This week:
* Tuesday and Wednesday—Spend 415 minutes with Alfred Hitchcock;
* Wednesday—Dana Andrews goes fishing and catches Nazis;
* Friday—Greta Garbo doesn’t want to be left alone for a change;
* Saturday—Dick Tracy really should update his flight insurance and Peter Cushing gets hounded.
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Monday—September 14th
Behold this day thud and blunder with musclemen and artistry with George Pal.
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Tuesday—September 15th
8:00 PM—The Trouble with Harry (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM—The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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Wednesday—September 16th
12:15 AM—Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 AM—Number Seventeen (1932)
A detective sets out to recover a necklace lifted by jewel thieves.
Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-61 mins, TV-PG
8:45 AM—Lady for a Day (1933)
A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter.
Cast: May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibbee.
Dir: Frank Capra. BW-96 mins, TV-G
1:45 PM—Les Miserables (1935)
An obsessed policeman relentlessly pursues an escaped convict.
Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 PM—Sealed Cargo (1951)
A fisherman tangles with Nazi smugglers off the Canadian coast.
Cast: Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains.
Dir: Alfred Werker. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC
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Thursday—September 17th
8:30 AM—Stolen Holiday (1937)
A Paris fashion model marries a fortune hunter to protect him from the law.
Cast: Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC
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Friday—September 18th
6:00 AM—Mata Hari (1931)
Romantic biography of World War I’s notorious lady spy.
Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore.
Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-89 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:00 PM—Hold Your Man (1933)
A hard-boiled babe and a con man wear down each other’s rough edges.
Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin.
Dir: Sam Wood. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:30 PM—Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
A young misfit lands on a prison chain gang and falls for the foreman’s daughter.
Cast: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. BW-88 mins
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Saturday—September 19th
9:00 AM—Brother Against Brother (1937)
In the fifth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must escape a crashing plane.
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette.
Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-19 mins, TV-G
9:30 AM—Dangerous Waters (1937)
In the sixth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must survive a fall of several stories.
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette.
Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-16 mins, TV-G
10:00 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
12:00 AM—The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine.
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell.
Dir: Terence Fisher. C-87 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday—September 20th
10:00 AM—The Trouble with Harry (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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—Mike Gray