

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Wednesday, February 12 - Human Desire

Human Desire (1954)

Train engineer Jeff, returning from the Korean War, falls in love with his co-worker Carl's wife, Vicki. Vicki was involved in a murder committed by her abusive and jealous husband. Carl has a note linking Vicki to the murder, and Vicki plots with her lover Jeff to get the note back and get out of her relationship with her husband. It doesn't quite work out for Vicki in the end.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Tuesday, February 11 - The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Monday, February 10 - Grand Slam

Grand Slam (Original title: Ad ogni costo) (1967)

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70.

Monday, February 10, 2025

Sunday, February 9 - Gumshoe

Gumshoe (1971)

Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) works at a bingo hall in Liverpool, England, but dreams of becoming a stylish private investigator like those he has read about and seen in films. After finally placing an advertisement in a local newspaper announcing his detective services, he receives a mysterious offer. Even though Ginley is inexperienced and clueless at certain aspects of investigating, he comes to realize that he is entangled in a serious case involving drugs, murder and even his own family.

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Saturday, February 8 - Diner

Diner (1982)

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Friday, February 7 - The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Thursday, February 6 - The Uninvited

The Uninvited (1944)

While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Wednesday, February 5 - The Innocents

The Innocents (1961)

In Victorian England, the uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) of orphaned niece Flora (Pamela Franklin) and nephew Miles (Martin Stephens) hires Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess Miss Jessel (Clytie Jessop) and valet Peter Quint (Peter Wyngarde) are possessing the children. Miss Giddens decides to help the children to face and exorcise the spirits.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tuesday, February 4 - The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers (1971)

Based on the characters from Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" but set before that story, the film centers on Peter (Marlon Brando), a gardener at a remote country estate in England, who begins a kinky sexual relationship with nurse Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham). What they do not realize is that two children, siblings who live at the manor, Flora (Verna Harvey) and Miles (Christopher Ellis), have seen and taken to imitating their adult behavior, which will lead to trouble for all.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Monday, February 3 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): When the Spirit Moves You


Small-time con artist Calvin P. Bream attracts the attention of mobster Miklos Corri when he claims to have a large number of bearer bonds - which are actually sheets of newspaper. To draw Corri off his trail, Bream claims to be only the middle man and, taking a name from the papers at random, cites Randall and Hopkirk as those in charge of the deal. Bream visits Jeff, pretending to be an American private investigator, but Marty spots the deception. The bizarre thing is that Bream can see Marty - but only when he is drunk. When Corri holds Jeff a prisoner and threatens to kill him in order to get at the bonds left in a night safe, Marty has to ply Bream with booze in order to get through to him to call the police.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Saturday, February 1 - Five Golden Hours

Five Golden Hours (1961)

An unscrupulous con man, Aldo Bondi (Ernie Kovacs), makes his money by comforting and taking advantage of rich widows. Aldo is thrown for a loop, though, when he falls for the lovely Baroness Sandra (Cyd Charisse). Soon the swindler is involved in an odd scheme that hinges on the wealth of his coterie of widows and the time difference between Rome and New York City. However, things quickly get out of hand, especially when Aldo's relationship with Sandra doesn't go as planned.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Friday, January 31 - The Champions: The Night People


A poacher is killed by white-robed figures he sees round a fire near Trennick House in Cornwall. Sharron investigates, posing as a student of architecture, but her cover is blown and she is captured by local landowner Trennick who sends an impostor to meet the boys when they come looking for her. Trennick's wife, curator of the local witchcraft museum, tells Craig that witchcraft is still alive in the area but Richard discovers that the supposedly supernatural meetings are a cover for illegal uranium mining with a view to sale to the Russians to aid them in the space race. First, however, he and Craig must rescue Sharron.