This week, TCM offers a few seldom-seen films along with some crime genre classics, among the former being The Sniper, Angel Face, Escape in the Fog, The Killer is Loose, and Madeleine.
If you are an Alfred Hitchcock fanatic, the week ends with a two-day marathon of most of his major films, eleven altogether.
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Monday—June 22nd
7:15 AM—The Sniper (1952)
An unhappy man goes on a killing spree.
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Marie Windsor.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Tuesday—June 23rd
12:00 AM—A Place in the Sun (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress’s heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy.
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters.
Dir: George Stevens.
BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:30 AM—Angel Face (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Herbert Marshall.
Dir: Otto Preminger.
BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC
3:15 PM—Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Cast: James Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick.
Dir: Otto Preminger.
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM—Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Cast: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier.
Dir: Otto Preminger.
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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Wednesday—June 24th
4:00 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
6:00 PM—After The Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II.
BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC
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Thursday—June 25th
6:00 AM—One Mysterious Night (1944)
A reformed thief helps the police recover an Egyptian diamond.
Cast: Chester Morris, Janis Carter, William Wright.
Dir: Budd Boetticher.
BW-62 mins, TV-G
7:15 AM—Escape in the Fog (1945)
A nurse recovering from a breakdown keeps dreaming about murder.
Cast: Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright.
Dir: Budd Boeticher.
BW-63 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 AM—The Killer is Loose (1956)
A crook tries to avenge his wife’s accidental shooting by a cop.
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Wendell Corey, Rhonda Fleming.
Dir: Budd Boetticher.
BW-73 mins, TV-PG
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Friday—June 26th
6:00 AM—Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Leslie Banks.
Dir: David Lean.
BW-115 mins, TV-PG
9:00 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.
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
Dir: Norman Jewison.
C-110 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
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Saturday—June 27th
4:15 AM—A Soldier’s Story (1984)
During World War II, an African-American officer investigates a murder that may have been racially motivated.
Cast: Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington.
Dir: Norman Jewison.
C-101 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 AM—Alfred Hitchcock (1972)
Alfred Hitchcock appears in an episode of The Dick Cavett Show that originally aired June 8, 1972.
C-65 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:15 AM—Suspicion (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
9:00 AM—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
11:15 AM—Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:15 PM—Marnie (1964)
A rich man marries a compulsive thief and tries to unlock the secrets of her mind.
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 PM—Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 PM—North by Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
8:00 PM—Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 PM—The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday—June 28th
12:15 AM—Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
C-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM—Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:30 AM—The 39 Steps (1935)
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC
2:15 PM—Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury.
Dir: George Cukor.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
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—Mike Gray