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TCM December 2024 Schedule

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Times shown are for the Eastern Time Zone

Last updated  12/19/2024

SUNDAY,  December 1

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

A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.

8:15 AM    The Mating Game (1959)

A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating.

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.

11:45 AM    The Yearling (1946)

A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm.

2:00 PM    Casablanca (1942)

An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.

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.

6:00 PM    The Bishop's Wife (1948)

An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MONDAY,  December 2

6:30 AM    Bachelor Apartment (1931)

An honest working girl falls for a skirt-chasing playboy.

8:15 AM    Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

A stenographer tries to save her boss from his divorcee girlfriend.

9:45 AM    The Right to Romance (1933)

A lady plastic surgeon jeopardizes her marriage when her ex-boyfriend is scarred.

11:00 AM    They Call It Sin (1932)

An innocent young chorus girl fights the advances of her lecherous producer.

12:15 PM    Reckless (1935)

A theatrical star gets in over her head when she marries a drunken millionaire.

2:00 PM    No More Ladies (1935)

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

3:30 PM    Arsene Lupin (1932)

A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.

5:00 PM    Jewel Robbery (1932)

A jewel thief falls for a tycoon's wife in Vienna.

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

A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.

8:00 PM    Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.

9:30 PM    Hollywood Party (1934)

A movie star's gala celebration creates chaos.

10:45 PM    The Road to Ruin (1934)

An innocent girl falls in with a crowd devoted to pot and free love.

12:00 AM    Looking for Love (1964)

A promising singer has to choose between show business and marriage.

1:30 AM    The Big Cube (1969)

LSD almost ruins the life of a former actress and her stepdaughter.

3:15 AM    Madame Satan (1930)

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband.

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.

TUESDAY,  December 3

6:00 AM    The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)

A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.

7:00 AM    The Toll of the Sea (1922)

An American sailor marries then deserts the Chinese beauty who had saved his life.

8:00 AM    His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)

A Yankee sea captain tries to make his fortune in the South Seas.

10:00 AM    A Majority of One (1961)

A Jewish widow falls in love with a Japanese businessman.

12:30 PM    Bridge to the Sun (1961)

An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II.

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

An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2:15 AM    The Good Earth (1937)

Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements.

4:45 AM    The Kid (1921)

In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.

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.

7:15 AM    Always Together (1947)

A dying millionaire gives his fortune to a working girl, then recovers and tries to get it back.

8:45 AM    My Life with Caroline (1941)

A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.

10:15 AM    Married Bachelor (1941)

A married gambler has to pose as a bachelor to pay off his debts.

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.

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

A newlywed couple encounter many difficulties during their honeymoon trip aboard a trailer they purchased.

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

A neglected housewife turns herself into a glamour girl to win her husband back.

4:30 PM    The Tunnel of Love (1958)

A married couple endures endless red tape when they try to adopt a child.

6:15 PM    Forever, Darling (1956)

A madcap woman's guardian angel tries to save her marriage.

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.

10:00 PM    Roman Holiday (1953)

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

12:15 AM    Pillow Talk (1959)

A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.

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.

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.

THURSDAY,  December 5

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

A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.

7:30 AM    Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

Three generations of vaudevillians fight for stardom on stage and screen.

9:00 AM    The Chief (1933)

A fireman's son goes into politics.

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

A boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children's home.

12:00 PM    Death on the Diamond (1934)

A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.

1:30 PM    Hide-Out (1934)

Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.

3:00 PM    Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.

5:00 PM    Down the Stretch (1936)

A disgraced jockey's son fights to clear the family name.

6:15 PM    Riffraff (1936)

Young marrieds in the fishing business run afoul of the law.

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.

10:30 PM    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

Mark Twain's classic troublemaker helps a runaway slave escape to the North.

12:15 AM    Ah, Wilderness! (1935)

In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America.

2:00 AM    Stablemates (1938)

A broken down veterinarian saves a stable boy's prize racehorse.

3:45 AM    Lord Jeff (1938)

When a good boy goes bad, his family sends him to a naval military school.

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

A British boy in New York tries to join a tenement gang.

FRIDAY,  December 6

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

A chic New York couple is torn apart by a seductive model.

9:00 AM    My Forbidden Past (1951)

A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.

10:15 AM    Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.

12:00 PM    The Angel Wore Red (1960)

A priest and a prostitute fall in love during the Spanish Civil War.

2:00 PM    Bhowani Junction (1956)

An Anglo-Indian beauty falls for a British officer as her country fights for independence.

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.

6:00 PM    Mogambo (1953)

In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman.

8:00 PM    Wuthering Heights (1939)

A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.

10:00 PM    Hamlet (1948)

The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.

12:45 AM    A Little Romance (1979)

Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.

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.

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.

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.

8:00 AM    The Hick Chick (1946)

A country chicken competes with a city slicker chicken for the affections of a local beauty.

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.

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.

8:28 AM    Dig That Uranium! (1956)

The Bowery Boys battle crooks for control of a uranium mine out West.

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.

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.

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

A photographer and his daughter discover a wild boy in the jungle.

11:30 AM    Traffic with the Devil (1946)

This short film looks at the increase of traffic levels and accidents in the U.S.

12:00 PM    Ski Party (1965)

Two college guys take a ski trip to meet girls.

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.

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

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

6:15 PM    Holiday Affair (1949)

A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.

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.

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.

12:00 AM    Act of Violence (1949)

An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.

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

An obsessed movie director grooms an unknown to play his deceased movie-star wife.

4:00 AM    Of Human Bondage (1964)

A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

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.

8:00 AM    Good News (1947)

A football hero falls in love with his French tutor.

10:00 AM    Act of Violence (1949)

An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.

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.

1:00 PM    Ben-Hur (1959)

While seeking revenge, a rebellious Israelite prince crosses paths with Jesus Christ.

5:00 PM    King of Kings (1961)

Epic retelling of Christ's life and the effects of his teachings on those around him.

8:00 PM    Born to Be Bad (1950)

An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.

10:00 PM    Torch Song (1953)

A tempestuous musical theatre star falls for a blind pianist.

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

A party during a blizzard throws a mayoral candidate into compromising situations.

12:57 AM    Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)

In this silent short, a henpecked husband is mistaken for a beautiful woman's jealous husband.

1:30 AM    Star in the Night (1945)

Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.

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.

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.

MONDAY,  December 9

6:00 AM    Safari Drums (1953)

A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.

7:15 AM    Africa Adventure (1954)

Documentary about a trio of hunters bagging big game in Africa.

8:30 AM    Rhino! (1964)

A scientist is forced to join forces with an unscrupulous African hunter.

10:15 AM    Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.

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.

1:45 PM    Homecoming (1948)

A married man's wartime love affair spells trouble when peace comes.

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.

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.

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.

9:45 PM    All Night Long (1963)

A jazz band's leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.

11:30 PM    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.

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

The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.

3:00 AM    Black Orpheus (1959)

A streetcar conductor loses his true love during Brazil's carnival season.

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.

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.

8:30 AM    Born to Dance (1936)

A sailor on leave helps a young dancer make it to the top on Broadway.

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.

12:30 PM    Panama Hattie (1942)

A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies.

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.

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.

5:45 PM    Les Girls (1957)

Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.

8:00 PM    Nowhere to Go (1958)

A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.

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.

12:00 AM    Travels with My Aunt (1972)

A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.

2:00 AM    A Room with a View (1985)

An Englishwoman visiting Florence is torn between her straitlaced fiance and a young Bohemian.

4:00 AM    Young Cassidy (1965)

True story of playwright Sean O'Casey's involvement with the Irish rebellion of 1910.

WEDNESDAY,  December 11

6:00 AM    Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.

8:00 AM    The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.

10:00 AM    The Crimson Pirate (1952)

A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.

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.

2:00 PM    The Sea Hawk (1940)

A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.

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.

6:00 PM    The Pirate (1948)

An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.

8:00 PM    The Fallen Idol (1948)

A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.

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

Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.

12:15 AM    Car Wash (1976)

A preacher, a cabby, other customers and employees mingle to disco music at a Los Angeles car wash.

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.

3:45 AM    The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

The Greek Army sets out to destroy the Colossus of Rhodes.

THURSDAY,  December 12

6:00 AM    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

An American orphan discovers he is heir to a British title.

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.

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

A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage.

11:15 AM    Love Is a Headache (1938)

A freak accident gives a fading actress a huge publicity push.

12:30 PM    Hold That Kiss (1938)

Romance blossoms when a man and woman each think the other is rich.

2:00 PM    Killer McCoy (1947)

A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.

4:00 PM    Summer Holiday (1948)

Musical remake of Ah, Wilderness!, about a small-town boy's struggles with growing up.

6:00 PM    The Big Wheel (1949)

A mechanic alienates everyone who loves him when he becomes a champion race car driver.

8:00 PM    National Velvet (1944)

A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.

10:15 PM    The Human Comedy (1943)

A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.

12:15 AM    Boys Town (1938)

True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.

2:00 AM    Men of Boys Town (1941)

Father Flanagan continues to fight for his pioneering orphanage.

4:00 AM    Young Tom Edison (1940)

As a precocious child, Tom Edison defies authority to develop his first inventions.

5:30 AM    A Yank at Eton (1942)

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

FRIDAY,  December 13

7:00 AM    Numbered Men (1930)

A convict learns that a fellow prisoner has been messing with his woman.

8:15 AM    Scarlet Pages (1930)

A female attorney makes a startling discovery about the woman she's defending from murder charges.

9:30 AM    Playing Around (1930)

A tenement girl falls for a smooth con artist.

10:45 AM    Night Waitress (1936)

A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.

12:00 PM    Paid (1930)

A young innocent plots revenge after being sent to prison unjustly.

1:30 PM    The Widow From Chicago (1930)

A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.

2:45 PM    Alias French Gertie (1930)

A female thief poses as a maid to bilk her high-society employers.

4:00 PM    The Woman Racket (1930)

A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.

5:30 PM    Framed (1930)

A nightclub hostess seeks revenge against a police inspector, yet falls in love with his son.

6:45 PM    Three on a Match (1932)

A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.

8:00 PM    MacArthur (1977)

A biography of General Douglas MacArthur, covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

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.

12:45 AM    Cape Fear (1962)

A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.

2:45 AM    Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.

5:00 AM    The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

As he fights a deadly jungle fever, a hunter remembers his lost loves.

SATURDAY,  December 14

7:00 AM    Oklahoma Blues (1948)

A state official tries to clean up a town being considered for the county seat.

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

A straight line tries to woo a dot.

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.

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.

8:30 AM    Feudin' Fools (1952)

The Bowery Boys get caught in a hillbilly feud when one of them inherits a Kentucky farm.

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.

10:05 AM    Goonland (1938)

While Popeye is searching for his Pappy he discovers an island inhabited by super strong natives.

10:15 AM    Bomba on Panther Island (1949)

Bomba the Jungle Boy must stop a man-eating black panther.

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.

12:00 PM    Mame (1974)

A wealthy eccentric takes in her orphaned nephew.

2:30 PM    Lili (1953)

A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.

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

Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.

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.

8:00 PM    The Go-Between (1971)

A young man carries letters between an aristocratic young woman and the groundskeeper he idolizes.

10:15 PM    Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

A doctor and a female executive try to cope with their love for an aloof bisexual artist.

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."

2:30 AM    I Love You Again (1940)

A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.

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.

SUNDAY,  December 15

6:00 AM    On Borrowed Time (1939)

An old man and his grandson trap Death in a tree.

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.

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."

12:15 PM    Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

The storytelling shoemaker falls for a married ballerina who stars in one of his stories.

2:15 PM    Son of Lassie (1945)

The beloved collie goes to war to help the resistance in occupied Norway.

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.

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.

8:00 PM    The Heiress (1949)

A plain young woman's wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.

10:30 PM    A Stolen Life (1946)

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as the wife of the man they both love.

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.

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.

5:00 AM    The Funeral (1984)

A lighthearted, ironic look at a family patriarch's funeral.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1:30 PM    Soylent Green (1973)

A police officer in the year 2022 uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.

3:30 PM    Logan's Run (1975)

A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.

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.

8:00 PM    Auntie Mame (1958)

An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.

10:30 PM    Metropolitan (1990)

A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.

12:15 AM    Rope (1948)

Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.

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.

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."

5:45 AM    Lady with a Past (1932)

A good girl raises her popularity when she pretends to be bad.

TUESDAY,  December 17

7:15 AM    Dinner at Eight (1933)

A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.

9:30 AM    Eskimo (1933)

An Eskimo family fights to survive harsh conditions in the frozen North.

11:30 AM    The Trail of '98 (1928)

San Francisco boys risk their lives to scout gold in the Klondike.

1:00 PM    Men of the North (1930)

Mounties track gold mine robbers.

2:15 PM    The Wild North (1952)

A Mountie tracks an accused killer through the Canadian wilderness.

4:00 PM    The White Tower (1950)

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.

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.

8:00 PM    From Darkness to Light (2024)

An exploration of Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day The Clown Cried", its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews with Lewis' associates and previously unseen production content.

10:00 PM    Life Is Beautiful (1997)

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

12:15 AM    Jakob the Liar (1999)

In Nazi-occupied Poland, Poor Jewish cafe owner Jakob overhears a confidential radio news bulletin signalling Soviet military advances against the Germans. It's the first bit of news the depressed ghetto has received in five years and to keep spirits alive, Jakob conjures up fictitious news bulletins about Allied gains.

2:30 AM    To Be or Not to Be (1942)

A troupe of squabbling actors joins the Polish underground to dupe the Nazis.

4:15 AM    Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)

A French boarding school harbors Jewish children during the Nazi occupation.

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.

7:45 AM    A Damsel in Distress (1937)

An American dancer on vacation in England falls for a sheltered noblewoman.

9:30 AM    The Nitwits (1935)

Two cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.

11:00 AM    Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Two musicians try to get an orphaned heiress through hillbilly country to claim her inheritance.

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.

2:30 PM    Bachelor Bait (1934)

A romantic starts a marriage agency so he can play Cupid.

3:45 PM    Penny Serenade (1941)

A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.

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

Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.

8:00 PM    The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig faces a crippling disease at the height of his success.

10:30 PM    Powwow Highway (1988)

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.

12:15 AM    Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Two ordinary joes entangle themselves in an underworld mess while out to find a stolen lottery ticket worth fifty grand.

2:15 AM    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

A documentary that tells the stories of five people who died from AIDS and how their loved ones came to terms with their loss through participation in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The huge quilt, made by friends and relatives of people who have died of AIDS, has traveled throughout the United States to raise money for AIDS ...

research. The documentary makes use of interviews with families and friends, plus photos and home movies.

4:00 AM    Invaders from Mars (1953)

A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

THURSDAY,  December 19

6:00 AM    Quicksand (1950)

Petty theft leads a mechanic into a life of crime.

7:30 AM    The Strip (1951)

A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he's accused of killing a racketeer.

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

A garage owner taps into his rivals' gas lines.

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

A gangster rises to the top of the gambling racket.

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.

2:30 PM    80 Steps to Jonah (1969)

A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children.

4:30 PM    The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.

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.

8:00 PM    Babes in Arms (1939)

A group of second-generation entertainers puts on a show to launch their careers.

10:00 PM    Strike Up the Band (1940)

A high-school band sets out to win a national radio contest.

12:15 AM    Babes on Broadway (1941)

Show-biz hopefuls stage a benefit for an orphanage.

2:30 AM    Girl Crazy (1943)

A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college.

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

A young jockey goes crooked to land a valuable riding job.

5:45 AM    Words and Music (1948)

Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top.

FRIDAY,  December 20

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

A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.

9:30 AM    I Love You Again (1940)

A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.

11:15 AM    Private Lives (1931)

A divorced couple rekindles the spark after landing in adjoining honeymoon suites with new mates.

12:45 PM    Daughters Courageous (1939)

A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems.

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.

4:45 PM    Let Us Be Gay (1930)

A visit to Paris brings divorced spouses back together.

6:15 PM    My Favorite Wife (1940)

A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's remarriage.

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.

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.

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

Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.

2:00 AM    Bachelor Mother (1939)

A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.

3:30 AM    Penny Serenade (1941)

A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.

5:45 AM    Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

True-life story of Edna Gladney, who fought for orphans' rights in Texas.

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.

9:00 AM    Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)

A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life.

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.

12:00 PM    On Moonlight Bay (1951)

A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.

2:00 PM    Little Women (1949)

The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.

4:15 PM    Susan Slept Here (1954)

A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.

6:00 PM    Fitzwilly (1967)

When an aging philanthropist goes broke, her butler robs from the rich so she can give to the poor.

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

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

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.

12:15 AM    We're No Angels (1955)

After escaping Devil's Island, three offbeat prisoners help a goodhearted family outwit a scheming relative.

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.

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.

SUNDAY,  December 22

6:00 AM    Boys Town (1938)

True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.

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

A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.

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.

12:00 PM    3 Godfathers (1949)

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.

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

A minister's family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.

3:30 PM    Going My Way (1944)

A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.

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

A liberal priest tries to soften the strict nun running St. Mary's school.

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.

10:00 PM    Remember the Night (1940)

An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.

12:00 AM    Christmas Past (1925)

A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.

2:15 AM    Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)

A young boy comes of age at Christmas in rural Quebec.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10:00 AM    My Reputation (1946)

A widow generates small-town gossip when she falls in love too soon after her husband's death.

12:00 PM    The Man I Love (1947)

A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.

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.

4:00 PM    Backfire (1950)

A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.

6:00 PM    Period of Adjustment (1962)

A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.

8:00 PM    Holiday Affair (1949)

A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.

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.

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.

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.

3:45 AM    Cover Up (1949)

An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.

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

Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.

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.

8:15 AM    Big Business (1929)

A quarrel between two Christmas tree salesmen and a potential customer leads to a wave of destruction.

8:45 AM    Christmas Eve (1947)

To save her fortune, an aging woman must reunite her three adopted sons.

10:30 AM    Bundle of Joy (1956)

A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.

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.

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

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

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.

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

Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.

8:00 PM    The Bishop's Wife (1948)

An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.

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.

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.

1:30 AM    Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.

3:00 AM    Hell's Heroes (1930)

Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.

4:30 AM    Kind Lady (1951)

A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.

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.

6:30 AM    Never Say Goodbye (1946)

A husband tries to win back his wife before she can divorce him.

8:30 AM    All Mine to Give (1957)

Pioneer children fight to build a new family after their parents die.

10:15 AM    The Great Rupert (1950)

A squirrel becomes the guardian angel for an impoverished family.

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.

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.

4:15 PM    Holiday Affair (1949)

A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.

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.

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.

10:00 PM    Topper (1937)

A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.

12:00 AM    Cabin in the Sky (1943)

God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.

2:00 AM    Blithe Spirit (1945)

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

4:00 AM    Our Town (1940)

Small town lovers search for happiness.

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.

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

Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.

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.

10:15 AM    Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once.

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.

1:30 PM    The Hardys Ride High (1939)

A small-town family inherits a fortune but has trouble adjusting to society life.

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.

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.

6:15 PM    Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

A teenage boy goes into debt to court a Manhattan socialite.

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.

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

A small-town boy tries life in the big city before going to college.

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

A teenager dates a girl whose parents' divorce is being decided by his father.

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

A new college student lets romance get in the way of his studies.

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.

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.

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.

8:45 AM    That Way with Women (1947)

An elderly millionaire makes a hobby of playing cupid.

10:15 AM    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.

12:00 PM    Background to Danger (1943)

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

1:30 PM    Conflict (1945)

A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.

3:00 PM    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.

4:45 PM    Three Strangers (1946)

Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.

6:30 PM    The Verdict (1946)

A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

8:00 AM    The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)

Educational film gags involving crossbreeding animals, plants, food and objects.

8:10 AM    An Optical Poem (1938)

Geometric forms reflect the moods of Liszt's' "Hungarian Rhapsody."

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.

8:30 AM    In Fast Company (1946)

The Bowery Boys get wrapped up in a taxi war.

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.

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.

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.

11:30 AM    Arctic Roundup (1957)

An expedition heads to the barren lands of northern Canada to study musk-ox calves.

12:00 PM    Xanadu (1980)

A mythological muse helps an artist and a former big-band clarinetist open a roller disco.

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.

4:30 PM    Giant (1956)

A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.

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.

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.

12:15 AM    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.

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."

4:15 AM    My Favorite Spy (1942)

Bandleader Kay Kyser leaves his bride at the altar to help catch international spies.

SUNDAY,  December 29

6:00 AM    Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer.

8:00 AM    Latin Lovers (1953)

An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.

10:00 AM    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.

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.

2:00 PM    Charade (1963)

A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.

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.

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

African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure.

8:00 PM    Mildred Pierce (1945)

A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.

10:30 PM    Double Indemnity (1944)

An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.

12:45 AM    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

An extended family is split up in France and Germany and find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.

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.

5:45 AM    Ginger and Fred (1986)

A song-and-dance team are reunited for a nostalgic television special.

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.

10:15 AM    Some Came Running (1958)

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.

12:45 PM    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.

3:00 PM    Guys and Dolls (1955)

A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.

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.

8:00 PM    Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

College students on spring break turn Palm Springs into a disaster area.

10:00 PM    The Last of Sheila (1973)

A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.

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.

2:15 AM    Ten Little Indians (1966)

Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.

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.

5:30 AM    The Exterminating Angel (1962)

High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party.

TUESDAY,  December 31

7:15 AM    Judex (1963)

Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.

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.

11:00 AM    After the Thin Man (1936)

Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.

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.

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.

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.

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

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

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.

10:15 PM    Bundle of Joy (1956)

A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.

12:15 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.

2:00 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.

4:15 AM    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.