Thursday, December 12, 2024

Wednesday, December 11 - Air Hawks

Air Hawks (1935)

Barry Eldon is the owner of an airline company that is competing with a rival company for a lucrative air-mail contract with the government. While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barry's line, the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray-machine that will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power and crash. Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldon's line before he, aided by Renee Dupont, can find out what is causing his airplanes to crash.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Tuesday, December 10 - Cry of the Werewolf

Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

Nina Foch stars as a gypsy high Priestess, Celeste, whose mother was a lycanthrope passing the affliction to her. She kills a museum owner who has been delving into Foch's mother's history. The man's scientist son, Bob(Stephen Crane) and future Transylvanian wife, Elsa(Osa Massen) decide to follow a few leads through some burnt written words that his late father was penning for a forthcoming novel to be published about the infamous Marie La Tour and her werewolf lineage.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Monday, December 9 - Criminals of the Air

Criminals of the Air (1937)

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a place for obtaining quick marriages on the Mexico side, Mark obtains the job of pilot on "The Honeymoon Express."

Monday, December 9, 2024

Sunday, December 8 - Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth (1941)

Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000 for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's already raised. Gwen secretly gives T.T.'s new partner Steve Bennett the $10,000 and asks him to double it. Later in a discussion with T.T., business partner Dick and client Van, about truth in business Steve bets the $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. Having already accepted an invitation for a weekend on T.T.'s houseboat, Steve is subjected to 24 hours of attempts to get him to lie or divulge the bet, which would lose him (and Gwen) the $10,000.

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Saturday, December 7 - In Search of Anna

In Search of Anna (1978)

Tony has just been released from jail, and his friends are convinced he has the money from his last robbery. However, Tony just wants to find his old girlfriend, Anna, and hits the road searching for her.

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Friday, December 6 - Sleuth

Sleuth (1972)

Based on the renowned play by Anthony Shaffer, this mystery finds Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), a middle-class hair salon-owner. When Wyke, who is seemingly content to split from his wife strikes an unusual deal with Tindle, it sets into motion a fierce game of one-upmanship between the two, with the stakes growing increasingly higher.

Friday, December 6, 2024

Thursday, December 5 - The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

Liza Madden (Marlene Dietrich) is a single and independent Broadway star who, when she discovers an abandoned baby, is suddenly stricken with motherly instinct. She needs to be married in order to adopt, so when she takes the baby to pediatrician Dr. McBain (Fred MacMurray), she proposes a marriage of convenience. McBain agrees, under the proviso of receiving money from her for his research. They go ahead with the phony marriage -- only to find they share a genuine attraction.

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Wednesday, December 4 - The Sunshine Makers

The Sunshine Makers (2015)

The untold story of two idealistic young underground chemists at the heart of the American psychedelic revolution. A real-life 'Breaking Bad' for the psychedelic set, this documentary reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufactured a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard for quality LSD, Orange Sunshine, as they tried to stay one step ahead of the feds.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Monday, December 2 - Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Monday, December 2, 2024

Sunday, December 1 - Highway Patrol: Counterfeit & Suspected Cop


An apparently legitimate print shop is involved in the printing of counterfeit payroll checks used to bilk unsuspecting merchants.


The distraught daughter of a deceased gemologist accuses Officer Johnson of stealing valuable uncut jewels from her late father's car.

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Saturday, November 30 - The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug (1965)

Special Agent Lee Barrett (George Maharis) joins forces with Ann Williams (Anne Francis), a general's daughter, to recover a biological weapon stolen from a secret government lab. Learning that the pathogen could destroy all life on Earth, they focus their attention on a mysterious millionaire who may have orchestrated the theft. After annihilating a small town in Florida, the villain turns his attention to Los Angeles -- and the duo must race to stop the city's destruction.