Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Tuesday, April 21 - Goliath and the Barbarians
Set in the 6th century, it follows the start of barbarian invasions and deals with one group that attacks a village and destroys anyone and anything that is there. One man, Emiliano, son of the village leader, is away at the time of attack. He swears revenge and wages a one-man war against the evil tribes. He also is helped by the survivors and his sister Lynda. He wears a lion head mask to instill fear into the hearts of the barbarians.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Monday, April 20 - The Blue Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect.
Monday, April 20, 2026
Sunday, April 19 - Bourbon Street Beat: Interrupted Wedding
Rex is best man at a friend's wedding interrupted by a bomb threat meant for the bride's father. Rex and fellow PI, BJ, investigate twin brothers tied to the father's past.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Saturday, April 18 - Interpol Calling: The Long Weekend
Duval is set to leave for the weekend when a puzzling report comes in: the body of a seaman has been found washed up at Dover, just seven days after being reported lost overboard in the Mediterranean. As more information comes in, Duval must piece together what happened to the late John Talbot; staying late in his office, the final clue comes from a bottle of wine.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Friday, April 17 - Four's a Crowd
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Errol Flynn plays a PR dynamo who rigs a toy train race to win a grumpy millionaire (Walter Connolly) as a client -- and tries to win the millionaire's granddaughter (de Havilland) too. As big-city newspaper types, Rosalind Russell and Patric Knowles join Flynn and de Havilland to make a madcap love quadrangle. All four end up in front of a justice of the peace, but who's with whom?
Friday, April 17, 2026
Thursday, April 16 - The Way Out
The Way Out (Original title: Dial 999 - 1955)
Greg Carradine tells his wife Terry that he has accidentally killed a man during a drunken fight. Terry tries to hide Greg, despite finding out that he in fact deliberately killed the man – a bookmaker to whom he owed money. Wanted by the police, Greg tries to flee the country via "The Way Out", a secret escape route for criminals. But he panics, and the police catch up with him.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Wednesday, April 15 - The House in Marsh Road
The House in Marsh Road (1960)
A novelist and his sexy lover plot to kill the novelist's wife so he can inherit her fortune including her house that happens to be haunted.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Tuesday, April 14 - Ghost Squad: Bullet with My Name on It
In Rome, Craig changes places with an American soon to testify in a big racketeering trial back in the states, and the target of ruthless hit men.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Monday, April 13 - Mr. Lucky: The Tax Man
A company which has scheduled a party on the Fortuna II is undergoing an IRS tax audit. The owner, knowing fraud will be eventually discovered, decides to buy time by "tipping" the Tax Agent into starting an investigation of Lucky's.
Monday, April 13, 2026
Sunday, April 12 - Adam Adamant Lives!: The Sweet Smell of Disaster
Benjamin Kinthly steals a secret formula with the intention of making the entire UK addicted to the smell of his washing detergent 'Cloud 7'. Even Georgie and Simms become infatuated, leaving it to Adam Adamant to find the antidote before it's too late.
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Saturday, April 11 - Subway in the Sky
Subway in the Sky (1959)
Baxter Grant, an American soldier in West Berlin, deserts and goes on the run when faced with false drug trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with cabaret singer Lilli Hoffman, whom he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Friday, April 10 - City of Chance
City of Chance (1940)
Girl reporter Julie Reynolds (Lynn Bari) attempts to infiltrate a crooked gaming establishment by pretending to be a naïve girl from Texas. Julie's plans go awry, however, when one of the owners, Steve Walker (Donald Woods), recognizes her as his childhood sweetheart. Although Steve's mentor, The Judge (C. Aubrey Smith), warns him of the consequences, the young man insists on resuming his relationship with Julie, a decision that almost costs him his life when rival gangster Marty Connors (Richard Lane) decides to move in on the operation. But Steve and Julie pull a fast one on Marty and The Judge skips the City of Chance on a floating casino.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Thursday, April 9 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Woman's Help
When Elizabeth Burton catches her nurse pulling double duty with her husband, she fires the nurse and demands that husband Arnold find new candidates. She gladly hires an elderly applicant, but still might get a surprise.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Wednesday, April 8 - The Sign of the Ram
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
The matriarch of an English family uses her disability to cynically manipulate all those around her. She coldly destroys a daughter's relationship with a man she truly loves, and her machinations almost drive the son's fiance to suicide. As the family realizes what she is doing, she becomes even more calculating - and mentally unbalanced.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Tuesday, April 7 - The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
American scientist Frank Smith, played by Anthony Quayle, is honeymooning in London with his new bride Eve Trent (Zsa Zsa Gabor). What the authorities don't know is that Frank and Eve are secret agents, bound and determined to pick up germ-warfare information from Hungarian scientist Horvad (Leonard Sachs). By prearranged agreeement, Smith will relay this information, and the purpose of his mission, to one man and one man only. His self-enforced silence proves to be a severe handicap when Eve is murdered and Smith is unable to provide an alibi for himself. It is up to lady lawyer Mary Randall to defend the close-mouthed Smith in court.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Monday, April 6 - Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business (1941)
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother, a mismatch which eventually grows into real love.
Monday, April 6, 2026
Sunday, April 5 - Interpol Calling: The Two-Headed Monster
Deported from the United States back to his native Italy, the police are convinced convicted racketeer Johnny Stefano is up to something - and call in Interpol when he appears to ally himself with gangsters from across Europe. Duval must find exactly how his protection racket works, and discovers a clue in Stefano's past - and in a minor break-in in Paris.
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Saturday, April 4 - The Big Punch
The Big Punch (1948)
New York City boxer Johnny Grant has been ordered by his manager to throw his next match, but Johnny double-crosses him and knocks out his opponent instead. To even the score, the manager kills a police officer and frames Johnny for the murder.
Johnny leaves town and hides out with pastor Chris Thorgenson in a small Pennsylvania town. Johnny phones his girlfriend Midge Parker and asks that she hire a private detective to clear his name. Chris helps him secure a bank job, but Johnny is blackmailed into robbing the bank. Johnny refuses and plots to run away, but Chris stops him.
A police chief identifies Johnny as the wanted killer. Karen Long convinces the chief to let them find the real murderer, and she and Chris travel to New York to help with the search. The real killer is revealed, and now that his name has been cleared, Johnny returns to New York.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Friday, April 3 - Gideon C.I.D.: Gang War
Jerry Blake leads a gang of thugs that is determined to move into the territory of another gang lead by Frank Romano. They wreck the shop of barber Tony Mazzo and demand he change who he pays protection money to. Lead by his wife, Lollo, Frank seems reluctant to retaliate that upsets his gang members. Instead, Lollo wants to seduce Henry Waldo, who works at a bank and is in charge of burning old money. Gideon is brought in by the local constabulary to end the gang warfare, which could escalate when Blake stabs one of Romano's gang.
Friday, April 3, 2026
Thursday, April 2 - Never a Dull Moment
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
Sophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Hayward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married and leave for his ranch in the west. Kay makes one difficult adjustment after another as Chris' kids preside over the ranch. Then, an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds that her heart is with Chris and his children.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Wednesday, April 1 - Bourbon Street Beat: Reunion
A girl runs away from a girls' school to see her estranged father. The father turns out to be Big Tom Lanza, a prominent mobster. Lanza's enemies try to turn the situation to their advantage. Cal Calhoun has been hired to track down the girl but finds himself in the middle of more than he bargained for. Calhouns soon fins not only the girl but her principal are in peril -- and he may not survive the case, either.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Tuesday, March 31 - Take One False Step
Take One False Step (1949)
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Next day Catherine is missing, believed killed; friend Martha convinces Andrew that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. But this only puts Andrew in a more deadly kind of danger.
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