This week:
* Monday—Lon Chaney spooks a lot of people;
* Wednesday—celestial beings can use a Handi-Wipe®;
* Thursday—Arsene Lupin looks like two different people;
* Friday—Hurd Hatfield hides those unsightly blemishes—for a while;
* Saturday—Gary Cooper runs aground;
* Sunday—Boris Karloff rounds out the week by spooking a lot of people, as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Monday—October 12th
12:00 AM—The Unknown (1927)
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow’s armless wonder.
Cast: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-50 mins, TV-PG
1:00 AM—Unholy Three (1925)
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Cast: Lon Chaney, Harry Earles, Victor McLaglen. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-86 mins, TV-G
4:00 AM—The Strange Woman (1946)
An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life.
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward. Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. BW-99 mins, TV-PG
6:45 AM—Five Golden Hours (1960)
A con artist who fleeces wealthy widows falls for his latest mark.
Cast: Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders. Dir: Mario Zampi. BW-90 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
9:45 AM—The Golden Salamander (1949)
An archaeologist gets mixed up with gun runners.
Cast: Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimee, Herbert Lom. Dir: Ronald Neame. BW-98 mins, TV-G
11:30 AM—The Journey (1959)
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards, Jr. Dir: Anatole Litvak. C-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
———-
Tuesday—October 13th
———-
Wednesday—October 14th
3:45 AM—Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang.
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 PM—The Cuckoos (1930)
Two tramps-turned-fortune-tellers try to solve a kidnapping.
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Jobyna Howland. Dir: Paul Sloane. BW-97 mins, TV-G
———-
Thursday—October 15th
12:45 AM—Peach-O-Reno (1932)
Two divorce lawyers run a gambling joint by night.
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-63 mins, TV-G
2:00 AM—Arsene Lupin (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley. Dir: Jack Conway. BW-84 mins, TV-G, CC
3:30 AM—Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
A reformed jewel thief helps detectives track down a criminal.
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Warren William, Virginia Bruce. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-81 mins, TV-G
6:15 AM—Parole Girl (1933)
A wrongly convicted woman tries to make amends after getting out of prison.
Cast: Mae Clark, Ralph Bellamy, Marie Prevost. Dir: Edward F. Cline. BW-68 mins.
11:30 AM—High School Confidential! (1958)
A young police officer returns to high school undercover to investigate the drug trade.
Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren. Dir: Jack Arnold. BW-85 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
———-
Friday—October 16th
7:00 AM—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
9:00 AM—The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Cast: Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury, Donna Reed. Dir: Albert Lewin. BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC
12:45 PM—The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
After finding religion, a cynical newspaperman tries to help young hoods.
Cast: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury. Dir: Norman Taurog. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:15 PM—Mister Buddwing (1966)
A man suffering from amnesia confronts a series of women in his search for his memory.
Cast: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury. Dir: Delbert Mann. BW-99 mins, TV-14, CC
8:00 PM—The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White. Dir: Richard Fleischer. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:30 PM—Lured (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Boris Karloff. Dir: Douglas Sirk. BW-103 mins, TV-G
———-
Saturday—October 17th
12:30 AM—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
9:00 AM—The Fire Trap (1937)
In the thirteenth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must escape a dark room where’s he’s the only target.
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-17 mins, TV-G
9:30 AM—The Devil in White (1937)
In the fourteenth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective fights to escape a burning ship.
Cast: Ralph
Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-20 mins, TV-G
12:00 PM—Torn Curtain (1966)
A U.S. scientist pretends to defect to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-128 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
10:30 PM—The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The skipper of a sunken ship stands trial for negligence.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave. Dir: Michael Anderson. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
———-
Sunday—October 18th
4:30 AM—The Ghost Ship (1943)
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:30 AM—Bedlam (1946)
When an actress tries to reform an asylum, its corrupt keeper has her committed.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:00 AM—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
1:00 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
6:15 PM—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
~~~~~~~~~~~
—Mike Gray