2024-10-26 03:15 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 05:30 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 07:15 How to Vote Comedy short with Robert Benchley, centering on a candidate who comes down with laryngitis. His assistant takes his place at a speaking engagement, leaving the audience totally befuddled. Directed by Felix E. Feist. (Repeat). 07:29 Dick Tracy's Dilemma The comic-book sleuth goes after a master criminal known as "The Claw," who runs a gang of fur thieves. 08:30 Dead Man's Hand The narrative tells the story of gunfighter Reno and his journey to start life anew. After falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, Reno vows to turn his back on his violent past and lead a peaceful life. When he gets attacked by a bandit, Reno shoots his gun in self-defense, killing the bandit. He later finds out that the bandit is the mayor's brother. Reno must confront the mayor, w 09:00 The House Builder-Upper When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results. 09:07 Tarzan's Hidden Jungle A jungle hero tangles with villainous hunters. 10:30 Knight Is Young An aspiring dancer (June Allyson), who is behind in her rent and afraid to leave her apartment for fear of the landlord locking her out, befriends a tap-dancing billboard worker (Hal LeRoy). Directed by Roy Mack. (Repeat). 11:00 Black Orpheus Best Foreign Film winner is a modern interpretation of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth set during Carnival time in Rio, where a streetcar conductor falls in love with a beautiful woman who's just jilted her boyfriend, who disguises himself to exact revenge on her. 13:00 Hang 'em High A rancher survives a vicious attack by a lynch mob who accused him of stealing cattle, and he sets out for revenge by becoming a deputy marshal and agreeing to bring in alive the men he is looking for so they can face trials. 15:00 While the City Sleeps When a media mogul dies, his ambivalent son pits three newsmen against each to become his right-hand man, but ambition collides with danger and the competition attracts the attention of a brutal serial killer. 17:00 The Devil and Daniel Webster A struggling farmer sells his soul to the devil in this fantasy based on a Stephen Vincent Benet short story. Edward Arnold, Walter Huston. Jabez: James Craig. Mary: Anne Shirley. Ma: Jane Darwell. Belle: Simone Simon. Sheriff: Frank Conlan. Bibber: George Cleveland. Squire Slossum: Gene Lockhart. Fine score by Bernard Herrmann won an Oscar. 19:00 Riptide While her British nobleman husband is on business in the U.S., a fun-loving American heiress holidays in the Riviera, where she runs into a former boyfriend whose reckless behavior leads to scandal and compels the husband to initiate divorce proceedings. 20:45 Jewel Robbery Set against the baroque beauty of Vienna, a debonair thief unexpectedly falls in love with his latest target, the sophisticated wife of a baron. 23:00 I Walk Alone After 14 years in prison, a mobster (Burt Lancaster) seeks to get even with the man who sent him up. Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, George Rigaud, Kristine Miller. Nick: Marc Lawrence. Dan: Mike Mazurki. Directed by Byron Haskin.
2024-10-27 01:00 Cape Fear After being released from prison, an ex-con seeks revenge on the prosecutor who put him away, which includes making unsavory threats towards his wife and 12-year-old daughter. In time, the lawyer decides to fight back. 03:00 Tiger Bay A young girl befriends a seaman wanted for murder. 05:00 Cat People A mysterious woman becomes obsessed with the idea that she is a catwoman and turns feline when jealous. 06:15 I Walked With a Zombie A Canadian nurse is summoned to a Caribbean resort to care for a woman, and turns to voodoo in an effort to cure her of her mental malady. 07:30 Martin Scorsese Presents Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows A profile of filmmaker Val Lewton (1904-51), who was famous in the 1940s for making affecting, quality horror pictures on a low budget, includes interviews with directors Roger Corman and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and features clips from "Cat People," "I Walked With a Zombie" and "The Leopard Man.". 09:00 I Walk Alone After 14 years in prison, a mobster (Burt Lancaster) seeks to get even with the man who sent him up. Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, George Rigaud, Kristine Miller. Nick: Marc Lawrence. Dan: Mike Mazurki. Directed by Byron Haskin. 11:00 The Invisible Boy A boy's robot friend turns him invisible. 12:45 The Bad Seed Maxwell Anderson's play about a mother (Best Actress nominee Nancy Kelly) who suspects her seemingly perfect little 8-year-old daughter (Best Supporting Actress nominee Patty McCormack) is a ruthless killer. Kelly, McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart reprise their roles from the Broadway production, which ends differently from the movie version. 15:00 Night Watch Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman who thinks she sees a murder committed in a deserted house. John: Laurence Harvey. Sarah: Billie Whitelaw. Appleby: Robert Lang. Tony: Tony Britton. Brian G. Hutton directed. 17:00 Gaslight A newlywed is slowly driven to the brink of madness by her deceptively charming husband at their Victorian mansion in London. Ingrid Bergman won Best Actress as the wife, while Charles Boyer received a Best Actor nod as her spouse and Angela Lansbury, in her film debut (at age 18), was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a sassy cockney servant. 19:00 The Fugitive In the midst of an anti-Cleric and anti-Catholic regime in the Mexican state of Tabasco, the last remaining priest flees persecution and seeks freedom in America, finding help along the way. 21:00 The Wrath of God A bootlegger, an Irishman and an ex-priest are held by a South American military group. Their only promise of escape is to aid in the revolt against a crazy military tyrant. 23:30 The Phantom of the Opera In perhaps his greatest role, Lon Chaney portrays the title character in this silent classic, a crazed, horrifically disfigured composer who takes a beautiful young singer under his wing and terrorizes an opera house in an effort to make her a star. The opera singer's unmasking of the Phantom in his subterranean lair is one of cinema's most iconic screen moments. Chaney created his own special mak
2024-10-28 02:30 The Lure After washing ashore in Poland, two mermaid sisters are recruited to work in a seedy burlesque club in this wildly offbeat horror comedy. There, they use their sex appeal to manipulate the male patrons of the cabaret. (Repeat). 04:15 Sweetie Original, unsettling story of family love, revolving around the relationship of two disturbed sisters (Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston). Louis: Tom Lycos. Gordon: Jon Darling. Flo: Dorothy Barry. Bob: Michael Lake. Clayton: Andre Pataczek. Mrs. Schneller: Jean Hadgraft. Directed by Jane Campion. 06:00 Alice in Movieland In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, s 06:30 Skyscraper Souls Engrossing story of a ruthless, amoral businessman. 08:30 Nora Prentiss A nightclub singer and an unfaithful doctor weave a web of misfortune together after a convenient death creates an opportunity. 10:30 A Life of Her Own A model uses her beauty, charm, and dogged determination to overcome her circumstances to woo her way to the top of her industry. 12:30 Any Wednesday A philandering tycoon sees his girlfriend one day a week in his company's executive suite, where he has set her up; but when an out-of-town client is sent there, he thinks the woman is for him. 14:30 10 In this erotic farce, a middle-aged composer with an enviable life is suddenly gripped by romantic obsession after a chance encounter with a ravishing bride. Nominated for 2 Oscars. 17:00 Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen wrote, directed and stars in this relationship comedy about three Manhattan sisters and the men in their lives. One of the women suspects her husband of lusting after her youngest sister. Oscars went to Allen for his screenplay and to supporting actors Dianne Wiest and Michael Caine.