I don't think we've had an Alfred Hitchock day in a while

Tomorrow is the first day in September, which means that we're going to be getting some new programming spotlights on TCM, but more on those starting tomorrow since I've got several movies coming up on various channels to blog about.

But before we get to the ptime time spotlights, we have a morning and afternoon of seven films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. While most of Hitchcock's films, at least from about 1934 or 1935 on (starting either with the first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much or The 39 Steps) aren't particularly uncommon, all the rights issues means some movies wind up getting shown more often than others that are extremely well known.

Most of tomorrow's lineup comes closer to the lesser-known movies, instead of the tentpoles like North by Northwest (on last weekend as part of Eva Marie Saint's day in Summer Under the Stars), and it's good to see a few movies that really deserve to be better remembered, such as The Wrong Man at 5:45 PM.

The lineup goes in chronological order, starting at 6:00 AM with The 39 Steps, which helped cement Hitchcock as the "Master of Suspense".
That's followed at 7:45 AM by The Lady Vanishes, with Dame May Whitty vanishing on Margaret Lockwood.
Joel McCrea is a fresh, unused mind in Foreign Correspondent at 9:30 AM.
Suspicion, at 11:45 AM, would be a better movie if it didn't have a cop-out ending.
At 1:45 PM, Marlene Dietrich is a murder suspect in Stage Fright.
Grace Kelly plays one of her Hitchcock Blondes in Dial M for Murder at 3:45 PM; and
As already mentioned, Henry Fonda gets sent to prison as The Wrong Man at 5:45 PM. If you haven't seen this one, it's definitely worth a watch.