Thursday, May 9, 2024

Wednesday, May 8 - The Betrayal

The Betrayal (1957)

a man who was blinded during an escape attempt from a German P.O.W. camp, having being betrayed by a fellow prisoner, vows revenge, his only clue is the culprits voice, a voice he hears again 10 years later at a gathering in a London fashion-house, so with the assistance of one of the models he is off on the chase, naturally things do not run smooth, at one point he has the police on his trail

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Tuesday, May 7 - Radio Cab Murder

Radio Cab Murder (1954)

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Monday, May 6 - The Chinese Bungalow


Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas) falls in love with and marries an English woman (Kay Walsh). Walsh is not happy, however, and soon begins cheating on her husband--who, in turn, concocts a plan to torment her and destroy her lover. When Walsh's sister arrives for a visit, she sees all this weirdness and is shocked--and even more shocked when Sing proposes to get rid of his faithless wife and make the sister his next bride!

Monday, May 6, 2024

Sunday, May 5 - Naked City: The Face of the Enemy


Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett (Jack Warden), has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately wants to again become a hero to them, but his efforts turn into tragedy.

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Saturday, May 4 - The Champions: The Ghost Plane


Several American military aircraft have been attacked in the East by 'the Ghost Plane', believed to belong to the Chinese and which flies at an almost impossible speed. A newspaper cutting provides the Champions with a lead that takes them from an Alpine ski resort to a Cambridge laboratory, the workplace of Dr. Newman, an aircraft designer whose plans for a high speed plane were shelved by the British and who is now selling them to the Chinese. Sharron discovers that the components are being shipped out disguised as car parts and will be sufficient to make two hundred and fifty Ghost Planes. She is caught and locked in a freezer from where she must exercise her telepathic powers to alert her fellow Champions to her plight and the progress of the aircraft.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Friday, May 3 - Sherlock Holmes Returns


Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had used on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.

Friday, May 3, 2024

Thursday, May 2 - The Human Jungle: Struggle for a Mind


Liz Kross descends the staircases at Charing Cross tube station, shedding her clothes as she goes and ending up nude on the platform where a bystander saves her from stepping in front of a train. She is arrested and referred to Dr Corder who discovers that she is working as a waitress and a stripper to finance an operation for her father, a fact which he resents and has caused her to subconsciously rebel.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Wednesday, May 1 - Mannix: Eight to Five, It's a Miracle


Mannix is hired to investigate a supposed miracle that has occurred on land owned by a mobster. When a man turns up dead and the mobster's thugs beat on Mannix, the miracle's legitimacy seems highly doubtful. But the motives for faking the miracle are murky, at best. The mobster doesn't stand to gain financially. But Mannix is determined to find the truth.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Tuesday, April 30 - Aloha Bobby and Rose

Aloha Bobby and Rose (1975)

A young garage mechanic (Bobby) and fast food hostess (Rose), who works at a car wash, meet and quickly fall in love. While out on a date one night, Bobby fakes holding up a convenience store. The prank goes horribly wrong, resulting in the death of a young shop keeper. The couple are now on the run from the law and themselves.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Monday, April 29 - The Time Tunnel: Rendezvous with Yesterday


Congress has poured seven billion dollars into a large and deep hole in the ground - the home of Project TicToc and its revolutionary new technology, the Time Tunnel. A mechanism intended to access past and future, the tunnel is not quite ready despite a decade of work and all the billions. Senator Clark declares his intention to cut funding and abandon the project. Desperate scientist Tony Newman uses the apparatus to send himself through time to prove the concept. But the TicToc team cannot retrieve him, and so his mentor Doug Phillips goes back to help Tony out of the peril he has landed in: he has arrived on the RMS Titanic the day before she struck an iceberg and sank.

Monday, April 29, 2024

Sunday, April 28 - Sky West and Crooked


A girl with learning difficulties is traumatised at a young age after witnessing an accidental death of a child. Essentially abandoned by her alcoholic mother and misunderstood and ostracized by the 1960s English rural community she lives in, suspicious of the circumstances of the accident, she finds solace in the natural world and animals around her. She eventually finds friendship and love with a Romany gypsy.

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Saturday, April 27 - The Invisible Man: Man in Power & The Rocket


The Invisible Man tries to protect the heir to an Arab throne (a student of his) from a power grab engineered by the Commanding General of his Army.


The movement of a top secret rocket is compromised when of the scientists runs into gambling debts. The Invisible man realizes what might be happening and heads out on a desperate search for the missing rocket.