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Monday—May 4th

11:00 AM—Niagara (1952)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten
C-89 mins, TV-PG

Synopsis (SPOILERS). Poster art. More. Still more.

12:45 PM—Torn Curtain (1966)
A U.S. scientist defects to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Paul Newman, Julie Andrews
C-128 mins, TV-PG

Article. Poster art.

8:00 PM—Payment Deferred (1932)
A milquetoast kills for money and finds it a hard habit to break.
Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan
BW-81 mins, TV-G
Based on the 1926 C. S. Forester novel.

Article. More.

9:30 PM—The Big Clock (1948)
A career-driven editor is framed for murder.
Ray Milland, Charles Laughton
BW-95 mins, TV-PG
Based on the 1946 Kenneth Fearing novel.

Article. Poster art. More. Still more (SPOILERS).

11:15 PM—Crime and Punishment (1935)
A young student murders for money and then tries to escape his guilt and a brilliant detective.
Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold
BW-88 mins, TV-14
Based on the 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Synopsis (SPOILERS). More.

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Tuesday—May 5th

3:00 AM—The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
BW-86 mins, TV-PG
Based on The Big Bow Mystery (1891) by Israel Zangwill.

Article. Poster art. More. Still more (possible SPOILERS).

4:30 AM—Island of Doomed Men (1940)
A government agent infiltrates a prison island to build a case against its corrupt, sadistic warden.
Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson
BW-67 mins

Synopsis (SPOILERS).

3:45 PM—Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
A British lawyer defends a man accused of murder whose wife says he is guilty.
Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich
BW-116 mins, TV-PG
Based on a story and a play by Agatha Christie.

Article. Poster art. More (SPOILERS).

5:45 PM—The Trial (1963)
A man in a nameless country stands trial for an unnamed crime.
Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau
BW-120 mins, TV-14
Based on the 1925 novel by Franz Kafka.

Article. Poster art. More.

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Wednesday—May 6th

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Thursday—May 7th

9:30 AM—The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator is accused of murder but can’t remember any of the details.
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Raymond Burr
BW-88 mins, TV-PG

Article. Poster art. More.

9:45 PM—Border Incident (1949)
Police try to crack down on illegal alien smuggling.
Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard da Silva
BW-96 mins, TV-PG

Article. Poster art. More.

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Friday—May 8th

8:00 PM—Goldfinger (1964)
James Bond must thwart an attempt to knock over Fort Knox.
Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman
C-110 mins, TV-PG
Based on the 1959 novel by Ian Fleming.

Synopsis (SPOILERS). Poster art. More.

10:00 PM—Thunderball (1965)
James Bond hunts for stolen nuclear bombs in the Bahamas.
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi
C-130 mins, TV-PG
Based on the 1961 novel by Ian Fleming.

Article. Poster art. More.

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Saturday—May 9th

12:15 AM—Woman of Straw (1964)
A rich old man is the object of a murder plot.
Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery
C-117 mins, TV-PG
Based on the 1964 novel by Catherine Arley.

Article. Poster art. More (SPOILERS).

2:00 PM—Goldfinger (1964)

4:00 PM—Thunderball (1965)

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Sunday—May 10th

4:15 AM—Mystery Liner (1934)
An Army major tries to catch enemy agents on an ocean liner.
Noah Beery, Astrid Allyn
BW-63 mins

Synopsis. More (SPOILERS).

11:00 AM—Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon only to become the prime suspect in a murder.
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
BW-111 mins, TV-PG
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain.

Article. Poster art. More. Still more.

8:00 PM—Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her missing daughter who many say doesn’t exist.
Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley
BW-107 mins, TV-PG
Based on the 1957 novel by Evelyn Piper (Merriam Modell).
Article. Poster art.

—Mike Gray