Monday, August 11 - Alibi For Murder

Alibi for Murder (1936)

Winchellesque radio commentator Perry Travis (William Gargan) fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective; the cops wish he'd just stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in his own home, as Perry is attempting to get an interview. With the help of the dead man's secretary Lois Allen (Marguerite Churchill), Perry tries to figure out how a man could be murdered in a locked room with no visible weapon or assailant.

Sunday, August 10 - Climbing High

Climbing High (1938)

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.

Saturday, August 9 - A Covenant with Death

A Covenant with Death (1967)

Wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, death row inmate Earl Holliman struggles on the scaffold...and the hangman accidentally dies as a result. Concurrently, his spouse's killer steps forward and confesses. Young jurist George Maharis has the unenviable task of sorting it all out in this tense legal tale.

Friday, August 8 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Caper at the Bijou

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 1, Episode 1 Caper at the Bijou (29 Sep. 1959)

Dobie is desperate for money so he can take Thalia to the dance, so he and Maynard hatch a plot to dishonestly win $100 at the Bijou Theater on Jackpot Night.

Thursday, August 7 - Sorcerer

Sorcerer (1977)

A group of outcasts from different backgrounds and nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in an oil-drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, four of the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting six crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in two ancient trucks.

Wednesday, August 6 - Killjoy

Killjoy (1981) TV Movie

Kim Basinger is the key in a love triangle including two physicians: hothead Stephen Macht and mama's boy John Rubinstein. When Basinger and Macht announce their engagement, Rubinstein convinces her that her new fiancé hasn't forsaken his playboy past by creating an imaginary girlfriend for him named Joy Morgan. Basinger buys the ruse, but all three find themselves in trouble when cop Robert Culp pops up investigating "Joy"'s disappearance and possible murder. How can the police be looking into a missing person who doesn't exist?

Tuesday, August 5 - Ballad in Blue

Ballad in Blue (1964)

Ray Charles (playing himself) performs for sightless children in a London school, and meets young David Harrison (Piers Bishop), a ten-year-old recently blinded by sickness. Charles takes a personal interest in David when he realizes that his mother Peggy (Mary Peach) is over-protecting her son. Peggy's lover Steve Collins (Tom Bell) is a pianist and composer, and Ray Charles hires him to arrange music for a European tour. Yet Peggy seems to have little confidence in Steve's career. Ray knows of a Parisian eye surgeon who may be able to restore David's sight but Peggy balks at taking her son out of his routine. Complicating things is the seductive fashion designer Gina Graham (Dawn Addams), a playgirl with romantic designs on Steve.

Monday, August 4 - The Swimmer

The Swimmer (1968)

"The Swimmer" is the story of a man who begins at the dawn of a new day to swim in the backyard pool of some friends. The water is cool and fresh, and the day is beautiful.

As he has a drink with his friends, it occurs to him that a string of other backyard pools reaches all the way across the valley to his own home. Why not swim every one -- swim all the way home, as it were? This sounds like a glorious adventure, and indeed it starts but that way. He even meets a lovely girl who agrees to come along on the journey.

Some of the pool owners are happy to see him. Others hate him. One is a bitter young woman who loved him once. We learn something about this man's life at every poolside, until finally we are able to piece together a story of his disgrace and failure.

Sunday, August 3 - They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher and political candidate is accused of murdering a prostitute. Tibbs is also battling domestic woes, including a frustrated wife and a rebellious adolescent son.

Saturday, August 2 - Cockfighter

Cockfighter (1974)

Warren Oates plays Frank Mansfield, an obsessive trainer of fighting cocks. After his best bird is defeated and he lost the championship due to his drunken bragging, he takes a vow of silence. He plans to stay silent until he wins the cockfighter of the year medal, hopefully defeating his rival, Jack (who at the start of film has just won Frank's home, car and girl) along the way.

Friday, August 1 - Route 66: Same Picture, Different Frame

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 2 Same Picture, Different Frame (4 Oct. 1963)

Tod and Linc are in Poland Spring, Maine working at a children's Summer Camp. Linc acts as protector for one of the Camp counselors, an older lady, who has become frightened by the threat of her escaped mental patient husband. Tod, meanwhile, has his hands full warding off the advances of a teenage attendee at the Camp.

Thursday, July 31 - Turn Back the Clock

Turn Back the Clock (1933)

Joe and Mary run a tobacco store and are just scraping by. When old friend Ted comes into the store, they renew their friendship, even though Ted is now wealthy and married to Elvira, whom Joe could have married himself, and become the rich one. After a domestic squabble Joe is hit by a car, and when he wakes up he is 20 years younger and can rectify his error and marry Elvina and her money. He does, relives his life as a wealthy man who still remembers his 'other' life, and what happened during those years. In the end he realizes that he isn't as happy as he was formerly, and things come to a head when his 'new' life catches up with his old one.