Tuesday, May 10 - Daybreak

Daybreak (1948)

A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his boss's wife - after a fight, the hangman is presumed drowned. The woman commits suicide, but the hangman has in fact survived, and manages to save his assistant from the gallows.

Monday, May 9 - Whipsaw

Whipsaw (1935)

Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her. Rival crooks Doc and Steve, who had already stolen the stolen jewels once, attempt to take them once again.

Sunday, May 8 - Cropsey

Cropsey (2009)

Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the urban legend of "Cropsey." It was a cautionary tale invented to keep them out of the abandoned buildings that remained of the Willowbrook Mental Institution. Cropsey was supposedly an escaped patient who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streetssometimes with a hook for a hand, other times with a bloody ax. But in 1987, Jennifer Schweiger, a 13-year-old with Down syndrome, disappeared from their community. For Zeman, Brancaccio, and the other kids of Staten Island, their urban legend became real.

Even as adults, this real-life boogeyman hasn't escaped the minds of the filmmakers. The eeriness of the mystery pulsates through the film as they journey into the underbelly of their borough to investigate not just Schweiger's disappearance but four other missing children linked to a shadowy drifter named Andre Rand. As more information and clues unravel, Zeman and Brancaccio become more immersed in shocking surprises and revelations. The reality they uncover in this uniquely hair-raising documentary is more terrifying than any urban legend.

Saturday, May 7 - A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

Student Bud Corliss is wooing Dorother Kingship purely for her father's mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realises she is likely to be disinherited, so cleverly stages her suicide. After a couple of months her sister back home finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, but by then has a new boyfriend of her own...

Friday, May 6 - A Case for PC 49

A Case for PC 49 (1951)

Whilst on duty, a murder is committed right under Police Constable 49's nose. His girlfriend, Joan, knows who did it and aims to confront the suspect. She goes missing and P C 49, worried about her safety, retraces her steps, finding a man dead and Joan tied up. Together the two join forces to solve the crime with surprising consequences!

Thursday, May 5 - Root of All Evil

Root of All Evil (1947)

Phyllis Calvert is excellent as the independent and head-strong young lady Jeckie Farnish (I spent the entire film wondering whether it was 'Jackie' and people just pronounced it weird, or it really was 'Jeckie' and yes, she's Jeckie with an E) that this film centres on; who has one heck of a time. Her family is really poor and end up having to sell everything and move into a workhouse. Including the sweet little miniature collie, which is really sad. (Trust me) And the only light in her life is her fiance, but then when he goes on holiday and marries his cousin whilst away, she's at her wit's end. But our gal Jeckie (with an E)ain't gonna be licked, so she actually sues her ex-fiance and his family for emotional damages, and gets £1500 out of it, which she uses to start her own store - directly across the street from her ex-fiance's family's grocery store. Pretty shifty! Naturally, she ends up stealing all their business and has a thriving success with her store, but you begin to notice she's getting a little money hungry, and suddenly the title (Root Of All Evil) begins to make sense. So when this bloke Mortimer comes along and tells her there's oil under their town, she goes into a plan with him to start an industry. But the land it's on is owned by a crotchety old man, it's not Jeckie or Mortimer's land. She eventually manages to buy the land from him for £550, while he doesn't know why she wants it; it's all stony and unusable, and his wife is just happy to get rid of it and have some cash!

After the oil has been mined, she's all rich and living in the big house and making money like nobody's business, and the man that she *legitimately* bought the land from gets a bit p***ed off, accusing her of swindling him, and so he does the mature thing, and sets fire to the whole refinery. Poor Jeckie stands to lose everything, but perhaps she's starting to learn that everything isn't really 'everything'.

Wednesday, May 4 - Man in a Suitcase: All That Glitters

Man in a Suitcase: All That Glitters

Season 1, Episode 10: All That Glitters
Original Air Date—29 November 1967
McGill goes to the Cotswolds in pursuit of a little boy,Stephen,who has been kidnapped by the surly locals. The boy is the illegitimate son of aspiring politician Michael Hornsby,a fact of which his tolerant wife is aware. Though Hornsby does not have the required amount of ransom money demanded by Stephen's captors,McGill urges to play along with them and goes to meet the abductors and to face a gun battle.

Tuesday, May 3 - The Devil Thumbs a Ride

The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)

Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.

Monday, May 2 - Pin Up Girl

Pin Up Girl (1944)

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.

Sunday, May 1 - Summertime Killer

Summertime Killer (1973)

A six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the now-grown boy begins to track down and eliminate the men who did it, determined to wipe out the entire gang. A police detective investigating the killings, and the Mafia boss who heads the gang, are just as determined to stop him.

Saturday, Apr. 30 - Feature and a Half - House of Psychotic Women

House of Psychotic Women (1976)
(Los ojos azules de la muñeca rota)

An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.

*Haven't made it all the way through this one yet*

Saturday, Apr. 30 - The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man (1969)

A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience when you stare at it.