Classic Films
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Wednesday, July 24. 2024
12:30 AM Surfin' Shorts (1960)
Three shorts feature surfers modeling swimwear, a look at the early days of skateboarding and surfing footage from Japan.
Dir: Bruce Brown. Cast: Hobie-MacGregor Surf Team, Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team, Peter Johnson
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC:
2:00 AM Surfing Hollow Days (1962)
Cameras follow the legends of surfing.
Dir: Bruce Brown Cast: Wayne Miyata, Bruce Brown, Bruce Brown
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC:
3:30 AM Big Wednesday (1978)
Matt, Jack and Leroy are surfers who begin the 1960s living at the beach, indulging their passion for their sport. But as the 60s progress and with the start of the Vietnam war, life becomes more complex for them. Jack is sent to Vietnam, and eventually the three friends begin to wonder if they will live to see Big Wednesday...
Dir: John Milius Cast: Gray Frederickson, Barbara Hale, Titus Napoleon
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
6:00 AM Bombers B-52 (1957)
A hard-nosed Air Force sergeant tries to keep his daughter from dating a hotshot flyer.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:00 AM Parrish (1961)
When his mother marries into the tobacco business, a young man struggles to find himself.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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10:30 AM Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:15 PM The Hanging Tree (1959)
A doctor saves a man from a hanging then tries to run his life.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Gary Cooper
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:15 PM Baby Doll (1956)
In Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, failing middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan has been married to the pretty 19-year-old virgin Baby Doll Meighan for two years. Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib in their decrepit mansion as Archie waits impatiently for Baby Doll's 20th birthday, which is just a few days away...
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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5:15 PM Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
True life story of Robert Stroud, who spent fifty-three years in Alcatraz prison and became a world-famous ornithologist.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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What's on Tonight: Director Stanley Kubrick
8:00 PM The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay. But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry, about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
9:30 PM Paths of Glory (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:15 PM A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Scientists use mind-control experiments to turn a gang leader against violence.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Runtime: 137 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
1:45 AM Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue cheats his way to the top of 18th-century British society.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Runtime: 187 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 AM California Mail (1936)
A singing cowboy has to fight some crooked characters to win a pony express contract.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Smoke The Wonder Horse
Runtime: 55 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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