Friday, March 30 - Thirteen Women

Thirteen Women (1932)

Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. It seems that she too went to their school, but was forced to leave by their bigotry, and is exacting revenge.

Thursday, March 29 - Foyle's War: A Lesson in Murder

Foyle's War: Season 1, Episode 3
A Lesson in Murder (10 Nov. 2002)

Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.

Wednesday, March 28 - Hunted

The Stranger in Between (1952)
Hunted (original title)

Violent fugitive and mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority: Bogarde is a hopeless, alienated character fleeing from the police after a crime of momentary passion. He is joined by a scared and emotionally scarred small boy also on the run from a harsh reality. Their journey together is gruelling yet at the same time strangely aimless, as they focus on escaping the past with little idea of their future.

Tuesday, March 27 - Counterplot

Counterplot (1959)

Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.

Monday, March 26 - The Couch

The Couch (1962)

A psychopath commits murders between appointments to see his psychiatrist, taunting police with phone calls before each murder.

Sunday, March 25 - A Dragonfly for Each Corpse

Una libélula para cada muerto (1974)

Naschy stars as Inspector Paolo Sarsaparilla a hard as nails cop who only shows his tender side when at home with his fashion designer girlfriend Silvana played by Erica Blanc. Paolo is called in to head up the investigation into a string of killings known as the "Dragonfly" murders targeting prostitutes, homosexuals, drug users, and other "deviant" groups. The killings got their catchy name from the only clue, a figurine of the insect left at each murder, but when Paolo discovers a second clue, a "high fashion" button, it draws Silvana into the investigation. When one of her friends becomes a target, she takes a much more active interest. Namely, staying up late into the night, nude and examining pictures with a magnifying glass. On the streets, Paolo continues to find bodies (and finds time to his ass kicked by a Nazi gang.) all of which leads him to believe that the killer is someone he knows.

Saturday, March 24 - The Man Between

The Man Between (1953)

English girl on visit to Berlin becomes involved with political racketeer in elaborate plot to lure espionage agent from the Western to the Eastern sector.

Friday, March 23 - Conspirator

Conspirator (1949)

London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His aged aunt, his only family, urges him to marry her, and he does. The trouble is, he's an agent for the Soviets. His control is unhappy that he's married without the Party's consent. Melinda figures out he's a spy and a traitor, and she develops some backbone and maturity when he tries to convince her to go along with him. She demands that he cease spying at about the same time that his control orders him to kill her.

Thursday, March 22 - Bedevilled

Bedevilled (1955)

Nightclub singer fleeing the scene of a murder is protected by a young man who is studying for the priest hood.

Wednesday, March 21 - 13 West Street

13 West Street (1962)

Alan Ladd is a rocket scientist who gets mugged on the way home from a late night at the office, by a roving band of Beverly Hills punks led by Michael Callan. Ladd then pursues the villains whilst police officer Rod Steiger tries to keep him under control.

Tuesday, March 20 - Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday (1955)

Three hoodlums plot to rob a bank in a small town. But the town has secrets of its own: The bank president is a Peeping Tom. The librarian is a petty thief. The son of the strip-mine owner is an alcoholic; his wife is openly carrying on an affair with the local golf pro. The son of the strip-mine foreman is ashamed of him because he didn't fight in Word War II. The strip-mine nurse is the object of several men's sexual fantasies.

Monday, March 19 - Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.