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Last updated  12/03/2024




SUNDAY,  December 1

6:30 AM    The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
    Dir: Don Weis    Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:15 AM    The Mating Game (1959)

A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating.
    Dir: George Marshall    Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Naked Alibi (1954)

A chief of police detectives who is fired for brutality tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
    Dir: Jerry Hopper    Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:45 AM    The Yearling (1946)

A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
    Runtime: 134 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 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


4:00 PM    Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Bishop's Wife (1948)

An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
    Dir: Henry Koster    Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Gone with the Wind (1939)

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the outbreak of the Civil War and the end of slavery.
    Dir: Victor Fleming    Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
    Runtime: 233 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 AM    The Scar of Shame (1927)

In this silent film, a composer marries an abused girl to protect her but can't face his family's prejudices.
    Dir: Frank Perugini    Cast: Harry Henderson, Norman Johnstone, Ann Kennedy
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


2:15 AM    The Great Beauty (2013)

Journalist Jep Gambardella's 65th birthday and a shock from the past cause him to examine his status as a fixture of Rome's literary and social circles.
    Dir: Paolo Sorrentino    Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
    Runtime: 142 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    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



MONDAY,  December 2

6:30 AM    Bachelor Apartment (1931)

An honest working girl falls for a skirt-chasing playboy.
    Dir: Lowell Sherman    Cast: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:15 AM    Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

A stenographer tries to save her boss from his divorcee girlfriend.
    Dir: Paul Stein    Cast: Constance Bennett, Kenneth Mackenna, Basil Rathbone
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 AM    The Right to Romance (1933)

A lady plastic surgeon jeopardizes her marriage when her ex-boyfriend is scarred.
    Dir: Alfred Santell    Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Young, Nils Asther
    Runtime: 67 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


11:00 AM    They Call It Sin (1932)

An innocent young chorus girl fights the advances of her lecherous producer.
    Dir: Thornton Freeland    Cast: Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel
    Runtime: 68 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 PM    Reckless (1935)

A theatrical star gets in over her head when she marries a drunken millionaire.
    Dir: Victor Fleming    Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    No More Ladies (1935)

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
    Dir: Edward H. Griffith    Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Charles Ruggles
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 PM    Arsene Lupin (1932)

A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
    Dir: Jack Conway    Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:00 PM    Jewel Robbery (1932)

A jewel thief falls for a tycoon's wife in Vienna.
    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson
    Runtime: 68 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)

A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
    Dir: Richard Boleslawski    Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
    Dir: Harry Beaumont    Cast: Joan Crawford, John Mack Brown, Nils Asther
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 PM    Hollywood Party (1934)

A movie star's gala celebration creates chaos.
    Dir: Allan Dwan    Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:45 PM    The Road to Ruin (1934)

An innocent girl falls in with a crowd devoted to pot and free love.
    Dir: Mrs. Wallace Reid    Cast: Helen Foster, Nell O'Day
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


12:00 AM    Looking for Love (1964)

A promising singer has to choose between show business and marriage.
    Dir: Don Weis    Cast: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 AM    The Big Cube (1969)

LSD almost ruins the life of a former actress and her stepdaughter.
    Dir: Tito Davison    Cast: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


3:15 AM    Madame Satan (1930)

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband.
    Dir: Cecil B. Demille    Cast: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:15 AM    MGM Parade Show #22 (1955)

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald perform in a clip from "Maytime"; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz introduce a clip from "Forever Darling." Hosted by George Murphy.
    Dir: null    Cast: Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Lucille Ball
    Runtime: 25 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



TUESDAY,  December 3

6:00 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: 57 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:00 AM    The Toll of the Sea (1922)

An American sailor marries then deserts the Chinese beauty who had saved his life.
    Dir: Chester M. Franklin    Cast: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)

A Yankee sea captain tries to make his fortune in the South Seas.
    Dir: Byron Haskin    Cast: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Andre Morell
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    A Majority of One (1961)

A Jewish widow falls in love with a Japanese businessman.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton
    Runtime: 153 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Bridge to the Sun (1961)

An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II.
    Dir: Etienne Périer    Cast: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 PM    The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
    Dir: Daniel Mann    Cast: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:00 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: 158 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Sounder (1972)

In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
    Dir: Martin Ritt    Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Ten years ago, as the country of Rwanda descended into madness, one man made a promise to protect the family he loved--and ended up finding the courage to save over 1200 people. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, secretly used his position and intelligence to shelter over a thousand refugees during the genocide ...crisis. While the rest of the world closed its eyes, Paul opened his heart to prove that the human spirit can make us stronger than we'd ever imagine.
    Dir: Terry George    Cast: Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo
    Runtime: 121 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
    Dir: Biyi Bandele    Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC:


2:15 AM    The Good Earth (1937)

Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements.
    Dir: Sidney Franklin    Cast: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
    Runtime: 138 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:45 AM    The Kid (1921)

In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.
    Dir: Charles Chaplin    Cast: Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
    Runtime: 52 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



WEDNESDAY,  December 4

6:00 AM    Confidentially Connie (1953)

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


7:15 AM    Always Together (1947)

A dying millionaire gives his fortune to a working girl, then recovers and tries to get it back.
    Dir: Frederick De Cordova    Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Cecil Kellaway
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:45 AM    My Life with Caroline (1941)

A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
    Dir: Lewis Milestone    Cast: Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    Married Bachelor (1941)

A married gambler has to pose as a bachelor to pay off his debts.
    Dir: Edward Buzzell    Cast: Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Felix Bressart
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:45 AM    It Started with a Kiss (1959)

After a whirlwind courtship, an Army officer and his wacky wife try to make their marriage work.
    Dir: George Marshall    Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:30 PM    The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

A newlywed couple encounter many difficulties during their honeymoon trip aboard a trailer they purchased.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:15 PM    You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)

A neglected housewife turns herself into a glamour girl to win her husband back.
    Dir: Ray McCarey    Cast: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote
    Runtime: 65 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 PM    The Tunnel of Love (1958)

A married couple endures endless red tape when they try to adopt a child.
    Dir: Gene Kelly    Cast: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Forever, Darling (1956)

A madcap woman's guardian angel tries to save her marriage.
    Dir: Alexander Hall    Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    It Happened One Night (1934)

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


10:00 PM    Roman Holiday (1953)

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Pillow Talk (1959)

A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
    Dir: Michael Gordon    Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 AM    The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 AM    Crossing Delancey (1988)

Romantic drama about a single New York City woman and her quest to find the right man, but then a matchmaker introduces the upscale intellectual to a pickle salesman.
    Dir: Joan Micklin Silver    Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  December 5

6:00 AM    The Beast of the City (1932)

A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
    Dir: Charles Brabin    Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


7:30 AM    Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

Three generations of vaudevillians fight for stardom on stage and screen.
    Dir: Willard Mack    Cast: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Jackie Cooper
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    The Chief (1933)

A fireman's son goes into politics.
    Dir: Charles F. Riesner    Cast: Ed Wynn, Charles "Chic" Sale, Dorothy Mackaill
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)

A boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children's home.
    Dir: Archie Mayo    Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Death on the Diamond (1934)

A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
    Dir: Edward Sedgwick    Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Hide-Out (1934)

Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:00 PM    Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:00 PM    Down the Stretch (1936)

A disgraced jockey's son fights to clear the family name.
    Dir: William Clemens    Cast: Patricia Ellis, Mickey Rooney, Dennis Moore
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Riffraff (1936)

Young marrieds in the fishing business run afoul of the law.
    Dir: J. Walter Ruben    Cast: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    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


10:30 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


12:15 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


2:00 AM    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


3:45 AM    Lord Jeff (1938)

When a good boy goes bad, his family sends him to a naval military school.
    Dir: Sam Wood    Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Charles Coburn
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:15 AM    The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

A British boy in New York tries to join a tenement gang.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  December 6

7:00 AM    East Side, West Side (1949)

A chic New York couple is torn apart by a seductive model.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:00 AM    My Forbidden Past (1951)

A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
    Dir: Robert Stevenson    Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

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


12:00 PM    The Angel Wore Red (1960)

A priest and a prostitute fall in love during the Spanish Civil War.
    Dir: Nunnally Johnson    Cast: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Bhowani Junction (1956)

An Anglo-Indian beauty falls for a British officer as her country fights for independence.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Knights of the Round Table (1953)

Lancelot, banished from King Arthur's court for loving Queen Guinevere, returns to defeat the evil Mordred.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Mogambo (1953)

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


8:00 PM    Wuthering Heights (1939)

A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Hamlet (1948)

The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.
    Dir: Laurence Olivier    Cast: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney
    Runtime: 155 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:45 AM    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


2:45 AM    The Entertainer (1960)

Story follows the life of a has-been, talent-less vaudevillian who still thinks he's a star, even as he destroys his family around him in pursuing a lost cause.
    Dir: Tony Richardson    Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Joan Plowright
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:45 AM    21 Days (1940)

After accidentally killing his mistress' husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
    Dir: Basil Dean    Cast: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  December 7

6:15 AM    Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

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


8:00 AM    The Hick Chick (1946)

A country chicken competes with a city slicker chicken for the affections of a local beauty.
    Dir: Tex Avery (fred)    Cast: Sara Berner, Frank Graham, Cal Howard
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:10 AM    Stars on Horseback (1943)

In this short film, a master blacksmith makes house calls to Hollywood stars' homes to pamper their horse's hooves. Vitaphone Release 1107A.
    Dir: Myron J. Swartz    Cast: Guinn Williams, Tim Holt, George Garfield
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:20 AM    Believe It or Not #5 (1932)

This short entry in the "Believe it or Not" series presents such oddities as a shrunken head, an iron execution chamber, and entertaining tombstone descriptions. Vitaphone Release 1336.
    Dir: Murray Roth    Cast: Robert L Ripley, Roy Mack
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:28 AM    Dig That Uranium! (1956)

The Bowery Boys battle crooks for control of a uranium mine out West.
    Dir: Edward Bernds    Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:33 AM    Accused (1933)

Chapter 10 of The Wolf Dog 1933 serial. When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser    Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
    Runtime: 20 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:03 AM    Mutiny Ain't Nice (1933)

As Popeye's ship prepares to sail, Olive falls into a trunk and is carried aboard unnoticed. Popeye finds her and, knowing the old-time sailor's superstition that a woman on board is bad luck, tries to hide her. When Olive is discovered by the sailors, Popeye has his hands full foiling their efforts to cast the jinx overboard. ...A mutiny starts and Popeye finally quells the mutineers in a laugh-packed climax.
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar    Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:10 AM    Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)

A photographer and his daughter discover a wild boy in the jungle.
    Dir: Ford Beebe    Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Traffic with the Devil (1946)

This short film looks at the increase of traffic levels and accidents in the U.S.
    Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch    Cast: Charles Reineke, Gil Perkins, Ralph Montgomery
    Runtime: 18 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Ski Party (1965)

Two college guys take a ski trip to meet girls.
    Dir: Alan Rafkin    Cast: Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:45 PM    From Here to Eternity (1953)

Powerful drama of the passions and violence of a group of soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor just before World War II. Based on a massive novel by James Jones deemed impossible to put onscreen because of its strong sexual content and language, From Here to Eternity emerged as a lavish, star-studded spectacle.
    Dir: Fred Zinnemann    Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Holiday Affair (1949)

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


8:00 PM    Central Station (1998)

The emotional journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
    Dir: Walter Salles    Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vinicius De Oliveira
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


10:00 PM    Fruitvale Station (2013)

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
    Dir: Ryan Coogler    Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Biography    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Act of Violence (1949)

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


1:45 AM    The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

An obsessed movie director grooms an unknown to play his deceased movie-star wife.
    Dir: Robert Aldrich    Cast: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Of Human Bondage (1964)

A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.
    Dir: Ken Hughes    Cast: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  December 8

6:00 AM    The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

A womanizing author of children's books borrows a son to woo his illustrator.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Butch Jenkins
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 AM    Good News (1947)

A football hero falls in love with his French tutor.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Act of Violence (1949)

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


11:45 AM    A Christmas Carol (1938)

In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:00 PM    Ben-Hur (1959)

While seeking revenge, a rebellious Israelite prince crosses paths with Jesus Christ.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
    Runtime: 222 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


5:00 PM    King of Kings (1961)

Epic retelling of Christ's life and the effects of his teachings on those around him.
    Dir: Nicholas Ray    Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Robert Ryan
    Runtime: 168 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Born to Be Bad (1950)

An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
    Dir: Nicholas Ray    Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Torch Song (1953)

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


12:00 AM    The Life of the Party (1920)

A party during a blizzard throws a mayoral candidate into compromising situations.
    Dir: Joseph Henabery    Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle, Winifred Greenwood, Roscoe Karns
    Runtime: 50 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


1:00 AM    Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)

In this silent short, a henpecked husband is mistaken for a beautiful woman's jealous husband.
    Dir: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle    Cast: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Louise Fazenda
    Runtime: 27 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


1:30 AM    Star in the Night (1945)

Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.
    Dir: Don Siegel    Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Baggett, Anthony Caruso
    Runtime: 21 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    El Sur (1983)

In the 1950s, a young girl dreams of The South, location of a father she can never quite pin down except in her imagination.
    Dir: Victor Erice    Cast: Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Iciar Bollain
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


4:00 AM    The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

After seeing the classic Frankenstein, two naive young girls go searching for the mad doctor's monster.
    Dir: Victor Erice    Cast: Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria, Teresa Gimpera
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



MONDAY,  December 9

6:00 AM    Safari Drums (1953)

A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.
    Dir: Ford Beebe    Cast: John[ny] Sheffield, Douglas Kennedy, Barbara Bestar
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:15 AM    Africa Adventure (1954)

Documentary about a trio of hunters bagging big game in Africa.
    Dir: Robert C. Ruark    Cast: Robert C. Ruark, Harry Selby, Andrew Holmberg
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:30 AM    Rhino! (1964)

A scientist is forced to join forces with an unscrupulous African hunter.
    Dir: Ivan Tors    Cast: Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton, Robert Culp
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.
    Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack    Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Sanders of the River (1935)

A British District Officer in Nigeria fights against gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
    Dir: Zoltan Korda    Cast: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


1:45 PM    Homecoming (1948)

A married man's wartime love affair spells trouble when peace comes.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:45 PM    Something of Value (1957)

The native tribes of Kenya stage a revolt against British settlers during the years of colonization and two boyhood friends--one white and the other black--are caught in the middle.
    Dir: Richard Brooks    Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)

James Parker is in Africa looking for a mythical white ape when his wife dies. He is joined by his estranged daughter, Jane. Together, they learn this white ape is Tarzan, a man who was raised by apes in the jungle. Parker continues to hunt Tarzan, but now with the purpose of bringing him back to England, dead or alive. ...Tarzan responds to the situation by kidnapping Jane, and the two are fascinated by each other. When natives take Jane with the intent of sacrificing her, Tarzan springs into action.
    Dir: John Derek    Cast: Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, John Phillip Law
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Action    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Father of the Bride (1950)

Attorney Stanley T. Banks finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay, announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan, while wife Ellie and son Tommy burst with enthusiasm for Kay's wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a "son" offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who's all grown up now with a life of her own.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 PM    All Night Long (1963)

A jazz band's leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
    Dir: Basil Dearden    Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


11:30 PM    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
    Dir: Orson Welles    Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:15 AM    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

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


3:00 AM    Black Orpheus (1959)

A streetcar conductor loses his true love during Brazil's carnival season.
    Dir: Marcel Camus    Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes Deoliveira
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


5:00 AM    Sylvia and the Phantom (1946)

On the eve of a young girl's birthday she is visited by the ghost of her grandmother's former lover.
    Dir: Claude Autant-Lara    Cast: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



TUESDAY,  December 10

6:45 AM    The Glass Slipper (1955)

Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Keenan Wynn
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:30 AM    Born to Dance (1936)

A sailor on leave helps a young dancer make it to the top on Broadway.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
    Runtime: 108 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:30 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


12:30 PM    Panama Hattie (1942)

A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies.
    Dir: Norman Z. McLeod    Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, "Rags" Ragland
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Singer May wants to marry a rich man but her heart belongs to a penniless dancer named Alec. Louis Blore, who has just won a fortune through a sweepstakes, promptly marries May. However, after Louis accidentally has a laced drink, he has a fantastic dream in which he, May and Alec are members of the royal French court. ...Once Louis awakens, he begins to reconsider his relationship with May.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 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


5:45 PM    Les Girls (1957)

Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Nowhere to Go (1958)

A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
    Dir: Seth Holt    Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

An age-resisting private girls-school teacher grows eccentric and vicarious through her young students. Set in 1930s Edinburgh.
    Dir: Ronald Neame    Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Travels with My Aunt (1972)

A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:00 AM    A Room with a View (1985)

An Englishwoman visiting Florence is torn between her straitlaced fiance and a young Bohemian.
    Dir: James Ivory    Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Young Cassidy (1965)

True story of playwright Sean O'Casey's involvement with the Irish rebellion of 1910.
    Dir: Jack Cardiff, John Ford    Cast: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  December 11

6:00 AM    Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    The Crimson Pirate (1952)

A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
    Dir: Robert Siodmak    Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Captain Blood (1935)

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Barbados where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill
    Runtime: 119 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    The Sea Hawk (1940)

A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 PM    Treasure Island (1934)

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young boy out to foil pirates and find a buried treasure.
    Dir: Victor Fleming    Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Pirate (1948)

An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Fallen Idol (1948)

A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
    Dir: Carol Reed    Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
    Dir: Sydney Pollack    Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC:


12:15 AM    Car Wash (1976)

A preacher, a cabby, other customers and employees mingle to disco music at a Los Angeles car wash.
    Dir: Michael Schultz    Cast: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Ed Metzger
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


2:00 AM    A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

A lone drifter wanders into a Western town torn apart by two feuding families. He hires himself out as a mercenary, taking no sides and playing one side against the middle, until all is destroyed.
    Dir: Sergio Leone    Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


3:45 AM    The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

The Greek Army sets out to destroy the Colossus of Rhodes.
    Dir: Sergio Leone    Cast: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal
    Runtime: 127 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  December 12

6:00 AM    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

An American orphan discovers he is heir to a British title.
    Dir: John Cromwell    Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Captains Courageous (1937)

A spoiled rich boy is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.
    Dir: Victor Fleming    Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 AM    Live, Love and Learn (1937)

A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage.
    Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice    Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:15 AM    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


12:30 PM    Hold That Kiss (1938)

Romance blossoms when a man and woman each think the other is rich.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Killer McCoy (1947)

A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
    Dir: Roy Rowland    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Summer Holiday (1948)

Musical remake of Ah, Wilderness!, about a small-town boy's struggles with growing up.
    Dir: Rouben Mamoulian    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Gloria De Haven, Walter Huston
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Big Wheel (1949)

A mechanic alienates everyone who loves him when he becomes a champion race car driver.
    Dir: Edward Ludwig    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Hatcher
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    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


10:15 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


12:15 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


2:00 AM    Men of Boys Town (1941)

Father Flanagan continues to fight for his pioneering orphanage.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Young Tom Edison (1940)

As a precocious child, Tom Edison defies authority to develop his first inventions.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:30 AM    A Yank at Eton (1942)

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  December 13

7:00 AM    Numbered Men (1930)

A convict learns that a fellow prisoner has been messing with his woman.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:15 AM    Scarlet Pages (1930)

A female attorney makes a startling discovery about the woman she's defending from murder charges.
    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Elsie Ferguson, John Halliday, Marion Nixon
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


9:30 AM    Playing Around (1930)

A tenement girl falls for a smooth con artist.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:45 AM    Night Waitress (1936)

A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
    Dir: Lew Landers    Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth
    Runtime: 59 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


12:00 PM    Paid (1930)

A young innocent plots revenge after being sent to prison unjustly.
    Dir: Sam Wood    Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 PM    The Widow From Chicago (1930)

A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
    Dir: Edward Cline    Cast: Alice White, Neil Hamilton, Edward G. Robinson
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


2:45 PM    Alias French Gertie (1930)

A female thief poses as a maid to bilk her high-society employers.
    Dir: George Archainbaud    Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Robert Emmett O'Connor
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    The Woman Racket (1930)

A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
    Dir: Robert Ober    Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


5:30 PM    Framed (1930)

A nightclub hostess seeks revenge against a police inspector, yet falls in love with his son.
    Dir: George Archainbaud    Cast: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde
    Runtime: 62 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


6:45 PM    Three on a Match (1932)

A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O'Day
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    MacArthur (1977)

A biography of General Douglas MacArthur, covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.
    Dir: Joseph Sargent    Cast: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Biography    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


10:30 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


12:45 AM    Cape Fear (1962)

A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
    Dir: J. Lee Thompson    Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:45 AM    Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:00 AM    The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

As he fights a deadly jungle fever, a hunter remembers his lost loves.
    Dir: Henry King    Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  December 14

7:00 AM    Oklahoma Blues (1948)

A state official tries to clean up a town being considered for the county seat.
    Dir: Lambert Hillyer    Cast: Jimmy Wakely, "Cannonball" Taylor, Virginia Belmont
    Runtime: 56 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:00 AM    The Dot and the Line (1965)

A straight line tries to woo a dot.
    Dir: Chuck Jones    Cast: Robert Morley (narrator)
    Runtime: 10 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:11 AM    Third Dimensional Murder (1941)

This was made in 3-D and features a character facing various monsters in a creepy old house.
    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Ed Payson, Pete Smith, Philip W. Anderson
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


8:20 AM    Believe It or Not #6 (1932)

In this short film, Robert Ripley presents a series of oddities, such as a wooden flower garden and a sands spider attacking a lizard. Vitaphone Release 1346.
    Dir: null    Cast: Robert L Ripley, Roy Mack
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:30 AM    Feudin' Fools (1952)

The Bowery Boys get caught in a hillbilly feud when one of them inherits a Kentucky farm.
    Dir: William Beaudine    Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Dorothy Ford
    Runtime: 63 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:35 AM    The Broken Record (1933)

Chapter 11 of The Wolf Dog 1933 serial. When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser    Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
    Runtime: 20 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:05 AM    Goonland (1938)

While Popeye is searching for his Pappy he discovers an island inhabited by super strong natives.
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel    Cast: Jack Mercer
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    Bomba on Panther Island (1949)

Bomba the Jungle Boy must stop a man-eating black panther.
    Dir: Ford Beebe    Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Allene Roberts, Lita Baron
    Runtime: 76 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


11:35 AM    20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang (1933)

Convicts escape from a prison but long to return when they discover how luxurious it has become.
    Dir: Roy Mack    Cast: James Baskett, Patti Pickens, Jerry Bergen
    Runtime: 19 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


12:00 PM    Mame (1974)

A wealthy eccentric takes in her orphaned nephew.
    Dir: Gene Saks    Cast: Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Robert Preston
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:30 PM    Lili (1953)

A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 PM    The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch    Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Go-Between (1971)

A young man carries letters between an aristocratic young woman and the groundskeeper he idolizes.
    Dir: Joseph Losey    Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 PM    Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

A doctor and a female executive try to cope with their love for an aloof bisexual artist.
    Dir: John Schlesinger    Cast: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Black Gravel (1961)

In post-WWII Germany, people struggle with shortages of everything, including housing, water, food, and clothing. A military base being built for several thousand American soldiers provides an economic opportunity that some try to take advantage of. Also known by the German title "Schwarzer Kies."
    Dir: Helmut Käutner    Cast: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


2:30 AM    I Love You Again (1940)

A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 AM    Double Wedding (1937)

A dress designer tries to break her sister's engagement to a free-living artist, only to discover the man is falling for her instead.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  December 15

6:00 AM    On Borrowed Time (1939)

An old man and his grandson trap Death in a tree.
    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet    Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


7:45 AM    Meet John Doe (1941)

A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
    Dir: Frank Capra    Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Black Gravel (1961)

In post-WWII Germany, people struggle with shortages of everything, including housing, water, food, and clothing. A military base being built for several thousand American soldiers provides an economic opportunity that some try to take advantage of. Also known by the German title "Schwarzer Kies."
    Dir: Helmut Käutner    Cast: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


12:15 PM    Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

The storytelling shoemaker falls for a married ballerina who stars in one of his stories.
    Dir: Charles Vidor    Cast: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Jeanmaire
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    Son of Lassie (1945)

The beloved collie goes to war to help the resistance in occupied Norway.
    Dir: S. Sylvan Simon    Cast: Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


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

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


6:00 PM    Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Heiress (1949)

A plain young woman's wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:30 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


1:00 AM    Little Old New York (1923)

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
    Dir: Sidney Olcott    Cast: Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J. M. Kerrigan
    Runtime: 138 mins    Genre: Adaptation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


3:00 AM    Tampopo (1985)

A tough, hardworking owner of a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo sets out to create the perfect bowl of noodles.
    Dir: Juzo Itami    Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


5:00 AM    The Funeral (1984)

A lighthearted, ironic look at a family patriarch's funeral.
    Dir: Juzo Itami    Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N



MONDAY,  December 16

7:15 AM    MGM Parade Show #22 (1955)

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald perform in a clip from "Maytime"; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz introduce a clip from "Forever Darling." Hosted by George Murphy.
    Dir: null    Cast: Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Lucille Ball
    Runtime: 25 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:00 AM    The Terminal Man (1974)

A scientist decides to undergo an experimental surgery in the hopes that it will control his violent tendencies.
    Dir: Mike Hodges    Cast: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    The Omega Man (1971)

A scientist who believes he is the only human to survive a worldwide bacteriological war unharmed attempts to save humanity by developing a curative serum from his own blood in this frightening vision of a post-apocalyptic near future.
    Dir: Boris Sagal    Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


11:45 AM    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 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: 97 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


3:30 PM    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


5:30 PM    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Several civilian people are drawn to a remote corner of the US where aliens land in their spaceship and parley with US officials.
    Dir: Steven Spielberg    Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
    Runtime: 135 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Auntie Mame (1958)

An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
    Dir: Morton Dacosta    Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
    Runtime: 143 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:30 PM    Metropolitan (1990)

A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.
    Dir: Whit Stillman    Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Rope (1948)

Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


1:45 AM    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

The film adaptation of Edward Albee's Broadway play that rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor and his shrew of a wife during a dinner party the two host for a young couple.
    Dir: Mike Nichols    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
    Runtime: 131 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Il Posto (1961)

A young man finishes school and heads for Milan, takes his employment tests, and gets a job as a messenger in a large industrial firm, where the promise of stability gives him hope for a future. Also known by the English tile "The Sound of Trumpets."
    Dir: Ermanno Olmi    Cast: Sandro Panzeri, Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


5:45 AM    Lady with a Past (1932)

A good girl raises her popularity when she pretends to be bad.
    Dir: Edward H. Griffith    Cast: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



TUESDAY,  December 17

7:15 AM    Dinner at Eight (1933)

A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:30 AM    Eskimo (1933)

An Eskimo family fights to survive harsh conditions in the frozen North.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: Mala, Lotus, Joseph Sauers
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    The Trail of '98 (1928)

San Francisco boys risk their lives to scout gold in the Klondike.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:00 PM    Men of the North (1930)

Mounties track gold mine robbers.
    Dir: Hal Roach    Cast: Gilbert Roland, Barbara Leonard, Arnold Korff
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    The Wild North (1952)

A Mountie tracks an accused killer through the Canadian wilderness.
    Dir: Andrew Marton    Cast: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    The White Tower (1950)

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
    Dir: Ted Tetzlaff    Cast: Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Man in the Wilderness (1971)

A Northwest frontiersman, in 1820, after being badly mauled by a bear is left for dead. He survives with a rare determination and comes to be looked upon as a god by the Indians.
    Dir: Richard C. Sarafian    Cast: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  December 18

6:00 AM    Vigil in the Night (1940)

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:45 AM    A Damsel in Distress (1937)

An American dancer on vacation in England falls for a sheltered noblewoman.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:30 AM    The Nitwits (1935)

Two cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:00 AM    Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Two musicians try to get an orphaned heiress through hillbilly country to claim her inheritance.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:30 PM    Woman of the Year (1942)

Tess is a star reporter and Sam covers the sports pages at a major newspaper. When they fall in love and get married, Tess has a difficult time letting go of her work-a-holic ways and Sam feels neglected.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 PM    Bachelor Bait (1934)

A romantic starts a marriage agency so he can play Cupid.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Stuart Erwin, Rochelle Hudson, Pert Kelton
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 PM    Penny Serenade (1941)

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


6:00 PM    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)

Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.
    Dir: George Stevens Jr.    Cast: Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, Pandro S. Berman
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  December 19

6:00 AM    Quicksand (1950)

Petty theft leads a mechanic into a life of crime.
    Dir: Irving Pichel    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates
    Runtime: 79 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


7:30 AM    The Strip (1951)

A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he's accused of killing a racketeer.
    Dir: Leslie Kardos    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


9:00 AM    A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)

A garage owner taps into his rivals' gas lines.
    Dir: Don Weis    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:30 AM    King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

A gangster rises to the top of the gambling racket.
    Dir: Joseph M. Newman    Cast: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Mickey Rooney
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:30 PM    24 Hours To Kill (1965)

During a 24-hour layover in Beirut, a greedy airline purser transports a cache of stolen goods.
    Dir: Peter Bezencenet    Cast: Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Michael Medwin
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:30 PM    80 Steps to Jonah (1969)

A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children.
    Dir: Gerd Oswald    Cast: Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


4:30 PM    The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
    Dir: John Frankenheimer    Cast: David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: War    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    The Black Stallion (1979)

While traveling with his father, a young boy named Alec Ramsey becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board the ship on which he is sailing. When the ship tragically sinks, Alec and the stallion are the sole survivors, and he is left stranded on a deserted island. Alec befriends the horse--his ...only companion on the shipwrecked island. When finally both the boy and the horse return to Alec's home, they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the Black Stallion to race against the world's fastest horses.
    Dir: Carroll Ballard    Cast: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Terry Garr
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Babes in Arms (1939)

A group of second-generation entertainers puts on a show to launch their careers.
    Dir: Busby Berkeley    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Strike Up the Band (1940)

A high-school band sets out to win a national radio contest.
    Dir: Busby Berkeley    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 AM    Babes on Broadway (1941)

Show-biz hopefuls stage a benefit for an orphanage.
    Dir: Busby Berkeley    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter
    Runtime: 118 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    Girl Crazy (1943)

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


4:15 AM    Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

A young jockey goes crooked to land a valuable riding job.
    Dir: Alfred E. Green    Cast: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Sinclair
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:45 AM    Words and Music (1948)

Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland
    Runtime: 119 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  December 20

8:00 AM    The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

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


9:30 AM    I Love You Again (1940)

A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:15 AM    Private Lives (1931)

A divorced couple rekindles the spark after landing in adjoining honeymoon suites with new mates.
    Dir: Sidney Franklin    Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:45 PM    Daughters Courageous (1939)

A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:45 PM    The V.I.P.s (1963)

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


4:45 PM    Let Us Be Gay (1930)

A visit to Paris brings divorced spouses back together.
    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard    Cast: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    My Favorite Wife (1940)

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


8:00 PM    Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

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


12:00 AM    The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch    Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    Bachelor Mother (1939)

A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
    Dir: Garson Kanin    Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Penny Serenade (1941)

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


5:45 AM    Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

True-life story of Edna Gladney, who fought for orphans' rights in Texas.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  December 21

7:30 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


9:00 AM    Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)

A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life.
    Dir: Roy Rowland    Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy
    Runtime: 74 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:30 AM    A Christmas Carol (1938)

In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    On Moonlight Bay (1951)

A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, ["Smiling"] Jack Smith
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Little Women (1949)

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


4:15 PM    Susan Slept Here (1954)

A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
    Dir: Frank Tashlin    Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Fitzwilly (1967)

When an aging philanthropist goes broke, her butler robs from the rich so she can give to the poor.
    Dir: Delbert Mann    Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:15 AM    We're No Angels (1955)

After escaping Devil's Island, three offbeat prisoners help a goodhearted family outwit a scheming relative.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 AM    Miracle on Main Street (1939)

On Christmas Eve, a couple hiding from the police find an abandoned baby and decide to raise the child.
    Dir: Steve Sekely    Cast: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr.
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:45 AM    The Silent Partner (1978)

This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller (Elliot Gould) is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook (Christopher ...Plummer). The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.
    Dir: Daryl Duke    Cast: Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Adaptation    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  December 22

6:00 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


8:00 AM    Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)

A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.
    Dir: Roy Rowland    Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    Lady in the Lake (1947)

Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
    Dir: Robert Montgomery    Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    3 Godfathers (1949)

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


2:00 PM    The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

A minister's family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.
    Dir: George More O'Ferrall    Cast: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 PM    Going My Way (1944)

A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.
    Dir: Leo McCarey    Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:45 PM    The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

A liberal priest tries to soften the strict nun running St. Mary's school.
    Dir: Leo McCarey    Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Remember the Night (1940)

An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
    Dir: Mitchell Leisen    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
    Runtime: 94 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Christmas Past (1925)

A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.
    Dir: Charles M. Seay, Frank E. Kleinschmidt, J. Searle Dawley    Cast: Barry O'Moore, Julian Reed, Marc McDermott
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


2:15 AM    Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)

A young boy comes of age at Christmas in rural Quebec.
    Dir: Claude Jutra    Cast: Claude Jutra, Jacques Gagnon, Olivette Thibault
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N


4:15 AM    My Night at Maud's (1969)

A devout Catholic engineer, who has his mind set on marrying a nice girl he sees at church, spends a chaste night with a liberated divorcee named Maud. Consequently, the encounter forces him to reassess his own moral standing.
    Dir: Eric Rohmer    Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



MONDAY,  December 23

6:15 AM    Compliments of the Season (1930)

In this film, a criminal attempting to go straight stops a young lady on Christmas eve from committing suicide. Vitaphone Release 1094-1095.
    Dir: Arthur Hurley    Cast: Eric Dressler, Lenita Lane, Pat O'Brien
    Runtime: 13 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


6:30 AM    The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)

Against her widowed father's wishes, a vaudeville star's daughter takes to the stage.
    Dir: David Butler    Cast: June Haver, Gordon MacRae, James Barton
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:30 AM    I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)

A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to find the genuine killer.
    Dir: William Nigh    Cast: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    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


12:00 PM    The Man I Love (1947)

A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Larceny, Inc. (1942)

An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 PM    Backfire (1950)

A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
    Dir: Vincent Sherman    Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
    Runtime: 91 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:00 PM    Period of Adjustment (1962)

A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
    Dir: George Roy Hill    Cast: Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Holiday Affair (1949)

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


9:45 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


11:45 PM    Meet John Doe (1941)

A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
    Dir: Frank Capra    Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
    Runtime: 123 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 AM    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


3:45 AM    Cover Up (1949)

An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
    Dir: Alfred E. Green    Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


5:15 AM    A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

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



TUESDAY,  December 24

6:45 AM    Three Godfathers (1936)

Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.
    Dir: Richard Boleslawski    Cast: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
    Runtime: 82 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:15 AM    Big Business (1929)

A quarrel between two Christmas tree salesmen and a potential customer leads to a wave of destruction.
    Dir: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey    Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
    Runtime: 19 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:45 AM    Christmas Eve (1947)

To save her fortune, an aging woman must reunite her three adopted sons.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:30 AM    Bundle of Joy (1956)

A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:15 PM    Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
    Dir: Roy Del Ruth    Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 PM    Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch    Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Bishop's Wife (1948)

An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
    Dir: Henry Koster    Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    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


12:00 AM    A Christmas Carol (1938)

In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
    Dir: Edwin L. Marin    Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 AM    Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.
    Dir: A. Edward Sutherland    Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:00 AM    Hell's Heroes (1930)

Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
    Dir: William Wyler    Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
    Runtime: 65 mins    Genre: Western    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Kind Lady (1951)

A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



WEDNESDAY,  December 25

6:00 AM    Star in the Night (1945)

Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.
    Dir: Don Siegel    Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Baggett, Anthony Caruso
    Runtime: 21 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:30 AM    Never Say Goodbye (1946)

A husband tries to win back his wife before she can divorce him.
    Dir: James V. Kern    Cast: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:30 AM    All Mine to Give (1957)

Pioneer children fight to build a new family after their parents die.
    Dir: Allen Reisner    Cast: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 AM    The Great Rupert (1950)

A squirrel becomes the guardian angel for an impoverished family.
    Dir: Irving Pichel    Cast: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Little Women (1933)

The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:15 PM    In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

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


4:15 PM    Holiday Affair (1949)

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


6:00 PM    The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
    Dir: William Keighley    Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
    Runtime: 112 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Defending Your Life (1991)

In an afterlife way-station resembling a major city, the lives of the recently deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
    Dir: Albert Brooks    Cast: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


10:00 PM    Topper (1937)

A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.
    Dir: Norman Z. McLeod    Cast: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


12:00 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


2:00 AM    Blithe Spirit (1945)

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
    Dir: David Lean    Cast: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:00 AM    Our Town (1940)

Small town lovers search for happiness.
    Dir: Sam Wood    Cast: Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



THURSDAY,  December 26

6:00 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


7:15 AM    You're Only Young Once (1938)

Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:45 AM    Judge Hardy's Children (1938)

A small-town judge's Washington trip lands his son in hot water with a diplomat's daughter.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 78 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:15 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


12:00 PM    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


1:30 PM    The Hardys Ride High (1939)

A small-town family inherits a fortune but has trouble adjusting to society life.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:00 PM    Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)

Attractive dramatics teacher Gilbert becomes the center of innocent Andy's busy world. He is at first infatuated with her, then blurts his love and asks for her hand in marriage. After learning that she is engaged to another he goes into a tailspin, seemingly never to recover, but Judge Hardy and the rest of Andy's family ...help to heal his injured heart, as does girlfriend Rutherford.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 85 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 PM    Judge Hardy and Son (1939)

A small-town judge tries to save an elderly couple from eviction while coping with his wife's illness.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 87 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

A teenage boy goes into debt to court a Manhattan socialite.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

After failing his final high school exam before heading off to college, Andy Hardy is given a second chance by an understanding faculty.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
    Runtime: 101 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:00 PM    Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

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


12:00 AM    The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)

A teenager dates a girl whose parents' divorce is being decided by his father.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:45 AM    Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)

A new college student lets romance get in the way of his studies.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


3:30 AM    Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)

Andy Hardy's college career is threatened by his attraction to three coeds - two of whom are identical twins - in this light-hearted family comedy.
    Dir: George B. Seitz    Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:30 AM    Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)

A small-town boy returns to college after the war only to find his sweetheart engaged to another.
    Dir: Willis Goldbeck    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



FRIDAY,  December 27

7:15 AM    Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

A young attorney intending to find a site for a new factory and its new jobs for his native town runs into unexpected difficulties when Andy Hardy comes home. Andy returns to the town of Carvel after years away studying law and starting a new career. He has the chance to help an aircraft factory locate in his hometown, ...which will hire local people. But a crooked businessman almost sinks the plan, and - of course - he lands in an embarrassing position with one of Carvel's prettiest young women.
    Dir: Howard W. Koch    Cast: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:45 AM    That Way with Women (1947)

An elderly millionaire makes a hobby of playing cupid.
    Dir: Frederick De Cordova    Cast: Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 84 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


10:15 AM    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
    Dir: John Huston    Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 PM    Background to Danger (1943)

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
    Dir: Raoul Walsh    Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:30 PM    Conflict (1945)

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


3:00 PM    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:45 PM    Three Strangers (1946)

Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
    Dir: Jean Negulesco    Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


6:30 PM    The Verdict (1946)

A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
    Dir: Don Siegel    Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Le Samourai (1967)

When a professional hitman is seen by witnesses leaving the scene of a killing, his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
    Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville    Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


10:00 PM    3 Women (1977)

Set in a dusty California desert town, the increasingly bizarre relationship between an adult woman (Shelley Duvall), her teenage roommate and co-worker (Sissy Spacek) and a middle-aged pregnant woman (Janice Rule).
    Dir: Robert Altman    Cast: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
    Runtime: 124 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC:


12:15 AM    Blood Simple (1984)

An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
    Dir: Joel Coen    Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


2:15 AM    Lola (1961)

Lola is a cabaret singer whose lover Michel has gone away to America, promising to come back when he has made a lot of money for her and their child. He has been gone for seven years though, and Lola decides to have affairs in his absence. She is courted by two men: childhood friend Roland, and Frankie, an American sailor. ...However, despite the charms of these men, Michel remains her true love.
    Dir: Jacques Demy    Cast: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


4:15 AM    Romance on the High Seas (1948)

A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don Defore
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



SATURDAY,  December 28

6:00 AM    Fighting Father Dunne (1948)

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
    Dir: Ted Tetzlaff    Cast: Pat O'Brien, Darryl Hickman, Charles Kemper
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 AM    The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)

Educational film gags involving crossbreeding animals, plants, food and objects.
    Dir: Tex Avery (fred)    Cast: Paul Frees, Tex Avery, John Brown
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:10 AM    An Optical Poem (1938)

Geometric forms reflect the moods of Liszt's' "Hungarian Rhapsody."
    Dir: Oskar Fischinger    Cast: Franz Lizst
    Runtime: 6 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:20 AM    Believe It or Not #7 (1932)

In this short film, Robert L. Ripley presents a series of rare sights and oddities, such as a leaning lighthouse and the definition of the word "fathom." Vitaphone Release 1361.
    Dir: null    Cast: Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


8:30 AM    In Fast Company (1946)

The Bowery Boys get wrapped up in a taxi war.
    Dir: Del Lord    Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Jane Randolph
    Runtime: 61 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


9:45 AM    Danger Lights (1933)

The 12th and final chapter of The Wolf Dog 1933 serial. When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser    Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
    Runtime: 20 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


10:05 AM    A Date to Skate (1938)

It's Olive's first visit to a skating rink, and Popeye accidentally crashes into the pillar to which she is clinging. The impact sends her flying out of the rink and into the street. Olive finds herself in a crowded department store, on an escalator. Popeye manages to rescue Olive in an amusing climax.
    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky    Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
    Runtime: 7 mins    Genre: Animation    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 AM    The Hidden City (1950)

Bomba rescues an orphan from some ruthless hunters in this back lot jungle epic from the the no-budget Monogram studios.
    Dir: Ford Beebe    Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Sue England, Paul Guilfoyle
    Runtime: 71 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


11:30 AM    Arctic Roundup (1957)

An expedition heads to the barren lands of northern Canada to study musk-ox calves.
    Dir: null    Cast: Dave Floyd, Lansing C. Holden, Ernest Paquette, John Kelsaw
    Runtime: 28 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


12:00 PM    Xanadu (1980)

A mythological muse helps an artist and a former big-band clarinetist open a roller disco.
    Dir: Robert Greenwald    Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

A brooding loner is sentenced to a prison chain-gang, stands up to the Nazi-like guards, and eventually becomes the leader of his fellow prisoners.
    Dir: Stuart Rosenberg    Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
    Runtime: 129 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:30 PM    Giant (1956)

A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
    Dir: George Stevens    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
    Runtime: 201 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Coming Home (1978)

Sally Hide, the wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. She meets Luke Martin, a frustrated, wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance. When her husband Bob returns ...unexpectedly, she must decide between staying with him and pursuing her new love.
    Dir: Hal Ashby    Cast: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


10:15 PM    The Last Detail (1973)

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
    Dir: Hal Ashby    Cast: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


12:15 AM    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


2:15 AM    The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

A PR worker in a space laboratory is suspected of being a spy because she calls her dog on the phone and calls him "Vladimir."
    Dir: Frank Tashlin    Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:15 AM    My Favorite Spy (1942)

Bandleader Kay Kyser leaves his bride at the altar to help catch international spies.
    Dir: Tay Garnett    Cast: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



SUNDAY,  December 29

6:00 AM    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


8:00 AM    Latin Lovers (1953)

An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
    Dir: Mervyn Leroy    Cast: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, John Lund
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 AM    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


12:00 PM    Ball of Fire (1942)

A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
    Dir: Howard Hawks    Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:00 PM    Charade (1963)

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


4:00 PM    The Sugarland Express (1974)

Lou Jean Poplin helps her husband Clovis escape from prison. She needs him to join her in the fight against forces who want to put her child up for adoption, so the three of them take to the road in one long chase across America's highways.
    Dir: Steven Spielberg    Cast: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, William Atherton
    Runtime: 109 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y


6:00 PM    King Solomon's Mines (1937)

African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure.
    Dir: Robert Stevenson    Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    Mildred Pierce (1945)

A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:30 PM    Double Indemnity (1944)

An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
    Dir: Billy Wilder    Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:00 AM    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

In this film, a young Argentine fights for France, his father's country, in World War I.
    Dir: Rex Ingram    Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
    Runtime: 130 mins    Genre: Silent    Rating: TV-G    CC: N


3:30 AM    And the Ship Sails On (1984)

Taking on a horde of refugees upsets a luxury liner's trip to bury a famous opera singer.
    Dir: Federico Fellini    Cast: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier
    Runtime: 128 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N


5:45 AM    Ginger and Fred (1986)

A song-and-dance team are reunited for a nostalgic television special.
    Dir: Federico Fellini    Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N



MONDAY,  December 30

8:00 AM    The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)

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


10:15 AM    Some Came Running (1958)

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


12:45 PM    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
    Dir: John Frankenheimer    Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


3:00 PM    Guys and Dolls (1955)

A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.
    Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz    Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
    Runtime: 150 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


5:45 PM    Ocean's Eleven (1960)

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


8:00 PM    Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

College students on spring break turn Palm Springs into a disaster area.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:00 PM    The Last of Sheila (1973)

A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
    Dir: Herbert Ross    Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
    Runtime: 120 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


12:15 AM    The Rules of the Game (1939)

Aviator Roland Toutain addresses a radio audience from the tarmac, lamenting the absence of his lover, to whom he dedicated his flight. Unfortunately she's Nora Gregor, wife of Marquis Marcel Dalio, who's got mistress troubles of his own.
    Dir: Jean Renoir    Cast: Roland Toutain, Marcel Dalio, Jean Renoir
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


2:15 AM    Ten Little Indians (1966)

Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
    Dir: George Pollock    Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


4:00 AM    House on Haunted Hill (1958)

The owner of a supposedly haunted mansion offers $10,000 to anyone dumb enough to attempt to spend the night there.
    Dir: William Castle    Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y


5:30 AM    The Exterminating Angel (1962)

High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party.
    Dir: Luis Buñuel    Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



TUESDAY,  December 31

7:15 AM    Judex (1963)

Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
    Dir: Georges Franju    Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


9:15 AM    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


11:00 AM    After the Thin Man (1936)

Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


1:00 PM    Another Thin Man (1939)

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


2:45 PM    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
    Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


4:30 PM    The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


6:15 PM    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
    Dir: Edward Buzzell    Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y


8:00 PM    The Apartment (1960)

An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
    Dir: Billy Wilder    Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
    Runtime: 125 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


10:15 PM    Bundle of Joy (1956)

A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
    Dir: Norman Taurog    Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


12:00 AM    Repeat Performance (1947)

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
    Dir: Alfred Werker    Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
    Runtime: 93 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


1:45 AM    Trading Places (1983)

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
    Dir: John Landis    Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
    Runtime: 116 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC:


4:00 AM    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
    Dir: Billy Wilder    Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N