TCM Thrillers (April 12 – 18)

April 10, 2010
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This week:
* Monday and Tuesday—Can you sing and dance? Evidently Hollywood was once filled with folks who could.
* Tuesday—Johnny is a little too eager.
* Wednesday—A femme gets fatale.
* Thursday—A carrot munches on people for a change.
* FridayWatch that cow! It might have people in it.
* Saturday—When it comes to murder, turnabout is not fair play.
* Sunday—Musicians traumatized, start cross-dressing.

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Monday—April 12th

Musical comedies practically all day.

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Tuesday—April 13th

8:00 PM—High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.

11:45 PM—Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA’s daughter for revenge, then falls in love.

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Wednesday—April 14th

5:30 AM—Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.

9:00 AM—The Bribe (1949)
A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.

10:45 AM—Conspirator (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

3:15 PM—Times Square Lady (1935)
A gambler’s assistant helps the boss’s daughter fight off a crooked lawyer.

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Thursday—April 15th

6:15 AM—The Mysterious Island (1929)
A scientist builds an underwater ship to search for a legendary race of fish men.

8:00 AM—One Million B.C. (1940)
An exiled caveman finds love when he joins another tribe.

9:30 AM—The Thing from Another World (1951)
The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space.

11:00 AM—The Time Machine (1960)
A turn-of-the-century inventor sends himself into the future to save humanity.

12:45 PM—War of the Planets (1965)
Martians with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth.

2:30 PM—Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders.

4:15 PM—The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
A World War I U-boat takes a wrong turn and discovers a lost world of dinosaurs and cavemen.

6:00 PM—Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
A mad scientist kidnaps an alien teen with amazing powers.

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Friday—April 16th

12:00 PM—Rage in Heaven (1941)
A jealous man plots to fake his death and incriminate his wife’s suspected lover.

8:00 PM—The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
A dumb cop tries to thwart a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

9:30 PM—Top Secret! (1984)
An Elvis-like singer falls for a French resistance fighter during World War II — maybe.

11:15 PM—Airplane! (1980)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane has a drinking problem and can’t get over Macho Grande.

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Saturday—April 17th

1:00 AM—The Silencers (1966)
In the first Matt Helm adventure, the over-sexed secret agent comes out of retirement to defend a nuclear testing ground.

9:00 AM—The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
The famed sleuth tries to stop Professor Moriarty from stealing the Crown Jewels.

10:30 AM—News Hounds (1947)
When they get newspaper jobs, the Bowery Boys take on a sport-fixing mob.

8:00 PM—Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.

10:00 PM—They Live by Night (1949)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.

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Sunday—April 18th

4:00 AM—Edge of Doom (1950)
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

12:00 PM—Some Like It Hot (1959)
Two musicians on the run from gangsters masquerade as members of an all-girl band.

Mike Gray

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