Here are highlights of the scheduled programming on SCCtv (Comcast Ch 28/Millennium Ch19).  Remember, we simulcast our broadcast right here on our Web site, www.scctv.net.  Thanks to Igor, of Movie Marvels fame, for putting the schedule together and it is always subject to change, depending on Igor's mood.

SATURDAY, 4/17/2010

Algiers (1938) 96 min. Showing at 9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French official insists that he be captured, but sly Inspector Slimane knows he need only bide his time. The suave Pepe increasingly regards his stronghold as also his prison, especially when he meets beautiful Parisian visitor Gaby, who reminds him of the boulevards to which he dare not return...and arouses the mad jealousy of Ines, his Algerian mistress.

Topper Returns (1941) 88 min. Showing 10:30 P.M. and 1:45 A.M.

Starring Roland Young and Joan Blonell

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Joan sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

SATURDAY, 4/24/2010

At War with the Army (1950) 93 min. Showing 9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin

Synopsis (courtesy Wikipedia)

Martin and Lewis are former nightclub partners who are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli (Dean Martin) now ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin (Jerry Lewis). Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby. In addition, they have to avoid the wrath of Sergeant McVey (Mike Kellin).

Along the way they both get to sing a few songs, and they get to recreate a scene from Going My Way where they imitate Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.

The Flying Deuces (1939) 69 min. Showing 10:30 P.M. and 1:30 A.M.

Starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride.

SATURDAY, 5/1/2010

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) 93 min.  Showing at 9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Starring Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone and Sara Haden

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay Wilson in college, but has since served in the military and is now being discharged. Getting back to Kay may be the hardest thing of them all to accomplish. He arrives in town alright, but things start to go awry from there. Question is, will he succeed?

Symphony of Living (1935) 75 min.  Showing 10:30 P.M. and 1:30 A.M.

Starring Evelyn Brent and Al Shean

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

There is this old concertmaster of the Cosmopolitian Orchestra and he is about to realize his life-long ambition of appearing as a soloist with the orchestra, when an accident robs him of use of his right hand. His children, upon learning of his misfortune, immediately desert him knowing he will no longer provide them with money. So Adolph Greig sinks lower and lower and becomes a street beggar, too proud to ask for help from his friends and unable to find his son or daughter. One night, standing in front of the concert hall, he sinks to the street from hunger and fatigue. He is picked up by two men associated with the orchestra, Mancini and Rozzini, and they take him to Rozzini's and they develop a plan whereby they will set up Greig in a next-door studio where he can give violin lessons. A young violin genius named Carl Rupert shows up and, with the aid of Mancini and Rozzini, Greig starts the boy off on a brilliant career. Or, what promised to be a brilliant career until his long-lost mother shows up.

SATURDAY, 5/8/2010

Road to Bali (1952) 91 min. Shwoing at 9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

Eternally Yours (1939) 95 min.  Showing at 10:30 P.M. and 1:30 A.M.

Starring Loretta Young and David Niven

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a world tour that seems never to end. Anita is mildly annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, but his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. As for her plan to retire in a farmhouse, forget it. Finally, she's had enough and disappears for real...

SATURDAY, 5/15/2010

Santa Fe Trail (1940) 110 min. Showing 9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Starring Eroll Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan and Van Heflin

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Raiders of Old California (1957) 72 min. Showing 10:50 P.M. and 1:50 A.M.

Starring Lee Van Cleef, Marty Robbins and Faron Young

Synopsis (courtesy Amazon.com)

Raiders of Old California has everything to love about a B Western. There's plenty of action, with hombres biting the dust by the score, and an over the top performance by Jim Davis as the chief outlaw. And it's chock-full of those errors that makes watching these films such a hoot. Even though the story is supposedly set in 1840s and 1850s California, the land grant being fought over is supposedly "from the Pecos to the Rio Grande and north to Santa Fe", placing the setting solidly in Texas and New Mexico. All the uniforms are post-Civil War, and the weapons are Colt .45s and Winchester repeaters, weapons developed in the 1870s. The guns of course never run out of bullets, and even the "wild" cattle are domestic Herefords. Even the Comanches are misplaced, since they never made California their home.

But what's not to like about a film that has more than enough ridin', fightin', and shootin', and Marty Robbins cast against type as a vicious killer.

Raiders is the B Western at its best.

SATURDAY, 5/22/2010, 2 Alfred Hitchcock classics

The Lady Vanishes (1938) 96 min. Showing at9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

On a train through Europe, Iris Henderson meets the kindly old woman Miss Froy, and they meet several other passengers over the course of their conversation. Iris later wakes up from a nap to discover that Miss Froy is nowhere to be found, and none of the people they met seem to have any recollection of her. A psychiatrist on the train suggests that Miss Froy never existed: Iris was bumped on the head before boarding, and the conversation may have only taken place in her head. However, Iris is certain that something more sinister is going on, and teams up with another acquaintance, the musician Gilbert, to find her before the train reaches its destination.

The 39 Steps (1935) 86 min.  Showing10:30 P.M. and 1:30 A.M.

Starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

Richard Hannay is on the run from the police, who suspect him of murdering the woman found stabbed to death in his London flat. This story, including his photograph, are in many of the newspapers throughout Great Britain. In reality, the woman picked Hannay up at the Mr. Memory show at which they both attended, she telling him that there were two men there who were trying to kill her in an effort to obtain information which would breach national security. Hannay is not only on the run from police but is also trying to find out the nature of the potential national security breach in an effort to clear his name. All he knows from the dead woman is that it has something to do with a man in a small town in Scotland, another man who has part of his pinky finger missing and something called the 39 steps. As Hannay is on his journey of discovery all the while trying to elude both the police and the real murderers, he is forced out of circumstances outside of his control to take along a feisty young woman named Pamela whose continued belligerence toward him is despite her precarious situation.

SATURDAY, 5/29/2010 (Memorial Day weekend war movies)

A Walk In The Sun (1945) 117 min.  Showing 9:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M.

Starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte and Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.

Three Came Home (1950) 106 min.  Showing 10:50 P.M. and 1:50 A.M.

Starring Claudette Colbert and Patrick Knowles

Synopsis (courtesy IMDB)

The true story of Agnes Newton Keith's imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII. Separated from her husband and with a young son to care for she has many difficulties to face.