Saturday, July 24, 2021

Friday, July 23 - The Giant Spider Invasion

The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)

After a black hole strikes, it opens up another dimension in a rural Wisconsin town, and soon there is an invasion of gigantic arachnids who crave human flesh. NASA scientists Dr. Vance (Steve Brodie) and Dr. Jenny Langer (Barbara Hale) try their best to save humanity as a romance blooms between them. Meanwhile, local Dan Kester (Robert Easton) squabbles with his wife, Ev (Leslie Parrish), and has a dalliance with local bartender Helga (Christiane Schmidtmer).

Friday, July 23, 2021

Thursday, July 22 - Street Scene

Street Scene (1931)

Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this slice-of-life tale captures one day on a residential Manhattan street. Brownstone neighbors gather on a sweltering summer evening to swap the latest gossip about the philandering Mrs. Maurrant (Estelle Taylor) and her alcoholic husband (David Landau). The Maurrants' daughter, Rose (Sylvia Sidney), who longs to escape her seedy existence, must deal with her parents' sins when her father learns of his wife's infidelity.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Wednesday, July 21 - The Lady in Scarlet

The Lady in Scarlet (1935)

When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Tuesday, July 20 - Naked City: The Fingers of Henri Tourelle

Naked City: The Fingers of Henri Tourelle - Season3, Episode 4 (aired Oct 18, 1961)

A business owner is killed by gunshot in his office. The person who fired the shot couldn't have left the premises before the police arrived to investigate, but the responsible gunman proves elusive.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Monday, July 19 - Mannix: Deadfall


An Intertect security chief apparently has been killed while driving. At almost the same time, an explosion at an Intertect client has killed a technician and destroyed a new laser device. Mannix suddenly is thrust into the case while Intertect chief Wickersham begins acting erratically, the side effect of medication for an infection. Mannix concludes that the Intertect security man may have sold out, along with somebody at the client. Mannix later finds that the Intertect security man is still alive...

Monday, July 19, 2021

Sunday, July 18 - Who?

Who? (1974)

An enigmatic individual with a metal face is returned from East Germany and claims to be Lucas Martino, an American scientist who was working on a top-secret project but was severely injured and scarred in a car crash. American authorities hold him in custody while they try to establish whether the man is the real Martino or an impostor.

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Saturday, July 17 - Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge (1931)

In World War I London, Myra is an American out of work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. They fall for each other, and he tricks Myra into visiting his family who live in a country estate outside London, where his step-father is a retired British Major. However Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, because she has not told him about her past.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Friday, July 16 - Cage of Gold

Cage of Gold (1950)

A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiancé, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame - the dashing, but roguish, former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later, she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and they keep Glennan's son. But then, Glennan suddenly re-appears, and begins to blackmail her.

Friday, July 16, 2021

Thursday, July 15 - She Knows Y' Know

She Knows Y' Know (1962)

There's a fuss in the neighborhood in a fictional Lancashire town, where the son of the house, Cyril Smith, is accused of getting the neighbor's daughter, Linda Castle, with child. Her parents want them married ASAP, but his mother, Hylda Baker, is adamant he's going to finish getting his B.Sc and move on. There's fussing and fight and Miss Baker gets to utter her catchphrase, which is also the title of the movie.

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Wednesday, July 14 - Checkmate: Voyage Into Fear

Checkmate: Voyage Into Fear (Episode aired May 6, 1961)

Joan Fontaine plays a woman who claims her husband is trying to kill her. Corey accompanied her on a cruise ship to protect her but her odd behavior raises doubts. Also onboard watching her closely is a private detective who claims to be hired by her husband.

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Tuesday, July 13 - Naked City: The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street

Naked City: The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street (Episode aired Oct 11, 1961)

After a car wreck between a truck and a hearse, a "corpse" gets up and walks away. The casket used was really a "submarine" - a means to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the U.S. The Undertaker tied to the incoming delivery did not know his "fixer" friend was also having something else illegally brought into the country.

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Monday, July 12 - Cheer Up

Cheer Up (1936)

Stanley Lupino and Roddy Highes have written a musical play, been thrown out of every theatrical office in the city and are stone cold broke. Sally Gray -- whose character's name is Sally Gray -- can't even get an audition and is likewise stony. So is the kindly couple who take her in. Fortunately, she comes up with the idea of turning their home into a hotel. When she is at another hotel talking it up for prospective guests, she is accosted, and is rescued by Lupino. This causes an agent to look her up and offer to bankroll her until she has a paying career; the report is that Wilfrid Harman, the son of the biggest backer of plays rescued her. When she runs into Lupino, she thinks he's Wilfrid Harman and he thinks she's the answer to his dreams in every way.