Tuesday, Sept. 27 - The Goddess

The Goddess (1958)

Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Patty Duke plays Emily Ann Faulkner as a young, friendless, fatherless rural southern girl whose mother is indifferent to her. As a teenager, Emily Ann, played by Kim Stanley, remains a loner but with one small exception - boys dote on her, drawn by her beauty and her powerful aura of feminine sexuality. Emily Ann marries young but leaves her first husband when she meets young prizefighter Dutch Seymour (Lloyd Bridges). She becomes an actress and her star rises rapidly until she hits the heights of fame - and the depths of anguish.

Monday, Sept. 26 - Hands of the Ripper

Hands of the Ripper (1971)

The infant daughter of Jack the Ripper is witness to the brutal murder of her mother by her father. Fifteen years later she is a troubled young woman who is seemingly possessed by the spirit of her father. While in a trance she continues his murderous killing spree but has no recollection of the events afterwards. A sympathetic psychiatrist takes her in and is convinced he can cure her condition. Soon, however, he regrets his decision.

Sunday, Sept. 25 - Wheedle's Groove

Wheedle's Groove (Video 2009)

In 1972, a thriving Seattle soul music scene was on the verge of national recognition. In 1975, almost suddenly, the scene died and was quickly forgotten by the changing city. In 2001, after the chance discovery of a 45-record, a local DJ uncovers a rich past hidden in plain view.

Saturday, Sept. 24 - Double Feature! Karaoke

Karaoke (TV mini-series 1996)

Daniel Feeld is a screenwriter with pains in his gut and a new screenplay called "Karaoke", about a girl named Sandra who works in a seedy Karaoke bar and is murdered by a lowlife named Arthur "Pig" Mallion. But whenever Daniel looks around, real people seem to be speaking his dialogue in real situations that mirror the script, including a beautiful young girl named Sandra who works in a Karaoke bar owned by a Mr. Mallion. Meanwhile, Balmer, the film's director, is in a spot of trouble with the leading lady of the film.

Saturday, Sept. 24 - Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Based-on-fact account of an obscure, downtrodden little circus troupe and its escape from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia to freedom in Austria.

Thursday, Sept. 22 - Hammer House of Horror: Children of the Full Moon

Hammer House of Horror (TV Series 1980)

Season 1, Episode 8: Children of the Full Moon
Original Air Date—1 November 1980
A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old women and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for victims.

Wednesday, Sept. 21 - Poor Pretty Eddie

Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.

Tuesday, Sept. 20 - Hammer House of Horror: The Silent Scream

Hammer House of Horror: The Silent Scream

Season 1, Episode 7: The Silent Scream
Original Air Date—25 October 1980
When Chuck Spillers is released from prison, he tells his wife Annie that he had been visited by an old man, Martin Blueck, along his sentence for robbing a safe, and Blueck had given some money for him to help a fresh start in life. On the next morning, Chuck pays a visit to Blueck in his pet shop to thank the support and is invited to work for him feeding his animals in his private zoo while he is traveling. Blueck explains that he trains animals, conditioning then to obey some signals. A couple of days later, Chuck sees a safe in the store, and decide to open it, being trapped in a weird situation and disclosing the truth about the sadistic Blueck.

Monday, Sept. 19 - The Threat

The Threat (1949)

At Folsom Prison, several inmates escape...including killer Arnold Kluger, who swore revenge on the detective and district attorney who convicted him. Despite precautions, the two men are soon in Kluger's power, together with showgirl Carol whom he suspects of informing on him. At a shack in the California desert, Kluger, two henchmen, and four hostages wait, and wait, for an escape plane that may never come.

Sunday, Sept. 18 - The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy (1943)

Recently-deceased Matthew Macauley looks down upon his family in small-town Ithaca, where eldest son Marcus has departed to await deployment for combat in the Second World War. This leaves middle son Homer to support the family, working at a telegraph station. Now the man of the family, Homer comes of age amidst the clarion call of war, even as youngest son Ulysses discovers the wonders of life, and Marcus inspires his platoon mate, foundling Toby George, with stories of idyllic Ithaca.

Saturday, Sept. 17 - Figures in a Landscape

Figures in a Landscape (1970)

Two escaped convicts (Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell) are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.

Friday, Sept. 16 - Hot Cars

Hot Cars (1956)

A salt-of-earth family man needs money for his sick son, and decides to keep a job at a used car lot despite realizing it is selling stolen cars.

Thursday, Sept. 15 - The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. The wisecracking young ladies proceed to run circles around the police, the suspects, and the press.

Tuesday, Sept. 13 - Passport to Shame (Room 43)

Room 43 (1958)
Passport to Shame (original title)

1958 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff, written by Patrick Alexander and starring Diana Dors and Herbert Lom. Cabdriver (Eddie Constantine) falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.

Monday, Sept. 12 - Not of This Earth

Not of This Earth (1957)

An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.

Sunday, Sept. 11 - The Fiend (Beware My Brethren)

Beware My Brethren (1972)
The Fiend (original title)

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Saturday, Sept. 10 - Double Feature! - Baba Yaga

Baby Yaga, Devil Witch (I) (1973)
Baba Yaga (original title)

Strange things have been happening to Valentina, a young and beautiful professional photographer, ever since she made the acquaintance of Baba Yaga, a mysterious older woman who gave her a lift home late one night. For one thing, Valentina has been having weird, kinky nightmares. For another, one of Valentina's cameras seems to have acquired a deadly curse. And then there was that visit to Baba Yaga's house, where Valentina discovered bizarre relics, including a dominatrix doll, and a bottomless pit in the living room. Valentina comes to realize that Baba Yaga is a witch who is out to possess her - body and soul.

Saturday, Sept. 10 - Blind Date (Chance Meeting)

Chance Meeting (1959)
Blind Date (original title)

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacquleine Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van-Rooyen as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

Friday, Sept. 9 - The Barbara Stanwyck Show: Along the Barbary Coast

The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series 1960)

Season 1, Episode 21: Along the Barbary Coast
Original Air Date—27 February 1961

Stanwyck stars as Trixie Callahan, a con artist who falls in with bad company. Richard Eastham and Jerome Thor costar.

Thursday, Sept. 8 - Hidden Homicide

Hidden Homicide (1959)

A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.

Wednesday, Sept. 7 - The Barbara Stanwyck Show: Confession

The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series 1960)
Confession

Season 1, Episode 20: Confession
Original Air Date—20 February 1961

Unhappy in her marriage to Morgan Manning, Paula seeks legal advice. Jud Hollister (Lee Marvin), her lawyer, believes a divorce may be difficult to obtain, and suggests an alternate plan.

Tuesday, Sept. 6 - The Barbara Stanwyck Show - Big Career

The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series 1960)
Big Career

Season 1, Episode 19: Big Career
Original Air Date—13 February 1961

Monday, Sept. 5 - Exposed

Exposed (1947)

A beautiful female private detective is hired by a wealthy businessman to check up on his stepson--the heir to the family fortune--who has been withdrawing large amounts of money from his bank account, taken an apartment in the city and is generally acting suspiciously. She soon finds herself mixed up in secret experiments, shadowy underworld figures and, finally, the murder of her employer.

Sunday, Sept. 4 - Die! Die! My Darling

Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Fanatic (original title)

The spoiled Patricia Carroll arrives in London to get married with her fiancé Alan Glentower. However, the stubborn Pat decides to pay a visit in the country to Mrs. Trefoile, the mother of her former fiancé Stephen, who died in a car accident. Once there, the religious fanatic Mrs. Trefoile insists to Pat to stay overnight to go to the mass on the next morning. After going to the church, the naive Pat tells Mrs. Trefoile that she was not going to marry Stephen, triggering her insanity. Mrs. Trefoile abducts Pat to purify her sins and make her pure for her beloved son.

Saturday, Sept. 3 - Harry's Game (Part 3)

Harry's Game (TV 1982)

Friday, Sept. 2 - Hammer House of Horror: Charlie Boy

Hammer House of Horror (TV Series 1980)

Season 1, Episode 6: Charlie Boy
Original Air Date—18 October 1980

After the death of his uncle, Graham inherits his Arts collection and his beloved wife Sarah decides to keep a weird fetish and gives the name of Charlie Boy. A friend of them explains that it was a voodoo toy. When the other inheritor, Peter, calls of the idea of raising a movie production company, Graham uses a picture with five persons, including Sarah and himself, to wish Peter died. When the persons in the picture die, Graham tries to find a way to save Sarah and him.

Wednesday, Aug. 31& Thursday, Sept. 1 - Harry's Game (Parts 1 & 2)

Harry's Game (TV 1982)

Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his one new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.