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FRIDAY,  November 1

7:00 AM   About Face (1942)    Dir: Kurt Neumann   Cast: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Jean Porter
44 mins   Two army sergeants wreak havoc on leave.

7:45 AM   The Magician (1926)    Dir: Rex Ingram   Cast: Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Ivan Petrovich
83 mins   A devil worshiper tries to seduce a young innocent.

9:15 AM   Isle of Fury (1936)    Dir: Frank Mcdonald   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
60 mins   A man on the run in the South Seas gets caught up in a romantic triangle.

10:30 AM   Rain (1932)    Dir: Lewis Milestone   Cast: Frederic Howard, Ben Hendricks, William Gargan
93 mins   A missionary tries to reform a streetwalker trapped on a Pacific island.

12:15 PM   Our Betters (1933)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Constance Bennett, Violet Kemble-cooper, Phoebe Foster
83 mins   An American heiress marries into the British nobility.

1:45 PM   The Letter (1940)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins   A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.

3:30 PM   Strictly Unconventional (1930)    Dir: David Burton   Cast: Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrrell Davis
54 mins   A woman looks up her philandering mother-in-law for advice on adultery.

4:30 PM   The Painted Veil (1934)    Dir: Richard Boleslawski   Cast: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent
83 mins   A woman is lovelessly married to a famous doctor, but is having an affair with a young politician. However, when her husband goes to China to help combat an epidemic, she chooses to go with him rather than to stay behind with her lover.

6:00 PM   Of Human Bondage (1946)    Dir: Edmund Goulding   Cast: Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith
105 mins   A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

8:00 PM   Being There (1979)    Dir: Hal Ashby   Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
130 mins   Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.

10:30 PM   The Candidate (1972)    Dir: Michael Ritchie   Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
109 mins   Without a candidate to run for the senate seat against admired Republican Crocker Jarmon, campaign manager Marvin Lucas recruits leftist lawyer Bill McKay. McKay's appearance piques the public's interest, and gradually Lucas pushes McKay toward a more centrist message. As McKay's original and honest platform gets watered ...

12:30 AM   Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)    Dir: Barbara Kopple   Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
103 mins   Director Barbara Kopple spent a year filming nearly 200 Kentucky coal-mining families and their battle to unionize.

2:30 AM   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.

4:45 AM   Weekend (1967)    Dir: Jean-Luc Godard   Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
105 mins   Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them.


SATURDAY,  November 2

6:45 AM   Grand Illusion (1937)    Dir: Jean Renoir   Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim
114 mins   Two French soldiers work together to escape from a World War I prison camp In Jean Renoir's anti-war masterpiece.

8:45 AM   MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn
25 mins   Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt." Hosted by George Murphy.

9:30 AM   Wolf Pack Law (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 5 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.

10:00 AM   Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1933)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky   Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
8 mins   Popeye meets a tribe of rough and tough Indians and has an exciting adventure. The big chief takes a liking to Olive, and Popeye, in a laugh-provoking finish, takes on the entire tribe to save his sweetheart from becoming the chief's wife.

10:08 AM   Young Dr. Kildare (1938)    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet   Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver
67 mins   A medical school graduate must choose between a small-town practice and a big-city internship.

11:30 AM   A Boy and His Dog (1946)    Dir: Leroy Prinz   Cast: Harry Davenport, Dorothy Adams, Heinie Conklin
20 mins   A young boy fights to save a dog from his cruel owner.

12:00 PM   Annie Get Your Gun (1950)    Dir: George Sidney   Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern
107 mins   Fanciful musical biography of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

2:00 PM   Kelly's Heroes (1970)    Dir: Brian G. Hutton   Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles
143 mins   An American platoon tries to recover buried treasure behind enemy lines.

4:30 PM   The Rounders (1965)    Dir: Burt Kennedy   Cast: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon
85 mins   Two ne'er-do-well cowpokes look for sex and easy money in the modern West.

6:00 PM   The Killers (1946)    Dir: Robert Siodmak   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
105 mins   An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer's beneficiary.

8:00 PM   A Face in the Crowd (1957)    Dir: Elia Kazan   Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
126 mins   A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

10:15 PM   Ace in the Hole (1951)    Dir: Billy Wilder   Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
111 mins   A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

12:30 AM   Nobody Lives Forever (1946)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins   A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

2:30 AM   Soylent Green (1973)    Dir: Richard O. Fleischer   Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson
97 mins   A police officer in the year 2022 uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.

4:15 AM   The Omega Man (1971)    Dir: Boris Sagal   Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
98 mins   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.


SUNDAY,  November 3

6:00 AM   Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)    Dir: Alexa Foreman   Cast: Lee Grant (narrator), Molly Haskell, Leonard Maltin
62 mins   The story of actress Mary Astor's struggle for custody of her daughter as part of a 1936 divorce trial that became a national sensation.

7:15 AM   Smart Woman (1931)    Dir: Gregory La Cava   Cast: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, John Halliday
68 mins   A woman plots to make her cheating husband jealous.

8:30 AM   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.

10:00 AM   Nobody Lives Forever (1946)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins   A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

12:00 PM   North by Northwest (1959)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins   A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.

2:30 PM   Payment on Demand (1951)    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt   Cast: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl
90 mins   A bitter divorcee thinks back on the mistakes that destroyed her marriage.

4:15 PM   The Damned Don't Cry (1950)    Dir: Vincent Sherman   Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins   Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

6:00 PM   Touch of Evil (1958)    Dir: Orson Welles   Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins   A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop.

8:00 PM   The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)    Dir: Norman Z. McLeod   Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
110 mins   An accountant with an active imagination gets caught up with a woman involved in a sinister conspiracy.

10:00 PM   A Song Is Born (1948)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
113 mins   With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer escapes questioning by hiding out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.

12:00 AM   The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)    Dir: Rex Ingram   Cast: Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson
113 mins   In this silent film, a vacationing Englishman steps in for the kidnapped king of a small European nation.

2:00 AM   Rome, Open City (1946)    Dir: Roberto Rossellini   Cast: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
102 mins   Towards the end of WWII, Italian underground workers stand up to the Nazis.

4:00 AM   Les carabiniers (1963)    Dir: Jean-Luc Godard   Cast: Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro, Marino Masè
80 mins   Two soldiers from an unnamed country are caught up in an absurd war.


MONDAY,  November 4

6:00 AM   The Gay Sisters (1942)    Dir: Irving Rapper   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald
108 mins   A New York aristocrat marries for the money to save the family mansion.

8:00 AM   Old Acquaintance (1943)    Dir: Vincent Sherman   Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
110 mins   Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

10:00 AM   Hunt the Man Down (1950)    Dir: George Archainbaud   Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
68 mins   A lawyer uncovers the secrets behind a decade-old murder case.

11:30 AM   Arena (1953)    Dir: Richard Fleischer   Cast: Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen
83 mins   A rodeo star fights to mend his broken marriage.

1:00 PM   Too Young to Kiss (1951)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young
91 mins   A grown woman poses as a child prodigy to advance her career as a concert pianist.

2:30 PM   Holiday for Sinners (1952)    Dir: Gerald Mayer   Cast: Gig Young, Keenan Wynn, Janice Rule
72 mins   Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.

4:00 PM   Air Force (1943)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
124 mins   A bomber crew sees World War II action over the Pacific.

6:15 PM   A Ticklish Affair (1963)    Dir: George Sidney   Cast: Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons
89 mins   A naval commander gets mixed up with a widow and her three children.

8:00 PM   A Woman Under the Influence (1974)    Dir: John Cassavetes   Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper
147 mins   Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on her marriage.

10:45 PM   Gloria (1980)    Dir: John Cassavetes   Cast: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
123 mins   When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

1:00 AM   Lonely Are the Brave (1962)    Dir: David Miller   Cast: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
107 mins   A modern-day cowboy gets himself locked up in prison so that he can try to escape with an old friend.

3:00 AM   The High Cost of Loving (1958)    Dir: José Ferrer   Cast: José Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Gena Rowlands
87 mins   An office worker thinks he's going to lose his job just as his wife announces she may be pregnant.

4:45 AM   Night on Earth (1991)    Dir: Jim Jarmusch   Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl
128 mins   Five stories, each involving the relationship between a cab driver and his or her passenger, that take place simultaneously around the globe during the course of one night.


TUESDAY,  November 5

7:00 AM   Kongo (1932)    Dir: William Cowen   Cast: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel
86 mins   A crippled madman seeks revenge on the daughter of the man who betrayed him.

8:30 AM   Safe in Hell (1931)    Dir: William A. Wellman   Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
73 mins   On the run from the police, a New Orleans prostitute gets stranded in a tropical haven for outlaws.

9:45 AM   The Bribe (1949)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
98 mins   A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.

11:30 AM   Red Dust (1932)    Dir: Victor Fleming   Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
79 mins   A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening.

1:00 PM   Mandalay (1934)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins   A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.

2:15 PM   Bird of Paradise (1932)    Dir: King Vidor   Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
80 mins   An island visitor falls for a Polynesian beauty slated for sacrifice to the gods.

3:45 PM   China Seas (1935)    Dir: Tay Garnett   Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery
87 mins   A sea captain caught in a romantic triangle has to fight off modern-day pirates.

5:15 PM   Law of the Tropics (1941)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn, Regis Toomey
76 mins   A night-club singer on the lam marries a South American rubber planter to escape the law.

6:45 PM   Singapore Woman (1941)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Virginia Field
64 mins   A woman who believes she's cursed, takes refuge on a rubber plantation.

8:00 PM   Belle Starr's Daughter (1948)    Dir: Lesley Selander   Cast: George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Ruth Roman
86 mins   The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.

9:45 PM   Champion (1949)    Dir: Mark Robson   Cast: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
99 mins   Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.

11:45 PM   The Window (1949)    Dir: Ted Tetzlaff   Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins   A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him.

1:15 AM   Invitation (1952)    Dir: Gottfried Reinhardt   Cast: Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
84 mins   A millionaire tries to buy his dying daughter a husband.

2:45 AM   Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman
116 mins   A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom.

4:45 AM   Starlift (1951)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Doris Day, Gordon Macrae, Virginia Mayo
103 mins   An actress and an air transport crewman fall in love in this star-studded salute to the Korean war.


WEDNESDAY,  November 6

6:30 AM   Thrill of a Romance (1945)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford
105 mins   A soldier returning from World War II finds love with a lady swimmer.

8:30 AM   Easy to Wed (1946)    Dir: Edward Buzzell   Cast: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball
110 mins   In this remake of Libeled Lady, a tough newspaper editor hires a gigolo to compromise a woman suing his paper for libel.

10:30 AM   On an Island with You (1948)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban
107 mins   A movie star falls for a handsome naval officer during location shooting in Hawaii.

12:30 PM   Duchess of Idaho (1950)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund
98 mins   During a Sun Valley vacation, a woman tries to solve her roommate's romantic problems only to get caught in a love triangle of her own.

2:15 PM   Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon
115 mins   The true story of Annette Kellerman, who as a child in Australia, learns to swim to overcome a potentially crippling physical handicap and develops into a champion. As a young woman, she travels with her father to London and dreams of a career as a dancer. But when her father falls on hard times, Annette resorts to her ...

4:15 PM   Dangerous When Wet (1953)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson
95 mins   A family of fitness fanatics sets out to swim the English Channel.

6:00 PM   Easy to Love (1953)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin
96 mins   Williams loves her boss from afar and finally wins him over when she starts an affair with another man.

8:00 PM   Gaslight (1944)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins   Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she ...

10:00 PM   Niagara (1953)    Dir: Henry Hathaway   Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
92 mins   Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.

11:45 PM   A Kiss Before Dying (1956)    Dir: Gerd Oswald   Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
94 mins   A college student who is more sinister than he appears tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

1:30 AM   Dark Passage (1947)    Dir: Delmer Daves   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins   A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.

3:30 AM   Dead Ringer (1964)    Dir: Paul Henreid   Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins   One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter's identity.

5:30 AM   MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn
25 mins   Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt." Hosted by George Murphy.


THURSDAY,  November 7

6:00 AM   Sweet Adeline (1935)    Dir: Mervyn Le Roy   Cast: Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert
87 mins   A gay nineties waitress rises from beer gardens to Broadway.

7:30 AM   Ready, Willing and Able (1937)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins
93 mins   Two songwriters want to cast a British star in their new show.

9:15 AM   Broadway Hostess (1935)    Dir: Frank Mcdonald   Cast: Winifred Shaw, Genevieve Tobin, Lyle Talbot
68 mins   A small-town girl rises to night-club stardom.

10:30 AM   Stars Over Broadway (1935)    Dir: William Keighley   Cast: Pat O'Brien, Jane Froman, James Melton
90 mins   An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

12:00 PM   Go into Your Dance (1935)    Dir: Archie L. Mayo   Cast: Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell
89 mins   An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

1:30 PM   Sons O' Guns (1936)    Dir: Lloyd Bacon   Cast: Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, Beverly Roberts
82 mins   A song-and-dance man gets caught up in war and espionage.

3:00 PM   For Me and My Gal (1942)    Dir: Busby Berkeley   Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
104 mins   Judy Garland and Gene Kelly star in the classic musical directed by Busby Berkeley--For Me and My Gal. Young vaudeville performers Harry Palmer and Jo Hayden (Kelly and Garland) dream of stardom, but the United States enters World War I and Harry receives his draft notice--trapping the two between their obligation to each ...

4:45 PM   Flirtation Walk (1934)    Dir: Frank Borzage   Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien
97 mins   A West Point cadet falls for his commanding officer's daughter.

6:30 PM   Colleen (1936)    Dir: Alfred E. Green   Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie
89 mins   An eccentric millionaire hires a gold digger to run his business.

8:00 PM   Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)    Dir: David Hinton   Cast: Martin Scorsese, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
131 mins   Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

10:30 PM   The Red Shoes (1948)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
134 mins   Tale of a famous ballerina who must choose between art and love.

1:00 AM   The Spy in Black (1939)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson
82 mins   A German sub tries to sink the British fleet during World War I. (A British film that was shown in the U.S. with the title 'U-Boat 29'.)

2:30 AM   49th Parallel (1941)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier
122 mins   The crew of a stranded German U-boat tries to evade capture in Canada during World War II.

4:45 AM   Something Always Happens (1934)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Ian Hunter, Nancy O'Neil, John Singer
69 mins   When a gasoline company president rejects his marketing proposal, an unemployed man joins the competition.


FRIDAY,  November 8

6:00 AM   Tortilla Flat (1942)    Dir: Victor Fleming   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
105 mins   Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of life.

8:00 AM   The Heavenly Body (1943)    Dir: Alexander Hall   Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig
95 mins   An astronomer's neglected wife takes up astrology and a handsome astrologer.

9:45 AM   Lady of the Tropics (1939)    Dir: Jack Conway   Cast: Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut
92 mins   An American playboy in Saigon has to fight to get his Eurasian wife out of the country.

11:30 AM   The Strange Woman (1946)    Dir: Edgar Ulmer   Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward
100 mins   An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life.

1:15 PM   Crossroads (1942)    Dir: Jack Conway   Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins   A French diplomat who's recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

2:45 PM   Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson
112 mins   A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.

4:45 PM   Come Live with Me (1941)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter
86 mins   A Viennese refugee weds a struggling author platonically so she can stay in the U.S.

6:15 PM   Experiment Perilous (1944)    Dir: Jacques Tourneur   Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
91 mins   A small-town doctor tries to help a beautiful woman with a deranged husband.

8:00 PM   Guys and Dolls (1955)    Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz   Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
150 mins   A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.

10:45 PM   Little Miss Marker (1934)    Dir: Alexander Hall   Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford
80 mins   A big-time gambler picks up a young girl as security on an IOU.

12:15 AM   Lady for a Day (1933)    Dir: Frank Capra   Cast: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
88 mins   A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter.

2:00 AM   A Slight Case of Murder (1938)    Dir: Lloyd Bacon   Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
85 mins   A gangster finds the straight life isn't so simple.

3:30 AM   Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson
86 mins   The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron's plans to crash high society.

5:00 AM   A Day in the Country (1946)    Dir: Jean Renoir   Cast: Sylvia Bataille, Jeanne Marken, Georges D'arnoux
42 mins   The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn where they are staying. Written and directed by Jean Renoir in 1936, but not edited and released until 1946. Also known as 'Une Partie de Campagne'.


SATURDAY,  November 9

6:00 AM   The Broadway Melody (1929)    Dir: Harry Beaumont   Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
102 mins   Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.

8:00 AM   Wags to Riches (1949)    Dir: Tex Avery   Cast: Tex Avery, William H. Thompson, Pat McGeehan
7 mins   A millionaire with two dogs leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune would go to Spike. Guess what Spike is up to?

8:08 AM   My Tomato (1943)    Dir: Will Jason   Cast: John Dilson, Ruth Lee, Monte F. Collins
7 mins   In this comedic short, Robert Benchley attempts to grow his own tomatoes.

8:16 AM   Believe It or Not #1 (1931)    Dir: Murray Roth   Cast: Robert L Ripley
8 mins   This short entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series focuses on various sites and oddities to be found in northern Africa. Vitaphone Release 1282.

8:25 AM   In the Money (1958)    Dir: William Beaudine   Cast: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Patricia Donahue
61 mins   The Bowery Boys escort a diamond concealing poodle on a cruise.

9:30 AM   The Gates of Mercy (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 6 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.

10:00 AM   I Yam Love Sick (1938)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel   Cast: Bonnie Poe, Jack Mercer, Gus Wicke
8 mins   Popeye plays sick to win Olive's attention. Doctors fail to locate his illness and Olive believes it's his end. When Popeye sits up in bed and confesses that it was all a gag, Olive pummels him.

10:09 AM   The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet   Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill
84 mins   A young doctor tries to help a woman suffering from psychosomatic blindness.

11:30 AM   Wells Fargo Days (1944)    Dir: Mack V. Wright   Cast: Oscar Gahan, Karl Hackett, Cactus Mack
20 mins   A gunman attempts to avoid trouble in a new town.

12:00 PM   Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)    Dir: Mark Sandrich   Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting
68 mins   Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.

1:15 PM   Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)    Dir: Tom Donahue   Cast: Jerry Lewis, Bob Newhart, Angie Dickinson
107 mins   The story of Dean Martin told through interviews and archival footage.

3:15 PM   Rio Bravo (1959)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
141 mins   A sheriff enlists a drunk, a kid and an old man to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron.

5:45 PM   Triple Cross (1966)    Dir: Terence Young   Cast: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
126 mins   A safe-cracker turns double agent during WWII.

8:00 PM   The Fisher King (1991)    Dir: Terry Gilliam   Cast: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant
137 mins   A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

10:30 PM   Synecdoche, New York (2008)    Dir: Charlie Kaufman   Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams
124 mins   A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

12:45 AM   Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)    Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville   Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins   A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.

3:30 AM   A Star Is Born (1976)    Dir: Frank R. Pierson   Cast: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
140 mins   A fast-rising singer tries to put a has-been rocker back on top.


SUNDAY,  November 10

6:00 AM   Forbidden Planet (1956)    Dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox   Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
98 mins   A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

8:00 AM   Things to Come (1936)    Dir: William Cameron Menzies   Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
113 mins   Two generations of philosophers try to bring an end to war.

10:00 AM   Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)    Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville   Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins   A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.

12:45 PM   The Great McGinty (1940)    Dir: Preston Sturges   Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
81 mins   A bum is transformed into a political kingpin by a corrupt hoodlum, only to be destroyed by the same man when he decides to go straight.

2:15 PM   Our Miss Brooks (1956)    Dir: Al Lewis   Cast: Eve Arden, Gale Gorden, Don Porter
85 mins   A high school teacher has to rescue the professor she loves from his grasping mother.

4:00 PM   Bells Are Ringing (1960)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark
127 mins   An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients' lives.

6:15 PM   What's Up, Doc? (1972)    Dir: Peter Bogdanovich   Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
94 mins   The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

8:00 PM   The Sugarland Express (1974)    Dir: Steven Spielberg   Cast: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, William Atherton
109 mins   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.

10:00 PM   Foul Play (1978)    Dir: Colin Higgins   Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith
116 mins   A San Francisco librarian picks up a hitchhiker whose car has broken down, which leads to her being stalked and hunted by shady individuals. A cop she briefly met during a function eventually comes to her rescue.

12:15 AM   The Dragon Painter (1919)    Dir: William Worthington   Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil
62 mins   In this silent film, an artist obsesses over a beautiful woman he believes has been turned into a dragon.

1:19 AM   The Tong-Man (1919)    Dir: William Worthington   Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc Robbins
54 mins   An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

2:30 AM   La Chienne (1931)    Dir: Jean Renoir   Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Mareze, Georges Flamant
96 mins   Hen-pecked husband has an affair.

4:15 AM   Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)    Dir: Jean Renoir   Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
85 mins   When a bookseller saves a tramp from drowning, he takes the man in despite protests from his wife.


MONDAY,  November 11

6:00 AM   The Scarlet Coat (1955)    Dir: John Sturges   Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders
101 mins   During the American War of Independence, an American officer deserts to the British in order to unmask a traitor.

8:00 AM   The Red Badge of Courage (1951)    Dir: John Huston   Cast: Andy Devine, Robert Easton Burke, Douglas Dick
69 mins   A young Union soldier fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War.

9:15 AM   Sergeant York (1941)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
134 mins   True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero.

11:45 AM   Air Force (1943)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
124 mins   A bomber crew sees World War II action over the Pacific.

2:00 PM   Hell to Eternity (1960)    Dir: Phil Karlson   Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone
132 mins   A young man adopted by Japanese-Americans becomes a hero in World War II.

4:15 PM   Marines in the Making (1942)    Dir: Herbert Polesie   Cast: R. E. Hanley, Charles Horvath, Stephen McNally
9 mins   This war-time promotional short exhibits the U.S. Marine Corps' training.

4:30 PM   Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)    Dir: Andrew Marton   Cast: Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern
80 mins   Men on a U.S. aircraft carrier fight to survive the Korean War.

6:00 PM   Purple Hearts (1984)    Dir: Sidney J. Furie   Cast: Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee, Annie McEnroe
115 mins   A dedicated Army surgeon falls in love with an equally dedicated nurse but the Vietnam War is raging and the two find themselves pitted against greater odds than either of them know how to handle.

8:00 PM   Private Benjamin (1980)    Dir: Howard Zieff   Cast: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante
110 mins   When her husband dies on their wedding night, Jewish American princess Judy Benjamin is so traumatized that she is vulnerable to a pitch by a tricky recruiter and finds herself in the Women's Army Corps. Judy expects the spa-like atmosphere that she was promised, but is quickly disabused of this notion by the tough Captain ...

10:00 PM   Lady Sings the Blues (1972)    Dir: Sidney J. Furie   Cast: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor
144 mins   Billie Holliday fights drug addiction to make a name for herself as a jazz singer.

12:30 AM   Mean Streets (1973)    Dir: Martin Scorsese   Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
110 mins   A young hood in New York's Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.

2:30 AM   The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews
172 mins   Upon returning to small-town America, three World War II veterans have difficulty readjusting to life at home, discovering that both they and their families have irrevocably changed.

5:30 AM   MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn
25 mins   Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt." Hosted by George Murphy.


TUESDAY,  November 12

6:00 AM   Crazylegs (1953)    Dir: Francis D. Lyon   Cast: Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vohs
87 mins   Story of the career of Los Angeles Rams football great, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch.

7:30 AM   Viva Knievel! (1977)    Dir: Gordon Douglas   Cast: Frank Gifford, Evel Knievel, Cameron Mitchell
104 mins   Daredevil motorcyclist Evil Knievel travels to Mexico for a stunt while a drug lord plots against him.

9:30 AM   Speedy (1928)    Dir: Ted Wilde   Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
85 mins   A young man helps his girlfriend save the family trolley business.

11:00 AM   The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)    Dir: Alfred E. Green   Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson
76 mins   Jackie Robinson plays himself in this true story of the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier.

12:30 PM   The Greatest (1977)    Dir: Tom Gries   Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Haynes, John Marley, Robert Duvall
101 mins   Muhammad Ali plays himself in the story of his remarkable boxing career and how he overcame obstacles to become the greatest boxer of all time.

2:30 PM   My Dinner with Andre (1981)    Dir: Louis Malle   Cast: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer
111 mins   A conversation between a globe-trotting theater director and a playwright playfully explores ideas about art, theater, and daily life.

4:30 PM   A Hard Day's Night (1964)    Dir: Richard Lester   Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
87 mins   A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who would go on to make music history as the Beatles.

6:00 PM   Sunset Boulevard (1950)    Dir: Billy Wilder   Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim
110 mins   A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.

8:00 PM   Strangers on a Train (1951)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins   A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.

10:00 PM   Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)    Dir: Felix Feist   Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins   A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.

11:45 PM   Down Three Dark Streets (1954)    Dir: Arnold Laven   Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
85 mins   An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

1:30 AM   Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)    Dir: King Vidor   Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
91 mins   An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.

3:15 AM   Young Man With Ideas (1952)    Dir: Mitchell Leisen   Cast: Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel
84 mins   A country lawyer moves his family to Los Angeles.

5:00 AM   Always a Bride (1940)    Dir: Noel M. Smith   Cast: Rosemary Lane, George Reeves, John Eldredge
58 mins   A society girl pushes her working class boyfriend into politics.


WEDNESDAY,  November 13

6:00 AM   The Clock (1945)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
90 mins   A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

8:00 AM   Dear Heart (1964)    Dir: Delbert Mann   Cast: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Michael Anderson Jr.
114 mins   A middle-aged postmistress falls for an engaged man during a convention in New York.

10:00 AM   Rear Window (1954)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins   A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.

12:00 PM   On the Town (1949)    Dir: Gene Kelly   Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
98 mins   Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

2:00 PM   Crossing Delancey (1988)    Dir: Joan Micklin Silver   Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe
97 mins   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.

4:00 PM   The Tender Trap (1955)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
111 mins   A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.

6:00 PM   Sunday in New York (1963)    Dir: Peter Tewksbury   Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson
105 mins   A prim 22-year-old virgin, Eileen Tyler, considers premarital sex when she travels from Albany to visit her womanizing brother in New York City, and although engaged to another man, flirts with a stranger she meets on a bus.

8:00 PM   Charade (1963)    Dir: Stanley Donen   Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins   A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.

10:00 PM   Arabesque (1966)    Dir: Stanley Donen   Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins   A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.

12:00 AM   Mirage (1965)    Dir: Edward Dmytryk   Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
109 mins   A biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.

2:00 AM   23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)    Dir: Henry Hathaway   Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
103 mins   A blind London writer overhears a conversation that reveals a kidnapping plot. Knowing what he heard was true but finding the police don't believe his story, the man summons the help of his secretary and fiancee to hunt down the kidnappers independently.

4:00 AM   The Prize (1963)    Dir: Mark Robson   Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins   An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.


THURSDAY,  November 14

6:30 AM   Going Places (1938)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins
85 mins   A sporting-goods salesman poses as a jockey to stimulate sales.

8:00 AM   Hard to Get (1938)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Dick Powell, Olivia De Havilland, Charles Winninger
80 mins   An unemployed architect falls in love with an heiress.

9:30 AM   Hollywood Hotel (1937)    Dir: Busby Berkeley   Cast: Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane
109 mins   A small-town boy wins a Hollywood talent contest.

11:30 AM   Naughty But Nice (1939)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Page
89 mins   A college professor turns songwriter and falls for his lyricist.

1:15 PM   Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)    Dir: Lloyd Bacon   Cast: Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Priscilla Lane
80 mins   A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

2:45 PM   Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
96 mins   Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.

4:30 PM   Pitfall (1948)    Dir: Andre Detoth   Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins   A married insurance man falls for a criminal's girlfriend.

6:00 PM   The Singing Marine (1937)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Dick Powell, Doris Weston, Lee Dixon
105 mins   A young Marine develops an inflated ego after winning a talent contest.

8:00 PM   One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)    Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger   Cast: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
82 mins   During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.

10:00 PM   Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)    Dir: David Hinton   Cast: Martin Scorsese, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
131 mins   Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

12:30 AM   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook
163 mins   In this fascinating epic, Colonel Blimp relished a good fight, but as the atrocities of combat took their toll, he was forced to rethink the sense of it all. Deborah Kerr co-stars playing three different women who touched the colonel's heart over the course of his 40-year career.

3:30 AM   A Canterbury Tale (1944)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim
125 mins   Three visitors to a small town try to catch a man who pours glue in women's hair.

5:45 AM   Crown v. Stevens (1936)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Beatrix Thomson, Patric Knowles, Googie Withers
65 mins   An ex-dancer marries a rich man hoping to pay off a loan shark.


FRIDAY,  November 15

7:00 AM   The Canterville Ghost (1944)    Dir: Jules Dassin   Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien
96 mins   A ghost who died a coward tries to inspire U.S. G.I.s to become heroes.

8:45 AM   The Woman in White (1948)    Dir: Peter Godfrey   Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins   Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.

10:45 AM   Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)    Dir: Gordon Douglas   Cast: Harold Peary, Marion Martin, Richard Legrand
63 mins   Two ghosts help a small-town eccentric run for mayor.

12:00 PM   Tormented (1960)    Dir: Bert I. Gordon   Cast: Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders
75 mins   A composer is haunted by the ghost of the former lover he let die.

1:30 PM   Topper Returns (1941)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
85 mins   A beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer.

3:00 PM   Beyond Tomorrow (1940)    Dir: A. Edward Sutherland   Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger
84 mins   A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.

4:30 PM   Blithe Spirit (1945)    Dir: David Lean   Cast: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
96 mins   A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

6:15 PM   Sylvia and the Phantom (1946)    Dir: Claude Autant-Lara   Cast: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey
90 mins   On the eve of a young girl's birthday she is visited by the ghost of her grandmother's former lover.

8:00 PM   Invaders from Mars (1953)    Dir: William Cameron Menzies   Cast: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt
78 mins   A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

9:30 PM   It Came from Outer Space (1953)    Dir: Jack Arnold   Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
81 mins   No one believes an amateur astronomer's spaceship sighting until the town's people begin disappearing.

11:00 PM   The Thing (1982)    Dir: John Carpenter   Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart
108 mins   The stage is set for havoc and terror when a twelve-man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has been buried for over 100,000 years.

1:00 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.

2:30 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.

4:15 AM   The Power (1968)    Dir: Byron Haskin   Cast: George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson
109 mins   A scientist tries to unmask a murderous genius with psychic powers.


SATURDAY,  November 16

6:15 AM   Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
103 mins   A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.

8:00 AM   The Winning Ticket (1938)    Dir: Burt Gillett   Cast: Mel Blanc
9 mins   John Silver tries to steal a winning lottery ticket from the Captain and the Kids by dressing up as a frail, old woman.

8:10 AM   Free and Easy (1931)    Dir: Roy Mack   Cast: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Christina Graver
8 mins   In this short film, a hobo and his "son" attempt a search for money in an abandoned house. Vitaphone Release 1285.

8:18 AM   Believe It or Not #2 (1931)    Dir: Murray Roth   Cast: Robert L Ripley
7 mins   Robert L. Ripley presents more of life's curiosities, such as a small office building designed to look like a dresser drawer.

8:26 AM   Jungle Gents (1954)    Dir: Edward Bernds   Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
64 mins   The Bowery Boys go diamond hunting in Africa.

9:31 AM   The Empty Room (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 7 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.

10:00 AM   Plumbing Is a 'Pipe' (1938)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky   Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
7 mins   Popeye visits Olive Oyl and discovers her home in turmoil because of a broken water pipe. When they are soon surrounded by a series of bursting pipes, Popeye tries every means to stop the flood.

10:10 AM   Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet   Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
76 mins   A young doctor uses pioneering methods to treat a mental patient.

11:30 AM   Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Pierre Watkin, Glenn Strange, Selmer Jackson
18 mins   This follows the political career of president Theodore Roosevelt.

12:00 PM   The Glass Slipper (1955)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Keenan Wynn
94 mins   Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.

1:45 PM   The Iron Major (1943)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warrick, Robert Ryan
85 mins   In this true story, Frank Cavanaugh proves himself as a football coach and a World War I hero.

3:30 PM   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)    Dir: Steven Spielberg   Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
135 mins   Several civilian people are drawn to a remote corner of the US where aliens land in their spaceship and parley with US officials.

6:00 PM   Psycho (1960)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins   A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.

8:00 PM   Jailhouse Rock (1957)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy
96 mins   Young Vince Everett goes to prison for accidentally killing a man in a barroom brawl while defending a young woman's honor. After Everett's cellmate teaches him how to play guitar and encourages him to sing, Everett's hip-swiveling, electrifying performance at a jailhouse concert leads to stardom. But fame quickly gives ...

10:00 PM   Forty Guns (1957)    Dir: Samuel Fuller   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
80 mins   A showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S. Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fisted rancher who controls the territory with her private posse of hired guns.

12:00 AM   The Big Combo (1955)    Dir: Joseph Lewis   Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins   An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.

2:00 AM   Blue Velvet (1986)    Dir: David Lynch   Cast: Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
120 mins   The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

4:15 AM   Three Colors: Blue (1993)    Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski   Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel
98 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. Meanwhile, the music world searches for her late husband's unfinished symphony and a music critic suspects that the wife is the work's true author.


SUNDAY,  November 17

6:00 AM   The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)    Dir: Henry Levin   Cast: Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm, Claire Bloom
140 mins   Fanciful biography of the German fairy-tale collectors, with reenactments of three of their stories.

8:30 AM   Fantastic Planet (1973)    Dir: Rene Laloux   Cast: Jean Valmont, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart
72 mins   On the planet Ygam, it's the animal-like Draags that rule civilization and it's the humans that serve as Oms, the household pets. Tiwa, an intelligent Om who has mastered the Draaga language, tries to plant the seeds of organized rebellion.

10:00 AM   The Big Combo (1955)    Dir: Joseph Lewis   Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins   An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.

11:45 AM   D.O.A. (1950)    Dir: Rudolph Maté   Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
83 mins   The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.

1:15 PM   Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)    Dir: John Frankenheimer   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
147 mins   True life story of Robert Stroud, who spent fifty-three years in Alcartaz prison and became a world-famous ornithologist.

4:00 PM   Bachelor in Paradise (1961)    Dir: Jack Arnold   Cast: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige
109 mins   A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples.

6:00 PM   Sweet November (1968)    Dir: Robert Ellis Miller   Cast: Anthony Newley, Sandy Dennis, Theodore Bikel
114 mins   A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.

8:00 PM   The Movie Man (2024)    Dir: Matt Finlin   Cast: Keith Stata
89 mins   Amid a global pandemic, an entrepreneur looks back on his life's work owning and operating an idiosyncratic cinema in the forest of northern Ontario.

10:00 PM   Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! (2024)    Dir: Peter Flynn   Cast: Louis DiCrescenzo, Stan Taffel, Geoffrey Curtis
102 mins   Explores the vanishing world of private film collecting - an obsessive, secretive world of basement film vaults, piled-high with forgotten reels, and inhabited by passionate cinephiles devoted to the rescue and preservation of photochemical film.

12:00 AM   Three Women (1924)    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch   Cast: May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick, Marie Prevost
70 mins   A frivolous middle-aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for her daughter, leaving her young boyfriend crushed.

1:12 AM   The Doll (1919)    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch   Cast: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig
64 mins   Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

2:30 AM   The Other Side of Hope (2017)    Dir: Aki Kaurismäki   Cast: Kaija Pakarinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji
100 mins   A Syrian refugee and the owner of a restaurant in Helsinki become friends and decide to form a utopian union with workers from the restaurant.

4:15 AM   The Match Factory Girl (1990)    Dir: Aki Kaurismäki   Cast: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari
70 mins   A plain young woman, by day an unskilled laborer in a match factory, is oppressed by her parents and ignored by men at the local dances.


MONDAY,  November 18

6:00 AM   The Whip Hand (1951)    Dir: William Cameron Menzies   Cast: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
82 mins   A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

7:30 AM   The Journey (1959)    Dir: Anatole Litvak   Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards Jr.
123 mins   A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

10:00 AM   The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)    Dir: Michael Anderson   Cast: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner
162 mins   A Russian man, released from a Siberian prison after 20 years, takes a strong religious stance against the world's problems, including nuclear war, and becomes elected Pope.

1:00 PM   Ice Station Zebra (1968)    Dir: John Sturges   Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
148 mins   A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.

3:30 PM   Seven Days in May (1964)    Dir: John Frankenheimer   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
118 mins   In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being plotted by one of his Joint Chiefs and must find a way to dismantle it.

5:30 PM   The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)    Dir: Norman Jewison   Cast: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
126 mins   A Soviet submarine accidentally runs aground off the coast of a small New England town, and after initial hostility, the townspeople join together with the Russian sailors to try to set the vessel free.

8:00 PM   Garbo (2005)    Dir: Christopher Bird, Kevin Brownlow   Cast: Julie Christie, Greta Garbo, Charles Busch
86 mins   Documentary that explores the life and career of screen legend Greta Garbo.

9:45 PM   Grand Hotel (1932)    Dir: Edmund Goulding   Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
105 mins   The lives of the denizens of the Grand Hotel intertwine: a lonely ballerina, a noble thief, an ambitious stenographer, a dying man on a last fling and a ruthless industrialist.

11:45 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.

1:45 AM   A Woman of Affairs (1928)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone
90 mins   Prejudice keeps a free spirit from the man she loves, triggering a series of tragedies.

3:30 AM   Camille (1937)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
108 mins   In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness.

5:30 AM   Anna Christie (1930)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion
89 mins   Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.


TUESDAY,  November 19

7:00 AM   Frisco Jenny (1933)    Dir: William A. Wellman   Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins   A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.

8:15 AM   Fog Over Frisco (1934)    Dir: William Dieterle   Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins   A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.

9:30 AM   The Maltese Falcon (1941)    Dir: John Huston   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins   Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.

11:15 AM   Dark Passage (1947)    Dir: Delmer Daves   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins   A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.

1:15 PM   The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)    Dir: Joseph H. Lewis   Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy
66 mins   A society sleuth enlists a little girl's help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.

2:30 PM   Woman on the Run (1950)    Dir: Norman Foster   Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins   A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.

4:00 PM   Key to the City (1950)    Dir: George Sidney   Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Frank Morgan
99 mins   Two mayors meet and fall in love during a convention in San Francisco.

5:45 PM   Flower Drum Song (1961)    Dir: Henry Koster   Cast: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall
133 mins   A refugee travels to Chinatown as a mail-order bride.

8:00 PM   Dallas (1950)    Dir: Stuart Heisler   Cast: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran
94 mins   A renegade Confederate officer tries to hide his identity while bringing law and order to the West.

10:00 PM   Great Day in the Morning (1956)    Dir: Jacques Tourneur   Cast: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman
92 mins   The Civil War triggers unrest in Colorado.

12:00 AM   Barricade (1950)    Dir: Peter Godfrey   Cast: Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman
77 mins   Two fugitives try to prove the head of a mining camp is a murderer.

1:30 AM   Colt .45 (1950)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott
74 mins   A gun salesman tracks down the outlaws who stole his sample case.

3:00 AM   Shanghai Express (1932)    Dir: Josef Von Sternberg   Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
80 mins   A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

4:30 AM   If I Were Free (1933)    Dir: Elliott Nugent   Cast: Irene Dunne, Clive Brook, Nils Asther
66 mins   A man and a woman trapped in bad marriages try to make an adulterous affair work.


WEDNESDAY,  November 20

6:00 AM   Maisie (1939)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey
74 mins   A Brooklyn showgirl tries to clear a ranch foreman of murder charges.

7:30 AM   Congo Maisie (1940)    Dir: Henry C. Potter   Cast: Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson
70 mins   Brooklyn showgirl Maisie gets stranded in the African jungle with a romantic doctor.

8:45 AM   Gold Rush Maisie (1940)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, Slim Summerville
82 mins   A Brooklyn showgirl helps a poor family strike it rich.

10:15 AM   Maisie Was a Lady (1941)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan
79 mins   A Brooklyn showgirl signs on as a maid for a family of wealthy eccentrics.

11:45 AM   Ringside Maisie (1941)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling
96 mins   A Brooklyn showgirl sets pulses racing at a boxers' training camp.

1:30 PM   Swing Shift Maisie (1943)    Dir: Norman Z. Mcleod   Cast: Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers
87 mins   A brassy showgirl signs on to help the war effort as a factory worker.

3:00 PM   Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)    Dir: Harry Beaumont   Cast: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake
90 mins   On a trip to Reno, a Brooklyn showgirl tries to stop a soldier and his wife from divorcing.

4:45 PM   Up Goes Maisie (1946)    Dir: Harry Beaumont   Cast: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke
89 mins   A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks out to steal his ideas.

6:15 PM   Undercover Maisie (1947)    Dir: Harry Beaumont   Cast: Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Mark Daniels
90 mins   A stranded showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic.

8:00 PM   Diabolique (1955)    Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot   Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins   A cruel man's wife and lover plot to kill him.

10:15 PM   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)    Dir: Otto Preminger   Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
107 mins   A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.

12:15 AM   Sisters (1972)    Dir: Brian De Palma   Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins   A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.

2:00 AM   The Bride Wore Black (1968)    Dir: François Truffaut   Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
107 mins   When her husband is shot on their wedding day, a newlywed turned widow seeks out the killers and eliminates them one by one in an act of vengeance.

4:00 AM   Blow-Up (1966)    Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni   Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins   A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.


THURSDAY,  November 21

6:00 AM   The Fox (1967)    Dir: Mark Rydell   Cast: Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood
110 mins   A sexy male drifter upsets the relationship between two female farmers.

8:00 AM   The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)    Dir: Roman Polanski   Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
108 mins   Spoof on vampire lore centers around a pair of hunters roaming the Slovenian countryside to catch the elusive creatures.

10:00 AM   Just the Way You Are (1984)    Dir: Edouard Molinaro   Cast: Kristy Mcnichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter
95 mins   A young woman self-conscious about the brace on her leg goes on a concert tour in the French Alps and spurs a brilliant idea. Masquerading as an injured skier, she not only finds love in the arms of a handsome photographer, but her true self as well.

11:45 AM   Snowed Under (1936)    Dir: Raymond Enright   Cast: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell
63 mins   A playwright in search of solitude is besieged by three women.

1:00 PM   Idiot's Delight (1939)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold
105 mins   A hoofer and a fake Russian countess are caught behind enemy lines at the outbreak of World War II.

3:00 PM   The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)    Dir: Reinhold Schunzel   Cast: Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres
83 mins   An ice-skating team breaks up when both partners fall for the same girl.

4:30 PM   Desire Me (1947)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart
91 mins   A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

6:15 PM   The Enchanted Cottage (1945)    Dir: John Cromwell   Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
91 mins   A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.

8:00 PM   I Know Where I'm Going (1945)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins   A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.

9:45 PM   Black Narcissus (1947)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar
99 mins   Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.

11:30 PM   Hour of Glory (1949)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Jack Hawkins, David Farr
106 mins   During World War II, a bomb disposal officer fights his addictions to alcohol and pain pills. Also known as 'The Small Back Room'.

1:30 AM   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina
138 mins   A famous writer broods over his three lost loves.

4:00 AM   The Lion Has Wings (1939)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez
76 mins   British people of every class band together to repel the German Blitz.

5:30 AM   MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn
25 mins   Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt." Hosted by George Murphy.


FRIDAY,  November 22

6:00 AM   Call of the Flesh (1930)    Dir: Charles Brabin   Cast: Ramón Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence
100 mins   A Latin lover fights for the heart of a beautiful convent girl.

7:45 AM   Green Mansions (1959)    Dir: Mel Ferrer   Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
104 mins   A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.

9:45 AM   Kismet (1955)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray
113 mins   In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates high society when his daughter is wooed by a handsome prince.

11:45 AM   Rome Adventure (1962)    Dir: Delmer Daves   Cast: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi
119 mins   A man falls in love with two women.

1:45 PM   Romance on the High Seas (1948)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don Defore
99 mins   A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.

3:30 PM   Fugitive Lovers (1934)    Dir: Richard Boleslavsky   Cast: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy
82 mins   A cross-country bus trip brings together a chorus girl and an escaped convict.

5:00 PM   Between Two Women (1945)    Dir: Willis Goldbeck   Cast: Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Goria DeHaven
89 mins   Dr. Gillespie's young assistant finds himself pursued by two beautiful women.

6:30 PM   Tonight or Never (1931)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
81 mins   An opera diva falls in love with a dashing, handsome young man but she must find out whether he is the answer to her dreams or...just a gigolo.

8:00 PM   Double Indemnity (1944)    Dir: Billy Wilder   Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins   An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.

10:00 PM   Laura (1944)    Dir: Otto Preminger   Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins   A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she's dead, the obsessed detective can't get her out of his mind.

11:45 PM   Murder, My Sweet (1944)    Dir: Edward Dmytryk   Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins   Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.

1:30 AM   Phantom Lady (1944)    Dir: Robert Siodmak   Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
87 mins   A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

3:15 AM   The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins   A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.

5:00 AM   Brand of Fear (1949)    Dir: Oliver Drake   Cast: Jimmy Wakely, Dub "Cannonball" Taylor, Tom London
56 mins   Two cowboys try to help the new schoolteacher when she's accosted by bandits.


SATURDAY,  November 23

6:00 AM   Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
110 mins   Backstage problems jeopardize a Broadway musical.

8:00 AM   Blackboard Jumble (1957)    Dir: Michael Lah   Cast: Daws Butler, Joe Trescari
6 mins   A Southern Wolf becomes a substitute teacher at an elementary school and tries to teach them some of the traditions of the Confederacy. The Droopy students have other ideas.

8:07 AM   Hot News Margie (1931)    Dir: Alfred J. Goulding   Cast: James C. Morton, Charles Wilson, Marjorie Beebe
6 mins   In this short film, a reporter for a tabloid newspaper attempts to find out if a college football star is secretly married. Vitaphone Release 1290.

8:14 AM   Believe It or Not #3 (1931)    Dir: Murray Roth   Cast: Clarence E Willard, James Dunn, Robert L Ripley, Murray Roth
7 mins   Robert L. Ripley shares with reporters the various sights and oddities he has seen through his world travels such as a baseball team made up of nine brothers.

8:25 AM   Hold That Line (1952)    Dir: William Beaudine   Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, John Bromfield
64 mins   The Bowery Boys crash college when one of them lands on the football team.

9:30 AM   Avenging Fangs (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 8 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.

10:00 AM   The Jeep (1938)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel   Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
7 mins   Popeye and the Jeep, his magical dog, visit Olive and learn Swee'Pea has crawled out of his crib and disappeared. Olive is frantic so Popeye tells her the Jeep will use his magical powers to find the missing infant.

10:10 AM   Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet   Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
78 mins   A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

11:30 AM   Spills for Thrills (1940)    Dir: De Leon Anthony   Cast: Allen Pomeroy, Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins
18 mins   This pays tribute to Hollywood's stunt men and women with clips of difficult stunts on land and in the air.

12:00 PM   Yentl (1983)    Dir: Barbra Streisand   Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
134 mins   A young Eastern European woman, circa 1904, disguises herself as a boy in order to pursue her passion for studying holy scripture.

2:30 PM   Plymouth Adventure (1952)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Lowell Gilmore, Tommy Ivo, John Dehner
105 mins   Epic dramatization of the Pilgrims' journey to the new world on the Mayflower.

4:30 PM   The First Texan (1956)    Dir: Byron Haskin   Cast: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow
82 mins   After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, a lawyer becomes involved in the independence of Texas.

6:00 PM   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins   Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

8:00 PM   The Gunfighter (1950)    Dir: Henry King   Cast: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell
85 mins   Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.

9:45 PM   Gun Crazy (1950)    Dir: Joseph H. Lewis   Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins   Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.

12:00 AM   Trapped (1949)    Dir: Richard Fleischer   Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins   U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.

1:45 AM   McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)    Dir: Robert Altman   Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois
121 mins   An itinerant gambler and a madame become business partners in this off-beat western set in a small mining town in the Pacific Northwest.

4:00 AM   Mrs. Soffel (1984)    Dir: Gillian Armstrong   Cast: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine
110 mins   A prison warden's wife is seduced into helping a notorious killer escape.


SUNDAY,  November 24

6:15 AM   The Happy Years (1950)    Dir: William A. Wellman   Cast: Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett
110 mins   Friends and family try to tame an unruly student at the turn of the century.

8:15 AM   The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)    Dir: Orson Welles   Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
88 mins   A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.

10:00 AM   Trapped (1949)    Dir: Richard Fleischer   Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins   U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.

11:45 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.

2:00 PM   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.

4:00 PM   The Goodbye Girl (1977)    Dir: Herbert Ross   Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
110 mins   Paula is a divorced mother and ex-Broadway dancer, who learns that her lover has left her only when aspiring actor Elliot arrives to sublet the apartment in the middle of the night. Their uneasy truce blossoms into love.

6:00 PM   Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)    Dir: Woody Allen   Cast: Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Moses Farrow
106 mins   Hannah regularly meets with her sisters Holly and Lee to discuss the weeks' events and the men in their lives.

8:00 PM   The Maltese Falcon (1941)    Dir: John Huston   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins   Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.

10:00 PM   The Big Sleep (1946)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins   Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.

12:00 AM   The Scarlet Letter (1927)    Dir: Victor Seastrom   Cast: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
98 mins   In this silent film version of the classic tale, a single mother in Puritan New England bears her shame alone rather than expose the child's father.

2:00 AM   Los Ojos Vendados (1978)    Dir: Carlos Saura   Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Jose Luis Gomez, Xabier Elorriaga
114 mins   Deeply impressed by the 1967 Russell Tribunal testimony given by an anonymous woman about the torture she suffered, Luis, a theater director, decides to mount a play that will be the adaptation of that testimony.

4:00 AM   Elisa, Vida Mia (1976)    Dir: Carlos Saura   Cast: Fernando Rey, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabel Mestres
129 mins   A woman travels back to Madrid to reconnect with her estranged father.


MONDAY,  November 25

6:15 AM   The Naked and the Dead (1958)    Dir: Raoul Walsh   Cast: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey
131 mins   A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II.

8:45 AM   The Unholy Wife (1957)    Dir: John Farrow   Cast: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon
94 mins   An ambitious beauty marries a vintner, then falls for one of his workers.

10:30 AM   Born Reckless (1959)    Dir: Howard W. Koch   Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Jeff Richards, Arthur Hunnicutt
80 mins   A saloon singer falls in love with a free roaming rider and tries to change his lifestyle.

12:00 PM   Illegal (1955)    Dir: Lewis Allen   Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
88 mins   A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.

1:45 PM   Death of a Scoundrel (1956)    Dir: Charles Martin   Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor
119 mins   A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

4:00 PM   And God Created Woman (1956)    Dir: Roger Vadim   Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Curt Jurgens
90 mins   A young woman loves one brother but marries the other.

5:45 PM   Some Like It Hot (1959)    Dir: Billy Wilder   Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
120 mins   When a pair of bumbling, out-of-work musicians, accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day gangster murders, they disguise themselves as women and join up with a travelling all-womens' band to escape the mobsters after them.

8:00 PM   Taps (1981)    Dir: Harold Becker   Cast: George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn
126 mins   The young cadets at a military academy stage an uprising and seige control of the campus, when they find out their treasured school is to be closed down and sold off to developers.

10:15 PM   Mystic Pizza (1988)    Dir: Donald Petrie   Cast: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor
104 mins   Three waitresses develop romantic relationships, which help them better understand their own friendships with each other.

12:15 AM   Dead Calm (1989)    Dir: Phillip Noyce   Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane
96 mins   After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.

2:00 AM   Splendor in the Grass (1961)    Dir: Elia Kazan   Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
124 mins   Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.

4:15 AM   Gaslight (1944)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins   Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she ...


TUESDAY,  November 26

6:15 AM   Lassie Come Home (1943)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty
88 mins   A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to her lost family.

8:00 AM   Hills of Home (1948)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake
97 mins   Lassie helps a Scottish doctor deal with his patients' problems.

9:45 AM   Three Daring Daughters (1948)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell
115 mins   Three young girls try to help their widowed mother find the right husband.

11:45 AM   The Secret Garden (1949)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
92 mins   An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.

1:30 PM   Shadow in the Sky (1952)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Ralph Meeker, Nancy Reagan, James Whitmore
78 mins   A shell-shocked veteran tries to recover his sanity while living with his sister.

3:00 PM   Code Two (1953)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Ralph Meeker, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn
69 mins   Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.

4:30 PM   Tennessee Champ (1954)    Dir: Fred M. Wilcox   Cast: Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin
73 mins   A boxer reforms his crooked manager.

6:00 PM   Forbidden Planet (1956)    Dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox   Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
98 mins   A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

8:00 PM   Five Steps to Danger (1957)    Dir: Henry S. Kesler   Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins   A man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.

9:30 PM   Joe MacBeth (1955)    Dir: Ken Hughes   Cast: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano
90 mins   The classic Shakespearean tale is set inside a gangster's story.

11:15 PM   The Shanghai Story (1954)    Dir: Frank Loyd   Cast: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel
90 mins   In post-WWII Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists can identify a suspected spy among them, but some prisoners try to outwit the interrogators and the armed guards and flee.

1:00 AM   Mara Maru (1952)    Dir: Gordon Douglas   Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins   A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.

3:00 AM   Look in Any Window (1961)    Dir: William Alland   Cast: Paul Anka, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol
87 mins   A troubled teen loses his job as a aircraft mechanic and goes on a drinking binge.

4:30 AM   Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)    Dir: Irving Kershner   Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
83 mins   Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.


WEDNESDAY,  November 27

6:00 AM   So Goes My Love (1946)    Dir: Frank Ryan   Cast: Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams
88 mins   An inventor rises to fame with the support of his loving wife.

7:45 AM   The Story of Doctor Carver (1938)    Dir: Fred Zinnemann   Cast: Jesse Graves, Pete Smith, Clinton Rosemond
9 mins   This focuses on the story of black educator and horticulturist, Dr. George Washington Carver.

8:00 AM   Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)    Dir: William Dieterle   Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
103 mins   True story of the German scientist who devoted his life to curing syphilis.

9:45 AM   Servant of Mankind (1940)    Dir: null   Cast: Frank Whitbeck, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Roy Brickner, Thomas Alva Edison
8 mins   This short film dramatizes how the inventions of Thomas A. Edison have affected the world.

10:00 AM   Young Tom Edison (1940)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft
82 mins   As a precocious child, Tom Edison defies authority to develop his first inventions.

11:30 AM   Edison, the Man (1940)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman
107 mins   Thomas Edison fights to turn his dreams into reality.

1:30 PM   The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)    Dir: William Dieterle   Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise
85 mins   True story of the French scientist's battle to establish modern medical methods.

3:00 PM   Madame Curie (1943)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
124 mins   The famed female scientist fights to keep her marriage together while conducting early experiments with radioactivity.

5:30 PM   Galileo (1975)    Dir: Joseph Losey   Cast: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely
145 mins   The life of Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science.

8:00 PM   Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)    Dir: Anatole Litvak   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins   A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.

10:00 PM   Midnight Lace (1960)    Dir: David Miller   Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
108 mins   A young woman can't get anyone to believe she's being stalked.

12:00 AM   Wait Until Dark (1967)    Dir: Terence Young   Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins   A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.

2:00 AM   Cape Fear (1962)    Dir: J. Lee Thompson   Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins   A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.

4:00 AM   The Gazebo (1960)    Dir: George Marshall   Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins   A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.


THURSDAY,  November 28

6:00 AM   MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn
25 mins   Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt." Hosted by George Murphy.

6:30 AM   The Gay Divorcee (1934)    Dir: Mark Sandrich   Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
107 mins   A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.

8:30 AM   Top Hat (1935)    Dir: Mark Sandrich   Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
100 mins   A woman believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband.

10:30 AM   Flying Down to Rio (1933)    Dir: Thornton Freeland   Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien
89 mins   A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.

12:30 PM   Swing Time (1936)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
105 mins   To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to get involved with his dancing partner.

2:30 PM   Shall We Dance (1937)    Dir: Mark Sandrich   Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
116 mins   A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.

4:30 PM   Carefree (1938)    Dir: Mark Sandrich   Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
80 mins   When lovely singer Amanda Cooper has trouble accepting the marriage proposals of her beau, Stephen Arden, he calls upon his psychiatrist friend Dr. Tony Flagg to analyze her. Though Tony initially tries to maintain a typical doctor/patient relationship, it's not long before he's falling for Amanda. After a session of hypnosis, ...

6:00 PM   The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant
108 mins   Josh and Dinah Barkley are a famous musical theater duo, but an argument on the opening night of their newest Broadway show reveals previously unspoken resentments. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh, so when flirtatious playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout suggests she play the lead in his new drama about Sarah Bernhardt, ...

8:00 PM   Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)    Dir: Walter Lang   Cast: Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy
85 mins   Based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, a light tale which follows the large clan from Rhode Island to New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes and hardships experienced by particularly large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the field of motion study, and he often used his family as guinea ...

9:45 PM   Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968)    Dir: Melville Shavelson   Cast: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson
111 mins   A widow with eight children marries a widower with ten, then gets pregnant.

11:45 PM   Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
111 mins   A drama critic and his family try to adjust to life in the country.

1:45 AM   Life with Father (1947)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
118 mins   A financier from New York rules his numerous family members, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

4:00 AM   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)    Dir: Stanley Donen   Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
103 mins   The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.


FRIDAY,  November 29

6:00 AM   The Power of Film Episode 1: Popular and Memorable (2023)    Dir: Laura Gabbert   Cast: Howard Suber
40 mins   A large proportion of the most commercially successful American films are quickly forgotten. A tiny fraction, however, are truly memorable, lasting from one generation to another. Using iconic scenes from many of these classic films, this series explores films that were both popular and memorable. In this episode, ...

6:45 AM   The Power of Film Episode 2: Trapped (2023)    Dir: Laura Gabbert   Cast: Howard Suber
45 mins   Nearly all memorable stories, whether told in movies or in real life, are about traps. The most memorable are generally about the loss, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph the central character must engage in to escape their trap.

7:35 AM   The Power of Film Episode 3: Character Relationships (2023)    Dir: Laura Gabbert   Cast: Howard Suber
40 mins   There’s no such thing as an interesting character; there are only interesting character relationships. But, as is true for religions, myths, and the longest-lasting dramas, the structure of most memorable dramatic plots centers on a single individual, around whom all the most important action and the other characters revolve.

8:15 AM   The Power of Film Episode 4: Heroes and Villains (2023)    Dir: Laura Gabbert   Cast: Howard Suber
40 mins   Memorable films tend to be a compensation for what we don’t see much of in the real world— justice, commitment, and altruism. Film drama frequently treats the central characters as if they were heroes or villains, but often the two are very much alike.

9:00 AM   The Power of Film Episode 5: The Power of Paradox (2023)    Dir: Laura Gabbert   Cast: Howard Suber
40 mins   In almost every memorable film, things are not what they seem, and learning the truth about characters and situations creates much of the tension in the film. Often, the truth of the film is quite paradoxical, which is what makes us want to keep watching.

9:45 AM   The Power of Film Episode 6: Love and Meaning (2023)    Dir: Laura Gabbert   Cast: Howard Suber
40 mins   Although it’s often said that in order to succeed, a Hollywood film has to have a happy ending, when you look at the most memorable love stories it’s astonishing how many of them end with the separation or death of one or both lovers. Often, the paradox underlying the film helps explain why they stick in our memories.

10:30 AM   She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)    Dir: John Ford   Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar
103 mins   An aging Cavalry officer tries to prevent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement.

12:15 PM   Mighty Joe Young (1949)    Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack   Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
94 mins   Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.

2:00 PM   Adam's Rib (1949)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins   A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.

3:45 PM   White Heat (1949)    Dir: Raoul Walsh   Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
114 mins   A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.

6:00 PM   The Third Man (1949)    Dir: Carol Reed   Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins   A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.

8:00 PM   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)    Dir: Terry Gilliam   Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
92 mins   An absurdist send-up of the legend of King Arthur and his knight's quest for the Holy Grail.

9:45 PM   Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)    Dir: Terry Hughes   Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin
77 mins   The Monty Python cast performs a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.

11:15 PM   Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)    Dir: Terry Jones   Cast: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin
93 mins   Born on the original Christmas day in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

1:00 AM   Monty Python: The Meaning of Live (2014)    Dir: Roger Graef, James Rogan   Cast: Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin
90 mins   Documentary following the stars of Monty Python as they reunite for a final time to stage a marathon ten shows in ten days in July, 2014, at The O2 arena in London.

2:45 AM   The Meaning of Monty Python (2013)    Dir: Albert Sharpe   Cast: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
60 mins   Five Pythons reflect on their creative process, politics, television and the making of their award-winning final film, "The Meaning of Life

4:30 AM   Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen (1998)    Dir: Paul Miller   Cast: Robert Klein, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
58 mins   This reunion show features the five surviving members of Monty Python, with Graham Chapman's ashes in attendance. The Pythons look back at their work and receive an American Film Industry award. It also features some memorable moments, including when Gilliam "accidently" kicked over the urn. Hosted by Robert Klein and featuring ...


SATURDAY,  November 30

6:00 AM   Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
102 mins   A vaudeville team breaks up when both men fall for the same gorgeous hoofer.

7:45 AM   Studio Visit (1946)    Dir: null   Cast: Pete Smith (narrator), Lena Horne, William Bailey, Dave O'Brien
9 mins   This comedic short film offers a behind-the-scenes look at studio lots. One of the "Pete Smith Specialty" series of shorts.

8:00 AM   Home on the Range (1940)    Dir: Rudolf Ising   Cast: Billy Bletcher, Melvin J. Gibby, Rudolf Ising
8 mins   A calf ventures out into the dark forest at night and needs to be rescued from a hungry wolf by the other animals.

8:09 AM   Opening Night (1931)    Dir: Roy Mack   Cast: Leo Hoyt, Thomas E Jackson, Helyn Eby-Rock
7 mins   This short film satirizes theatrical opening nights. Vitaphone Release 1138.

8:17 AM   Believe It or Not #4 (1932)    Dir: Arthur Hurley   Cast: Sigmund Shuster, Billy Hayes, Tom Green, Robert L Ripley
8 mins   In this short film, Robert L. Ripley takes a dreaming boy on a tour of Believe-It-or-Not land to see many oddities. Vitaphone Release 1320.

8:30 AM   Hold That Hypnotist (1957)    Dir: Austen Jewell   Cast: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Jane Nigh
61 mins   Hypnotism sends the Bowery Boys to battle pirates in the 17th century.

9:35 AM   Wizard of the Wireless (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 9 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.

10:00 AM   Bulldozing the Bull (1938)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky   Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
7 mins   Popeye dislikes bullfighting but when Olive makes eyes at him he forgets all and finds himself in the arena with the bull. His efforts to convince the bull that he won't hurt him are useless and after much punishment he calls on his trusty spinach to subdue the bull.

10:10 AM   Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet   Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
75 mins   A young doctor's marriage could be called off when the bride's brother is diagnosed with epilepsy.

11:30 AM   Rufus Jones for President (1933)    Dir: Roy Mack   Cast: Dusty Fletcher, Ethel Waters, Hamtree Harrington
21 mins   Rufus Jones, a black child, is elected president of the USA.

12:00 PM   High Society (1956)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra
107 mins   With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.

2:00 PM   The Thief of Bagdad (1940)    Dir: Ludwig Berger   Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
106 mins   A young thief faces amazing monsters to return Bagdad's deposed king to the throne.

4:00 PM   Peeping Tom (1960)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: Karl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
109 mins   Raised by a sadist, a cinematographer kills young women while filming their fear.

5:45 PM   Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)    Dir: David Hinton   Cast: Martin Scorsese, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
131 mins   Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

8:00 PM   A Matter of Life and Death (1947)    Dir: Michael Powell   Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
104 mins   An injured aviator argues in celestial court for the chance to go on living.

10:00 PM   Wings of Desire (1987)    Dir: Wim Wenders   Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
128 mins   The people of Berlin are visited by angels who can hear their thoughts.

12:30 AM   Naked Alibi (1954)    Dir: Jerry Hopper   Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
86 mins   A chief of police detectives who is fired for brutality tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.

2:15 AM   The Last of Sheila (1973)    Dir: Herbert Ross   Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins   A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.

4:30 AM   Deathtrap (1982)    Dir: Sidney Lumet   Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins   Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. ...