Friday, March 30 - Thirteen Women

Thirteen Women (1932)

Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. It seems that she too went to their school, but was forced to leave by their bigotry, and is exacting revenge.

Thursday, March 29 - Foyle's War: A Lesson in Murder

Foyle's War: Season 1, Episode 3
A Lesson in Murder (10 Nov. 2002)

Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.

Wednesday, March 28 - Hunted

The Stranger in Between (1952)
Hunted (original title)

Violent fugitive and mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority: Bogarde is a hopeless, alienated character fleeing from the police after a crime of momentary passion. He is joined by a scared and emotionally scarred small boy also on the run from a harsh reality. Their journey together is gruelling yet at the same time strangely aimless, as they focus on escaping the past with little idea of their future.

Tuesday, March 27 - Counterplot

Counterplot (1959)

Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.

Monday, March 26 - The Couch

The Couch (1962)

A psychopath commits murders between appointments to see his psychiatrist, taunting police with phone calls before each murder.

Sunday, March 25 - A Dragonfly for Each Corpse

Una libélula para cada muerto (1974)

Naschy stars as Inspector Paolo Sarsaparilla a hard as nails cop who only shows his tender side when at home with his fashion designer girlfriend Silvana played by Erica Blanc. Paolo is called in to head up the investigation into a string of killings known as the "Dragonfly" murders targeting prostitutes, homosexuals, drug users, and other "deviant" groups. The killings got their catchy name from the only clue, a figurine of the insect left at each murder, but when Paolo discovers a second clue, a "high fashion" button, it draws Silvana into the investigation. When one of her friends becomes a target, she takes a much more active interest. Namely, staying up late into the night, nude and examining pictures with a magnifying glass. On the streets, Paolo continues to find bodies (and finds time to his ass kicked by a Nazi gang.) all of which leads him to believe that the killer is someone he knows.

Saturday, March 24 - The Man Between

The Man Between (1953)

English girl on visit to Berlin becomes involved with political racketeer in elaborate plot to lure espionage agent from the Western to the Eastern sector.

Friday, March 23 - Conspirator

Conspirator (1949)

London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His aged aunt, his only family, urges him to marry her, and he does. The trouble is, he's an agent for the Soviets. His control is unhappy that he's married without the Party's consent. Melinda figures out he's a spy and a traitor, and she develops some backbone and maturity when he tries to convince her to go along with him. She demands that he cease spying at about the same time that his control orders him to kill her.

Thursday, March 22 - Bedevilled

Bedevilled (1955)

Nightclub singer fleeing the scene of a murder is protected by a young man who is studying for the priest hood.

Wednesday, March 21 - 13 West Street

13 West Street (1962)

Alan Ladd is a rocket scientist who gets mugged on the way home from a late night at the office, by a roving band of Beverly Hills punks led by Michael Callan. Ladd then pursues the villains whilst police officer Rod Steiger tries to keep him under control.

Tuesday, March 20 - Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday (1955)

Three hoodlums plot to rob a bank in a small town. But the town has secrets of its own: The bank president is a Peeping Tom. The librarian is a petty thief. The son of the strip-mine owner is an alcoholic; his wife is openly carrying on an affair with the local golf pro. The son of the strip-mine foreman is ashamed of him because he didn't fight in Word War II. The strip-mine nurse is the object of several men's sexual fantasies.

Monday, March 19 - Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Sunday, March 18 - Double Feature!: Sh! The Octopus

Sh! The Octopus (1937)

Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.

Sunday, March 18 - Phone Call From a Stranger

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

Unable to forgive his wife for an affair, David Trask (Gary Merrill) gets on a plane, where, due to the plane being late and an unexpected stopover because of bad weather, he becomes friendly with three passengers: a performer (Winters), a salesman (Wynn) and an alcoholic doctor (Rennie) and hears their stories. The salesman seems a happy man with a knockout for a wife; the performer has a horrid mother-in-law, a former vaudeville star with whom she competes, but she loves her husband; and the doctor has resolved to go to the DA and admit responsibility for an accident that happened a few years earlier which has destroyed his marriage. When the plane crashes, Trask is the only survivor of the four. He visits each of the victims' families to pay his condolences and possibly put some matters right. Then he learns from one of the family members the importance of putting his own life back together.

Saturday, March 17 - George Gently: The Burning Man

Inspector George Gently (2007)

The Burning Man
Jul. 13, 2008
The charred corpse of a man believed to be Ruari O'Connell is found near RAF base Huxton and a ring found in his stomach leads Gently and Bacchus to his lover, cafe owner Wanda Lane. When a second Irishman is shot dead supercilious Special Branch commander Empton arrives,telling Gently that Ruari was an IRA informer on the run from vengeful compatriots and he believes Ruari faked his death to avoid them. In that case who was the burning man? And will Bacchus survive a hostage situation to allow Gently to take him fishing?

Friday, March 16 - Four in the Morning

Four in the Morning (1965)

It is a moment before dawn, and the river traffic on the Thames begins to ease its way through the fog. The River police find the body of a young girl left dry by the ebb tide. Her body is brought ashore and her possessions examined. Who is she? And what drove her to take her own life? For the young married couple (Judi Dench and Norman Rodway) love brought them together, but now marriage and a child have driven them apart. The young husband would rather stay out than return home to a wife kept awake by a teething baby daughter. Their story is witnessed by their friend (Joe Melia), a bachelor, who is exposed as the loneliest of them all. At the same time two young lovers meet outside a nightclub. Desperate to make contact, but afraid of what their involvement could mean, the girl shies from physical contact and the boy cannot cope with his feeling of being trapped by the love she offers.

Thursday, March 15 - An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston, an Englishman, is left a pet alligator by another passenger who abandons it to him. He is horrified and his first instinct is to get rid of it as soon as possible. However, he soon develops a bond with a young Irishwoman which appears to be centred almost entirely around the animal. He soon discovers that Daisy is very tame and domesticated, and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

Wednesday, March 14 - Hu$tle: Faking It

Hustle (TV Series 2004– )

Faking It
Mar. 2, 2004

Albert Stroller is severely beaten by a vicious casino owner, Frank Gorley, after being caught cheating at cards. The team decide to get their revenge by scamming Gorely for a load of money. Finding Gorley's weakness - he's a film buff who particularly likes old black and white movies from the '40s and '50s -the team sets up an elaborate quick-money scheme for him to invest in a film. They also let Danny play the lead in their elaborate charade, a first for him in a long con.

Tuesday, March 13 - Dance Hall

Dance Hall (1950)

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall.

Monday, March 12 - Boy Who Caught a Crook

Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)

Yarn about a young kid who found a suitcase filled with stolen money. And of course is hunted by a bank robber who thinks the boy has his lost loot.

Sunday, March 11 - Foyle's War: White Feather

Foyle's War (TV Series 2002– )

The White Feather
Nov. 3, 2002

With the English army trapped in France and a German invasion imminent, a Nazi sympathizer is murdered during a pro-Facist meeting at a country hotel.

Saturday, March 10 - Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck (1946)

Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price) is a wealthy feudal heir of Dutch ancestry living in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1840s. Nicholas has come to hate his wife because she has been unable to give him a son; their only child is a daughter he doesn't care for. Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), a distant relative of the Van Ryns, comes to live at their estate and work as an au pair girl; Nicholas becomes infatuated with her and eventually poisons his wife so they can marry. However, while Miranda gives birth to a son, the boy is sickly and does not live to adulthood. Nicholas begins to slip into insanity, moving to the attic of his mansion and drowning his sorrows in drugs. A distraught Miranda seeks the counsel of the local physician, Dr. Jeff Turner (Glenn Langan); Dr. Turner falls in love with Miranda, and he eventually discovers that Nicholas killed his first wife to be with her, and that Miranda might be next on the madman's list.

Friday, March 9 - The Funmaster & The Hard Way

Rendezvous (TV series 1957)
The Funmaster

Four Star Playhouse (TV series 1952–1956)
The Hard Way

A teenage couple wanders into a closed amusement park and find themselves being held captive by an angry employee (Keenan Wynn) of the park who just got fired from his job.

“The Hard Way,” written by Blake Edwards and directed by Robert Aldrich (1953) has Dick Powell as a gambling joint operator in New York who has to make his own hard way between the customers (Jack Elam) and the coppers (one of them is played by perennial flatfoot Regis Toomey).

Thursday, March 8 - Black Tight Killers

Black Tight Killers (1966)
Ore ni sawaru to abunaize (original title)

The "Black Tight Killers" are a group of go-go dancing ninja women who use 45 rpm records and bubble gum as weapons. The central character is a war photographer who meets an airline stewardess and unknowingly enters into an adventure for money smuggled into the country by her father at the close of WWII. The money is pursued by Japanese yakuza, American gangsters and the title five with spirited action that very nicely reflects the colors and pop art flavor of the day. All is played with a tongue in cheek style that nicely parodies the spy adventure films of the time. Enjoy the fun.

Wednesday, March 7 - The Silver Fleet

The Silver Fleet (1943)

A wonderfully charismatic Ralph Richardson stars as a Dutch shipyard owner who, inspired by historical hero Piet Hein, apparently collaborates with the Nazis, all the better to thwart their plans for the two submarines he's building there.

Tuesday, March 6 - Hu$tle: The Con Is On

Hustle (TV Series 2004– )

The Con Is On (Feb. 24, 2004)

In London, two teams are formed and prepare their operations, destined as adversaries. Michael 'Mickey Bricks' Stone is out of jail after two years for an unrelated offense; everybody knows he will do at least once more what he's good in, in fact the best in Britain: the intricate 'long con', always prepared by his American associate Albert Stroller, who finds and gains the confidence of a wealthy mark; their other known cahoots are Ash Morgan and Stacie Monroe. Meanwhile in the police force, a new man is stepping in as new head of the task force to catch them.

Monday, March 5 - Find the Blackmailer

Find the Blackmailer (1943)

Fast talking detective D. L. Trees is hired by a mayoral candidate to find a trained crow who is being used to blackmail him. The trail leads to dame Faye Emerson and her crony friends. The police get involved but are not much help. Lots of talk, lots of confusion.

Sunday, March 4 - The People Against O'Hara

The People Against O'Hara (1951)

James Curtayne has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found guilty, but Curtayne makes further efforts to prove him innocent.

Saturday, March 3 - Double Feature!: The Love Cult

The Love Cult (1966)

A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts."

Saturday, March 3 - The Asphyx

The Asphyx (1973)

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist-loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects? Hugo brings to a family boating party his newest invention-a motion picture camera. The party quickly turns into a disaster as he captures on film the tragic drowning of his wife and son. When the film is replayed later, the same ghostlike presence appears. It flies towards his son, and vanishes inside his dying body. Has Hugo discovered The Asphyx, the spirit of the dead described in Greek mythology? A spirit which lives in constant agony, not finding rest until it takes possession of a human body? Could the spirit, if captured, become the key to immortality? Hugo is compelled to find the answers. It is a ghoulish search, with eternally haunting results.

Thursday, March 1 - Dial 1119

Dial 1119 (1950)

A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.

Wednesday, Feb. 29 - George Gently: Gently Go Man

Inspector George Gently (TV Series 2007)

Gently Go Man

After his wife Isabella is killed by a hit and run driver Inspector George Gently considers retiring but when Johnny,a member of a biking gang in the North East,is also run over and Gently hears that Webster,whom he believes to have killed Isabella,is in the area,he travels North to investigate,teaming up with ambitious young sergeant John Bacchus. Aware that local inspector Setters is probably corrupt and involved in the assault on his informant China Mates, Gently realises that he and Webster are actually both investigating the same crime as Webster is Johnny's father. The two men finally meet for a confrontation with the real murderer.