This week:
* Monday—Ingrid Bergman plots revenge—say it ain’t so.
* Tuesday—Alec Guinness—a sadist?
* Wednesday—Dane Clark fears murder is hereditary.
* Thursday—Ray Milland has spook problems.
* Saturday—Steve McQueen burns rubber.
* Sunday—Joel McCrea just wants to report the news, not get shot at and shot at and shot at ….
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Monday—February 1st
1:30 PM—Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A woman with a past returns to 19th-century New Orleans for revenge.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, Flora Robson. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Tuesday—February 2nd
7:30 AM—Tunes of Glory (1960)
When a popular colonel loses a promotion, it sets the stage for conflict with his new superior officer.
Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price. Dir: Ronald Neame. C-107 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
6:45 PM—One Way Passage (1932)
An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.
Cast: Kay Francis, William Powell, Aline MacMahon. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-68 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 PM—The Thin Man (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan. Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
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Wednesday—February 3rd
10:45 AM—The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Cast: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Jean Harlow. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-84 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
10:00 PM—Moonrise (1948)
When a murderer’s son accidentally kills someone, he takes it on the lam.
Cast: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-90 mins, TV-PG
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Thursday—February 4th
6:00 AM—The Green Goddess (1930)
A fanatical Indian potentate holds British settlers hostage.
Cast: George Arliss, Alice Joyce, H. B. Warner. Dir: Alfred E. Green. C-73 mins, TV-G
7:15 AM—Captain Blood (1935)
After being unjustly sentenced to prison, a doctor escapes and becomes a notorious pirate.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-119 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 PM—The Uninvited (1944)
A brother and sister buy a house with a ghostly secret.
Cast: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp. Dir: Lewis Allen. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Friday—February 5th
12:30 PM—Foul Play (1978)
An innocent woman stumbles onto a plot to murder the pope.
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore. Dir: Colin Higgins. C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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Saturday—February 6th
4:30 AM—Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis. Dir: John Sturges. C-82 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
6:00 AM—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
12:30 PM—The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits.
Cast: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson. Dir: John Sturges. C-128 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM—Bullitt (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset. Dir: Peter Yates. C-114 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM—The French Connection (1971)
Two New York narcotics cops set out to bust a French drug smuggling ring.
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider. Dir: William Friedkin. C-104 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday—February 7th
12:00 AM—Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard. Dir: Arthur Penn. C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
7:45 AM—Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, George Sanders. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 AM—Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Cast: Maurice Evans, Ethel Barrymore, Angela Lansbury. Dir: John Sturges. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:45 PM—Rebecca (1940)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-130 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:00 PM—The Pink Panther (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Cast: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner. Dir: Blake Edwards. C-115 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
—Mike Gray