This week:
* Monday—Poe-tic justice.
* Tuesday—An amorous computer.
* Wednesday—An ethical newspaper editor … so rare.
* Thursday—Two tough hombres.
* Friday—The MacGuffin in the wine cellar.
* Saturday—A ubiquitous Errol Flynn.
* Sunday—On the road with Hope and Crosby.
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Monday—August 2nd
2:00 AM—Captain Blood (1935)
After being unjustly sentenced to prison, a doctor escapes and becomes a notorious pirate.
4:15 AM—Tales of Terror (1962)
Three Edgar Allan Poe stories feature murder, hauntings, and a fiendish hypnotist.
Tuesday—August 3rd
4:00 AM—Demon Seed (1977)
A sophisticated computer falls in love with its creator’s wife and terrorizes her.
8:00 AM—Never So Few (1959)
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
10:15 AM—The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Two sailors discover a way to beat the roulette tables in a Venice casino.
11:45 AM—The Blob (1958)
A misunderstood teen fights to save his town from a gelatinous monster from outer space.
8:00 PM—The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits.
10:15 PM—Bullitt (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Wednesday—August 4th
8:00 AM—The Paradine Case (1947)
A married lawyer falls for the woman he’s defending on murder charges.
10:00 AM—The Great Sinner (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
12:00 PM—The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
4:00 PM—Deadline, U.S.A. (1952)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
Thursday—August 5th
2:30 AM—Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
6:00 PM—Two Rode Together (1961)
Two tough Westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Friday—August 6th
6:00 AM—Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A woman with a past returns to 19th-century New Orleans for revenge.
2:00 PM—Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist’s investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
4:00 PM—Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
9:30 PM—Casablanca (1942)
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
11:30 PM—Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Saturday—August 7th
3:30 AM—Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
12:00 PM—Objective, Burma! (1945)
An American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost.
2:30 PM—The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Rousing adaptation of the Mark Twain tale of a 16th-century prince who trades places with a lookalike peasant.
6:15 PM—The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
8:00 PM—The Sea Hawk (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
10:15 PM—Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Sunday—August 8th
2:15 AM—Edge of Darkness (1943)
Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in occupied Norway.
1:15 PM—Road to Singapore (1940)
A runaway tycoon and his sailor buddy try to con their way through the South Seas.
2:45 PM—Road to Zanzibar (1941)
A lady con artist scams two out-of-work entertainers into financing a safari.
4:30 PM—Road to Utopia (1946)
Two song-and-dance men on the run masquerade as killers during the Alaskan gold rush.
6:15 PM—Road to Bali (1952)
Two song-and-dance men on the run dive for treasure while competing for a beautiful princess.
8:00 PM—Road to Morocco (1942)
Two castaways get mixed up in an Arabian nightmare when they’re caught between a bandit chief and a beautiful princess.
9:30 PM—Nothing but the Truth (1941)
A businessman bets he can tell the truth for 24 hours.
11:15 PM—Where There’s Life (1947)
The American heir to a European throne tries to elude assassins.
—Mike Gray