This week:
* Charles Laughton is relentless (see Monday);
* the Lone Wolf hunts down spies (Thursday);
* Ida Lupino is in front of and behind the camera (Thursday and Friday);
* and Peter Sellers shows criminals how it shouldn’t be done in five films (Saturday and Sunday).
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Monday—August 24th
6:00 AM—We Live Again (1934)
A Russian nobleman discovers the peasant girl he once seduced has turned to crime.
Cast: Anna Sten, Fredric March, C. Aubrey Smith.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM—Les Miserables (1935)
An obsessed policeman relentlessly pursues an escaped convict.
Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:45 PM—Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian.
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Tuesday—August 25th
11:30 AM—‘Til We Meet Again (1940)
A dying woman shares a shipboard romance with a criminal on his way to the gallows.
Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Frank McHugh.
Dir: Edmund Goulding.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:30 PM—Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Paul Lukas.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur.
BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM—The Lodger (1944)
The inhabitants of a boarding house fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders.
Dir: John Brahm.
BW-84 mins, TV-14
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Wednesday—August 26th
3:30 PM—Triple Cross (1967)
A safecracker turns double agent during World War II.
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider.
Dir: Terence Young.
C-126 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
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Thursday—August 27th
7:30 AM—The Lady and the Mob (1939)
A woman sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Cast: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman.
Dir: Benjamin Stoloff.
BW-66 mins, TV-G
8:45 AM—The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
A spy forces a reformed jewel thief to crack the safe where plans for an anti-aircraft gun are stored.
Cast: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth.
Dir: Peter Godfrey.
BW-71 mins, TV-G
10:00 AM—The Bigamist (1953)
A woman discovers her husband has another family in another city.
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O’Brien.
Dir: Ida Lupino.
BW-79 mins, TV-PG
11:30 AM—Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Cast: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell.
Dir: Anatole Litvak.
BW-85 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:00 PM—On Dangerous Ground (1951)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
Dir: Nicholas Ray.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG, CC
2:30 PM—Women’s Prison (1955)
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women’s prison.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Howard Duff.
Dir: Lewis Seiler.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
4:00 PM—The Big Knife (1955)
An unscrupulous movie producer blackmails an unhappy star into signing a new contract.
Cast: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger.
Dir: Robert Aldrich.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:00 PM—While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Cast: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price.
Dir: Fritz Lang.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM—They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart.
Dir: Raoul Walsh.
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 PM—The Hard Way (1942)
An ambitious woman doesn’t care who she hurts in her drive to make her sister a star.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson.
Dir: Vincent Sherman.
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC
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Friday—August 28th
2:00 AM—High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy.
Dir: Raoul Walsh.
BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC
Then Frank Sinatra movies the rest of the day.
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Saturday—August 29th
4:30 AM—Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
Dir: Lewis Allen.
BW-76 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
6:00 AM—Your Past is Showing (1957) [a.k.a. The Naked Truth]
Bumbling blackmail subjects joi
n forces to do in their tormentor.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Peggy Mount.
Dir: Mario Zampi.
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
2:30 PM—The Wrong Box (1966)
Two elderly brothers plot to kill each other for a fortune.
Cast: Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine.
Dir: Bryan Forbes.
C-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
4:30 PM—After the Fox (1966)
A notorious con man poses as a film director to front a major caper.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica.
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
6:15 PM—Murder by Death (1976)
A criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Cast: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers.
Dir: Robert Moore.
C-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday—August 30th
1:00 AM—Two-Way Stretch (1960)
A convict plots to commit the perfect crime while still behind bars.
Cast: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins.
Dir: Robert Day.
BW-87 mins, Letterbox Format
7:30 AM—Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Cast: Chester Morris, Jean Arthur, Joseph Calleia.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben.
BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
9:00 AM—Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
A hotshot reporter and a temperamental actress clash when he investigates the backer of her latest show.
Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen.
Dir: Edward Ludwig.
BW-73 mins, TV-G, CC
10:30 AM—Whirlpool (1934)
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn’t even know he exists.
Cast: Jean Arthur, Jack Holt, Donald Cook.
Dir: Roy William Neill.
BW-72 mins.
10:15 PM—The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason.
Dir: Stephen Roberts.
BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC
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—Mike Gray