Sunday, June 12, 2016

Saturday, June 11 - Candy

Candy (1968)

A naive blond beauty (Ewa Aulin) meets a Mexican gardener, boozing Welsh poet (Richard Burton), hunchback, guru (Marlon Brando), surgeon and general. Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Friday, June 10 - Rafter Romance

Rafter Romance (1933)

To collect back rent from tenants Jack Bacon (Norman Foster) and Mary Carroll (Ginger Rogers), landlord Eckbaum (George Sidney) suggests that the two strangers split the use of the attic, since Jack works nights and Mary is on days. Both protest, but Eckbaum moves them anyway. Although they never meet, a series of misunderstandings leads Jack and Mary to hate each other. One day at a deli, Mary meets Jack and the two share instant attraction -- with no idea they already live together.

Friday, June 10, 2016

Thursday, June 9 - Thriller: 'Til Death Do Us Part

Thriller (1960–1962): 'Til Death Do Us Part (Episode aired 12 March 1962)

Undertaker Carl Somers murders his nagging wife so he can head west to marry a wealthy spinster. The joke's on him though: eloping with the old maid gets her disinherited, leaving him with another unwanted wife. A new doctor in town hiding from a murder charge comes in handy at this point.

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Wednesday, June 8 - Route 66: Kiss the Monster - Make Him Sleep

Route 66 (1960–1964): Kiss the Monster - Make Him Sleep (Episode aired 24 January 1964)

Tod and Linc are in Minneapolis working in construction on a River Lock Project. Linc becomes "involved" with the sister of their boss. She resents her brother being overprotective and buying off her men friends. Linc tries to help her make it on her own but later finds she has neuroses involving dependency and nymphomania. Not to mention a visit from Linc's mother and his troubled relationship with his father.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Tuesday, June 7 - Thriller: Flowers of Evil

Thriller (1960–1962): Flowers of Evil (Episode aired 5 March 1962)

A faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a medical school. The skeleton keeps returning, however--and screaming.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Monday, June 6 - The Naughty Flirt

The Naughty Flirt (1931)

Coquettish socialite Kay Elliott has set her cap for Alan Ward, an associate in her father's law firm. But while pursuing Alan, she must fend off the advances of a greedy fortune-hunter, who is aided and abetted by his equally voracious sister.

Monday, June 6, 2016

Sunday, June 5 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Singing Violin

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Singing Violin (Episode aired 24 January 1955)

Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her stepfather brings her fiancé to see her in this condition, and he tells the young man that there can be no wedding, because Betty is going to be declared insane. The fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes, but he is murdered before he can see the detective. When Inspector Lestrade consults Holmes about the murder, Holmes recognizes the name of the dead man and also of the step-father, who is the lone surviving partner in a large tea and spice business. Holmes quickly forms a theory about the murder, and sets out to prove it.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Saturday, June 4 - Panic in Year Zero!

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

As the Baldwin family heads on vacation, their hometown of Los Angeles falls victim to a nuclear attack. Harry (Ray Milland), his wife, Ann (Jean Hagen), and their two teens head to their fishing retreat in the mountains, hoping to regroup and get more information. But they can't escape the frantic and irrational citizens, most of whom are dangerously deranged. Harry tries to stay calm during the nuclear-inspired end of days, but it's tempting to follow the masses' frenzied behavior.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Friday, June 3 - The Avengers: Bullseye

The Avengers (1961–1969): Bullseye (Episode aired 30 January 1991)

The Home Office becomes concerned when gunrunning to Africa increases and the stockholders of a prominent British gun manufacturer are being murdered one by one. Cathy buys 20 percent of the company's stock to investigate their activities.

Friday, June 3, 2016

Thursday, June 2 - After Office Hours

After Office Hours (1935)

Clark Gable is Jim Branch, the go-getter editor of a newspaper, who is hot on the trail of a society love triangle. Irritated with the music critic, Sharon Norwood (Bennett), he fires her, only to find out that evening that she is very good friends with all the parties. He then not so subtly tries to find out as much as he can. When the woman in the triangle is murdered, he's certain that he knows who did it - but since it's someone Sharon is close to, he's going to have a tough time of it.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Wednesday, June 1 - The Phantom of Crestwood

The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)

Jenny Wren (Karen Morley), a mistress to wealthy men, convinces one of her exes, banker Priam Andes (H.B. Warner) to throw a party and invite her other lovers without telling them she is involved. Once there, she announces her "retirement," after a young man committed suicide over her; she also demands blackmail money. However, thief Gary Curtis (Ricardo Cortez), sent to retrieve incriminating letters to Jenny from his boss, finds her murdered in a house full of prime suspects.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Monday, May 31 - Thriller: The Incredible Doktor Markesan

Thriller (1960–1962): The Incredible Doktor Markesan (Episode aired 26 February 1962)

Fred and Molly Bancroft, a pair of penniless newlyweds, are so desperate that they visit Fred's mysterious uncle Konrad Markesan, whom he hasn't seen in over twenty years. They are hoping to live in with him rent free until they can find jobs and be self-sufficient. The once-beautiful mansion is in a decrepitly musty state, filled with dust, cobwebs, and rats while Fred's once-kindly uncle is now a disheveled, cadaver-like figure who offers them shelter on condition that they never leave their room after dark, a condition that Markesan insures by locking them in at night.