Sunday, November 29 - Madigan

Madigan (1968)

Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.

Saturday, November 28 - The Psychopath

The Psychopath (1966)

Inspector Holloway (Patrick Wymark) investigates a series of gruesome murders with one common trait linking them: a tiny doll left next to the victim's corpse. Holloway's investigation ultimately ties the killings to the lost wealth of a German businessman, missing since the end of World War II. Meanwhile, more disturbing clues are uncovered at the home of Mrs. Von Strum (Margaret Johnston), the dolls' owner, and her eccentric son, Mark (John Standing).

Friday, November 27 - The Midnight Man

The Midnight Man (1974)

A paroled ex-police detective (Burt Lancaster) works as campus night watchman and solves a coed's murder.

Thursday, November 26 - Ten Little Indians & French Connection II

Ten Little Indians (1965)

When a group of 10 strangers is invited to a party at a mansion in the Alps, each arrives expecting entertainment. However, a recorded message from their absent host informs them that each guest has been responsible for someone's death, and consequently each will be killed. Quickly, members of the party begin to turn up dead. American Hugh Lombard (Hugh O'Brian) and the beautiful Ann Clyde (Shirley Eaton) try to determine the identity of the murderer before they become the next victims.

French Connection II (1975)

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York. (This isn't a travel film, he's actually in Marseille when the movie starts.)

Wednesday, November 25 - Play It Cool (1962)

Play It Cool (1962)

Stars Billy Fury (Britain's answer to Elvis Presley) and features cameos from some other stars from the sixties, with Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro and Shane Fenton (better known as Alvin Stardust). On a plane is Billy and his band on their way to take part in a song contest, also on board is Ann Bryant, who's been abroad by her wealthy father, to stop her infatuation with popstar Larry Granger. The plane is forced to return to the airport and Billy and his band persuade Ann to join them and together they search London's nightclubs for Larry.

Tuesday, November 24 - Tony Rome

Tony Rome (1967)

Ex-cop turned private eye, Tony Rome lives and works in Miami. For $200, he returns a young woman to her father's house after she passes out in a seedy hotel, and he keeps the hotel's name out of it. Trouble is, she's missing a diamond pin. When the pin does turn up, it's fake. The girl's wealthy father hires Tony to find out what happened to the real stones. Bodies pile up.

Monday, November 23 - Baron Blood

Baron Blood (1972) Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (original title)

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.

Sunday, November 22 - The Burning Court

The Burning Court (1962) La chambre ardente (original title)

A collective of family members gather at an ailing relative’s secluded country estate to discuss matters of finance, only to have their host abruptly shuffle off this mortal coil under less-than-natural circumstances. However, what starts off as a standard “inheritance murder mystery” quickly becomes something significantly chewier; seems that the late Uncle Mathias (Frederic Duvalles) was the last remaining descendant of a policeman who brought a supposed witch to justice in the 1600s, said sorceress cursing his family line with her dying breath. Along with two squabbling brothers, Marc (Jean-Claude Brialy) and Stephane (Claude Rich), understandably eager to get their hands on the family fortune, further thickening the pot is mystery novelist Michel (Walter Giller), down for the weekend to interview Mathias about his dark lineage. And wouldn’t you know it, Michel’s wife Marie (Edith Scob) just happens to be the last remaining descendant of the witch in question… who was also named Marie. The end result is an “old cursed house” supernatural horror whodunit where the suspects are plentiful, one of whom could be an actual ghost!

Saturday, November 22 - Telefon

Telefon (1977)

The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but, unfortunately, he manages to get through the border and later in the U.S. some seemingly ordinary people after receiving a phone call go out and destroy key American military installations while back in the U.S.S.R. General Strelsky and Colonel Malchenko send for Grigori Borzov, a KGB agent who has been to the U.S. on missions before and inform him that after the U-2 incident in fear of the possibility that a war with the U.S. will occur; they were part of an operation called TELEFON that involved recruiting young agents and then brainwashing them into believing that they are Americans who would assume the identity of an American who died a long time ago and who would be their age now and would be situated in a city that is near or where a key U.S. military installation is located and were also programmed to destroy upon receiving the command phrase but have been fortunate that they have never had to send them on their missions and they believe that Dalchimsky stole the book that lists all the TELEFON agents and is now sending them out on their suicide missions and it also seems that the current KGB Chairman is unaware of TELEFON so Strelsky and Malchenko want Borzov to go to America and find Dalchimsky before he starts World War 3 so Borzov, who is endowed with a photographic memory, memorizes the second TELEFON book and goes to America and is aided by Barbara... (whew!)

Friday, November 20 - Ritual of Evil

Ritual of Evil (1970)

When Dr. Sorel's most recent patient, troubled heiress Aline Wiley disappears one dark and stormy night, he visits her California mansion. There Sorel confronts Aline's tipsy aunt: faded movie star Jolene Wiley and equally troubled kid sister Loey . Both of whom are haunted by strange nightmares involving the ritual murder of a young hippie as part of a possibly Satanic ritual. The next morning Aline's dead body is found on the beach by musician Larry Richmond . Since Larry is black local cops quickly label him a suspect but Dr. Sorel is unconvinced. He is far more intrigued by a friend of the Wiley's, glamorous photographer Leila Barton who seems to exert an unholy influence on the whole family...

(Sequel to Fear No Evil (1969))

Thursday, November 19 - The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex (1956)

The story concerns Kay Hilliard (June Allyson), a former nightclub singer who discovers her husband Steven (Leslie Nielsen) is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Collins). Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay finds out that Crystal isn't true to Steve, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.

(Remake of 1939's "The Women")

Wednesday, November 18 - Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

In the Russian countryside, Rasputin heals the sick wife of an innkeeper (Derek Francis). When he is later hauled before an Orthodox bishop for his sexual immorality and violence, the innkeeper springs to the monk's defence. Rasputin protests that he is sexually immoral because he likes to give God "sins worth forgiving" (loosely based on Rasputin's rumored connection to Khlysty, an obscure Christian sect which believed that those deliberately committing fornication, then repenting bitterly, would be closer to God). He also claims to have healing powers in his hands, and is unperturbed by the bishop's accusation that his power comes from Satan.

Rasputin heads for Saint Petersburg, where he forces his way into the home of Dr Zargo (Pasco), from where he begins his campaign to gain influence over the Tsarina (Asherson). He manipulates one of the Tsarina's ladies-in-waiting, Sonia (Shelley), whom he uses to satisfy his voracious sexual appetite and gain access to the Tsarina. He places her in a trance and commands her to cause an apparent accident that will injure the czar's young heir Alexei, so that Rasputin can be called to court to heal him. After this success, he hypnotizes the Tsarina to replace her existing doctor with Zargo (who has previously been struck off after a scandal).

However, Rasputin's ruthless pursuit of wealth and prestige, and increasing control over the royal household, attracts opposition. Sonia's brother, Peter (Landen), enraged by Rasputin's seduction of his sister, enlists the help of Ivan to bring about the monk's downfall. Peter, in challenging the monk, is horribly scarred by acid thrown in his face, and suffers a lingering death.

Tricking Rasputin into thinking his sister Vanessa (Farmer) is interested in him, Ivan arranges a supposed meeting. However, Zargo has poisoned the wine and chocolates, which the Monk starts to consume. Soon Rasputin collapses, but the poison is not enough to kill him. In the ensuing struggle between the three men, Zargo is stabbed by Rasputin and quickly dies. Ivan manages to throw Rasputin out of the window to his death.