Monday, February 27 - Account Rendered

Account Rendered (1957)

When wealthy Lucille Ainsworth is found strangled on Hampstead Heath, Detective Inspector Marshall is put on the case. Lucille's husband Robert suspected her of being unfaithful, and had been following her. But he is just one of many suspects with a motive for murder.

Sunday, February 26 - Dick Tracy Episodes - 5 & 6

Episode 5: Brother Against Brother

Tracy and Junior parachute to safety from their crashing plane, after which Tracy plants the false Mogra necklace for the Spiders men to pick up. He follows them to their Beachwood hotel hideout and infiltrates the building. After he is captured by Gordon (whom he does not recognize), a fight breaks out and Tracy makes a break for it with the real necklace, crawling around on the roof before Gordon shoots and Dick plummets over the edge.

Episode 6: Dangerous Waters

Escaping the shootout from Beachwood, a clue leads Dick to a scientist named Randolph who has created a valuable formula for Nickolanium. The Spider's men steal the formula and Tracy's team follows a footprint clue to the new hideout on the waterfront and get into a large fist fight. Gordon tries to sell the formula to a foreign agent who has arrived via submarine, but Tracy breaks up the purchase and the agent's submarine submerges to escape. Tracy's foot is caught on a rope and he's pulled under water.

Saturday, February 25 - The Great Bookie Robbery: Episode 2

The Great Bookie Robbery TV Mini Series (1986) (Episode 2 - aired Nov 15, 1986)

Part 2 of the story of the armed robbery of 50 bookmakers in Melbourne in 1976, organised by a group of thieves, one of them on a 7 day leave from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. The robbery netted $1.7 million and no one has yet been charged with the crime.

Friday, February 24 - Rock, Pretty Baby!

Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956)

Young musician Jimmy Daley (Saxon) needs to come up with $300 to purchase the electric guitar he wants. He pawns his law books (I thought they were medical books), to the disappointment of his father (Platt), a doctor whose goal is for Jimmy to become a lawyer (huh? doctor, I thought).

Jimmy's jealous nature results in a ruckus at a party and $150 in damage to a neighbor, which Dr. Daley insists his son pay. His girlfriend Joan Wright (Patten) learns that a battle of the bands has a cash prize. Jimmy and his group end up losing the contest, but he earns the respect of his dad.

Thursday, February 23 - Kill or Be Killed

Kill or Be Killed (1950)

Engineer Robert Warren (Lawrence Tierney) on assignment in Brazil, is set up for a murder when he discovers a client dead in his office and he is discovered standing over the body. After giving chase to the real killer and trying to elude the police until he can prove his innocence, Warren ends up hiding on a steam boat heading into the Amazon. Along the way he becomes involved with an unhappily married woman, her husband and his business partner (Marissa O'Brien, Rudolph Anders, George Coulouris) while trying to sort out the details of the crime.

Wednesday, February 22 - Wise Girl

Wise Girl (1937)

A socialite (Miriam Hopkins) goes bohemian to save her sister's children from their starving-artist father (uncle, actually) (Ray Milland) in Greenwich Village.

Tuesday, February 21 - Super-Sleuth

Super-Sleuth (1937)

Self-absorbed actor Bill Martin (Jack Oakie) plays detectives on-screen so often that he has fooled himself into believing he can fill the same role in real life. When a series of celebrity murders perplexes the police, Bill announces that he can easily solve the crimes. As the clueless sleuth investigates, he draws the ire of the case's real detectives as well as the consternation of his long-suffering publicist, Mary Strand (Ann Sothern), and the unwanted attentions of the actual killer.

Monday, February 20 - The Great Bookie Robbery: Episode 1

The Great Bookie Robbery TV Mini Series (1986) (Episode 1 - aired Nov 15, 1986)

Story of the armed robbery of 50 bookmakers in Melbourne in 1976, organised by a group of thieves, one of them on a 7 day leave from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. The robbery netted $1.7 million and no one has yet been charged with the crime.

Sunday, February 19 - Strait-Jacket

Strait-Jacket (1964)

Though still mentally shaky, convicted axe-murderess Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband. Lucy goes to stay at her brother's farm and reconnect with her grown daughter, Carol (Diane Baker), who saw her mother chop her father to pieces as a tot. Carol helps Lucy regain her old glamorous look -- but suspects that history might be repeating itself when anyone who angers her mother turns up hacked to death.

Saturday, February 18 - Too Many Husbands

Too Many Husbands (1940)

It's been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill unexpectedly returns from the island where he was marooned, what is Vicky to do? Well, having twice been a rather neglected wife, Vicky finds all the attention from two husbands competing for her favors delightful, and is in no hurry to make a decision...much to the discomfiture of hapless Bill and Henry.

Friday, February 17 - Women Without Men

Women Without Men (1956)

The story opens with Angie, the Beverly Michaels character in jail explaining via narration and a flashback how she arrived there. She is serving seven months for an assault on her agent who tried to rape her. She has a date to meet her fiancé at a hotel on New Years Eve but will be in jail. Life in the prison and the various characters take up most of the show until Angie gets to put on a Xmas entertainment for the other inmates. She teams up with the ever reliable Thora Hird to break out. She gets to the rendezvous hotel and finds it out of business, but will the fiancé turn up?

I don't  know, on account I fell asleep.

(For U.S. release the film was retitled Blonde Bait and substantially re-edited, with new scenes filmed by the American distributors)

Thursday, February 16 - She Married Her Boss

She Married Her Boss (1935)

After six years of unrequited love for her boss, Richard Barclay (Melvyn Douglas), executive secretary Julia Scott (Claudette Colbert) refuses a job in Paris, yet declares her plans to move to France to find a husband. Fearful of losing Julia's talents, Richard marries her and demands she sort out his messy home life with his young daughter and overbearing sister. When she realizes Richard only wants a business partner, Julia agrees to reorganize a rival's store to gain Richard's attention.