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SUNDAY,  September 1

6:00 AM    The Bobo (1967)

To land a job, an aspiring singer has to seduce a heartless gold digger.
    Dir: Robert Parrish    Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Lady L (1965)

A beautiful laundress rises through European society.
    Dir: Peter Ustinov    Cast: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:45 AM    Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Three young dancers vie for a starring role on Broadway.
    Dir: Stanley Donen    Cast: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:15 AM    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

In this fascinating epic, Colonel Blimp relished a good fight, but as the atrocities of combat took their toll, he was forced to rethink the sense of it all. Deborah Kerr co-stars playing three different women who touched the colonel's heart over the course of his 40-year career.
    Dir: Michael Powell    Cast: Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook
    Runtime: 163 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    Seven Sweethearts (1942)

A father insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
    Dir: Frank Borzage    Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Lassie Come Home (1943)

A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to her lost family.
    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox    Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:45 PM    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

In 1932 Alabama, a widowed lawyer with two small children defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
    Dir: Robert Mulligan    Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
    Runtime: 131 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

The famed bandleader fights to establish himself and keep his family going.
    Dir: Anthony Mann    Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Henry Morgan
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The Benny Goodman Story (1956)

The legendary band leader fights to make swing acceptable.
    Dir: Valentine Davies    Cast: Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 AM    Exit Smiling (1926)

In this silent film, the worst actress in a theatrical company turns out to be their only hope of survival.
    Dir: Sam Taylor    Cast: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd
    Runtime: 77 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    An Enemy of the People (1989)

An idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
    Dir: Satyajit Ray    Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


4:00 AM    A Master Builder (2013)

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
    Dir: Jonathan Demme    Cast: Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Larry Pine
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Adaptation    Rating: TV-14    CC:



MONDAY,  September 2

6:15 AM    His Greatest Gamble (1934)

A convicted killer breaks out of jail to help his mother-dominated daughter.
    Dir: John Robertson    Cast: Richard Dix, Dorothy Wilson, Bruce Cabot
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Red Hot Tires (1935)

A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
    Dir: D. Ross Lederman    Cast: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:45 AM    Bad Guy (1937)

A man convinces his brother to bust him out of prison.
    Dir: Edward Cahn    Cast: Bruce Cabot, Virginia Grey, Edward Norris
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


10:00 AM    Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

A young misfit lands on a prison chain gang and falls for the foreman's daughter.
    Dir: Lewis Seiler    Cast: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    They Live by Night (1948)

After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
    Dir: Nicholas Ray    Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:15 PM    Brute Force (1947)

Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
    Dir: Jules Dassin    Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


3:00 PM    The Big House (1930)

An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
    Dir: George Hill    Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 PM    Public Hero No. 1 (1935)

An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob's secrets.
    Dir: J. Walter Ruben    Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he's framed.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Woman's World (1954)

An executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Cornel Wilde
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Three models of modest means rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth as part of an elaborate scheme to snare rich husbands.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Designing Woman (1957)

A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 AM    Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
    Dir: Richard Quine    Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:15 AM    Young Man with a Horn (1950)

A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  September 3

6:15 AM    MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)

Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly perform in a clip from Ziegfeld Follies. Host George Murphy introduces a clip from Ransom.
    Dir: null    Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
    Runtime: 25 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


7:00 AM    The Deep Six (1958)

A pacifist finds his values challenged by the outbreak of World War II.
    Dir: Rudolph Maté    Cast: Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:00 AM    The McConnell Story (1955)

The true story of Korean war hero Captain Joseph McConnell, Jr.
    Dir: Gordon Douglas    Cast: Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:00 AM    The Iron Mistress (1952)

American adventurer Jim Bowie fights to make his way in the lumber business.
    Dir: Gordon Douglas    Cast: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:00 PM    Guns of the Timberland (1960)

Logging partners with a government contract lock horns with a rancher and her neighbors.
    Dir: Robert D. Webb    Cast: Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:45 PM    Drum Beat (1954)

While negotiating a peace treaty with North California Indians, a presidential emissary has to fight off a renegade.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:45 PM    The Big Land (1957)

A cattleman tries to convince a group of farmers to build a small town as a railroad link.
    Dir: Gordon Douglas    Cast: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:30 PM    The Badlanders (1958)

Western outlaws join forces for a daring gold robbery in this remake of The Asphalt Jungle.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Bigger Than Life (1956)

A "miracle" drug threatens a family man's sanity.
    Dir: Nicholas Ray    Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:45 PM    World in My Corner (1956)

Up and coming ambitious boxer Tommy Shea must choose between making dishonest money with a crooked promoter or honestly winning a title, as advised by his manager.
    Dir: Jesse Hibbs    Cast: Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


11:30 PM    It Came from Outer Space (1953)

No one believes an amateur astronomer's spaceship sighting until the town's people begin disappearing.
    Dir: Jack Arnold    Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:00 AM    The Young Philadelphians (1959)

A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
    Runtime: 136 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:30 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



WEDNESDAY,  September 4

6:00 AM    The Better 'Ole (1926)

In this silent film, friends face misadventures during World War I.
    Dir: Charles Reisner    Cast: Sydney Chaplin, Doris Hill, Harold Goodwin
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Smilin' Through (1932)

A young woman falls in love with the son of an old family enemy.
    Dir: Sidney Franklin    Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    After Office Hours (1935)

A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard    Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:45 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


1:00 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 Le Roy    Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:45 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


4:30 PM    Baby Face (1933)

Lily Powers's dreary life in Pennsylvania takes a sudden turn when her father is killed in an accident. Unmoved by her father's death, Lily, along with friend Chico, jumps on a freight train and seduces a worker to avoid being arrested. Now in New York City, Lily uses her beauty and sexual prowess to seduce a string of ...successful men as she works her way to the top.
    Dir: Alfred E. Green    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Gay Divorcee (1934)

A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
    Dir: Mark Sandrich    Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Thin Man (1934)

In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 PM    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


11:15 PM    Christopher Strong (1933)

An aviatrix's affair with a married man could cost her her career.
    Dir: Dorothy Arzner    Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke
    Runtime: 77 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:45 AM    Bombshell (1933)

Film starlet Lola Burns is tired of her money-grubbing father and her scandal-chasing publicist E.J. "Space" Hanlon. After being unable to adopt a child due to Hanlon's interference, Lola flees movie stardom and meets Gifford Middleton, a millionaire who doesn't know of her fame. Just when marriage seems right around the ...corner for the new couple, Lola discovers that her past won't be as easy to forget as she'd like.
    Dir: Victor Fleming    Cast: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Cain and Mabel (1936)

The publicity romance between a prizefighter and a showgirl turns into the real thing.
    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 AM    The White Cockatoo (1935)

Crooks and killers try to stop a young woman from proving her claim to an inheritance.
    Dir: Alan Crosland    Cast: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly
    Runtime: 73 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  September 5

6:00 AM    Holiday in Mexico (1946)

An ambassador's daughter falls for a famous musician.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Ilona Massey, José Iturbi
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:15 AM    This Time for Keeps (1947)

A famous singer's son falls for a swimming star.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 AM    On an Island with You (1948)

A movie star falls for a handsome naval officer during location shooting in Hawaii.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 PM    Luxury Liner (1948)

The daughter of a ship's captain becomes a sea-going cupid.
    Dir: Richard Whorf    Cast: George Brent, Jane Powell, Lauritz Melchior
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 PM    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


4:15 PM    Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer.
    Dir: Edward Buzzell    Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Bathing Beauty (1944)

A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Carmen Jones (1954)

A sultry factory worker seduces a young soldier and then dumps him for another man.
    Dir: Otto Preminger    Cast: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Sidewalk Stories (1989)

A New York street artist befriends an orphaned girl and in turn becomes one of the city's homeless.
    Dir: Charles Lane    Cast: Nicole Alysia, Darnell Williams, Trula Hoosier
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Lost Boundaries (1949)

A black family tries to build a new life by passing as white.
    Dir: Alfred L. Werker    Cast: Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:00 AM    The Emperor Jones (1933)

When his subjects revolt, a Caribbean dictator looks back on the path that led to his downfall.
    Dir: Dudley Murphy    Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


3:30 AM    The Mighty Quinn (1989)

When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
    Dir: Carl Schenkel    Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Action    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


5:30 AM    MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)

Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly perform in a clip from Ziegfeld Follies. Host George Murphy introduces a clip from Ransom.
    Dir: null    Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
    Runtime: 25 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



FRIDAY,  September 6

6:00 AM    Out of the Blue (1947)

A young woman passes out in the apartment of an innocent young man. Convinced that she's dead, he must get rid of the body before his wife finds out.
    Dir: Leigh Jason    Cast: George Brent, Virginia Mayo, Turhan Bey
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)

A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)

Three chorus girls hit Las Vegas in search of rich husbands.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:15 AM    The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)

An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:45 PM    Flaxy Martin (1949)

Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
    Dir: Richard Bare    Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 PM    She's Back on Broadway (1953)

A fading Hollywood star returns to the stage to work with the man who discovered her.
    Dir: Gordon Douglas    Cast: Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Frank Lovejoy
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)

A professor helps a burlesque queen get a college education.
    Dir: Bruce Humberstone    Cast: Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The West Point Story (1950)

A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
    Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo    Cast: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


10:15 PM    All the King's Men (1949)

A backwoods politician rises to the top only to become corrupted.
    Dir: Robert Rossen    Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:15 AM    The Great Dictator (1940)

A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
    Dir: Charles Chaplin    Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
    Runtime: 129 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    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


4:30 AM    Ivan the Terrible (Part 2) (1958)

The Russian czar sinks to ever more bloodthirsty means of consolidating power.
    Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein    Cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



SATURDAY,  September 7

6:00 AM    Salt of the Earth (1954)

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they continue to fight for better working conditions.
    Dir: Herbert J. Biberman    Cast: Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Busybody Bear (1952)

Barney Bear and Buck Beaver team up to build a beaver dam.
    Dir: Dick Lundy    Cast: Paul Frees
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:07 AM    Bone Crushers (1933)

This short film showcases professional wrestling.
    Dir: Ward Wing    Cast: Paul Gerard Smith, Alex Aberg, Tony Felice
    Runtime: 8 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:16 AM    How to Be a Detective (1936)

Robert Benchley attempts to teach the audience what it takes to be a successful detective.
    Dir: Felix E. Feist    Cast: Robert Benchley, Dewey Robinson, Arthur Hoyt
    Runtime: 9 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:25 AM    Bandit Ranger (1943)

A cowboy takes on a band of cattle rustlers single-handedly.
    Dir: Lesley Selander    Cast: Tim Holt, Cliff "ukulele Ike" Edwards, Joan Barclay
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    One Against Many (1956)

A scientist chooses between his ideals and public health, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: Lew Ayres, Wallace Ford, Chick Chandler
    Runtime: 26 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


10:00 AM    I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)

Olive elopes with Bluto in his plane only to realize she still loves Popeye. Bluto is disgusted with her and throws her out as Popeye comes to her rescue.
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky    Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:07 AM    Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

Tarzan and Jane try to keep a woman from being forced to marry a con artist.
    Dir: Robert Florey    Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco
    Runtime: 68 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Trial by Trigger (1944)

A logger must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by an unscrupulous logging company owner.
    Dir: William McGann    Cast: Jack Tornek, Tex Phelps, Tom Wilson
    Runtime: 21 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    That Night in Rio (1941)

A nightclub entertainer pretends to be a noted financier, only to fall for the man's wife.
    Dir: Irving Cummings    Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:45 PM    Girl Happy (1965)

A Chicago mobster hires a rock'n'roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
    Dir: Boris Sagal    Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:30 PM    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


5:45 PM    Bullitt (1968)

A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
    Dir: Peter Yates    Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Arthur (1981)

A childlike millionaire must choose between keeping his fortune and marrying a girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
    Dir: Steven Gordon    Cast: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


9:45 PM    Cabaret (1972)

Set in Berlin in 1931, a starry-eyed singer and the club's master of ceremonies try to bring happiness and decadence to the lives of Berliners as the spectre of Nazism grows around them and threatens to destroy their lives.
    Dir: Bob Fosse    Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:00 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


1:45 AM    The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father.
    Dir: Richard Brooks    Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom
    Runtime: 146 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 AM    The Falcon's Brother (1942)

A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
    Dir: Stanley Logan    Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  September 8

6:00 AM    The Main Event (1979)

Hillary Kramer, a wealthy perfume executive, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and escaped to South America. While going through what's left of her remaining assets, she finds Kid Natural, a boxer she purchased as a tax write off years earlier. She decides to take Kid, who hasn't been in ...the ring for years, and use him as her key to riches. Kid thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
    Dir: Howard Zieff    Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Best Friends (1982)

Two screenwriters who have lived and worked together for years decide to escalate their relationship and marry. Soon into their marriage, they discover the great differences between being a married couple rather than best friends.
    Dir: Norman Jewison    Cast: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:00 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


12:00 PM    Miracle in the Rain (1956)

When a lonely woman's wartime lover dies, her loneliness threatens her life.
    Dir: Rudolph Maté    Cast: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Mary, Mary (1963)

A man on the verge of divorce is shocked by his wife's glamorous makeover.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson, Michael Rennie
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:15 PM    I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)

A henpecked L.A. lawyer escapes into the world of hippies and free love.
    Dir: Hy Averback    Cast: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


6:00 PM    A Little Romance (1979)

Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
    Dir: George Roy Hill    Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, John Pepper
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:00 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


10:00 PM    Sweet Music (1935)

A band leader shares a tempestuous romance with his lead singer.
    Dir: Alfred E. Green    Cast: Rudy Vallee, Ann Dvorak, Ned Sparks
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 AM    The Ace of Hearts (1921)

A romantic rivalry among two members of a secret vigilante society becomes intense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
    Dir: Wallace Worsley    Cast: Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Lon Chaney
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:17 AM    The Patsy (1928)

A romantic young woman falls for her sister's fiance, then discovers her sister is cheating on him.
    Dir: King Vidor    Cast: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


2:45 AM    La Haine (1995)

After a youth is tortured by the police, a riot explodes on the streets of Paris in this examination of racial tensions in France.
    Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz    Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghaoui
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


4:30 AM    Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)

Four juvenile delinquents commit robberies in the streets of Madrid to finance their vices.
    Dir: Carlos Saura    Cast: Berta Socuellamos, Jesus Arias Aranzeque, Jose Hervais Roldan
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: N



MONDAY,  September 9

6:15 AM    The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

A young delinquent defies his sister to join a tough street gang.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsley
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)

A Chinese showman uses his magical powers to save a Western town from itself.
    Dir: George Pal    Cast: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    About Face (1952)

Two military school cadets discover their best friend is married.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Two-Faced Woman (1941)

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 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


4:00 PM    Angel Face (1953)

A woman murders her family for their money.
    Dir: Otto Preminger    Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Eyes Without a Face (1959)

A surgeon steals young women's faces hoping to heal his daughter's scars.
    Dir: Georges Franju    Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


8:00 PM    Written on the Wind (1957)

A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family then falls for her husband's best friend.
    Dir: Douglas Sirk    Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Cobweb (1955)

Inmates and staff at a posh asylum clash over love and lunacy.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Confidential Agent (1945)

A Spanish spy and an American heiress battle fascists in England.
    Dir: Herman Shumlin    Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Blood Alley (1955)

An American sailor breaks out of a Chinese jail and dodges Communist agents on the road to Hong Kong.
    Dir: William A. Wellman    Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)

A runaway prince in disguise takes up with a taxi driver.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  September 10

6:00 AM    Blood on the Moon (1948)

A gunslinger hired to drive off a rancher falls in love with the man's daughter.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Mystery in Mexico (1948)

An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:45 AM    Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

A German officer tries to force a French laundress to become his mistress.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Criminal Court (1946)

An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his cabaret singer sweetheart has been arrested for the crime.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Tom Conway, Martha O'Driscoll, June Clayworth
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:15 AM    The Set-Up (1949)

An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Born to Kill (1947)

A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 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


4:00 PM    Until They Sail (1957)

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for Allied sailors en route to World War II.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    This Could Be the Night (1957)

A schoolteacher gets a secretarial job at a gangster-run nightclub.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Wake Island (1942)

Marines stationed in the Pacific fight off the Japanese during World War II.
    Dir: John Farrow    Cast: Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:45 PM    Beau Geste (1939)

Three brothers in the French foreign legion fight off murderous Arabs and a sadistic sergeant.
    Dir: William A. Wellman    Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 PM    The Great McGinty (1940)

A bum is transformed into a political kingpin by a corrupt hoodlum, only to be destroyed by the same man when he decides to go straight.
    Dir: Preston Sturges    Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:15 AM    Impact (1949)

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
    Dir: Arthur Lubin    Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:15 AM    An American Romance (1944)

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
    Dir: King Vidor    Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel
    Runtime: 121 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  September 11

6:00 AM    Dames (1934)

A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Fast Company (1938)

Married book-dealers Joel and Gerda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller .
    Dir: Edward Buzzell    Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:00 AM    Out West with the Hardys (1938)

A small-town judge takes his family on a western vacation so he can help a friend negotiate water rights.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:30 AM    Boys Town (1938)

True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 PM    Till the End of Time (1946)

A returning World War II veteran falls for a troubled war widow.
    Dir: Edward Dmytryk    Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    Out of the Fog (1941)

A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman's daughter.
    Dir: Anatole Litvak    Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    Whistling in the Dark (1941)

A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
    Dir: S. Sylvan Simon    Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
    Runtime: 77 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:15 PM    Maisie Was a Lady (1941)

A Brooklyn showgirl signs on as a maid for a family of wealthy eccentrics.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:45 PM    Singapore Woman (1941)

A woman who believes she's cursed, takes refuge on a rubber plantation.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Virginia Field
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


8:00 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


10:00 PM    Dark Victory (1939)

Judith Traherne is a rich heiress, but despite a life of parties she takes little pleasure in the trappings of wealth. When she begins to suffer from dizzy spells, her doctor, Frederick Steele, has to tell her that she has a brain tumor.
    Dir: Edmund Goulding    Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 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


4:30 AM    The Fighting 69th (1940)

A braggart soldier learns the true meaning of heroism when he joins World War I's all-Irish unit.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  September 12

6:00 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


8:15 AM    John Paul Jones (1959)

One of the great heroes of the American Revolution, John Paul Jones struggles to convince the English colonies to build a navy during the Revolutionary War, then leads his rag-tag armada in stunning defeats of the vastly superior British fleet. After the War, Jones continues his fight to build a powerful seagoing force, ...and helps lead the Russian Empress Catherine the Great to victory in the Black Sea.
    Dir: John Farrow    Cast: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:30 AM    Wings and the Woman (1941)

Two real-life aviation pioneers try to find happiness in marriage.
    Dir: Herbert Wilcox    Cast: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


12:15 PM    Convicts 4 (1962)

A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
    Dir: Millard Kaufman    Cast: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:15 PM    Dr. Crippen (1963)

The real-life story of a doctor who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife.
    Dir: Robert Lynn    Cast: Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Mrs. Soffel (1984)

A prison warden's wife is seduced into helping a notorious killer escape.
    Dir: Gillian Armstrong    Cast: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Marie: A True Story (1985)

Ousted parole-board chairwoman Marie Ragghianti blows the whistle on corruption in 1968 Tennessee.
    Dir: Roger Donaldson    Cast: Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:00 PM    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future. When Dr. Dave Bowman and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending ...trek through space and time.
    Dir: Stanley Kubrick    Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
    Runtime: 149 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:45 PM    Alphaville (1965)

A private-eye is rocketed through space into a city run by a dictator scientist, where individuality and love have been suppressed.
    Dir: Jean-Luc Godard    Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


12:45 AM    Logan's Run (1975)

A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
    Dir: Michael Anderson    Cast: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


3:00 AM    Demon Seed (1977)

A sophisticated computer falls in love with its creator's wife and terrorizes her.
    Dir: Donald Cammell    Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerritt Graham
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


4:45 AM    Brainstorm (1983)

A scientist battles the military for control of a machine that records sensory experiences, including death.
    Dir: Douglas Trumbull    Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  September 13

6:45 AM    The Seventh Victim (1943)

A girl's search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
    Dir: Mark Robson    Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Cat People (1942)

A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
    Dir: Jacques Tourneur    Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:15 AM    The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

A child explores her late mother's life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
    Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch    Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:30 AM    Bedlam (1946)

When an actress tries to reform an asylum, its corrupt keeper has her committed.
    Dir: Mark Robson    Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Isle of the Dead (1945)

The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire.
    Dir: Mark Robson    Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:15 PM    The Ghost Ship (1943)

A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
    Dir: Mark Robson    Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 PM    I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with the woman's husband.
    Dir: Jacques Tourneur    Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    The Leopard Man (1943)

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
    Dir: Jacques Tourneur    Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:00 PM    The Body Snatcher (1945)

To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
    Runtime: 77 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:30 PM    Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

This looks at the imaginative producer who fashioned a lasting body of beautiful and unsettling films on meager budgets.
    Dir: Kent Jones    Cast: Val Lewton, Martin Scorsese, Elias Koteas
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Reds (1981)

American journalist John Reed journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant, then married, who will become a feminist icon and activist. Politics at home become more complicated as the rift grows between reality and Reed's ...ideals. Bryant takes up with a cynical playwright, and Reed returns to Russia, where his health declines.
    Dir: Warren Beatty    Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
    Runtime: 200 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


11:30 PM    The Parallax View (1974)

A reporter uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind a political assassination.
    Dir: Alan J. Pakula    Cast: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Earl Hindman
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


1:30 AM    Germany Year Zero (1948)

A German family fights to survive in the ruins of Berlin after the end of World War II.
    Dir: Roberto Rossellini    Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


3:00 AM    Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

A crooked president reforms mysteriously.
    Dir: Gregory Lacava    Cast: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 AM    The Battleship Potemkin (1925)

A Russian mutiny triggers revolutionary sentiments around the nation.
    Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein    Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Mikhail Gomorov
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



SATURDAY,  September 14

6:00 AM    The Fog of War (2003)

The story of America as seen through the eyes of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense. McNamara, one of the most controversial and influential figures in world politics, leads viewers on an insider's journey through many of the seminal events that shaped the 20th Century.
    Dir: Errol Morris    Cast: Robert S Mcnamara, Doug Abel, Julie Ahlberg
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Biography    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Dance of the Weed (1941)

A male weed tries to court a female flower by dancing with her but he is a little too clumsy.
    Dir: Rudolf Ising    Cast: Rudolf Ising, Harry Lang
    Runtime: 8 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:09 AM    Cave Explorers (1957)

A group of Austrian speleologists explore a newly-discovered cave.
    Dir: Heinz Scheiderbauer    Cast: Peter Roberts, Jack Davis, Herman Fuchs
    Runtime: 8 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:18 AM    How to Behave (1936)

An etiquette expert finds it increasingly difficult to follow his own advice.
    Dir: Arthur Ripley    Cast: Robert Benchley, Gwen Lee, Isabelle Keith
    Runtime: 10 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:28 AM    Lady Gangster (1942)

A district attorney tries to reform a gangster's moll who's been sent up the river.
    Dir: Florian Roberts    Cast: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox
    Runtime: 62 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    It's a Most Unusual Day (1956)

A nightclub act prompts a married couple to review their past, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
    Dir: Claude Binyon.    Cast: Fred MacMurray, Marilyn Erskine, Jimmy McHugh
    Runtime: 26 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


10:00 AM    I Likes Babies and Infinks (1937)

Popeye's pal Swee'Pea causes consternation when Olive Oyl is unable to stop him from crying and calls upon the sailor man to help. Bluto answers the call too, both trying to get him to smile. The two enemies get into a fight and Popeye's can of spinach fails him!
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel    Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:08 AM    Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)

When a circus kidnaps Boy, Tarzan and Jane follow him to New York City.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John[ny] Sheffield
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    A Regular Trouper (1932)

A singer must cope with her troupe manager falling in love with her sister.
    Dir: Roy Mack    Cast: Eddie Lang, Edward Leiter, Ruth Etting
    Runtime: 18 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Roller Boogie (1979)

Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
    Dir: Mark L. Lester    Cast: Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Class of '44 (1973)

During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. When they graduate from high school in 1944, they go their separate ways. Benjie joins the Marines as Hermie and Oscy enter college. There, Hermie falls head over heels for another freshman named Julie, and the two old friends deal with ...a troublesome fraternity president who is in charge of hazings.
    Dir: Paul Bogart    Cast: Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    Take the High Ground! (1953)

A tough drill sergeant prepares green recruits for service in the Korean War.
    Dir: Richard Brooks    Cast: Maurice Jara, Robert Arthur, William Hairston
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:45 PM    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

A redundant bank clerk attempts to find any means at his disposal to protect his crippled wife and family by bigamously courting and marrying rich women, securing their property and then returning home with the booty.
    Dir: Charles Chaplin    Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Bend of the River (1952)

A westerner with a questionable past leads a wagon train into the Oregon territory.
    Dir: Anthony Mann    Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julia Adams
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Winchester '73 (1950)

A man combs the West in search of his stolen rifle.
    Dir: Anthony Mann    Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    A Lady Without Passport (1950)

A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
    Dir: Joseph H. Lewis    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 AM    The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

A professional poker player, with a "can't lose" reputation, is challenged to a game by another infamous rival.
    Dir: Norman Jewison    Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


3:30 AM    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



SUNDAY,  September 15

6:00 AM    Cabin in the Sky (1943)

God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    One Foot in Heaven (1941)

A minister and his wife cope with the problems of church life in the 20th century.
    Dir: Irving Rapper    Cast: Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    A Lady Without Passport (1950)

A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
    Dir: Joseph H. Lewis    Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Oliver Twist (1948)

The famed orphan gets caught up in Fagin's criminal band while searching for familial love.
    Dir: David Lean    Cast: John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:45 PM    Tea and Sympathy (1956)

A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled teen tormented by his fellow students.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    A Patch of Blue (1965)

A young blind white woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts her into a school for the blind, and promises to marry her.
    Dir: Guy Green    Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    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


8:00 PM    They All Laughed (1981)

Three private detectives who work at the same agency are given the assignment of following three attractive women whose husbands suspect them of cheating on them. Before long, the women are romantically involved with the detectives.
    Dir: Peter Bogdanovich    Cast: Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn, John Ritter
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


10:15 PM    Hero at Large (1980)

While wearing a superhero uniform to promote a movie, a struggling actor buying milk stops a robbery. The unknown hero decides to try again. Can he impress his cute neighbor?
    Dir: Martin Davidson    Cast: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC:


12:15 AM    Captain Salvation (1927)

In this silent film, a divinity student risks his future to help a prostitute.
    Dir: John S. Robertson    Cast: Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Pauline Starke
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


2:00 AM    Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)

A young boy tries to return a notebook to a schoolmate.
    Dir: Abbas Kiarostami    Cast: Babak Ahmadpoor, Ahmad Ahmadpoor, Khodabaksh Defai
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


3:30 AM    Taste of Cherry (1997)

An Iranian tries to find someone to help him commit suicide.
    Dir: Abbas Kiarostami    Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


5:30 AM    MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)

Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly perform in a clip from Ziegfeld Follies. Host George Murphy introduces a clip from Ransom.
    Dir: null    Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
    Runtime: 25 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



MONDAY,  September 16

6:00 AM    Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

In this musical remake, a conservative boys' school teacher falls in love with an actress.
    Dir: Herbert Ross    Cast: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave
    Runtime: 151 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

In this fascinating epic, Colonel Blimp relished a good fight, but as the atrocities of combat took their toll, he was forced to rethink the sense of it all. Deborah Kerr co-stars playing three different women who touched the colonel's heart over the course of his 40-year career.
    Dir: Michael Powell    Cast: Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook
    Runtime: 163 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    The Old Man and the Sea (1958)

A Cuban fisherman believes his long dry spell will end when he catches a legendary fish.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Felipe Pazos Jr., Harry Bellaver, Spencer Tracy
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 PM    The Sunshine Boys (1975)

A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback.
    Dir: Herbert Ross    Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


3:30 PM    Ride the High Country (1962)

Employed to guard a gold shipment from the lawless Sierra mining town of Course Gold, Gil Westrum hires his longtime friend Steve Judd and Heck Longtree to ride shotgun. The two, however, have less honorable plans for the gold. But both sets of plans are thrown into disarray when the men encounter Elsa Knudsen fleeing her ...violent, religious fanatic father to elope with Billy Hammond.
    Dir: Sam Peckinpah    Cast: Randolph Scott, Joel Mccrea, Mariette Hartley
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:30 PM    Tokyo Story (1953)

An aging couple visits their children in Tokyo only to find heartache and rejection.
    Dir: Yasujiro Ozu    Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
    Runtime: 138 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


8:00 PM    To Have and Have Not (1944)

A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
    Dir: Howard Hawks    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Big Sleep (1946)

Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
    Dir: Howard Hawks    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Dark Passage (1947)

A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 AM    Key Largo (1948)

A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Bacall on Bogart (1988)

Lauren Bacall hosts this extraordinary documentary on her life on- and off-screen with her late husband, Humphrey Bogart.
    Dir: David Heeley    Cast: Peter Bogdanovich, Katharine Hepburn, John Huston
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  September 17

6:00 AM    The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:45 AM    George White's Scandals (1945)

Two sets of lovers come together while working on a big musical.
    Dir: Felix E. Feist    Cast: Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Phillip Terry
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 AM    A Night at the Opera (1935)

The Marx Brothers are pitted against high culture as they try to help two young opera singers who are in love.
    Dir: Sam Wood    Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:45 AM    Murder Ahoy (1964)

Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
    Dir: George Pollock    Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:45 PM    The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 PM    So Ends Our Night (1941)

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. When the political refugee risks his life to see his dying wife in Austria, he has a dangerous encounter with a rabid Nazi.
    Dir: John Cromwell    Cast: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Secret Garden (1949)

An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox    Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Algiers (1938)

A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
    Dir: John Cromwell    Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Crime    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    Jungle Book (1942)

A boy raised by wolves adjusts to life among humans.
    Dir: Zoltan Korda    Cast: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    Man of the People (1937)

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Joseph Calleia, Florence Rice, Thomas Mitchell
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Sworn Enemy (1936)

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Joseph Calleia
    Runtime: 73 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:00 AM    The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)

A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.
    Dir: Herman Hoffman    Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann
    Runtime: 56 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  September 18

6:00 AM    Nothing But Trouble (1944)

A pair of dimwits get jobs as servants to a boy king whose life is in danger.
    Dir: Sam Taylor    Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:15 AM    It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

A returning GI and his friends try to make it in the music business.
    Dir: Richard Whorf    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)

Fictionalized account of the legendary racehorse's training and triumphs.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon Mccallister
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:45 AM    The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
    Dir: John Cromwell    Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 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


2:30 PM    My Reputation (1946)

A widow generates small-town gossip when she falls in love too soon after her husband's death.
    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:15 PM    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


6:00 PM    White Heat (1949)

A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 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: 111 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Born to Kill (1947)

A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
    Dir: Robert Wise    Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 PM    Kings Row (1942)

Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
    Dir: Sam Wood    Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 AM    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


4:15 AM    Easy to Love (1953)

Williams loves her boss from afar and finally wins him over when she starts an affair with another man.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  September 19

6:00 AM    Challenge to Lassie (1949)

A faithful dog changes the lives of all who know her after her master dies.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Fearless Fagan (1952)

When a circus clown is drafted, he tries to sneak his pet lion into the service.
    Dir: Stanley Donen    Cast: Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:00 AM    Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.
    Dir: Cyril Endfield    Cast: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:30 AM    Room for One More (1952)

New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Gypsy Colt (1954)

In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
    Dir: Andrew Marton    Cast: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    The Gazebo (1960)

A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
    Dir: George Marshall    Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)

Animal doctors fight to protect the wildlife of Africa.
    Dir: Andrew Marton    Cast: Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Desk Set (1957)

An efficiency expert introduces his amazing new machine that can answer anything to a TV researcher and her staff, but it threatens to put them out of work.
    Dir: Walter Lang    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Modern Times (1936)

When an oppressed assembly-line factory worker is mistaken for a radical political leader, he is arrested and thrown into jail. Upon his release he tries to find work, but can't seem to get ahead or escape the long arm of the law.
    Dir: Charlie Chaplin    Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:45 PM    Westworld (1973)

A high-tech amusement park for adults features three recreated historical environments - Medieval World, Roman World, and West World - populated by highly realistic androids programmed to indulge the whims of every high-paying guest. The main attraction of West World is the Gunslinger - a robot programmed to start duels ...but who can always be killed by humans packing special guns. John and Peter, two buddies on vacation, wake up in a West World bordello after a night of brawls and booze, not yet knowing that a system-wide failure has infected the androids and placed them in mortal danger.
    Dir: Michael Crichton    Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


1:30 AM    Metropolis (1926)

A city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers.
    Dir: Fritz Lang    Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
    Runtime: 148 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


4:15 AM    THX 1138 (1971)

In an underground, totalitarian society in the future, sexuality has been outlawed and constant sedation of men and women is mandatory. But THX 1138 and his female roommate LUH 3417 have been cutting back on their medications and have fallen in love, so THX 1138 is imprisoned for drug evasion and misconduct of a sexual ...nature. With help from an inmate, THX 1138 breaks out to find LUH3417 who is pregnant. Because the funding for fugitive pursuits are quite limited, THX 1138 will survive if he can evade the robocops, but his vehicle keeps overheating and surveillance is everywhere.
    Dir: George Lucas    Cast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  September 20

6:00 AM    The Silk Express (1933)

A young silk importer fights off threats to his cargo during a perilous train ride.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Arthur Byron
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Murder in the Private Car (1934)

A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
    Dir: Harry Beaumont    Cast: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    Strangers on a Train (1951)

A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:00 AM    Shanghai Express (1932)

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
    Dir: Josef Von Sternberg    Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Avalanche Express (1979)

During the cold war, a Soviet biological warfare expert plans to defect to the West. A CIA agent gets the man onboard a European train in order to aid his escape, but the Soviets are determined to stop at nothing to prevent this, including starting an avalanche which envelopes the train.
    Dir: Mark Robson    Cast: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Spy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Berlin Express (1948)

Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
    Dir: Jacques Tourneur    Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:30 PM    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


5:00 PM    Terror on a Train (1953)

It's a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
    Dir: Ted Tetzlaff    Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:30 PM    The Narrow Margin (1952)

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
    Dir: Richard Fleischer    Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    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


9:45 PM    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


12:15 AM    Hearts and Minds (1975)

Filmmakers capture conflicting attitudes toward the Vietnam War.
    Dir: Peter Davis    Cast: Daniel Ellsberg, General William Westmoreland, Vo Thi Tu
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


2:15 AM    The Lives of Others (2006)

In East Berlin, a secret policeman becomes obsessed with the couple he is ordered to surveil.
    Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck    Cast: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch
    Runtime: 137 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


4:45 AM    Born in Flames (1983)

In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
    Dir: Lizzie Borden    Cast: Dee Dee Halleck, Julia Hanlon, Johanna Heer
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  September 21

6:15 AM    The Bicycle Thief (1948)

A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.
    Dir: Vittorio De Sica    Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:00 AM    The Farmer and the Belle (1950)

You may have seen farmers in your day, but you haven't seen anything like Olive Oyl! Neither have Popeye and Bluto. They see her while driving around the countryside and can't resist rushing over to assist her.
    Dir: Seymour Kneitel, Thomas Johnson    Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Mae Questel
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:07 AM    Don't You Believe It (1943)

This Passing Parade short looks at several historical truths that just aren't so.
    Dir: Edward L. Cahn    Cast: John Nesbitt, Modest Altschuler, Cran Chamberlin
    Runtime: 11 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:18 AM    How to Raise a Baby (1938)

This makes light of raising and taking care of a baby.
    Dir: Roy Rowland    Cast: Robert Benchley, Rollie Jones, Robbie Jones
    Runtime: 10 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:28 AM    Her Husband's Secretary (1937)

A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife's best friend as his secretary.
    Dir: Frank McDonald    Cast: Jean Muir, Beverly Roberts, Warren Hull
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    The Sword of Villon (1956)

The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
    Dir: George Waggner    Cast: Errol Flynn, Hillary Brooke, Pamela Duncan
    Runtime: 26 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Football Toucher Downer (1940)

Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel    Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:07 AM    Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

The jungle king braves a lost prehistoric world to obtain malaria serum for the Allies.
    Dir: William Thiele    Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Salt Water Daffy (1933)

Two men join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
    Dir: Ray Mccarey    Cast: Charles Judels, Shemp Howard, Jack Haley
    Runtime: 21 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


12:00 PM    Deep in My Heart (1954)

Life story of Sigmund Romberg who grew to become one of Broadway's most prolific composers and producers in the 1920s.
    Dir: Stanley Donen    Cast: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:30 PM    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


4:00 PM    Soylent Green (1973)

A police officer in the year 2022 uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.
    Dir: Richard O. Fleischer    Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


5:45 PM    Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

A Mexican-American War veteran, Jeremiah Johnson, heads to the mountains to live in isolation. Woefully unequipped for the task at hand, Johnson is fortunate to come across a seasoned mountain man willing to teach him the necessary survival tactics. As life continues in the mountains, Johnson finds himself a native bride ...and an adopted son. However, their peaceful existence is threatened when Johnson incurs the ire of the Crow Indians.
    Dir: Sydney Pollack    Cast: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

An African-American man is hired to find a woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal.
    Dir: Carl Franklin    Cast: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


10:00 PM    One False Move (1991)

Prison buddies Ray and Pluto, and Ray's girlfriend Fantasia--all from L.A., commit a series of executions in Los Angeles before heading east to unload a cache of stolen cocaine--only to be apprehended by a gung-ho sheriff in Louisiana.
    Dir: Carl Franklin    Cast: Cynda Williams, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Action    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Split Second (1953)

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb test.
    Dir: Dick Powell    Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 AM    All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess.
    Dir: Anatole Litvak    Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
    Runtime: 143 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 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



SUNDAY,  September 22

6:00 AM    Twenty Plus Two (1961)

When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
    Dir: Joseph M. Newman    Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Ring of Fire (1961)

A group of delinquents hold a sheriff hostage in the middle of a forest fire.
    Dir: Andrew L. Stone    Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Split Second (1953)

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb test.
    Dir: Dick Powell    Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 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


2:00 PM    It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Dan Daily are in top form and star in this classic musical comedy about three fun-loving army buddies who meet in New York City ten years after their discharge only to discover that each has compromised on his dreams ... and that their reunion is being broadcast as a national television special.
    Dir: Gene Kelly    Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Baby Doll (1956)

In Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, failing middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan has been married to the pretty 19-year-old virgin Baby Doll Meighan for two years. Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib in their decrepit mansion as Archie waits impatiently for Baby Doll's 20th birthday, which is just a few days away, ...when - by prior agreement with Baby Doll's dying father - the marriage can finally be consummated. Meanwhile, Archie's competitor, Silva Vacarro, has taken away all of Archie's business, and Archie retaliates by burning down Vacarro's gin. Suspecting Archie as the arsonist, Vacarro plans to have his revenge by pursuing, seducing, and terrorizing Baby Doll into signing a confession that will admit her husband's guilt.
    Dir: Elia Kazan    Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Learning Tree (1969)

Newt Winger is a sensitive teenager who dreams often and big and from whom his mother dreams even bigger. Gordon Parks proves a triple threat as director, producer and screenwriter of this film version of his autobiographical novel about Winger, a young black man coming of age in small-town Kansas during the 1920s. In 1989, ...this film was among the first 25 films designated by the U.S. Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Library for all time.
    Dir: Gordon Parks    Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Libeled Lady (1936)

When an heiress sues a newspaper, the editor hires a reporter to compromise her.
    Dir: Jack Conway    Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 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


12:15 AM    Mockery (1927)

A peasant saves a countess during the Russian Revolution.
    Dir: Benjamin Christensen    Cast: Lon Chaney, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Bedford
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


2:00 AM    Yi Yi (2000)

NJ Jian, his wife Min-min and their two kids are a typical middle-class family, sharing their Taipei apartment with Min-min's elderly mother. NJ is a partner in a computer hardware firm which made big profits last year but will go bankrupt soon if it doesn't change direction. He warms to the idea of teaming up with Ota, ...an innovative designer of games software in Japan, and enjoys spending time with the charming and urbane Japanese man. Things start to go wrong for the Jians on the day that Min-min's brother Ah-Di gets married. That's the day when Min-min's mother suffers a stroke and is rushed to hospital in a coma from which she may never awaken.
    Dir: Edward Yang    Cast: Wu Nien-Jen, Jonathan Chang
    Runtime: 173 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


5:00 AM    Desert Passage (1952)

A cowboy doesn't realize the man he's been hired to drive to Mexico is an outlaw.
    Dir: Lesley Selander    Cast: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed
    Runtime: 62 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



MONDAY,  September 23

6:00 AM    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies.
    Dir: Max Reinhardt    Cast: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:30 AM    Ah, Wilderness! (1935)

In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 AM    A Family Affair (1936)

In the first Hardy Family film, a small-town judge fights for re-election while dealing with family problems.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:15 PM    Stablemates (1938)

A broken down veterinarian saves a stable boy's prize racehorse.
    Dir: Sam Wood    Cast: Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, Arthur Hohl
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:00 PM    Love Is a Headache (1938)

A freak accident gives a fading actress a huge publicity push.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Ted Healy
    Runtime: 73 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 PM    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

Mark Twain's classic troublemaker helps a runaway slave escape to the North.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Human Comedy (1943)

A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a mysterious businessman during a luxurious train ride.
    Dir: Sidney Lumet    Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


10:15 PM    The Shootist (1976)

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
    Dir: Don Siegel    Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


12:00 AM    Appointment with Death (1988)

Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot finds his vacation trip to the Holy Land (Palestine circa 1937) interrupted when one of the members of his tour group is murdered at an archaeological dig, and Poirot must solve the crime before continuing with his holiday.
    Dir: Michael Winner    Cast: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


2:00 AM    Harper (1966)

A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.
    Dir: Jack Smight    Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
    Runtime: 121 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:15 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: Y



TUESDAY,  September 24

6:15 AM    Kiss Her Goodbye (1959)

A man on the run with his sister finds love in a small Florida town.
    Dir: Albert Lipton    Cast: Steven Hill, Elaine Stritch, Gene Lyons
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


8:00 AM    This Man Is Mine (1934)

A woman fights to keep her husband from cheating.
    Dir: John Cromwell    Cast: Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Cry Wolf (1947)

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:00 AM    The Red House (1947)

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:00 PM    Fog Over Frisco (1934)

A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
    Runtime: 68 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    The Seventh Victim (1943)

A girl's search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
    Dir: Mark Robson    Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    A Stolen Life (1946)

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as the wife of the man they both love.
    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt    Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:45 PM    Dead Ringer (1964)

One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter's identity.
    Dir: Paul Henreid    Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

A New Mexican town rallies behind a farmer who unintentionally irrigates his land with the water supply of a rich entrepreneur.
    Dir: Robert Redford    Cast: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


10:15 PM    Zoot Suit (1981)

In 1940s Los Angeles, members of a Mexican-American gang, and their leader Henry Reyna, are accused of murder. Although there is insufficient evidence for a fair trial, they are convicted and sent to San Quentin prison. Activist lawyers fight to win them their freedom.
    Dir: Luis Valdez    Cast: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC:


12:15 AM    Salt of the Earth (1954)

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they continue to fight for better working conditions.
    Dir: Herbert J. Biberman    Cast: Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 AM    Boulevard Nights (1979)

Brothers Raymond and Chuco have a strong family bond. Raymond is a former gang member who hopes to leave the neighborhood behind and start a new life. Chuco is still immersed in the violent life of the gang, however, and the bond between these brothers is tested when a war between rivals erupts.
    Dir: Michael Pressman    Cast: Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta Dubois
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


4:00 AM    The Cisco Kid (1994)

The Mexican hero and his saddle sidekick foil crooks, officials and agents of Napoleon.
    Dir: Glenn Wilder    Cast: Jimmy Smits, Cheech Marin
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC:



WEDNESDAY,  September 25

6:00 AM    MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)

Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly perform in a clip from Ziegfeld Follies. Host George Murphy introduces a clip from Ransom.
    Dir: null    Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
    Runtime: 25 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


6:30 AM    The Outriders (1950)

Rebel soldiers try to hijack a Union gold shipment.
    Dir: Roy Rowland    Cast: Joel Mccrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:15 AM    The Prodigal (1955)

Biblical story of a young man led astray by an evil priestess.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    Them! (1954)

Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
    Dir: Gordon Douglas    Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:15 PM    Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero's family.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:45 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


3:45 PM    Rome Adventure (1962)

A man falls in love with two women.
    Dir: Delmer Daves    Cast: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi
    Runtime: 119 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Gazebo (1960)

A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
    Dir: George Marshall    Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 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:


10:45 PM    South Pacific (1958)

Two stories set side by side about love and loss set in the wartime tropics. Adaptation of the 1949 stage play.
    Dir: Joshua Logan    Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
    Runtime: 171 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 AM    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
    Dir: Robert Aldrich    Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 AM    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



THURSDAY,  September 26

6:15 AM    Easter Parade (1948)

A musical about a Broadway dancer who tries to forget his ex-partner while rising to stardom with his new partner.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)

A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    The Band Wagon (1953)

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 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


2:00 PM    Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home.
    Dir: Busby Berkeley    Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 PM    42nd Street (1933)

When revered Broadway director Julian Marsh falls on hard times with both his health and his finances, he helms an ambitious musical as a final production before his retirement. His lead actress, Dorothy Brock, is torn between two loves, the show's wealthy backer Abner Dillon and the earnest but penniless actor Pat Denning, ...while aspiring young performer Peggy Sawyer waits in the wings, hoping for her big break.
    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:15 PM    Gypsy (1962)

During New York's vaudeville days a tough stage mother tries to get her daughters to become stars. After a long, seedy struggle, the shy "Gypsy" becomes a hit and then tries to turn her back on the mother who got her there.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
    Runtime: 149 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    M*A*S*H (1970)

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor to keep their sanity during wartime.
    Dir: Robert Altman    Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


10:15 PM    Ordinary People (1980)

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
    Dir: Robert Redford    Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC:


12:30 AM    Klute (1971)

A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
    Dir: Alan J. Pakula    Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Kelly's Heroes (1970)

An American platoon tries to recover buried treasure behind enemy lines.
    Dir: Brian G. Hutton    Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles
    Runtime: 143 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


5:00 AM    Report from the Aleutians (1943)

World War II documentary supervised by John Huston, a captain in the United States Army, that relates the tough conditions under which American men had to fight.
    Dir: Capt. John Huston    Cast: Capt. John Huston, Walter Huston, Lt. Jules Buck
    Runtime: 45 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  September 27

6:00 AM    The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)

An American adventurer competes with the famed Mexican bandit to recover a lost gold shipment.
    Dir: George Sherman    Cast: Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Sol Madrid (1968)

An undercover narcotics agent tries to track a Mafia chief.
    Dir: Brian G. Hutton    Cast: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:30 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


11:30 AM    The Brave One (1956)

A Mexican boy saves his pet bull from death in the bull ring by securing a pardon from the president.
    Dir: Irving Rapper    Cast: Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos, Elsa Cardenas
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:15 PM    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking it rich in the Mexican mountains.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:30 PM    The Night of the Iguana (1964)

An ex-minister works as a tour guide in a Mexican coastal town, falls into some romantic interludes with a group of schoolteachers, and then meets a beautiful artist at a run-down hotel where the proprietress is in love with him.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Under the Volcano (1984)

A day in life of self-destructive British consul on the eve of World War II.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Three Days of the Condor (1975)

A CIA researcher uncovers top secret information and finds himself marked for death.
    Dir: Sydney Pollack    Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


10:15 PM    I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, 'Remember This House'.
    Dir: Raoul Peck    Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:00 AM    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)

In 1431, Joan of Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
    Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer    Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


1:30 AM    The Last Hurrah (1958)

A political boss faces changing times as he runs for re-election.
    Dir: John Ford    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
    Runtime: 121 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 AM    Night of the Living Dead (1968)

An army of dead bodies comes to life and terrorizes a group of friends trapped inside a rural farmhouse.
    Dir: George A. Romero    Cast: Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Duane Jones
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


5:30 AM    The Tin Drum (1979)

Three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing. He then finds playing a tin drum helps tune out things that annoy him, even the advent of war.
    Dir: Volker Schlöndorff    Cast: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler
    Runtime: 164 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N



SATURDAY,  September 28

8:15 AM    How to Train a Dog (1936)

This comedic short provides a lesson in how to train a dog . . . or not.
    Dir: Arthur Ripley    Cast: Robert Benchley, Mitzi Cummings, Felix E. Feist
    Runtime: 8 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:26 AM    Peach-O-Reno (1932)

Two divorce lawyers run a gambling joint by night.
    Dir: William A. Seiter    Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


9:30 AM    Markheim (1956)

Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he wants something else, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
    Dir: Fred Zinneman    Cast: Ray Milland, Rod Steiger, Jay Novello
    Runtime: 26 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Protek the Weakerist (1937)

While taking Olive Oyl's puppy for a walk, Popeye gets into a fight with Bluto and his bulldog. Popeye and the pup are getting the worst of it until the sailor manages to get hold of a can of spinach. The puppy even becomes invigorated by eating Popeye's spinach and whips Bluto's bulldog.
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel    Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:08 AM    Tarzan's Revenge (1938)

Tarzan saves Eleanor from the evil grip of ruler Ben Alleu Bey.
    Dir: D. Ross Lederman    Cast: Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm, George Barbier
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Pony Express Days (1940)

Buffalo Bill Cody attempts to help the Pony Express.
    Dir: B. Reeves Eason    Cast: George Reeves, David Bruce, Frank Wilcox
    Runtime: 20 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


12:00 PM    Melody Cruise (1933)

A playboy finds true love during an ocean cruise.
    Dir: Mark Sandrich    Cast: Charles Ruggles, Phil Harris, Helen Mack
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Colorado Territory (1949)

An outlaw just released from prison is sucked back into a life of crime in this remake of High Sierra.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:15 PM    Where Eagles Dare (1968)

A team of Allied Forces specialists is sent on a mission to Bavaria to rescue a kidnapped American General from the Germans during World War II.
    Dir: Brian G. Hutton    Cast: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
    Runtime: 158 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
    Dir: Edward Dmytryk    Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    8 1/2 (1963)

A film director, suffering from a lack of creative inspiration, retreats into a world of fantasies and remembrances of the women in his past and present.
    Dir: Federico Fellini    Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale
    Runtime: 140 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


10:30 PM    A Special Day (1977)

Drama unfolds in a chance meeting between two social outsiders.
    Dir: Ettore Scola    Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


12:30 AM    High Wall (1947)

Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife's murder.
    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt    Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    La notte (1961)

A successful writer and his wife face the meaninglessness of their relationship during a night of wild partying.
    Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni    Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


4:45 AM    Le Notti Bianche (1957)

A man of modest means meets a mysterious girl, depressed because she awaits the arrival of her lover from afar. In the meantime, the poor man starts to fall in love with her.
    Dir: Luchino Visconti    Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



SUNDAY,  September 29

6:30 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


8:15 AM    Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

Three showgirls travel to Paris in search of rich husbands.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    High Wall (1947)

Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife's murder.
    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt    Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)

A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
    Dir: Richard L. Bare    Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 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


3:30 PM    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


5:45 PM    Vertigo (1958)

A detective falls for the mysterious woman he's been hired to tail.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Greed (1924)

In this silent film, lust for gold tears apart a dentist and his wife.
    Dir: Erich Von Stroheim    Cast: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
    Runtime: 240 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


12:15 AM    The Enchanted Cottage (1924)

A crippled World War I veteran retreats to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and the outside world. Once there a plain but kind young woman reveals to him that the house he is staying in is in fact an old honeymoon cottage. Spirits of newlyweds from the past who inhabit the cottage soon cast a love spell upon them.
    Dir: John S. Robertson    Cast: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Adaptation    Rating: TV-G    CC:


2:00 AM    Gösta Berling's Saga (1924)

Gösta Berling is a priest who has been defrocked for his rebellious attitude. However, his pushy nature conceals a greater sense of idealism than most of his more docile peers possess.
    Dir: Mauritz Stiller    Cast: Lars Hanson, Ellen Cederstrom, Greta Garbo
    Runtime: 184 mins    Genre: Adaptation    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


5:15 AM    Hot Water (1924)

A newlywed husband has in-law problems.
    Dir: Sam Taylor    Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Josephine Crowell
    Runtime: 57 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



MONDAY,  September 30

6:15 AM    Please Believe Me (1950)

Three men pursue a shipboard romance with a woman they think is an heiress.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    If Winter Comes (1948)

Scandal results when a well-meaning man takes in a pregnant girl.
    Dir: Victor Saville    Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Young Bess (1953)

The future Elizabeth I fights court intrigue in the turbulent years before her ascension to the throne.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Edward, My Son (1949)

A possessive father destroys anyone who threatens his plans for his son.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Count Your Blessings (1959)

After a wartime separation, an Englishwoman discovers her French husband is a womanizer.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:15 PM    Vacation from Marriage (1945)

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
    Dir: Alexander Korda    Cast: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:00 PM    Quo Vadis (1951)

A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
    Runtime: 171 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    In Cold Blood (1967)

Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
    Dir: Richard Brooks    Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
    Runtime: 134 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:30 PM    Capote (2005)

In 1959, author Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
    Dir: Bennett Miller    Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-MA    CC:


12:45 AM    Murder by Death (1976)

A criminal madman invites the world's greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
    Dir: Robert Moore    Cast: Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:45 AM    Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
    Dir: William Hamilton, Edward Killy    Cast: Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y