03 Sep

A Life at Stake (1955) ANGELA LANSBURY

 

Stars: Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille
Director: Paul Guilfoyle

An enterprising businesswoman has big plans for an out-of-work architect—a lucrative job and an illicit love affair. Unfortunately for him, her plans also include murder!

 

 

 

 

 

02 Sep

The Difficult Age (TV-1956) CHARLES COBURN

 

Stars: Charles Coburn, George N. Neise, Elizabeth Patterson
Director: Peter Godfrey

An elderly employee at a large corporation resists the efforts of a young hotshot executive who wants to retire everyone over 65.

 

 

01 Sep

One Way Out (TV-1955) IDA LUPINO

 

Stars: Ida Lupino, Scott Forbes, Frances Robinson
Director: Roy Kellino

Diana finally leaves her playboy husband and moves to an apartment in New York. Soon after arriving at her new place, she finds herself locked in with no electricity and very little food. Gradually Diana becomes unhinged which is the goal of the husband and his girlfriend who booby-trapped the place to send her over the edge.

31 Aug

Eddie’s Place (TV-1955) IDA LUPINO

 

Stars: Ida Lupino, William Talman, Kathryn Card
Director: Roy Kellino

A woman recently released from a work farm seeks to go straight, but a new friend pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities. Co-stars WILLIAM TALMAN, the psycho from Ida Lupino’s “The Hitchhiker.”

 

 

30 Aug

Alfred Hitchcock (TV-1955) THE CHENEY VASE

 

Starring: Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones

THE CHENEY VASE: When a man is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a scheme to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

 

29 Aug

Get That Girl (1932) RICHARD TALMADGE SHIRLEY GREY

 

Starring: Richard Talmadge, Shirley Grey, Fred Malatesta
The Henchman: Victor Metzetti, Arthur Metzetti, Otto Metzetti
Director: George Crone

In this pre-Code Thriller by Mercury Pictures, Richard Talmadge, “The Dare Devil of the Screen,” must thwart a crazed doctor’s sinister plot to transform young women into lifeless mannequins!

 

28 Aug

The Answer (TV-1954) DAVID NIVEN

 

 

Stars: David Niven, Anthony Caruso, Carolyn Jones

Director: Roy Kellino

When a disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter returns to his neighborhood bar, he undergoes an epiphany after meeting an alcoholic genius. Features the wonderful Carolyn Jones, best remembered for her role as Morticia in The Addams Family

 

 

 

27 Aug

A String of Beads (TV-1954) ANGELA LANSBURY

 

Stars: Angela Lansbury, Ronald Coleman, Brenda Forbes
Director: William Cameron Menzies

In this clever Somerset Maugham short story, a gem expert declares a worthless string of beads worn by a poor governess to be a valuable pearl necklace.

 

26 Aug

Madeira, Madeira (TV-1955) ANGELA LANSBURY

Stars: Charles Boyer, Angela Lansbury, David Niven
Director: Roy Kellino
A man investigates the spouse of an artist friend who mysteriously disappears after sending him a letter stating “My wife will be the death of me.”

 

 

 

 

25 Aug

Swim for Your Man (TV-1953) ANGELA LANSBURY

 

Angela Lansbury, Morris Ankrum, and Kenneth Tobey
Director: Roy Kellino

After traveling to a remote island to stay with her father-in-law, a naive wife finds herself being used as a decoy to trap her diamond thief husband.