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Handicapped farmer Pete (Edward G. Robinson) and sister Ellen (Judith Anderson) have raised ward Meg (Allene Roberts) as their own on a reclusive farm. Now a teenager, Meg, convinces her friend Nath (Lon McCallister) to come help with chores on the farm. When Nath insists on using a shortcut home through the woods, Pete warns the young man of screams in the night and the terrors associated with the abandoned red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring and troubling secrets are revealed.

Florist shop owner Gravis Mushnick has two employees, Audrey Fulquard and Seymour Krelboined. Located on skid row, Mushnick's rundown shop gets little business. When Seymour fouls up a floral arrangement for dentist Dr. Farb, Mushnick fires him. Hoping to change his mind, Seymour talks about a plant he has grown from seeds he got from a "Japanese gardener over on Central Avenue."[20] Seymour named the plant "Audrey Jr.", which delights Audrey. However, when finally shown the plant, Mushnick is unimpressed. Seymour suggests that Audrey Jr.'s uniqueness might attract people to see it, and Mushnick gives him one week to revive the plant. The usual plant food does not nourish it, but when Seymour accidentally pricks his finger, he discovers that the plant craves blood. Fed on Seymour's blood, Audrey Jr. begins to grow. The shop's revenues increase when customers are lured in to see the plant. Mushnick tells Seymour to refer to him as "Dad" and calls Seymour his son in front of a customer. The plant develops the ability to speak and demands that Seymour feed it. Now anemic, Seymour walks along the railroad track. Throwing a rock to vent his frustration, he inadvertently knocks out a drunken man who falls on the track and is run over by a train. He tries to get rid of the body by burying it in a yard but is nearly caught each time. Guilt-ridden, Seymour decides to feed the mutilated body parts to Audrey Jr. Meanwhile, Mushnick returns to the shop to get cash and secretly observes Seymour feeding the plant. Mushnick considers telling the police but hesitates after seeing the line of customers at his shop the next day.

When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Patsy Kelly portrays a newly hired maid who wants to quit because the butler, played by Bela Lugosi, scares her.

Dr. Douglas Martin is a scientist working on atomic bomb tests. While collecting aerial data on an Air Force atomic blast at Soledad Flats, his plane crashes. He survives the crash unhurt, walking back to the air base with no memory of what happened, except for a strange scar on his chest.At the base hospital, he acts so strangely that the authorities bring in the FBI, thinking he may be an impostor. He is cleared, but told to take some time off. He protests at being excluded from his project.An atomic test is set off without his knowledge, so Martin steals the data, then goes back to Soledad Flats and puts the papers under a stone. The FBI agent has followed him, but he escapes until he crashes his car. Back at the hospital, he is given truth serum. He tells a story about being captured by space aliens from Astron Delta and held in their underground base. (The aliens have big eyes like ping-pong balls.)The aliens plan to exterminate all humans with giant insects and reptiles, grown with radiation absorbed from the bomb tests. Martin intuits that the aliens use stolen electric power to control their powerful apparatus, and they need the bomb data to predict the energy to be released and balanced. The aliens had blanked his memory and hypnotized him into getting the data for them.The FBI agent and the base commander are skeptical of such an incredible story, and keep him confined at the hospital.With some calculations on a slide rule, Dr. Martin determines that if he shuts off the power to Soledad Flats for just ten seconds, it will create an overload in the aliens' equipment. So he escapes the hospital and goes to the nearby electrical power plant, where he forces a technician to turn off the power. The alien base is destroyed in a massive explosion, saving the Earth from conquest.

Professor Henry Morlant (Boris Karloff), a great Egyptologist, thinks that the ancient jewel which he calls the "Eternal Light" will give him powers of rejuvenation if it is offered up to the ancient Egyptian god Anubis. But when Morlant dies, his servant Laing (Ernest Thesiger) steals the jewel. While a gaggle of interlopers, including a disreputable solicitor (Cedric Hardwicke) and a fake parson (Ralph Richardson), descend on the Professor's manor to investigate or steal the jewel for themselves, Morlant returns from the dead ("when the full moon strikes the door of my tomb", he predicted before dying) to kill everyone who has betrayed him.

starring Cattle baron and town namesake George Washington "G.W." McLintock lives as a bachelor on his ranch. His wife, "Kate", abandoned him with no explanation and become a socialite back East two years prior; his daughter, "Becky", is away finishing her college degree. In the town, G.W. is disliked by bureaucrat Matt Douglas and Governor Cuthbert H. Humphrey. However, he is a friend to many, including Sheriff Lord, General Store owner Jake Birnbaum, and the local beggars and Comanche Indians. John Wayne as George Washington "G.W." McLintock Maureen O'Hara as Katherine "Kate" McLintock Patrick Wayne as Devlin "Dev" Warren Stefanie Powers as Rebecca "Becky" McLintock Jack Kruschen as Jake Birnbaum

In the Florida Everglades, a pair of larger-than-human, intelligent Leech are living in an underwater cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them prisoner and slowly drain them of blood.One of the first people to be so taken is the local vixen, Liz Walker, played by Yvette Vickers. After a couple of gratuitous displays of flesh (Vickers appeared as the centerfold in the July 1959 issue of Playboy), and some running around on her husband (Bruno VeSota), Liz finds herself a prisoner of the leeches along with her current paramour. Game warden Steve Benton (Ken Clark (actor)) sets out to investigate their disappearance. Aided by his girlfriend Nan Grayson (Jan Sheppard) and her father, Doc Grayson, he discovers the cavern.The monsters are finally destroyed when Steve, Doc, and some state troopers blow up the cavern with dynamite.

Frederick Loren, an eccentric millionaire, invites five people to a party he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle, in an allegedly haunted house he has rented. He promises to give each guest $10,000 with the stipulation that they stay the entire night in the house after the doors are locked at midnight, all the windows are barred, and there are no phones or radios to use. The guests are test pilot Lance Schroeder, newspaper columnist Ruth Bridges, psychiatrist Dr. David Trent, who specializes in hysteria, Nora Manning, who works for one of Loren's companies, and the house's owner, Watson Pritchard. All are strangers to both the Lorens and each other, their only commonality being their lust for money.

Eli brings back a past guest, and she's a hoot! Also, the entire Noir put together all eight chapters!

Gang Bullets is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer. The film is also known as The Crooked Way in the United Kingdom.

The Racketeer is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film. Directed by Howard Higgin, the film is also known as Love's Conquest in the United Kingdom. It tells the tale of some members of the criminal class in 1920s America, particularly one man and one woman's attempts to help him. Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper appears in a minor role. The film is one of the early talkies, and as a result, dialogue is very sparse.

The Burns and Allen Show was a half-hour television situation comedy broadcast from 1950 to 1958 on CBS. It starred George Burns and Gracie Allen, one of the most enduring acts in entertainment history. Burns and Allen were headliners in vaudeville in the 1920s and radio stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Their situation comedy TV series received Emmy Award nominations throughout its eight-year run. Enjoy!

You can't miss this one! Eli interviews Mr and Mrs Claus. Lorie has written a wonderful story about Christmas which also has a very special guest actress performing in it her name is Mackenzie Dent. Also, the Rat form noir guests an insane Christmas Carol experience. and as always, we give away one audiobook at the end of the show.

As a child growing up in the 190s, I was in love with the Three Stooges. I watched them every single time they aired on my meager three channel television. So here are a few of my favorites. "Matri-Phony" "Punch Drunks" "Woman Haters / With Marjorie White" "Pop Goes The Easel" "Mummy's Dummies" "Dunked In The Deep"

D.O.A. is a 1950 American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton. It is considered a classic of the genre. A fatally poisoned man tries to find out who has poisoned him and why. It was the film debuts of Beverly Garland (as Beverly Campbell) and Laurette Luez.

This has my (Tim) favorite actor of all time in it, Peter Cushing! In 1906, Professor Sir Alexander Saxton, a British anthropologist, is returning to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Express from Shanghai to Moscow. With him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria. He hopes it is a missing link in human evolution. Doctor Wells, Saxton's friendly rival and Geological Society colleague, is also waiting to board. Polish Count Marion Petrovski and his wife, Countess Irina, are also waiting. With the couple is their spiritual advisor, an Eastern Orthodox monk named Father Pujardov, who proclaims to Saxton that the contents of the crate are evil. Additional passengers include Inspector Mirov and a squad of soldiers. cast Christopher Lee as Professor Sir Alexander Saxton Peter Cushing as Dr. Wells Alberto de Mendoza as Father Pujardov (dubbed by Robert Rietti) Silvia Tortosa as Countess Irina Petrovski (dubbed by Olive Gregg) Julio Peña as Inspector Mirov (dubbed by Roger Delgado) Telly Savalas as Captain Kazan George Rigaud as Count Marion Petrovski Helga Liné as Natasha (dubbed by Olive Gregg) Alice Reinheart as Miss Jones (dubbed by Olive Gregg) Ángel del Pozo as Yevtushenko José Jaspe as Conductor Konev Víctor Israel as Baggage Man Faith Clift as Miss Bennett Juan Olaguivel as the Creature Barta Barri as First Telegraphist Hiroshi Kitatawa as Grashinski, the Thief Vicente Roca as Stationmaster José Canalejas as Russian Guard José Marco as Vorkin Allen Russell as Captain O'Hagan Jacinto Molina/Paul Naschy as the mad priest

A Chump at Oxford, directed in 1939 by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. Originally released as a streamliner featurette at forty minutes long, the original streamliner version was slightly re-edited, and twenty minutes of footage largely unrelated to the main plot were later added for European distribution and, ultimately, American distribution. A later reissue version was further re-edited, jumping from Stan and Ollie`s entrance into the employment agency to them sweeping the streets. A 20-minute version created for televisiondistribution is entitled ALTER EGO. The longer version is the one most often seen today. The title echoes the popular film 'A Yank at Oxford' (1938). Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks and call a lift to a job agency to find work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift, drenches them with water as a joke, and leaves them behind. They finally arrive in a badly damaged car that has been towed away. At the job agency, a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer, who is looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist they can fill the post and to leave it to them. They arrive, and Stan is dressed in drag, pretending to be the maid "Agnes".

The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and uses it on himself. The story begins as the Invisible Man, with a bandaged face and a heavy coat and gloves, takes a train to lodge in a country inn while trying to discover the antidote and make himself visible again. The book inspired several films and is notable for its vivid descriptions of the invisible man--no mean feat, given that you can't see him! (Summary by Alex Foster)

In this fun episode, Lorie interviews an author who lives in Kuwait and has written a fascinating book, and Eli will interview an actress starring in Noir!

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow" to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the attorney's identity. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.