TV Schedule for ScreenPix: Action

Salt and Pepper (1968)

London nightclub owners (Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford) play spy and foil a military madman out to overthrow the government.

Topkapi (1964)

Lovers (Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell) recruit amateurs to steal a dagger from the palace museum in Istanbul.

Matchless (1967)

A New York journalist (Patrick O'Neal) plays global spy with an ancient ring that makes him invisible.

Cul-de-Sac (1966)

A fugitive (Lionel Stander) and his partner invade the castle of a recluse (Donald Pleasence) and his lusty wife (Françoise Dorléac).

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)

Teenage hot rodders throw a Halloween party in a haunted house.

The Shadow Returns (1946)

The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.

The Boss (1956)

A World War I veteran (John Payne) marries a stranger (Gloria McGhee) and becomes a crooked Midwestern political boss.

Cloudburst (1951)

A former British commando (Robert Preston) tracks down the occupants of a hit-and-run car that killed his wife (Elizabeth Sellars).

Hell Bound (1957)

A gangster's consort (June Blair) and an ambulance driver (Stuart Whitman) become involved in a villain's (John Russell) plan to steal surplus war drugs.

Crime Against Joe (1956)

Joe, an unemployed artist living with his mother, is suspected of murdering bar singer Irene Crescent during a drinking binge.

Chicago Confidential (1957)

A state's attorney (Brian Keith) nails a union leader (Dick Foran) for murder, then learns it was part of a mob frame-up.

Portrait in Terror (1965)

An English killer (Patrick Magee) and a weird artist (William Campbell) plot to steal a painting in Venice, Calif.

The Last Mile (1959)

A killer (Mickey Rooney) gets desperate with eight others on death row, then makes his move.

The Wild Party (1956)

An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.

Alias John Preston (1955)

A small-town young man (Christopher Lee) rises in social standing, haunted by nightmares of murder.

Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)

A scientist's (Richard Anderson) girlfriend (Elaine Edwards) is kidnapped by a stony Etruscan gladiator-slave found near Pompeii.

The Black Tent (1957)

An Englishman (Donald Sinden) learns his army brother (Anthony Steel) married a Bedouin (Anna-Maria Sandri) and fought the Nazis as a guerrilla.

The Big Boodle (1957)

Cuban crooks and police chase a casino card dealer (Errol Flynn) for counterfeit pesos and plates.