This will be the final week of cool horror, sci-fi, fantasy and b-
films playing in this great month on TCM! :) My VCR has been humming
on record all month and has another week+ to do so! :) This final
Karloff Tuesday is AWESOME!
Check out the lineup starting this Thursday through Halloween (next
Friday), and I also included what appears to be a "horror encore"
from TCM on November 3 and 4!
Here's the lineup, all times are EST:
Thursday, Oct 23
1:30 AM Logan's Run (1976) A future police officer uncovers the
deadly secret behind a society that worships youth. Michael York,
Peter Ustinov, Farrah Fawcett-Majors. D: Michael Anderson. C 119m.
LBX
8:00 PM Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Scientists track a
prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks
them. Julie Adams, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning. D: Jack Arnold.
BW 79m. CC
9:30 PM Wait Until Dark (1967) A blind woman fights against drug
smugglers who've invaded her home. Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin,
Richard Crenna. D: Terence Young. C 108m. LBX CC
11:30 PM Dial M For Murder (1954) A straying husband frames his wife
for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her. Grace Kelly, Ray
Milland, Robert Cummings. D: Alfred Hitchcock. C 105m. CC
Friday, Oct 24
1:30 AM Gaslight (1940) A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the
house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she's going mad.
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell. D: Thorold
Dickenson. BW 84m. CC
3:00 AM Gaslight (1944) A newlywed fears she's going mad when
strange things start happening at the family mansion. Charles Boyer,
Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury. D: George Cukor. BW 114m. CC DVS
6:15 AM Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932) A British lord raised by apes
kidnaps a beautiful noblewoman exploring Africa with her father.
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith. D: W.S. Van
Dyke II. BW 100m. CC DVS
8:00 PM Portrait of Jennie (1948) An artist discovers his gift when
he falls for a beautiful ghost. Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel
Barrymore. D: William Dieterle. BW 86m. CC
9:30 PM The Haunting (1963) A team of psychic investigators moves
into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Julie Harris,
Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. D: Robert Wise. BW 112m. LBX CC
11:30 PM The Canterville Ghost (1944) A ghost who died a coward
tries to inspire U.S. GIs to become heroes. Charles Laughton,
Margaret O'Brien, Robert Young. D: Jules Dassin. BW 96m. CC
Saturday, Oct 25
2:00 AM Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932) Classic tale of a
young traveller finding himself in the sinister castle. Julian West,
Maurice Schultz, Rena Mandell. D: Carl Theodor Dreyer. BW 72m.
12:15 PM Jason And The Argonauts (1963) The legendary hero enlists
the help of the gods to steal the golden fleece. Todd Armstrong,
Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman. D: Don Chaffey. C 104m. LBX
6:00 PM Spellbound (1945) A psychiatrist tries to help the man she
loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious. Ingrid Bergman,
Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov. D: Alfred Hitchcock. BW 118m. CC
Sunday, Oct 26
2:00 PM 2010 (1984) In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-
Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter. Roy
Scheider, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea. D: Peter Hyams. C 116m. LBX CC
8:00 PM The Devil's Bride (1968) Small town Satanists lure an
innocent brother and sister into their coven. Christopher Lee,
Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi. D: Terence Fisher. C 96m. LBX CC
10:00 PM The Devil's Own (1966) Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec
McCowen, Ann Bell D: Cyril Frankel C 91m.
Monday, Oct 27
12:00 AM The Eyes of the Mummy (1918) An Egyptian priest terrorizes
the Englishman who eloped with his priestess. Pola Negri, Emil
Janning, Henri Liedke. D: Ernst Lubitsch. BW 64m.
1:15 AM I Walked With A Zombie (1943) A nurse in the Caribbean
resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with
the woman's husband. Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. D:
Jacques Tourneur. BW 69m. CC DVS
2:30 AM Cat People (1942) A newlywed fears that an ancient curse
will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast. Simone Simon, Kent Smith,
Tom Conway. D: Jacques Tourneur. BW 73m. CC DVS
3:45 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944) A lonely child creates an
imaginary playmate with surprisingly dangerous results. Kent Smith,
Simone Simon, Julia Dean. D: Robert Wise, Gunther Fritsch. BW 70m. CC
5:00 AM The Case of the Black Cat (1936) Perry Mason looks into a
trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat. Ricardo Cortez, Jane
Bryan, Harry Davenport. D: William McGann. BW 66m.
Tuesday, Oct 28
8:00 PM The Raven (1935) An insane plastic surgeon plots to kill
people in ways inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Boris Karloff, Bela
Lugosi, Irene Ware. D: Louis Friedlander. BW 61m. CC
9:15 PM The Black Cat (1934) A Satanist faces off with the vengeful
man whose wife and daughter he has stolen. Bela Lugosi, Boris
Karloff, David Manners. D: Edgar G. Ulmer. BW 65m.
10:30 PM The Body Snatcher (1945) To continue his medical
experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber. Boris
Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi. D: Robert Wise. BW 78m.
Wed, Oct 29
12:00 AM British Intelligence (1940) A lady spy uses a British
nobleman's home in her undercover work for the Nazis. Boris Karloff,
Margaret Lindsay, Maris Wrixon. D: Terry Morse. BW 61m.
1:15 AM Five Star Final (1931) An unscrupulous newspaper editor
searches for headlines at any cost. Edward G. Robinson, H.B. Warner,
Marian Marsh. D: Mervyn LeRoy. BW 89m. ****Check out Karloff's
sleazy character in this one!****
8:00 PM Freaks (1932) A lady trapeze artist violates the code of the
side show when she plots to murder her midget husband. Wallace Ford,
Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles. D: Tod Browning. BW 65m. CC
9:30 PM The Devil Doll (1936) A Devil's Island escapee shrinks
murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls. Lionel
Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton. D: Tod Browning. BW 78m.
11:00 PM The Wolf Man (1941) A British nobleman undergoes a
startling transformation when he's bitten by a gypsy werewolf. Lon
Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy. D: George Waggner. BW 70m.
CC
Thursday, Oct 30
12:30 AM Gorilla Man (1942) A wounded soldier discovers his hospital
is secretly run by the Nazis. John Loder, Ruth Ford, Richard Fraser.
D: D. Ross Lederman. BW 64m.
2:00 AM Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932) A British lord raised by apes
kidnaps a beautiful noblewoman exploring Africa with her father.
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith. D: W.S. Van
Dyke II. BW 100m. CC DVS
8:00 PM The Unknown (1927) In this silent film, an escaped killer
pretends to be a sideshow's armless wonder. Lon Chaney, Joan
Crawford, Norman Kerry. D: Tod Browning. BW 50m.
9:00 PM Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) In this silent film, a circus
clown falls for a young innocent in love with another. Lon Chaney,
Loretta Young, Nils Asther. D: Herbert Brenon. BW 74m.
10:30 PM Ace Of Hearts (1921) In this silent film, a revolutionary
is ordered to kill his romantic rival. Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John
Bowers. D: Wallace Worsley. BW 75m.
Friday, Oct 31 (NOTE: This carries over into Nov 1, but because
it's all halloween night, I left it just for Oct 31)
12:00 AM He Who Gets Slapped (1924) In this silent film, a scientist
flees his tragic past to become a circus clown. Lon Chaney, Norma
Shearer, John Gilbert. D: Victor Seastrom. BW 72m.
1:15 AM The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923) In medieval France, a
deformed bell-ringer gives sanctuary to a beautiful gypsy accused of
witchcraft. Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry. D: Wallace
Worsley. BW 98m.
3:00 AM The Phantom of the Opera (1925) A hideously deformed man
haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin,
Norman Kerry. D: Rupert Julian. BW & C 90m.
4:00 PM Strangers On A Train (1951) A man's joking suggestion that
he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly. Farley
Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman. D: Alfred Hitchcock. BW 103m.
6:00 PM Dial M For Murder (1954) A straying husband frames his wife
for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her. Grace Kelly, Ray
Milland, Robert Cummings. D: Alfred Hitchcock. C 105m. CC
8:00 PM Frankenstein (1931) A crazed scientist creates a living
being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain. Boris
Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke. D: James Whale. BW 70m. CC
9:30 PM Bride of Frankenstein (1935) To save his wife, Baron
Frankenstein must build a mate for his monster. Boris Karloff, Colin
Clive, Elsa Lanchester. D: James Whale. BW 75m. CC
11:00 PM Son Of Frankenstein (1939) The legendary scientist's son is
tempted to resume his father's horrible experiments. Boris Karloff,
Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone. D: Rowland V. Lee. BW 99m. CC
1:00 AM Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1969) Peter Cushing, George
Pravda, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones D: Terence Fisher C 101m. LBX
3:00 AM M (1931) The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose
crimes are attracting too much police attention. Peter Lorre, Otto
Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens. D: Fritz Lang. BW 111m.
5:00 AM The Return Of Doctor X (1939) A murderer returns from the
grave with a thirst for blood. Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Dennis
Morgan. D: Vincent Sherman. BW 63m. CC
AND then, a horror encore in November:
Monday, Nov 3
8:00 AM The Wolf Man (1941) A British nobleman undergoes a startling
transformation when he's bitten by a gypsy werewolf. Lon Chaney, Jr.,
Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy. D: George Waggner. BW 70m. CC
Tuesday, Nov 4
12:00 AM Dracula (1931) The legendary bloodsucker stakes his claim
on a British estate in search of new blood. Bela Lugosi, Helen
Chandler, Dwight Frye. D: Tod Browning. BW 74m.
1:30 AM Frankenstein (1931) A crazed scientist creates a living
being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain. Boris
Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke. D: James Whale. BW 70m. CC
Wow....whew! Awesome! The Chaney night is going to be great, so
many cool films! :)
Mark