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.