TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 21: March Malice

[CBHagman]

Vile behavior is on display this March, and not just at the White House. Settle in with some Junior Mints for a truly outstanding exhibition of badness.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2017

12:00 AM
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, THE (1955)

A bogus preacher marries an outlaw's widow in search of the man's hidden loot.
Dir: Charles Laughton Cast: Robert Mitchum , Shelley Winters , Lillian Gish .
BW-93 mins, CC,

1:45 AM
FACE IN THE CROWD, A (1957)

A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Andy Griffith , Patricia Neal , Anthony Franciosa .
BW-126 mins, CC,

4:00 AM
WESTWORLD (1973)

A future fantasy park turns deadly when robot workers go on a killing spree.
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Richard Benjamin , Yul Brynner , James Brolin .
C-89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Keir Dullea , Gary Lockwood , William Sylvester .
C-149 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 AM
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1932)

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Fredric March , Miriam Hopkins , Rose Hobart .
BW-96 mins, CC,

9:45 AM
INVISIBLE MAN, THE (1933)

A scientist's experiments with invisibility turn him into a madman.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Claude Rains , Gloria Stuart , William Harrigan .
BW-72 mins, CC,

11:00 AM
M (1931)

The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter Lorre , Theo Lingen , Otto Wernicke .
BW-110 mins,

1:00 PM
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (1982)

A father returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child.
Dir: Terry Hughes Cast: George Hearn , Angela Lansbury , Cris Groenendall .
C-141 mins, CC,

3:30 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star's career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Bette Davis , Anne Baxter , George Sanders .
BW-138 mins, CC,

6:00 PM
LITTLE FOXES, THE (1941)

An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis , Herbert Marshall , Teresa Wright .
BW-116 mins, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MARCH MALICE

8:00 PM
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

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, CC,

10:00 PM
DETOUR (1945)

A hitchhiker takes on a dead man's identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal , Ann Savage , Claudia Drake .
BW-68 mins, CC,

11:19 PM
CAVE EXPLORERS (1957)

In this short film, a group of Austrian speleologists explore a newly-discovered cave.
Dir: Heinz Scheiderbauer
BW-8 mins,

11:30 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)

An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck , Robert Mitchum , Polly Bergen .
BW-106 mins, CC,

1:30 AM
POINT BLANK (1967)

A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty.
Dir: John Boorman Cast: Lee Marvin , Angie Dickinson , Keenan Wynn .
C-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:06 AM
RELAXED WIFE, THE (1957)

A short industrial film that seeks to help working men and their wives deal with life's little problems.
C-13 mins,

3:30 AM
WHITE HEAT (1949)

A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney , Virginia Mayo , Edmond O'Brien .
BW-113 mins, CC,

5:30 AM
LITTLE CAESAR (1930)

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Douglas Fairbanks , Glenda Farrell .
BW-78 mins, CC,

[longship]

1. Too many great films this day -- Watch them all!

Some stand-outs!

2001 -- universally the top of everybody's list of best sci-fi film.

M -- Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre. Enough said?

All About Eve -- fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.

Double Indemnity -- Wow! What a film! Make sure you catch this one.

Detour -- I've never seen this one, however it's on nearly everybody's top film noir list.

Late night has classic crime dramas beginning with Cape Fear and ending with Little Caesar which in this case will be the end of Rico, as well as another wonderful day of TCM film splendor.