This week:
* Monday—TCM whistles up a Whistler-thon (six of the original eight films);
* Tuesday—Raffles returns;
* Wednesday—Bogie nixes Nazis;
* Thursday—thirteen girls get frightened;
* Friday—a juror goes missing;
* Saturday—Vincent Price serves up some delicious ham;
* Sunday—somebody’s robbing graves.
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Monday—October 5th
6:00 AM—The Whistler (1944)
A grieving widower hires an assassin to kill him only to have his late wife turn up alive.
Cast: Richard Dix, J. Carrol Naish, Gloria Stuart. Dir: William Castle. BW-60 mins, TV-PG
"I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes … I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak."
7:15 AM—Power of the Whistler (1945)
A young woman seeks an amnesiac’s true identity in the clues in his pockets.
Cast: Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell. Dir: Lew Landers. BW-66 mins, TV-PG
8:30 AM—Voice of the Whistler (1945)
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Cast: Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams. Dir: William Castle. BW-60 mins, TV-PG
9:45 AM—Mysterious Intruder (1946)
A detective discovers the woman he’s been hired to track down is the key to an unusual inheritance.
Cast: Richard Dix, Barton MacLane, Nina Vale. Dir: William Castle. BW-62 mins.
11:00 AM—Secret of the Whistler (1946)
An artist plots murder when his rich wife when she catches him in an affair with one of his models.
Cast: Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane. Dir: George Sherman. BW-64 mins, TV-PG
12:15 PM—The Return of the Whistler (1948)
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down.
Cast: Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane. Dir: D. Ross Lederman. BW-63 mins, TV-PG
1:30 PM—Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Conrad Veidt. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC
3:00 PM—Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
4:15 PM—Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, "Rags" Ragland. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC
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Tuesday—October 6th
6:15 AM—The Young in Heart (1938)
A family of con artists saves the life of a wealthy old woman and plots to fleece her.
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-91 mins, TV-G
2:00 PM—Raffles (1930)
A distinguished British gentleman hides his true identity as a notorious jewel thief.
Cast: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-71 mins.
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Wednesday—October 7th
10:00 AM—Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
A con man poses as a Latin American heiress’ guardian angel.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-108 mins, TV-G, CC
12:00 PM—All Through the Night (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Jane Darwell. Dir: Vincent Sherman. BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC
2:00 PM—Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
4:00 PM—Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:00 PM—A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 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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Thursday—October 8th
1:15 PM—Thirteen Frightened Girls (1963)
A diplomat’s daughter gets mixed up in international intrigue and murder.
Cast: Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor, Hugh Marlowe. Dir: William Castle. C-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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Friday—October 9th
1:00 AM—Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
An impoverished girl masquerades as a boy to run with a gang of young hobos.
Cast: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Philips. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-68 mins, TV-PG
2:15 AM—Girls of the Road (1940)
The governor’s daughter tries to win fair treatment for female vagrants by joining them o
n the road.
Cast: Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane. Dir: Nick Grinde. BW-60 mins.
4:45 AM—The Missing Juror (1944)
A detective tries to stop whomever is murdering the jurors on a notorious murder case.
Cast: Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready. Dir: Budd Boetticher. BW-66 mins.
4:00 PM—The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
When a train’s passengers are exposed to a deadly virus, it triggers an international incident.
Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen. Dir: George P. Cosmatos. C-129 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM—The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury. Dir: John Frankenheimer. BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM—The Parallax View (1974)
A reporter uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind a political assassination.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss. Dir: Alan J. Pakula. C-102 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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Saturday—October 10th
12:00 AM—The Boys from Brazil (1978)
A Nazi hunter tracks a mad scientist out to bring back Hitler.
Cast: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason. Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. C-125 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
6:00 AM—Tales of Terror (1962)
Three Edgar Allan Poe stories feature murder, hauntings, and a fiendish hypnotist.
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone. Dir: Roger Corman. BW-89 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
7:30 AM—The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
A young man investigates his sister’s death in a mysterious castle.
Cast: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr. Dir: Roger Corman. C-80 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
9:00 AM—Harbor Pursuit (1937)
In the eleventh chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must dodge a deadly trap.
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-17 mins, TV-G
9:30 AM—The Trail of the Spider (1937)
In the twelfth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must escape a runaway motorboat.
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-17 mins, TV-G
10:00 AM—Golden Boy (1939)
A crooked promoter lures a young violinist to give up music for boxing.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-99 mins, TV-PG
4:30 PM—Sirocco (1951)
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. Cobb. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-98 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM—I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he’s sentenced to hard labor.
Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC
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Sunday—October 11th
12:15 AM—Dr. Socrates (1935)
A small-town doctor gets mixed up with gangsters.
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Barton MacLane. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC
6:30 AM—The Body Snatcher (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:45 AM—Isle of the Dead (1945)
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Helene Thimig. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:00 AM—We Were Strangers (1949)
A Cuban American returns to his homeland during the Revolution and becomes involved in an assassination attempt.
Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz. Dir: John Huston. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:00 PM—The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt. Dir: John Huston. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
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—Mike Gray