TCM Thrillers (April 26 – May 2)

April 24, 2010
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This week:
* Monday—The bicycle thief falls into the snake pit on the road to Zanzibar.
* Tuesday—The death of a scoundrel doesn’t faze Gilda.
* Wednesday—A party girl has a tip on a dead jockey, while the crowd roars.
* Thursday—The desert fox is rarely found under the gazebo.
* Friday—An obliging young lady lives in the house across the bay.
* Saturday—The brotherhood of Satan will never give a sucker an even break.
* Sunday—After his meal at the Chinese restaurant, Mr. Lucky should give heed to the fortune cookie.

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Monday—April 26th

4:00 AM—Knight without Armour (1937)
A British spy tries to get a countess out of the new Soviet Union.

6:00 AM—The Bicycle Thief (1948)
A working man’s livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.

10:00 AM—Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
An ambitious young man sets out to kill everyone who stands between him and a fortune.

2:00 PM—Road to Zanzibar (1941)
A lady con artist scams two out-of-work entertainers into financing a safari.

4:00 PM—The Snake Pit (1948)
A young woman tries to recover her sanity in a corrupt mental institution.

———-

Tuesday—April 27th

8:00 AM—Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.

10:00 AM—Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.

2:00 PM—Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

4:00 PM—The Cobweb (1955)
Inmates and staff at a posh asylum clash over love and lunacy.

———–

Wednesday—April 28th

1:30 AM—The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
An outlaw forces his reformed buddy to lead him to buried loot.

4:45 AM—Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
A grounded flier gets mixed up with smugglers in Madrid.

6:30 AM—Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.

9:45 AM—The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)
A ship’s captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

2:45 PM—The Crowd Roars (1938)
A fighter’s hard-drinking father gets his son mixed up with the underworld.

———-

Thursday—April 29th

10:45 AM—The Gazebo (1959)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.

10:30 PM—The Desert Fox (1951)
Following his work with the Afrika Korps, Field Marshall Rommell joins in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

———-

Friday—April 30th

6:15 AM—Obliging Young Lady (1941)
A lawyer’s secretary tries to protect a controversial client from prying eyes at an over-crowded hotel.

8:00 PM—Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

9:30 PM—The House Across the Bay (1940)
An aircraft designer falls for an imprisoned gangster’s wife.

11:15 PM—Nocturne (1946)
A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.

———-

Saturday—May 1st

12:45 AM—Johnny Angel (1946)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.

2:15 AM—Incubus (1965)
An evil spirit plots to snare the soul of a courageous and good man.

3:45 AM—The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
A vacationing family is trapped in the desert by aging devil worshippers.

9:00 AM—Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
A filmmaker tries to sell a script about con artists taking on the Russian millionaires of Mexico.

10:30 AM—Angels Alley (1948)
An ex-con cousin of one of the Bowery Boys gets them into trouble with the law.

10:15 PM—Some Like It Hot (1959)
Two musicians on the run from gangsters masquerade as members of an all-girl band.

———-

Sunday—May 2nd

12:30 AM—The Fortune Cookie (1966)
A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.

12:00 PM—Mr. Lucky (1943)
A gambling-ship owner is out to fleece a beautiful society woman, but falls in love.

4:00 PM—The Black Swan (1942)
When he’s named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean.

5:30 PM—Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
A blue-collar worker’s encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man.

8:00 PM—Dragonwyck (1946)
A farm girl signs on as governess in a gloomy mansion.

Mike Gray

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