The highlight of the month is a Charlie Chaplin festival on the 16th, with commentary from The Dardenne Brothers, Jim Jarmusch and Bernardo Bertolucci. Watch for the camp classic Reefer Madness on the 19th and a public service short on the 20th about why you should give your wife tranquilizers. Also of note is Dick Cavett's TV interview with Kate Hepburn on the 2nd. I remember this from its original airing in the 1970s and the feisty Miss Hepburn pulled no punches.
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Below are my recommendations, all times Eastern.
4/2
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger , Ruth Roman , Robert Walker .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:00 PM
A free-spirited convict refuses to conform to chain-gang life.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman , George Kennedy , J. D. Cannon .
C-126 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
A recent college graduate has an affair with his neighbor's wife, then falls for their daughter.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Anne Bancroft , Dustin Hoffman , Katharine Ross .
C-106 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
An aging couple's liberal principles are tested when their daughter announces her engagement to a black doctor.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy , Sidney Poitier , Katharine Hepburn .
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Katherine Hepburn and Dick Cavett |
4:15 AM
Katharine Hepburn appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired September 14, 1973.
C-68 mins, TV-14, CC,
5:30 AM
Katharine Hepburn appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired October 2, 1973.
C-70 mins, TV-14, CC,
4/3
2:00 PM
Motorcycle-riding delinquents take over a small town.
Dir: Laslo Benedek Cast: Marlon Brando , Mary Murphy , Robert Keith .
BW-79 mins, TV-14, CC,
3:30 PM
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando , Karl Malden , Lee J. Cobb .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 PM
A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Marlon Brando , Jean Simmons , Frank Sinatra .
C-149 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
Shakespeare's tale of the warrior king who learns the meaning of heroism during a daring invasion of France.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Michael Warre , Robert Newton .
BW-137 mins, TV-PG,
10:30 PM
The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Eileen Herlie , Basil Sydney .
BW-154 mins, TV-14, CC,
1:15 AM
A hunchbacked madman plots to make himself king of England.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Sir Cedric Hardwicke , Ralph Richardson .
C-158 mins, TV-PG,
4:00 AM
A famed general convinces himself that his wife is unfaithful.
Dir: Stuart Burge Cast: Laurence Olivier , Frank Finlay , Maggie Smith .
C-166 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
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| Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Perkins in "Goodbye Again" |
4/4
6:00 PM
A 40-year-old woman swaps her sophisticated lover for a young law student.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Yves Montand , Anthony Perkins .
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis , Nigel Bruce , Rhys Williams .
BW-114 mins, TV-G, CC,
10:00 PM
A Welsch mining family faces the struggles of life together.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Walter Pidgeon , Maureen O'Hara , Anna Lee .
BW-119 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4/6
5:45 PM
Two bounty hunters join forces to bring an outlaw to justice.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood , Lee Van Cleef , Gian Maria Volontè .
BW-132 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A British military officer enlists the Arabs for desert warfare in World War I.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Peter O'Toole , Alec Guinness , Anthony Quinn .
C-227 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
4:45 AM
This anti-porn documentary shows a floodtide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity
C-31 mins, TV-MA,
4:45 AM
A disturbing animated short that details the effects of alcohol on the body and mind.
C-10 mins,
4:45 AM
Short film that details "internal forces" that damage a nation, such as drugs, gambling, and unwed pregnant women.
BW-26 mins, TV-PG,
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| Barbara Stanwyck and Fred McMurray in "Double Indemnity" |
4/7
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray , Barbara Stanwyck , Edward G. Robinson .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC,
5:30 PM
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Paul Newman , Barbara Rush , Alexis Smith .
BW-137 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Gregory Peck , Michael Chekhov .
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:00 PM
A cruel man's wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse , Vera Clouzot , Simone Signoret .
BW-117 mins, TV-MA,
4/9
12:00 PM
An arrogant stock-car racer ignores his family.
Dir: Leonard Horn Cast: Robert Blake , Charlotte Rampling , Patrick O'Neal .
C-89 mins, TV-14,
1:30 PM
An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , George Segal .
BW-131 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM
A novice schoolteacher faces delinquent students and apathetic administrators in a tough inner city high school.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Sandy Dennis , Patrick Bedford , Eileen Heckart .
C-124 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Jean Renoir's "Woman on the Beach" |
4/10
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress's blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Joan Bennett , Robert Ryan , Charles Bickford .
BW-71 mins, TV-G, CC,
10:30 PM
Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Laurence Olivier , Diane Lane , Thelonious Bernard .
C-110 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
4/12
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
A bored boy enters a fantasy world where letters and numbers are at war.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc , Daws Butler , Candy Candido .
C-89 mins, TV-G, CC,
6:15 PM
A World War I U-boat takes a wrong turn and discovers a lost world of dinosaurs and cavemen.
Dir: Kevin Connor Cast: Doug McClure , John McEnery , Susan Penhaligon .
C-91 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4/14
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
A substitute teacher changes the lives of the slum children in his class.
Dir: James Clavell Cast: Sidney Poitier , Christian Roberts , Judy Geeson .
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 PM
A young woman tries to recover her sanity in a corrupt mental institution.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Olivia deHavilland , Mark Stevens , Leo Genn .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC,
5:30 PM
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood , Warren Beatty , Pat Hingle .
C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston , Tim Holt .
BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:15 PM
A husband whose wife left him looks for new love in Europe.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Walter Huston , Ruth Chatterton , Paul Lukas .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:00 AM
The story of an androgynous jewel thief, based on a novel by Japan's master of suspense, Edogawa Rampo.
Dir: Kinji Fukasaku Cast: Akihiro Maruyama , Isao Kimura , Junya Usami .
C-101 mins, Letterbox Format
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| Chaplin Festival! |
4/16
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
In this silent film, an overworked farmhand dreams of marrying the farmer's daughter.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin , Edna Purviance , Albert Austin .
BW-29 mins, TV-G,
8:00 AM
In this silent film, a lost soul in the Yukon seeks love and wealth.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin Cast: Mack Swain , Tom Murray , Georgia Hale .
BW-72 mins, TV-G,
9:15 AM
In this silent film, the Little Tramp joins a circus to hide from the police.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin , Merna Kennedy , Betty Morrissey .
BW-72 mins, TV-G,
10:30 AM
The Tramp struggles to live in a modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin Cast: Charlie Chaplin , Paulette Goddard , Henry Bergman .
BW-87 mins, TV-G,
12:00 PM
Filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Darenne share their impression of Charlie Chaplin's classic Modern Times.
C-26 mins, TV-G, CC,
12:30 PM
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin , Paulette Goddard , Jack Oakie .
BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:45 PM
A European king loses his money while stranded in the U.S.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin , Dawn Addams , Maxine Audley .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG,
4:30 PM
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch discusses his impressions of Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York.
C-27 mins, TV-G, CC,
5:00 PM
A broken-down comic sacrifices everything to give a young dancer a shot at the big time.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin , Claire Bloom , Nigel Bruce .
BW-138 mins, TV-G, CC,
7:30 PM
Director Bernardo Bertolucci shares his impressions of Charlie Chaplin's classic Limelight.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin , Claire Bloom , Sydney Chaplin .
C-27 mins, TV-G, CC,
8:00 PM
The son of a ruined millionaire and a horsewoman becomes a clown and restores their fortune.
Dir: Pierre Etaix Cast: Pierre Etaix , Philippe Dionnet , Luce Klein .
BW-92 mins,
9:45 PM
A young woman waits and waits for her delayed husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Dir: Pierre Etaix Cast: Lucien Fregis , Laurence Lignigres , Pierre Etaix .
BW-15 mins,
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| Oh No! It's Reefer Madness! |
4/19
6:00 AM
6:00 AM
Drug dealers lure a pair of young innocents into marijuana addiction.
Dir: Louis Gasnier Cast: Dorothy Short , Kenneth Craig , Lillian Miles .
BW-65 mins, TV-14,
4:00 AM
A young single mother and her co-worker try to unionize the milll where they work.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Sally Field , Beau Bridges , Ron Leibman .
C-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
4/20
1:45 PM
True story of folk singer Woody Guthrie, who rose to the top while fighting for the rights of migrant farm workers.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: David Carradine , Ronny Cox , Melinda Dillon .
C-148 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
5:45 AM
The modern miracle of tranquilizers helps working men and their wives deal with life's little problems.
C-13 mins, TV-G,
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| Milos Forman's "Loves of a Blond" |
4/21
2:15 AM
A young woman in a small Czech town sleeps with a musician. When she doesn't hear from him, she packs up and arrives on his doorstep in the big city.
Dir: Milo¿ Forman Cast: Hana Brejchová , VladimÃr Pucholt , VladimÃr Men¿Ãk .
BW-90 mins,
4/23
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Shirley Temple .
BW-128 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:00 PM
A scientist's experiments with invisibility turn him into a madman.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Claude Rains , Gloria Stuart , William Harrigan .
BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC,
4/25
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
Cowboys compete in a grueling horse-riding marathon.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Gene Hackman , Candice Bergen , James Coburn .
C-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
4/27
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Rock Hudson , James Dean .
BW-201 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds in "The Tender Trap" |
4/28
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Frank Sinatra , Debbie Reynolds , David Wayne .
C-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
A medieval knight challenges Death to a chess game to save himself and his friends.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Max von Sydow , Bengt Ekerot , Gunnar Björnstrand .
BW-97 mins, TV-PG,
4:00 AM
A devout coward vows to assassinate Napoleon in the name of love.
Dir: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen , Diane Keaton , Georges Adet .
C-85 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
4/30
2:45 AM
2:45 AM
A femme fatale lures an unemployed man into helping her with a criminal scheme.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: Glenn Ford , Janis Carter , Barry Sullivan .
BW-82 mins, TV-PG,
4:15 AM
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she's married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Rita Hayworth , Glenn Ford , George Macready .
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC,
