19 Jun

The Lawless Years (TV-1959) THE CUTIE JAFFE STORY

 

Stars: James Gregory, Robert Fuller, Robert Karnes
Director: Allen H. Miner

A small-time hood grows tired of living on peanuts and begins to hijack shipments of his brother-in-law’s bootlegging trucks.

 

18 Jun

One Step Beyond (TV-1960) VANISHING POINT

 

VANISHING POINT: Mrs. Fred Graham entered her house one day and was never seen again. When her husband asks the police to help him find his missing wife, he’s accused of murdering her.

 

 

17 Jun

One Step Beyond (TV-1960) JUSTICE

 

JUSTICE: A man confesses to murdering a child, but the members of his church swear that at the time of the killing the man was asleep in a pew.

 

 

16 Jun

One Step Beyond (TV-1960) TO KNOW THE END

 

An English librarian named Emily, and Ann, her American friend, are vacationing in France when Emily has a vision – an English captain is killed in a battle on French soil.

 

15 Jun

One Step Beyond (TV-1959) THE HAUNTED U BOAT

 

Stars Werner Klemperer, best remembered as Col. Klink from Hogan’s Heroes. While on patrol during WWII, a German U-boat attempts to evade detection from the sonar of the American and British ships. But their location is repeatedly betrayed by the noise of a rhythmic banging sound caused by someone, or something on board the submarine.

 

 

14 Jun

One Step Beyond (TV-1959) DEAD PART OF THE HOUSE

 

HE DEAD PART OF THE HOUSE: After the death of her mother, a haunted nursery and three dolls help a young girl reconnect with her dad.

 

 

13 Jun

Now or Never (1935) RICHARD TALMADGE

 

Starring: Richard Talmadge “The Dare Devil of the Screen”
Co-Starring: Janet Chandler, Tom Ricketts, and the Metzetti troupe
Director: Bernard B. Ray

In this rough-and-tumble Poverty Row production, a visitor to the City of Angels is lured into a scheme when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang!

 

12 Jun

Fugitive Road (1934) ERICH VON STROHEIM

 

Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Wera Engels, Leslie Fenton
Directors: Frank R. Strayer, Erich von Stroheim (uncredited)

A romantic triangle between an amorous Austrian Captain, a fugitive American gangster, and a beautiful Russian refugee, set during WW I at an Austrian-Italian border outpost.

 

11 Jun

The Lawless Years (TV-1959) THE JANE COOPER STORY

 

Stars: James Gregory, Rebecca Welles, Henry Corden
Director: Allen H. Miner

Jane Cooper may be on parole, but she intends to improve her status by ditching her nobody boyfriend for a wealthy gangster. She moves up the food chain earning the nickname “the Jinx” as each of her ex-beaus meets a tragic end. This doesn’t go unnoticed by Ruditsky or the mob.

10 Jun

Swiss Family Robinson (TV-1958) WALTER PIDGEON, LARAINE DAY

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Laraine Day, Patty Duke, and Dennis Hopper
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: Johann David Wyss (novel by)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), aired October 12, 1958

The timeless novel by Swiss author Johann David Wyss gets a Live NBC Television adaptation. Watch for a young Patty Duke and Dennis Hopper as members of a family shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island.