This week:
* Cary Grant gambles and gets lucky (see Monday);
* Jean Simmons mislays her brother (also Monday);
* Clark Gable mixes it up with pirates, jewel thieves, and spies (all day Wednesday);
* Bogie finds himself in a lonely place while Glenn Ford feels the heat (Thursday);
* senators become cut-ups, then Deborah Kerr becomes a Nazi spy (Saturday).
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Monday—August 10th
2:00 AM—Mr. Lucky (1943)
A gambling-ship owner is out to fleece a beautiful society woman, but falls in love.
Cast: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford.
Dir: H. C. Potter.
BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC
6:30 PM—So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson.
Dir: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM—The Blue Lamp (1950)
A London bobbie goes after the crooks who shot his partner.
Cast: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde.
Dir: Basil Dearden.
BW-85 mins.
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Tuesday—August 11th
8:00 AM—The Secret People (1952)
A refugee gets mixed up in a plot to assassinate the dictator who killed her father.
Cast: Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Audrey Hepburn.
Dir: Thorold Dickson.
BW-95 mins.
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Wednesday—August 12th
8:00 AM—Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II.
BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
9:45 AM—China Seas (1935)
A sea captain caught in a romantic triangle has to fight off modern-day pirates.
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery.
Dir: Tay Garnett.
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC
11:15 AM—They Met in Bombay (1941)
Rival jewel thieves on the run find love in the Far East.
Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre.
Dir: Clarence Brown.
BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC
1:00 PM—Betrayed (1954)
During World War II, a U.S. officer falls for a Resistance fighter suspected of being an enemy spy.
Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature.
Dir: Gottfried Reinhardt.
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:30 PM—Love on the Run (1936)
Rival newsmen get mixed up with a runaway heiress and a ring of spies.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Thursday—August 13th
12:00 PM—Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:30 PM—Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg.
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM—In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
Dir: Nicholas Ray.
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:45 PM—The Big Heat (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin.
Dir: Fritz Lang.
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC
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Friday—August 14th
4:30 AM—Chandler (1971)
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
Cast: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier.
Dir: Paul Magwood.
C-86 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
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Saturday—August 15th
2:00 AM—Edge of the City (1957)
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden.
Dir: Martin Ritt.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM—Julius Caesar (1953)
High government officials plot and carry out a political assassination.
Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
12:30 PM—I See a Dark Stranger (1945)
An Irish woman who hates the English turns Nazi spy.
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley.
Dir: Frank Launder.
BW-112 mins, TV-G
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Sunday—August 16th
Elvis all day — and night — long.
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—Mike Gray