This week TCM offers
* a bumper crop of seldom-seen crime thrillers with an emphasis on civic corruption (see Monday and Tuesday);
* a meditation on capital punishment (Wednesday);
* several films with Barbara Stanwyck as victim and victimizer (Thursday);
* and a Dick Tracy mini-marathon, four from the ’40s plus Warren Beatty’s take on the lantern-jawed symbol of law and order (Saturday).

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Monday—July 13th

9:30 AM—The Sellout (1951)
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
Dir: Gerald Mayer.
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:00 AM—The Unknown Man (1951)
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he’s gotten off was really guilty.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Lewis Stone.
Dir: Richard Thorpe.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG

5:45 PM—Ada (1961)
A call girl weds an easygoing politician and helps him against corrupt state officials.
Cast: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White.
Dir: Daniel Mann.
C-108 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM—Bullets or Ballots (1936)
A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart.
Dir: William Keighley.
BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

9:30 PM—White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Cast: James Cagney, Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo.
Dir: Raoul Walsh.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

11:30 PM—The Undercover Man (1949)
A treasury agent tries to convict a ruthless mobster of tax evasion.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis.
BW-84 mins, TV-PG

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Tuesday—July 14th

1:00 AM—The Mob (1951)
A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Kiley, Ernest Borgnine.
Dir: Robert Parrish.
BW-86 mins, TV-14

2:30 AM—The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
Cast: Darren McGavin, Margaret Hayes, Warren Stevens.
Dir: Paul Wendkos.
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM—Bunco Squad (1951)
Police try to get the goods on a phony seance racket.
Cast: Robert Sterling, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Dixon.
Dir: Herbert Leeds.
BW-67 mins, TV-G

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Wednesday—July 15th

6:15 AM—The Firebird (1934)
A young girl’s secret romance is exposed when her lover is murdered.
Cast: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Anita Louise.
Dir: William Dieterle.
BW-74 mins, TV-PG

8:00 PM—The Quare Fellow (1962)
A prison warden finds his belief in capital punishment tested.
Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Sims, Walter Macken.
Dir: Arthur Dreifuss.
BW-90 mins, TV-14

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Thursday—July 16th

6:00 AM—The Locked Door (1929)
A woman once kidnapped by a wealthy womanizer tries to save her sister from him.
Cast: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William ‘Stage’ Boyd.
Dir: George Fitzmaurice.
BW-74 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM—Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen.
BW-94 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM—Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson.
Dir: Billy Wilder.
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 PM—A Woman’s Face (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt.
Dir: George Cukor.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Friday—July 17th

4:45 PM—Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
True story of torch singer Ruth Etting’s struggle to escape the gangster who made her a star.
Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell.
Dir: Charles Vidor.
C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM—James Cagney: Top of the World (1992)
Michael J. Fox hosts this documentary featuring film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage that traces superstar James Cagney’s rise to the top.
Cast: James Cagney, Michael J. Fox, Jack Lemmon.
Dir: Carl Lindahl.
C-47 mins, TV-G, CC

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Saturday—July 18th

12:00 PM—Dick Tracy (1945)
Dick is faced with a series of murders in which the victims all come from different social and economic backgrounds.
Cast: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki.
Dir: William A. Berke.
BW-61 mins, TV-PG

1:15 PM—Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Cast: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Dick Wessel.
Dir: Gordon Douglas.
BW-62 mins. TV-PG

2:30 PM—Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy takes on "The Claw" in this crime thriller.
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher.
Dir: John Rawlins.
BW-60 mins, TV-PG

3:45 PM—Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
(1947)
Dick Tracy tracks down a bank robber using nerve gas.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne.
Dir: John Rawlins.
BW-65 mins, TV-PG

5:00 PM—Dick Tracy (1990)
The intrepid comic strip detective fights off a ruthless gangster and his seductive girlfriend.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino.
Dir: Warren Beatty.
C-105 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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Sunday—July 19th

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—Mike Gray