[If this has been mentioned, I missed it. m.e.e.]
Turner Classic Movies has a bunch of noir and noir-ish stuff
scheduled over the next couple of weeks. I may have missed
some, and mischaracterized others, but what the heck. All
times are Central.
Michael Etchison
7/13 1:00 am Rope! (1948) Two wealthy young men try to commit
the perfect crime by murdering a friend. James Stewart,
Farley Granger, John Dall. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
C-81m
2:30 am Murder! (1930) A juror who had
voted to convict a murder suspect, tries to prove someone
else did it before the execution date. Herbert Marshall,
Norah Baring, Miles Mander. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-100m
**************************************** 7/14 5:00 am Detour
(1945) A hitchhiker takes on a dead man's identity only to
face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman. Tom Neal, Ann
Savage, Claudia Drake. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. BW-68m
6:15 am Roadblock (1951) An insurance agent's greedy wife
leads him to a life of crime. Charles McGraw, Joan Dixion,
Milburn Stone. Director: Harold Daniels. BW-73m
7:30 am Crossfire (1947) A crusading district attorney
investigates the murder of a Jewish man. Robert Young, Robert
Mitchum, Robert Ryan. Director: Edward Dmytryk. BW-86m
9:00 am They Live by Night (1949) After an unjust prison
sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened
criminals and a violent escape. Farley Granger, Cathy
O'Donnell, Howard da Silva. Director: Nicholas Ray.
BW-96m
10:45 am Ride The Pink Horse (1947) A con
man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster. Robert Montgomery,
Wanda Hendrix, Thomas Gomez. Director: Robert Montgomery.
BW-101m
12:30 pm Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Detective Mike Hammer
fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a
mysterious connection to the Mob. Ralph Meeker, Cloris
Leachman, Albert Dekker. Director: Robert Aldrich.
BW-106m
2:30 pm Lady From Shanghai, The (1948) A romantic
drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his
voluptuous wife. Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane.
Director: Orson Welles. BW-87m
4:00 pm Railroaded! (1947) A two-bit hood sets out to
rob his boss's illegal gambling operation. John Ireland,
Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont. Director: Anthony Mann.
BW-72m
5:15 pm Mask Of Dimitrios, The (1944) A meek novelist
investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott. Director:
Jean Negulesco. BW-96m
7:00 pm Out of the Past (1947) A private eye becomes
the dupe of a homicidal moll. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer,
Kirk Douglas. Director: Jacques Tourneur. BW-97m
9:00 pm Maltese Falcon, The (1941) Hard-boiled
detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search
for a priceless statue. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney
Greenstreet. Director: John Huston. BW-101m
11:00 pm Midnight Lace (1960) A young woman can't get
anyone to believe she's being stalked. Doris Day, Rex
Harrison, Myrna Loy. Director: David Miller. C-108m
**************************** 7/15 1:00 am Wait Until Dark
(1967) A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've
invaded her home. Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
Director: Terence Young. C-108m
3:00 am Gaslight (1944) A newlywed fears she's going
mad when strange things start happening at the family
mansion. Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury.
Director: George Cukor. BW-114m
5:00 am Whipsaw (1935) A G-man woos the sole female member of
a criminal gang. Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Harvey Stephens.
Director: Sam Wood. BW-82m
6:30 am Star Witness (1931) An old man who witnessed a
crime is threatened by gangsters. Walter Huston, Chic Sale,
Grant Mitchell. Director: William A. Wellman. BW-68m
8:00 am Dial 1119 (1950) A killer holds the customers
at a bar hostage. Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Sam
Levene. Director: Gerald Mayer. BW-75m
9:30 am Suddenly (1954) Gunmen take over a suburban
home to plot a presidential assassination. Frank Sinatra,
Sterling Hayden, James Gleason. Director: Lewis Allen.
BW-76m
11:00 am Split Second (1953) Escaped convicts hold
hostages in ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb
test. Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling. Director:
Dick Powell. BW-86m
12:30 pm Petrified Forest, The (1936) An escaped
convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina
hostage. Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart.
Director: Archie Mayo. BW-82m
2:00 pm Hitch-Hiker, The (1953) A dangerous madman
kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip. Edmond O'Brien,
Frank Lovejoy, William Talman. Director: Ida Lupino.
BW-71m
3:15 pm Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on
their assassination plot. James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De
Banzie. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. C-120m
5:15 pm Ransom (1956) A wealthy couple tries to cope
with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen. Director: Alex Segal.
BW-102m
9:00 pm Sting, The (1973) Two con men hit the big time to
take on a gangster in '20s Chicago. Paul Newman, Robert
Redford, Robert Shaw. Director: George Roy Hill. C-129m
11:15 pm Bullets Or Ballots (1936) A cop goes
undercover to crack an influential crime ring. Edward G.
Robinson, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart. Director: William
Keighley. BW-82m
************************* 7/16 1:00 am Border Incident (1949)
Police try to crack down on the illegal immigration racket.
Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard da Silva. Director:
Anthony Mann. BW-96m
3:00 am Sol Madrid (1968) An undercover narcotics
agents tries to track a Mafia chief. David McCallum, Telly
Savalas, Stella Stevens. Director: Brian G. Hutton.
C-86m
5:00 am Good Die Young, The (1954) Four thieves think back on
the problems that led them to a daring heist. Gloria Grahame,
Richard Basehart, Joan Collins. Director: Lewis Gilbert.
BW-100m
6:45 am Kansas City Confidential (1952) To commit the
perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues'
identities secret from each other. Preston Foster, John
Payne, Coleen Gray. Director: Phil Karlson. BW-99m
8:30 am Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Desperate losers
plan a bank robbery with unexpected results. Harry Belafonte,
Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame. Director: Robert Wise.
BW-96m
10:30 am Criss Cross (1949) A man tries to save his
fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover. Burt Lancaster,
Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea. Director: Robert Siodmak.
BW-88m
12:00 pm Armored Car Robbery (1950) A police officer
tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman. Director:
Richard Fleischer BW-68m
1:30 pm Topkapi (1964) An international band of
thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily
guarded museum. Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter
Ustinov. Director: Jules Dassin. C-120m
3:30 pm Killing, The (1956) A team of specialists
plots a daring racetrack robbery, but they don't reckon with
human frailty. Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Jay C.
Flippen. Director: Stanley Kubrick. BW-84m
5:00 pm High Sierra (1941) An aging ex-con sets out to
pull one more big heist. Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur
Kennedy. Director: Raoul Walsh. BW-100m
7:00 pm Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) A bored tycoon
turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator
assigned to bring him in. Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul
Burke. Director: Norman Jewison. C-102m
9:00 pm Great Train Robbery, The (1979) Three crooks
plot to steal a fortune in gold from a moving train. Sean
Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down. Director:
Michael Crichton. C-111m
11:00 pm Night Of The Hunter, The (1955) A bogus
preacher marries an outlaw's widow in search of the man's
hidden loot. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
Director: Charles Laughton. BW-93m
***************************** 7/17 1:00 am M (1931) The mob
sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting
too much police attention. Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf
Grundgens. Director: Fritz Lang. BW-111m
3:00 am Psycho (1960) A woman on the run gets mixed up
with a repressed young man and his violent mother. Anthony
Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
BW-108m
5:00 am In a Lonely Place (1950) An aspiring actress
begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a
murderer. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
Director: Nicholas Ray. BW-93m
7:00 am Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) Illicit
lovers plot to kill the woman's older husband. Lana Turner,
John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway. Director: Tay Garnett.
BW-113m
9:15 pm Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) A gang of small time
crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist. Sterling Hayden, Louis
Calhern, Marilyn Monroe. Director: John Huston. BW-112m
********************************** 7/18
1:30 pm Key Witness (1960) A street gang pressures the man
whose testimony could put them behind bars. Jeffrey Hunter,
Pat Crowley, Dennis Hopper. Director: Phil Karlson.
BW-81m
3:00 pm Rear Window (1954) A photographer with a
broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in
a nearby apartment building. James Stewart, Grace Kelly,
Raymond Burr. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. C-114m
************************************************ 7/19 2:00 pm
Blue Gardenia, The (1953) A telephone operator kills in
self-defense but can't remember the details of the encounter.
Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte. Director: Fritz
Lang. BW-88m
***************************************** 7/20 7:00 pm Rear
Window (1954) A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a
murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment
building. James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr. Director:
Alfred Hitchcock. C-114m
9:00 pm On The Waterfront (1954) A young
stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks. Marlon
Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger. Director: Elia Kazan.
BW-108m
********************************************* 7/21 8:00 am
Danger Signal (1945) A man suspected of murder charms a
secretary into helping him. Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick
Erdman. Director: Robert Florey. BW-78m
9:30 am Threat, The (1949) An escaped con kidnaps the
people he thinks put him behind bars. Charles McGraw, Michael
O'Shea, Virginia Grey. Director: Felix Feist. BW-66m
11:00 am Second Chance (1953) A crooked boxer falls
for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico. Robert Mitchum,
Linda Darnell, Jack Palance. Director: Rudolph Mate.
C-82m
5:30 pm Cast A Dark Shadow (1955) A wife-killer
marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death. Dirk
Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh. Director: Lewis
Gilbert. BW-83m
********************************** 7/23 6:15 am Deadline At
Dawn (1946) An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a
sailor charged with murder. Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill
Williams. Director: Harold Clurman. BW-83m
9:00 am Nobody Lives Forever (1946) A con artist falls
for the rich widow he's trying to fleece. John Garfield,
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan. Director: Jean
Negulesco. BW-100m
5:30 pm Truth About Murder, The (1946) A prosecutor's
girlfriend sets out to prove a murder suspect is innocent.
Bonita Granville, Morgan Conway, Rita Corday. Director: Lew
Landers. BW-63m
*************************************** 7/24 1:00 am Yojimbo
(1961) A samurai-for-hire sets the warring factions of a
Japanese town against each other. Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro
Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu. Director: Akira Kurosawa.
BW-110m
7:00 am Nightmare (1956) After being hypnotized into
committing murder, a young musician has to reconstruct his
actions to clear his name. Edward G. Robinson, Kevin
McCarthy, Virginia Christine. Director: Maxwell Shane.
BW-89m
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