Thursday, July 23rd TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Corrupted by a lord (George Sanders), Oscar Wilde's London aristocrat (Hurd Hatfield) stays young, but his portrait begins to age.
Kongo (1932)
The dictator of an African tribal colony descends into madness as he plots revenge against the man who crippled him.
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
An insane zoologist uses his trained ape to commit a series of grisly murders in turn-of-the-century Paris.
Freaks (1932)
Sideshow performers punish acrobat Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) for humiliating their friend, tiny Hans.
The Leopard Man (1943)
Authorities track an escaped circus leopard suspected of killing a number of peasants in a New Mexico town.
The Seventh Victim (1943)
A young woman (Kim Hunter) seeks her sister (Jean Brooks) and finds Greenwich Village satanists and Dante's Restaurant.
The Mad Genius (1931)
A crippled Russian ballet master (John Barrymore) tries to keep his pupil (Donald Cook) away from a girl (Marian Marsh).
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A New York reporter (John McGuire) and his fiancée (Margaret Tallichet) think an odd little man (Peter Lorre) in a scarf is a throat slasher.
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The condemned baron (Peter Cushing) recalls making a mute monster (Christopher Lee) in his own image.
The Mummy (1959)
British archaeologists defile the tomb of an Egyptian princess (Yvonne Furneaux) and her buried-alive lover (Christopher Lee).
King Kong (1933)
Shipped from mysterious Skull Island for display in the United States, a gigantic ape escapes from his bonds and carries a beautiful blonde (Fay Wray) to the top of the Empire State Building.
Cat People (1942)
A New York architect (Kent Smith) marries a Serbian artist (Simone Simon) who turns into a black panther when aroused.
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A lonely child (Ann Carter) lives in a dreamworld with her father's (Kent Smith) dead first wife (Simone Simon) as a playmate.
Isle of the Dead (1945)
A Greek general (Boris Karloff) in the 1912 Balkans finds his wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.
Bedlam (1946)
A portly lord (Billy House) sends an 18th-century London actress (Anna Lee) to a madman's (Boris Karloff) insane asylum.
Jeopardy (1953)
A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) lures a fugitive (Ralph Meeker) to help her husband (Barry Sullivan), trapped under a piling at low tide.
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Newlyweds (Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz) splurge on a trailer for their honeymoon, which includes Yosemite National Park.