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.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Friday, January 30, 2026
Thursday, January 29 - The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
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.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Wednesday, January 28 - Heaven Can Wait
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.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Tuesday, January 27 - Fifth Avenue Girl
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.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Monday, January 26 - The Capture
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.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Sunday, January 25 - Terror at Midnight
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.
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Saturday, January 24 - Mine Own Executioner
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.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Friday, January 23 - Highway Patrol: Gem Robbery & Wounded
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.
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.
Friday, January 23, 2026
Thursday, January 22 - The Blonde Bandit
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.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Wednesday, January 21 - Johnny Allegro
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.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Tuesday, January 20 - The Bonnie Parker Story
A cigar-chomping blonde (Dorothy Provine) goes on a 1930s crime spree after her husband (Richard Bakalyan) goes to prison for 175 years.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Monday, January 19 - Guilty Bystander
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.
Monday, January 19, 2026
Sunday, January 18 - Service de Luxe
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.
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Saturday, January 17 - Two-Faced Woman
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.
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Friday, January 16 - The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
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.
Friday, January 16, 2026
Thursday, January 15 - Miami Exposé
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.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Wednesday, January 14 - Gideon C.I.D.: How to Retire Without Really Working
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.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Tuesday, January 13 - Doctor Who: The Dead Planet & The Survivors
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.
The Doctor, Susan and Ian search the city for Barbara and learn that the area is contaminated with radiation.Then they encounter the Daleks.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Monday, January 12 - Bourbon Street Beat: Ferry to Algiers
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.
Monday, January 12, 2026
Sunday, January 11 - It's All Yours
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.
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Saturday, January 10 - Hold Back Tomorrow
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."
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Friday, January 9 - I Was a Male War Bride
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.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Thursday, January 8 - Heartaches
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.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Wednesday, January 7 - Big Town
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.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Tuesday, January 6 - The Gay Deception
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.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Monday, January 5 - Big Town After Dark
When Lorelei Kilbourne leaves her job as the police reporter for the Illustrated Press, Managing Editor Steve Wilson employs the publisher's niece, Susan Peabody, to replace her. Susan becomes involved with gangsters in plotting a $50,000 swindle against her uncle, which Steve and the returned Lorelei uncover.
Monday, January 5, 2026
Sunday, January 4 - Naked City: Strike a Statue
An artist seeks police protection after being warned not to complete the statue of a hero turned tyrant.
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Saturday, January 3 - My Partner the Ghost: The Smile Behind the Veil
At the funeral of his friend Caroline Seaton, Marty observes her brother Donald and his wife Cynthia, who seems to be smiling, and he deduces that they have killed Caroline. Jeff is reluctant to investigate so Marty tricks him into visiting the Seaton home, where an attempt is made to kill him. Due to Marty's intervention, he is saved by the real Donald Seaton, who has returned from Australia to find an impostor has taken his name, married his ex-wife - Cynthia - and killed both his father and Caroline for the Seaton estate. The killers throw Jeff down a well but Marty causes two hikers to rescue him and, as the villains are caught and the true Donald takes his inheritance, the partnership of Randall and Hopkirk -Deceased - continues.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Friday, January 2 - Open Secret
Newlyweds come to visit groom's friend, only to discover him missing; and their investigation uncovers evidence of a ring of anti-semites terrorizing the neighborhood.
Friday, January 2, 2026
Thursday, January 1 - Take a Letter, Darling
Tom Verney is dubious about his new duties as "secretary" to advertiser A.M. 'Mac' MacGregor, which include escorting her socially to confound amorous clients and jealous wives. After an abortive pass, Tom is almost convinced that Mac means (only) business. But attitudes change when Tom is pursued by pretty Ethel Caldwell and Mac by her rich brother Jonathan.
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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