Tuesday, January 11 - Horrors of Spider Island

Horrors of Spider Island Original title: Ein Toter hing im Netz (1960)

En route to a show in Singapore, a troupe of beautiful dancers are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive(?) spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster with three fangs and a passion for strangling.

Monday, January 10 - Night Unto Night

Night Unto Night (1949)

John (Ronald Reagan) is a young scientist on vacation at the Florida coast. While there, he meets Ann (Viveca Lindfors), a widow who is still struggling to recover from the loss of her husband during World War II. John is able to help Ann overcome her personal demons and learn to love again. But John has his own problem that he's hiding from Ann: he's epileptic. And the condition is getting worse. Even as the two fall in love, he considers suicide to escape from his personal pain.

Sunday, January 9 - Evil Eye

The Evil Eye Original title: La ragazza che sapeva troppo (1963)

A young woman named Nora travels to Rome and witnesses a murder (first she gets involved with a drug-dealer, then the old woman she was to live with dies on her, after which she roams outside in a frenzied state to be held up by a small-time crook and witness the knife-murder across Rome's famous Piazza di Spagna). The police and Dr. Bassi don't believe her since a corpse can't be found. Several more murders follow, tied to a decade-long string of killings of victims chosen in alphabetical order.

Saturday, January 8 - Vice Raid

Vice Raid (1959)

Police Sgt. Whitey Brandon works for the Vice Squad and is determined to beat corruption in the city. He encounters Carol Hudson who is working as a model. She is sent to frame him and succeeds. Carol's sister comes to visit and is raped and bashed by a thug who knows Carol. Carol, desperate for revenge, enlists the help of Brandon to fight the thugs who attacked her sister.

Friday, January 7 - The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps (1959)

Richard Hannay witnesses a hit-and-run involving a woman pushing a pram. Looking in the pram he sees a gun instead of a baby. He tracks the woman down and she reveals that she is a secret agent trying to stop foreign spies leaving the country with important military secrets. Later that night she is murdered in Hannay's flat. Hannay takes it on himself to thwart the enemy agents. This involves travelling to Scotland and keeping one step ahead of the police who are looking for him in connection with the murder of the woman.

Thursday, January 6 - Time Limit

Time Limit (1957)

It's about an army inquest into a soldier who admits that he helped the enemy when he was a POW during the Korean war.

Maj. Harry Cargill admits he gave broadcasts for the North Koreans, signed a paper saying the Americans were doing germ warfare, and was attempting to indoctrinate the other POWs in formal "classes" that the North Koreans had to try to brainwash them. All of the POWs in the same camp he was in verify that Cargill did these things.

But Cargill refuses to tell Widmark's Colonel William Edwards WHY. And he doesn't seem to care he could be, heck, probably will be executed for treason without some defense. With Cargill's past stellar military record, including in WWII, Edwards will not finish this investigation until he gets a "why". But Cargill has talked to nobody about why he did what he did - not even his wife. And Colonel Edwards is being pressured by his superior, a General whose son died in the same POW camp that Cargill was in, and even by Martin Balsam as a particularly irritating sergeant, to recommend prosecution and wash his hands of the matter.

Wednesday, January 5 - Bernard and the Genie

Bernard and the Genie (1991)

Christmas nears, and art dealer Bernard (Alan Cumming) is having the worst day of his life: his lover leaves him, and his conniving boss, Charles (Rowan Atkinson), fires him for having high principles. Bernard's luck takes an upswing, though, when he finds an old lamp and out pops Josephus (Lenny Henry), a hip genie. After the initial culture shock, Bernard and Josephus quickly bond. But when Bernard wishes for the "Mona Lisa," these unlikely pals find themselves pursued by the police.

Tuesday, January 4 - Miranda

Miranda (1948)

While enjoying a solo fishing expedition, Dr. Paul Martin (Griffith Jones) is captured by a lonely and beautiful mermaid named Miranda (Glynis Johns). She agrees to release him if he will show her the city of London for one month. Dr. Martin convinces his wife, Clare (Googie Withers), that the woman he has brought home in a wheelchair (he's actually carrying her in his arms) is an invalid patient, but it isn't long before Miranda's strange habits and powers draw the amorous attentions of Dr. Martin's male friends.

Monday, January 3 - My Wife's Best Friend

My Wife's Best Friend (1952)

Thinking that the airplane they are flying in is about to crash and death is imminent, a husband confesses to his wife of eight happy years, that he had an "almost" affair with her best friend several years ago. The wife forgives him until they land safely at the airport, at which point she becomes furious and begins making life miserable for him. She dons the role of several martyrs, including Cleopatra, in her payback scheme.

Sunday, January 2 - The Thin Man Goes Home

The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

Famous retired detective Nick Charles (William Powell) takes his wife, Nora (Myrna Loy), and their dog, Asta, to visit Nick's parents in their small, quiet town. Determined that Nick's father respect Nick's profession, Nora urges him to find a crime to investigate, unaware that Nick's presence has already frightened spy Edgar Draque (Leon Ames) into action. After Nora buys a painting for Nick's birthday and the artist is murdered, Nick discovers that the murder is connected to espionage.

Saturday, January 1 - Strange Affair

Strange Affair (1944)

Dr. Brenner is organizing a banquet for war refugees, when he receives a phone call from his friend Baumler, who fears someone is trying to kill him. Preoccupied with work, Dr. Brenner passes on the responsibility of meeting Baumler to his friends: Bill, the creator of a comic strip sleuth, and his wife, Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison. At the banquet that night, Baumler seemingly dies of a sudden heart-attack. Bill suspects he has been poisoned. However, Jack suspects her husband is more interested in a woman involved in the case. So while Bill follows clues, Jack follows Bill.

Friday, December 31 - Love Slaves of the Amazons & Bewitched

Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)

An archaeologist (Don Taylor) and his partner (Eduardo Ciannelli) meet up with women warriors who keep only one captured male alive as their "walking sperm bank"

Bewitched (1945)

During her engagement party, Joan Ellis (Phyllis Thaxter) hears the voice of another personality called Karen within her. Karen forces Joan to leave her fiancé, Bob Arnold (Henry H. Daniels Jr.), and move to New York. There she meets lawyer Eric Russell (Stephen McNally), whom she falls for, but again Karen compels her to flee. When she returns to Bob, Karen takes control and murders him. Joan's fate then hinges upon Dr. Bergson (Edmund Gwenn) being able to uncover her illness.