Friday, September 5th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Wildcat Bus (1940)
A broke playboy (Charles Lang) runs a limousine racket until he falls for a rival's daughter (Fay Wray).
Society Lawyer (1939)
A gangster plots to kill his ex-girlfriend (Virginia Bruce) and frame his lawyer (Walter Pidgeon), her new boyfriend.
Her Kind of Man (1946)
A gangster's (Zachary Scott) singer girlfriend (Janis Paige) meets a Broadway columnist (Dane Clark) she likes better.
Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)
The beautiful Linda strikes up a romance with Marty, the seemingly charming owner of a gambling joint. It isn't long before she realizes that he has his hands in more sinister enterprises, including murder.
Lady Gangster (1942)
A radio-station owner (Frank Wilcox) tries to reform a small-town girl (Faye Emerson) who has fallen in with mobsters.
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
A crime-gang leader (Joan Crawford) enters a hospital for an eye operation and falls in love with her doctor (Dennis Morgan).
Three on a Match (1932)
Bad luck happens to a rich man's (Warren William) wife (Ann Dvorak) and her two girlfriends from school.
Second Chance (1953)
A hit man (Jack Palance) catches a gangster's ex-girlfriend (Linda Darnell) and her boxer lover (Robert Mitchum) on a mountain cable car.
Show Boat (1936)
A Mississippi riverboat captain's (Charles Winninger) daughter (Irene Dunne) marries a roving gambler (Allan Jones).
Island in the Sun (1957)
A planter (James Mason) runs for office against a labor leader (Harry Belafonte) in the British West Indies.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
A man (Harry Belafonte), a woman (Inger Stevens) and a bigot (Mel Ferrer) roam the city of New York, deserted after a nuclear war.
A Patch of Blue (1965)
A blind white teenager (Elizabeth Hartman), sheltered by her sleazy mother (Shelley Winters), falls in love with a kind young black man (Sidney Poitier).
The Grasshopper (1970)
A British Columbia teenager (Jacqueline Bisset) dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
A newsman (James Franciscus) works with a blind puzzle-solver (Karl Malden) to catch a killer with mixed-up chromosomes.
Blue Monday (1938)
The Captain takes over the housekeeping from Mama with disastrous results.
Believe It or Not #5 (1932)
Robert L. Ripley explores oddities, including a shrunken head, an iron execution chamber and entertaining tombstone descriptions.
Central Park (1932)
Young lovers (Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford), an escaped lion and gangsters use New York's Central Park.