Yet another TCM Spotlight this month

I mentioned the other day that in addition to the movies directed by Michael Curtiz, there was going to be another Spotlight on TCM this month. That spotlight is coming up tonight, and every Thursday in prime time in April, and looks at the Victorian era on film.

TCM is dividing up the films into four themes, starting tonight with Victorian-era crime. The 1944 Laird Cregar version of The Lodger kicks things off at 8:00 PM, but one that should theoretically be interesting is The Hour of 13, overnight at 2:00 AM. Peter Lawford stars as a jewel thief who gets caught up in the search for a serial killer of police after two crimes intersect. As I was reading the plot I thought it sounded familiar, and that's because it's a remake of the 1934 Robert Montgomery movie The Mystery of Mr. X. I really like that Montgomery film, although I'm not much of a fan of Peter Lawford.

The other three themes are:

Victorian science and exploration, on April 12;
Victorian romance on April 19; and
Victorian society and manners on April 26. This week includes what I believe is the TCM premiere of The Mudlark, starring Irene Dunne as Queen Victoria who finds a little boy has infiltrated the palace.