Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.06

Salvage

starring Gene Barry, Nancy Gates
directed by Justus Addiss

Lois Williams (Nancy Gates) fears the return of Dan Varrell (Gene Barry). She talked his brother Ritchie into robbing a bank and then when she was questioned by the police she panicked and told them where Ritchie could be found. Ritchie was killed by the cops when he pulled a gun on them.

Monday, October 13, 2025

Hell's Half Acre (1954)

Hell's Half Acre (1954)

starring Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester
directed by John H. Auer

90 minutes

Donna Williams (Evelyn Keyes) travels to Hawaii in search of Chet Chester (Wendell Corey), whom she believes might be her husband whom she thought was killed at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. She knew him as Randy Williams. They were only married for three days before he was shipped off to Hawaii.

Donna's quest gets sidetracked when Chet's girlfriend is killed. He had been arrested for the murder of a former business partner but Chet escapes from the police after identifying her body.

Out of the Past (1947)

Out of the Past (1947)

starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
directed by Jacques Tourneur

97 minutes

Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) hires private investigator Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) to find Kathie Moffatt (Jane Greer). She shot Whit and ran off with $40,000 of Whit's money. Jeff finds her in Acapulco. He falls for Kathie and they are getting ready to run off together to South America when Whit unexpectedly shows up in Acapulco.

Jeff lies to Whit, tells him that he couldn't find Kathie, and then Jeff and Kathie run off together. They have fun together but their relationship falls apart after she shoots and kills Fisher, Jeff's former business partner. She runs away, leaving Jeff to dispose of Fisher's body.

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Mary Ryan, Detective (1949)

Mary Ryan, Detective (1949)

starring Marsha Hunt, John Litel, June Vincent
directed by Abby Berlin

68 minutes

Policewoman Mary Ryan (Marsha Hunt) is assigned by Captain Billings (John Litel), her boss, to some undercover work. The first part of her assignment has her being placed in a prison cell with a known thief.

Intel she picks up from the thief leads her to a ring of thieves who steal jewelry from rich people. That gig leads to her losing contact with the police department and working for a larger operation that is based out of a turkey farm.

Tension (1949)

Tension (1949)

starring Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan
directed by John Berry

91 minutes

Drugstore manager Warren Quimby's (Richard Basehart) marriage to Claire (Audrey Totter) is on the rocks. She regularly goes out with other men. She leaves him and moves in with Barney Deager, one of those men, which pushes him into desperate territory. 

Warren gets another apartment and establishes himself there under the identity of Paul Sothern. He claims to be a traveling salesman and only stays in the second apartment on weekends. His plan is to kill Barney Deager and have everyone think that it is Paul Sothern that did it.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

The Prowler (1951)

The Prowler (1951)

starring Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes
directed by Joseph Losey

92 minutes

Police Officer (and general no goodnik) Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) wins over lonely housewife Susan Gilvray. He covets the success she has achieved by marrying a rich man. They start an affair which ends after he murders her husband, makes it look like an accident, and then convinces her to marry him.

Webb's plans hit a snag when on their honeymoon Susan tells him that she is pregnant, with his baby. There's no possibility of passing it off as her first husband's child because he was incapable of fathering a child.

Teen Titans 4.09

Overdrive

Cyborg decides that he needs an upgrade so that he can get even more stuff done. He installs a new computer chip in his operating system. the MAX-7. His teammates are stunned by how much faster and more efficient it makes Cyborg. He takes down Adonis, the next supervillain they battle, singlehandedly.