Moonlighting 2.10

Twas the Episode Before Christmas

Mary and Joseph Goodman wake up in the middle of the night. Two men have broken into their apartment. They force Joseph to drink some alcohol and then throw him over the balcony of his apartment, killing him. Mary escape with their baby in the confusion.

Mary goes upstairs and leaves the baby in Agnes DiPesto's apartment. Agnes was in the middle of doing laundry and left the door to her apartment open. Mary disappears, leaving Agnes to find the baby without a clue as to where it came from.

David and Maddy have questions for Agnes, the next day, when they find her with a baby. She tells them what she knows. They go back to her apartment looking for answers. In the lobby of her building they meet three detectives names King. The three Kings are looking for the Mary and her baby and tell Maddy and David about what happened to Joseph.

Aimless Bullet (1961)

오발탄 (1961)

or Obaltan

or Aimless Bullet

starring Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Mu-ryong

directed by Yu Hyun-mok

110 minutes

in Korean with English subtitles

Cheol-ho (Kim Jin-kyu) and Yeong-ho (Choi Mu-ryong), brothers, struggle to make ends meet, in the aftermath of the Korean War. Cheol-ho is married and has children. He works as an accountant but earns a meager salary. He doesn't have enough to go to the dentists when he has a toothache, buy his children the clothes they need or feed them properly. His 10-yea-old son has taken to selling newspapers on the street.

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

starring Sally Gray, Trevor Howard

directed by Alberto Cavalcanti

99 minutes

Clem Morgan (Trevor Howard), a former RAF ppilot who is unemployed and desperate for work, joins a criminal gang in London. Narcy, the leader of the gang, steals Clem's girlfriend and frames Clem for the murder of a police officer that another member of the gang committed. Clem is sentenced to 15 years in prison but escapes less than a year later and goes on the run.

Clem gets framed for another murder while he is on the run, this time by a woman who asks him to kill her husband. She ends up doing it herself when he turns down her request. Clem looks up Sally Conner (Sally Gray), a dancer who once offered to help him. She helps him evade the police and Narcy's gang until she is taken hostage by Narcy and his gang.

The police capture Clem but then let him go in the hopes that he can help them get the goods on Narcy and his gang.

Across the Bridge (1957)

Across the Bridge (1957)

starring Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi

directed by Ken Annakin

103 minutes

Carl Schaffner flees to Mexico after learning that Scotland Yard is after him for financial misdeeds. He runs into and changes places with Paul Scarff, a man he met on the train south to a Texas bordertown. His bid to flee to Mexico is complicated by the fact that the man with whom he changed places is wanted for murder in Mexico.

Scarff gets killed by the police in Texas. This complicates Schaffner;s situation there because Scarff was a local hero in the border town where he winds up.

Scotland Yard figures out where Schaffner is holed up but has no easy way to get him extradited back to the UK as long as he remains in Mexico.

Zero Focus (1961)

ゼロの焦点 (1961)

or Zero no shōten

or Zero Focus

starring Yoshiko Kuga, Hizuru Takachiho, Ineko Arima

directed by Yoshitarō Nomura

95 minutes

in Japanese with English subtitles

Teiko Uhara (Yoshiko Kuga) has only been married for a week when Kenichi, her husband, vanishes while on a business trip. She travels to Kanazawa, the town where he was last seen, and conducts her own investigation. Her husband's brother joins her in investigating the case but then he turns up dead, a victim of cyanide poisoning.

Justice League Action 1.20

Freezer Burn

Ronnie Raymond, half of Firestorm, has a crush on Killer Frost. Professor Stein doesn't approve of Ronnie's feelings for her and neither does Killer Frost.

Killer Frost is more interested in Mr. Freeze but she reconsiders her feelings for him after he knocks her out and forces her to become the power source for his new airship. Firestorm and Batman team up to free Killer Frost and stop Mr. Freeze from wrecking havoc.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode. Batman is in it but it is really Firestorm's episode.

Rififi (1955)

Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)

aka Rififi

starring Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Jules Dassin

directed by Jules Dassin

118 minutes

in French with English subtitles

Tony "le Stéphanois" (Jean Servais) plans and executes the robbery of a jewelry store in Paris with three other men: Jo "le Suédois" (Carl Möhner), Mario Ferrati (Robert Manuel), and César "le Milanais" (Jules Dassin). They are successful in stealing the jewelry but things come apart soon after that.