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Saturday, April 4 10 a.m. Popeye: Poopdeck Pappy (1940). Two from Peter Bogdanovich. Does anyone know if he is going to be on the show discussing them? 8 p.m. Targets (1968). With Boris Karloff. 10 p.m. The Last Picture Show (1971). Terrific performances by the entire cast in this.

Welshman, Richard Burton as the Narrator in Zulu (1964). Could there be a better voice to introduce the tale of the South Wales Borderers at Rorke's Drift?

Friday, April 3/4 2 a.m. Cover Me Babe (1970). With the late Robert Forster (1941-2019).

I thought that was one of his best films.

Patrick Troughton as the blind, Phineas in Jason and the Argonauts (1963).

Thursday, April 2/3 2:15 a.m. Fingers (1978). James Toback film with Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown, Michael V. Gazzo and the late Danny Aiello (1933-2019).

Lotte Lenya got to the point as Colonel Rosa Klebb, aka 'Number Three' in From Russia With Love (1963).

Wednesday, April 1 A full day of Kurosawa ! 10 a.m. The Hidden Fortress (1959). One of Kurosawa’s best Samurai pictures and the inspiration for the Star Wars plot.

Montgomery Clift as Rudolf Petersen in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). And ... Judy Garland as Irene Hoffman Wallner in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

Tuesday, March 31 Baseball movies. Was it supposed to be opening day, or something? 10 a.m. MGM Cartoons: Batty Baseball (1944). by Tex Avery.

Martin Balsaam as Milton Argobast in Psycho (1960).

Monday, March 30 4:30 p.m. Monkey Business (1931). Transatlantic passage with the Marx Brothers. We can use this about now.

Michel Simon as Jacquier in It Happened In Broad Daylight (1958). Jacquier is a poor pedlar who goes from town to town in Germany. He happens across the body of a young girl in the woods and reports it to the police. He is then wrongfully implicated in the crime. Simon is terrific in this small part that opens the film and he performs in German. The audience is let in on who the real serial murderer is early on so this isn't really a spoiler. He is played by Gert Frobe and apparently it was this film that brought him to the attention of the James Bond producers and earned him the title role in Goldfinger (1964). Sean Penn remade It Happened In Broad Daylight as The Pledge in 2001 with Jack Nicholson.

Sunday, March 29 5:45 p.m. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968). It’s been a long while since I saw this one. Sondra Locke and Alan Arkin are very good.

Paul L. Smith as Hamidou in Midnight Express (1978). I had no idea that this actor was American when I saw the film back in 1978. Relatively unknown actors who convincingly play dislikable villains often don't get their due because we subconsciously confuse them with their characters. I loved the bit after a full day of torture he took his fat kid's hand and walked him home.

Saturday, March 28 10 a.m. Popeye: My Pop, My Pop (1940). noon. Night and the City (1950). Richard Widmark excels in this crime drama shot on location in London.

Mercedes McCambridge who was the voice of the demon in The Exorcist (1973).

Jolting may not be the word to describe her performance. But scene stealer would be apt. Haruko Sugimura (above left) as Someka, the aging geisha who likes her drink in Mikio Naruse's Flowing (1956) runs away with every scene she is in.

Friday, March 27 Million Dollar Legs (1932).

Thursday, March 26 4:15 p.m. The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Terrific John Huston crime drama. I have a couple of its lobby cards. Replaced in Canada with So Big (1953).

Queequeg in John Huston's Moby Dick (1956). I'd never seen anything like this when I was a kid. And little did I know that he was played by German actor, Frederich von Ledebur who's full name is Graf Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacious von Ledebur-Wicheln. Years later he would appear as the German P.O.W. Guard in Slaughterhouse Five (1972) which was another fine performance.

Wednesday, March 25 1 a.m. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). This Stanley Kramer comedy has its moments. My favourites are those with Ethel Merman, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Arnold Stang, Marvin Kaplan and Jimmy Durante.

John Gielgud as the ill-fated George, Duke of Clarence in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955).

Tuesday, March 24 8 p.m. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache (2018). New documentary about filmmaker Guy-Blache, whom I had never heard of. Followed by a night of her silent films. Replaced in Canada by The Hard Way (1942).

I thought she was a bit too old for the part but Sylvia Sidney gave a fantastic performance as Fantine in the 1952 version of Les Miserables.