Detour (1945)

1h 7m

A hitchhiker’s (Tom Neal) luck goes from bad to worse when the man who gave him a ride suddenly dies. Worried that he might be accused of murder, he hides the body and takes on the man’s identity.

Episodes

  • Man in the Attic (1953): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Man in the Attic (1953)

    S2023 E69 - 1h 22m

    In 1888 London, a landlady rents a room to research pathologist (Jack Palance). She soon begins to suspect that her new lodger could be the one behind a string of murders, that the newspaper refers to as “Jack the Ripper”.

  • The Bigamist (1953): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Bigamist (1953)

    S2023 E68 - 1h 16m

    Harry Graham (Edmond O'Brien) and his wife (Joan Fontaine) are trying to adopt a baby. When the adoption agency director (Edmund Gwenn) starts to investigate Harry’s background, he soon uncovers more than he expected. Lupino also stars.

  • The Smallest Show on Earth (1957): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

    S2023 E67 - 1h 20m

    A middle-class couple inherits a decrepit movie house in a tiny British town, along with the theater's doddering employees including perpetually drunken projectionist (Peter Sellers).

  • His Girl Friday (1940): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    His Girl Friday (1940)

    S2023 E66 - 1h 31m

    Howard Hawks’ comedy classic pits ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) trying to move on from the newspaper business and her marriage to her editor (Cary Grant). The fast-talking duo wages a war of words in this fast-paced battle of the sexes that also stars Ralph Bellamy.

  • Beat the Devil (1953): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Beat the Devil (1953)

    S2023 E61 - 1h 29m

    Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get a vast fortune of uranium out of East Africa. Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre co-star in this film directed by Bogart’s long-time friend John Huston.

  • Captain Kidd (1945): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Captain Kidd (1945)

    S2023 E60 - 1h 20m

    Charles Laughton plays the infamous 17th century pirate in this swashbuckler. When the King of England asks pirate Kidd to escort ships plying treasures from India, he must outwit his own band of cutthroats, as well as his top gunner (Randolph Scott).

  • Our Town (1940): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Our Town (1940)

    S2023 E57 - 1h 29m

    Film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play covers the lives and events of two families in the village of Grover’s Corners. George (William Holden) and Emily (Martha Scott) meet as teenagers and succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying, and bearing a child of their own.

  • The Proud Valley (1940): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Proud Valley (1940)

    S2023 E56 - 1h 16m

    Paul Robeson stars as David Goliath, a young man with a beautiful singing voice who faces the harsh realities of life as a coal miner in his Welsh community. After a deadly explosion closes the mine, the villagers find themselves out of work and struggling to make ends meet.

  • Jack and the Beanstalk (1952): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

    S2023 E55 - 1h 16m

    Abbott and Costello’s take on the famous fairy tale has a babysitter (Costello) recounting the story about a young boy (Costello?) who trades the family cow for some magic beans.

  • March of the Wooden Soldiers (1938): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    March of the Wooden Soldiers (1938)

    S2023 E54 - 1h 17m

    The film follows the zany antics of toyshop laborers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee (Laurel & Hardy), where nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy.

  • Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)

    S2023 E53 - 1h 10m

    Buster Keaton returns home after years of separation from his father, a burly Mississippi riverboat captain. More by accident than intention the son helps turns things around when a wealthy competitor tries to take over the lucrative steamboat business in this comic masterpiece from the silent era.

  • The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

    S2023 E50 - 1h 51m

    An American WWII veteran (Van Johnson) relives his memories of the dazzle, romance, and hard times in postwar Paris. He meets a beautiful young socialite (Elizabeth Taylor) and falls in love with her in the years following the war, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, "Babylon Revisited".

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