*All times are PT. Please check your local listings to confirm dates and times.
Saturday, March 1, 6:00 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947): In this seminal noir, an upright district attorney (Robert Young) investigates a seemingly motiveless murder. As he digs further the prime suspect (George Cooper) seems less and less likely to have done it and an ugly motivation begins to appear. Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan play a couple of GIs caught up in the case, one trying to clear the suspect and the other trying to frame him. Gloria Grahame earned a best supporting actress nomination for her role as an embittered taxi dancer. Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Saturday, March 1, 5:00 PM
THE LOST WEEKEND (1945): Ray Milland won the Oscar for his performance as Don Birnam, an alcoholic writer with writer’s block who reaches the lower depths while on a bender. The story cuts between the present and the past, trying to explain what’s led him down the path of self-destruction despite the love of his brother (Phillip Terry) and his girlfriend (Jane Wyman). The film also won the Oscars for Picture, Director and Screenplay. Based on the groundbreaking novel by Charles R. Jackson Dir. Billy Wilder
Saturday, March 1, 11:15 PM PT
KEY LARGO (1948): A returning veteran (Humphrey Bogart) tangles with a ruthless gangster (Edward G. Robinson) during a hurricane while falling for his dead war buddy’s widow (Lauren Bacall). Claire Trevor steals the film with her Oscar winning performance as the gangster’s alcoholic and emotionally abused girlfriend. Dir. John Huston
Sunday, March 2, 1:15 AM
JOHNNY EAGER (1942): Handsome racketeer Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor) seduces the D.A.'s daughter (Lana Turner) for revenge but then falls in love with her. Van Heflin steals the film as Eager’s devoted and alcoholic best friend; his performance rightfully garnered him an Oscar nomination. Edward Arnold plays the D.A. Sharp eyed viewers will recognize this as one of the films used in Carl Reiner’s noir parody Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982). Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Sunday, March 2, 7:00 AM
THE LETTER (1940): Bette Davis gives a masterful performance as a married woman claiming self-defense in the murder of a fellow Britisher on her husband’s rubber plantation in Malay. This succeeds both as a film noir and an incisive look into colonialism. Herbert Marshall gives a deeply empathetic performance as the loving husband. Watch for Victor Sen Yung as a solicitous lawyer’s clerk. Based on a play by Somerset Maugham, dramatized from his own short story. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Picture; Best Actress in a Leading Role, Bette Davis; Best Actor in a Supporting Role, James Stephenson; Best Director, William Wyler; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Tony Gaudio; Best Film Editing, Warren Low; Best Music, Original Score, Max Steiner. Dir. William Wyler
Monday, March 3, 3:00 AM & Friday, March 28, 9:30 PM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946): Wealthy aspiring painter Kate (Bette Davis) falls for Bill (Glenn Ford). Her manipulative twin Pat, also played by Davis, steals him away. Kate tries to concentrate on her art after the pair marries, taking lessons from a talented but arrogant painter (Dane Clark). A twist of fate gives her the chance to impersonate her sister and fulfill her dream of being Bill’s wife, but things do not go as planned. Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Tuesday, March 4, 3:00 AM – 8:45 AM PT
3:00 AM
DANGEROUSLY THEY LIVE (1949): A doctor (John Garfield) tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents. Dir. Robert Florey
4:30 AM
THE FALLEN SPARROW (1943): A Spanish Civil War veteran (John Garfield) journeys to New York to investigate the death of his policeman friend. He suspects the suicide is in fact a murder. Nazis, as well as a beautiful woman (Maureen O'Hara), complicate his search for the truth. Based on the novel by pulp great Dorothy B. Hughes who also wrote the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946). Dir. Richard Wallace
6:15 AM
BLACKWELL’S ISLAND (1939): A crusading reporter (John Garfield) gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. Dir. William McGann
7:30 AM
EAST OF THE RIVER (1940): Joe Lorenzo (John Garfield) comes home to his adoptive mother with his girlfriend and convicted forger (Brendan Marshall) in tow to see his adoptive brother Nick (William Lundigan) graduate from college. His family doesn’t know he just got out of San Quentin. Nick falls for Laurie while Joe deals with the gangsters that framed him. Dir. Alfred E. Green
Wednesday, March 5, 5:00 PM – Thursday, March 6, 11:45 AM
No noirs but we’re listing the titles for your convenience:
| 5:00 PM | BABY FACE (1933) |
| 6:30 PM | LADIES OF LEISURE (1930) |
| 8:15 PM | THE MIRACLE WOMAN (1931) |
| 10:00 PM | FORBIDDEN (1932) |
| 11:45 PM | NIGHT NURSE (1932) |
| 1:00 AM | THE PURCHASE PRICE (1932) |
| 2:15 AM | SO BIG (1932) |
| 3:45 AM | ILLICIT (1931) |
| 5:15 AM | LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT (1933) |
| 6:30 AM | GAMBLING LADY (1934) |
| 7:45 AM | EVER IN MY HEART (1933) |
| 9:00 AM | THE WOMAN IN RED (1935) |
| 10:15 AM | HIS BROTHER'S WIFE |
Friday, March 7, 11:30 AM
THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER (1949) A young boy receives a rocking horse and through riding it begins to unerringly picking racehorse winners. He forms a syndicate with Bassett, the new handyman and a former jockey, and his uncle. His spendthrift parents are delighted by his winnings but continue their extravagant spending, pressuring the boy who is being negatively affected by his efforts to continue. Based on a story by D. H. Lawrence. Dir. Anthony Pelissier
Friday, March 7, 5:00 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Foreign agents mistake suave and swinging advertising man Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) for a spy. He takes it on the lam and encounters a beautiful blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who may or may not be trusted. This film earned three Oscar nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color; Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen; and Best Film Editing. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Friday, March 7, 11:45 PM
PURPLE NOON (1960): This lush adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s renowned crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley stars a young and extremely handsome Alain Delon as the titular character. Phillipe Greenleaf hire Tom Ripley to travel to Italy to persuade his son Dickie to return home to San Francisco to take over the family business. Tom becomes enamored with Dickie’s bon vivant lifestyle and devises a plan to take it for himself. Dir. René Clément
Saturday, March 8, 9:30 PM & Sunday, March 9, 7:00 AM
THE VELVET TOUCH (1948): Prominent Broadway actress Valerie Stanton (Rosalind Russell) accidentally kills her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames) during an argument. She manages to slip away from the crime scene but finds she can’t run away from her conscience. Noir icon Sidney Greenstreet plays the detective investigating the case. Noir stalwart Claire Trevor plays Stanton’s theatrical rival who’s arrested for the crime. Dir. John Gage
Saturday, March 15, 12:15 AM – 3:00 AM
12:15 AM
THE 39 STEPS (1935): When a beautiful double agent he was trying to help gets killed, and he stands accused of the crime, vacationing Canadian Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) must go on the run across the U.K. both to save himself and to stop a spy ring trying to steal top-secret information. Along the way he handcuffs himself to lovely lass (Madeline Caroll) who thinks he’s a bad’un. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
1:45 AM
THE GAY FALCON (1942): Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), the debonair sleuth known as "The Falcon," forsakes his crime-solving and skirt-chasing efforts for a Wall Street brokerage in order to appease his fiancée, Elinor Benford (Anne Hunter). However, it doesn’t last. The police arrest his assistant Goldy (Allen Jenkins) and he has to find the real culprit. Legendary noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca lensed the film. Wendy Barrie appears in the film, a bit of gossip for you, she was reportedly engaged to and had a daughter named Carolyn with the infamous gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Dir. Irving Reis
Saturday, March 15, 1:15 PM – 5:00 PM
1:15 PM
ONCE A THIEF (1965): French superstar Alain Delon's first leading role in an English-language film highlights this ultra-hip 1960s heist yarn, shot entirely on location in San Francisco. The debonair Delon plays an ex-con settled into domestic semi-bliss with wife Ann-Margret, but when dogged cop Van Heflin puts the finger on him for a job he didn't pull, Delon has no choice but to throw in with his brother Jack Palance (!!!) on an actual robbery. Based on a novel by local mystery man Zekial Marko, who also acts in the film and provides exceptional '60s-hipster dialogue. Dir. Ralph Nelson
3:15 PM
BADLANDS (1973): After a charismatic James Dean wannabe (Martin Sheen) kills her dad, a baton-twirling teen (Sissy Spacek) decides to join him on a shooting spree through Montana's Badlands. It’s loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killings of the 1950's which also inspired Bruce Springsteen’s album Nebraska and the key back story in Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners (1996). Dir. Terrence Malick
Saturday, March 15, 9:00 PM & Sunday, March 16, 7:00 AM
GUN CRAZY (1949): In this justly legendary noir, a gun obsessed reform school graduate (John Dall) meets the girl of his dreams, a circus sharpshooter (Peggy Cummins). They get married in a fever, but she gets fed up living without the finer things of life. The two go on a crime spree, but her blood lust had fatal consequences. Eddie Muller called it “the most audacious work of “outlaw cinema” made during the classic Hollywood era.” He also wrote an entire book about it. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Sunday, March 16, 11:15 AM
SUSPICION (1941): A handsome gambler Johnny Aysgarth (Cary Grant) pursues the shy and wealthy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine). He courts and marries her. After the honeymoon she discovers unsettling things about his character. She becomes increasingly suspicious of him when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky (Nigel Bruce) dies mysteriously. Based on Anthony Berkeley Cox’s outstanding novel After the Fact. Seriously, read the book. Fontaine won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work in the film. Composer Franz Waxman was nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture. The film also earned a nomination for Best Picture. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Monday, March 17, 3:00 PM
ODD MAN OUT (1947): Carol Reed’s intense manhunt thriller won the inaugural “Best Film” prize from the British Academy of Film Awards, and it remains one of the most highly regarded movies ever made in the United Kingdom. James Mason portrays beleaguered fugitive Johnny McQueen, an Irish Nationalist (the filmmakers were forbidden from using the name “Irish Republican Army”) on the lam after escaping from prison. While still in hiding, Johnny is roped into committing a heist that goes fatally wrong. Wounded, he caroms through the Belfast night trying to make it safely back to his guardian angel Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan), who has fallen for the escaped convict. Can Johnny navigate a nocturnal nightmare of danger and deceit? The stellar supporting cast, drawn mostly from Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, includes Cyril Cusack, Robert Newton, Dan (Conal Cochran) Dan O’Herlihy and William (Dr. Who) Hartnell. The cinematography by Robert Krasker is as good as his legendary work with director Reed on The Third Man. An all-time classic! Dir. Carol Reed
Tuesday, March 18, 7:00 PM – 11:30 PM
7:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967): In a small Mississippi town, racist Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) mistakenly accuses African American Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) of the recent murder of a prominent Northern industrialist. When Gillespie discovers that Tibbs is a Homicide detective from Philadelphia, he enlists his help to solve the murder. This groundbreaking neo-noir won five Oscars, including Best Picture. Dir. Norman Jewison
9:00 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) A crazed, aging star (Bette Davis) torments her sister (Joan Crawford) in a decaying Hollywood mansion. This beautiful Hollywood gothic noir features a duet of superbly fearless performances by two legendary actresses. Nominated for five Oscars, but only one win, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White for Norma Koch Dir. Robert Aldrich
Wednesday, March 19, 5:00 AM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950): Jane Wyman may be the star of the film, but Marlene Dietrich walks away with it. Wyman plays a mousey RADA student out to clear her crush, Jonathan (Richard Todd) suspected of murdering the husband of a glamorous actress-singer (Dietrich). Things get complicated when she falls for the detective, “Ordinary” Smith (Michael Wilding) who is searching for Jonathan. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Wednesday, March 19, 5:00 PM – 11:30 AM
All hail the queen!
5:00 PM
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944): Barbara Stanwyck—in a platinum blonde wig—plays Phyllis Dietrichson—the consummate femme fatale who lures insurance salesman and all-around chump Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) into a plot involving murder and insurance fraud. His friend, and insurance adjuster, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) smells a rat. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Best Director; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Picture; Best Sound, Recording; and Best Writing, Screenplay. Dir. Billy Wilder
7:00 PM
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948): Barbara Stanwyck gives a tour-de-force performance (Oscar-nominated) as a bedridden woman who, through crossed phone wires, overhears a murder being planned. This engrossing extension of Lucile Fletcher’s legendary 22-minute radio drama is pure noir, tracking an ill-fated romance that spirals into deceit, despair, and death. Featuring Burt Lancaster in one of his earliest roles and richly atmospheric camerawork by the great Sol Polito. Famous, yet still underrated! Dir. Anatole Litvak
8:45 PM
NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950): Barbara Stanwyck gives a heartrending performance in this noir, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel I Married a Dead Man. Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) finds herself unmarried, pregnant and ruthlessly abandoned by her lover, Steve Morley (Lyle Bettger). A bizarre twist of fate involving a train accident gives her a second chance, when she’s mistaken for the bride of a now deceased wealthy man. His family takes her in, she and the dead man’s brother (John Lund) tentatively fall in love and then—Steve appears—threatening her (and her child’s) new found security. Dir. Mitchell Leisen
10:30 PM
WITNESS TO MURDER (1954): An interior decorator (Barbara Stanwyck) fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. The cops may not believe her, but the murderer (George Sanders) sure does. Shot by ace cinematographer John Alton. Dir. Roy Rowland
12:00 AM
CRY WOLF (1947): A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) visits her late husband's family to claim her inheritance and soon finds herself in conflict with her scientist brother-in-law (Errol Flynn). Things take a gothic twist when she discovers agonizing cries coming from his secret laboratory. Richard Basehart, as always, raises the film out of its slightly silly story with his supporting performance. Dir. Peter Godfrey
1:30 AM
JEOPARDY (1953): A suburban housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) on holiday in rural Mexico with her son and husband, desperately seeks help. Her husband is trapped in pilings on the shore of the ocean and the tide is coming in. She encounters an escaped criminal (Ralph Meeker) and will do anything in exchange for his aid. “How long has it been since you talked to a woman?” Dir. John Sturges
2:45 AM
THE MAN WITH A CLOAK (1951): In this historical noir, a mystery man (Joseph Cotton) tries to help a young innocent (Leslie Caron) escape a murderous housekeeper (Barbara Stanwyck). Based on a story by John Dickson Carr. Dir. Fletcher Markle
4:15 AM
CLASH BY NIGHT (1952): In this film noir social realism hybrid, an embittered and world-weary woman (Barbara Stanwyck) seeks escape from her life of hard knocks in marriage, only to fall for her husband's amoral best friend (Robert Ryan). The film features a small, early role for Marilyn Monroe. Based on a play by the ever-ponderous Clifford Odets. Dir. Fritz Lang
6:15 AM
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947): A sociopathic artist (Humphrey Bogart) decides that he would like to murder his wife in order to marry a flirtatious younger woman (Alexis Smith). However, the current Mrs. Carroll is Barbara Stanwyck, so you know this isn’t going to be so easy, even though Babs is both uncharacteristically slow on the uptake and rather wimpy in this one. Dir. Peter Godfrey
8:00 AM
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946): Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to win back her lost love, Sam Masterson (Van Heflin). Her scion husband (Kirk Douglas), a four-star sot, objects. Lizbeth Scott plays the down on her luck girl that falls for Sam and further complicates things. Writer John Patrick earned an Oscar nod for Best Writing, Original Story. Dir. Lewis Milestone
10:00 AM
CRIME OF PASSION (1957): A journalist (Barbara Stanwyck) gives up her career to marry a cop (Sterling Hayden) and be a housewife in the burbs. Things go badly when she barters sex with her husband's sleazy boss (Raymond Burr) to further hubby's career. So worth watching if only for the scene where she lambastes the other oh so good 50's suburban wives at a hen party. Hard to feel sorry for the men in this film: Who would think Stanwyck would be happy as a suburban wife and who would think it is a good idea to double cross her? Dir. Gerd Oswald
Friday, March 21, 7:30 AM – 3:15 PM
7:30 AM
BEDLAM (1946): Not a noir but we’re including it for our Val Lewton completist. Nell Bowen (Anna Lee), the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). In response, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter the courageous Nell, and she displays her own manipulative skill to rid herself and the mistreated inmates of the sadistic Sims. Dir. Mark Robson
9:00 AM
POSSESSED (1947): In this excellent examination of obsession, Joan Crawford gives a terrific—and Oscar nominated—performance as a married woman whose passion for a former love (Van Heflin) drives her mad. Raymond Massey plays her compassionate husband. Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
11:00 AM
DEAD RINGER (1964): In this late era noir, Bette Davis stars as twins, the rich and mean Margaret and the other poor and put-upon spinster Edith meet after many years at the funeral of Margaret’s husband Frank. Edith snaps when she discovers from Margaret why Frank dumped her and married Margaret instead. Edith shoots her sister, takes her place and tries to make “Edith’s” death look like a suicide. Edith's boyfriend, police sergeant Jim Hobbson (Karl Malden) and Margaret's lover Tony (Peter Lawford) soon complicates things. Dir. Paul Henreid
1:00 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) A crazed, aging star (Bette Davis) torments her sister (Joan Crawford) in a decaying Hollywood mansion. This beautiful Hollywood gothic noir features a duet of superbly fearless performances by two legendary actresses. Nominated for five Oscars, but only one win, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White for Norma Koch Dir. Robert Aldrich
Friday, March 21, 9:15 PM
THE WRONG MAN (1956): In this gritty documentary style noir, victims of a robbery misidentify a musician (Henry Fonda) for the culprit, destroying the lives of him and his wife (Vera Miles). This film was based on the true story of Manny Ballestro and used extensive locations shooting in New York City. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday, March 22, 9:00 PM & Sunday, March 23, 7:00 AM
CLASH BY NIGHT (1952): In this film noir social realism hybrid, an embittered and world-weary woman (Barbara Stanwyck) seeks escape from her life of hard knocks in marriage, only to fall for her husband's amoral best friend (Robert Ryan). The film features a small, early role for Marilyn Monroe. Based on a play by the ever-ponderous Clifford Odets. Dir. Fritz Lang
Sunday, March 23, 3:30 AM
THE SPIRITUALIST a.k.a. The Amazing Mr. X (1948): John Alton’s stunning cinematography elevates to exhilarating heights this clever story of a psychic (Turhan Bey) insinuating himself into the moody cliffside mansion of a wealthy widow (Lynn Bari) by convincing her, and her less impressionable daughter (Cathy O’Donnell), that he can communicate with the dead. Filled with clever visual gags and tricky sleight of hand, and featuring a smooth-as-silk turn by Bey as the sophisticated charlatan. One of the most satisfying “B” films of the era. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus
Sunday, March 23, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
9:00 AM
LURED (1947): In this period noir, Scotland Yard enlists the help of brassy American dancer Sandra (Lucille Ball) to find and trap the serial killer responsible for her friend’s murder. The victim was quitting the dance hall because she was going off with a man she met through a personal advertisement. Through the personals, Sandra meets an eccentric artist (Boris Karloff) and a charming playboy (George Sanders). Is one of them the killer? Dir. Douglas Sirk
11:00 AM
KIND LADY (1935): A wealthy art collector (Aline MacMahon) takes in a young painter (Basil Rathbone) and his ill wife. When his extended family shows up, things get ugly, and she finds herself held captive in her own home. Remade in 1951 with Ethel Barrymore in the lead role. Dir. George B. Seitz
Wednesday, March 26, 5:00 PM – Thursday, March, 8:30 AM
No noirs but we’re listing the titles for your convenience:
| 5:00 PM | all i desire (1953) |
| 6:30 PM | THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (1956) |
| 8:15 PM | EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) |
| 10:15 PM | EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (1949) Wealthy and married Jessie Bourne (Barbara Stanwyck) finds herself attracted to ex-police officer turned author Mark Dwyer but wants to remain loyal to her husband (James Mason). Unfortunately, he’s playing around with his ex-flame Isabel (Ava Gardner). Isabel tells Jessie that she has every attention of taking away her husband. Then Isabel winds up dead and Jessie falls under suspicion for the murder. Low rent noir goddess Beverly Michaels does a wonderful turn a trashy gun moll in a small but pivotal role. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy |
| 12:15 AM | THESE WILDER YEARS (1956) |
| 2:00 AM | TO PLEASE A LADY (1950) |
| 2:15 AM | ANNIE OAKLEY (1935) |
| 3:45 AM | THE MOONLIGHTER (1953) |
| 5:15 AM | TROOPER HOOK (1957) |
Thursday, March 27, 5:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968): A bored business tycoon (Steve McQueen) turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway) assigned to bring him in. Hard to decide which of the leads is prettier. Dir. Norman Jewison
Thursday, March 27, 9:00 PM – Friday, March 28, 11:00 PM
9:00 PM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950): A hoodlum and ex-con (Sterling Hayden) hopes for one last big score that will enable him to go home to his farm in Kentucky. He falls in with a gang of small-time crooks plotting an elaborate jewel heist. Of course, you can never go home again. A young Marilyn Monroe plays a small but juicy part. The film was nominated for four Oscars including a Best Supporting Actor nod for Sam Jaffe as the mastermind undone by his passion for beautiful girls. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. Dir. John Huston
11:00 PM
5 AGAINST THE HOUSE (1955): For a prank, four college buddies (Guy Madison, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews), all Korean War veterans, plan to rob a Reno casino- just to prove that it can be done. All, save one, plan on returning the money. Sexy Kim Novak spices up the proceedings. Dir. Phil Karlson
Friday, March 28, 3:30 PM
MURDER AT THE GALLOP (1963): Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) suspects foul play when two accidental deaths in a family in quick succession leave behind a considerable fortune for the three remaining members. Robert Morley plays one of her chief suspects. Very loosely based on based on Agatha Christie’s After the Funeral which featured Hercule Poirot and not Miss Marple. Dir. George Pollock
Saturday, March 29, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
1:30 PM
THE BRIBE (1949): A sultry singer (Ava Gardner) tries to tempt a federal agent (Robert Taylor) from the straight-and-narrow while he investigates an arms surplus racket on a small South American island. Charles Laughton and Vincent Price menace him. Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
3:15 PM
THE VERDICT (1946): Scotland Yard Superintendent George Edward Grodman (Sydney Greenstreet) is fired after an investigation he headed ends in the execution of an innocent man. He teams up with artist Victor Emmric (Peter Lorre) to solve a new murder to ruin his arrogant replacement (George Coulouris). Dir. Don Siegel
Saturday, March 29, 9:15 PM & Sunday, March 30, 7:00 AM
COUNT THE HOURS (1953) The midnight murder of a rancher and his wife leaves circumstantial evidence pointing the finger of guilt toward a married couple, George Braden (John Craven) and his wife Ellen (Teresa Wright). Defense attorney Doug Madison (Macdonald Carey) races against time to save the life of George after losing his court case. Dir. Don Siegel
April 1, 2:00 AM
FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE a.k.a. Door to Door (1961): Johnny Cash (who also wrote and sang the titles song) stars in this late era noir as a dangerous criminal Johnny Cabbot tasked by his partner (Vic Tabyback) to kidnap a bank president’s wife. Things get complicated when the banker reveals that he has a mistress he’d like to trade in his wife in for, and kidnapper Cabbot is a perv. Dir. Bill Kern
George Cooper and Gloria Grahame in Crossfire on March 1
Robert Taylor stars in Johnny Eager on March 2
Gale Sondergaard and Bette Davis in The Letter on March 2
Glenn Ford and Bette Davis in A Stolen Life on March 3
Maureen O'Hara and John Garfield in The Fallen Sparrow on March 4
John Garfield stars in East of the River screening March 4
Barbara Stanwyck in the Pre-Code Ladies They Talk About on March 6
John Mills coaches John Howard Davies in The Rocking Horse Winner on March 7
Marie Laforêt and Alain Delon in Purple Noon on March 7
Eddie Muller presents The Velvet Touch on the March 8-9 edition of NOIR ALLEY 
Lucie Mannheim in The Thirty Nine Steps screening March 15
George Sanders as The Gay Falcon on March 15
Alain Delon in San Francisco — Once a Thief on March 15
Eddie Muller presents Gun Crazy on the March 15-16 edition of NOIR ALLEY 
Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in Hitchcock's Suspicion on March 16
James Mason stars in Odd Man Out on March 17
Winner of five Oscars, In the Heat of the Night screens March 18
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in Double Indemnity on March 19
Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number on March 19
Barbara Stanwyck and Joseph Cotton in The Man with a Cloak on March 19
Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck in The Second Mrs. Carroll on March 19
Barbara Stanwyck in Crime of Passion on March 19
Joan Crawford on the set of Possessed screening March 21
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane on March 21
Hitchcock's The Wrong Man screens March 21
Eddie Muller presents Clash by Night on the March 22-23 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Turhan Bey in The Spiritualist on March 23
Lucille Ball and George Sanders in Lured on March 23
Barbara Stanwyck annd James Mason in East Side, West Side on March 26
Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair on March 27
John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle on March 28
Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in Murder at the Gallup on March 28
Don Siegel's The Verdict screens March 29
Eddie Muller presents Count the Hours on the March 29-30 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Johny Cash stars in Five Minutes To Live on April 1