TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 16th: Great Directors: Orson Welles

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Talk about a man who needs no introduction! And his source material included everything from Shakespeare to Kafka.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

1:30 PM Angels In The Outfield (1951)
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance. Cast: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

3:22 PM Short Film: Hollywood Scout (1945)
BW-8 mins,

3:30 PM National Velvet (1944)
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp. Dir: Clarence Brown. C-124 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

5:45 PM Yearling, The (1946)
A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr. Dir: Clarence Brown. C-128 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

8:00 PM Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995)
Documentary on the life and work of the Academy award-winning and controversial director Elia Kazan. BW-76 mins, TV-PG

9:30 PM On The Waterfront (1954)
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks. Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 PM East Of Eden (1955)
Two brothers compete for their father's approval and a woman's love. Cast: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris. Dir: Elia Kazan. C-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM Boomerang (1947)
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent. Cast: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:15 AM Short Film: Mister Gardenia Jones (1942)
BW-11 mins,

3:30 AM Face In The Crowd, A (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star. Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:39 AM Short Film: Football Headliners (1955)
BW-16 mins,

6:00 AM Captive City, The (1952)
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob. Cast: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-91 mins, TV-PG

7:32 AM Short Film: City Of Children (1949)
John Nesbitt takes us to Mooseheart, a small city outside Chicago that was founded in 1913 as a complete orphanage community. Here the children are central, maintaining close contact with adults and learning trades and professions as they grow up. Cast: John Nesbitt BW-10 mins,

7:45 AM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-96 mins, TV-PG

9:30 AM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
True story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ. Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Eileen Heckart. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

11:30 AM Executive Suite (1954)
When a business magnate dies, his board of directors fights over who should run the company. Cast: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

1:30 PM Two For The Seesaw (1962)
A conservative attorney considering a divorce gets involved with an emotionally fragile dancer in New York. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Elisabeth Fraser. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-119 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:34 PM Short Film: Bars And Stripes (1937)
BW-11 mins,

3:45 PM I Want To Live! (1958)
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber. Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:49 PM Short Film: Ghost Treasure (1941)
BW-11 mins,

6:00 PM Haunting, The (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM Citizen Kane (1941)
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

10:15 PM Lady From Shanghai, The (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-87 mins, TV-PG

11:49 PM Short Film: Our Old Car (1946)
BW-11 mins,

12:00 AM Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family. Cast: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

1:34 AM Short Film: Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
BW-11 mins,

1:45 AM Macbeth (1948)
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns. Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC

3:45 AM Trial, The (1963)
In this adaptation of Kafka's classic, a man in a nameless country stands trial for an unnamed crime. Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Anthony Perkins. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-120 mins, TV-14, CC

[rdmtimp]

1. And fitting that his one-time editor...

Robert Wise, is spotlighted on the same day.