Wednesday, November 12th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Macao (1952)
An ex-GI (Robert Mitchum), a singer (Jane Russell) and a detective (William Bendix) circle an American gangster in a Chinese port.
Berlin Express (1948)
International train passengers (Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin) comb postwar Frankfurt for a politician abducted by Nazis.
Journey Into Fear (1942)
A Turkish police chief (Orson Welles) puts a marked U.S. naval engineer (Joseph Cotten) on a freighter with Nazi spies.
La bête humaine (1938)
A homicidal train engineer (Jean Gabin) lusts for a stationmaster's (Fernand Ledoux) wife (Simone Simon).
Background to Danger (1943)
A U.S. spy (George Raft) goes by train to Turkey and joins Russian agents against a Nazi spy (Sydney Greenstreet).
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Five convicts escape from Devil's Island to join the Free French bombing squadron fighting the Nazis during WWII.
Pépé le moko (1937)
A homesick Paris gangster (Jean Gabin) hiding in the Casbah of Algiers emerges for a woman (Mireille Balin), to his downfall.
North by Northwest (1959)
Mistaken identity spurs a foreign spy (James Mason) to pursue an innocent New Yorker (Cary Grant), all the way to Mount Rushmore.
The Ipcress File (1965)
Crook-turned-secret-agent Harry Palmer tries to find a missing scientist. Based on characters created by Len Deighton.
Gorky Park (1983)
A Moscow detective's investigation of a bizarre triple murder leads him to run-ins with the KGB and an American tycoon.
Fail-Safe (1964)
The president (Henry Fonda) cannot stop a Strategic Air Command plane accidentally cued to bomb Moscow.
The 39 Steps (1935)
Spies and the police chase a handcuffed couple (Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll) who cannot stand each other.
Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Helen Broderick) and her detective boyfriend (James Gleason) think the butler did it.
The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason (Ricardo Cortez) explains in court what happened to a millionaire who changed his last will.