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Last updated  6/17/2025




FRIDAY,  August 1

6:00 AM    These Glamour Girls (1939)

A drunken college boy invites a taxi dancer to spend the weekend at his snobbish school.
    Dir: S. Sylvan Simon    Cast: Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Dancing Co-Ed (1939)

A college girl fights to survive in academia and show business.
    Dir: S. Sylvan Simon    Cast: Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    Honky Tonk (1941)

A young girl falls for a western gambler.
    Dir: Jack Conway    Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:00 AM    Green Dolphin Street (1947)

In 19th-century New Zealand, two sisters compete for the same man against a backdrop of political unrest and natural disaster.
    Dir: Victor Saville    Cast: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed
    Runtime: 141 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 PM    The Three Musketeers (1948)

Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    A Life of Her Own (1950)

An innocent small-town girl climbs to the top of the modeling business man by man.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
    Dir: Tay Garnett    Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Imitation of Life (1959)

A successful actress with a distant only daughter sets up housekeeping with a black housekeeper whose own daughter has disowned any connection to her race.
    Dir: Douglas Sirk    Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 AM    Portrait in Black (1960)

A woman and her lover kill her husband and are targeted by someone who knows of their crime.
    Dir: Michael Gordon    Cast: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Johnny Eager (1942)

A handsome racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Mr. Imperium (1951)

An exiled king and a film star try to rekindle a romance from the past.
    Dir: Don Hartman    Cast: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  August 2

6:00 AM    Stage Struck (1958)

A young actress makes all the wrong moves trying to break in on Broadway.
    Dir: Sidney Lumet    Cast: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

A game warden takes on a band of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
    Dir: Nicholas Ray    Cast: Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Gypsy Rose Lee
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:45 AM    The Spiral Staircase (1975)

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?
    Dir: Peter Collinson    Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


11:15 AM    International Velvet (1979)

In this sequel to National Velvet, a former racing champ helps turn a delinquent girl into an Olympic rider.
    Dir: Bryan Forbes    Cast: Tatum O'Neal, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

A behind-the-scenes epic that explores the effects of the Hollywood dream machine on a spirited young singer and actress from the time of her discovery at age 15 through her triumphs and defeats.
    Dir: Robert Mulligan    Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

The famous Pink Panther diamond has been stolen from the museum and retired jewel thief Sir Charles Litton is immediately blamed. In danger of being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, Litton reluctantly works with Inspector Jacques Clouseau to find out who the real crook is.
    Dir: Blake Edwards    Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Action    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:00 AM    The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Two English ex-soldiers leave British-ruled India for a remote part of Afghanistan in order to become kings.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
    Runtime: 129 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Triple Cross (1966)

A safe-cracker turns double agent during WWII.
    Dir: Terence Young    Cast: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  August 3

6:00 AM    The Unforgiven (1960)

In 1850s, a cattle raising Texas family is turned upside down when it is revealed that one of their women is of Native American blood.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:15 AM    Green Mansions (1959)

A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.
    Dir: Mel Ferrer    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    The Children's Hour (1961)

When an unruly young girl spreads the rumor that the co-headmistresses at her private, all-girls school are engaging in a lesbian relationship, the townsfolk remove their daughters from the school and charge up a scandal.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Sabrina (1954)

Two wealthy brothers fall for the chauffeur's daughter.
    Dir: Billy Wilder    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Charade (1963)

A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
    Dir: Stanley Donen    Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Two for the Road (1967)

A married couple travels in Europe at four different stages in their relationship.
    Dir: Stanley Donen    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Wait Until Dark (1967)

A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
    Dir: Terence Young    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

A young writer gets caught up in a party girl's carefree existence.
    Dir: Blake Edwards    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 PM    How to Steal a Million (1966)

A legendary art collector lends his prized (replica) Cellini Venus to a prestigious Paris museum. Before tests can be done which would prove the Venus is a fake, though, the collector's daughter enlists the services of a "society burglar" to steal the million dollar statue.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 AM    My Fair Lady (1964)

A phonetics instructor bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
    Runtime: 170 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Love in the Afternoon (1957)

When Parisian private detective Claude Chavasse tells a client that his wife is having an affair with American Frank Flannigan, the client vows to kill Flannigan. To prevent a murder, Chavasse's daughter, Ariane, goes to warn Flannigan. Ariane resorts to seductively teasing Flannigan to lure him away from danger - not realizing ...that she has instantly captured the man's heart. Now, in a twist, Flannigan hires Chavasse to locate the mysterious temptress ... the detective's own daughter.
    Dir: Billy Wilder    Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



MONDAY,  August 4

6:00 AM    Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
    Dir: John Farrow    Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Callaway Went Thataway (1951)

A real cowboy signs on to impersonate a faded western star for public appearances.
    Dir: Norman Panama    Cast: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Texas Carnival (1951)

A penniless carnival worker runs up a mountain of debts when he's mistaken for a millionaire.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel
    Runtime: 77 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:00 AM    Pagan Love Song (1950)

An American tourist romances a Tahitian beauty.
    Dir: Robert Alton    Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Fast Company (1953)

The heiress to a racing stable uncovers underhanded dealings.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Marjorie Main
    Runtime: 67 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Lovely to Look At (1952)

All-star remake of Roberta, with three Broadway producers inheriting a Parisian fashion house.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Kiss Me Kate (1953)

An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," but off-stage the production is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters looking for kickbacks.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Fanciful musical biography of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
    Dir: Stanley Donen    Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Show Boat (1951)

Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River."
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Calamity Jane (1953)

The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    Rose Marie (1954)

A trapper's daughter is torn between the Mountie who wants to civilize her and a dashing prospector.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Jupiter's Darling (1955)

A beautiful Roman mounts a romantic campaign to halt Hannibal's invasion of the empire.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Marge Champion
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  August 5

6:00 AM    Stolen Holiday (1937)

A Paris fashion model marries a fortune hunter to protect him from the law.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Kay Francis, Claude Rains, Ian Hunter
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Four Daughters (1938)

A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious musician.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:15 AM    Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

Julius Caesar gives the famed Egyptian queen lessons in government.
    Dir: Gabriel Pascal    Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Flora Robson
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    The Unsuspected (1947)

The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Passage to Marseille (1944)

Devil's Island escapees join up with the Allies during World War II.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:30 PM    Mr. Skeffington (1945)

A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
    Runtime: 146 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Now, Voyager (1942)

A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
    Dir: Irving Rapper    Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Notorious (1946)

A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Casablanca (1942)

An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption.
    Dir: Frank Capra    Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 AM    They Won't Forget (1937)

Bigotry flares when a teacher is accused of killing a small-town girl in the South.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 AM    The Passionate Friends (1949)

A married woman has one last fling with her childhood sweetheart.
    Dir: David Lean    Cast: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  August 6

6:00 AM    Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

The daughter of Irish immigrants patches up differences between her father and grandfather and rises to the top on Broadway.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

A small-town boy tries life in the big city before going to college.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    For Me and My Gal (1942)

Judy Garland and Gene Kelly star in the classic musical directed by Busby Berkeley--For Me and My Gal. Young vaudeville performers Harry Palmer and Jo Hayden (Kelly and Garland) dream of stardom, but the United States enters World War I and Harry receives his draft notice--trapping the two between their obligation to each ...other's dreams and their duty to their country.
    Dir: Busby Berkeley    Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

A small-town girl fights for her big chance on Broadway.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Girl Crazy (1943)

A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard    Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Summer Stock (1950)

A farmer gets sucked into show business when a theatrical troupe invades her farm.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    A Star Is Born (1954)

A falling star marries the newcomer he's helping reach the top.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
    Runtime: 176 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:15 AM    The Clock (1945)

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:00 AM    The Harvey Girls (1946)

Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:45 AM    Listen, Darling (1938)

Two children try to find a new husband for their widowed mother.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  August 7

6:00 AM    The Tall Target (1951)

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
    Dir: Anthony Mann    Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Edge of the City (1957)

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
    Dir: Martin Ritt    Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Take a Giant Step (1959)

A troubled black teenager tries to find his place in a white world.
    Dir: Philip Leacock    Cast: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Black Girl (1972)

An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
    Dir: Ossie Davis    Cast: Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Leslie Uggams
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 PM    The Sheriff (1971)

A rape case tears apart a small California town as a black sheriff and his white deputy go after an insurance salesman suspected of attacking a black coed.
    Dir: David Lowell Rich    Cast: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:15 PM    Buck and the Preacher (1972)

A con man helps a group of former slaves survive the perils of the Wild West in their search for the promised land.
    Dir: Sidney Poitier    Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


5:15 PM    Long Day's Journey Into Night (1982)

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie.
    Dir: William Woodman    Cast: Thommie Blackwell, Ruby Dee, Rhetta Hughes
    Runtime: 146 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

The Younger family strives to get out of their ghetto neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. When the patriarch of the family passes away and each family member is handed a slice of the insurance payoff, their escape finally seems possible.
    Dir: Daniel Petrie    Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:15 AM    The Incident (1967)

Two rowdy teens board a New York City subway and terrorize the passengers.
    Dir: Larry Peerce    Cast: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:15 AM    The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

Jackie Robinson plays himself in this true story of the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier.
    Dir: Alfred E. Green    Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  August 8

6:00 AM    Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)

Army veterans are on a mission to find out who sold faulty ammunition to a cavalry troop.
    Dir: Richard L. Bare    Cast: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Mister Buddwing (1966)

A man suffering from amnesia confronts a series of women in his search for his memory.
    Dir: Delbert Mann    Cast: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


9:15 AM    Cash McCall (1960)

A corporate spoiler makes a play for a failing company and the owner's daughter.
    Dir: Joseph Pevney    Cast: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:00 AM    Boys' Night Out (1962)

A psychology student researches infidelity by becoming a platonic kept woman for four buddies.
    Dir: Michael Gordon    Cast: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:00 PM    The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

Texas tycoons try to mix love with finance on a trip to New York.
    Dir: Arthur Hiller    Cast: James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:00 PM    The Americanization of Emily (1964)

A British war widow falls for an opportunistic American sailor during World War II.
    Dir: Arthur Hiller    Cast: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:00 PM    Grand Prix (1966)

Story follows the loves and lives of various auto racers as they make their way around the European racing circuit.
    Dir: John Frankenheimer    Cast: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
    Runtime: 179 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

A gigolo on the run gets mistaken for a feared gunfighter named Swifty Morgan.
    Dir: Burt Kennedy    Cast: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    36 Hours (1964)

Nazis kidnap a key American intelligence officer and try to convince him that World War II is over.
    Dir: George Seaton    Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 AM    They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)

A small-town sheriff attempts to clear a Doberman of murder charges.
    Dir: James Goldstone    Cast: James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:15 AM    Skin Game (1971)

Two western con artists team with a lady card shark to take on slavers.
    Dir: Paul Bogart    Cast: James Garner, Lou Gossett, Susan Clark
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  August 9

6:00 AM    National Velvet (1944)

A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:15 AM    A Date with Judy (1948)

A teenager thinks her grandfather is involved with a fiery Latin singer.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 AM    The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)

A criminal lawyer's daughter falls for one of his clients.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Father's Little Dividend (1951)

In this sequel to Father of the Bride, a doting father faces a series of comic trials when his daughter has her first child.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:00 PM    Ivanhoe (1952)

King Richard the Lion Hearted is being held for ransom by the King of Austria, and his evil brother, John, conspires to take the throne. But while Robin of Locksley fights as Robin Hood, another man, Ivanhoe, risks everything for his king - and for the honor of Rebecca, the woman he loves.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:00 PM    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

As the family of a wealthy Southern patriarch informs his children that he is dying of cancer, lies and secrets surface that threaten to rip the family apart.
    Dir: Richard Brooks    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:00 PM    Raintree County (1957)

In this sumptuous Civil War story, a willful southern belle goes mad out of fear that she may be part black.
    Dir: Edward Dmytryk    Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
    Runtime: 167 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about a fortune hunter who agrees to wed a temperamental woman so his friend can court her sister.
    Dir: Franco Zeffirelli    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The V.I.P.s (1963)

A group of elite British citizens leaving the country find themselves stranded at London Airport because of fog, a situation that leaves them the time to confront their interpersonal relationships.
    Dir: Anthony Asquith    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan
    Runtime: 119 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 AM    The Sandpiper (1965)

When a bohemian single mother puts her son into a school run by a married, Episcopalian minister, sparks fly between her and the cleric.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:45 AM    The Comedians (1967)

Tale of love and political intrigue amongst the guests of a British-owned hotel in dictator-controlled Haiti.
    Dir: Peter Glenville    Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness
    Runtime: 152 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  August 10

6:00 AM    Forsaking All Others (1934)

A woman pursues the wrong man for almost twenty years.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    China Seas (1935)

A sea captain caught in a romantic triangle has to fight off modern-day pirates.
    Dir: Tay Garnett    Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

As the cruel captain of the HMS Bounty, a ship bound for Tahiti, William Bligh wins few friends. When the crew members finally tire of his abuse, Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny, resulting in Bligh's unceremonious removal from the ship. While Christian and the remaining crew sail on to Tahiti, Bligh becomes intent on ...exacting revenge, and he targets Roger Byam, a sailor who had actually tried to stop the mutiny.
    Dir: Frank Lloyd    Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    It Happened One Night (1934)

A spoiled rich girl escapes her father, who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, she gets involved with an out-of-work newsman and the couple sets off on a hitchhiking expedition.
    Dir: Frank Capra    Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

A secretary becomes so valuable to her boss that it jeopardizes his marriage.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    They Met in Bombay (1941)

Rival jewel thieves on the run find love in the Far East.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:45 PM    Mogambo (1953)

In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman.
    Dir: John Ford    Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 AM    Lone Star (1952)

A frontiersman helps out with Texas's fight for independence from Mexico.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 AM    Betrayed (1954)

During World War II, a U.S. officer falls for a Resistance fighter suspected of being an enemy spy.
    Dir: Gottfried Reinhardt    Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:15 AM    Never Let Me Go (1953)

An American correspondent and his Russian ballerina wife are separated by the Soviet authorities.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



MONDAY,  August 11

6:00 AM    Little Caesar (1930)

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:30 AM    We're in the Money (1935)

Gold-digging process servers set their sights on a breach of promise defendant.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:45 AM    Here Comes Carter (1936)

A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals.
    Dir: William Clemens    Cast: Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel
    Runtime: 58 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Dance Charlie Dance (1937)

A gullible angel sinks money into a doomed play.
    Dir: Frank McDonald    Cast: Stuart Erwin, Jean Muir, Glenda Farrell
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:15 AM    Smart Blonde (1936)

An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
    Dir: Frank McDonald    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Winifred Shaw
    Runtime: 59 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Fly Away Baby (1937)

Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
    Dir: Frank Mcdonald    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Gordon Oliver
    Runtime: 60 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


1:45 PM    The Adventurous Blonde (1937)

Reporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
    Dir: Frank Macdonald    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Anne Nagel
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:00 PM    Blondes at Work (1938)

Even a jail term for contempt can't keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
    Dir: Frank Mcdonald    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy
    Runtime: 60 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 PM    Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
    Dir: William Beaudine    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:30 PM    Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1938)

A daring female reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
    Dir: William Beaudine    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy
    Runtime: 58 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:45 PM    Torchy Runs For Mayor (1939)

After digging up dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
    Dir: Ray McCarey    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy
    Runtime: 60 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Girl Missing (1933)

A new bride disappears from her honeymoon hotel the same night a dead body pops up.
    Dir: Robert Florey    Cast: Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon, Mary Brian
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:15 PM    Hi, Nellie! (1934)

A crusading newspaper editor keeps digging into corruption, even when he's forced to write advice to the lovelorn.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:45 PM    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

When broke, would-be architect James Allen is wrongly arrested and convicted for a small-time holdup, he is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, Allen escapes and builds a successful new life. But his landlady learns the truth and blackmails Allen into marriage, ...although he is in love with another woman.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 AM    Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

A group of insurance salesmen try to get into show business.
    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Go into Your Dance (1935)

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
    Dir: Archie L. Mayo    Cast: Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 AM    The Match King (1932)

An ambitious young man corners the market on matches, then faces the destruction of his empire.
    Dir: Howard Bretherton    Cast: Warren William, Lily Damita, Glenda Farrell
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  August 12

8:00 AM    Fort Apache (1948)

An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war.
    Dir: John Ford    Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:30 AM    The Conqueror (1956)

The great warlord Genghis Khan falls in love with the daughter of a conquered enemy.
    Dir: Dick Powell    Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:30 PM    Diane (1956)

A beautiful woman serving as advisor to the King of France falls for his son.
    Dir: David Miller    Cast: Lana Turner, Pedro Armendariz, Roger Moore
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 PM    Captain Sindbad (1963)

Sindbad takes on an evil wizard to save the princess he loves.
    Dir: Byron Haskin    Cast: Guy Williams, Heidi Brühl, Pedro Armendariz
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:15 PM    The Rebellion of the Hanged (1954)

The miserable conditions at a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungle lead the workers to revolt.
    Dir: Alfredo B. Crevenna    Cast: Pedro Armendariz, Carlos Moctezuma, Victor Junco
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


10:00 PM    3 Godfathers (1949)

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
    Dir: John Ford    Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr.
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 AM    My Son, the Hero (1962)

Comical dubbed dialogue skews this Greek mythology about a bad king and a boyish he-man.
    Dir: Duccio Tessari    Cast: Pedro Armendariz, Jacqueline Sassard, Antonella Lualdi
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


2:15 AM    The Fugitive (1947)

A revolutionary priest flees a Central American dictatorship.
    Dir: John Ford    Cast: Henry Fonda, Pedro Armendariz, J. Carrol Naish
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Tulsa (1949)

A cattle owner's daughter risks everything to drill for oil.
    Dir: Stuart Heisler    Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  August 13

6:00 AM    The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

Three episodes follow a rare, yellow Rolls-Royce as it passes through the lives of three different owners.
    Dir: Anthony Asquith    Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:15 AM    Two Loves (1961)

A conservative teacher struggles with her values while teaching natives in New Zealand.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    The Sheepman (1958)

A tough sheep farmer battles the local cattle baron for land and a beautiful woman.
    Dir: George Marshall    Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Being There (1979)

Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
    Dir: Hal Ashby    Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:15 PM    Gambit (1966)

Comedic caper revolves around a professional thief who recruits a Eurasian nightclub singer to go along with him on a planned burglary of a statuette owned by a wealthy Arab.
    Dir: Ronald Neame    Cast: Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:15 PM    The Trouble with Harry (1955)

A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Terms of Endearment (1983)

Widow Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma have a strong bond but Emma marries teacher Flap Horton against her mother's wishes. When the marriage grows sour due to Flap's cheating, Emma eventually splits from him and returns to her mother, who is involved with a former astronaut. Soon, Emma learns she has terminal cancer. ...In the hospital supported by Aurora, she tries to make peace with Flap and her children.
    Dir: James L. Brooks    Cast: Shirley Maclaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Some Came Running (1958)

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
    Runtime: 134 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  August 14

6:00 AM    The Star (1953)

A faded film star fights to hold on to her past glamour despite failing finances.
    Dir: Stuart Heisler    Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Kansas Pacific (1953)

Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, an army engineer is sent to speed up work on the completion of the Kansas Pacific Railroad which is being slowed down by Confederate sympathizers.
    Dir: Ray Nazarro    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton Maclane
    Runtime: 73 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Arrow in the Dust (1954)

A deserter takes on his dead captain's identity to save a wagon train.
    Dir: Lesley Selander    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:00 AM    Suddenly (1954)

Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
    Dir: Lewis Allen    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 PM    The Golden Hawk (1952)

Male and female pirates join forces against a corrupt Caribbean governor.
    Dir: Sidney Salkow    Cast: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    Valerie (1957)

After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
    Dir: Gerd Oswald    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


4:00 PM    Zero Hour! (1957)

When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
    Dir: Hall Bartlett    Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team's safe-cracker.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Killing (1956)

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay. But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry, about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he ...works, she hatches a plot of her own.
    Dir: Stanley Kubrick    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


9:45 PM    Crime Wave (1954)

A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
    Dir: Andre Detoth    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:45 AM    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Fearful that the Russians are flouridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper unleashes a B-52 H-Bomb attack on the Soviets, and a frantic President and Joint Chiefs of Staff must somehow find a way to stop it.
    Dir: Stanley Kubrick    Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Winter Kills (1979)

An assassinated president's brother investigates the unsolved crime.
    Dir: William Richert    Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


4:15 AM    A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
    Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  August 15

6:00 AM    Holiday Affair (1949)

A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
    Dir: Don Hartman    Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Little Women (1949)

The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien
    Runtime: 121 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Angels in the Outfield (1951)

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)

A small-town girl finds love on the road to Broadway stardom.
    Dir: James V. Kern    Cast: Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria Dehaven
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Just This Once (1952)

A playboy hands control of his dwindling fortune to a pretty girl.
    Dir: Don Weis    Cast: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    The Naked Spur (1953)

A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
    Dir: Anthony Mann    Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

When a major rock 'n' roll star arrives in a small Iowa town for a contest, a local songwriter tries to get him to record one of his songs.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Maureen Stapleton
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Psycho (1960)

A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Touch of Evil (1958)

A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop.
    Dir: Orson Welles    Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Act of Violence (1949)

An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
    Dir: Fred Zinnemann    Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 AM    Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

The jazz band's leader gets mixed up with a gangster in '20s Kansas City.
    Dir: Jack Webb    Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:15 AM    Confidentially Connie (1953)

An expectant mother hatches a series of madcap schemes to improve her husband's financial standing.
    Dir: Edward Buzzell    Cast: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Night of the Lepus (1972)

Husband-and-wife scientists unwittingly unleash a horde of giant man-eating rabbits.
    Dir: William F. Claxton    Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  August 16

6:00 AM    Riding Shotgun (1954)

A stagecoach guard is mistaken for a member of a gang of outlaws.
    Dir: Andre Detoth    Cast: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Target Zero (1955)

International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
    Dir: Harmon Jones    Cast: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:15 AM    Run of the Arrow (1957)

A bitter Confederate veteran joins a Sioux tribe to keep his war against the Union going.
    Dir: Samuel Fuller    Cast: Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:45 AM    Guns for San Sebastian (1968)

A Mexican bandit masquerading as a priest gets roped into helping villagers defend against an Indian attack.
    Dir: Henri Verneuil    Cast: Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:45 PM    The Magnificent Seven (1960)

A group of seven tough gunslingers are hired by a Mexican village to put a stop to the vicious bandit and his gang who have been pillaging it for years.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:00 PM    The Great Escape (1963)

Drama based on Paul Brickhill's factual account of the efforts of Allied prisoners to break out of the Stalag Luft North prison camp during World War II.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
    Runtime: 172 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Red Sun (1971)

A train carrying a Japanese delegation with a ceremonial sword for President Grant is robbed by bandits led by Link and Gauche. When Gauche double-crosses him and leaves him for dead, Link is ordered to team up with Kuroda Jubei, one of the ambassador's guards, who has a week to recover the sword or commit suicide. Hoping ...to find out from Gauche where the gang buried their spoils before Kuroda can kill him, Link tries to escape from the samurai.
    Dir: Terence Young    Cast: Ursula Andress, Capucine, Charles Bronson
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Hard Times (1975)

During the Great Depression, Chaney bare-knuckle boxes to survive. Speed, an avid gambler, recognizes his talent and becomes his manager. They hire a cut man named Poe, and Speed borrows cash from some gangsters to bet on Chaney's fight. They win but Speed gambles and loses his portion and remains in debt. A rival manager ...named Gandil buys Speed's debt and forces Chaney to fight Speed against his toughest foe yet.
    Dir: Walter Hill    Cast: James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Felice Orlandi
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Chato's Land (1971)

An Apache half-breed on the run turns against his pursuers when they assault his wife.
    Dir: Michael Winner    Cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-MA    CC:


1:45 AM    The Dirty Dozen (1967)

During World War II, an American Major is given the task of recruiting 12 soldiers from an American military prison for a special guerrilla mission that will give them the chance to regain their honor.
    Dir: Robert Aldrich    Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
    Runtime: 149 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Guns of Diablo (1964)

A man and a boy scouting supplies for a wagon train come up against a crooked town boss.
    Dir: Boris Sagal    Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver, Kurt Russell
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  August 17

6:00 AM    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

Poet Elizabeth Barrett defies her tyrannical father for the love of Robert Browning.
    Dir: Sidney Franklin    Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Madame Bovary (1949)

A romantic country girl sacrifices her marriage when she thinks she's found true love.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    We Were Strangers (1949)

A Cuban American returns to his homeland during the Revolution and becomes involved in an assassination attempt.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Portrait of Jennie (1948)

An artist discovers his gift when he falls for a beautiful ghost.
    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)

A devoted teacher sacrifices personal happiness to stay with her students.
    Dir: Henry Koster    Cast: Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC:


6:00 PM    Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

A Eurasian doctor in Hong Kong falls in love with a war correspondent.
    Dir: Henry King    Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Cluny Brown (1946)

A servant girl's passion for plumbing shocks London society.
    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch    Cast: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Song of Bernadette (1945)

A French peasant girl's visions of the Virgin Mary create controversy as pilgrims flock to her small town for healing.
    Dir: Henry King    Cast: William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price
    Runtime: 156 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:00 AM    Love Letters (1945)

A soldier falls for the woman who may have killed his best friend.
    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


3:00 AM    A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Hemingway's classic about the relationship between an American nurse and an American officer working in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I.
    Dir: Charles Vidor    Cast: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica
    Runtime: 152 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



MONDAY,  August 18

6:00 AM    Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
    Dir: George Archainbaud    Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:15 AM    Murder on the Blackboard (1934)

A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher's murder.
    Dir: George Archainbaud    Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:30 AM    The Plot Thickens (1936)

Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
    Dir: Ben Holmes    Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 AM    We're Only Human (1935)

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
    Dir: James Flood    Cast: Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


11:00 AM    The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
    Dir: Stephen Roberts    Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 PM    A Date with the Falcon (1941)

The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds.
    Dir: Irving Reis    Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:45 PM    Tanks a Million (1941)

A military man promoted to sergeant because of his photographic memory fights to prove his worth.
    Dir: Fred Guiol    Cast: William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery Jr.
    Runtime: 50 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


3:00 PM    This Man's Navy (1945)

Two Navy vets compete to see whose son is the bigger hero.
    Dir: William A. Wellman    Cast: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:45 PM    The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

After finding religion, a cynical newspaperman tries to help young hoods.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:30 PM    The Dude Goes West (1948)

A tenderfoot tries to help a miner's daughter protect her claim.
    Dir: Kurt Neumann    Cast: Eddie Albert, Gale Storm, James Gleason
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

A prizefighter who died before his time is reincarnated as a tycoon with a murderous wife.
    Dir: Alexander Hall    Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer's story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer's cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer's family.
    Dir: Charles Laughton    Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 PM    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men's loneliness!
    Dir: Frank Capra    Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
    Dir: Lloyd Corrigan    Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:15 AM    Forty Naughty Girls (1938)

A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
    Dir: Edward Cline    Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Hot Tip (1935)

A racing fan's predictions go wrong and land his friends in debt.
    Dir: Ray McCarey    Cast: Zasu Pitts, James Gleason
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC:



TUESDAY,  August 19

6:00 AM    Lady of the Tropics (1939)

An American playboy in Saigon has to fight to get his Eurasian wife out of the country.
    Dir: Jack Conway    Cast: Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Boom Town (1940)

Friends become rivals when they strike-it-rich in oil.
    Dir: Jack Conway    Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Comrade X (1940)

An American warms up an icy Russian streetcar conductor.
    Dir: King Vidor    Cast: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    I Take This Woman (1940)

A tenement doctor's marriage to a European refugee threatens his practice.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    The Heavenly Body (1943)

An astronomer's neglected wife takes up astrology and a handsome astrologer.
    Dir: Alexander Hall    Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    The Conspirators (1944)

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Strange Woman (1946)

An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life.
    Dir: Edgar Ulmer    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 PM    Algiers (1938)

A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
    Dir: John Cromwell    Cast: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    The Female Animal (1958)

A Hollywood star's adopted daughter falls in love with the star's live-in boyfriend.
    Dir: Harry Keller    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


1:30 AM    Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 AM    H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

A stuffy businessman livens things up by having a fling.
    Dir: King Vidor    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  August 20

6:00 AM    The Doorway to Hell (1930)

Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
    Dir: Archie Mayo    Cast: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Lady Killer (1933)

A criminal on the run becomes a Hollywood movie star.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    He Was Her Man (1934)

A safecracker goes straight to get back at some fellow crooks.
    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 AM    The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

A man's infatuation with a gold-digging beauty continues after his marriage.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland, Rita Hayworth
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 PM    The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

A pilot and a temperamental heiress are stranded in the desert together.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    Captains of the Clouds (1942)

A mail flyer joins the Canadian air force for fun but has to prove his worth when he goes to war.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 PM    A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)

Peddler Hank Martin becomes a local hero after he exposes how a cotton mill has been cheating sharecroppers then stands up to the local powers to stop the scandal. When the story makes the newspaper headlines--with Martin's help--he is drafted to run for governor. But Martin sews the seeds of his own destruction by accepting ...the support of politically connected Guy Polli and Flamingo, who controls the town's vice, in exchange for helping them protect a murderer.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

A brutal rancher has to soften his ways to win the woman he loves.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen Mcnally
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 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.
    Dir: Charles Vidor    Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The Mayor of Hell (1933)

A racketeer goes straight to run a reform school.
    Dir: Archie Mayo    Cast: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    City for Conquest (1940)

A truck driver risks his eyesight when he boxes to pay for his brother's education.
    Dir: Anatole Litvak    Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    'G' Men (1935)

A mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Blonde Crazy (1931)

A con man bellhop and his chambermaid girlfriend set out to fleece hotel guests.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:00 AM    James Cagney: Top of the World (1992)

Michael J. Fox hosts film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage that trace superstar James Cagney's rise to the top.
    Dir: Carl H Lindahl    Cast: Michael J. Fox, Jack Lemmon, Burt Kennedy
    Runtime: 47 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  August 21

6:00 AM    John Loves Mary (1949)

A World War II veteran's marriage of convenience threatens his real wedding plans.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    The Hasty Heart (1950)

Doctors try to get a Scottish soldier to open up to his comrades before telling him he's dying.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Bright Leaf (1950)

Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


12:00 PM    The Breaking Point (1950)

A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Raton Pass (1951)

A beautiful woman tries to seduce her way into ruling the West.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Psyche 59 (1964)

After being blinded in a mysterious fall, a woman fears her husband is involved with her younger sister.
    Dir: Alexander Singer    Cast: Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens, Samantha Eggar
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Night Digger (1971)

A drifter with a deadly secret ignites passions in two lonely women.
    Dir: Alastair Reid    Cast: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Fountainhead (1949)

An idealistic architect battles corrupt business interests and his love for a married woman.
    Dir: King Vidor    Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    A Face in the Crowd (1957)

A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
    Dir: Elia Kazan    Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 AM    The Subject Was Roses (1968)

A young soldier returns from World War II, moves in with his parents, and tries to mend their deteriorating marriage.
    Dir: Ulu Grosbard    Cast: Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:15 AM    Washington Story (1952)

A reporter in search of government corruption falls for a congressman.
    Dir: Robert Pirosh    Cast: Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  August 22

6:00 AM    Higher and Higher (1943)

Servants pass off one of their own as an heiress in hopes of winning her a wealthy husband.
    Dir: Tim Whelan    Cast: Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:45 AM    The Kissing Bandit (1949)

A timid young man is forced to follow in his father's footsteps as a notorious masked bandit.
    Dir: Laslo Benedek    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

The champion ball club The Wolves' success depends on the powerhouse double play combination of O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Trouble is O'Brien and Ryan would rather be pursuing their vaudeville career than playing baseball...that is until the team gets a new owner, beautiful K.C. Higgins. When a professional gambler who ...has bet heavily against The Wolves tries every dirty trick he knows to influence the outcome of the big game, it's the baseball players against the gangsters for a wild, hysterical, musical nine innings.
    Dir: Busby Berkeley    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    4 for Texas (1963)

Double-crossing outlaws go straight and become rival saloon owners.
    Dir: Robert Aldrich    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
    Dir: Lewis Milestone    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:00 PM    High Society (1956)

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Tender Trap (1955)

A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:45 PM    The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
    Dir: Otto Preminger    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak
    Runtime: 119 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


1:00 AM    Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

A Chicago gangster stumbles into philanthropic work during a gang war.
    Dir: Gordon Douglas    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:15 AM    Anchors Aweigh (1945)

A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
    Runtime: 143 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  August 23

6:00 AM    Hotel Paradiso (1966)

Chaos results when a mild mannered man tries to have an affair with his neighbor's wife.
    Dir: Peter Glenville    Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Go Naked in the World (1961)

A powerful businessman opposes his son's involvement with a woman with a past.
    Dir: Ranald Macdougall    Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Never So Few (1959)

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerrillas during World War II.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 AM    Beat The Devil (1953)

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Come September (1961)

A womanizing tycoon ends up chaperoning a group of American girls who have rented his Italian villa.
    Dir: Robert Mulligan    Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Strange Bedfellows (1965)

A wealthy American meets a bohemian Italian woman in London, and they impulsively marry. After realizing they have little in common, they separate. Seven years later, just before their divorce becomes final, they meet again and begin to rekindle the romance. Trouble ensues when her involvement in public protests threatens his promotion at work.
    Dir: Melvin Frank    Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


2:15 AM    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)

Film adaptation of Hugo's classic about a deformed bellringer and his love for a gypsy girl.
    Dir: Jean Delannoy    Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


4:15 AM    Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)

France, 1760s. The Seven Years' War decimates the armies of Europe as King Louis XV's recruiting offers scour the country for new cannon fodder. Meanwhile, in a quiet corner of Normandy lives Fanfan, a footloose young orphan who leads a charmed life as a rustic Casanova when not practicing his fencing skills on unsuspecting ...grain sacks. When the father of his latest conquest catches him in flagrant delit, Fanfan decides its time to sign up with the army to escape a "pitchfork" wedding--but he is also motivated by Adeline, a gypsy who predicts military glory for him and marriage to the King's daughter. However, Adeline is in fact only the recruiting sergeant's daughter, serving as a decoy to unsuspecting yokels to sing up. On his way to training camp, Fanfan single-handedly comes to the rescue of none other than Henriette, the King's daughter, and the Marquise de la Pompadour, when their royal carriage is attacked by Bandits. La Pompadour gives Fanfan a golden tulip (and a nickname) as thanks for his heroic deeds.
    Dir: Christian-Jaque    Cast: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



SUNDAY,  August 24

6:00 AM    The Male Animal (1942)

A college professor fights censorship and an amorous football player who's after his wife.
    Dir: Elliott Nugent    Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia De Havilland, Joan Leslie
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    The Big Street (1942)

A nightclub waiter, who's in love with a selfish showgirl, gets to prove his love when she's injured.
    Dir: Irving Reis    Cast: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton Maclane
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Jezebel (1938)

Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden's headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness ...and the profound depth of her love and sacrifice for Dillard.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    The Lady Eve (1941)

A shy millionaire, homeward bound after two years collecting snakes in the Brazilian jungle, encounters a gold-digger aboard an ocean liner.
    Dir: Preston Sturges    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

A pioneer woman replaces her ailing husband in a poker game after he loses most of their money.
    Dir: Fielder Cook    Cast: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards Jr.
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    Spencer's Mountain (1963)

A Wyoming farmer fights to build a better life for his oldest son.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James Macarthur
    Runtime: 119 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Wrong Man (1956)

Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Fail Safe (1964)

A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
    Dir: Sidney Lumet    Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Best Man (1964)

Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics.
    Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner    Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Mister Roberts (1955)

A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
    Dir: John Ford    Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 AM    Firecreek (1968)

An aging sheriff, who vows for peaceful resolutions, is put to the test when a gang of hoodlums ride into his town intent on taking it over.
    Dir: Vincent McEveety    Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:15 AM    The Rounders (1965)

Two ne'er-do-well cowpokes look for sex and easy money in the modern West.
    Dir: Burt Kennedy    Cast: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



MONDAY,  August 25

6:00 AM    The Secret of My Success (1965)

A young innocent becomes the prey for a series of devious, if unlucky females.
    Dir: Andrew L. Stone    Cast: Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Honor Blackman
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    A Ticklish Affair (1963)

A naval commander gets mixed up with a widow and her three children.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

A cowboy learns he has inherited a Wyoming Social club from his late brother, only to discover that it is a bawdy house.
    Dir: Gene Kelly    Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


11:15 AM    The Happy Ending (1969)

A middle-aged woman leaves her husband and children in search of herself.
    Dir: Richard Brooks    Cast: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


1:15 PM    The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)

A widower with a six year-old boy has a hard time finding a new wife/stepmother that meets his son's approval.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 PM    April Love (1957)

A young man visiting his relatives in Kentucky falls in love with their neighbor.
    Dir: Henry Levin    Cast: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:30 PM    Oklahoma! (1955)

Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the early settlers on the Oklahoma plain.
    Dir: Fred Zinnemann    Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
    Runtime: 148 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Carousel (1956)

A dramatic love story unfolds between a rough-talking, macho carousel barker, and a young, innocent mill worker.
    Dir: Henry King    Cast: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The Music Man (1962)

A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
    Dir: Morton Dacosta    Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
    Runtime: 151 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 AM    Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

After trapped survivors have been rescued from the capsized ship Poseidon, a team of workers comes to salvage what remains. During their exploration, they themselves become trapped in the hull, and while trying to escape, discover some survivors from the original disaster who had not been found.
    Dir: Irwin Allen    Cast: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  August 26

6:00 AM    Operation Crossbow (1965)

Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base.
    Dir: Michael Anderson    Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

A double agent has to take out an enemy spy who's really himself.
    Dir: Jimmy Komisarjevsky    Cast: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Otley (1969)

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
    Dir: Dick Clement    Cast: Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


11:45 AM    The Night of the Generals (1967)

During World War II, a couple of prostitutes doubling as German agents are murdered and a German intelligence officer, assigned to the case, pursues one of his compatriots, a General, whom he suspects is the killer.
    Dir: Anatole Litvak    Cast: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
    Runtime: 148 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 PM    King Rat (1965)

A U.S. officer in a World War II Japanese POW camp tries to raise money to buy his fellow prisoners' freedom.
    Dir: Bryan Forbes    Cast: George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Todd Armstrong
    Runtime: 134 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 PM    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Sweeping epic about a Russian doctor pursuing the woman he loves during Russia's turbulent political changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's rise to power.
    Dir: David Lean    Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay
    Runtime: 197 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Billy Liar (1963)

An emotionally stunted clerk retreats into his fantasies.
    Dir: John Schlesinger    Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race.
    Dir: Tony Richardson    Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:00 AM    The Dresser (1983)

A theatrical dresser tries to get an aging star through one more performance of King Lear.
    Dir: Peter Yates    Cast: Joe Belcher, Edward Fox, Stuart Richman
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:15 AM    King & Country (1964)

A British soldier, charged with desertion, is defended by an officer who despises his actions until he finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
    Dir: Joseph Losey    Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Private Potter (1962)

A young soldier refuses to fight because of a divine vision.
    Dir: Casper Wrede    Cast: Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC:



WEDNESDAY,  August 27

6:00 AM    Rain (1932)

A missionary tries to reform a streetwalker trapped on a Pacific island.
    Dir: Lewis Milestone    Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Sadie McKee (1934)

A working girl suffers through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Susan and God (1940)

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    A Woman's Face (1941)

Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Above Suspicion (1943)

A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

When she returns to her alma mater to pick up an honorary degree, a congresswoman re-ignites an old flame.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Torch Song (1953)

A tempestuous musical theatre star falls for a blind pianist.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Gig Young
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 PM    The Story of Esther Costello (1957)

A bitter divorcee works to educate a deaf and blind girl.
    Dir: David Miller    Cast: Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


11:45 PM    Harriet Craig (1950)

A woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 AM    Humoresque (1946)

A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy neurotic.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 AM    Possessed (1947)

A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad.
    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt    Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  August 28

6:00 AM    That's Entertainment! (1974)

An all-star cast, including Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra, introduces clips from MGM's greatest musicals.
    Dir: Jack Haley Jr.    Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:30 AM    Sing, You Sinners (1938)

A brother act is broken up by one sibling's devotion to gambling.
    Dir: Wesley Ruggles    Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


10:15 AM    On Your Toes (1939)

A hoofer gets mixed up with a ballet dancer, triggering backstage jealousy.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Private Buckaroo (1942)

A rebellious young Army recruit falls for the daughter of a retired officer.
    Dir: Edward F. Cline    Cast: The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis
    Runtime: 68 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:00 PM    Double Crossbones (1950)

In the late 1700s, a young man takes up with pirates after he is falsely accused of a theft.
    Dir: Charles T. Barton    Cast: Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC:


6:30 PM    I Love Melvin (1953)

A photographer's assistant promises to turn a chorus girl into a cover girl.
    Dir: Don Weis    Cast: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Singin' in the Rain (1952)

A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
    Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly    Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Francis (1950)

A talking mule helps a hapless soldier uncover an enemy agent.
    Dir: Arthur Lubin    Cast: Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:45 PM    There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

A blonde beauty upsets a show business family.
    Dir: Walter Lang    Cast: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    That Funny Feeling (1965)

A cleaning girl tries to pass off her workplace as her home, not knowing she's dating her boss.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Cry for Happy (1961)

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
    Dir: George Marshall    Cast: Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, Miiko Taka
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  August 29

6:00 AM    Steel Against the Sky (1941)

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
    Dir: A. Edward Sutherland    Cast: Alexis Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Craig Stevens
    Runtime: 67 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    The Smiling Ghost (1941)

A newswoman investigates a haunted house.
    Dir: Lewis Seiler    Cast: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:00 AM    One Last Fling (1949)

A jealous wife decides working for her husband is the best way to keep tabs on him.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Douglas Kennedy
    Runtime: 65 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


10:30 AM    The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's the angel Athanael. The beautiful angel Elizabeth delivers Athanael to the head of heaven's orchestra, where he's told to return to earth and blow his trumpet at midnight, thus marking the end of the world. When he fails his assignment, ...he becomes a fallen angel, and though he's given a second chance, his fellow fallen angels conspire to keep him from completing his mission.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    The Doughgirls (1944)

Honeymooners in Washington get caught up in wartime crowding, with disastrous results.
    Dir: James V. Kern    Cast: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    The Woman in White (1948)

Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Stallion Road (1947)

A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
    Dir: James V. Kern    Cast: Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Whiplash (1948)

An artist becomes a boxer but finds that it may not have been the best career choice.
    Dir: Lew Seiler    Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Any Number Can Play (1949)

The owner of a gambling casino tries to win back his estranged wife and child.
    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Conflict (1945)

A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 PM    Night and Day (1946)

Fanciful biography of songwriter Cole Porter, who rose from high society to find success on Tin Pan Alley.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    San Antonio (1945)

A reformed rustler tracks down a band of cattle thieves and tries to reform a crooked dance-hall girl.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Gentleman Jim (1942)

Fanciful biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  August 30

6:00 AM    Out of the Past (1947)

A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
    Dir: Jacques Tourneur    Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    The Story of Three Loves (1953)

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt    Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Top Secret Affair (1957)

A female publishing magnate tries to keep a general she hates from securing a prestigious appointment.
    Dir: H. C. Potter    Cast: Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Paul Stewart
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 AM    Seven Days in May (1964)

In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being plotted by one of his Joint Chiefs and must find a way to dismantle it.
    Dir: John Frankenheimer    Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Paths of Glory (1958)

A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
    Dir: Stanley Kubrick    Cast: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    Lust for Life (1956)

An intense and imaginative artist, Van Gogh possesses undeniable talent but is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

During World War II, two Norwegians uncover a Nazi plan to build nuclear weapons and are left to sabotage it on their own after a British invasion fails.
    Dir: Anthony Mann    Cast: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson
    Runtime: 131 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 AM    The Big Trees (1952)

An unscrupulous lumber baron has to join forces with former enemies to keep even bigger businessmen from taking over.
    Dir: Felix Feist    Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  August 31

7:30 AM    The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

An American woman with a British husband fights to keep her family together through two world wars.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy Mcdowall
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:45 AM    Penny Serenade (1941)

A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    The Awful Truth (1937)

A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
    Dir: Leo McCarey    Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

A woman's two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
    Dir: Richard Boleslawski    Cast: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 PM    A Guy Named Joe (1943)

When adventurous World War II bomber pilot Pete Sandidge dies in an aerial attack after ordering the crew to safety, he meets "the General," a legendary dead pilot who assigns Pete to return to earth as a guardian angel for a new pilot named Ted Randall. But when Pete learns that Ted is dating Pete's former girlfriend, ...Dorinda Durston, he must set aside his jealousy and prepare Ted for a dangerous bombing mission.
    Dir: Victor Fleming    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Show Boat (1936)

Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River."
    Dir: James Whale    Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    My Favorite Wife (1940)

A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's remarriage.
    Dir: Garson Kanin    Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 PM    I Remember Mama (1948)

Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka
    Runtime: 134 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Magnificent Obsession (1935)

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
    Dir: John M. Stahl    Cast: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 AM    Love Affair (1939)

Near-tragic misunderstandings threaten a shipboard romance.
    Dir: Leo McCarey    Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Roberta (1935)

John Kent, visiting Paris with his bandleader friend, Huck Haines, suddenly inherits his aunt's fashionable dress shop in the city. Although clueless about the fashion world, John and Huck get help from designer Stephanie and the fiery Countess Scharwenka, whom Huck recognizes as his small-town sweetheart, Lizzie. But when ...John's snooty ex, Sophie, shows up, he must reconsider his new feelings for Stephanie.
    Dir: William A. Seiter    Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y