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Saturday Classic Movies

Here are highlights of the scheduled programming on SCCtv (Comcast Ch 28 and Wave Broadband Ch19)
Remember, we simulcast our broadcast right here on our Web site, www.seattlecolleges.tv.

Thanks to Igor, of Movie Marvels fame, for putting the schedule together! 
Remember, it is always subject to change, depending on Igor's mood.

April 15

Poster for King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
1h 17min
Action, Adventure, Drama
Released 26 July 1937 (USA)
Starring Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas
Written by H. Rider Haggard, Michael Hogan
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Poster for Mr. Robinson Crusoe
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
1h 16min
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released 19 August 1932 (USA)
Starring Douglas Fairbanks, William Farnum, Earle Browne
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Written by Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas J. Geraghty
After making a bet, Steve strands himself on uninhabited island.

April 22

Poster for The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
1h 36min
Mystery, Thriller
Released 1 November 1938 (USA)
Starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Ethel Lina White, Sidney Gilliat
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Poster for The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps (1935)
1h 26min
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released 1 August 1935 (USA)
Starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by John Buchan, Charles Bennett
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.

April 29 

Poster for The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
1h 56min
Drama, Romance
Released 3 April 1955 (Japan)
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Directed by Richard Brooks
Written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.
Poster for Life with Father
Life with Father (1947)
1h 58min
Comedy
Released 13 September 1947 (USA)
Starring William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Written by Clarence Day, Donald Ogden Stewart
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

May 6

Poster for At War with the Army
At War with the Army (1950)
1h 33min
Comedy, Musical, War
Released 17 January 1951 (USA)
Starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin
Directed by Hal Walker
Written by James B. Allardice, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.
Poster for The Flying Deuces
The Flying Deuces (1939)
1h 9min
Comedy, War
Released 3 November 1939 (USA)
Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Written by Ralph Spence, Charley Rogers
Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.

May 13

Poster for The St. Louis Bank Robbery
The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
1h 29min
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released 10 September 1959 (USA)
Starring Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke
Directed by Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Written by Richard T. Heffron
A gang's plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well-founded suspicions.
Poster for Please Murder Me!
Please Murder Me! (1956)
1h 18min
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Released March 1, 1956 (United States)
Starring Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran
Directed by Peter Godfrey
Written by Al C. Ward, Donald Hyde, Ewald André Dupont
A lawyer suffers a guilt complex after getting a murder acquittal for his client, and then finding out she did commit the crime.

May 20

Poster for Under Capricorn
Under Capricorn (1949)
1h 57min
Crime, Drama, Romance
Released October 8, 1949 (United States)
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by John Colton, Margaret Linden, Helen Simpson
A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.
Poster for Sabotage
Sabotage (1936)
1h 16min
Crime, Thriller
Released January 11, 1937 (United States)
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Joseph Conrad, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.

May 27

Poster for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
1h 56min
Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Released 13 September 1946 (USA)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Written by Robert Rossen, John Patrick
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Poster for Detour
Detour (1945)
1h 8min
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Released 25 January 1946 (Canada)
Starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Written by Martin Goldsmith, Martin Goldsmith
Chance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail.