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SUNDAY,  December 1

6:30 AM   The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)    Dir: Don Weis   Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick
74 mins   A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
8:15 AM   The Mating Game (1959)    Dir: George Marshall   Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas
97 mins   A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating.
10:00 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.
11:45 AM   The Yearling (1946)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
134 mins   A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm.
2:00 PM   Casablanca (1942)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
102 mins   An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
4:00 PM   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)    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.
6:00 PM   The Bishop's Wife (1948)    Dir: Henry Koster   Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins   An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
8:00 PM   Gone with the Wind (1939)    Dir: Victor Fleming   Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
233 mins   A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the outbreak of the Civil War and the end of slavery.
12:30 AM   The Scar of Shame (1927)    Dir: Frank Perugini   Cast: Harry Henderson, Norman Johnstone, Ann Kennedy
87 mins   In this silent film, a composer marries an abused girl to protect her but can't face his family's prejudices.
2:15 AM   The Great Beauty (2013)    Dir: Paolo Sorrentino   Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
142 mins   Journalist Jep Gambardella's 65th birthday and a shock from the past cause him to examine his status as a fixture of Rome's literary and social circles.
4:45 AM   Le Notti Bianche (1957)    Dir: Luchino Visconti   Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
102 mins   A man of modest means meets a mysterious girl, depressed because she awaits the arrival of her lover from afar. In the meantime, the poor man starts to fall in love with her.

MONDAY,  December 2

6:30 AM   Bachelor Apartment (1931)    Dir: Lowell Sherman   Cast: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray
76 mins   An honest working girl falls for a skirt-chasing playboy.
8:15 AM   Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)    Dir: Paul Stein   Cast: Constance Bennett, Kenneth Mackenna, Basil Rathbone
81 mins   A stenographer tries to save her boss from his divorcee girlfriend.
9:45 AM   The Right to Romance (1933)    Dir: Alfred Santell   Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Young, Nils Asther
67 mins   A lady plastic surgeon jeopardizes her marriage when her ex-boyfriend is scarred.
11:00 AM   They Call It Sin (1932)    Dir: Thornton Freeland   Cast: Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel
68 mins   An innocent young chorus girl fights the advances of her lecherous producer.
12:15 PM   Reckless (1935)    Dir: Victor Fleming   Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
96 mins   A theatrical star gets in over her head when she marries a drunken millionaire.
2:00 PM   No More Ladies (1935)    Dir: Edward H. Griffith   Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Charles Ruggles
81 mins   A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
3:30 PM   Arsene Lupin (1932)    Dir: Jack Conway   Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley
84 mins   A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
5:00 PM   Jewel Robbery (1932)    Dir: William Dieterle   Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson
68 mins   A jewel thief falls for a tycoon's wife in Vienna.
6:15 PM   The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)    Dir: Richard Boleslawski   Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery
98 mins   A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
8:00 PM   Our Dancing Daughters (1928)    Dir: Harry Beaumont   Cast: Joan Crawford, John Mack Brown, Nils Asther
85 mins   A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
9:30 PM   Hollywood Party (1934)    Dir: Allan Dwan   Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante
63 mins   A movie star's gala celebration creates chaos.
10:45 PM   The Road to Ruin (1934)    Dir: Mrs. Wallace Reid   Cast: Helen Foster, Nell O'Day
64 mins   An innocent girl falls in with a crowd devoted to pot and free love.
12:00 AM   Looking for Love (1964)    Dir: Don Weis   Cast: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver
83 mins   A promising singer has to choose between show business and marriage.
1:30 AM   The Big Cube (1969)    Dir: Tito Davison   Cast: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan
98 mins   LSD almost ruins the life of a former actress and her stepdaughter.
3:15 AM   Madame Satan (1930)    Dir: Cecil B. Demille   Cast: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth
115 mins   A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband.
5:15 AM   MGM Parade Show #22 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Lucille Ball
25 mins   Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald perform in a clip from "Maytime"; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz introduce a clip from "Forever Darling." Hosted by George Murphy.

TUESDAY,  December 3

6:00 AM   The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)    Dir: Herman Hoffman   Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann
57 mins   A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.
7:00 AM   The Toll of the Sea (1922)    Dir: Chester M. Franklin   Cast: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley
75 mins   An American sailor marries then deserts the Chinese beauty who had saved his life.
8:00 AM   His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)    Dir: Byron Haskin   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Andre Morell
91 mins   A Yankee sea captain tries to make his fortune in the South Seas.
10:00 AM   A Majority of One (1961)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton
153 mins   A Jewish widow falls in love with a Japanese businessman.
12:30 PM   Bridge to the Sun (1961)    Dir: Etienne Périer   Cast: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi
112 mins   An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II.
2:30 PM   The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)    Dir: Daniel Mann   Cast: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo
123 mins   An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
5:00 PM   South Pacific (1958)    Dir: Joshua Logan   Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
158 mins   Two stories set side by side about love and loss set in the wartime tropics. Adaptation of the 1949 stage play.
8:00 PM   Sounder (1972)    Dir: Martin Ritt   Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
105 mins   In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
10:00 PM   Hotel Rwanda (2004)    Dir: Terry George   Cast: Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo
121 mins   Ten years ago, as the country of Rwanda descended into madness, one man made a promise to protect the family he loved--and ended up finding the courage to save over 1200 people. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, secretly used his position and intelligence to shelter over a thousand refugees during the genocide ...
12:15 AM   Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)    Dir: Biyi Bandele   Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose
111 mins   Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
2:15 AM   The Good Earth (1937)    Dir: Sidney Franklin   Cast: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
138 mins   Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements.
4:45 AM   The Kid (1921)    Dir: Charles Chaplin   Cast: Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
52 mins   In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.

WEDNESDAY,  December 4

6:00 AM   Confidentially Connie (1953)    Dir: Edward Buzzell   Cast: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern
74 mins   An expectant mother hatches a series of madcap schemes to improve her husband's financial standing.
7:15 AM   Always Together (1947)    Dir: Frederick De Cordova   Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Cecil Kellaway
78 mins   A dying millionaire gives his fortune to a working girl, then recovers and tries to get it back.
8:45 AM   My Life with Caroline (1941)    Dir: Lewis Milestone   Cast: Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger
81 mins   A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
10:15 AM   Married Bachelor (1941)    Dir: Edward Buzzell   Cast: Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Felix Bressart
81 mins   A married gambler has to pose as a bachelor to pay off his debts.
11:45 AM   It Started with a Kiss (1959)    Dir: George Marshall   Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor
103 mins   After a whirlwind courtship, an Army officer and his wacky wife try to make their marriage work.
1:30 PM   The Long, Long Trailer (1954)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main
96 mins   A newlywed couple encounter many difficulties during their honeymoon trip aboard a trailer they purchased.
3:15 PM   You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)    Dir: Ray McCarey   Cast: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote
65 mins   A neglected housewife turns herself into a glamour girl to win her husband back.
4:30 PM   The Tunnel of Love (1958)    Dir: Gene Kelly   Cast: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young
98 mins   A married couple endures endless red tape when they try to adopt a child.
6:15 PM   Forever, Darling (1956)    Dir: Alexander Hall   Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason
96 mins   A madcap woman's guardian angel tries to save her marriage.
8:00 PM   It Happened One Night (1934)    Dir: Frank Capra   Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
105 mins   A spoiled rich girl escapes her father, who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, she gets involved with an out-of-work newsman and the couple sets off on a hitchhiking expedition.
10:00 PM   Roman Holiday (1953)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
118 mins   A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
12:15 AM   Pillow Talk (1959)    Dir: Michael Gordon   Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
105 mins   A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
2:15 AM   The Philadelphia Story (1940)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
111 mins   Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife.
4:15 AM   Crossing Delancey (1988)    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.

THURSDAY,  December 5

6:00 AM   The Beast of the City (1932)    Dir: Charles Brabin   Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins   A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
7:30 AM   Broadway to Hollywood (1933)    Dir: Willard Mack   Cast: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Jackie Cooper
85 mins   Three generations of vaudevillians fight for stardom on stage and screen.
9:00 AM   The Chief (1933)    Dir: Charles F. Riesner   Cast: Ed Wynn, Charles "Chic" Sale, Dorothy Mackaill
63 mins   A fireman's son goes into politics.
10:15 AM   The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)    Dir: Archie Mayo   Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon
70 mins   A boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children's home.
12:00 PM   Death on the Diamond (1934)    Dir: Edward Sedgwick   Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton
71 mins   A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
1:30 PM   Hide-Out (1934)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold
82 mins   Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
3:00 PM   Manhattan Melodrama (1934)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins   Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
5:00 PM   Down the Stretch (1936)    Dir: William Clemens   Cast: Patricia Ellis, Mickey Rooney, Dennis Moore
66 mins   A disgraced jockey's son fights to clear the family name.
6:15 PM   Riffraff (1936)    Dir: J. Walter Ruben   Cast: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel
89 mins   Young marrieds in the fishing business run afoul of the law.
8:00 PM   A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)    Dir: Max Reinhardt   Cast: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh
132 mins   Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies.
10:30 PM   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley
90 mins   Mark Twain's classic troublemaker helps a runaway slave escape to the North.
12:15 AM   Ah, Wilderness! (1935)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon
98 mins   In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America.
2:00 AM   Stablemates (1938)    Dir: Sam Wood   Cast: Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, Arthur Hohl
89 mins   A broken down veterinarian saves a stable boy's prize racehorse.
3:45 AM   Lord Jeff (1938)    Dir: Sam Wood   Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Charles Coburn
78 mins   When a good boy goes bad, his family sends him to a naval military school.
5:15 AM   The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney
92 mins   A British boy in New York tries to join a tenement gang.

FRIDAY,  December 6

7:00 AM   East Side, West Side (1949)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin
108 mins   A chic New York couple is torn apart by a seductive model.
9:00 AM   My Forbidden Past (1951)    Dir: Robert Stevenson   Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
81 mins   A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
10:15 AM   Ride, Vaquero! (1953)    Dir: John Farrow   Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
90 mins   Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
12:00 PM   The Angel Wore Red (1960)    Dir: Nunnally Johnson   Cast: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten
99 mins   A priest and a prostitute fall in love during the Spanish Civil War.
2:00 PM   Bhowani Junction (1956)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers
110 mins   An Anglo-Indian beauty falls for a British officer as her country fights for independence.
4:00 PM   Knights of the Round Table (1953)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer
115 mins   Lancelot, banished from King Arthur's court for loving Queen Guinevere, returns to defeat the evil Mordred.
6:00 PM   Mogambo (1953)    Dir: John Ford   Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
115 mins   In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman.
8:00 PM   Wuthering Heights (1939)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
103 mins   A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.
10:00 PM   Hamlet (1948)    Dir: Laurence Olivier   Cast: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney
155 mins   The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.
12:45 AM   A Little Romance (1979)    Dir: George Roy Hill   Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, John Pepper
108 mins   Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
2:45 AM   The Entertainer (1960)    Dir: Tony Richardson   Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Joan Plowright
104 mins   Story follows the life of a has-been, talent-less vaudevillian who still thinks he's a star, even as he destroys his family around him in pursuing a lost cause.
4:45 AM   21 Days (1940)    Dir: Basil Dean   Cast: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
75 mins   After accidentally killing his mistress' husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.

SATURDAY,  December 7

6:15 AM   Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)    Dir: Jack Webb   Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien
95 mins   The jazz band's leader gets mixed up with a gangster in '20s Kansas City.
8:00 AM   The Hick Chick (1946)    Dir: Tex Avery (fred)   Cast: Sara Berner, Frank Graham, Cal Howard
7 mins   A country chicken competes with a city slicker chicken for the affections of a local beauty.
8:10 AM   Stars on Horseback (1943)    Dir: Myron J. Swartz   Cast: Guinn Williams, Tim Holt, George Garfield
7 mins   In this short film, a master blacksmith makes house calls to Hollywood stars' homes to pamper their horse's hooves. Vitaphone Release 1107A.
8:20 AM   Believe It or Not #5 (1932)    Dir: Murray Roth   Cast: Robert L Ripley, Roy Mack
7 mins   This short entry in the "Believe it or Not" series presents such oddities as a shrunken head, an iron execution chamber, and entertaining tombstone descriptions. Vitaphone Release 1336.
8:28 AM   Dig That Uranium! (1956)    Dir: Edward Bernds   Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
61 mins   The Bowery Boys battle crooks for control of a uranium mine out West.
9:33 AM   Accused (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 10 of The Wolf Dog 1933 serial. When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
10:03 AM   Mutiny Ain't Nice (1933)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar   Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
6 mins   As Popeye's ship prepares to sail, Olive falls into a trunk and is carried aboard unnoticed. Popeye finds her and, knowing the old-time sailor's superstition that a woman on board is bad luck, tries to hide her. When Olive is discovered by the sailors, Popeye has his hands full foiling their efforts to cast the jinx overboard. ...
10:10 AM   Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)    Dir: Ford Beebe   Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens
71 mins   A photographer and his daughter discover a wild boy in the jungle.
11:30 AM   Traffic with the Devil (1946)    Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch   Cast: Charles Reineke, Gil Perkins, Ralph Montgomery
18 mins   This short film looks at the increase of traffic levels and accidents in the U.S.
12:00 PM   Ski Party (1965)    Dir: Alan Rafkin   Cast: Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley
90 mins   Two college guys take a ski trip to meet girls.
1:45 PM   From Here to Eternity (1953)    Dir: Fred Zinnemann   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
118 mins   Powerful drama of the passions and violence of a group of soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor just before World War II. Based on a massive novel by James Jones deemed impossible to put onscreen because of its strong sexual content and language, From Here to Eternity emerged as a lavish, star-studded spectacle.
4:00 PM   It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins   Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
6:15 PM   Holiday Affair (1949)    Dir: Don Hartman   Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins   A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
8:00 PM   Central Station (1998)    Dir: Walter Salles   Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vinicius De Oliveira
113 mins   The emotional journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
10:00 PM   Fruitvale Station (2013)    Dir: Ryan Coogler   Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer
85 mins   The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
12:00 AM   Act of Violence (1949)    Dir: Fred Zinnemann   Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins   An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
1:45 AM   The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)    Dir: Robert Aldrich   Cast: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine
130 mins   An obsessed movie director grooms an unknown to play his deceased movie-star wife.
4:00 AM   Of Human Bondage (1964)    Dir: Ken Hughes   Cast: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley
98 mins   A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

SUNDAY,  December 8

6:00 AM   The Bride Goes Wild (1948)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Butch Jenkins
98 mins   A womanizing author of children's books borrows a son to woo his illustrator.
8:00 AM   Good News (1947)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
95 mins   A football hero falls in love with his French tutor.
10:00 AM   Act of Violence (1949)    Dir: Fred Zinnemann   Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins   An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
11:45 AM   A Christmas Carol (1938)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins   In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
1:00 PM   Ben-Hur (1959)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
222 mins   While seeking revenge, a rebellious Israelite prince crosses paths with Jesus Christ.
5:00 PM   King of Kings (1961)    Dir: Nicholas Ray   Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Robert Ryan
168 mins   Epic retelling of Christ's life and the effects of his teachings on those around him.
8:00 PM   Born to Be Bad (1950)    Dir: Nicholas Ray   Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins   An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
10:00 PM   Torch Song (1953)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Gig Young
90 mins   A tempestuous musical theatre star falls for a blind pianist.
12:00 AM   The Life of the Party (1920)    Dir: Joseph Henabery   Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle, Winifred Greenwood, Roscoe Karns
50 mins   A party during a blizzard throws a mayoral candidate into compromising situations.
1:00 AM   Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)    Dir: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle   Cast: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Louise Fazenda
27 mins   In this silent short, a henpecked husband is mistaken for a beautiful woman's jealous husband.
1:30 AM   Star in the Night (1945)    Dir: Don Siegel   Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Baggett, Anthony Caruso
21 mins   Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.
2:00 AM   El Sur (1983)    Dir: Victor Erice   Cast: Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Iciar Bollain
95 mins   In the 1950s, a young girl dreams of The South, location of a father she can never quite pin down except in her imagination.
4:00 AM   The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)    Dir: Victor Erice   Cast: Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria, Teresa Gimpera
98 mins   After seeing the classic Frankenstein, two naive young girls go searching for the mad doctor's monster.

MONDAY,  December 9

6:00 AM   Safari Drums (1953)    Dir: Ford Beebe   Cast: John[ny] Sheffield, Douglas Kennedy, Barbara Bestar
71 mins   A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.
7:15 AM   Africa Adventure (1954)    Dir: Robert C. Ruark   Cast: Robert C. Ruark, Harry Selby, Andrew Holmberg
63 mins   Documentary about a trio of hunters bagging big game in Africa.
8:30 AM   Rhino! (1964)    Dir: Ivan Tors   Cast: Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton, Robert Culp
91 mins   A scientist is forced to join forces with an unscrupulous African hunter.
10:15 AM   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.
12:00 PM   Sanders of the River (1935)    Dir: Zoltan Korda   Cast: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney
98 mins   A British District Officer in Nigeria fights against gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
1:45 PM   Homecoming (1948)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter
112 mins   A married man's wartime love affair spells trouble when peace comes.
3:45 PM   Something of Value (1957)    Dir: Richard Brooks   Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller
113 mins   The native tribes of Kenya stage a revolt against British settlers during the years of colonization and two boyhood friends--one white and the other black--are caught in the middle.
6:00 PM   Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)    Dir: John Derek   Cast: Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, John Phillip Law
112 mins   James Parker is in Africa looking for a mythical white ape when his wife dies. He is joined by his estranged daughter, Jane. Together, they learn this white ape is Tarzan, a man who was raised by apes in the jungle. Parker continues to hunt Tarzan, but now with the purpose of bringing him back to England, dead or alive. ...
8:00 PM   Father of the Bride (1950)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
93 mins   Attorney Stanley T. Banks finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay, announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan, while wife Ellie and son Tommy burst with enthusiasm for Kay's wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a "son" offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who's all grown up now with a life of her own.
9:45 PM   All Night Long (1963)    Dir: Basil Dearden   Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair
95 mins   A jazz band's leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
11:30 PM   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.
1:15 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.
3:00 AM   Black Orpheus (1959)    Dir: Marcel Camus   Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes Deoliveira
103 mins   A streetcar conductor loses his true love during Brazil's carnival season.
5:00 AM   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.

TUESDAY,  December 10

6:45 AM   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.
8:30 AM   Born to Dance (1936)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
108 mins   A sailor on leave helps a young dancer make it to the top on Broadway.
10:30 AM   Sex and the Single Girl (1964)    Dir: Richard Quine   Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
114 mins   A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
12:30 PM   Panama Hattie (1942)    Dir: Norman Z. McLeod   Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, "Rags" Ragland
79 mins   A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies.
2:00 PM   Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
101 mins   Singer May wants to marry a rich man but her heart belongs to a penniless dancer named Alec. Louis Blore, who has just won a fortune through a sweepstakes, promptly marries May. However, after Louis accidentally has a laced drink, he has a fantastic dream in which he, May and Alec are members of the royal French court. ...
3:45 PM   Kiss Me Kate (1953)    Dir: George Sidney   Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
111 mins   An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," but off-stage the production is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters looking for kickbacks.
5:45 PM   Les Girls (1957)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall
114 mins   Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.
8:00 PM   Nowhere to Go (1958)    Dir: Seth Holt   Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
87 mins   A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
10:00 PM   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)    Dir: Ronald Neame   Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
116 mins   An age-resisting private girls-school teacher grows eccentric and vicarious through her young students. Set in 1930s Edinburgh.
12:00 AM   Travels with My Aunt (1972)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
109 mins   A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
2:00 AM   A Room with a View (1985)    Dir: James Ivory   Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith
117 mins   An Englishwoman visiting Florence is torn between her straitlaced fiance and a young Bohemian.
4:00 AM   Young Cassidy (1965)    Dir: Jack Cardiff, John Ford   Cast: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
110 mins   True story of playwright Sean O'Casey's involvement with the Irish rebellion of 1910.

WEDNESDAY,  December 11

6:00 AM   Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)    Dir: Raoul Walsh   Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
99 mins   A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.
8:00 AM   The Master of Ballantrae (1953)    Dir: William Keighley   Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel
89 mins   A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.
10:00 AM   The Crimson Pirate (1952)    Dir: Robert Siodmak   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
104 mins   A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
12:00 PM   Captain Blood (1935)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill
119 mins   A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Barbados where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
2:00 PM   The Sea Hawk (1940)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
127 mins   A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
4:15 PM   Treasure Island (1934)    Dir: Victor Fleming   Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
102 mins   Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young boy out to foil pirates and find a buried treasure.
6:00 PM   The Pirate (1948)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
102 mins   An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.
8:00 PM   The Fallen Idol (1948)    Dir: Carol Reed   Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey
95 mins   A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
10:00 PM   They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)    Dir: Sydney Pollack   Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
125 mins   Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
12:15 AM   Car Wash (1976)    Dir: Michael Schultz   Cast: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Ed Metzger
97 mins   A preacher, a cabby, other customers and employees mingle to disco music at a Los Angeles car wash.
2:00 AM   A Fistful of Dollars (1964)    Dir: Sergio Leone   Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè
96 mins   A lone drifter wanders into a Western town torn apart by two feuding families. He hires himself out as a mercenary, taking no sides and playing one side against the middle, until all is destroyed.
3:45 AM   The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)    Dir: Sergio Leone   Cast: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal
127 mins   The Greek Army sets out to destroy the Colossus of Rhodes.

THURSDAY,  December 12

6:00 AM   Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)    Dir: John Cromwell   Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith
98 mins   An American orphan discovers he is heir to a British title.
7:45 AM   Captains Courageous (1937)    Dir: Victor Fleming   Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
116 mins   A spoiled rich boy is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.
9:45 AM   Live, Love and Learn (1937)    Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice   Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley
78 mins   A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage.
11:15 AM   Love Is a Headache (1938)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Ted Healy
73 mins   A freak accident gives a fading actress a huge publicity push.
12:30 PM   Hold That Kiss (1938)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney
75 mins   Romance blossoms when a man and woman each think the other is rich.
2:00 PM   Killer McCoy (1947)    Dir: Roy Rowland   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth
103 mins   A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
4:00 PM   Summer Holiday (1948)    Dir: Rouben Mamoulian   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Gloria De Haven, Walter Huston
92 mins   Musical remake of Ah, Wilderness!, about a small-town boy's struggles with growing up.
6:00 PM   The Big Wheel (1949)    Dir: Edward Ludwig   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Hatcher
92 mins   A mechanic alienates everyone who loves him when he becomes a champion race car driver.
8:00 PM   National Velvet (1944)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
125 mins   A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
10:15 PM   The Human Comedy (1943)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig
118 mins   A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
12:15 AM   Boys Town (1938)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
96 mins   True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
2:00 AM   Men of Boys Town (1941)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson
106 mins   Father Flanagan continues to fight for his pioneering orphanage.
4:00 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.
5:30 AM   A Yank at Eton (1942)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter
88 mins   An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

FRIDAY,  December 13

7:00 AM   Numbered Men (1930)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett
70 mins   A convict learns that a fellow prisoner has been messing with his woman.
8:15 AM   Scarlet Pages (1930)    Dir: Ray Enright   Cast: Elsie Ferguson, John Halliday, Marion Nixon
66 mins   A female attorney makes a startling discovery about the woman she's defending from murder charges.
9:30 AM   Playing Around (1930)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell
66 mins   A tenement girl falls for a smooth con artist.
10:45 AM   Night Waitress (1936)    Dir: Lew Landers   Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth
59 mins   A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
12:00 PM   Paid (1930)    Dir: Sam Wood   Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost
80 mins   A young innocent plots revenge after being sent to prison unjustly.
1:30 PM   The Widow From Chicago (1930)    Dir: Edward Cline   Cast: Alice White, Neil Hamilton, Edward G. Robinson
64 mins   A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
2:45 PM   Alias French Gertie (1930)    Dir: George Archainbaud   Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Robert Emmett O'Connor
75 mins   A female thief poses as a maid to bilk her high-society employers.
4:00 PM   The Woman Racket (1930)    Dir: Robert Ober   Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
70 mins   A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
5:30 PM   Framed (1930)    Dir: George Archainbaud   Cast: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde
62 mins   A nightclub hostess seeks revenge against a police inspector, yet falls in love with his son.
6:45 PM   Three on a Match (1932)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O'Day
64 mins   A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
8:00 PM   MacArthur (1977)    Dir: Joseph Sargent   Cast: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders
130 mins   A biography of General Douglas MacArthur, covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.
10:30 PM   To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)    Dir: Robert Mulligan   Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
131 mins   In 1932 Alabama, a widowed lawyer with two small children defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
12:45 AM   Cape Fear (1962)    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.
2:45 AM   Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)    Dir: Raoul Walsh   Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
117 mins   The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.
5:00 AM   The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)    Dir: Henry King   Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
114 mins   As he fights a deadly jungle fever, a hunter remembers his lost loves.

SATURDAY,  December 14

7:00 AM   Oklahoma Blues (1948)    Dir: Lambert Hillyer   Cast: Jimmy Wakely, "Cannonball" Taylor, Virginia Belmont
56 mins   A state official tries to clean up a town being considered for the county seat.
8:00 AM   The Dot and the Line (1965)    Dir: Chuck Jones   Cast: Robert Morley (narrator)
10 mins   A straight line tries to woo a dot.
8:11 AM   Third Dimensional Murder (1941)    Dir: George Sidney   Cast: Ed Payson, Pete Smith, Philip W. Anderson
7 mins   This was made in 3-D and features a character facing various monsters in a creepy old house.
8:20 AM   Believe It or Not #6 (1932)    Dir: null   Cast: Robert L Ripley, Roy Mack
7 mins   In this short film, Robert Ripley presents a series of oddities, such as a wooden flower garden and a sands spider attacking a lizard. Vitaphone Release 1346.
8:30 AM   Feudin' Fools (1952)    Dir: William Beaudine   Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Dorothy Ford
63 mins   The Bowery Boys get caught in a hillbilly feud when one of them inherits a Kentucky farm.
9:35 AM   The Broken Record (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   Chapter 11 of The Wolf Dog 1933 serial. When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
10:05 AM   Goonland (1938)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel   Cast: Jack Mercer
7 mins   While Popeye is searching for his Pappy he discovers an island inhabited by super strong natives.
10:15 AM   Bomba on Panther Island (1949)    Dir: Ford Beebe   Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Allene Roberts, Lita Baron
76 mins   Bomba the Jungle Boy must stop a man-eating black panther.
11:35 AM   20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang (1933)    Dir: Roy Mack   Cast: James Baskett, Patti Pickens, Jerry Bergen
19 mins   Convicts escape from a prison but long to return when they discover how luxurious it has become.
12:00 PM   Mame (1974)    Dir: Gene Saks   Cast: Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Robert Preston
132 mins   A wealthy eccentric takes in her orphaned nephew.
2:30 PM   Lili (1953)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont
81 mins   A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
4:00 PM   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch   Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins   Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
6:00 PM   The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)    Dir: William Keighley   Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins   An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
8:00 PM   The Go-Between (1971)    Dir: Joseph Losey   Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton
116 mins   A young man carries letters between an aristocratic young woman and the groundskeeper he idolizes.
10:15 PM   Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)    Dir: John Schlesinger   Cast: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head
110 mins   A doctor and a female executive try to cope with their love for an aloof bisexual artist.
12:15 AM   Black Gravel (1961)    Dir: Helmut Käutner   Cast: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy
113 mins   In post-WWII Germany, people struggle with shortages of everything, including housing, water, food, and clothing. A military base being built for several thousand American soldiers provides an economic opportunity that some try to take advantage of. Also known by the German title "Schwarzer Kies."
2:30 AM   I Love You Again (1940)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
99 mins   A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
4:15 AM   Double Wedding (1937)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
87 mins   A dress designer tries to break her sister's engagement to a free-living artist, only to discover the man is falling for her instead.

SUNDAY,  December 15

6:00 AM   On Borrowed Time (1939)    Dir: Harold S. Bucquet   Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
99 mins   An old man and his grandson trap Death in a tree.
7:45 AM   Meet John Doe (1941)    Dir: Frank Capra   Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
123 mins   A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
10:00 AM   Black Gravel (1961)    Dir: Helmut Käutner   Cast: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy
113 mins   In post-WWII Germany, people struggle with shortages of everything, including housing, water, food, and clothing. A military base being built for several thousand American soldiers provides an economic opportunity that some try to take advantage of. Also known by the German title "Schwarzer Kies."
12:15 PM   Hans Christian Andersen (1952)    Dir: Charles Vidor   Cast: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Jeanmaire
120 mins   The storytelling shoemaker falls for a married ballerina who stars in one of his stories.
2:15 PM   Son of Lassie (1945)    Dir: S. Sylvan Simon   Cast: Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart
102 mins   The beloved collie goes to war to help the resistance in occupied Norway.
4:00 PM   In the Good Old Summertime (1949)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. "cuddles" Sakall
103 mins   In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
6:00 PM   Christmas in Connecticut (1945)    Dir: Peter Godfrey   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins   When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
8:00 PM   The Heiress (1949)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
115 mins   A plain young woman's wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
10:30 PM   A Stolen Life (1946)    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt   Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins   A twin takes her deceased sister's place as the wife of the man they both love.
1:00 AM   Little Old New York (1923)    Dir: Sidney Olcott   Cast: Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J. M. Kerrigan
138 mins   An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
3:00 AM   Tampopo (1985)    Dir: Juzo Itami   Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe
114 mins   A tough, hardworking owner of a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo sets out to create the perfect bowl of noodles.
5:00 AM   The Funeral (1984)    Dir: Juzo Itami   Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai
123 mins   A lighthearted, ironic look at a family patriarch's funeral.

MONDAY,  December 16

7:15 AM   MGM Parade Show #22 (1955)    Dir: null   Cast: Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Lucille Ball
25 mins   Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald perform in a clip from "Maytime"; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz introduce a clip from "Forever Darling." Hosted by George Murphy.
8:00 AM   The Terminal Man (1974)    Dir: Mike Hodges   Cast: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart
104 mins   A scientist decides to undergo an experimental surgery in the hopes that it will control his violent tendencies.
10:00 AM   The Omega Man (1971)    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.
11:45 AM   Westworld (1973)    Dir: Michael Crichton   Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin
91 mins   A high-tech amusement park for adults features three recreated historical environments - Medieval World, Roman World, and West World - populated by highly realistic androids programmed to indulge the whims of every high-paying guest. The main attraction of West World is the Gunslinger - a robot programmed to start duels ...
1:30 PM   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.
3:30 PM   Logan's Run (1975)    Dir: Michael Anderson   Cast: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
118 mins   A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
5:30 PM   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)    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.
8:00 PM   Auntie Mame (1958)    Dir: Morton Dacosta   Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
143 mins   An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
10:30 PM   Metropolitan (1990)    Dir: Whit Stillman   Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
98 mins   A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.
12:15 AM   Rope (1948)    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock   Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
80 mins   Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
1:45 AM   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)    Dir: Mike Nichols   Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
131 mins   The film adaptation of Edward Albee's Broadway play that rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor and his shrew of a wife during a dinner party the two host for a young couple.
4:00 AM   Il Posto (1961)    Dir: Ermanno Olmi   Cast: Sandro Panzeri, Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich
98 mins   A young man finishes school and heads for Milan, takes his employment tests, and gets a job as a messenger in a large industrial firm, where the promise of stability gives him hope for a future. Also known by the English tile "The Sound of Trumpets."
5:45 AM   Lady with a Past (1932)    Dir: Edward H. Griffith   Cast: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners
80 mins   A good girl raises her popularity when she pretends to be bad.

TUESDAY,  December 17

7:15 AM   Dinner at Eight (1933)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
113 mins   A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
9:30 AM   Eskimo (1933)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: Mala, Lotus, Joseph Sauers
117 mins   An Eskimo family fights to survive harsh conditions in the frozen North.
11:30 AM   The Trail of '98 (1928)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane
88 mins   San Francisco boys risk their lives to scout gold in the Klondike.
1:00 PM   Men of the North (1930)    Dir: Hal Roach   Cast: Gilbert Roland, Barbara Leonard, Arnold Korff
61 mins   Mounties track gold mine robbers.
2:15 PM   The Wild North (1952)    Dir: Andrew Marton   Cast: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse
97 mins   A Mountie tracks an accused killer through the Canadian wilderness.
4:00 PM   The White Tower (1950)    Dir: Ted Tetzlaff   Cast: Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains
98 mins   Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
6:00 PM   Man in the Wilderness (1971)    Dir: Richard C. Sarafian   Cast: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon
105 mins   A Northwest frontiersman, in 1820, after being badly mauled by a bear is left for dead. He survives with a rare determination and comes to be looked upon as a god by the Indians.

WEDNESDAY,  December 18

6:00 AM   Vigil in the Night (1940)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley
96 mins   A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
7:45 AM   A Damsel in Distress (1937)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen
98 mins   An American dancer on vacation in England falls for a sheltered noblewoman.
9:30 AM   The Nitwits (1935)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating
81 mins   Two cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.
11:00 AM   Kentucky Kernels (1934)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle
75 mins   Two musicians try to get an orphaned heiress through hillbilly country to claim her inheritance.
12:30 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.
2:30 PM   Bachelor Bait (1934)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Stuart Erwin, Rochelle Hudson, Pert Kelton
75 mins   A romantic starts a marriage agency so he can play Cupid.
3:45 PM   Penny Serenade (1941)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
125 mins   A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.
6:00 PM   George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)    Dir: George Stevens Jr.   Cast: Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, Pandro S. Berman
110 mins   Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.

THURSDAY,  December 19

6:00 AM   Quicksand (1950)    Dir: Irving Pichel   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates
79 mins   Petty theft leads a mechanic into a life of crime.
7:30 AM   The Strip (1951)    Dir: Leslie Kardos   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins   A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he's accused of killing a racketeer.
9:00 AM   A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)    Dir: Don Weis   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart
71 mins   A garage owner taps into his rivals' gas lines.
10:30 AM   King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)    Dir: Joseph M. Newman   Cast: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Mickey Rooney
106 mins   A gangster rises to the top of the gambling racket.
12:30 PM   24 Hours To Kill (1965)    Dir: Peter Bezencenet   Cast: Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Michael Medwin
92 mins   During a 24-hour layover in Beirut, a greedy airline purser transports a cache of stolen goods.
2:30 PM   80 Steps to Jonah (1969)    Dir: Gerd Oswald   Cast: Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn
107 mins   A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children.
4:30 PM   The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)    Dir: John Frankenheimer   Cast: David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
80 mins   Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
6:00 PM   The Black Stallion (1979)    Dir: Carroll Ballard   Cast: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Terry Garr
117 mins   While traveling with his father, a young boy named Alec Ramsey becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board the ship on which he is sailing. When the ship tragically sinks, Alec and the stallion are the sole survivors, and he is left stranded on a deserted island. Alec befriends the horse--his ...
8:00 PM   Babes in Arms (1939)    Dir: Busby Berkeley   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger
96 mins   A group of second-generation entertainers puts on a show to launch their careers.
10:00 PM   Strike Up the Band (1940)    Dir: Busby Berkeley   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra
120 mins   A high-school band sets out to win a national radio contest.
12:15 AM   Babes on Broadway (1941)    Dir: Busby Berkeley   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter
118 mins   Show-biz hopefuls stage a benefit for an orphanage.
2:30 AM   Girl Crazy (1943)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton
99 mins   A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college.
4:15 AM   Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)    Dir: Alfred E. Green   Cast: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Sinclair
80 mins   A young jockey goes crooked to land a valuable riding job.
5:45 AM   Words and Music (1948)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland
119 mins   Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top.

FRIDAY,  December 20

8:00 AM   The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)    Dir: Stephen Roberts   Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins   A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
9:30 AM   I Love You Again (1940)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
99 mins   A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
11:15 AM   Private Lives (1931)    Dir: Sidney Franklin   Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny
87 mins   A divorced couple rekindles the spark after landing in adjoining honeymoon suites with new mates.
12:45 PM   Daughters Courageous (1939)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn
103 mins   A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems.
2:45 PM   The V.I.P.s (1963)    Dir: Anthony Asquith   Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan
119 mins   A group of elite British citizens leaving the country find themselves stranded at London Airport because of fog, a situation that leaves them the time to confront their interpersonal relationships.
4:45 PM   Let Us Be Gay (1930)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler
78 mins   A visit to Paris brings divorced spouses back together.
6:15 PM   My Favorite Wife (1940)    Dir: Garson Kanin   Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott
88 mins   A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's remarriage.
8:00 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.
10:00 PM   In the Good Old Summertime (1949)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. "cuddles" Sakall
103 mins   In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
12:00 AM   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch   Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins   Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
2:00 AM   Bachelor Mother (1939)    Dir: Garson Kanin   Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
80 mins   A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
3:30 AM   Penny Serenade (1941)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
125 mins   A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.
5:45 AM   Blossoms in the Dust (1941)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart
100 mins   True-life story of Edna Gladney, who fought for orphans' rights in Texas.

SATURDAY,  December 21

7:30 AM   The Curse of the Cat People (1944)    Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch   Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins   A child explores her late mother's life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
9:00 AM   Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)    Dir: Roy Rowland   Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy
74 mins   A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life.
10:30 AM   A Christmas Carol (1938)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins   In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
12:00 PM   On Moonlight Bay (1951)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, ["Smiling"] Jack Smith
95 mins   A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
2:00 PM   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.
4:15 PM   Susan Slept Here (1954)    Dir: Frank Tashlin   Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis
98 mins   A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
6:00 PM   Fitzwilly (1967)    Dir: Delbert Mann   Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans
102 mins   When an aging philanthropist goes broke, her butler robs from the rich so she can give to the poor.
8:00 PM   It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins   Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
10:15 PM   The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)    Dir: William Keighley   Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins   An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
12:15 AM   We're No Angels (1955)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
106 mins   After escaping Devil's Island, three offbeat prisoners help a goodhearted family outwit a scheming relative.
2:15 AM   Miracle on Main Street (1939)    Dir: Steve Sekely   Cast: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr.
78 mins   On Christmas Eve, a couple hiding from the police find an abandoned baby and decide to raise the child.
3:45 AM   The Silent Partner (1978)    Dir: Daryl Duke   Cast: Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould
105 mins   This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller (Elliot Gould) is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook (Christopher ...

SUNDAY,  December 22

6:00 AM   Boys Town (1938)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
96 mins   True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
8:00 AM   Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)    Dir: Roy Rowland   Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig
105 mins   A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.
10:00 AM   Lady in the Lake (1947)    Dir: Robert Montgomery   Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins   Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
12:00 PM   3 Godfathers (1949)    Dir: John Ford   Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr.
105 mins   Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
2:00 PM   The Holly and the Ivy (1952)    Dir: George More O'Ferrall   Cast: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
80 mins   A minister's family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.
3:30 PM   Going My Way (1944)    Dir: Leo McCarey   Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh
130 mins   A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.
5:45 PM   The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)    Dir: Leo McCarey   Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers
126 mins   A liberal priest tries to soften the strict nun running St. Mary's school.
8:00 PM   Christmas in Connecticut (1945)    Dir: Peter Godfrey   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins   When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
10:00 PM   Remember the Night (1940)    Dir: Mitchell Leisen   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
94 mins   An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
12:00 AM   Christmas Past (1925)    Dir: Charles M. Seay, Frank E. Kleinschmidt, J. Searle Dawley   Cast: Barry O'Moore, Julian Reed, Marc McDermott
120 mins   A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.
2:15 AM   Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)    Dir: Claude Jutra   Cast: Claude Jutra, Jacques Gagnon, Olivette Thibault
110 mins   A young boy comes of age at Christmas in rural Quebec.
4:15 AM   My Night at Maud's (1969)    Dir: Eric Rohmer   Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
110 mins   A devout Catholic engineer, who has his mind set on marrying a nice girl he sees at church, spends a chaste night with a liberated divorcee named Maud. Consequently, the encounter forces him to reassess his own moral standing.

MONDAY,  December 23

6:15 AM   Compliments of the Season (1930)    Dir: Arthur Hurley   Cast: Eric Dressler, Lenita Lane, Pat O'Brien
13 mins   In this film, a criminal attempting to go straight stops a young lady on Christmas eve from committing suicide. Vitaphone Release 1094-1095.
6:30 AM   The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)    Dir: David Butler   Cast: June Haver, Gordon MacRae, James Barton
104 mins   Against her widowed father's wishes, a vaudeville star's daughter takes to the stage.
8:30 AM   I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)    Dir: William Nigh   Cast: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey
70 mins   A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to find the genuine killer.
10:00 AM   My Reputation (1946)    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson
96 mins   A widow generates small-town gossip when she falls in love too soon after her husband's death.
12:00 PM   The Man I Love (1947)    Dir: Raoul Walsh   Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
96 mins   A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
2:00 PM   Larceny, Inc. (1942)    Dir: Lloyd Bacon   Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins   An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
4:00 PM   Backfire (1950)    Dir: Vincent Sherman   Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
91 mins   A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
6:00 PM   Period of Adjustment (1962)    Dir: George Roy Hill   Cast: Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton
112 mins   A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
8:00 PM   Holiday Affair (1949)    Dir: Don Hartman   Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins   A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
9:45 PM   Desk Set (1957)    Dir: Walter Lang   Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
103 mins   An efficiency expert introduces his amazing new machine that can answer anything to a TV researcher and her staff, but it threatens to put them out of work.
11:45 PM   Meet John Doe (1941)    Dir: Frank Capra   Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
123 mins   A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
2:00 AM   The Thin Man (1934)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
91 mins   In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
3:45 AM   Cover Up (1949)    Dir: Alfred E. Green   Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton
85 mins   An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
5:15 AM   A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)    Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz   Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
85 mins   Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.

TUESDAY,  December 24

6:45 AM   Three Godfathers (1936)    Dir: Richard Boleslawski   Cast: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
82 mins   Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.
8:15 AM   Big Business (1929)    Dir: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey   Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
19 mins   A quarrel between two Christmas tree salesmen and a potential customer leads to a wave of destruction.
8:45 AM   Christmas Eve (1947)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott
90 mins   To save her fortune, an aging woman must reunite her three adopted sons.
10:30 AM   Bundle of Joy (1956)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
98 mins   A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
12:15 PM   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)    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.
2:15 PM   It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)    Dir: Roy Del Ruth   Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins   Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
4:15 PM   Christmas in Connecticut (1945)    Dir: Peter Godfrey   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins   When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
6:15 PM   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)    Dir: Ernst Lubitsch   Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins   Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
8:00 PM   The Bishop's Wife (1948)    Dir: Henry Koster   Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins   An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
10:00 PM   Room for One More (1952)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
98 mins   New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
12:00 AM   A Christmas Carol (1938)    Dir: Edwin L. Marin   Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins   In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
1:30 AM   Beyond Tomorrow (1940)    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.
3:00 AM   Hell's Heroes (1930)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
65 mins   Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
4:30 AM   Kind Lady (1951)    Dir: John Sturges   Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
78 mins   A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.

WEDNESDAY,  December 25

6:00 AM   Star in the Night (1945)    Dir: Don Siegel   Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Baggett, Anthony Caruso
21 mins   Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.
6:30 AM   Never Say Goodbye (1946)    Dir: James V. Kern   Cast: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson
97 mins   A husband tries to win back his wife before she can divorce him.
8:30 AM   All Mine to Give (1957)    Dir: Allen Reisner   Cast: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson
110 mins   Pioneer children fight to build a new family after their parents die.
10:15 AM   The Great Rupert (1950)    Dir: Irving Pichel   Cast: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake
86 mins   A squirrel becomes the guardian angel for an impoverished family.
12:00 PM   Little Women (1933)    Dir: George Cukor   Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins   The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
2:15 PM   In the Good Old Summertime (1949)    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard   Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. "cuddles" Sakall
103 mins   In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
4:15 PM   Holiday Affair (1949)    Dir: Don Hartman   Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins   A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
6:00 PM   The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)    Dir: William Keighley   Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins   An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
8:00 PM   Defending Your Life (1991)    Dir: Albert Brooks   Cast: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn
111 mins   In an afterlife way-station resembling a major city, the lives of the recently deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
10:00 PM   Topper (1937)    Dir: Norman Z. McLeod   Cast: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
97 mins   A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.
12:00 AM   Cabin in the Sky (1943)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne
98 mins   God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.
2:00 AM   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.
4:00 AM   Our Town (1940)    Dir: Sam Wood   Cast: Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott
90 mins   Small town lovers search for happiness.

THURSDAY,  December 26

6:00 AM   A Family Affair (1936)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden
69 mins   In the first Hardy Family film, a small-town judge fights for re-election while dealing with family problems.
7:15 AM   You're Only Young Once (1938)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney
78 mins   Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
8:45 AM   Judge Hardy's Children (1938)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
78 mins   A small-town judge's Washington trip lands his son in hot water with a diplomat's daughter.
10:15 AM   Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
90 mins   A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once.
12:00 PM   Out West with the Hardys (1938)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
84 mins   A small-town judge takes his family on a western vacation so he can help a friend negotiate water rights.
1:30 PM   The Hardys Ride High (1939)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
80 mins   A small-town family inherits a fortune but has trouble adjusting to society life.
3:00 PM   Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
85 mins   Attractive dramatics teacher Gilbert becomes the center of innocent Andy's busy world. He is at first infatuated with her, then blurts his love and asks for her hand in marriage. After learning that she is engaged to another he goes into a tailspin, seemingly never to recover, but Judge Hardy and the rest of Andy's family ...
4:30 PM   Judge Hardy and Son (1939)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
87 mins   A small-town judge tries to save an elderly couple from eviction while coping with his wife's illness.
6:15 PM   Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
88 mins   A teenage boy goes into debt to court a Manhattan socialite.
8:00 PM   Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
101 mins   After failing his final high school exam before heading off to college, Andy Hardy is given a second chance by an understanding faculty.
10:00 PM   Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
100 mins   A small-town boy tries life in the big city before going to college.
12:00 AM   The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
93 mins   A teenager dates a girl whose parents' divorce is being decided by his father.
1:45 AM   Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
92 mins   A new college student lets romance get in the way of his studies.
3:30 AM   Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)    Dir: George B. Seitz   Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
107 mins   Andy Hardy's college career is threatened by his attraction to three coeds - two of whom are identical twins - in this light-hearted family comedy.
5:30 AM   Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)    Dir: Willis Goldbeck   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden
93 mins   A small-town boy returns to college after the war only to find his sweetheart engaged to another.

FRIDAY,  December 27

7:15 AM   Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)    Dir: Howard W. Koch   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden
80 mins   A young attorney intending to find a site for a new factory and its new jobs for his native town runs into unexpected difficulties when Andy Hardy comes home. Andy returns to the town of Carvel after years away studying law and starting a new career. He has the chance to help an aircraft factory locate in his hometown, ...
8:45 AM   That Way with Women (1947)    Dir: Frederick De Cordova   Cast: Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet
84 mins   An elderly millionaire makes a hobby of playing cupid.
10:15 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.
12:00 PM   Background to Danger (1943)    Dir: Raoul Walsh   Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
80 mins   An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
1:30 PM   Conflict (1945)    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt   Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
86 mins   A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
3:00 PM   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.
4:45 PM   Three Strangers (1946)    Dir: Jean Negulesco   Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
92 mins   Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
6:30 PM   The Verdict (1946)    Dir: Don Siegel   Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
86 mins   A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
8:00 PM   Le Samourai (1967)    Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville   Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon
105 mins   When a professional hitman is seen by witnesses leaving the scene of a killing, his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
10:00 PM   3 Women (1977)    Dir: Robert Altman   Cast: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
124 mins   Set in a dusty California desert town, the increasingly bizarre relationship between an adult woman (Shelley Duvall), her teenage roommate and co-worker (Sissy Spacek) and a middle-aged pregnant woman (Janice Rule).
12:15 AM   Blood Simple (1984)    Dir: Joel Coen   Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins   An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
2:15 AM   Lola (1961)    Dir: Jacques Demy   Cast: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden
89 mins   Lola is a cabaret singer whose lover Michel has gone away to America, promising to come back when he has made a lot of money for her and their child. He has been gone for seven years though, and Lola decides to have affairs in his absence. She is courted by two men: childhood friend Roland, and Frankie, an American sailor. ...
4:15 AM   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.

SATURDAY,  December 28

6:00 AM   Fighting Father Dunne (1948)    Dir: Ted Tetzlaff   Cast: Pat O'Brien, Darryl Hickman, Charles Kemper
93 mins   A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
8:00 AM   The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)    Dir: Tex Avery (fred)   Cast: Paul Frees, Tex Avery, John Brown
6 mins   Educational film gags involving crossbreeding animals, plants, food and objects.
8:10 AM   An Optical Poem (1938)    Dir: Oskar Fischinger   Cast: Franz Lizst
6 mins   Geometric forms reflect the moods of Liszt's' "Hungarian Rhapsody."
8:20 AM   Believe It or Not #7 (1932)    Dir: null   Cast: Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
7 mins   In this short film, Robert L. Ripley presents a series of rare sights and oddities, such as a leaning lighthouse and the definition of the word "fathom." Vitaphone Release 1361.
8:30 AM   In Fast Company (1946)    Dir: Del Lord   Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Jane Randolph
61 mins   The Bowery Boys get wrapped up in a taxi war.
9:45 AM   Danger Lights (1933)    Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser   Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
20 mins   The 12th and final chapter of The Wolf Dog 1933 serial. When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
10:05 AM   A Date to Skate (1938)    Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky   Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
7 mins   It's Olive's first visit to a skating rink, and Popeye accidentally crashes into the pillar to which she is clinging. The impact sends her flying out of the rink and into the street. Olive finds herself in a crowded department store, on an escalator. Popeye manages to rescue Olive in an amusing climax.
10:15 AM   The Hidden City (1950)    Dir: Ford Beebe   Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Sue England, Paul Guilfoyle
71 mins   Bomba rescues an orphan from some ruthless hunters in this back lot jungle epic from the the no-budget Monogram studios.
11:30 AM   Arctic Roundup (1957)    Dir: null   Cast: Dave Floyd, Lansing C. Holden, Ernest Paquette, John Kelsaw
28 mins   An expedition heads to the barren lands of northern Canada to study musk-ox calves.
12:00 PM   Xanadu (1980)    Dir: Robert Greenwald   Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly
93 mins   A mythological muse helps an artist and a former big-band clarinetist open a roller disco.
2:00 PM   Cool Hand Luke (1967)    Dir: Stuart Rosenberg   Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
129 mins   A brooding loner is sentenced to a prison chain-gang, stands up to the Nazi-like guards, and eventually becomes the leader of his fellow prisoners.
4:30 PM   Giant (1956)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
201 mins   A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
8:00 PM   Coming Home (1978)    Dir: Hal Ashby   Cast: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
128 mins   Sally Hide, the wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. She meets Luke Martin, a frustrated, wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance. When her husband Bob returns ...
10:15 PM   The Last Detail (1973)    Dir: Hal Ashby   Cast: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid
104 mins   Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
12:15 AM   The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)    Dir: Tay Garnett   Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins   A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
2:15 AM   The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)    Dir: Frank Tashlin   Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
110 mins   A PR worker in a space laboratory is suspected of being a spy because she calls her dog on the phone and calls him "Vladimir."
4:15 AM   My Favorite Spy (1942)    Dir: Tay Garnett   Cast: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman
86 mins   Bandleader Kay Kyser leaves his bride at the altar to help catch international spies.

SUNDAY,  December 29

6:00 AM   Neptune's Daughter (1949)    Dir: Edward Buzzell   Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban
93 mins   Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer.
8:00 AM   Latin Lovers (1953)    Dir: Mervyn Leroy   Cast: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, John Lund
104 mins   An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
10:00 AM   The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)    Dir: Tay Garnett   Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins   A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
12:00 PM   Ball of Fire (1942)    Dir: Howard Hawks   Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
111 mins   A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
2:00 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.
4:00 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.
6:00 PM   King Solomon's Mines (1937)    Dir: Robert Stevenson   Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
80 mins   African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure.
8:00 PM   Mildred Pierce (1945)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins   A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
10:30 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.
1:00 AM   The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)    Dir: Rex Ingram   Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
130 mins   In this film, a young Argentine fights for France, his father's country, in World War I.
3:30 AM   And the Ship Sails On (1984)    Dir: Federico Fellini   Cast: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier
128 mins   Taking on a horde of refugees upsets a luxury liner's trip to bury a famous opera singer.
5:45 AM   Ginger and Fred (1986)    Dir: Federico Fellini   Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina
126 mins   A song-and-dance team are reunited for a nostalgic television special.

MONDAY,  December 30

8:00 AM   The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)    Dir: Otto Preminger   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak
119 mins   A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
10:15 AM   Some Came Running (1958)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
134 mins   A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
12:45 PM   The Manchurian Candidate (1962)    Dir: John Frankenheimer   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
126 mins   A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
3:00 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.
5:45 PM   Ocean's Eleven (1960)    Dir: Lewis Milestone   Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
127 mins   Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
8:00 PM   Palm Springs Weekend (1963)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin
100 mins   College students on spring break turn Palm Springs into a disaster area.
10:00 PM   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.
12:15 AM   The Rules of the Game (1939)    Dir: Jean Renoir   Cast: Roland Toutain, Marcel Dalio, Jean Renoir
113 mins   Aviator Roland Toutain addresses a radio audience from the tarmac, lamenting the absence of his lover, to whom he dedicated his flight. Unfortunately she's Nora Gregor, wife of Marquis Marcel Dalio, who's got mistress troubles of his own.
2:15 AM   Ten Little Indians (1966)    Dir: George Pollock   Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
89 mins   Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
4:00 AM   House on Haunted Hill (1958)    Dir: William Castle   Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
75 mins   The owner of a supposedly haunted mansion offers $10,000 to anyone dumb enough to attempt to spend the night there.
5:30 AM   The Exterminating Angel (1962)    Dir: Luis Buñuel   Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
95 mins   High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party.

TUESDAY,  December 31

7:15 AM   Judex (1963)    Dir: Georges Franju   Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
104 mins   Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
9:15 AM   The Thin Man (1934)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
91 mins   In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
11:00 AM   After the Thin Man (1936)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
110 mins   Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.
1:00 PM   Another Thin Man (1939)    Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins   Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
2:45 PM   Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)    Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins   High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
4:30 PM   The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)    Dir: Richard Thorpe   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins   On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
6:15 PM   Song of the Thin Man (1947)    Dir: Edward Buzzell   Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins   Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
8:00 PM   The Apartment (1960)    Dir: Billy Wilder   Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
125 mins   An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
10:15 PM   Bundle of Joy (1956)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
98 mins   A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
12:00 AM   Repeat Performance (1947)    Dir: Alfred Werker   Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins   On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
1:45 AM   Trading Places (1983)    Dir: John Landis   Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
116 mins   A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
4:00 AM   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.