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Thursday, October 1, 6:45 PM — Friday, October 2, 5:30 AM
6:45 PM
THE NANNY (1965): Before the studio exploded on the world cinematic stage with its legendary cycle of horror films mostly starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, Hammer Studios produced a series of excellent, low budget thrillers, often featuring American stars on the wane. This is one of the best. Bette Davis plays the title character, an aging nanny now taking care of the children of her old charge. To be more accurate, looking after the one remaining child, Bobby, recently released from a home for disturbed children, who claims Nanny was responsible for his sister’s drowning two years ago. Too bad no one believes him. Dir. Seth Holt
8:30 PM
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1970): Con man Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) who seduces women steals their money and then abandons them meets his match when he tries his routine on Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler). She proves a master of manipulation and soon exerts an intense emotional control over him. She poses as his sister as he marries and defrauds a series of women; the pair eventually begins murdering their victims. Seems far-fetched? The story is based on a real couple, "The Lonely Hearts Killers", who operated in the 40s and were even more ruthless in real life. Dir. Leonard Kastle
10:30 PM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955): A charmer (Dirk Bogarde) decides to make his fortune by marrying and murdering older women. He meets his match when he plots against his latest victim (Margaret Lockwood). Dir. Lewis Gilbert
12:00 AM
DIABOLIQUE (1955): In this twisting and turning French thriller, the wife (Vera Clouzot) and lover (Simone Signoret) of a sadistic headmaster (Paul Meurisse) plot to kill him. When American producer and schlock-master William Castle saw kids standing in line in the pouring rain to watch this film, he decided that making thrillers was the direction in which to take his independent film production career. Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
2:00 AM
OBSESSION aka The Hidden Room (1949): In this Brit noir, directed by the recently blacklisted noir auteur Edward Dmytryk, cuckolded psychiatrist Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) goes the extra mile to punish his cheating spouse (Sally Gray). He abducts his wife’s lover (Phil Brown) planning to eventually treat him to an acid bath. Scotland Yard Superintendent Finsbury (Naunton Wayne) and his wife’s dog throw a spanner in the works. Adapted by Alec Coppel from his suspense play A Man About a Dog. See if you can spot Christopher Lee’s very brief bit as a constable. Dir. Edward Dmytryk
3:45 AM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951): Childlike but charming psychopath Bruno (Robert Walker) suggests that he and Guy (Farley Granger), a tennis player with political ambitions, crisscross murders. Unfortunately, Guy realizes too late that Bruno wasn’t joking. Guy’s unwanted wife shows up murdered and he has no alibi. Screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. D.P. Robert Burks’ outstanding work earned an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday, October 3, 11:15 AM
HELL DRIVERS (1957): An ex-con (Stanley Baker) trying to go straight takes a job driving for a corrupt trucking company, where the bosses pit the drivers against each other in a dangerous competition that leads to higher profits and . . . death! Peggy Cummins is the saucy secretary who flirts her way through an array of up-and-coming stars—Patrick McGoohan. Sean Connery and Herbert Lom. A gear-grinding masterpiece! Dir. Cy Endfield
Saturday, October 3, 5:00 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947): In this quintessential film noir, small town gas station owner Jeff Bailey’s (Robert Mitchum) past catches up with him when a stranger passing through town recognizes him. He tells his girlfriend Ann Miller (Virginia Huston) about his previous via flashback, of course. Jeff was a private eye falls for the gangster’s moll (Jane Greer) that he’s supposed to find for her lover Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). She’s allegedly stolen $40,000 from Whit and he wants her and the dough back. As in all good noirs, nothing is really as it seems. Watch for future noir siren Rhonda Fleming as a duplicitous secretary. Based on Geoffrey Homes’ excellent pulp novel Build My Gallows High and shot by legendary cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Saturday, October 3, 7:00 PM
THE SET-UP (1949): An aging boxer (Robert Ryan) defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight, believing that he can still be a champ. Audrey Totter plays his devoted wife who begs him to retire from boxing before he’s destroyed. Dir. Robert Wise
Saturday, October 3, 9:00 PM
Sunday, October 4, 7:00 AM
LOOPHOLE (1954): One of the rarest films of the original noir era, a tidy tale of unjust persecution that plays like a B-film Les Miserables. An innocent bank clerk (Barry Sullivan), made the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme, is pursued to the brink of insanity by a scarily righteous lawman (merciless Charles McGraw, in a signature performance). Dir. Harold D. Schuster
Sunday, October 4, 7:30 PM
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1963): In this late era noir, ex-G.I. Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) slowly begins to realize that he was brainwashed by the Koreans while he was a P.O.W. He soon suspects that his former comrade in arms Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who is also the stepson of a presidential candidate, is being manipulated by the Communists Angel Lansbury gives a remarkable performance as Shaw’s icy mother. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon novel. Dir. John Frankenheimer
Monday, October 5, 5:00 PM — Tuesday, October 6, 6:45 AM
Here are the crime stories…
12:30 AM
EVELYN PRENTICE (1934): Filmed between the original Thin Man film and the first of its sequels, William Powell and Myrna Loy are re-teamed as another husband-and-wife team knee deep in a murder mystery. John Prentice is a career-minded lawyer whose wife Evenlyn mistakenly thinks is having an affair, so starts one of her own. When she realizes her husband is innocent, she tries to break off her affair with deadly results. The movie was based on the 1933 novel of the same name by W. E. Woodward. Dir. William K. Howard
2:00 AM
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA (1934): In this Pre-code crime drama, orphans "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take opposite paths in life. Jim (William Powell) becomes a D.A., while Blackie (Clark Gable) becomes a racketeer. Despite Blackie's lifestyle, the two men remain bonded through thick and thin. Even when Jim’s association with Blackie threatens his chances of winning the governorship and Jim falls in love with Blackie’s girlfriend Eleanor (Myrna Loy). Director Woody Van Dyke spotted the playful chemistry between Powell and Loy when bantering between takes and insisted on casting the pair as Nick and Nora Charles against MGM’s initial objections. The glamorous pair became one of the movies' great romantic teams. Dir. Woody Van Dyke
Tuesday, October 6, 5:00 PM — 8:30 PM
5:00 PM
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945): Ten strangers are tricked into going to an isolated island where an unknown person accuses them each of getting away with murder and plans on executing them one by one. Dudley Nichols adapted Agatha Christie’s 1943 play which she adapted from her 1939 novel. The all-star cast was a sign of things to come for Christie adaptations and includes Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Walter Huston, and Judith Anderson .Dir. René Clair
6:45 PM
MURDER SHE SAID (1961): When nobody believes she witnessed a murder, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) investigates herself along with her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. Based on Agatha Christie’s 4:50 from Paddington. Trivia: Joan Dixon has a small part in the film and would go on to become the definitive Miss Marple in the BBC series that aired from 1984-1992. Dir. George Pollock
Tuesday, October 6, 10:00 PM
SUSPICION (1941): A handsome gambler Johnny Aysgarth (Cary Grant) pursues the shy and wealthy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine). He courts and marries her. After the honeymoon she discovers unsettling things about his character. She becomes increasingly suspicious of him when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky (Nigel Bruce) dies mysteriously. Based on Anthony Berkeley Cox’s outstanding novel After the Fact. Seriously, read the book. Fontaine won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work in the film. Composer Franz Waxman was nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture. The film also earned a nomination for Best Picture. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, October 8, 1:00 AM
THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980): New York police sergeant Edward Delaney (Frank Sinatra) tries to catch a serial killer while dealing with the worsening health of his wife (Faye Dunaway). Sinatra won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Delaney. Based on the novel by Lawrence Sanders. Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Thursday, October 8, 7:15 PM
LIFEBOAT (1944): In this bottle feature, seven survivors of a shipwreck must decide whether to trust the German member of the U-Boat that torpedoed their ship, and left them all stranded in a tiny lifeboat, as he is the only one among them with seafaring skills. The moral calculations each must make motor this thriller to a satisfying conclusion. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Friday, October 9, 10:00 AM
FLAMINGO ROAD (1949): Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy (Joan Crawford), while stranded in a small town, becomes romantically involved with deputy sheriff Fielding Carlisle (Zachary Scott), a whose career is controlled by Sheriff and corrupt political boss Titus Semple (Sydney Greenstreet). Semple dislikes Bellamy and mounts a campaign against her but she’s not one to take things lying down. Dir. Michael Curtiz
Friday, October 9, 11:15 PM
POINT BLANK (1967): Existential neo-noir at its best. Lee Marvin stars as a wraith like criminal out to get his share of the loot from a robbery after his partner shots him, leaves him for dead and absconds both with all the money and based on the 1962 novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark his wife. Angie Dickinson co-stars as his sympathetic sister-in-law who aids him. Dir. John Boorman
Saturday, October 10, 3:00 PM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950): A hoodlum and ex-con (Sterling Hayden) hopes for one last big score that will enable him to go home to his farm in Kentucky. He falls in with a gang of small-time crooks plotting an elaborate jewel heist. Of course, you can never go home again. A young Marilyn Monroe plays a small but juicy part. The film was nominated for four Oscars including a Best Supporting Actor nod for Sam Jaffe as the mastermind undone by his passion for beautiful girls. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. Dir. John Huston
Saturday, October 10, 9:00 PM
Sunday, October 11, 7:00 AM
CRIME WAVE (1954): Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson), a reformed parolee, is forced to hide a wounded former cellmate who seeks him out for temporary shelter after being shot during robbery. After the cops find out Lacey sheltered a robbery suspect, Detective Sgt. Sims (Sterling Hayden) tries to force Lacey to find the robbers. All Lacey wants to do is protect his wife (Phyllis Kirk) and his new life. Dir. André De Toth
Sunday, October 11, 10:45 AM — 5:00 PM
10:45 AM
THE NAKED KISS (1964): A prostitute (Constance Towers) moves to a small town and starts life over as a nurse’s aide, working with sick children. She falls in love with the local scion (Michael Danter) who proposes to her. But she learns his terrible secret and finds herself at the mercy of the hypocritical justice system. Dir. Sam Fuller
12:30 PM
DEAD RINGER (1964): In this late era noir, Bette Davis stars as twins, the rich and mean Margaret and the other poor and put-upon spinster Edith meet after many years at the funeral of Margaret’s husband Frank. Edith snaps when she discovers from Margaret why Frank dumped her and married Margaret instead. Edith shoots her sister, takes her place and tries to make “Edith’s” death look like a suicide. Edith's boyfriend, police sergeant Jim Hobbson (Karl Malden) and Margaret's lover Tony (Peter Lawford) soon complicates things. Dir. Paul Henreid
2:30 PM
THE BAD SEED (1956): “What will you give me for a basket of kisses?” Based on the stage play adapted from the brilliant novel by William March, Army wife Christine (Nancy Kelly) suspects that her seemingly perfect little girl Rhoda (Patty McCormack) is a ruthless killer. Eileen Heckart shines in her Oscar nominated supporting role as the alcoholic mother of one of Rhoda’s victims. This truly terrifying film will make you look twice at all cute little blonde girls. Kelly and McCormack as well as cinematographer Harold Rosson were nominated for Oscars as well as Heckart. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Monday, October 12, 5:00 PM — Tuesday, October 13, 4:00 AM
5:00 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934): Dashiell Hammett’s urbane but fun-loving sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, along with their pup Asta, investigate the disappearance of an inventor in this classic blend of laughs and suspense. Shot in just two weeks by director Woody "One-Shot'' Van Dyke and cinematographer James Wong Howe, this gem set the gold standard for the sophisticated comedy—inspiring five sequels as well as countless inferior imitations. Van Dyke previously directed Myrna Loy and William Powell in Manhattan Melodrama and spotted the terrific chemistry of their off-screen banter between takes. He insisted on casting the pair as Hammett’s hard-drinking super-couple and the glamorous pair became one of the movies' great romantic teams. Shot by the legendary cinematographer James Wong Howe. The film garnered four Oscar nominations, Best Picture, Best actor for Powell, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adaptation for Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Dir. Woody Van Dyke
6:45 PM
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936): In this delightful follow up to The Thin Man, Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) return to their home in San Francisco determined to rest up from their previous New York adventures, but Nora’s snooty family unintentionally embroils them in a murder mystery. Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, George Zucco and a young Jimmy Stewart add to the fun. Writers Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett received a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke
8:45 PM
ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939): Another fun outing with hard drinking husband and wife team Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) and their faithful companion Asta. This time their son Nicky, Jr. is along for the ride. In this third installment of the series, Nick and Nora venture out to Long Island to aid Nora’s former business manager Colonel MacFay (C. Aubrey Smith). An old enemy of the Colonel’s, the mysterious Mr. Church (Sheldon Leonard), claims that he’s seen MacFay die in a dream and has come to watch his premonition come true. It does and the police quickly suspect him of McFey’s murder. However, the Charleses soon find McFey was surrounded by quite a few people who benefited from his death. Based loosely on one of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories, “The Farewell Murder”. Dir. W S Van Dyke II
10:45 PM
SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941): Dashiell Hammett’s hard drinking power couple Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) return for their fourth outing in MGM’s sophisticated and witty whodunit series. This time, the pair investigates a murder at a racetrack with the help of their son Nick, Jr. and their faithful wire-haired terrier Asta. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke II
12:30 AM
THE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945): Nick Charles (William Powell) takes Nora (Myrna Loy) and Asta to his hometown of Sycamore Springs to visit his parents and celebrate his birthday. A murder and espionage soon disrupt their holiday and Nora’s plans to buy Nick the perfect gift. Dir. Richard Thorpe
2:15 AM
SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947): This was the last outing for Nick (William Powell), Nora (Myrna Loy) and Asta Charles, they investigate the shooting of a band leader in New York. Gloria Grahame plays a sultry jazz singer whose romantic missteps lead to death, another foreshadowing of her career in noir. Another noir siren, Marie Windsor has a small, featured role as a gangster’s wife. Dir. Edward Buzzell
Tuesday, October 13, 5:30 AM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940): An American reporter (Joel McCrea) covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat which leads to his uncovering a political conspiracy with the aid of the daughter (Laraine Day) of a prominent politician (Herbert Marshall) and a chap named ffolliott “with two small ‘f’s” (George Sanders), his rival for the girl’s affection. This tremendously entertaining film features several vintage Hitchcock set pieces. The film was nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Albert Bassermann; Original Screenplay, Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison; Best Cinematography, Rudolph Maté; Art Direction and Special Effects, but not Director. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Tuesday, October 13, 1:45 PM — 4:30 PM
1:45 PM
THE LOCKET (1946): Psychiatrist Dr. Blair (Brian Aherene) tries to convince a millionaire (John Willis) that his future bride (Laraine Day) is really Blair’s mentally unstable ex-wife, Nancy (Laraine Day). As Blair tells his tale to the soon to be groom, he reveals that he had received a similar visit by a high-strung artist (Robert Mitchum) after his marriage to Nancy. Is Blair telling the truth or is it the paranoid delusion of a mad man? Dir. John Brahm
3:15 PM
THE WOMAN ON PIER 13 (1950): Communists blackmail a shipping executive (Robert Ryan), previously a communist agitator, into sabotaging labor talks involving the union and shipping management. Dir. Robert Stevenson
Tuesday, October 13, 6:45 PM — 10:30 PM
6:45 PM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945): Gene Tierney gives an astonishing, and Oscar nominated performance as Ellen, an insanely jealous woman. Ellen will stop at nothing to destroy anyone that she perceives as a threat to her being first place in her husband Richards’s affections. The truth begins to dawn on Richard (Cornell Wilde) after a tragic “accident”. When Ellen realizes that Richard no longer loves her, she designs the ultimate revenge. Based on the novel by Ben Ames (a highly recommended read). Dir. John M. Stahl
8:45 PM
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955): This quirky black comedy reverses the whodunit genre as multiple residents of a Vermont hamlet (John Forsyth, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn and Mildred Natwick) believe themselves responsible for the titular Harry’s death and try to dispose of his body while misleading the local sheriff (Royal Dano). Jerry Mathers plays MacLaine’s precocious son. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 PM
GASLIGHT (1944): A newlywed (Ingrid Bergman) fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion where her aunt was murdered ten years earlier. Joseph Cotten stars as the handsome stranger who aids her. Charles Boyer stars as the handsome husband who terrorizes her. Angela Lansbury plays the pretty maid who may be in league with Boyer. Based on Patrick Hamilton’s Angel Street. The film won two Oscars, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Ingrid Bergman and Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White for Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky, and earned five more nominations. Dir. George Cukor
Friday, October 16, 5:00 PM — Saturday, October 17, 3:15 AM
5:00 PM
BECOMING HITCHCOCK: THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL (2024): This documentary, narrated by historian, critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, explores the development of Alfred Hitchcock's signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films, Blackmail (1929). Dir. Laurent Bouzereau
6:15 PM
BLACKMAIL (1929): Alice White (Anny Ondra) blows off a date with her steady beau Detective Frank Webber (John Longden) to see a charming young artist. The artist talks her into coming up to his studio and she kills him when he attempts to rape her. The next day, Frank discovers Alice’s glove at the crime scene and removes the evidence. A blackmailer (Donald Calthrop) who can place Alice at the scene of the crime then confronts the pair. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
7:45 PM
THE 39 STEPS (1935): When a beautiful double agent he was trying to help gets killed, and he stands accused of the crime, vacationing Canadian Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) must go on the run across the U.K. both to save himself and to stop a spy ring trying to steal top-secret information. Along the way he handcuffs himself to lovely lass (Madeline Caroll) who thinks he’s a bad’un. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
9:30 PM
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954): A man (Ray Milland) hires a friend to murder his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly). His plan goes awry when she stabs the would-be-murderer. Then he decides he can still get rid of her, by eroding her self-defense claim. Her ex-lover (Robert Cummings) tries to save her. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
11:30 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Foreign agents mistake suave and swinging advertising man Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) for a spy. He takes it on the lam and encounters a beautiful blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who may or may not be trusted. This film earned three Oscar nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color; Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen; and Best Film Editing. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
2:00 AM
EVA MARIE SAINT: LIVE FROM THE TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL (2014): Academy Award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint discusses her life and career at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival with the late, great Robert Osborne. Dir: Sean Cameron
Saturday, October 17, 11:00 AM
LURED (1947): In this period noir, Scotland Yard enlists the help of brassy American dancer Sandra (Lucille Ball) to find and trap the serial killer responsible for her friend’s murder. The victim was quitting the dance hall because she was going off with a man she met through a personal advertisement. Through the personals, Sandra meets an eccentric artist (Boris Karloff) and a charming playboy (George Sanders). Is one of them the killer? Dir. Douglas Sirk
Saturday, October 17, 5:00 PM
REAR WINDOW (1954): A wheelchair-bound photographer passes the time of his disability by spying on his neighbors. One day he witnesses a murder. Or does he? This iconic mystery was adapted from a story by Cornell Woolrich and earned a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination for screenwriter John Michael Hayes. The film earned three more Oscar nods for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Color and Best Sound, Recording. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday, October 17, 9:00 PM
Sunday, October 18, 7:00 AM
CHICAGO SYNDICATE (1955): In this Columbia B-noir, the FBI recruits an accountant (Dennis O'Keefe) to infiltrate the Chicago mob to take down a crime czar (Paul Stewart) for income-tax evasion. Dir. Fred F. Sears
Sunday, October 18, 5:00 PM — 9:15 PM
5:00 PM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1958): A British lawyer (Charles Laughton) gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder. Laughton’s wife Elsa Lanchester plays the nurse trying to keep him on his diet and off the cigars and brandy. This first-rate film features both one of Tyrone Power’s and one of Marlene Dietrich’s best performances Based on the play written by Agatha Christie, adapted from her own short story. The film was nominated for six Oscars: Best Picture, Arthur Hornblow Jr.; Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charles Laughton; Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Elsa Lanchester; Best Director, Billy Wilder; Best Sound, Recording, Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD); and Best Film Editing, Daniel Mandell. Dir. Billy Wilder
7:15 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950): Jane Wyman may be the star of the film, but Marlene Dietrich walks away with it. Wyman plays a mousey RADA student out to clear her crush, Jonathan (Richard Todd) suspected of murdering the husband of a glamorous actress-singer (Dietrich). Things get complicated when she falls for the detective, “Ordinary” Smith (Michael Wilding) who is searching for Jonathan. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, October 22, 1:15 PM
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947): The star and producer of a radio crime series, a rather nasty Claude Rains, commits the perfect crime to cover up some irregularities concerning his late niece’s estate, only to have his plans thwarted when his niece Constance Bennett is found alive and well. Audrey Totter plays her slutty cousin who stole her fiancé and now has designs on her husband. Based on the novel by Charlotte Armstrong. Dir. Michael Curtiz
Saturday, October 24, 11:00 AM
SAPPHIRE (1959): Sapphire, a young pregnant woman, is found murdered on Hampstead Heath. The police shortly discover that she was black but passed as white. The investigating officers (Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig) must deal with the racism in London at the time and within themselves as they search for her killer. Dir. Basil Dearden
Saturday, October 24, 9:00 PM
Sunday, October 25, 7:00 AM
THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL (1951): A young concentration camp survivor (Valentina Cortese) assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to live in the United States, only to discover one of her new relatives has murderous intentions. Never trust a man who tells you that orange juice will help you sleep. Dir: Robert Wise
Sunday, October 25, 8:45 AM — 12:30 PM
8:45 AM
EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (1944): A chance meeting on a train with a stranger leads psychiatrist Huntington "Hunt" Brailey (George Brent) into the orbit of a beautiful married woman (Hedy Lamarr) whom he believes is in danger and whose husband (Paul Lukas) claims that she’s insane. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
10:30 AM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967): A commercial artist unknowingly brings a stash of heroin into his home. A trio of bad guys (Richard Crenna, Jack Weston and Alan Arkin) trace the dope to him. They trick him into leaving the house, but, unfortunately, his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) is there alone. They proceed to first try to trick and then to terrorize her while she tries to figure out how to turn the tables on her unknown assailants. Hepburn earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her remarkable performance. Adapted from the Broadway hit written by Fredrick Knott and directed by Arthur Penn. Dir. Terence Young
Tuesday, October 27, 3:30 PM
THE UNGUARDED HOUR (1936): Lady Helen (Loretta Young) has eye-witness evidence that could save a man from the gallows. However, that would mean revealing that at the time of the alleged murder, she was paying off a blackmailer (Henry Daniell) who has indiscreet letters that her husband (Franchot Tone), a prosecutor for the Crown, had written. Will she let an innocent man die to protect her husband from his own scandalous past? Dir. Sam Wood
Tuesday, October 27, 8:45 PM — 12:30 AM
8:45 PM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946): Wealthy aspiring painter Kate (Bette Davis) falls for Bill (Glenn Ford). Her manipulative twin Pat, also played by Davis, steals him away. Kate tries to concentrate on her art after the pair marries, taking lessons from a talented but arrogant painter (Dane Clark). A twist of fate gives her the chance to impersonate her sister and fulfill her dream of being Bill’s wife, but things do not go as planned. Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
10:45 PM
THE STRANGER (1946): A small-town schoolteacher (Loretta Young) encounters a determined investigator (Edward G. Robinson) who suspects her new husband (Orson Welles) may be an escaped Nazi war criminal. Can he convince her before it’s too late? Dir. Orson Welles
Wednesday, October 28, 2:30 AM — 6:00 AM
1:15 AM
TEN LITTLE INDIANS (1965): This adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel (aka And Then There Were None), transplants the story of ten strangers brought to a modern house on an isolated English island to face death for their previously unpunished crimes of murder to an Austrian castle in the Alps. I have no idea why. Christopher Lee provided the pre-recorder gramophone voice of Mr. U. N. Owen, the strangers’ absent host. Dir. George Pollock
3:00 AM
DANGER SIGNAL (1945): After robbing and murdering his lover and staging her death to look like an accident, Ronnie Mason (Zachary Scott) moves to L.A. He poses as a writer and soon charms the daughter of his landlord (Faye Emerson). When her little sister (Rosemary DeCamp) inherits $25,000, he shifts his attentions to her. Dir. Robert Florey
4:30 AM
A NIGHT OF ADVENTURE (1944): Successful attorney Mark Latham (Tom Conway) finds himself in the awkward position of defending his wife Erica’s (Audrey Long) lover, artist Tony ( Louis Borel) when he is tried for murder. Based on Wilhelm Speyer’s 1934 play, A Hat, a Coat, a Glove” Dir. Gordon Douglas
Wednesday, October 28, 7:30 AM
SECOND CHANCE (1953): A crooked boxer (Robert Mitchum) falls for a gangster's moll (Linda Darnell) who is on the lam in Mexico. Jack Palance menaces them. Dir. Rudy Maté
Wednesday, October 28, 10:30 AM
THE SECRET FURY (1950): A mysterious figure interrupts the wedding ceremony of a concert pianist (Claudette Colbert) and an architect (Robert Ryan) claiming that she’s already married. When the betrothed pair investigates, they find evidence to back up his claim. Their search for the truth becomes clouded by her admission that she might have amnesia. Dir. Mel Ferrer
Wednesday, October 28, 3:15 PM
WHEN STRANGERS MARRY aka Betrayed (1944): A new bride (Kim Hunter) fears that the husband (Dean Jagger) that she hastily wed may be the silk-stocking murderer. Her ex-boyfriend (Robert Mitchum) helps her investigate. Dir. William Castle
Thursday, October 29, 3:00 PM
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967): In this critically acclaimed and deeply influential classic, the legendary bank robbers and lovers (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) embark on a crime spree during the Depression era Dust Bowl of the 1930s and become folk heroes. Their crimes quickly spiral from petty theft to bank robbery, but tensions arise between the couple and the other members of their gang—getaway driver C.W. (Michael J. Pollard), Clyde's older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and Buck's wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons). The film won two Oscars, Estelle Parsons for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Burnett Guffey for Best Cinematography, an additional eight nominations. Dir. Arthur Penn
Thursday, October 29, 8:45 PM — 11:30 PM
8:45 PM
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943): Producer Val Lewton’s take on Jane Eyre focuses on naïve nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) who is brought to the Caribbean by plantation owner Paul Holland (Tom Conway) to tend to his catatonic wife (Christine Gordon). His alcoholic brother (James Ellison) blames Paul for his wife’s condition. In one of the most uncomfortable scenes in cinematic history, a Calypso singer (Sir Lancelot) reveals an embarrassing family secret. Betsy is determined to cure her charge and comes to believe that she is a zombie. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
10:00 PM
BEDLAM (1946): Not a noir but we’re including it for our Val Lewton completist. Nell Bowen (Anna Lee), the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). In response, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter the courageous Nell and she displays her own manipulative skill to rid herself and the mistreated inmates of the sadistic Sims. Dir. Mark Robson
Friday, October 30, 3:00 AM
DR. CRIPPEN (1963): This Brit noir tells the real-life story of Dr. Crippen (Donald Pleasence) who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife (Coral Browne) but protested his innocence to the end. Crippen’s tale also inspired Robert Siodmak’s touching period noir The Suspect (1944). Dir. Robert Lynn
Friday, October 30, 3:30 PM
CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957): An American psychologist (Dana Andrews) travels to England to discredit the occult beliefs of the "Demon Cult." He's aided by a feisty schoolteacher (Peggy Cummins) whose father may have been killed by the Satanists. This suggestive and suspenseful sojourn into the Black Arts is one of the most spellbinding horror films ever made. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Friday, October 30, 5:00 PM
VINCENT PRICE: WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE (2026): More than a portrait of a horror legend, this is the story of an artist who defied categorization. He did it all, theatre, drama, noir, horror, sci fi, comedy—not to mention art historian and gourmet off screen. Through the reflections of family members, filmmakers, comedians, musicians, and cultural commentators, this documentary examines why the films of Vincent Price continue to resonate decades after his death. Dir. Matthew Miele
Saturday, October 31, 9:00 PM
Sunday, November 1, 7:00 AM
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943): Legendary B horror producer Val Lewton strays into noir territory with this suspenseful tale of a leopard on the prowl for human prey in a small New Mexican town. The night club performer (Jean Brooks) responsible for letting the leopard loose and her manager (Dennis O'Keefe), who dreamed up the stunt, began to suspect that a man, and not the leopard, is responsible for the deaths of several young women. Based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel, Black Alibi. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Saturday, October 31, 10:15 PM — November 1, 1:15 AM
10:15 PM
THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943): A young woman (Kim Hunter) leaves school to investigate the disappearance of her beautiful and mysterious older sister (Jean Brooks). She finds out some interesting facts, one, her sister was married and two, she was part of a satanic set. The husband (Hugh Beaumont), a poet (Erford Gage) and a psychiatrist (Tom Conway) aid her search for the truth about her sister. Produced by horror icon Val Lewton. Dir. Mark Robson
11:30 PM
CAT PEOPLE (1942): Produced by the legendary Val Lewton, this atmospheric and heartbreaking horror film tells the tale of Irina (Simone Simon), a beautiful and charming Serbian emigree who meets and marries all-American architect Oliver (Kent Smith). She is reluctant to consummate their marriage, and he turns to his friend and coworker Alice (Jane Rudolph) with tragic and frightening results. Producer Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur styles merge to produce one of the greatest films of the genre. Lensed by the noted noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Bette Davis stars in The Nanny on October 1
Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco in The Honeymoon Killers on October 1
Clouzot's Diabolique starring Simone Signoret on October 2
Robert Walker and Marion Lorne in Strangers on a Train on October 2
Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers on October 3
Robert Ryan in The Set-Up on October 3
Eddie Muller presents the rarely shown Loophole on the October 3-4 edition of NOIR ALLEY
James Gregory and Janet Leigh in The Manchurian Candidate on October 4
William Powell and Myrna Loy in Manhattan Melodrama on October 6
René Clair's adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None on October 6
Margaret Rutherford in Murder She Said on October 6
Cary Grant brings milk — Hitchcock's Suspicion on October 6
Faye Dunaway and Frank Sinatra in The First Deadly Sin on October 8
Existential noir in San Francisco — Point Blank screens October 9
Sterling Hayden in The Asphalt Jungle on October 10
Eddie Muller presents Crime Wave on the October 10-11 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Constance Towers stars in The Naked Kiss on October 11
Bette Davis x 2 — Dead Ringer on October 11
The Thin Man screens October 12
The Thin Man Goes Home on October 13
Gloria Grahame in The Thin Man Goes Home on October 13
George Sanders, Laraine Day and Joel McCrea in Foreign Correspondent on October 13
Robert Mitchum and Laraine Day in The Locket on October 13
Red Scare noir — The Woman on Pier 13 on October 13
Technicolor noir — Leave Her to Heaven screens October 13
Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight on October 15
Anny Ondra in Hitchcock's Blackmail on October 16
Hitchcock's The 39 Steps on October 16
Lucille Ball and Boris Karloff in Lured on October 17
Eddie Muller presents Chicago Syndicate on the October 17-18 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution on October 18
Marlene Dietrich stars in Stage Fright on October 18
Eddie Muller presents The House on Telegraph Hill on the October 24-25 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Hedy Lamarr stars in Experiment Perilous on October 25
Loretta Young and Franchot Tone in The Unguarded Hour on October 27
Orson Welles in The Stranger on October 27
Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott
in Danger Signal on October 28
Loretta Young and Jack Palance in Second Chance on October 28
Robert Mitchum and Kim Hunter in When Strangers Marry on October 28
Val Lewton's I Walked with a Zombie on October 29
Brit noir — Dr. Crippen screens October 30
Eddie Muller presents The Leopard Man
on the October 31-November 1 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Simone Signoret stars in Val Lewton's Cat People on October 31