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THURSDAY,  October 1

6:00 AM   Little Women (1949)    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy   Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien
121 mins   The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.

8:15 AM   Summertime (1955)    Dir: David Lean   Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
100 mins   A prim American spinster is surprised to find love with a handsome shopkeeper while vacationing in Venice.

10:00 AM   South Pacific (1958)    Dir: Joshua Logan   Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
158 mins   A Navy nurse must choose between love and prejudice while serving on an island in the South Pacific during World War II. Adaptation of the 1949 stage musical.

12:45 PM   Count Your Blessings (1959)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier
102 mins   After a wartime separation, an Englishwoman discovers her French husband is a womanizer.

2:30 PM   Light in the Piazza (1962)    Dir: Guy Green   Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux
101 mins   A woman's efforts to marry off her daughter are hindered by a family secret.

4:15 PM   Rome Adventure (1962)    Dir: Delmer Daves   Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, Rossano Brazzi, Angie Dickinson
119 mins   A rebellious teacher moves to Rome and finds love.

6:15 PM   The Bobo (1967)    Dir: Robert Parrish   Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi
103 mins   To land a job, an aspiring singer has to seduce a heartless gold digger.

8:00 PM   Queen Bee (1955)    Dir: Ranald MacDougall   Cast: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer
95 mins   A manipulative Southern socialite sets out to destroy the lives of all those around her.

9:45 PM   The Nanny (1965)    Dir: Seth Holt   Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins   A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family "accidentally" drowns the family's daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.

11:30 PM   The Honeymoon Killers (1970)    Dir: Leonard Kastle   Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lobianco, Mary Jane Higby
108 mins   Two very-much-in-love con artists--a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con--prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.

1:30 AM   Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)    Dir: Lewis Gilbert   Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
85 mins   A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.

3:00 AM   Diabolique (1955)    Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot   Cast: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
117 mins   A cruel man's wife and lover plot to kill him.

5:00 AM   Obsession (1949)    Dir: Edward Dmytryk   Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown
98 mins   A jealous husband plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover. British film released in the United States as "The Hidden Room."


FRIDAY,  October 2

6:45 AM   Strangers on a Train (1951)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
101 mins   A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.

8:30 AM   The Browning Version (1951)    Dir: Anthony Asquith   Cast: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick
90 mins   On the eve of retirement, a bitter schoolteacher searches for some hope in his life.

10:15 AM   The Actress (1953)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright
90 mins   True story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

12:00 PM   Tea and Sympathy (1956)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
122 mins   A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled teen tormented by his fellow students.

2:15 PM   Look Back in Anger (1959)    Dir: Tony Richardson   Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
115 mins   An embittered young man spews venom on all around him, particularly his upper-class wife.

4:00 PM   Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)    Dir: Richard Brooks   Cast: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight
120 mins   Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a young man dreaming of stardom who meets up with a has-been movie star and travels with her to his small hometown to find the girl he left behind (and pregnant), only to be awaited by her father.

6:15 PM   The Connection (1961)    Dir: Shirley Clarke   Cast: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
103 mins   A fictional film posing as a documentary in which a group of heroin addicts wait for their connection to arrive with a fix.

8:00 PM   Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)    Dir: Kevin Brownlow   Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Nick Adams, John Ames
85 mins   This documentary reveals the secrets of the screen's first great horror star.

9:30 PM   Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)    Dir: Joseph Pevney   Cast: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
122 mins   Chameleon-like actor Lon Chaney becomes a star while coping with his first wife's insanity.

11:45 PM   The Phantom of the Opera (1925)    Dir: Rupert Julian   Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
78 mins   In this film, a severely deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera.

1:30 AM   He Who Gets Slapped (1924)    Dir: Victor Seastrom   Cast: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert
76 mins   In this silent film, a scientist flees his tragic past to become a circus clown.

3:00 AM   Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)    Dir: Herbert Brenon   Cast: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young
73 mins   A circus clown falls for a young innocent in love with another.

4:30 AM   The Blackbird (1926)    Dir: Tod Browning   Cast: Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée
86 mins   A benevolent bishop helps the needy during the day, but runs a crime syndicate at night.


SATURDAY,  October 3

6:00 AM   Return from Nowhere (1944)    Dir: Paul Burnford   Cast: Morris Ankrum, Donald Curtis, Don DeFore
10 mins   In this Passing Parade short film, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.

6:15 AM   Village of the Damned (1960)    Dir: Wolf Rilla   Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
77 mins   After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.

7:45 AM   Children of the Damned (1964)    Dir: Anton M. Leader   Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
90 mins   Space invaders impregnate six women with super-powered offspring.

9:30 AM   Batman vs. Wizard (1949)    Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet   Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams
16 mins   Chapter 14 of the Batman and Robin 1949 serial. The Caped Crusader fights to save Commissioner Gordon from an invisible assassin.

10:00 AM   Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)    Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Ayars
92 mins   A young doctor with a broken heart succumbs to the lure of a socialite.

11:45 AM   Shiver Me Timbers! (1934)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky   Cast: William Costello, Lou Fleischer, Charles Lawrence
6 mins   Popeye is attracted to an old weather-beaten ship bearing a sign that says Ghost Ship - Beware. He explores it with Olive Oyl and Wimpy as his unwilling companions.

11:52 AM   Ghosks is the Bunk (1939)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, William Henning   Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
6 mins   Bluto lures Popeye and Olive Oyl to a haunted house. He begins playing a series of comical tricks on them but when they discover he is behind it, they plot their revenge.

12:00 PM   Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante
123 mins   The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

2:15 PM   Hell Drivers (1957)    Dir: Cy Endfield   Cast: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
108 mins   An ex-con tries to go clean and gets a job working as a truck driver, but then he discovers that his peers in the union are scamming money by creating phantom drivers on the payroll and splitting the extra cash amongst themselves.

4:15 PM   The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)    Dir: Roger Corman   Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
70 mins   A nerdy floral shop assistant invents a carnivorous monster plant that feeds on human blood.

5:45 PM   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)    Dir: Charles Chaplin   Cast: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan
124 mins   A redundant bank clerk attempts to find any means at his disposal to protect his crippled wife and family by bigamously courting and marrying rich women, securing their property and then returning home with the booty.

8:00 PM   Out of the Past (1947)    Dir: Jacques Tourneur   Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins   A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.

10:00 PM   The Set-Up (1949)    Dir: Robert Wise   Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
72 mins   An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.

12:00 AM   Loophole (1954)    Dir: Harold D. Schuster   Cast: Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone
80 mins   A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.

1:45 AM   The Great Santini (1979)    Dir: Lewis John Carlino   Cast: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe
115 mins   A marine has problems adjusting to domestic life during peacetime.

3:45 AM   The Betsy (1978)    Dir: Daniel Petrie   Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross
125 mins   An aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.


SUNDAY,  October 4

6:00 AM   Woman of the Year (1942)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
112 mins   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.

8:00 AM   Designing Woman (1957)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
118 mins   A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.

10:00 AM   Loophole (1954)    Dir: Harold D. Schuster   Cast: Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone
80 mins   A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.

11:45 AM   Operation Crossbow (1965)    Dir: Michael Anderson   Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
116 mins   Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base.

2:00 PM   It's Always Fair Weather (1955)    Dir: Gene Kelly   Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
102 mins   Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Dan Daily are in top form and star in this classic musical comedy about three fun-loving army buddies who meet in New York City ten years after their discharge only to discover that each has compromised on his dreams ... and that their reunion is being broadcast as a national television special.

4:00 PM   Ninotchka (1939)    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch   Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
110 mins   A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.

6:00 PM   Deep Valley (1947)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
104 mins   A farmer's daughter helps an escaped convict.

8:00 PM   All the President's Men (1976)    Dir: Alan J. Pakula   Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.
138 mins   Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

10:30 PM   The Manchurian Candidate (1962)    Dir: John Frankenheimer   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
126 mins   A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.

12:45 AM   Battleship Potemkin (1925)    Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein   Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Mikhail Gomorov
70 mins   A Russian mutiny triggers revolutionary sentiments around the nation.

2:15 AM   Three Colors: Blue (1993)    Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski   Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel
99 mins   After a beautiful young woman's daughter and renowned composer-husband are killed in a car crash, she tries to cope with her losses by cutting off all ties to the past. Part of the Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red).

4:00 AM   Three Colors: White (1994)    Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski   Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
92 mins   A Polish hairdresser's marriage to a French model ends dismally in Paris. Upon returning to his native land, he rises to financial wealth after some shady dealings, arranges his own fake funeral, and lures his bride to Poland, where it turns out her monetary gain is much less than expected. Part of the Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red).


MONDAY,  October 5

6:00 AM   The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)    Dir: Herman Hoffman   Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann
57 mins   A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.

7:15 AM   Noah's Ark (1928)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery
128 mins   An American playboy's discovery of honor and courage during World War I parallels the biblical story of the flood.

9:15 AM   The Squall (1929)    Dir: Alexander Korda   Cast: Alice Joyce, Richard Tucker, Myrna Loy
105 mins   A gypsy beauty sets the men of a farming family to fighting over her favors.

11:15 AM   The Great Divide (1929)    Dir: Reginald Barker   Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Myrna Loy
72 mins   A businessman masquerades as a bandit to kidnap a flapper and end her reckless days.

12:30 PM   Show of Shows (1929)    Dir: John G. Adolfi   Cast: Frank Fay, William Courtenay, H. B. Warner
124 mins   Warner Bros. stars perform a series of musical and dramatic sketches.

2:45 PM   The Truth About Youth (1930)    Dir: William Seiter   Cast: Loretta Young, David Manners, Conway Tearle
67 mins   A gold digging cabaret singer is unaware that her latest love is penniless.

4:00 PM   The Naughty Flirt (1930)    Dir: Edward F. Cline   Cast: Alice White, Paul Page, Myrna Loy
56 mins   A flighty heiress goes to work as a secretary to win the straitlaced man she loves.

5:00 PM   Consolation Marriage (1931)    Dir: Paul Sloane   Cast: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday
81 mins   A couple who married after each was jilted faces the return of their former loved ones.

6:30 PM   Rebound (1931)    Dir: Edward H. Griffith   Cast: Ina Claire, Robert Ames, Myrna Loy
89 mins   A woman takes back her straying husband when he's jilted.

8:00 PM   Libeled Lady (1936)    Dir: Jack Conway   Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy
98 mins   When an heiress sues a newspaper, the editor hires a reporter to compromise her.

10:00 PM   I Love You Again (1940)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
99 mins   A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.

12:00 AM   Love Crazy (1941)    Dir: Jack Conway   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick
100 mins   A businessman concocts a series of harebrained schemes to keep his wife from divorcing him.

2:00 AM   Double Wedding (1937)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
87 mins   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.

3:30 AM   Evelyn Prentice (1934)    Dir: William K. Howard   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel
80 mins   A criminal lawyer's wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.

5:00 AM   Manhattan Melodrama (1934)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins   Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.


TUESDAY,  October 6

6:45 AM   The Great Ziegfeld (1936)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
176 mins   The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography.

10:00 AM   A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)    Dir: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt   Cast: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter
143 mins   Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies.

12:30 PM   Hitler's Madman (1943)    Dir: Douglas Sirk   Cast: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis
85 mins   The Nazis take revenge on a Czech village after one of their most sadistic commanders is assassinated there.

2:00 PM   Escape from East Berlin (1962)    Dir: Robert Siodmak   Cast: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer
94 mins   An East German helps dig a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall.

3:30 PM   Friendly Persuasion (1956)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main
137 mins   A peaceful Quaker family's sanctity is tested during the Civil War.

6:00 PM   Fury (1936)    Dir: Fritz Lang   Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
93 mins   An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.

8:00 PM   And Then There Were None (1945)    Dir: René Clair   Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
97 mins   Guests at a remote island mansion realize a crazed killer is stalking them.

9:45 PM   Murder She Said (1961)    Dir: George Pollock   Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins   When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.

11:30 PM   The Kennel Murder Case (1933)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins   Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.

1:00 AM   Suspicion (1941)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins   A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.

2:45 AM   The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
80 mins   Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.

4:15 AM   The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)    Dir: Alan Crosland   Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins   Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.

5:30 AM   MGM Parade Show #13 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Susan Hayward, Fernand Gravet, George Murphy
26 mins   George Murphy introduces clips featuring Susan Hayward and Fernand Gravet from "The Great Waltz" and "I'll Cry Tomorrow."


WEDNESDAY,  October 7

8:00 PM   Matinee (1993)    Dir: Joe Dante   Cast: Kurt Smildsin, Ike Pappas, Jesse Lee
98 mins   A small-time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

10:00 PM   The 'Burbs (1989)    Dir: Joe Dante   Cast: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher
102 mins   A stressed-out suburbanite vacations at home in order to spy on his bizarre new neighbors.

12:00 AM   The Howling (1981)    Dir: Joe Dante   Cast: Dee Wallace Stone, Patrick Macnee, Slim Pickens
90 mins   After taking part in a risky police operation intended to trap a serial murderer, Karen White witnesses something horrifying enough to trigger selective amnesia. Consumed by a series of violent nightmares, she decides to admit herself to a recovery center, but the other occupants may not be what they seem.

2:00 AM   Eyes of a Stranger (1981)    Dir: Ken Wiederhorn   Cast: Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti
84 mins   A Miami newswoman must take care of her deaf, blind and mute sister while following the local crime spree of a raping serial killer.

4:00 AM   The First Deadly Sin (1980)    Dir: Brian Hutton   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore
112 mins   Detective Edward Delaney, played by Frank Sinatra, tries to care for his bedridden wife while he tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.