Sunday, Mar. 30 - Sisters & The Sweeney: Ringer

Sisters (1973)

The Staten Island apartment of lovely model Danielle becomes the scene of a grisly murder that is witnessed by her neighbor, Grace, a reporter. But the police don't believe her story, so it's up to Grace to solve the murder mystery on her own.

The Sweeney (1975–1978) TV Series

British police series which revolutionised the genre on UK television in the mid 1970s. Jack Regan, played by John Thaw, is a hard edged detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police (called 'the Sweeney' from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Sweeney Todd' = 'Flying Squad"). He pursues villains by methods which are underhand, often illegal themselves, frequently violent and more often than not successful.

The Sweeney: Season 1, Episode 1 Ringer (2 Jan. 1975)

Regan and Carter are conducting surveillance on gang of villains led by Frankie Kemble when Jenny, Regan's girl-friend, has her car stolen with all the information Regan has collated on Kemble inside it. Unfortunately the documents end up in Kemble's possession and Regan has to find another way to trap him.

Saturday, Mar. 29 - God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre (1958)

A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter's hand in marriage.

Friday, Mar. 28 - Armchair Thriller: The Victim Episodes 4 - 6

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 4 The Victim: Part 4 (17 Jan. 1980)

While Craig's desperation mounts, Sue becomes increasingly comfortable with her kidnappers--especially with a young man named Frankie.

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 5 The Victim: Part 5 (22 Jan. 1980)

Detectives trace Craig to Hepton, but he has moved on to the abandoned factory where his daughter is being held.

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 6 The Victim: Part 6 (24 Jan. 1980)

Craig confronts his daughter's captor, but Sue--very much her father's daughter--does the unexpected.

Thursday, Mar. 27 - Armchair Thriller: The Victim Episodes 1-3

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 1 The Victim: Part 1 (8 Jan. 1980)

When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money. But Craig intends to do things his own way.

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 2 The Victim: Part 2 (10 Jan. 1980)

Craig believes he knows who is behind the kidnapping--and that the motives are personal, not financial. Shaking off the police, he heads to the town of Hepton to begin his search.

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 3 The Victim: Part 3 (15 Jan. 1980)

Enlisting the help of a local crime reporter, Craig tries to track down a disgruntled ex-employee named George Neecham.

Wednesday, Mar. 26 - Family Secret

The Family Secret (1951)

A lawyer must make the most difficult decision of his life in this crime drama that begins when the attorney's son inadvertently kills his best friend. No one was around to see what happened and only his family is the wiser. But the death creates a rift in the family. His father wants him to confess while his mother begs him to stay quiet. Eventually she prevails and the father promises to keep the secret. Then he finds himself appointed to defend the innocent man accused of the killing.

Tuesday, Mar. 25 - Never Too Late to Mend

It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)

Tod Slaughter is determined to have an innocent young maiden for himself. To do so, he frames her beloved fiance and gets him sent to jail. His wicked plot is foiled when the man is freed and the lovers get back together.

Monday, Mar. 24 - The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.

Sunday, Mar. 23 - Bombshell

Bombshell (1933)

Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories. Makes a girl want to give up pictures.

Saturday, Mar. 22 - The Gambler

The Gambler (1974)

Alex Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase his. Despite of all this he cannot stop gambling.

Friday, Mar. 21 - The Soul of a Monster

The Soul of a Monster (1944)

As famous surgeon, George Winson, lies on his deathbed, his wife Ann calls on unknown powers to save him. A strange woman (Lilyan) appears from nowhere and takes control. George recovers, but he's mysteriously dominated by Lilyan, and leaves his wife. When the evil woman tempts him into letting his best friend (Roger) die Wilson realizes that Lilyan wants his soul in exchange for the chance to continue living.

Thursday, Mar. 20 - The Case of the Black Cat

The Case of the Black Cat (1936)

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around.

Wednesday, Mar. 19 - Private Detective 62

Private Detective 62 (1933)

Powell plays a disgraced and disavowed secret agent who turns to divorce work to keep his kitchen from getting lean. Bankrolled by a hood and partnered with a fink, he gets tasked with getting the goods on a gambling lady. But in this game of cards it's the lady who has the best hand.

Tuesday, Mar. 18 - The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Monday, Mar. 17 - Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance (1940)

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported, he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe.

Saturday, Mar. 15 - The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase (1964) "Les Barbouzes" (original title)

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

Friday, Mar. 14 - The Hard Way

The Hard Way (1979) TV Movie

A professional assassin is coerced into taking on one last job.

Wednesday, Mar. 12 - Nocturne

Nocturne (1946)

Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent. Evidence points to suicide and that is the official verdict, but Joe doesn't buy it and obsessively keeps looking, tracking down one discarded love after another, despite being ordered off the case.

Tuesday, Mar. 11 - Something for the Birds

Something for the Birds (1952)

Enviromentalist Anne Richards goes to Washington D. C. to fight for getting legislation passed to save the last remaining sanctuary of the almost-extinct California Condor. She enlists the aid of Johnnie Adams, an engraver, and Washington's most successful party-crasher, and Steve Bennett, a lobbyist for the opposition who comes over to Anne's side.

Monday, Mar. 10 - The Pay Off

The Pay Off (1942)

Lee Tracy plays Brad McKay a smart mouthed reporter loved, or at least respected by both the police and the criminals. When a reforming special prosecutor, who's work he had been covering, is killed McKay is thrust in to the thick of things since its assumed that he may have a clue as to who might have killed the man.

Sunday, Mar. 9 - The Outside Man

The Outside Man (1972) "Un homme est mort" (original title)

A fast paced thriller directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a French hit-man who goes to Los Angeles to kill a mob boss only to find himself pursued relentlessly by American hit-man Roy Scheider.

Saturday, Mar. 8 - Pandora and the Flying Dutchman & Rusty Knife

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted to Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him.

Rusty Knife (1958) "Sabita naifu" (original title)

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official.

Friday, Mar. 7 - Mrs. Reinhardt

BBC2 Playhouse: Season 8, Episode 1 Mrs. Reinhardt (30 Oct. 1981) TV Episode

Mrs. Reinhardt (Helen Mirren) has left her adulterous husband and thinks she can be happy again with a young American, until he changes as well.

Thursday, Mar. 6 - The Falcon in Mexico

The Falcon in Mexico (1944)

An artist's daughter becomes suspicious when new paintings by her supposedly dead father begin turning up in New York. When a gallery owner is murdered, the Falcon and Miss Wade head for Mexico City to investigate.

Wednesday, Mar. 5 - Two Seconds

Two Seconds (1932)

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Tuesday, Mar. 4 - Roadblock

Roadblock (1951)

An L.A. insurance detective starts to get involved with a girl he is increasingly attracted to, even though he sees her as a chiseller. She makes it clear that her tastes are too expensive for him, so he sets about getting a lot of money quickly if illegally. Perhaps too late, she starts to find that she is content with him just the way he is.

Monday, Mar. 3 - Power of the Press

Power of the Press (1943)

A publisher whose once-honest New York tabloid has been ideologically hijacked is aiming to make a course correction. Minutes after saying, "The power of the press is the freedom to tell the truth--it is not the freedom to twist the truth," he's a dead man. The rest of the movie deals with the efforts of his old friend, small-town newsman Guy Kibbee, to complete the paper's redemption.

Sunday, Mar. 2 - Never Love a Stranger

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

Frankie Kane is brought up in a Catholic orphanage and befriends Martin Cabell, a Jewish law student whose sister Julie becomes Frankie's sweetheart. At sixteen, Frankie learns that he is himself Jewish and therefore has to be moved to a Jewish home. That prospect proves so awful that he runs away - and goes bad. Years later, he returns to the district and gets involved with a crime syndicate that his old pal Martin, now assistant district attorney, has pledged to clean up. Frankie however, bumps in to Julie again and, finding he still loves her, decides to help the straight-shooting Martin smash the syndicate.

Friday, Feb. 28 - The Vise: The Hostage & Man With a Camera: Closeup on Violence

The Vise (1954–1961) TV Series

This British production featured less known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.

The Vise: Season 4, Episode 38 The Hostage (25 Feb. 1958)

Mark Saber does not usually respond to threats, but when an unknown woman phones him and threatens to commit suicide unless he calls round within half an hour, he feels it is his duty to act. She takes Stevie hostage and gives Saber three hours to find her friend or she will kill Stevie.

Man with a Camera (1958–1960) TV Series

Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton.

Man with a Camera: Season 1, Episode 4 Closeup on Violence (31 Oct. 1958)

Kovac takes a crowd shot at a fire scene, inadvertently recording the daughter of an aged mobster, hiding out in a tough neighborhood. The old man is being protected by a gang of young hoods, or so he thinks.