TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 25th: Star of the Month Ronald Reagan

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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

12:30 AM Short Film: Night Watchman, The (1938)
A kitten replaces his father as night watchman. Cast: Voices of Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen. Dir: Chuck Jones. BW-7 mins,

12:40 AM Short Film: Prest-O, Change-O (1939)
Two puppies run afoul of a magician's rabbit in a haunted house. Cast: Voice of Mel Blanc. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-7 mins,

12:50 AM Short Film: Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939)
Literary characters in a bookstore serenade a mouse after hours. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-8 mins,

1:00 AM Short Film: Elmer's Candid Camera (1940)
A photographer's nature shots are compromised by a rascally rabbit. Cast: Voices of Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-8 mins,

1:10 AM Short Film: Scent-imental Over You (1947)
Stealing a skunk's pelt wins a Mexican hairless an unwanted suitor. Cast: Voices of Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-7 mins,



1:20 AM Short Film: Haredevil Hare (1948)
The first rabbit in space foils a Martian's plans to invade the Earth. Cast: Voice of Mel Blanc. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-8 mins,

1:30 AM Short Film: Duck Amuck (1953)
Daffy Duck falls victim to an animator who keeps changing his world. Cast: Voice of Mel Blanc. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-7 mins,

1:40 AM Short Film: One Froggy Evening (1966)
A man discovers a frog that sings and dances. Cast: Voice of Bill Roberts. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-7 mins,



1:50 AM Short Film: What's Opera Doc (1954)
Bugs poses as a Valkyrie to avoid the heroic hunter Siegfried. Cast: Voices of Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan. Dir: Chuck Jones. C-7 mins,



2:00 AM Short Film: Dot and the Line, The (1965)
In this animated short, a straight line tries to woo a dot. C-10 mins,

2:15 AM Short Film: Bear that Wasn't, The (1967)
In this animated short, a bear wakes from hibernation to find himself in an industrial complex. C-10 mins,

2:30 AM Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009)
C-26 mins, TV-14, CC

3:00 AM Phantom Tollbooth, The (1969)
A bored boy enters a fantasy world where letters and numbers are at war. Cast: Butch Patrick, Hans Conreid, June Foray. Dir: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, David Monahan. C-89 mins, TV-G, CC

4:30 AM 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
An Arabian merchant falls in love with a princess. Cast: Voices of Jim Backus, Kathryn Grant, Dwayne Hickman. Dir: Jack Kinney. C-76 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM Pygmalion (1938)
A linguistics professor bets he can turn a flower girl into a lady by teaching her to speak properly. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfrid Lawson. Dir: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard. BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC



7:37 AM Short Film: Leslie Howard (1962)
BW-3 mins,

7:45 AM 49th Parallel (1941)
The crew of a stranded German U-boat tries to evade capture in Canada during World War II. Cast: Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier. Dir: Michael Powell. BW-122 mins, TV-14

9:50 AM Short Film: Victory Quiz (1942)
BW-9 mins,

10:00 AM In Which We Serve (1942)
Survivors of a bombed British destroyer think back on the paths that led them to war. Cast: Noel Coward, John Mills, Celia Johnson. Dir: Noel Coward, David Lean. BW-115 mins, TV-PG



12:00 PM This Happy Breed (1944)
A middle-class family faces personal triumphs and tragedies when they move to a new home in the suburbs. Cast: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills. Dir: David Lean. BW-111 mins, TV-G

2:00 PM Great Expectations (1946)
A mysterious benefactor finances a young boy's education. Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie. Dir: David Lean. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC



4:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Leslie Banks. Dir: David Lean. BW-115 mins, TV-PG

6:00 PM Bandit of Zhobe, The (1959)
C-81 mins, TV-G

7:30 PM Sydney Pollack (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell. C-28 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



8:00 PM Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Romantic rivals get caught in the battle to stop abolitionist John Brown. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



10:00 PM Bad Man, The (1941)
A Mexican outlaw reforms to help an old friend and a pair of young lovers . Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-70 mins, TV-PG

11:15 PM Hellcats Of The Navy (1957)
A submarine commander inadvertently causes the death of a romantic rival under his command. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz. Dir: Nathan Juran. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:45 AM Desperate Journey (1942)
American pilots stranded in Germany during World War II fight their way to freedom. Cast: Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:36 AM Short Film: Errol Flynn (1962)
BW-4 mins,

2:45 AM Prisoner Of War (1954)
American GIs fight to survive inhuman treatment in a Korean POW camp. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin. Dir: Andrew Marton. BW-81 mins, TV-PG

4:15 AM Great Escape, The (1963)
Thrown together by the Germans, a group of captive Allied troublemakers plot a daring escape. Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough. Dir: John Sturges. C-172 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format