Monday, March 11 - The Man Outside

The Man Outside (1967)

McLean is called back to London where he gets fired after sticking up for his assistant, who's caught selling information to the Russians. Soon he's contacted by George Venaxas a Greek operative who want's to sell information on the whereabouts of a Russian secret police official hiding in London. McLean hesitates, but agrees. The plan backfires when both the CIA and KGB are willing to do anything to get their hands on the Russian defector. Venaxas is murdered, and a trail of double crosses follows.

Sunday, March 10 - Date Bait

Date Bait (1960)

A Troubled young man, Brad, returns home after six months rehab. On his first night he starts a fight in dance club with a man named Logan because he was dancing with Sue, a girl whom Brad is in love with. Brad's older brother ends the fight just to beat Logan up later himself. Although Sue's strict father is strongly against her relationship with Logan, they secretly get married in Las Vegas. Soon Brad's love turns to obsession and at the same time he falls back into using drugs. Sue's father takes matters into his own hands.

Saturday, March 9 - Laughing Sinners

Laughing Sinners (1931)

This one is about a chorus girl-type who gets jilted, hooks up with a Salvation Army man, then is enticed back to the old sinful ways for a night with the man who jilted her and finally realizes she is better off with the good guy and the good morals.

Friday, March 8 - Life in Danger

Life in Danger (1959)

Hazel Ashley, an emotionally unstable adolescent, meets a casual labourer and befriends him. At the same time, news comes that Miller, a convicted child murderer, has just escaped from a nearby lunatic asylum.

Hazel goes missing, and when local villagers led by Major Peters search for her, they find her in a barn with the labourer, whom they assume is the escaped killer. Peters shoots and wounds him. When the police arrive they report that Miller has previously surrendered himself.

Thursday, March 7 - The Amazing Mr. Williams

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary--or is he married to his job? For every time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar.

Wednesday, March 6 - The Vampire's Coffin

The Vampire's Coffin Original title: El ataúd del vampiro (1958)

In Sierra Negra, two grave robbers steel the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud from the crypt, despite the resistance of María Teresa. They head by car to a hospital, where the greedy Barraza sees a medallion when the coffin is opened and demands more money from his partner, Doctor Mendoza. Meanwhile, at the same hospital, Marta González is working as a nurse with Dr. Enrique Saldívar and still recovering from the events in Sicomorros. When Dr. Mendoza seeks out Dr. Enrique to tell that he has stolen the vampire coffin to study his cells, Barraza returns to the room and remove the wood stake to steal Count Lavud's medallion. The vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree in the city, hunting down Marta to marry her.

Tuesday, March 5 - The Human Jungle: Over and Out

The Human Jungle: Over and Out (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Jun 22, 1963)

Pilot Mike Barclay takes up a Mark 2 jet for testing, it crashes, but he survives, Doctor Corder is called in to learn whether it was a suicide attempt or Pilot or Plane error.

Monday, March 4 - Jazz Boat

Jazz Boat (1960)

Electrician Bert Harris boasts that he's a successful cat burglar, which leads to his getting mixed up with real thieves who need those special skills for a big jewellery heist. However, Bert was only giving them a "song and dance" about being a cat burglar, but now discovers it's too late to back out.

Sunday, March 3 - The Hi-Jackers

The Hi-Jackers (1963)

A young lorry driver called Terry McKinley (Anthony Booth) picks up a young runaway called Shirley (Jacqueline Ellis) en route to London with a consignment of whiskey worth £20,000. As they make their way down a quiet country b road, they are set upon by a gang of hijackers lead by Jack Carter (Derek Francis) who make off with the lorry and its valuable goods. Shirley who managed to escape is able to get a good look at Carter and is able to give a description to Inspector Grayson (Patrick Cargill). Terry invites Shirley to stay with him at his London flat and we learn that his business partner, Jim Brady (Ronald Hines), is working for Carter's gang. He tipped them off as to what valuable goods he was carrying and the route he was taking. Unfortunately, Brady learns that Shirley is able to identify his boss and later that night, Terry and Shirley receive a visit from a couple of Carter's thugs who deliver a sinister warning. By now, Terry strongly suspects his old friend Brady and drags him off to the police where he is forced to tell them of the gang's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Shirley visits her ex husband, Tim, who is doing time at Wormwood Scrubs. She threatens to tell the police about other crimes he was connected with, which could put him behind bars for longer unless she tells him where the gang are hiding out. She goes to Carter's house in Hampstead but she is overpowered by the gang. But fortunately, Brady has cracked and informs Terry and Inspector Grayson that the gang are pulling off another job, a lorry carrying £30,000 worth of cosmetics. As it happens the lorry is being driven by one of Terry's mates, a guy known as Scouse (Harold Goodwin). Terry and the police trace the gang to an abandoned farm but not until after they have hijacked the truck but in time to save the goods and rescue Shirley...

Saturday, March 2 - Faces in the Dark

Faces in the Dark (1960)

Richard Hammond, an aggressive and ambitious business mogul and inventor with little or no time for his wife, friends or family, is blinded in an explosion on the same day that his long-suffering wife had planned to leave him. He becomes bitter at life.

His wife is a devious woman and is plotting, with her lover, in an attempt to make her husband think he's going insane, in the hope that he will take his own life and leave them free to pursue their illicit affair in peace.

As he is blind when he encounters the lovers in bed the man just has to stay silent to evade detection.

Hammond gets wise to their plan.

Friday, March 1 - The 20 Questions Murder Mystery

The 20 Questions Murder Mystery (1950)

Based around a guessing game radio show that that was very popular the UK, this film stars the cast of the BBC show. An anonymous listener is mailing questions into the show to be solved on the air, and these clues are lining up with actual murders being committed, so it's up to our radio heroes to decipher the clues for each new letter before it's too late and the murder committed.

Thursday, February 29 - Beyond This Place

Web of Evidence Original title: Beyond This Place (1959)

Twenty years after being evacuated to America, Paul Mathry returns to Liverpool for a short visit. He is shocked to find that his father, whom he believed had died a war hero, is in fact in jail for a murder committed at the time Paul left. Starting to piece those events together, he comes to suspect his father may be innocent.