(Note: All times and dates are EDT.)

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Monday—May 11th

11:15 AM—The Runaway Bus (1954)
A London motor coach gets lost in the fog with a cache of stolen gold aboard.
Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark
BW-74 mins, TV-G

Short synopsis here. Screenshot here.

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Tuesday—May 12th

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Wednesday—May 13th

9:15 AM—I Am the Law (1938)
A law professor signs on as special prosecutor to take on the mob.
Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O’Neil, John Beal
BW-83 mins, TV-G

Article here.

12:30 PM—I See a Dark Stranger (1945)
An Irish woman who hates the English turns Nazi spy.
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard
BW-112 mins, TV-G

"You should visit England one day. You may change your mind."
"There’s no need. I’ve an aunt there who has told me all about it. She says the upper classes are cringing and always moaning about their troubles, and the lower classes are arrogant and think they own the Earth."
"I thought it was the other way round."
"My aunt runs a servants’ registry office."
"Ah!"

Article here. Poster art here.

4:15 PM—I Bury the Living (1958)
A cemetery keeper thinks he can mark people for death.
Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer
BW-77 mins, TV-PG

Article here. Poster art here.

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Thursday—May 14th

7:00 AM—Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
BW-94 mins, TV-G

"You threw a lighted match into the wastebasket?!"
"Well, I wasn’t aiming for the spittoon."
"You know that’s called arson?"
"No! I thought that was when you bit somebody!"

Article here. Poster art here.

8:45 AM—The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
BW-95 mins, TV-PG

"If you love a person, you can forgive anything."

Article here. Poster art here.

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Friday—May 15th

6:00 AM—Journey into Fear (1942)
A munitions expert gets mixed up with gunrunners in Turkey.
Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles
BW-68 mins, TV-PG

Article here. Poster art here.

7:15 AM—Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey
BW-108 mins, TV-PG

"You think you know something, don’t you? You think you’re the clever little girl who knows something. There’s so much you don’t know, so much. What do you know, really? You’re just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there’s nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie? You live in a dream. You’re a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you’d find swine? The world’s a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something."

Article here. Poster art here.

9:15 AM—Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A small-time crook on the run is reformed by the love of a crippled woman.
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington
BW-81 mins, TV-PG

Article here. Poster art here.

10:45 AM—The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
BW-104 mins, TV-14

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Ren
aissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Article here. Poster art here.

2:30 PM—Hotel Reserve (1946)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell

Synopsis here.

8:00 PM—You Only Live Twice (1967)
James Bond investigates a series attacks in space that could lead to nuclear war.
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba
C-117 mins, TV-PG

"Oh, the things I do for England."

Article here. Poster art here.

10:00 PM—Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
James Bond fights diamond smugglers and blackmailers in Las Vegas.
Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray
C-120 mins, TV-PG

"Tell me, Commander, how far does your expertise extend into the field of diamonds?"
"Well, hardest substance found in nature, they cut glass, suggest marriages, I suppose it replaced the dog as the girl’s best friend. That’s about it."
"Refreshing to hear that there is one subject you’re not an expert on!"

Article here. Poster art here.

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Saturday—May 16th

12:15 AM—The Anderson Tapes (1971)
After ten years in prison, a thief tries to adjust to improved surveillance methods.
Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam
C-99 mins, TV-14

"America, man! You know, it’s so beautiful I wanta eat it!"

Article here. Poster art here.

6:00 AM—Murder! (1930)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Herbert Marshall, Nora Baring, Phyllis Konstam
BW-100 mins, TV-PG

"I assure you, Inspector, I’m not the other woman in this case."

Article here. Poster art here.

2:00 PM—You Only Live Twice (1967)

4:00 PM—Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

10:00 PM—Eyes in the Night (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Edward Arnold, Donna Reed, Ann Harding
BW-80 mins, TV-G

Article here.

11:30 PM—The Houston Story (1956)
A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
Gene Barry, Barbara Hale, Edward Arnold
BW-81 mins, TV-G

Article here.

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Sunday—May 17th

2:45 AM—Miami Expose (1956)
A police detective uses the only witness to a gangland murder to smoke out the mobsters.
Lee J. Cobb, Patricia Medina, Edward Arnold
BW-73 mins, TV-PG

Article here.

10:00 AM—The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
BW-87 mins, TV-PG

"I’ve always found it very … sanitary to be broke."

Article here. Poster art here.

11:30 AM—Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
BW-108 mins, TV-PG

"It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet."

Article here. Poster art here.

3:30 PM—In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
BW-134 mins, TV-14

"I thought Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman … I thought so right up to the time I cut his throat."
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"I’d like to apologize, but who to?"

Article here. Poster art here.

6:00 PM—In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
C-110 mins, TV-14

"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"

Article here. Poster art here.

—Mike Gray