Programming | Saturday Night Movies

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The Woman in Green

Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce & Hillary Brooke

Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamorous woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is believed to be involved.

April 3, 8pm

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Royal Wedding

Fred Astaire, Jane Powell & Peter Lawford

Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal Wedding. They travel by cruise ship where Ellen meets and becomes involved with Lord John Brindale. This causes her to miss a rehearsal. Tom uses the time to dance with a hat rack and gym equipment. Later Tom and Ellen attempt a graceful dance number as the ship rolls. Upon arrival Tom holds auditions and meets Sara. There is much indecision by the siblings about their romantic partners even though they are in-the-clouds. Tom dances on the walls and ceiling of his hotel room. All ends well in this light musical. By the way, there is a vaudeville-style dance number in their show that features slapstick. It's a hoot.

April 10, 8pm

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Road to Bali

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby & Dorothy Lamour

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favors of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

April 17, 8pm

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The Last Time I Saw Paris

Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson & Walter Pidgeon

Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. He worked on "Stars and Stripes" when he met Marion and Helen. He would marry and be happy staying in Paris after his discharge and working for a news organization. He would try to write his great novel and that would come between Charlie, his wife and his daughter.

April 24, 8pm

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My Favorite Brunette

Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour & Peter Lorre

Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller clichés. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?

May 1, 8pm

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Dick Tracy Detective

Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, & Mike Mazurki

Dick is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds.

May 8, 8pm

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Sabotage

Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka & Desmond Tester

Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang. 

May 15, 8pm

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The Inspector General

Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak & Barbara Bates

Barbara Bates Story of an assistant elixir Salesman with a traveling fair mistaken by villages for the dreaded inspector general.

May 22, 8pm

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At War with the Army

Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis & Mike Kellin

Alvin Korwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II. 

May 29, 8pm

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Father's Little Dividend

Spencer Tracy, John Bennett & Elizabeth Taylor

Stanley Banks is finally recovering from his daughter's wedding when he learns she is going to have a baby. He is strongly opposed at first, and disputes arise between maternal and paternal grandparents.

June 5, 8pm

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His Girl Friday

Carry Grant, Rosalind Russell & Ralph Bellamy

Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns can't let that happen and frames the other man, Bruce Baldwin, for a lot of stuff getting him into trouble all the time, while he tries to steer Hildy back into her old job as his employee (editor of his newspaper).

June 12, 8pm

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Happy Go Lovely

Vera Ellen, David Niven & Cesar Romero

Niven plays a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe wants to produce a musical in town (Edinburgh?) but has trouble getting backers. Niven's character meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.

June 16, 8pm

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Kansas City Confidential

John Payne, Coleen Gray & Preston Foster

Every city wears a mask! This is the picture that goes behind that mask to bare the bullet-scarred face of a brutal underworld!

June 26, 8pm