Tuesday, April 29 - Thursday the 12th (part 2)

Thursday the 12th (TV Movie 2003)

In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their property and they all have different story about the day of the incident.

Monday, April 28 - Meet the Stewarts

Meet the Stewarts (1942)

Comedy about rich girl Frances Dee wanting to marry working man William Holden. He agrees to marry her only if she agrees to live off of his salary so he won't be seen as a gold digger. Comedy ensues as Dee adjusts middle class life; living on a budget, cooking her own meals, etc.

Sunday, April 27 - Decoy: Ladies Man

Decoy: Ladies Man (Season 1 Episode 28 - aired Apr 21, 1958)

A psychotic husband has his wife shot by an innocent woman who thinks she's simply taking a photograph with an odd camera. He then goes to hide out at a hunting lodge in the mountains. Fearing he'll take the other hunters hostage, Casey goes undercover as a tourist to smoke him out.

Saturday, April 26 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kiss-Off

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kiss-Off (Season 6 Episode 21 - aired Mar 7, 1961)

Ernie Walters has just been released after six years in prison. Falsely convicted of a gas station robbery, he now wants to get even with both the detective and the district attorney who convicted him. Wearing a disguise, Ernie robs the local tax office but drops his hotel room key as he makes his escape. He's quickly re-arrested by the same detective who arrested him six years earlier, but the witnesses can't quite identify him.

Friday, April 25 - Thursday the 12th (part 1)

Thursday the 12th (TV Movie 2003)

In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their property and they all have different story about the day of the incident.

Thursday, April 24 - Honey West: The Perfect Un-crime

Honey West: The Perfect Un-crime (Season 1 Episode 20 - aired Jan 28, 1966)

An embezzler who has had a change of heart hires Honey and Sam to break into his boss's safe to return the money.

Wednesday, April 23 - Highway Patrol: Nitro & Motorcycle B

Highway Patrol: Nitro (Season 2 Episode 25 - aired Mar 25, 1957)

A murderous hoodlum attempts to steal counterfeit currency plates that have been packed in nitroglycerin tubes for safekeeping.

Highway Patrol: Motorcycle B (Season 2 Episode 26 - Episode aired 1957)

Motorcycle-riding armed robbers elude Highway Patrol roadblocks by loading their two-wheelers into a closed truck driven by their leader.

Tuesday, April 22 - The Brothers Rico

The Brothers Rico (1957)

Former Mafia bookkeeper Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) has decided to go straight and lives with his wife in Florida, where they plan to adopt a child. However, his brothers, Johnny (James Darren) and Gino (Paul Picerni), still work for his ex-boss, Sid Kubik (Larry Gates) -- and, when Eddie finds out their lives are in danger, he tries to re-establish his connection to the world he thought he had left behind. But when one of his brothers is killed, Eddie realizes that he may be next.

Monday, April 21 - The Girl Who Had Everything

The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)

Jean Latimer (Elizabeth Taylor) has a very comfortable life, much of which is due to the efforts of her lawyer father, Steve (William Powell). One day, however, Jean falls for one of his clients, a dangerous gangster named Victor Y. Raimondi (Fernando Lamas). She leaves her boyfriend, the stable Vance Court (Gig Young), and tensions rise between her and her father

Sunday, April 20 - Honey West: It's Earlier Than You Think

Honey West: It's Earlier Than You Think (Season 1 Episode 19 - aired Jan 21, 1966)

A bullet-riddled collector hands Honey what appears to be an 1865 newspaper, which he hints is a forgery, but he dies before explaining how he knows. Honey and Sam must keep the paper away from thieves, deliver it to its rightful owner, and determine whether it is really a forgery.

Saturday, April 19 - No More Ladies

No More Ladies (1935)

A socialite (Joan Crawford) tries to reform her playboy husband (Robert Montgomery) while another man (Franchot Tone) waits patiently for her.

Friday, April 18 - The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose (1956)

Humble bank teller Leon Poole (Wendell Corey) participates in a heist that doesn't go as planned. When police surround his apartment, there's a shoot-out, during which Detective Sam Wagner (Joseph Cotten) unwittingly kills Poole's wife. Poole is subsequently captured and jailed, but three years later he's back out on the street and hell-bent on revenge. Wanting the punishment to fit the crime, he vows that he won't kill Wagner -- just his wife (Rhonda Fleming).

Thursday, April 17 - Candles at Nine

Candles at Nine (1944)

After the mysterious death of wealthy old Everard Hope, his avaricious relatives are little pleased to discover that his estate has been left to distant relation Dorothea Capper, a young showgirl. The one condition of the will is that she must stay in Hope's spooky mansion for a month. After several attempts on Dorothea's life, detective William Gardener decides to investigate.

Wednesday, April 16 - Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman (1963)

Simon Cordier's a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before his execution. Girot pleads his innocence insisting he's been taken over by a spirit which forced him to commit the crimes. Cordier doesn't believe him and the man suddenly dies. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences iand begins to wonder if he's now dealing with those same spirits.

Tuesday, April 15 - Gideon's Way: State Visit

Gideon C.I.D.: State Visit (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired Nov 14, 1964)

 Alfie Bass portrays an elderly German Jew, Max Fischer, a chemist who suffered at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War. Upset by the announcement of a state visit by the German President, he takes possession of 10oz of nitroglycerin—enough to kill his target and possibly hundreds more at the parade in Whitehall, where Gideon's wife and son are also watching.

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.