Route 66: Season 4, Episode 1 Two Strangers and an Old Enemy (27 Sep. 1963)
Tod and Linc, in Cape Coral, Florida working for an air service, search for the owner-missing with his plane in swampland. As the story unfolds it is revealed that the owner, a WWII air ace, was never able to adjust to non-hero civilian life. The unhappy saga includes the man's ex-wife and one-time enemy.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29 - A Very British Coup: Episode 1
A Very British Coup (1988) TV Mini-Series
Based on the novel by Chris Mullin, this political thriller stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.
A Very British Coup: Season 1, Episode 1 Episode #1.1 (19 Jun. 1988)
A Very British Coup opens with the election of Perkins, an ex-steelworker from Sheffield, who becomes prime minister in a landslide victory on a manifesto committed to radical policies. But, the establishment is none too pleased with Perkins, and soon the world outside Number 10 - the media, the civil service, the armed services and particularly the Americans - set out to stop him in his tracks.
When he decides that the US bases and missiles must leave the country, the Americans decide it's time that Harry went instead.
Based on the novel by Chris Mullin, this political thriller stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.
A Very British Coup: Season 1, Episode 1 Episode #1.1 (19 Jun. 1988)
A Very British Coup opens with the election of Perkins, an ex-steelworker from Sheffield, who becomes prime minister in a landslide victory on a manifesto committed to radical policies. But, the establishment is none too pleased with Perkins, and soon the world outside Number 10 - the media, the civil service, the armed services and particularly the Americans - set out to stop him in his tracks.
When he decides that the US bases and missiles must leave the country, the Americans decide it's time that Harry went instead.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Monday, July 28 - Hollywood Story
Hollywood Story (1951)
Hollywood 1950: The successful producer Larry O'Brian arrives in Los Angeles to found a motion picture company. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. He's shown the office where the famous director Franklin Farrara was shot. The case hasn't been solved until now, although there were many suspects. O'Brian becomes fascinated by the subject and wants to shoot a movie about it. He investigates and soon gets into danger himself.
Hollywood 1950: The successful producer Larry O'Brian arrives in Los Angeles to found a motion picture company. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. He's shown the office where the famous director Franklin Farrara was shot. The case hasn't been solved until now, although there were many suspects. O'Brian becomes fascinated by the subject and wants to shoot a movie about it. He investigates and soon gets into danger himself.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Sunday, July 27 - Claudelle Inglish
Claudelle Inglish (1961)
Diane McBain plays a Southern farm girl who, after getting jilted by fiancee Chad Everett, turns into the town bad girl using men until she meets a bad end.
Diane McBain plays a Southern farm girl who, after getting jilted by fiancee Chad Everett, turns into the town bad girl using men until she meets a bad end.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Saturday, July 26 - How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life & Danger UXB: Just Like a Woman
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968)
When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he finds himself with romantic problems as well.
Danger UXB: Season 1, Episode 3 Just Like a Woman (22 Jan. 1979)
Ash and Machin are recalled to London from a bomb disposal course and attend to a bomb in a school yard that is dangerously close to a telephone exchange. When another bomb is uncovered close by, Ash reluctantly allows Machin to defuse the his first bomb.
When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he finds himself with romantic problems as well.
Danger UXB: Season 1, Episode 3 Just Like a Woman (22 Jan. 1979)
Ash and Machin are recalled to London from a bomb disposal course and attend to a bomb in a school yard that is dangerously close to a telephone exchange. When another bomb is uncovered close by, Ash reluctantly allows Machin to defuse the his first bomb.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Friday, July 25 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 1, Episode 8 The Case of the Dixon Torpedo (8 Nov. 1971)
Petty crime and international espionage intertwine when the Russian embassy hires Jonathan Pryde to do one job and his own government hires him for another. The private investigator discovers that the two cases-a money-counterfeiting operation and the theft of plans for a Royal Navy torpedo-are linked.
Petty crime and international espionage intertwine when the Russian embassy hires Jonathan Pryde to do one job and his own government hires him for another. The private investigator discovers that the two cases-a money-counterfeiting operation and the theft of plans for a Royal Navy torpedo-are linked.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Thursday, July 24 - Undertow
Undertow (1949)
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer.
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Wednesday, July 23 - The Purchase Price
The Purchase Price (1932)
Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields, flees to Montreal and becomes the mail-order bride of down-to-earth farmer Jim Gilson. Their chance for happiness is threatened by Gilson's own stubborness, a lecherous neighbor and the reappearance of Fields.
Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields, flees to Montreal and becomes the mail-order bride of down-to-earth farmer Jim Gilson. Their chance for happiness is threatened by Gilson's own stubborness, a lecherous neighbor and the reappearance of Fields.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Tuesday, July 22 - Remember Last Night?
Remember Last Night? (1935)
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night, nobody remembers anything that happened.
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night, nobody remembers anything that happened.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Monday, July 21 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Five Hundred Carats
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 2 Five Hundred Carats (5 Feb. 1973)
Tensions reach the breaking point in the small mining town of Kimberley, South Africa, after the daring theft of the DeBeers diamond. Insp. Lipinzki leaves no stone unturned in his hunt for the precious rock. The more he digs, the more deadly become the stakes for everyone in Kimberely.
Tensions reach the breaking point in the small mining town of Kimberley, South Africa, after the daring theft of the DeBeers diamond. Insp. Lipinzki leaves no stone unturned in his hunt for the precious rock. The more he digs, the more deadly become the stakes for everyone in Kimberely.
Monday, July 21, 2014
Sunday, July 20 - Anastasia
Anastasia (1956)
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Saturday, July 19 - Who Was That Lady?
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
David Wilson is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when his wife Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to his old friend, a television writer, Michael Haney, who cooks up a cover story. They convince Ann that David is working undercover for the FBI, and that the kiss was part of a sting. The gullible Ann believes the story. Later, when she sees David and Michael in a restaurant with two women, she suspects that the women are spies, and passes David his empty gun. This touches off a disturbance that is filmed by TV news crews. Some real Russian spies think that David really is an FBI agent, and the spies grab the Wilsons and Haney, take them to a secret chamber beneath the Empire State Building, and give them truth serum...
David Wilson is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when his wife Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to his old friend, a television writer, Michael Haney, who cooks up a cover story. They convince Ann that David is working undercover for the FBI, and that the kiss was part of a sting. The gullible Ann believes the story. Later, when she sees David and Michael in a restaurant with two women, she suspects that the women are spies, and passes David his empty gun. This touches off a disturbance that is filmed by TV news crews. Some real Russian spies think that David really is an FBI agent, and the spies grab the Wilsons and Haney, take them to a secret chamber beneath the Empire State Building, and give them truth serum...
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