Turner Classic Movies USA

A silent-film comedian (Dick Van Dyke) drinks, cheats on his wife (Michele Lee), bullies his buddy (Mickey Rooney) and makes a brief TV comeback.

A gumshoe (Steve Martin) hunts a Nazi (Carl Reiner) for a svelte client (Rachel Ward) and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.

Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team.

A French singer (Corinne Marchand) shops, cries, sings and visits friends while awaiting the results of cancer tests.

A French carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) with a wife (Claire Drouot) and children adds a lover (Marie-France Boyer), to music of Mozart.

A talented tap dancer uses his craps skills to win ownership of a musical show to make himself the star.

A Left Bank poet (Jean Marais) loves a princess (María Casares) who rides with motorcycle messengers of death.

The MGM Symphony Orchestra performs the "Poet and Peasant Overture.".

A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.

Long-nosed Cyrano (Jose Ferrer) loves fair Roxane (Mala Powers) but woos her with verse for a tongue-tied friend (William Prince).

Victorian poet Robert Browning (Bill Travers) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Jennifer Jones) despite her stern father (John Gielgud).

The life and career of photographer, writer, director and composer Gordon Parks.

Milquetoast greeting card writer Erwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh) gets into a fight with his wife, Audrey (Carol Hughes), and wanders into a bar, where he meets three gamblers who appreciate his knack for picking winning horses.

A framed private eye (James Stewart) uses disguises and kidnaps a poet (Claudette Colbert) while trying to find a killer.

Frustrated poet Samson (Sean Connery), who finds societal conventions maddening, lives in New York with Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), sees a psychiatrist and fights writer's block.

A crime writer (Ernest Truex) impresses a speakeasy owner and his goons with the plot for a perfect murder, then must prevent it.

A radio-show sleuth (Red Skelton) and his bride (Ann Rutherford) help her sorority sister solve a Georgia murder mystery.

An amateur criminologist finds himself in hot water with the police, a murderer and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Maisie (Ann Sothern) falls on hard times and works at several odd jobs before she meets aspiring comedian Hap (Red Skelton).

Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's (Ann Sothern) nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Instead of relaxing at a mountain resort a secretary (Ginger Rogers) falls in love with a stranger (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.).

An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.

An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) snaps Kildare (Lew Ayres) back to reality after his bride, nurse Lamont (Laraine Day), is hit by a truck.

A young woman (Kim Hunter) seeks her sister (Jean Brooks) and finds Greenwich Village satanists and Dante's Restaurant.

A New York architect (Kent Smith) marries a Serbian artist (Simone Simon) who turns into a black panther when aroused.

A Greek general (Boris Karloff) in the 1912 Balkans finds his wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.

A lonely child (Ann Carter) lives in a dreamworld with her father's (Kent Smith) dead first wife (Simone Simon) as a playmate.

A carriage cabby (Boris Karloff) sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor (Henry Daniell) in 19th-century Edinburgh.

Nurse Betsey Connell (Frances Dee) is hired to care for Jessica, a woman who suffers from a bizarre condition. When she falls for Jessica's husband, Betsey is drawn into the dark world of voodoo while trying to cure her.

Shipped from mysterious Skull Island for display in the United States, a gigantic ape escapes from his bonds and carries a beautiful blonde (Fay Wray) to the top of the Empire State Building.

No one believes a third mate (Russell Wade) complaining of sadistic treatment by a psychotic captain (Richard Dix).

The organizers of a brilliantly conceived racetrack heist find their perfect crime beginning to unravel.

A drugstore manager (Richard Basehart) creates an alter ego to perform the perfect murder of his wife's (Audrey Totter) lover.

A dancer (Evelyn Keyes), a casino gambler (Dick Powell) and a detective (Lee J. Cobb) want to know who has killed a policeman and a hatchecker.

A stockbroker (Robert Young) tells the court how his rich wife and one of two girlfriends (Susan Hayward, Jane Greer) died.

Two small-time crooks (Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker) and one's girlfriend (Karen Black) get even for a murder by robbing mob operations.