This week:
* Bogie tries to beat the devil (see Monday);
* Red Skelton fights crime in six films (Wednesday and Thursday);
* Gene Hackman does a lot of eavesdropping (Friday);
* and Peter Ustinov does a little "heavesdropping" of his own (Sunday).
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Monday—August 17th
8:00 AM—We Were Strangers (1949)
A Cuban American returns to his homeland during the Revolution and becomes involved in an assassination attempt.
Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz.
Dir: John Huston.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:45 PM—Beat the Devil (1954)
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones.
Dir: John Huston.
BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Tuesday—August 18th
John Wayne movies, mostly Westerns, all day and night.
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Wednesday—August 19th
3:45 PM—Watch the Birdie (1950)
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Cast: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller.
Dir: Jack Donohue.
BW-71 mins, TV-G, CC
5:00 PM—The Yellow Cab Man (1950)
An inventor’s unbreakable glass attracts the attention of businessmen and gangsters.
Cast: Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Slezak.
Dir: Jack Donohue.
BW-84 mins, TV-G
8:00 PM—Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Conrad Veidt.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC
9:30 PM—Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon.
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
11:00 PM—The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
A bumbling salesman gets mixed up in murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon.
BW-92 mins, TV-PG
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Thursday—August 20th
2:30 AM—Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, "Rags" Ragland.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon.
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC
9:45 PM—Trouble in Paradise (1932)
A love triangle ignites trouble between two jewel theives and their intended victim.
Cast: Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch.
BW-82 mins, TV-G
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Friday—August 21st
6:00 AM—Mad Dog Coll (1961)
A young hood kills his way to the top of the mob.
Cast: John Davis Chandler, Brooke Hayward, Jerry Orbach.
Dir: Burt Balaban.
BW-87 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
7:30 AM—The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng.
C-89 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM—Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard.
Dir: Arthur Penn.
C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM—The Conversation (1974)
A surveillance expert uncovers a murder plot within a corrupt corporation.
Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Robert Duvall.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola.
C-114 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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Saturday—August 22nd
9:15 AM—Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
A charter pilot in Mexico is forced to help a criminal gang when his son is kidnapped.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Carlos Muzquiz.
Dir: George Sherman.
BW-76 mins, TV-PG
11:00 AM—Five Steps to Danger (1957)
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer.
Dir: Henry S. Kessler.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM—The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe.
Dir: John Huston.
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
10:00 PM—Manhandled (1949)
A phony psychiatrist’s secretary gets caught up in a murder case.
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Dan Duryea.
Dir: Lewis R. Foster.
BW-96 mins, TV-PG
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Sunday—August 23rd
1:00 PM—The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury.
Dir: John Frankenheimer.
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM—Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury.
Dir: George Cukor.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
10:00 PM—Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Cast: Maurice Evans, Ethel Barrymore, Angela Lansbury.
Dir: John Sturges.
BW-78 mins, TV-PG,
CC
11:30 PM—Death on the Nile (1978)
Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an heiress during an Egyptian tour.
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis.
Dir: John Guillermin.
C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
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—Mike Gray