TCM Thrillers (March 29th – April 4th)

March 27, 2010
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This week:
* Monday—Buster Keaton becomes a … detective?
* Tuesday—A rare example of a film noir musical.
* Wednesday—An account of a no-account count.
* Thursday—Ginger Rogers gets tough.
* Friday—Bogie can’t resist the Resistance.
* Saturday—Robert Mitchum finds out who his friends are.
* Sunday—A straight cop goes crooked to straighten out a crooked system.

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Monday—March 29th

12:00 AM—Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
In this silent film, a movie projectionist dreams himself into a mystery movie.

6:00 AM—Doctor X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.

8:00 PM—Monkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

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Tuesday—March 30th

6:00 AM—Bluebeard (1944)
A 19th-century Parisian puppeteer is killing the young women he employs.

9:00 AM—Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.

2:30 PM—The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.

4:00 PM—The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.

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Wednesday—March 31st

4:30 PM—Dark Purpose (1964)
An American tourist falls in love with an Italian count who harbors a deadly secret.

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Thursday—April 1st

2:30 PM—Tight Spot (1955)
A district attorney tries to get a hardboiled woman to testify against the mob.

6:00 PM—I Thank a Fool (1962)
A woman once convicted of euthanasia gets a job caring for her prosecutor’s wife.

8:00 PM—Adam’s Rib (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.

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Friday—April 2nd

2:15 AM—To Have and Have Not (1944)
A skipper-for-hire’s romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.

2:30 PM—Sing Your Worries Away (1942)
A daffy songwriter inherits a fortune but has to fight off gangsters to get it.

8:00 PM—Fun on a Weekend (1947)
Penniless strangers team up to fleece the rich.

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Saturday—April 3rd

8:00 PM—Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.

10:00 PM—Point Blank (1967)
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty.

11:45 PM—The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
An aging hood turns police informer, with deadly results.

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Sunday—April 4th

1:30 AM—Serpico (1973)
A rookie risks his life going undercover to ferret out police corruption.

3:45 AM—Thieves Like Us (1974)
A young bank robber falls for an innocent girl and starts planning an escape from crime and the law.

Mike Gray

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