TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: Before Tinder Swindlers

TCM, Beginning at 4:45 a.m.

You’ll want to swipe right on this entertaining lineup of films that show how being lied to, conned or worse by a potential or actual romantic partner has been an ongoing part of human relationships and not just a phenomenon in our modern era of things like Tinder and “catfishing.” The featured films are: The Light Touch (pictured) (1951), starring Stewart Granger and Pier Angeli; The Company She Keeps (1951), led by Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer and Dennis O’Keefe (and featuring Je˜ Bridges in his film debut); Scarlet Street (1945), Fritz Lang’s film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea; Playing Around (1930), a drama with Alice White, Chester Morris and William Bakewell; Kind Lady (1951), director John Sturges’ film noir headlined by Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury and Keenan Wynn; Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), a British thriller starring Dirk Bogarde and Margaret Lockwood; the 1946 film noir Nobody Lives Forever, featuring John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald; and The Honeymoon Killers (1970), a crime film inspired by the true story of infamous 1940s “lonely hearts killers” Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) and Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler).