The American Culture

This week:
* Monday—William Holden finds it tough playing a violin with boxing gloves.
* Tuesday—Victor McLaglen turns stoolie.
* Wednesday—Loretta Young marries a Nazi, which union Edward G. aims to dissolve.
* Thursday—Janet Leigh is on her toes behind the Iron Curtain.
* Saturday—Walter Pidgeon would love to drop the hammer on a certain mustachioed paper hanger.
* Sunday—George C. Scott plays hide-and-seek with a serial killer.

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Monday—January 4th

9:45 PM—Golden Boy (1939)
A crooked promoter lures a young violinist to give up music for boxing.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-99 mins, TV-PG

11:30 PM—All My Sons (1948)
A veteran discovers his father cut costs on wartime military equipment.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians. Dir: Irving Reis. BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Tuesday—January 5th

3:00 AM—The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

5:00 AM—D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler. Dir: Rudolph Mate. BW-84 mins, TV-14

8:00 PM—The Informer (1935)
An Irish rebel turns in his best friend to earn passage money to America, then has to dodge the suspicions of his cohorts.
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster. Dir: John Ford. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Wednesday—January 6th

2:15 AM—L. A. Confidential (1997)
Detectives clash while investigating political corruption.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey. Dir: Curtis Hanson. C-138 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 AM—Play Girl (1932)
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Cast: Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Norman Foster. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-60 mins, TV-G

10:30 AM—Heroes for Sale (1933)
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-72 mins, TV-G

1:15 PM—The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-95 mins, TV-PG

6:30 PM—Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Thursday—January 7th

12:15 AM—The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Janet Leigh, Ethel Barrymore. Dir: George Sidney. BW-119 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:45 AM—Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
After being betrayed, a gangster hangs out in a settlement house while seeking revenge.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland. Dir: Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin. BW-93 mins, TV-G

1:30 PM—The Baron of Arizona (1950)
A swindler forges documents to make himself the owner of an entire state.
Cast: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Samuel Fuller. BW-97 mins, TV-PG

10:30 PM—Beat the Devil (1954)
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones. Dir: John Huston. BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Friday—January 8th

Elvis Presley films all day.

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Saturday—January 9th

8:00 AM—Brighton Rock (1947)
A small-time hood tries to cover up his murder of a rival.
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley. Dir: John Boulting. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:00 AM—Man Hunt (1941)
An Englishman goes behind enemy lines to assassinate Hitler.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:00 PM—Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

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Sunday—January 10th

8:30 AM—It’s a Wonderful World (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee. Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II. BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC

10:00 PM—The Hospital (1971)
A harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman, and a serial killer.
Cast: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes. Dir: Arthur Hiller. C-103 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

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—Mike Gray