Tuesday, February 24 - College Swing

College Swing (1938)

It's 1738, and Gracie Alden of the powerful Alden family fails to graduate from the college founded by her grandfather for the ninth year in a row, so he leaves the institution in his will to the first female of the family to graduate within 200 years. At the deadline, in 1938, another Gracie Alden, the last girl of the line, is having trouble with her studies, so she hires fast-talking Bud Brady to help her. Her efforts are opposed by woman-hating professor Hubert Dash and his secretary George Jones, who don't want to see their beloved college fall into the hands of an empty-headed nit-wit like Gracie.

When by hook and by crook Gracie manages to pass her exam and becomes the owner of the college, she does away with entrance exams, hires a bunch of incompetent but kooky teachers, and turns the place into a jumpin' jitterbugging joint complete with swing bands and remote radio broadcasts.

Monday, February 23 - Highway Patrol: Fake Cop

Highway Patrol: Fake Cop (Season 2 Episode 34 - aired May 27, 1957)

George Roker robs merchants at gunpoint and his wife Lorna poses as a customer who flags down their accomplice Ed Beale immediately after Roker flees the scene. Beale impersonates a uniformed Highway Patrol officer and convinces the victims that they need not do anything further. Flush with success, they continue pulling jobs even after Dan Mathews and his officers have notified area merchants about their modus operandi. When one victim calls the Patrol immediately after the three have fled, Dan is able to determine the direction of their flight and he tracks them to a remote area. He and his officers then block the only road that would permit the felons' escape.

Sunday, February 22 - Easy to Wed

Easy to Wed (1946)

Financier J. B. Allenbury is determined to file a $2 million libel suit against The Morning Star when the newspaper prints a story claiming his daughter Connie was responsible for the breakup of a marriage. Anxious to save his paper from financial ruin (Allenbury's real goal), editor Curtis Farwood turns to business manager Warren Haggerty, who postpones his marriage to Gladys Benton in order to assist his employer.

Warren's convoluted scheme involves having reporter Bill Chandler temporarily marry Gladys so that she can sue Connie for alienation of affection when an intimate photograph of Bill and Connie Allenbury surfaces, "proving" that the newspaper story is not libelous. In order to get the damaging picture, Bill must ingratiate himself with the Allenburys, who are vacationing at the Hotel Del Rey in Mexico. He heads south of the border with Spike Dolan and introduces himself to the Allenburys as a writer who enjoys hunting, which is J. B.'s favorite hobby.

As time passes and Bill fails to get himself photographed with Connie, Gladys and Warren become increasingly impatient. Warren suspects Bill has become romantically involved with Connie and flies to Mexico in the hope he can persuade her and her father to drop their lawsuit. When they turn him down, Warren telephones Gladys, who arrives at the resort and tells J. B. she is married to Bill. When J. B. reports this news to his daughter, Connie decides to prove him wrong by demanding that Bill marry her immediately. They are wed by a justice of the peace.

When Warren and Gladys threaten to expose Bill as a bigamist, Bill announces that Gladys' mail-order divorce from her previous husband is not legally binding and therefore her marriage to Bill is invalid. Gladys then reveals that she obtained a second divorce in Reno that is legal. The Allenburys finally agree to drop their lawsuit, and Warren and Gladys realize they are meant to be together.

Saturday, February 21 - Postmark for Danger

Postmark for Danger (Original title: Portrait of Alison 1955)

A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.

Friday, February 20 - Temptation

Temptation (1946)

Ruby, a beautiful divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel Armine. He installs her at his Cairo estate while he continues his excavation work, but Ruby is hopelessly bored. A young woman of her acquaintance confides that she is being blackmailed over indiscreet letters she foolishly sent to a man called Baroudi, with whom she believed herself to be in love. Ruby offers to recover the letters. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she realised, as she is led into a course of action which threatens both her marriage and her future.

Thursday, February 19 - Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty (1944)

Songwriter Steve Elliot (Red Skelton) has just wed his sweetheart, Caroline Brooks (Esther Williams), when a scheming Broadway producer breaks up the marriage. Caroline returns to her position as a college swimming instructor at a girls' college. Desperate to set things right, Elliot enrolls at the college as its sole male student and tries to get Caroline to fall in love with him all over again. But he'll face some competition from stodgy botany professor Willis Evans (Bill Goodwin).

Wednesday, February 18 - Together Again

Together Again (1944)

Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday. While there, she gets involved in a nightclub raid and goes to jail after she is mistaken for the club's stripper. Back at home, she tries to keep the scandal quiet and to forget Corday but he shows up and moves into her garage to work on the statue. Corday playfully uses the scandal to blackmail her into accepting his advances. Ann Crandall's step-daughter and her boyfriend add still more complications to the situation.

Tuesday, February 17 - The Woman in Brown

The Vicious Circle (1948)

A rich Hungarian baron discovers that there are large oil deposits underneath properties owned by the villagers. He buys up all the property except those owned by Jewish families, who refuse to sell. In order to circumvent their refusal, he has the men charged with the murder of a woman, who had recently committed suicide.

Monday, February 16 - Playgirl

Playgirl (1954)

Innocent and attractive Phyllis Matthews leaves her Nebraska home for New York City and an ambition to become a model. Fran Davis, a nightclub singer, welcomes her to town, where she quickly meets magazine writer Tom Bradley and his editor, Mike Marsh.

Fran is having a fling with Mike, who is married, but either unable or unwilling to get a divorce. Warned about life in the big city and how different it can be, Phyllis finds out first-hand in a hurry, wealthy Ted Andrews insulting her by offering $100 to spend the night.

Phyllis's beauty gives the magazine guys an idea. They pose her for the cover of their next issue, which makes Phyllis an overnight sensation. Fran, however, becomes morose, then angry, believing Phyllis is trying to seduce both Mike and Tom, and becoming desperate about her own future. A fit of anger results in an armed Fran accidentally shooting Mike, and the scandal envelops Phyllis, ruining her reputation and new career. She leaves for home, sadder but wiser.

Sunday, February 15 - Behind the High Wall

Behind the High Wall (1956)

A prison warden is kidnapped during a breakout . The inmates grasp (?) another prisoner against his will and manage to recover a suitcase full of stolen money to further their escape . Plans go badly when a car crash kills one (both, actually) of the inmates . The warden comes to first and steals the money for himself ! The kidnapped  prisoner winds up taking the blame and it all comes down to whether the warden has a conscience. . . 

Saturday, February 14 - Blondie Brings Up Baby

Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)

Blondie is convinced by a salesman that Baby Dumpling is a genius with an IQ of 168, She enrolls him in kindergarten where he immediately gets into a fight resulting in a black eye. Later, Baby Dumpling skips school to play with Daisy. Blondie and Dagwood report to the police that Baby Dumpling and Daisy are missing. Meanwhile, Daisy is picked up by the dog catcher and taken to the pound where she is adopted by the nurse of a rich little girl who uses a wheelchair. Baby Dumpling spots Daisy inside the gates of the mansion and begins to play with Daisy and the girl. They are spotted. While adults argue about letting the children play together, Baby Dumpling and the little girl wander off with Daisy. The children are found playing on a swing where the little girl demonstrates she has been encouraged to walk. The nurse states, "Weak children can be taught by strong children and strong children learn compassion."

Dagwood shows his architectural model to the girl's father who decides to purchase the building. As a result, Dagwood, who had been fired by Mr. Dithers earlier, is promised a nice bonus.

Friday, February 13 - Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit (1945)

To get background for a new book, author Charles Condomine (Sir Rex Harrison) and his second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati (Dame Margaret Rutherford) to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond) returns from beyond the grave to make his life something of a misery. Ruth too gets increasingly irritated with her supernatural rival, but Madame Arcati is at her wit's end as to how to sort things out.

Thursday, February 12 - The Heavenly Body

The Heavenly Body (1944)

Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he's discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes comes at the expense of his beautiful wife, Vicky. When the neglected spouse becomes influenced by an eccentric neighbor into believing in the power of astrology, she subscribes to a weekly horoscope from a phony seer, the appropriately named Margaret Sybill. When the beautiful Mrs. Whitley reads that a new dream man will be coming soon into her life, she assumes he's taken the form of Lloyd Hunter, a handsome and dashing foreign correspondent who doubles as the neighborhood air raid warden. A frantic Bill realizes that he's going to have to keep closer track of his earthbound heavenly body if he's going to keep the prediction from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Wednesday, February 11 - Frieda

Frieda (1947)

R.A.F. pilot Robert Dawson (David Farrar) returns home from World War II with his new bride, Frieda (Mai Zetterling), the German girl who helped him escape from a prisoner-of-war camp. Frieda has to deal with the venomous bigotry of both Robert's family and neighbors, however just when the small town's prejudice against her begins to subside, her brother Richard (Albert Lieven), a closet Nazi sympathizer, arrives for a visit, causing even Robert's faith in his wife to be tested.

Tuesday, February 10 - The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

In this beloved musical, Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) journeys to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband. When Mimi meets dashing performer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), sparks fly, and, most importantly, lavish song-and-dance numbers ensue. While romance and comedy factor into the film, the production is largely a showcase for the legendary talents of Rogers and Astaire, most notably displayed in an extended sequence during the third act.

Monday, February 9 - Missing Women

Missing Women (1951)

After newlywed Claudia Rankin's husband is murdered, she sets out to avenge his killing by posing as a criminal and successfully infiltrating the gang of car thieves responsible for his death. However, this puts her own life in peril.

Sunday, February 8 - Murder Without Tears

Murder Without Tears (1953)

A husband hires a killer to murder his wife, then arranges for it to look like he committed the crime. At his trial, he presents irrefutable evidence that he could not have committed the crime - which he evidently didn't - and is acquitted, thereby assuring that he can't be tried again for the murder. A police detective, however, is convinced that the man was responsible for the wife's murder, and sets out to prove it.

Saturday, February 7 - Blondie

Blondie (1938)

Dagwood loses his job on the eve of his and Blondie's fifth wedding anniversary.

Friday, February 6 - Step by Step

Step by Step (1946)

Fresh out of the Marines, Johnny Christopher (Tierney) spots Evelyn Smith (Jeffreys) while she’s swimming in the ocean, and in a two-piece bathing suit yet. Not easily taking a friendly no for an answer, he follows her to the house where she’s working as a Senator’s secretary, but another Miss Smith seems to have taken her place. Johnny’s Miss Smith is nowhere in sight.

   Bringing the police in does not help, and in fact makes things worse. When the bodies start to pile up, he’s immediately been tagged as being a semi-delusional if not cracked-up war veteran, and his Miss Smith, when found, quickly becomes his partner on the lam.

A war veteran (Lawrence Tierney) pursuing a senator's attractive secretary (Anne Jeffreys) stumbles on a Nazi plot at an isolated Malibu beach house.

Thursday, February 5 - Outside the Wall

Outside the Wall (1950)

Larry Nelson, pardoned after serving nearly half of his 30-year sentence for manslaughter, leaves Eastern State Penitentiary but faces difficulty settling into the outside world. Determined to avoid any further trouble with the law, he takes a job as a lab assistant in a country sanitarium, where he falls for attractive nurse Charlotte.

Larry recognizes one of the patients in the sanitarium as Jack Bernard, another ex-convict who has just executed a million-dollar heist. Bernard offers Larry money if he will deliver some of the heist money to his ex-wife. When Larry attempts to give her the money, she mobilizes her gang to seize the rest of the loot. Sweet, wholesome nurse Ann helps Larry escape the dangerous situation.

Wednesday, February 4 - Swamp Fire

Swamp Fire (1946)

In the delta county of Louisiana, Johnny Duval is haunted by recurring nightmares of his wartime experiences.

Tuesday, February 3 - Bourbon Street Beat: Wagon Show

Bourbon Street Beat: Wagon Show (Season 1 Episode 36 - aired Jun 13, 1960)

The murder of a circus performer is linked to the disappearance of a chimpanzee.

Monday, February 2 - Dangerous Intruder

Dangerous Intruder (1945)

An actress, Jenny (Veda Ann Borg), is hitchhiking across the country when she is accidently struck by a car. The driver, Max Ducone (Charles Arnt), offers to take her into his home until she can resume traveling. Later Ducone's wife is murdered and Jenny determines to find the killer. With the aid of detective Curtis (Tom Keene as Richard Powers), she discovers that Ducone is the murderer, having killed his wife in order to have the funds to finance his antique collection.

Sunday, February 1 - Nightbeat

Nightbeat (1947)

Following the Second World War, the two comrades go their separate ways; one joins the Metropolitan Police while the other begins a police career but becomes a racketeer in post-war London.

Saturday, January 31 - Gideon C.I.D.: Subway to Revenge

Gideon C.I.D.: Subway to Revenge (Season 1 Episode 11 - aired Apr 3, 1965)

A man tries to push an accountant, James, off a crowded subway platform. Only his friend, Ellen from personnel, is worried and contacts Gideon and kept after him to take it seriously. It turns out that there have been three sudden deaths from the same company, Chinnery Chemicals, all in different ways. The solving of the crimes all hinge on why a woman had defrauded the company and subsequently committed suicide.

Friday, January 30 - Rough Shoot

Shoot First (Original title: Rough Shoot 1953)

After retired U.S. officer Robert Taine (Joel McCrea) believes he has accidentally shot and killed a poacher, he comes upon two strangers, Hiart (Marius Goring) and his driver, Diss, and is unaware that they are spies who have actually murdered the man. Polish operative Sandorski (Herbert Lom), a British intelligence aide, recruits Bob and his wife, Cecily (Evelyn Keyes), to prevent Hiart, Diss and their British contact, Magda, from reaching a scientist vital to foreign enemy interests.

Thursday, January 29 - The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Hot-headed Winifred "Freddie" Jones is a saloon singer in the Old West who catches her boyfriend, gambler Blackie Jobero, flirting with another woman and takes a shot at him with the six-shooter she always carries. Unfortunately, she hits a judge in the rear end instead, so her friend Conchita and she take it on the lam. When they get to a tiny hole-in-the-wall town, Freddie and Conchita are mistaken for the new schoolmarm and her Indian maid. They meet the local muckety-mucks, including wealthy Charles Hingelman, owner of a valuable gold mine, who starts to romance Freddie. When Blackie shows up while tracking Freddie down, complications and hilarious chaos ensue.

Wednesday, January 28 - Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.

Tuesday, January 27 - Fifth Avenue Girl

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Troubled with union problems in his business and lonely on his birthday because his wife, Martha, is out with a playboy, millionaire Timothy Borden meets unemployed and hungry Mary Grey in a park and convinces her to help him celebrate at a nightclub. Much to his surprise the following morning, Mary has slept in the guest room for the night. Not unmindful that Martha's interest in Timothy seems renewed, he hires Mary to stay at the house as an employee and they go out on the town virtually every night. Mary meanwhile has a positive effect on other members of the household: daughter Katherine is in love with Michael, the communism-spouting chauffeur, and seeks her advice; and son Tim is forced to take over the neglected business to keep it from running downhill, which Timothy had been trying unsuccessfully to get him to do. Complications arise with the various family members' love interest struggles,. and Mary is caught in the middle.

Monday, January 26 - The Capture

The Capture (1950)

Badly injured and hunted by the police, Lin Vanner takes refuge in a priest's home, and tells him what has happened. When Vanner was working in a Mexican oil field, he shot and captured a man who was suspected of a payroll robbery, but then felt responsible when the man died in police custody. As a result of the incident, Vanner's fiancée broke off their engagement, and he resigned from his job. He later felt compelled to visit the dead man's widow, and ended up working on her ranch. But, as he now explains to the priest, the past has quickly caught up with him.

Sunday, January 25 - Terror at Midnight

Terror at Midnight (1956)

Neal Rickards (Scott Brady), a young police detective, is investigating a big interstate hot car racket. His fiancée Susan Lang (Joan Vohs) becomes a victim of circumstances involving the owner - who is mixed up with the racketeers - of a garage where she has had her car repaired. There are two successive killings, and the trail of evidence leads to Joan.

Saturday, January 24 - Mine Own Executioner

Mine Own Executioner (1947)

Pretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison camp, Adam proves to be on the verge of severe schizophrenia. In his risky struggle to help Adam, Felix finds his none-too-functional home life deteriorating, and is unable to help himself as he helps others. The situation rushes headlong to a suspenseful climax.

Friday, January 23 - Highway Patrol: Gem Robbery & Wounded

Highway Patrol: Gem Robbery (Season 2 Episode 32 - aired May 13, 1957)

Acting in concert with gemologist Harold Corbett, George Haley steals $300,000 in rough-cut gems from courier Raymond Harris by threatening to kill his family. Harris reports the robbery, but is reluctant to describe Haley. Corbett hides the gems in the collar of his German shepherd Chief, then arranges for Haley to take the train to Capital City for a flight to Mexico with Chief. Existing leads enable Dan Mathews and Sergeant Walters to arrest Corbett and they finally convince Harris to describe Haley. His description leads them to the train depot where they arrest Haley but are unable to find the gems. The final piece of the puzzle falls into place when Dan asks Corbett's secretary Laura Nelson to remove Chief's collar.

Highway Patrol: Wounded (Season 2 Episode 33 - aired May 20, 1957)

Two wanted holdup men (Monty and Jack) abduct Dr. Elliott and take him to a heavily wooded area to extract a bullet from Jack's shoulder. They are spotted by 10-year old Tommy Evans, who was playing nearby. Tommy returns to his home and calls the Highway Patrol. Dan Mathews and Sergeant Morris respond, but Tommy disregards Dan's directions to stay away from the men and finds himself captured and roughly treated by the increasingly desperate felons. Dan uses a ruse to get Tommy away from the situation, after which he and Sergeant Morris find themselves in an armed confrontation with Monty and Jack. They are handicapped by the necessity to avoid injury to Dr. Elliott, but Tommy manages to help out one last time.

Thursday, January 22 - The Blonde Bandit

The Blonde Bandit (1949)

Having gone west from her home in Kansas, young Gloria (Dorothy Patrick) is crushed when she hears the news that the man she was engaged to was a bigamist scam artist, arrested earlier that day for a string of false engagements (no. he's arrested for being wait for it a bigamist). Now stuck in town, she pawns her ring...and is framed by the pawnbroker (jeweler) in an insurance scam! Mobster Joe Sapelli (Gerald Mohr), who has ties to the pawn broker, believes Gloria is innocent and pays for her bail. The district attorney (Robert Rockwell) now asks Gloria to feign interest in Sapelli in order to take down his organization.

Wednesday, January 21 - Johnny Allegro

Johnny Allegro (1949)

Johnny Allegro (George Raft) trades in his life as an escaped criminal turned florist to become an undercover agent for the government. His assignment is to investigate the mysterious Glenda Chapman (Nina Foch). After gaining her confidence by pretending to kill a police officer, Johnny persuades her to let him follow her to an island hideaway. Once there, Johnny discovers that her associate -- a counterfeiter named Morgan Vallin (George Macready) -- is about to inundate the States with a massive flow of fake cash.

Tuesday, January 20 - The Bonnie Parker Story

The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)

A cigar-chomping blonde (Dorothy Provine) goes on a 1930s crime spree after her husband (Richard Bakalyan) goes to prison for 175 years.

Monday, January 19 - Guilty Bystander

Guilty Bystander (1950)

Max Thursday is an alcoholic former cop working as a house detective at his pal Smitty's rundown hotel. Max's ex-wife Georgia visits him in a panic because their young son Jeff and her brother Fred Mace are both missing. She was warned to not inform the police by Dr. Elder, Fred's business acquaintance.

While drunk, Max confronts Dr. Elder about his missing son, but the doctor knocks him unconscious from behind. Max awakens and is taken to police headquarters for questioning. Max soon learns that Dr. Elder has been killed and that he has become the prime suspect. Georgia gives the cops a false alibi for Max, and the police release him.

Now sober, Max learns that the doctor was involved in a diamond-smuggling operation with Varkas, a known criminal. He learns from Varkas' moll Angel that the gangster's men are holding Fred hostage. Max is shot in the arm by thugs working for Varkas, and Georgia stitches his wounds. When he recovers, Max goes to Varkas' warehouse to look for Mace, where he discovers that Varkas and his bodyguards are all dead.

Max finally realizes that his old friend Smitty is behind the entire scheme. Fred and little Jeff are rescued, and Max and Georgia reunite to welcome their son home.

Sunday, January 18 - Service de Luxe

Service de Luxe (1938)

Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself. Rugged Robert Wade, an inventor in town to secure funding for his new model tractor, wants to meet a woman who won't try to run his life. Despite being made for each other, Helen and Bob go through the usual complications of a film like this before ending up together in the final reel.

Saturday, January 17 - Two-Faced Woman

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

Following a whirlwind romance and marriage, Ski instructor Karin Borg (Greta Garbo) learns, to her chagrin, that her new husband Larry Blake (Melvyn Douglas), editor of a fashion magazine, expects her to be a dutiful, submissive wife and not the independent woman she was when they met. They separate and Larry returns to New York City, where he takes up again with playwright Griselda Vaughn (Constance Bennett), with whom he was involved before his marriage.

Karin travels to New York to thwart the romance and win her husband back by masquerading as her spurious twin sister Katherine Borg, a wild, amoral "modern" woman. Larry is fascinated by Karin, in the guise of Katherine, but he quickly discovers the truth. He continues to play along, nearly seducing his wife's purported twin sister, but stopping short each time. Karin and Larry eventually reunite during a chase on the ski slopes, and all is forgiven.

Friday, January 16 - The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946)

Janet Spencer (Linda Stirling) has a blow-out and walks into the Armstrong Chemical Company to ask John Armstrong (Tristram Coffin for help, thus arousing the jealousy of his wife Rita (Barbara Wooddell. Her own car now missing, Janet drives away in Rita's car and almost collides with a second car. When she stops she is accused of hitting and killing a man--Ralph Doane, Armstrong's senior partner. Two men offer to take Doane's body to a hospital. Janet meets Steve Morgan (William Henry), a private detective who offers to help her. Steve goes to Sam Priestly (Kenne Duncan), the insurance man for the Doane-Armstrong company. He informs Steve the money has already been pair to Armstrong and throws him out. He visits Rita, who offers him cash if he can find her husband's girlfriend, and he trails Armstrong to the apartment of Lola Carson (Virginia Christine) and later learns that Rita has been arrested for the murder of her husband. At night, Steve and Janet drive to the Doane-Armstrong plant and find the solutions to the various mysteries.

Thursday, January 15 - Miami Exposé

Miami Exposé (1956)

Miami police lieutenant Bart Scott (Lee J. Cobb) follows sultry Lila Hodges (Patricia Medina) to Havana, Cuba to obtain information about a double murder in Miami, and learns that vice operator Raymond Sheridan (Alan Napier) and lobbyist Oliver Tubbs (Edward Arnold) are scheming to introduce legalized gambling to Florida. In Miami again, Scott thwarts the efforts of Sheridan's hired killers to silence Lila.

Wednesday, January 14 - Gideon C.I.D.: How to Retire Without Really Working

Gideon C.I.D.: How to Retire Without Really Working (Season 1 Episode 10 - aired Mar 27, 1965)

A middle-age couple commit a small time crime once a month and live off the swag, but after a threatening visit from Gideon, they plan one last grand heist to retire on.

Tuesday, January 13 - Doctor Who: The Dead Planet & The Survivors

Doctor Who: The Dead Planet (Season 1 Episode 5 - aired Dec 21, 1963)

The TARDIS lands in a petrified forest on an alien planet. Determined to explore, the Doctor leads his companions into the metal city, where they discover the danger of what will become his deadliest enemies, the mutant Daleks.

Doctor Who: The Survivors (Season 1 Episode 6 - aired Dec 28, 1963)

The Doctor, Susan and Ian search the city for Barbara and learn that the area is contaminated with radiation.Then they encounter the Daleks.

Monday, January 12 - Bourbon Street Beat: Ferry to Algiers

Bourbon Street Beat: Ferry to Algiers (Season 1 Episode 35 - aired Jun 6, 1960)

A shady real estate developer is trying to strong-arm property owners into selling their land, and Kenny is hired to intercede - by a young woman who has been dead for twenty years.

Sunday, January 11 - It's All Yours

It's All Yours (1937)

Jimmy (Francis Lederer) is the loved wastrel nephew of J. C. Nugent. Nugent dies, leaving the bulk of his wealth to his secretary, Madeleine Carroll. Carroll has loved Lederer hopelessly for years. Carroll goes on a bad investment spree, which causes Lederer to follow her to keep an eye on her, until he can have a witness to his uncle's will thrown out. In the meantime, European fortune hunter Mischa Auer chases after Carroll.

Saturday, January 10 - Hold Back Tomorrow

Hold Back Tomorrow (1955)

Joe Cardos, a death row inmate in some unidentified country, is to face the gallows in the morning for strangling three women. Filled with bitterness at the world, and perhaps himself, Joe lashes out at the warden and guards' attempts at making his final hours a little easier, and refuses to see either his sister or the prison chaplain.

However, Joe does change his mind about being granted a last request, one the prison is obligated by law to fulfill: He asks for a woman's company so he can have some "fun" in the time that's left.

After asking around, two police detectives show up at the prison with a down-on-her-luck former "waitress" named Dora, who earlier that night had tried to drown herself. Dora, totally broke and feeling she has nothing to lose, has agreed to spend the night with Joe in his cell. As she sees it, the money she's being offered should be enough for "a decent funeral."

Friday, January 9 - I Was a Male War Bride

I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

Henry Rochard (Cary Grant) is a captain in the French army who is forced to work with the combative but beautiful U.S. Army Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan). While on assignment in postwar Germany, Rochard and Gates, who can't stand each other at first, have a series of arguments and zany calamities, but then fall in love and marry. When Gates is ordered to go back to the States, Rochard must find a way to accompany her under the terms of the War Bride Act.

Thursday, January 8 - Heartaches

Heartaches (1947)

The story follows a handsome movie crooner, Vic Morton (Kenneth Farrell), who is receiving death threats. The film's central "secret" is that Morton cannot actually sing; his voice is dubbed by his accompanist, "Bogey" Mann (Chill Wills). The mystery deepens when associates are murdered, leading a reporter and his girlfriend to investigate.

Wednesday, January 7 - Big Town

Big Town (1946)

The initial entry in the Pine-Thomas series based on the "Big Town" radio series finds Steve Wilson as a newly-hired managing editor brought on board to liven up "The Illustrated Press" newspaper. He runs into problems with two of the paper's star reporters, Lorelei Kilbourne and Pete Ryan, when his aggressive demands that they employ a yellow journalism type of reporting to build circulation, and they both resign to work for another newspaper. Wilson begins to realize that while his type of journalism does build circulation, it has also brought ruin and disgrace to some innocent victims. Lorelei and Pete are brought back by Wilson with his promise that "The Illustrated Press" will become a crusader against evil.

Tuesday, January 6 - The Gay Deception

The Gay Deception (1935)

Mirabel wins a $5, 000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.