Wednesday, April 11 - The Gorgon

The Gorgon (1964)

In early-twentieth-century middle-Europe, villagers are literally becoming petrified. Although the authorities try to hush the matter up, it is apparent that at the full moon, Megaera, a Gorgon, leaves her castle lair and anyone looking on her face is turned to stone. When this fate befalls a visitor, experts from the University of Leipzig arrive to try and get to the bottom of it all.

Tuesday, April 10 - Never Take Candy From a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds his 9 year old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.

Monday, April 9 - Jericho of Scotland Yard: The Killing of Johnny Swan

Jericho (2005)

The Killing of Johnny Swan
S1, Ep2
Oct. 23, 2005

A year after Johnny Swan wins an important race against a Soviet runner, he and his three friends are caught up in a rematch and murder.

Sunday, April 8 - Honolulu

Honolulu (1939)

Movie star Brooks Mason (Robert Young) is tired of getting mobbed by screaming fangirls and trades places with a pineapple farmer from Hawaii who looks exactly like him in order to get some rest. While on board the ship to Hawaii Brooks meets musical performers/sisters Dorothy (Eleanor Powell) and Millie (Gracie Allen).

Saturday, April 7 - Death of a Scoundrel

Death of a Scoundrel (1956)

When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of betrayal, womanising and fraud confirms that almost everyone who knew him wanted him dead.

Friday, April 6 - The Living Ghost

The Living Ghost (1942)

Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving him in a zombified state. Trayne and his perky assistant Billie Hilton have their work cut out for them as they must sift through a houseload of possible suspects to get at the culprit.

Thursday, April 5 - Scream of Fear

Scream of Fear (1961)
Taste of Fear (original title)

Wheelchair-bound Penny (Susan Strasberg) returns to her wealthy father’s house for the first time in ten years, only to be told by his new wife Jane (Ann Todd) that he has gone away suddenly on a business trip. When she starts to see her father’s corpse appearing around the property, Penny believes she’s going crazy, and enlists the help of hunky chauffeur Ronald Lewis to help her solve the mystery.

Wednesday, April 4 - Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets (1961)

A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and his wife have a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that his only daughter intends to marry a West Indian.

Tuesday, April 3 - George Gently: Gently With the Innocents

Inspector George Gently

Gently with the Innocents
S2, Ep1
May 3, 2009

Gently and Bacchus investigate when elderly Alfred Peachment is found murdered in the grounds of the large house where he lived alone, formerly a children's home which he superintended but now closed for several years. The house was being sold, against his wishes, by a committee headed by his ex-wife and her brother, the local doctor, to the seemingly callous property developer Cora Davidson. Harry, Alfred's mute, simple-minded gardener, is the chief suspect.

Monday, April 2 - Monkey on My Back

Monkey on My Back (1957)

The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.

Sunday, April 1 - Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves (1956)

Millicent Wetherby is a middle-aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection. Millicent's solitary existence changes when she encounters Burt Hansen a charismatic younger man. As Burt successfully woos her and wins her hand in marriage, rumors begin to surface that Millicent's newfound beau is in fact a deranged maniac. Things grow even more complicated for Millicent when a woman claiming to be Hansen's first wife shows up. As Burt begins to lose control of himself, Millicent ponders the most radical of actions against her husband.

Saturday, March 31 - The Movie Orgy

The Movie Orgy (1968)

A rare screening (at the Grand Illusion Cinema) of Joe Dante's (The Howling, Gremlins) grandaddy of mash-ups, The Movie Orgy. Edited together from commercials, B-movie trailers, mental hygiene films and way more, it's an exhilarating and demented artifact of pop culture from the baby boom era.