Friday, December 30 - Our Wife

Our Wife (1941)

Jerry Marvin, a talented musician and composer, wallows in drunken self-pity after he is divorced by his wife Babe. Along comes new love Susan, who rescues Jerry and provides him with fresh inspiration to complete his trumpet concerto. He performs it, it's a hit, and the jubilant Jerry and Susan plan to marry. There's just one hitch: Now Babe wants him back... and the unscrupulous ex-wife will stop at nothing to recapture her man.

Thursday, December 29 - A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

In West Berlin at the height of the Cold War, British spy Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is tasked with the dangerous assignment of finding and assassinating the treacherous KGB agent Krasnevin, who has killed many undercover British agents. He's given a new partner, Gatiss (Tom Courtenay), to help eliminate the deadly Russian. What neither his bosses nor his partner know, however, is that Eberlin himself is Krasnevin, a double agent whose secret identity his Moscow bosses don't want compromised.

Wednesday, December 28 - Fools' Parade

Fools' Parade (1971)

Mattie Appleyard (James Stewart) has spent the last 40 years behind bars and is finally out. A model prisoner and a hard worker, Appleyard saved up over $25,000 while in prison and entrusted the money to prison guard "Doc" Council (George Kennedy). Appleyard, along with his two ex-con friends, plans to become a respectable citizen by using the money to open a general store -- but it soon becomes clear that Doc and an unscrupulous banker have no intention of letting him go straight.

Tuesday, December 27 - Three Hats for Lisa

Three Hats for Lisa (1965)

Three young Cockneys take a day off work to meet a foreign movie star at Heathrow Airport. She joins them and their taxi driver while she collects some typically British hats. The main rule of the game is to steal a hat from its wearer, so the film is a musical chase around Swinging Sixties London, evading press and police.

Monday, December 26 - The St. Louis Bank Robbery

The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)

George Fowler is introduced to a gang planning to rob a bank in St. Louis that they expect will have $100,000 on hand on an upcoming Friday. George is drawn into the plan as the gang's driver by Gino, an old girlfriend's older brother. As the gang goes about its planning, George and Gino have to find a way to live for the next two weeks and they turn to Gino's sister, Ann, for help. George is hoping to go back to college and the money he would make would go a long way to helping him do that. Not trusting George to keep his nerve, the gang's leader John Egan moves him to the inside, but the robbery doesn't go off as planned.

Sunday, December 25 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: O Youth and Beauty!

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: O Youth and Beauty! (Season 6 Episode 8 - aired Nov 22, 1960)

Cash Bentley is having a hard time coping with middle age. A one-time champion hurdler, he now drinks a bit too much and doesn't quite earn enough money to pay for the lifestyle he would like to provide for his family, such as a membership at the local country club. Despondent he decides to try one last "race," with tragic results.

Saturday, December 24 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes TV Movie (1987)

Boston private eye Jane Watson (Margaret Colin) works with her great-grandfather's partner (Michael Pennington), unfrozen after 51 years.

Friday, December 23 - A Girl in a Million

A Girl in a Million (1946)

After divorcing his nagging wife, researcher Tony (Hugh Williams) takes charge of a government project in a remote setting, with only two assistants, Prendergast (Basil Radford) and Fotheringham (Naunton Wayne), and a butler (Wylie Watson). The men's solitude is disrupted by the arrival of Gay Sultzman (Joan Greenwood), a young woman traumatized into muteness when her evacuee ship was torpedoed. Initially annoyed with her presence, the men soon find themselves mesmerized by Gay's silence.

Thursday, December 22 - Shadow of Fear

Shadow of Fear Original title: Before I Wake (1955)

Returning home to England from the United States following news of her father's sudden death in a boating accident, April Haddon meets her stepmother Florence for the first time. The former nurse of her mother, she had married April's father after her death. April finds that in the few years she has been away her stepmother has completely changed the house, the old furnishings replaced with modernist art and the old family housekeepers replaced by a maid with loyalty to her new mistress.

When her father's will is read, it becomes clear that the redrawn will Florence had been expecting had never been completed and the old will still stands, leaving most of his inheritance to April in three weeks when she turns twenty one. Convinced that Florence intends to murder her first, April turns to an old friend the local doctor to help her.

Wednesday, December 21 - I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble (1948)

A wealthy politician, Ralph Johnston, has hired detective Stuart Bailey to investigate his missing wife's background. Bailey discovers that the wife had been a dancer under her maiden name of Jane Breeger and had left her Oregon home town with Buster Buffin, a nightclub entertainer, who says Jane changed her name to Janie Joy and enrolled at UCLA. Buffin is killed before Bailey can question him further.

Norma Shannon shows up, looking for her sister Jane, but when Bailey shows her a photograph of the missing woman, Norma says it's not her. Bailey learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girlfriend to enter college after she stole $40,000 from the club where she worked, owned by a man named Keller.

The detective eventually learns that Johnston had killed his wife when he had himself discovered her past, in order to avoid a scandal, and that he had hired the detective in order to frame him for the killing.

Tuesday, December 20 - Paid to Dance

Paid to Dance (1937)

Government undercover agents William Dennis (Don Terry) and Joan Bradley (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells) are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda (Arthur Loft) and his henchman Nifty (Paul Fix). Dennis sets himself up as a theatrical booking agent, and shows his power by the opening and closing of Miranda's Paradise Club at will.

Monday, December 19 - Murder in Reverse

Murder in Reverse (1945)

William Hartnell plays a man suspected of murdering a love rival after being cuckolded by his wife. He goes to prison for 15 years but comes out convinced his 'victim' is still alive.