Monday, April 29 - Lovejoy: Stones of Destiny

Lovejoy: Season 5, Episode 7 Stones of Destiny (17 Oct. 1993)

Lovejoy accompanies Charlotte to Wales in search of a stolen Celtic cross that may have come from a coastal cave that served as a Medieval church.

Sunday, April 28 - Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves (1960)

In Monte Carlo, Theo Wilkins recruits his young protégé Paul Mason - just released from prison - to help him rob the famous casino of $4 million. The plan is straightforward. On the night of the Governor's Ball, Theo will create a distraction in the casino by having one of the team collapse requiring urgent medical attention. During that time Paul and another member of the crew will get the money from the vault. When the ambulance arrives, the money will leave with the sick man. The plan is a good one but not everyone will survive the robbery and no one will get rich from it.

Saturday, April 27 - Ruthless

Ruthless (1948)

Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbours he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.

Friday, April 26 - Naked City: The Virtues of Madame Douvay

Naked City: Season 4, Episode 12 The Virtues of Madame Douvay (5 Dec. 1962)

Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro. The restaurateur accused the kitchen helper of amouring his wife, so Lt. Parker targets him, not knowing the Frenchwoman totally entrances the mysterious real killer. Libby's acting career bellies out faster than a soufflé, so she presses Adam to romp off to Paris together, instead of him pursuing other murder suspects.

Thursday, April 25 - The Untouchables: The Troubleshooter

The Untouchables: Season 3, Episode 1 The Troubleshooter (12 Oct. 1961)

A new 5 and 10 cent game using punch boards has become very popular and lucrative for the syndicate that controls it. With Eliot Ness and the Untouchables targeting them, receipts are down so they decide to accept New York hood Nate Selko's plan to deal with Ness. Selko's offer of a bribe is rejected by Ness out of hand so he goes to plan B: set Ness up to shoot a man who is apparently unarmed. Ness knows he was fired at first but when no gun is found anywhere at the scene, it becomes front page news and he forced to defend himself both publicly and to the DA.

Wednesday, April 24 - Fingerprints Don't Lie

Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951)

The killing of Mayor Palmer is being placed on Paul Moody by fingerprint expert Jim Stover as Moody's prints were found on the murder weapon. When reporter Brad Evans places doubt in Stover's mind that the fingerprints were Moodys, he decides to investigate further with the help of the mayor's daughter Carolyn.

Tuesday, April 23 - Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)

Webb Carey returns to Orta, near Milan, to find out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the death of several villagers. His old love Julie, whom he thought dead at the hands of the Nazis, is alive and married to the Barone.

Monday, April 22 - The Silk Express

The Silk Express (1933)

Fast paced little mystery yarn features handsome NEIL HAMILTON in the lead as a man anxious to get his shipment of silk safely removed at the train's destination--but hampered in his efforts by a murder aboard The Silk Express.

Sunday, April 21 - 7 Faces of Dr. Lao

7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)

An old Chinese gentleman rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.

Saturday, April 20 - Lovejoy: Highland Fling Part 2

Lovejoy: Season 3, Episode 13 Highland Fling: Part Two (5 Apr. 1992)

Just before Lovejoy and Lady Jane are going to consummate their long-standing relationship, they are interrupted by his discovery of some 18th Century sketches for a proposed mural and the arrival of Chris on his motorbike with his new girlfriend. Chris has disregarded Lovejoy's edict not to buy anything in his absence and blown his boss's "rainy day slush fund" to buy an antique mirror from her larcenous father, seemingly a bargain until she tells Chris that her dad "nicked it." Despite its status as a "hot" property, Lovejoy is able to use it to his advantage. As a sidebar, the identity of the beautiful redheaded girl in the woods is revealed.

Friday, April 19 - Lovejoy: Highland Fling Part 1

Lovejoy: Season 3, Episode 12 Highland Fling: Part One (29 Mar. 1992)

Katroina Brooksby and her ailing husband Edward are trying to maintain their lavish estate near Balmoral in Scotland. They have even taken in rich foreigners and made their estate into a very expensive bed-and-breakfast and sold their adjoining woods in order to keep themselves afloat. Jane enlists Lovejoy to sell an antique bureau in Katroina's mother's bedroom and replace it with a copy, but Katroina is shattered when the antiques dealer informs her that the priceless piece of furniture is only a two-year old replica.

Thursday, April 18 - Wonderworld of Modern Living: Ruth 91-61-91

Wonderworld of Modern Living DVDr (German TV 1969-1972)

RUTH 91-61-91 ("A Report From The Model World") 1969, 30 mins.

From high fashion to catalogue shoots, this documentary explores the ins and outs of the German fashion world in the late sixties. From London to Duesselfdorf, you'll follow 21 year-old model Ruth Koecher and meet several others along the way who talk candidly about their love lives, money, and ambitions. This 30 minute documentary original aired on German television on June 8th 1969.

Wednesday, April 17 - Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming (1st half)

Game of Thrones (2011– ) TV Series

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros

Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 1 Winter Is Coming (17 Apr. 2011)

Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, is dead. King Robert Baratheon plans to ask his oldest friend, Eddard Stark, to take Jon's place. Across the sea, Viserys Targaryen plans to wed his sister to a nomadic warlord in exchange for an army.

Tuesday, April 16 - Rings on Her Fingers

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Brooklyn shopgirl Susie Miller (Gene Tierney) gets spotted by the high society Worthingtons (played by Spring Byington, doing a sharp version of her usual daffy persona, and the mountainous yet spry Laird Cregar), a pair of grifters who lure her into being the bait for millionaire suckers. She falls for one of the suckers (Henry Fonda), a sweetly naive motormouth who’s actually not rich. They run away together and we spend the whole movie wondering when he’ll find out the awful truth.

Monday, April 15 - Lovejoy: Members Only

Lovejoy: Season 3, Episode 11 Members Only (22 Mar. 1992)

Lovejoy and Jane help a likable and honorable Japanese businessman, Mr. Kashimoti, become a member of an elite golfing country club.

Sunday, April 14 - The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

Stanford White (Ray Milland) is a wealthy and famous 47 year old architect in New York. Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is a stunningly beautiful 16 year old model and chorus girl. Harry K. Thaw (Farley Granger) is a young millionaire who later marries Evelyn when she is 20. Extremely possessive, Harry can no longer live the thought of what the lecherous White did with Evelyn on the Red Velvet Swing when she just 16. After seeing White at a café then again at a play the same day, Thaw uses a gun to defend his wifes honor. New York society is scandalized. White's "interests" in younger women, Evelyn Nesbit's trail of wealthy suitors, Thaw's insane jealousy. It was front page news and it was all true.

Saturday, April 13 - A Murder of Quality

A Murder of Quality (TV 1991)

Taken from the book by John le Carre, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junion master's wife at Carne School - a boy's school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master's wife brutually murdered with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed knit society of Carne and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.

Friday, April 12 - The Siege of Sidney Street

The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)

As armed police surround a house in the East End of London, a young lady under medical supervision nearby thinks back to the events that lead her and a group of Russian refugee political anarchists to this situation.

Thursday, April 11 - Blue, White and Perfect

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

Saturday, April 6 Double Feature - Child's Play & Whispering City

Child's Play (1972)

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Whispering City (1947)

A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder. 

Friday, April 5 - Swing Fever

Swing Fever (1943)

Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a Broadway publisher for a symphonietta he has written, and ends up crashing an audition at the Swing Publishing Company, where he meets torch singer Ginger Gray (Marilyn Maxwell) and her fiance and promoter, Waltzy Malone (William Gargan). Ginger accidently walks off with his music and he follows her to a gym where Waltzy's fighter, "Killer" Kennedy (Nat Pendleton), has just been kayoed by his sparring partner. Waltzy learns of Lowell's hypnotic power and believes that Kennedy can win the championship if Lowell uses his power against the champ. He arranges for Lowell to lead the band at the club where Ginger sings. The latter objects to the role she is to play in getting Lowell to use his "evil eye" but Waltzy persuades her to go along by telling Lowell that Kennedy is her brother and it means everything...

Thursday, April 4 - Casanova: One at a Time

Casanova: Season 1, Episode 2 One at a Time (23 Nov. 1971)

Casanova receives a new cellmate in the form of Schalon, a corrupt insurance broker, and reflects on his seduction of three daughters at a house in Grenoble.

Wednesday, April 3 - Code Two

Code Two (1953)

Chuck O'Flair and two buddies, Russ Hartley and Harry Whenlon, enter the Los Angeles Police Academy as cadets. Cocky and sure of himself, O'Flair almost gets washed out as unfit material. After they graduate, one of them accidentally stumbles on a gang of black marketeers and is murdered. O'Flair requests the assignment to track down the killer.

Tuesday, April 2 - Casanova:

Casanova (1971– ) TV Mini-Series

The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.

Casanova: Season 1, Episode 1 Steed in the Stable (16 Nov. 1971)

After being arrested and charged with "foul atheism" and fornication, Casanova is sentenced to five years imprisonment at "The Leads": the most notorious of Venetian gaols. Brutalised by Lorenzo the gaoler and devoid of hope under the harsh prison regime, Casanova's mind wanders back to his past loves and adventures. He finds himself haunted by the memory of Christina, a simple country girl he gave to another rather than marry her himself.

Monday, April 1 - The Lady in Question

The Lady in Question (1940)

Brian Aherne is a bicycle shop owner who has been picked for jury duty and is determined to take his responsibilities quite seriously. He gets on a case with Rita Hayworth as a defendant who is accused of murdering her fiancé. Aherne's questions to her and his forceful advocacy of her, earn Rita an acquittal.

But Brian's not finished. He offers to give her any kind of help she needs because while she has a legal acquittal, she's got a reputation like O.J.'s. Aherne takes her in which causes all kinds of complications with his wife, Irene Rich, son Glenn Ford, daughter Evelyn Keyes, and her fiancé Edward Norris.

Sunday, Mar. 31 - The Chapman Report

The Chapman Report (1962)

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a research psychologist who becomes entangled with Fonda, the young woman suffering from emotional frigidity.