Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot him, the second wants him for one last heist.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30 - Once a Thief
Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot him, the second wants him for one last heist.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Friday, May 29 - The Thing That Couldn't Die
A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old chest buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Thursday, May 28 - Scandal Sheet
George Bancroft plays a tough big-city newspaper editor determined to print the news no matter whose life it may destroy. His one weakness is wife Kay Francis who he adores. Francis doesn't return his affection and turns to suave banker Clive Brook. Bancroft learns of the affair from his news photographer, who snaps a shot of the pair embracing in Brook's apartment window. He kills Brook, and then returns to his office to dictate the story before turning himself in.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Wednesday, May 27 - Four Star Playhouse: Face of Danger
A reporter meets with a 100-year-old woman to ask about her life in the Old West. Her family keeps insisting she lived an upright and charming life in those frontier days, but she remembers the torrid affair she had with notorious outlaw Laramie Cole.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Tuesday, May 26 - Don't Bet on Blondes
Small-time racketeer "Odds" Owen and his associates go into the semi-legitimate insurance business, but his first big client is a southern-colonel ne'er-do-well who wants to insure his daughter against getting married. Owen's muscle successfully chases off her various suitors, thereby avoiding the risk of having to pay out against the policy, but Owen himself falls in love with her, placing him in a dilemma, caught between the heart and the wallet.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Monday, May 25 - The Front Page
Billy Wilder’s 1920s period piece, The Front Page (1974) tells the tale of Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon), a top-flight Chicago-based journalist who seeks to escape his job for greener pastures–a new life together with his fiancé. On the eve of the execution of Earl Williams, an alleged murderer and communist sympathizer, Hildy’s managing editor, Walter Burns (Walter Matthau) pulls every trick out of the book to keep Hildy in town and on the job.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Sunday, May 24 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Crimson Kiss
Fay Allison and her roommate Anita are found unconscious by Fay's aunt, Louise Marlow, who calls her attorney Perry Mason in desperation. In the girls' apartment Perry and Della discover a key that leads them to the body of Carver Clement.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Friday, May 22 - Kid Glove Killer
First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van Heflin as the head of a city crime lab who solves the murder of the town mayor by analyzing evidence from the crime.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Thursday, May 21 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: It Takes Two
As usual, Dobie is short of money since his father won't give him any, this issue which he believes is a big obstacle to getting a girl. It becomes a huge issue with the latest object of Dobie's affections, Poppy Herring, a girl new to the school. Poppy is looking for a specific type of person to become her life mate, Dobie who is willing to say anything to meet Poppy's expectations. The biggest issue for her is that her mate should want children, exactly three, a boy and two girls who she already has pictured in her mind. What may kibosh Dobie's relationship with Poppy is Mr. Pomfritt's class on heredity, miserly and "cruel" (in Dobie's own words) Herbert's genes which Poppy does not want in her children's bloodline, despite Poppy not yet having met Dobie's father. So Dobie goes on a mission to show Poppy that Herbert is a sweet, kind and generous man.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Wednesday, May 20 - You Never Can Tell
When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway (Peggy Dow) is besieged by fortune hunters. After the German Shepherd is poisoned and Ellen is accused of the crime, King's spirit is granted special permission to go back to earth in human form and help clear Ellen's name. Returning as private eye Rex Shepherd (Dick Powell) and aided by a former racehorse named Goldie (Joyce Holden), King puts his nose to the ground in a dogged attempt to sniff out his killer's name.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Tuesday, May 19 - Jimmy the Gent
Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin to apparently upright competitor James Wallingham. He counters by adding a veneer of respectability to his own operation. Meanwhile he exposes Wallingham for a fraud.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Monday, May 18 - Thriller: The Premature Burial
Sydney Blackmer stars as Edward Stapleton, a wealthy man who has a morbid fear of being buried alive, and after a near-fatal close call with this dreadful fate, goes to great lengths to ensure that premature burial will not happen again, since he is cataleptic. His fiancée Victorine (played by Patricia Medina) plots to kill him with her young lover Julian (played by Scott Marlowe) on their honeymoon, but the carefully prepared plan does not go as they expect. Boris Karloff and William Gordon costar as Doctor friends of Edward's who seek to protect him.
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