This week:
* Monday—Sometimes ex-cons do pretty well for themselves.
* Tuesday and Wednesday—Enjoy eight adventures with The Saint.
* Thursday—Let’s face it: She is deadlier than the male.
* Friday—Suicide or murder?
* Saturday—A film in which the smartest cast member is a horse … not surprising, really.
* Sunday—The king of England follows up on a hunch.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Monday—June 7th
12:00 AM—The Sea Hawk (1924)
In this silent film, an English noble sold into slavery escapes and turns himself into a pirate king.
2:15 AM—A Nous la Liberte (1931)
An escaped convict creates a business empire that becomes a new prison for him.
4:15 AM—The Defiant Ones (1958)
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other.
11:30 AM—Some Came Running (1958)
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
———-
Tuesday—June 8th
10:45 AM—Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
An Irish rebel leader becomes addicted to violence.
8:00 PM—The Saint in New York (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
9:15 PM—The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
10:30 PM—The Saint in London (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
11:45 PM—The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templer lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
———-
Wednesday—June 9th
1:00 AM—The Saint Takes Over (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
2:15 AM—The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
3:30 AM—The Saint’s Vacation (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templer vies with Nazi agents for possession of a mysterious music box.
4:45 AM—The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
The Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
Then eight films featuring—you guessed it—brides.
10:00 PM—Gilda (1946)
A gambler, obviously afflicted with poor eyesight, runs into an old flame who sets every man she meets on fire.
———-
Thursday—June 10th
12:00 AM—The Damned Don’t Cry! (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
2:00 AM—No Way Out (1950)
A racist gangster forces a black doctor to tend to his injuries.
Eight films with Judy Garland followed by …
8:00 PM—Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
———-
Friday—June 11th
12:00 AM—Term of Trial (1962)
A schoolgirl obsessed with her teacher accuses him of molesting her.
2:15 AM—The Deadly Affair (1966)
A secret agent investigates the tangled affairs surrounding a government official’s suicide.
Then get waterlogged by spending the rest of the day and evening with Jacques Cousteau.
———-
Saturday—June 12th
6:00 AM—The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
7:30 AM—Home in Oklahoma (1946)
A small-town editor and a big-city reporter investigate a wealthy rancher’s mysterious death.
9:00 AM—Monkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
10:30 AM—Hold That Baby! (1949)
The Bowery Boys discover a lost baby they think is heir to a fortune.
4:00 PM—The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The skipper of a sunken ship stands trial for negligence.
———-
Sunday—June 13th
12:30 AM—Bullitt (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
“Albert Edward Rennick, used car salesman, Chicago.”
“Who’s Rennick?”
“He was the man who was shot at the Hotel Daniels. You sent us to guard the wrong man, Mr. Chalmers.”
2:30 AM—Foul Play (1978)
An innocent woman stumbles onto a plot to murder the pope.
10:00 AM—Richard III (1955)
A hunchbacked madman plots to make himself king of England.
12:45 PM—The Paradine Case (1947)
A married lawyer falls in love with a refrigerator, with chilling results.
6:15 PM—The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
9:30 PM—All the King’s Men (1949)
A backwoods politician rises to the top only to become corrupted.
—Mike Gray