TCM Schedule for Saturday, October 31 --- THE ESSENTIALS: MAD SCIENTISTS

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31 Saturday



6:00 AM The Woman In White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate. Cast: Gig Young, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet. Dir: Peter Godfrey. BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC

8:00 AM Dead of Night (1945)
Guests at a country estate share stories of the supernatural. Cast: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Michael Redgrave. Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer. BW-103 mins, TV-14, CC

10:00 AM The Haunting (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 PM The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
A madman uses the plagues of ancient Egypt to avenge his wife's death. Cast: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North. Dir: Robert Fuest. C-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM Diary of a Madman (1963)
The body of a French magistrate is taken over by the soul of a murderer. Cast: Vincent Price, Nelson Olmsted, Nancy Kovack. Dir: Reginald Le Borg. C-97 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

3:30 PM Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (2007)
This TCM original documentary looks at the imaginative producer who fashioned a lasting body of beautiful and unsettling films on meager budgets. Cast: Martin Scorsese Narrates. BW-77 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 PM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

6:30 PM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A lonely child creates an imaginary playmate with surprisingly dangerous results. Cast: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Julia Dean. Dir: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch. BW-70 mins, TV-PG, CC

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8:00 PM Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

10:00 PM Murders in the Zoo (1933)
A crazed zoologist uses zoo animals to dispose of his wife's suitors. Cast: Charlie Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick. Dir: Edward Sutherland. BW-62 mins,

11:15 PM The Body Snatcher (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber. Cast: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:45 AM Circus of Horrors (1960)
A deranged plastic surgeon travels with a circus troupe. Cast: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur. Dir: Sidney Hayers. C-92 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1932)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within. Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:15 AM The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
The son of the notorious scientist fights to clear his father's name. Cast: Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance, Alexander Knox. Dir: Seymour Friedman. BW-78 mins, TV-PG

[CBHagman]

1. Great schedule! And great images!

Love that witch flying across the full harvest moon!



When I was a university student, I saw The Dead of Night and was duly unsettled, and The Haunting was the sort of thing that frightened me even if it was run as the afternoon movie on TV. You don't easily forget either of those. :scared: