Saturday, July 30 - Double Feature! - The Barbara Stanwyck Show: The Sisters

The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV series 1960)
The Sisters

Season 1, Episode 18: The Sisters
Original Air Date—6 February 1961

In order to help her nephew with his operation, Stanwyck poses as a jewel thief so she can meet the boy's father, who her sister divorced a decade ago. When she finds him, she also finds a man she might be able to fall in love with, and he just might feel the same.

Saturday, July 30 - Inside Out

Inside Out (1975)

Telly Savalas engineers break-in at maximum security prison in East Germany to free notorious war criminal who knows whereabouts of secret cache of gold. Retitled both Hitler's Gold and The Golden Heist.

Friday, July 29 - The Killer is Loose

The Killer Is Loose (1956)

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. About three years later, Poole (until then a model prisoner) abruptly takes his chance to kill a guard and escape. It's clear during the ensuing manhunt that Poole is obsessed in pursuit of a single end; but not quite the end everyone supposes.

Thursday, July 28 - Naked City: No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!

Naked City (TV series 1958–1963)
No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!

Season 4, Episode 28: No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!
Original Air Date—17 April 1963

Ben Giovanni's fiancee of three years feels it's time they married. But Ben (Harry Guardino), whose father still dominates him, feels he's not quite ready.

Tuesday, July 26 & Wednesday, July 27 - Tiger in the Smoke

Tiger in the Smoke (1956)

Jack Havoc, ex-army, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. In the faded squares of shabby houses, in the furtive alleys and darkened pubs, the word is out that he is back in town, more vicious and cunning than ever. It falls to police to pit their wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city's November smog before it is too late. Havoc's pursuit of a "treasure" leads him from London ("the Smoke") to Normandy. There Havoc discovers that the treasure is not what he thought it was.

Monday, July 25 - Naked City: On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important

Naked City (TV series 1958–1963)
Season 4, Episode 26: On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important

This episode begins in a midtown office building after hours. A well-dressed man on the street (James Dukas) pounds at the glass door to the marble lobby - demanding entry. He shows his doctor bag and shouts that he is answering an emergency call. The watchman, unbolting the door and operating the passenger elevator for him, protests that the building is absolutely empty, no one is there who could have called him, there must be a mistake. As the watchman rises in the cab, he glances at the glowering face of "the doctor" and appears to realize that it was he, and not the stranger, who just made the mistake. Once the stranger has murdered him, he brings the elevator back to the lobby and opens the door for his accomplices, a young man (John Dutra) dressed in the same kind of service uniform as the watchman, and an older man (Leonardo Cimino). The narrator intones that there are patient men and that there are impatient men.

Sunday, July 24 - Crescendo

Crescendo (1970)

A young music student, Susan Roberts, arrives in the South of France to research a thesis she is writing about a dead composer. She is greeted at his home by his widow, Danielle, and his wheelchair-bound son, Georges, a strange and intense young man. But all is not well in the household and Susan is soon caught up in a nightmare of recurring dreams, insanity, drug addiction and murder.

Saturday, July 23 - Naked City: The Highest of Prizes

Naked City Season 4, Episode 23: The Highest of Prizes

Richard Calder and galpal Eunice Vail are on trial for murdering Calder's wealthy wife. One stubborn juror holds out for not guilty and succeeds in convincing the others to vote for an acquittal. Then when Flint uncovers conclusive proof of guilt, the crestfallen juror decides to mete out his own justice by killing Calder.

Friday, July 22 - Don't Bother to Knock

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

One night in a New York hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers gets the air from his chanteuse girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Joneses, guests at the hotel, need a baby-sitter, and elevator operator Eddie recommends his shapely niece Nell. Jed sees Nell through his window, gets acquainted, and becomes increasingly aware that this disturbed, spooky woman is the last person Mrs. Jones should have entrusted with her daughter...

Thursday, July 21 - Hammer House of Horror: Rude Awakening

Hammer House of Horror (TV Series 1980)

Season 1, Episode 3: Rude Awakening
Original Air Date—27 September 1980
A real estate broker finds himself having dreams that seem to be incredibly real. They are so real, in fact, that he begins to wonder which is the dream and which is reality.

Wednesday, July 20 - The Girl Who Had Everything

The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)

William Powell is a tough criminal lawyer. He may not have a lot of scruples but he has money. And he wants the best for his daughter, played by the ravishing young Elizabeth Taylor.

She is, as the title suggests, spoiled. And she decides she wants Daddy's recent client, gangster Fernando Lamas. She already has Gig Young but Lamas is more dashing, if a real cad.

Tuesday, July 19 - The Woman on the Beach

The Woman on the Beach (1947)

Robert Ryan plays Scott, a Coast Guard officer who is having nightmares about a depth charge going off and a ship sinking. He has struck up a romance with a pretty local girl (Nan Leslie).

The troubled man is riding his horse on the beach when he comes across Peggy, a strikingly beautiful dark-haired woman (Joan Bennett) who is gathering firewood near the remains of a shipwreck. He finds himself strangely drawn to her. When she invites him to dinner with her husband Tod (Charles Bickford), a once-great painter who has gone blind. Scott accepts.

Ryan becomes obsessed with Peggy and grows to hate Tod, convinced that the artist is faking is blindness in order to keep his unhappy wife from leaving him. To test his theory, Scott takes Tod for a walk, then leads him close to the edge of a cliff above the ocean and . . .

Monday, July 18 - Attack of the Crab Monsters

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane explodes. The team soon discovers that the island has been taken over by crabs that have mutated into enormous, intelligent monsters. To add to their problems, the island is slowly sinking into the ocean.

Sunday, July 17 - Fragment of Fear

Fragment of Fear (1970)

David Hemmings believes some sort of peculiar conspiracy behind the murder of his rich aunt in Italy and he goes about his way to prove it back in London, except he gets his apartment broken into, strange messages and cackling laughter mysteriously appear on his tape recorder, and someone appears to have sent him a warning letter written on his own paper with his own typewriter. There's a girl he wants to marry and he's had a drug problem a few years back so that no one around him believes his ravings about a secret society out to silence him.

Saturday, July 16 - The Third Secret

The Third Secret (1964)

A prominent London Psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. The truth, however, turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.

Friday, July 15 - Hammer House of Horror: The Thirteenth Reunion

Hammer House of Horror (TV Series 1980)

Season 1, Episode 2: The Thirteenth Reunion
Original Air Date—20 September 1980
Ruth, the reporter for the womens page of a magazine, is assigned by her editor to participate of a ten weeks course of a new weight organization called "Think Thin". In accordance with the letter of a reader, the system would be very masochist and depressive, destructing the self-esteem of the patient. Ruth makes a friend in the course, and he dies in a car crash. In the funeral, an employee of the funeral house discloses weird events that are happening in his job. In her investigation, Ruth finds dark and macabre secrets.

Thursday, July 14 - Crime Against Joe

Crime Against Joe (1956)

Joe Manning returned from the Korean War a changed man and became a Bohemian artist, supported by his understanding mother and distrusted by others. On a drunken binge, Joe flirts with torch singer Irene Crescent, who is later found dead by the hand of the town's serial killer...and Joe's the prime suspect. No one will help Joe except carhop 'Slacks'. Can they find the real killer before he finds them?

Wednesday, July 13 - Inferno

Inferno (1953)

A cheating wife (Rhonda Fleming) and her scheming lover (William Lundigan) purposely abandon her husband with a broken leg in the middle of the Mojave Desert without transportation or supplies. But they're not clever enough by half...as they start their premature gloating and plans to spend his money, the determined husband (grittily played by Robert Ryan) refuses to die and slowly makes his hate-filled way to a spectacular revenge.

Tuesday, July 12 - Hammer House of Horror: Witching Time

Hammer House of Horror (TV Series 1980)

Season 1, Episode 1: Witching Time
Original Air Date—12 April 1980
At the isolated Woodstock Farm in rural England, workaholic composer David Winter is depressed because he feels that his wife, actress Mary, is unfaithful. In a dark and stormy night, Lucinda Jessup, the ghost of a witch from the 17th Century and former dweller of the farm, arrives in the barn and possesses David. Mary fights against Lucinda trying to recover David.

Monday, July 11 - Paradise for Three

Paradise for Three (1938)

Paradise for Three" is tale of mistaken and hidden identities: Robert Young is a flat-broke jobseeker whose jingle-contest entry wins him a stay at an Alpine ski resort. There, he’s treated like royalty because the staff thinks he’s a slumming millionaire who's supposed to be incognito.

Sunday, July 10 - Contract on Cherry Street

Contract on Cherry Street (TV 1977)

Frank Sinatra and Martin Balsam are lieutenants on the vice squad investigating motor vehicle chop shops which lead them to a wider investigation of the mob. After the murder of one of their own, the cops decide to take justice into their own hands, no matter where that dark road takes them.

Saturday, July 9 - Naked City: The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree

Naked City (TV series 1958–1963)
The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree

The Naked City TV show was a crime drama series about the work and personal lives of the detectives working out of the 65th precinct in New York City. It was an in depth look at the effects of crime on the police, the victims, and even the criminals themselves.

THE APPLE FALLS NOT FAR FROM THE TREE: Walter Gerrick would do anything to keep his cherished son, Les (Keir Dullea), out of jail, even if he must risk arrest himself.

Friday, July 8 - Cloudburst

Cloudburst (1951)

Foreign office cipher expert, John Graham, is completely devastated by the death of his pregnant wife, deliberately knocked down in a hit-and-run incident. Driven by a single-minded obsession, he tracks down one of the killers, and repeats the same horrific incident that killed his wife. The only clue left at the scene of the crime is a note written in code, which leaves the police mystified. An unconnected enquiry has led to the arrest of the other killer of Graham?s wife. Whilst on route to prison, Graham abducts her and brutally repeats the same execution. Has Graham got away with his revenge, or will the coded letter lead the authorities to him?

Thursday, July 7 - The Titfield Thunderbolt

The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition, to the extent that the whole project is threatened.

Wednesday, July 6 - Vampire Circus

Vampire Circus (1972)

A little girl is brutally slain by a vampire in a tiny 19th century Austrian village. Seeking revenge, the townspeople invade the foreboding castle of Count Mitterhaus and kill him for the crime. As the Count dies, he curses the villagers and vows that their children will all die so that he may someday return to life. Fifteen years later, as the village is ravaged by the plague, a traveling circus comes to town and distracts the villagers from their current hardships. Little do they know that their troubles are only beginning! The circus is actually a troupe of shape-shifting vampires and, as the local children start disappearing, they realize the prophecy of the long dead Count is coming true.

Tuesday, Jully 5 - Crime Without Passion

Crime Without Passion (1934)

Film begins with a wild montage of near nude furies soaring over Manhattan and attacking various sinners. Then we go to the center of the story, attorney Lee Gentry (a superb Claude Rains), a womanizing, authority hating egomaniac. During an argument with his mistress, singer Carman Brown (Margo) Gentry accidentally fires a gun at Carman. Thinking her dead, he builds up an alibi. Torn by the fear that he might get caught by a legal system he belittles, he goes deeper into insanity and crime.

Sunday, July 3 - Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall (1937)

Robert Montgomery stars as Danny, a wickedly charming Irish bellhop who wins the confidence of an elderly invalid (Dame May Whitty). The old woman's niece (Rosalind Russell) is not so easily swayed by Danny's blarney, but she finds him strangely attractive, especially when he exhibits a streak of viciousness. Even when the possibility arises that Danny is a wanted murderer, Rosalind is hesitant to call the police.

Saturday, July 2 - Double Feature - The Wagons Roll at Night

The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)

A lion escapes Nick Coster's carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Matt Varney whom Nick brings into the show and eventually makes chief lion tamer. When Nick finds out Matt has fallen for his convent-bred sister Mary he makes him go into the cage with the insane lion Caesar.

Saturday, July 2 - The Swimming Pool

The Swimming Pool (1969)
La piscine (original title)

Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly.

Friday, July 1 - Pushover

Pushover (1954)

A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop, to save herself she sets out to corrupt him. He's a pushover. But it won't be easy for Paul to get his hands on the money when he's part of a complex, peeping-tom stakeout. Soon, he's in much deeper than he'd planned, amid atmospheric night scenes.

Thursday, June 30 - Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman (1963)

Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man's execution. Girot again pleads his innocence insisting that he has been taken over by a spirit that forced him to commit his crimes. Cordier doesn't believe him and the man suddenly dies. Cordier does however note a rapid change in his personality during their short interview. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences in his home. He begins to wonder if he is sleepwalking but is soon hearing voices and begins to wonder about his sanity. It's recommended to him that he take up sculpting, something he once had an interest in. He develops a relationship with Odette, a gold digger married to a struggling artist, but the evil, invisible spirit soon drives him to murder.