Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Wednesday, Feb. 11 -The Loveless
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Tuesday, Feb. 10 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Holst
The dangers of revolutionary Russia come to quiet Copenhagen when a countess from St. Petersburg flees to the Danish capital, claiming her anarchist brother-in-law is trying to kill her. The case falls to local cop Lt. Holst, who struggles to make sense of it all.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Monday, Feb. 9 - Mr. Lucky: The Money Game
New "regulars" at the Fortuna II's roulette wheel include a beautiful, wealthy divorcée and a studious, eccentric professor. This could somehow coincide with a recent rash of counterfeit money entering the Port of Los Angeles.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Sunday, Feb. 8 - Libeled Lady
Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is filed a 5 million dollars claim by Connie Allenbury for having printed she is a marriage-breaker, he organizes the unconsummated marriage of Gladys and the don Juan Bill Chandler. The goal is to catch Connie alone with a married man.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Saturday, Feb. 7 - A Hole in the Head
Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his sensible 12-year-old son. When Tony wants stolid brother Mario to bail him out again, Mario makes conditions: give up Ally, or at least get married to a "nice, quiet little woman" of his selection. Tony and Ally just play along to be diplomatic, but then the woman in question proves to look like Eleanor Parker
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Friday, Feb. 6 - Dead of Night
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of no vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Friday, February 6, 2015
Thursday, Feb. 5 - Maigret: Maigret's Boyhood Friend
Leon Florentine, an old school acquaintance of Maigret, shows up at the detective's home asking for help in the shooting death of his mistress. Maigret has only obvious distaste for the unkempt, disheveled Leon, who has survived since boyhood by sponging, lying, and conning his way through life. Although the dead woman allowed him to live with her rent free, her busy social life included four other lovers, all of whom were unaware of the other's existence. When they were scheduled to arrive, Leon would discreetly leave the apartment, but if they arrived unexpectedly, he would perversely hide in the wardrobe. The plot becomes even more complicated when Maigret finds out that Leon was in the wardrobe when the murder was allegedly committed.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Wednesday, Feb. 4 - Party Husband
PARTY HUSBAND is a saucy pre-coder starring Dorothy Mackaill and James Rennie as a modern young couple who believe marriage should allow each to maintain his/her individuality and friends. At first everything goes well; they are happy together and each pursues a career. They continue to ignore warnings from her mother (Helen Ware) and close friend (Dorothy Peterson). Then along comes a flirtatious writer (Mary Doran) who sets her sights on Rennie. Mackaill is warned again by her boss (Donald Cook) who once had an affair with Doran. As Doran moves in on Rennie, the marriage starts to falter.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Tuesday, Feb. 3 - Roxie Hart
After her husband shoots a burglar in their apartment, Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers) is talked into pretending she did it by a newsman and a theatrical agent who promise to sign her for a vaudeville tour. Realizing she'll become a household name overnight, Roxie agrees and becomes the center of an outrageous trial.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Monday, Feb. 2 - Thriller: The Hollow Watcher
An Irish mail-order bride marries into a family in North Carolina, with a scheme to steal their hidden fortune. She murders her autocratic father-in-law and hides his body inside a scarecrow--but the vengeful scarecrow is now stalking her.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Sunday, Feb. 1 - The War Between Men and Women
Peter (Jack Lemmon), a cartoonist, has successfully avoided marriage for his entire life.until he meets Theresa (Barbara Harris). Peter and Theresa couldn't be more wrong for one another, but Cupid has a sense of humor and soon the pair finds themselves dangerously close to living happily ever after. If they can overcome a flirtatious ex-husband, clashing lifestyles and Peter's potential blindness, the might just see their relationship for what it is - true love.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Jan. 31 - Big Eyes & The Sleeping Car Murder
A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
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