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Elliot Wilhelm
WTVS Detroit Public TV's Friday Night Chase Film Festival is your destination for uncut, uninterrupted classic films. Each Friday at 9 p.m., host Elliot Wilhelm, film curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts and founder of the Detroit Film Theatre, introduces the film and offers his insight and commentary.
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Cary Elwes & Robin Wright Penn as Buttercup & WestleyThe Princess Bride
Tuesday, 7/8 from 8-9:45 p.m. ET
Sunday, 7/13 from 3:30-5:15 p.m. ET
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive.
Tom HanksBig
Friday, 7/11 from 9-10:45 p.m. ET
A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that his wish has been granted.
Grace Kelly & Anthony DawsonDial M for Murder
Friday, 7/18 from 9-10:45 p.m. ET
Sunday, 7/20 from 3:30-5:15 p.m. ET
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair.
trainStrangers on a Train
Friday, 7/25 from 9-10:45 p.m. ET
Sunday, 7/27 from 3:30-5:15 p.m. ET
Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy exchange murders. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes things into his own hands.
Gregory Peck in Moby DickMoby Dick
Friday, 8/15 from 9-11 p.m. ET
Gregory Peck triumphs in his starring role as the obsessed Capt. Ahab in this big-screen version of Herman Melville's classic novel.
Scene from A Star Is BornA Star Is Born
Friday, 8/22 from 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. ET
Drunken waining movie star Norman Maine (James Mason) meets showgirl Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) when he literally stumbles into her act one night.
That's Entertainment!That's Entertainment!
Friday, 8/29 from 9-11:10 p.m. ET
MGM musical numbers from the introduction of sound in the late '20s through to the 1950s.
What's New Pussycat?What's New Pussycat?
Saturday, 9/27 from 1:30-3:30 a.m. ET
Michael James, a notorious womanizer, desperately wants to be faithful to his fiancée Carole, but runs into serious problems since every woman he meets seems to fall in love with him.
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