Saturday, April 29 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town and leads a small-town kind of life, including playing the tuba in the town band. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow picks up his tuba and moves to the big city, where he becomes an instant target for everyone from the greedy opera committee to the sensationalist daily newspaper. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. Babe is a hot-shot reporter who figures that the best way to get close to Deeds is to pose as a damsel in distress. When small-town boy meets big-city girl, anything can, and does, happen.

Friday, April 28 - Man from Headquarters

Man from Headquarters (1942)

Reporter Larry Doyle (Frank Albertson) is on top of the world when he exposes the crimes of organized crime boss Louis Pedroni (Max Hoffman Jr.). His success, however, is spoiled in one fell swoop: He's fired from his job, kidnapped by Pedroni's thugs, knocked out and thrown on a train. Eventually, he wakes up in St. Louis, where he meets the lovely Ann (Joan Woodbury).

He then has to pawn his engraved revolver with a fence in league with the gangsters also part of Pardoni's mob. The gang gets the revolver from the fence and plant it at their next job, but Larry is on their trail and captures them at the pawn shop.

Remake of The Mystery Man (1935)

Thursday, April 27 - The Mystery Man

The Mystery Man (1935)

Reporter Larry Doyle from Chicago gets $50 for breaking an important story and does too much celebrating. He ends up broke in St. Louis. He sits down at a lunch counter with beautiful Anne Oglivie (Maxine Doyle). She finds that she only has 10 cents to pay for her 20 cent coffee and donut. Larry secretly pays for her. Realizing that a young girl broke in the city could end up in trouble, Larry follows her around to help her out. Having no place to stay, he gets a hotel room for the two of them. Anne is reluctant, but Larry reassures her that he's a square kind of guy. He orders an expensive $35 a day hotel suite which has two bedrooms with separate keys.

Larry then goes after a slippery gangster called "the Eel."

Wednesday, April 26 - The Laughing Woman

The Laughing Woman Original title: Femina ridens (1969)

Dr. Sayer, the director of a philanthropic foundation, spends his weekends at his luxurious villa outside of Rome toying with sadistic fantasies. His games are usually acted out with the help of a prostitute conversant with his desires. When his regular prostitute becomes unavailable at the last minute, Sayer substitutes Maria, a young journalist on his staff. After the drugged Maria regains consciousness at his villa, Sayer realizes that he now has a real victim on his hands. She is subjected to his unpleasant games but soon begins subverting him.

Tuesday, April 25 - Road House

Road House (1948)

Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's marriage proposal, they must face Jefty's murderous jealousy and his twisted plots to "punish" the two.

Monday, April 24 - Larceny on the Air

Larceny on the Air (1937)

Dr. Lawrence Baxter runs a medical-themed radio show and frequently denounces the phony radium-based "medicine" being sold by Ronald Kennedy. After one of his patients is kidnapped by Kennedy's thugs, Baxter teams up with the police, and pretends to join Kennedy's business to gain evidence of criminal activity.

Sunday, April 23 - Skylark

Skylark (1941)

The story of a woman on her fifth wedding anniversary, realizing that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at that moment, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something more serious.

Saturday, April 22 - Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson (1957)

The pint-size public enemy (Mickey Rooney) joins Dillinger's gang and is hunted down by the FBI.

Friday, April 21 - Alimony

Alimony (1949)

Small town girl Kitty Traves comes to New York with the idea of getting rich fast. Beginning as a 'model' she then becomes a divorce co-respondent in hotel room frame-ups. When her songwriting boyfriend, Dan Barker, runs out of songs and money, she send him back to his loyal, true-blue fiancée, Linda Waring. She moves on to marry a wealth industrialist, with divorce and alimony her only goal.

Thursday, April 20 - The Young Swingers

The Young Swingers (1963)

When a group of teens discovers that their favorite club is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a skyscraper, they try to find a way to keep their beloved venue in business. Pretty young Vicki Crawford (Molly Bee), the niece of the club's ruthless adversary, is initially unaware of her aunt's plans. However, after Vicki visits the building and learns of the situation, she joins in the cause, while also beginning a romance with dreamy singer Mel Hudson (Rod Lauren).

Wednesday, April 19 - Dick Tracy - Episodes 9 & 10

Episode 9 - The Stratosphere Adventure

Dick Tracy parachutes to safety from his shot-down plane and sneaks aboard the Flying Wing as a helmeted aviator when it lands to pick up the speed plane engine parts. He moves with the engine parts to a foreign agent's zeppelin and takes control of it, returning it to America but before he can arrive the dirigible is shot down by a unknowning Steve Lockwood.

Episode 10 - The Gold Ship

Escaping a crashing zeppelin, Tracy has foiled the Spider's speed plane plot and moves on to the next, investigating missing gold aboard the oceanic steamer, the Atlantis. The Spider's men are on board the vessel and Tracy battles the foreman Clancy, the two falling dockside when a hull plate falls from far above towards Dick.

Tuesday, April 18 - Hideout

Hideout (1949)

A couple of thieves, Beecham and Evans, rob a Chicago socialite's diamond necklace. They give it to the man they're working for, Arthur Burdette, who promptly double-crosses them. A diamond expert who examines the necklace is then found dead (later, in Iowa).

Burdette slips away to a small Iowa town under an assumed name. When he hears city attorney George Browning has fired secretary Hannah Kelly, he offers Hannah a job (he pretends to offer her a job - she's already working for him). Browning has no idea that Burdette and Hannah are actually accomplices in crime, and pays no heed when new secretary Edie Hanson suggests that possibility.

Betrayed crooks Beecham and Evans show up, looking for Burdette and the necklace. Browning doesn't realize how involved Hannah is until she shoots the two thieves and ends up having the stolen necklace on her. Edie helps him get the better of Hannah and Burdette, also making Browning realize he's falling for the new girl.