Saturday, February 11 - Libido

Libido (1965)

In a cliffside mansion, a young boy named Christian witnesses his sex maniac father murder his mistress in a room lined with mirrors. The father then kills himself by jumping off the cliff. Years later, the now adult Christian returns to inherit the family home with his fiancee Helene, his attorney Paul and Paul's wife Brigitte. Christian fears that his father may still be alive, and that he may inherit his father's insanity along with his house. The room of mirrors continues to haunt Christian in adulthood, reflecting and amplifying his own sexual obsessions. Strange events occur that lead Christian to believe his father may still be actually living in the house.

Friday, February 10 - The Heatwave Lasted Four Days

The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)

A TV newsman (Gordon Pinsent) gets involved with a narcotics dealer sought by killers and police.

Thursday, February 9 - Wiretapper

Wiretapper (1955)

Jim Vaus returns from the war (he spent much of the war in prison) and marries Alice. He struggles to make a living. He was hired by Charles Rumsden to fix a doorbell, and realizes that his client is a mob boss. Alice discovers the source of Jim's income and their relationship was expired and strained to the breaking point. She forces Jim to attend a Billy Graham's Los Angeles Crusade, in her attempt to save their marriage and Jim's soul.

Wednesday, February 8 - Breakaway

Breakaway (1956)

The BREAKAWAY plot is a bit of a mishmash about a chase to find a secret formula which prevents metal fatigue. There's a dying inventor, a kidnapping, a rescue, and in the middle of it all is the suave, calm Duke Martin (Conway), who seems unruffled even when bad guys are holding a gun on him.

Tuesday, February 7 - The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia (1953)

In Los Angeles, on the day of her birthday, the telephone operator Norah Larkin decides to celebrate dining alone at home, with the picture of her beloved fiancé, a soldier overseas, and reading his last letter to her. In the letter, he tells her that he met an Army nurse stationed in Japan and plans to marry her.

Norah, completely upset, accepts a blind date with the Don Juan and photographer of calendar girls, Harry Prebble. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, and Norah drinks six strong cocktails, Polynesian Pearl Divers, and gets very, very drunk. Harry takes her to his apartment and tries to force Norah to have sex, and she grabs a fireplace poker to fend off Harry.

On the next morning, she wakes up in her apartment with her two roommates, but she cannot remember what happened. When she reads the newspaper, she finds that Harry is dead and the police have her handkerchief, her high heels, and her blue gardenia, and they are trying to locate the woman who killed the famous wolf Harry.

When she reads in the newspaper that the journalist Casey Mayo is offering his support, as well as his newspaper's, in exchange for an exclusive interview, Norah decides to call him.

Monday, February 6 - One Man

One Man (1977)

Jason Brady is a hot crusading Montreal TV reporter who learns of the biggest story of his career. A female social worker shows him the carnage happening to children due to the criminally negligent behaviour of a corporation concerning their handling of a deadly chemical called B.A.P. As he investigates, he finds that not only does he have to face the corporation's underhanded efforts to silence him, but also the turmoil with his own family as he gets so emotionally involved in the story and the social worker that he is alienating his wife. Eventually, events lead to a point that forces him to make sacrifices he could not anticipate.

Sunday, February 5 - The Big Broadcast of 1936

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.

Saturday, February 4 - The Killing

The Killing (1956)

Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) recruits a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey), a crooked police officer (Ted de Corsia), a bartender (Joe Sawyer) and a betting teller named George (Elisha Cook Jr.), among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay (Coleen Gray). But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry (Marie Windsor), about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Friday, February 3 - The Dark Mirror

The Dark Mirror (1946)

After a doctor is murdered, Lt. Stevenson (Thomas Mitchell) questions the man's girlfriend, Terry Collins (Olivia de Havilland). Sensing that she's keeping a secret, Stevenson confronts Terry in her home, where he meets her identical twin sister, Ruth (also de Havilland). Both women appear exactly alike, sometimes even posing as each other. However, when twin expert Dr. Elliott (Lew Ayres) analyzes the sisters, he finds that one twin is normal, while the other is psychotic...

Thursday, February 2 - Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane) before the movie starts, and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat. With his eccentric aunts (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), disturbed uncle (John Alexander), and homicidal brother (Raymond Massey), he starts to realize that his family is even crazier than he thought.

Wednesday, February 1 - Dick Tracy - Episodes 3 & 4

Episode 3: The Fur Pirates

In the third chapter, surviving the plane crash and watching the Flying Wing escape, Tracy stumbles upon a second Spider plot involving fur smuggling on the arriving S.S. Morovania. An adventure in the harbor leads to a motorboat chase after Gordon (who Tracy does not yet recognize) in which Tracy's boat is crushed between two large ships.

Episode 4: Death Rides the Sky

Having survived near death in the harbour, Dick Tracy and Steve Lockwood fly a biplane to the Pacific Queen, a dirigible flying to America with the famous Mogra necklace on board. One of the Spider's agents has stolen the necklace and bails out with a parachute to escape capture. Tracy uses a ruse that the necklace was a fake to get the Spider to make another theft attempt, but Junior ends up in the robot plane that is the bait!

Tuesday, January 31 - Dick Tracy - Episodes 1 & 2

Dick Tracy (1937)

Episode 1: The Spider Strikes

In the opening chapter we are introduced to the Lame One (the Spider) and Dick Tracy's team as he investigates one of the mastermind's murders. Dick's brother Gordon is captured and brainwashed by The Dr. Moloch and Gordon then attacks the new San Francisco Bay Bridge with a sonic weapon mounted on a flying wing aircraft. Tracy races to save the bridge and may be crushed by an eminent collapse.

Episode 2: The Bridge of Terror

In this second chapter, Tracy tracks the Flying Wing to a Steam Power Plant which he investigates with partner Steve. During a chase and shootout through the plant, Tracy destroys the sonic weapon before he and Steve escape on a Biplane. Gunfire from below cripples the plane, which crashes into a railroad bridge and tumbles to the ground on fire.