Friday, June 15 - Reign of Terror

Reign of Terror (1949)

Exiled to Austria, former French military commander the Marquis de Lafayette (Wilton Graff) orders Charles D'Aubigny (Robert Cummings) to destroy the impending dictatorship of the bloodthirsty Robespierre (Richard Basehart) by assuming the identity of his corrupt new prosecutor. With the help of opposition leader François Barras (Richard Hart) and his former lover, Madelon (Arlene Dahl), D'Aubigny goes in search of Robespierre's enemies list, written in a small black book that has vanished.

Thursday, June 14 - The Battle of the Sexes

The Battle of the Sexes (1960)

Mr. Martin is the faithful manager at the House of MacPherson, a Scottish firm that's been turning out tweed the same way for decades. When the new heir (Robert Morley) takes over, he brings in a domineering efficiency expert (Constance Cummings), an American no less, whose ideas threaten to ruin the company. Martin is forced to act. While he seems like a quiet and unassuming sort, he actually has a lot of guile and cunning beneath his mild-mannered exterior. First he tries to get her fired, but when that doesn't work he decides that more drastic measures are called for - like murder.

Wednesday, June 13 - Private Lives

Private Lives (1931)

Elyot and Sibyl are being married in a big church ceremony. Amanda and Victor are being married by a French Justice of the Peace. Both couples go to a hotel on the same day and are put in adjoining rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go fine until Amanda sees her former husband Elyot on the adjacent terrace. While they both pretend to be happy, both make plans to leave, but their spouses do not want to leave as it is their respective honeymoons. So the other spouses each go down to the bar. This leaves Elyot and Amanda together and they reminisce. Before long, the sparks again fly and they both decide to leave together to the Mountains of Switzerland. They love, they bicker, they fight, they stop. Then it begins over and over. Then Victor and Sibyl show up at their chalet.

Tuesday, June 12 - Don't Bother to Knock

Why Bother to Knock (1961)
Don't Bother to Knock (original title)

Chaos reigns when a man (Richard Todd), following a fight with his girlfriend, hands out his apartment keys to several beauties.

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn’t empty.

Monday, June 11 - I Met Him in Paris

I Met Him in Paris (1937)

Kay Denham is off for a 'fling' in Paris, leaving her staid suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.

Sunday, June 10 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Don't Come Back Alive

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962): Don't Come Back Alive (Season 1 | Episode 4 - aired 23 October 1955)

Frank and Mildred Partridge are struggling with their finances. Frank has just landed a new job, but it won't start for another month. As they try to make light of their situation, Frank gets an idea. He persuades his wife to disappear for seven years, so that she can be declared legally dead in order to collect on their life insurance policy. She reluctantly agrees, and moves away under an assumed name. They plan to meet each other regularly, but an insurance investigator becomes suspicious of her absence, and thinks that Frank has killed her. Left almost entirely on her own, Mildred comes to prefer her new way of life.

Wednesday, June 6 - Calm Yourself

Calm Yourself (1935)

Advertising executive Preston 'Pat' Patton is fired from his job by Col. Allenby when he offends his daughter Mary Elizabeth. Pat tries to remain calm and starts the agency 'Confidential Services, Inc.' On his first assignment Pat gets off on the wrong track by delivering the wrong drunk to an overweight wife's bed. Next, he is hired to keep beautiful Rosalind Rockwell away from her father's new and young wife because her father Kenneth S. Rockwell has been passing himself off as a younger man. So, Pat hires Rosalind as his secretary, allowing her to become involved in some comic misadventures. They also become romantic.

Monday, June 4 - Bank Holiday

Bank Holiday (1938)

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the sea-side. Doreen Richards under the name Miss Fulham is off with friend Milly to a beauty contest. Geoffrey and nurse Catherine Lawrence have decided to spend an illicit week-end in the Grand Hotel, although Catherine's mind keeps turning back to the hospital case she was working on. Arthur, May and the children are set on a more straight-forward excursion of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers of the "Follies" on the pier pray for rain.

Sunday, June 3 - Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two (1937)

Playboy Jonathan Blair wakes up after a night on the town to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Val is attracted to Jonathan but, finding that his life is aimless and his family shipping company almost bankrupt, she decides to reform him first and marry him later. Aiding her is Jonathan's unctuous butler, Butch; in her way is his fiancée, ditzy actress Carol.

Saturday, June 2 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: The Fist Fighter

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963): The Fist Fighter (Season 1 | Episode 16 - aired 19 January 1960)

Thalia's latest kick is that she wants an athlete, as professional athletes make lots of money. Football team captain Milton is that athlete of choice, whereas Dobie is nowhere close to being an athlete of any sort. As Dobie goes through the list of sports at which he may try to excel, that exercise which yields nothing, he figures that he can bluff his way into being an athlete. The school doesn't have a boxing team, so he can pretend to be an expert fighter. The key to the bluff is to beat up a known athletic entity. Dobie is certain that Moose McCullough, a Central High School graduate and who is known as the best athlete Central High has ever produced, will take a fall for him, as more than anything Moose believes in love. Moose agrees to Dobie's proposition. The staged fight works, which results in Dobie getting Thalia and being known far and wide as "The Fist". What Dobie doesn't account for is anyone calling his bluff, that person being Milton, who wants Thalia back, and who challenges Dobie to a fight.

Friday, June 1 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Momentum

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962): Momentum (Season 1 | Episode 39 - aired 24 June 1956)

Young husband Skip Homeier wants to join the urban rat-race since he and long-suffering wife Joanne Woodward are perilously in debt. But he has no luck finding employment. Desperate, he goes to collect money still owed him from an old employer. Unfortunately, events plunge into a downslide from that point on...

Thursday, May 31 - The Twilight Zone: Four O'Clock

The Twilight Zone (1959–1964): Four O'Clock (Season 3 | Episode 29 - aired 6 April 1962)

Oliver Krangle is a man obsessed with one thing: evil and exposing it. In his self-contained little world, Oliver tracks down all sorts of information on these 'evil people,' harasses them, and even calls their employers to tell of their subversive behaviors.

One day as Oliver goes about his work, his landlady drops off mail, and when she questions his work, Oliver pulls out a file card with information on her. As she looks at him like he was a man both crazy and obsessed, Oliver then proclaims that come 4 o'clock, he is going to do something about all the evil people in the world...