This week:
* Joe E. Brown bumbles into trouble (see Tuesday);
* a mélange of crime thrillers with men on the run (Thursday, Friday, and Sunday);
* and Stanwyck and Fonda have fun in a slapstick murder mystery (Saturday).
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Monday—July 27th
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Tuesday—July 28th
11:00 AM—Son of a Sailor (1933)
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Thelma Todd.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon.
BW-73 mins, TV-G
4:00 PM—Alibi Ike (1935)
A brash baseball star gets mixed up with gamblers and a pretty young girl.
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly.
Dir: Ray Enright.
BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 PM—The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Cast: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason.
Dir: Richard Thorpe.
C-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
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Wednesday—July 29th
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Thursday—July 30th
6:00 AM—The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
A big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
Cast: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks.
Dir: Irving Pichel.
BW-63 mins, TV-PG
12:45 PM—Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
2:30 PM—Cry Danger (1951)
An innocent ex-con sets out to find the real criminals.
Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman.
Dir: Robert Parrish.
BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:00 PM—While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Cast: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price.
Dir: Fritz Lang.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC
"Multi-plotted melodrama set in a newspaper office. Andrews is the hottest hack in the outfit. Price is the ambitious new boy — inheritor of his late father’s media empire — who offers a shiny new position to the man who can track down the insane killer who’s terrorizing the city. Lang, the master of this kind of material, crafts a gripping, fast-moving neo-noir — one of the best films of his late period." — From Amazon.com
6:00 PM—Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Friday—July 31st
2:00 PM—Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead.
Dir: Delmer Daves.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
10:00 PM—Tokyo Joe (1949)
An American in post-war Japan gets caught up in the black market.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Sessue Hayakawa, Alexander Knox.
Dir: Stuart Heisler.
BW-89 mins, TV-PG
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Saturday—August 1st
12:00 PM—The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
Dir: Leigh Jason.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC
6:00 PM—The Wrong Man (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG
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Sunday—August 2nd
4:00 AM—The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price.
Dir: Anatole Litvak.
BW-97 mins, TV-G
10:00 PM—North by Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
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—Mike Gray