TCM Thrillers (February 22 – 28)

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This week:
* Monday—Cary Grant doesn’t think imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
* Tuesday—Being dead is a minor inconvenience.
* Wednesday—Tim Holt = Oedipus?
* Thursday—Burt Lancaster is on the run.
* Friday—Patrick McGoohan wants a torpedo up the spout.
* Saturday—Rock Hudson gets—and loses—his second chance.
* Sunday—Hope and Crosby are on the road.

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Monday—February 22nd

12:30 AM—To Catch a Thief (1955)
A retired cat burglar fights to clear himself of a series of Riviera robberies committed in his style.
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-106 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 AM—Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:00 PM—Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Tuesday—February 23rd

11:45 AM—Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
A glamorous ghost helps a henpecked husband save his wife from gold-digging friends.
Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

6:15 PM—Topper (1937)
A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.
Cast: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC

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Wednesday—February 24th

8:45 AM—The Fallen Idol (1948)
A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey. Dir: Carol Reed. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC

10:30 AM—The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli. Dir: Carol Reed. BW-104 mins, TV-14, CC

12:30 PM—The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Cast: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

2:00 PM—The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt. Dir: John Huston. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

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Thursday—February 25th

8:00 PM—The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-102 mins, TV-14, CC

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Friday—February 26th

3:00 AM—Ice Station Zebra (1968)
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Cast: Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown. Dir: John Sturges. C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:45 AM—An American Dream (1966)
A man suspected of murdering his wife has to elude the police and a gang of hoodlums.
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker. Dir: Robert Gist. C-103 mins, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM—The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Janet Leigh, Ethel Barrymore. Dir: George Sidney. BW-119 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:45 PM—The Whisperers (1967)
An elderly woman tries to cope with her predatory son and husband.
Cast: Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Avis Bunnage. Dir: Bryan Forbes. BW-106 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

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Saturday—February 27th

12:45 AM—Serpico (1973)
A rookie risks his life going undercover to ferret out police corruption.
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe. Dir: Sidney Lumet. C-130 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 AM—Seconds (1966)
A bored rich man buys a new life from a secret organization.
Cast: Rock Hudson, Will Geer, John Randolph. Dir: John Frankenheimer. BW-106 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

8:45 AM—Dick Tracy (1990)
The intrepid comic strip detective fights off a ruthless gangster and his seductive girlfriend.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino. Dir: Warren Beatty. C-105 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:30 AM—The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury. Dir: John Frankenheimer. BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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Sunday—February 28th

2:00 PM—Road to Morocco (1942)
Two castaways get mixed up in an Arabian nightmare when they’re caught between a bandit chief and a beautiful princess.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. Dir: David Butler. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

3:30 PM—The Road to Utopia (1946)
Two song-and-dance men on the run masquerade as killers during the Alaskan gold rush.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. Dir: Hal Walker. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC

—Mike Gray