Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Tuesday, February 11 - The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Monday, February 10 - Grand Slam

Grand Slam (Original title: Ad ogni costo) (1967)

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70.

Monday, February 10, 2025

Sunday, February 9 - Gumshoe

Gumshoe (1971)

Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) works at a bingo hall in Liverpool, England, but dreams of becoming a stylish private investigator like those he has read about and seen in films. After finally placing an advertisement in a local newspaper announcing his detective services, he receives a mysterious offer. Even though Ginley is inexperienced and clueless at certain aspects of investigating, he comes to realize that he is entangled in a serious case involving drugs, murder and even his own family.

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Saturday, February 8 - Diner

Diner (1982)

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Friday, February 7 - The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Thursday, February 6 - The Uninvited

The Uninvited (1944)

While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Wednesday, February 5 - The Innocents

The Innocents (1961)

In Victorian England, the uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) of orphaned niece Flora (Pamela Franklin) and nephew Miles (Martin Stephens) hires Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess Miss Jessel (Clytie Jessop) and valet Peter Quint (Peter Wyngarde) are possessing the children. Miss Giddens decides to help the children to face and exorcise the spirits.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tuesday, February 4 - The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers (1971)

Based on the characters from Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" but set before that story, the film centers on Peter (Marlon Brando), a gardener at a remote country estate in England, who begins a kinky sexual relationship with nurse Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham). What they do not realize is that two children, siblings who live at the manor, Flora (Verna Harvey) and Miles (Christopher Ellis), have seen and taken to imitating their adult behavior, which will lead to trouble for all.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Monday, February 3 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): When the Spirit Moves You


Small-time con artist Calvin P. Bream attracts the attention of mobster Miklos Corri when he claims to have a large number of bearer bonds - which are actually sheets of newspaper. To draw Corri off his trail, Bream claims to be only the middle man and, taking a name from the papers at random, cites Randall and Hopkirk as those in charge of the deal. Bream visits Jeff, pretending to be an American private investigator, but Marty spots the deception. The bizarre thing is that Bream can see Marty - but only when he is drunk. When Corri holds Jeff a prisoner and threatens to kill him in order to get at the bonds left in a night safe, Marty has to ply Bream with booze in order to get through to him to call the police.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Saturday, February 1 - Five Golden Hours

Five Golden Hours (1961)

An unscrupulous con man, Aldo Bondi (Ernie Kovacs), makes his money by comforting and taking advantage of rich widows. Aldo is thrown for a loop, though, when he falls for the lovely Baroness Sandra (Cyd Charisse). Soon the swindler is involved in an odd scheme that hinges on the wealth of his coterie of widows and the time difference between Rome and New York City. However, things quickly get out of hand, especially when Aldo's relationship with Sandra doesn't go as planned.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Friday, January 31 - The Champions: The Night People


A poacher is killed by white-robed figures he sees round a fire near Trennick House in Cornwall. Sharron investigates, posing as a student of architecture, but her cover is blown and she is captured by local landowner Trennick who sends an impostor to meet the boys when they come looking for her. Trennick's wife, curator of the local witchcraft museum, tells Craig that witchcraft is still alive in the area but Richard discovers that the supposedly supernatural meetings are a cover for illegal uranium mining with a view to sale to the Russians to aid them in the space race. First, however, he and Craig must rescue Sharron.