This week:
* Monday—It’s a sci-fi blitz!
* Tuesday—Destroy a few German cannons? Piece of cake.
* Wednesday—Four films with murder and a flick that could have used one.
* Thursday—Uh-oh, jury duty.
* Friday—Spend the day with the Bowery Boys in ten films.
* Saturday—A whodunit—with submarines.
* Sunday—Shut yo’ mouth!
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Monday—July 19th
6:00 AM—The Manster (1962)
A mad scientist turns a reporter into a two-headed killer.
7:15 AM—The Killer Shrews (1959)
A maniacal scientist creates a formula that turns your average shrew into a giant, man-killing beast.
8:30 AM—The Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders.
10:15 AM—War of the Planets (1965)
Martians with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth.
12:00 PM—The Green Slime (1969)
A mysterious fungus invades a space station and turns the inhabitants into monsters.
1:45 PM—Soylent Green (1973)
A future cop uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.
3:30 PM—2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Tedious sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.
6:00 PM—2010 (1984)
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter.
8:00 PM—Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral’s widow.
10:00 PM—Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
A World War II Army psychiatrist tries to help his battle-shocked patients.
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Tuesday—July 20th
12:15 AM—The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns.
4:45 AM—On the Beach (1959)
After a nuclear war, U.S. sailors stationed in Australia deal with the end of civilization.
1:30 PM—Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
4:15 PM—Evelyn Prentice (1934)
A criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
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Wednesday—July 21st
4:00 AM—The Unfaithful (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
10:30 AM—The Firebird (1934)
A young girl’s secret romance is exposed when her lover is murdered.
11:45 AM—The Florentine Dagger (1935)
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.
6:00 PM—The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Card sharps try to deal with personal problems during a big game in New Orleans.
11:45 PM—Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
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Thursday—July 22nd
1:30 AM—Ladies of the Jury (1932)
A jury hold-out tries to prove the defendant’s innocence.
2:45 AM—We’re on the Jury (1937)
A jury member sets out to prove a murder defendant innocent.
4:00 AM—The Missing Juror (1944)
A detective tries to stop whomever is murdering the jurors on a notorious murder case.
3:45 PM—Oliver Twist (1948)
The famed orphan gets caught up in Fagin’s criminal band while searching for familial love.
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Friday—July 23rd
7:15 AM—Live Wires (1946)
In their first film, the Bowery Boys tackle gangsters.
8:30 AM—In Fast Company (1946)
The Bowery Boys get wrapped up in a taxi war.
9:45 AM—Bowery Bombshell (1946)
The Bowery Boys tackle gangsters to clear one of their own from a bogus robbery charge.
11:00 AM—Spook Busters (1946)
When they set themselves up as ghost hunters, the Bowery Boys tangle with a mad scientist.
12:15 PM—Mr. Hex (1946)
A hypnotist turns one of the Bowery Boys into a championship boxer.
1:30 PM—Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
The Bowery Boys try to expose a phony fortune-teller.
2:45 PM—News Hounds (1947)
When they get newspaper jobs, the Bowery Boys take on a sport-fixing mob.
4:00 PM—Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
The Bowery Boys head west and land themselves in hot water.
5:15 PM—Angels Alley (1948)
An ex-con cousin of one of the Bowery Boys gets them into trouble with the law.
6:30 PM—Jinx Money (1948)
The Bowery Boys find a dead gangster’s loot—and the mob out to get it back.
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Saturday—July 24th
2:15 AM—Big Bad Mama (1974)
Bad luck forces a woman and her daughters into crime.
3:45 AM—Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
8:30 AM—Caged (1950)
A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women’s prison.
10:30 AM—Blues Busters (1950)
The Bowery Boys open a night club when a tonsillectomy turns one of them into a singing star.
12:00 PM—Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
Who’s murdering American submarines?
2:00 PM—PT-109 (1963)
Future president John Kennedy fights to save his crew when their PT boat sinks in the Pacific.
4:30 PM—Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
6:15 PM—Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
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Sunday—July 25th
2:15 AM—Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
4:00 PM—The Fortune Cookie (1966)
A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
6:15 PM—Herbie Rides Again (1974)
A spunky widow uses her magical Volkswagen to fight off a corrupt land developer.
8:00 PM—Buck Privates (1941)
Two small-time con artists enlist in the Army to avoid the police.
11:00 PM—The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Two nitwits working for a crooked bookie accidentally lose the boss’s winnings.
—Mike Gray