Monday, March 11 - King of Jazz EXTRAS

King of Jazz EXTRAS

New introduction to the film by jazz and film critic Gary Giddins.

New interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein.

One new video essay by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of King of Jazz.

Sunday, March 10 - I Saw What You Did

I Saw What You Did (1965)

When two teenagers make prank phone calls to strangers, they become the target for terror when they whisper "I Saw What You Did, And I Know Who You Are!" to psychopath Steve Marek who has just murdered his wife. But somebody else knows of the terrible crime that was committed that night, the killer's desperately amorous neighbor Amy Nelson.

Saturday, March 9 - Highway Patrol: Reformed Criminal

Highway Patrol (1955–1959): Reformed Criminal (Season 1 | Episode 9 - aired December 1955)

Frank McCauley has an automobile accident while delivering a $31,000 deposit for the Grantwood Farmers' Co-Operative. As a former criminal with an old charge still outstanding, everyone assumes he has absconded with the money and the Highway Patrol launches an intensive search. McCauley starts out on foot to return the money, but radio broadcasts about his disappearance and his past make him a marked man. When Ed Hutchins tries to capture McCauley at gunpoint, a scuffle ensues and McCauley looks even guiltier when he escapes with Hutchins' shotgun. Reverend Martin (the local pastor) still has faith in McCauley's reformation and he is able to convince Dan Mathews to give him the opportunity to do the right thing.

Friday, March 8 - The Lost Stooges

The Lost Stooges (1990)

Leonard Maltin narrates this retrospective look at the MGM films of Ted Healy & His Stooges. Includes footage from NERTSERY RHYMES (1933), PLANE NUTS (1933), THE BIG IDEA (1934), ROAST-BEEF AND MOVIES (1934), TURN BACK THE CLOCK (1933), MEET THE BARON (1933), DANCING LADY (1933), BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD (1933), FUGITIVE LOVERS (1934) and HOLLYWOOD PARTY (1934).

Also features the complete short BEER AND PRETZELS (1933).

Thursday, March 7 - Phantom of Chinatown

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on. Win Lee, Benton's secretary, reveals the doctor's dying words refer to a scroll which tells the location of rich oil deposits. Wong and Street then begin the search for the killer among Benton's associates.

Wednesday, March 6 - Friday the Thirteenth

Friday the Thirteenth (1933)

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the blackmailer with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die.

Tuesday, March 5 - The Invisible Man's Revenge

The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

The story opens on the docks of London where Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) returns after five years of memory loss following a diamond field expedition in Africa. Moments later, a newspaper clipping reveals Griffin to be a homicidal maniac who had escaped from a Capetown Asylum.

After acquiring new clothing and a shave, he locates Sir Jasper and Lady Irene Herrick (Lester Matthews and Gale Sondergaard), friends and former partners of the expedition who had left him for dead, to their luxurious mansion and founders of Herrick Mines Ltd., demanding the share of the fortune due him. While talking things over a few drinks, Griffin not only discovers their daughter, Julie (Evelyn Ankers), his former girlfriend, to be engaged to Mark Foster (Alan Curtis), a reporter for the Courier, but finds he's been drugged.

Unable to function, Griffin is escorted out by their butler, Cleghorn (Halliwell Hobbes). Half crazed, Griffin is offered assistance by Herbert Higgins (Leon Errol), a drunkard. Afterwards, Griffin stumbles upon the home of Professor Drury (John Carradine), a scientist who has discovered the formula of invisibility. Witnessing his experiment where Drury's dog and other animals are heard but not seen, Griffin volunteers on becoming Drury's human subject. As an invisible man, Griffin gets his revenge, but in the process, does become what he is accused of being, a homicidal maniac.

Monday, March 4 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: That's Show Biz

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963): That's Show Biz (Season 1 | Episode 26 - aired 5 April 1960)

Mr & Mrs. Gillis are persuaded to help with the Central High Student-Parent Betterment League's Capers, an amateur revue featuring acts of questionable talent. This episode turns the spotlight on Frank Faylen's hoofing abilities and Jean Byron's legs.

Sunday, March 3 - A Swingin' Affair

A Swingin' Affair (1963)

Rick is pledging a snooty fraternity at a college. He feels out of place because he's a poor kid from the wrong side of town and picks up extra money by fighting in the ring. He doesn't want his potential fraternity brothers finding out about his background or how he makes his money. However, trouble arises when the rich and spoiled girlfriend of one of his fraternity "bros" comes on to him.

A college pledge attending a cool school dance where all the kids are twisting their butts off, secretly leaves the shindig to fight as "Kid Gallant" the prizefighter. Why does he fight? To raise money for his hoity-toity college fraternity initiation dues. He returns to the dance (he didn't take a shower) and hides the fact that he's a "crumb bum" boxer from his fraternity brothers and all the hot babes.

Johnny is a successful prizefighter, but he's trying to keep it secret from the rich kids at the college where he's trying to get into a fraternity. He thinks he would be blackballed if they ever found out, but just the opposite happens in the end!

Saturday, March 2 - Highway Patrol: Desert Town

Highway Patrol (1955–1959): Desert Town (Season 1 | Episode 7 - aired 14 November 1955)

Dan Mathews stops for breakfast in the small, isolated town of Larchmont. He finds that the residents are unwilling to do any business with him (or even talk to him) and that they are obviously anxious to see him leave. Even the county medical officer is behaving secretively and gives evasive answers to Dan's routine questions.

Dan decides to investigate further when an inquiry to headquarters reveals that local farmer Charlie Barrett was attempting to drive away in a stolen convertible. Relentless questioning of Barrett, diner owner Jenny Crane, and other local residents finally results in an admission that general store owner Frank Wilkins had killed a man in self defense the previous evening. Dan interrupts a hastily arranged funeral service for the dead man and learns that he had been wanted for robbery and murder. He also learns that there was a valid reason for the townspeople's attempts to conceal Wilkins' actions.

Friday, March 1 - Love That Brute

Love That Brute (1950)

Big Ed Hanley (Paul Douglas) has a reputation as one the most ruthless gangsters in 1920s Chicago, but he also likes to sit in the park feeding ducks. One day he meets Ruth Manning (Jean Peters), an aspiring singer who is working as a governess. Drawn to her, Ed hires her to care for his sons -- even though he has no children -- and pays a local delinquent to play the role. Ed wants to convince Ruth that he's a decent guy, while making his rival Pretty Willie (Cesar Romero) think the opposite.

(Remake of Tall, Dark and Handsome)

Thursday, Feb. 28 - Hell's Five Hours

Hell's Five Hours (1958)

Hell's Five Hours begin ticking away when Nash (Vic Morrow), a disgruntled employee of a rocket-fuel manufacturing plant, goes berserk. Wielding a home-made bomb, Nash threatens to blow himself, his hostages and the plant to smithereens. Nash's supervisor Mike (Stephen McNally) takes it upon himself to talk Nash into surrendering, playing for time while all the fuel is pumped out of the plant's supply tanks and the rockets are removed from the premeses. Mike has only five hours (hence the film's title) to convince Nash to come to his senses.