TCM Schedule for Wednesday, June 17th: Great Directors: William Wellman

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

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

6:00 AM Charge Of The Light Brigade, The (1968)
Snobbery and bad politics lead to military disaster during the Crimean War. Cast: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud. Dir: Tony Richardson. C-130 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format

8:15 AM Sailor From Gibraltar, The (1967)
A young man gets mixed up in a woman's search for her lost lover. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles. Dir: Tony Richardson. BW-88 mins, , Letterbox Format

9:45 AM Ned Kelly (1970)
An Irishman wages war against the law in the Australian frontier. Cast: Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus. Dir: Tony Richardson. C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 AM Hamlet (1969)
The prince of Denmark vows to avenge his father's murder, if he can prove his uncle did the deed. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins. Dir: Tony Richardson. C-118 mins, TV-PG

1:30 PM Loved One, The (1965)
An Englishman in Hollywood moves into the funeral business. Cast: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger. Dir: Tony Richardson. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 PM Tom Jones (1963)
In this adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel, a country boy in 18th-century England becomes a playboy. Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith. Dir: Tony Richardson. C-122 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format



6:00 PM Entertainer, The (1960)
A third-rate vaudevillian uses liquor and young women to escape the pressures of changing times. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright. Dir: Tony Richardson. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: GREAT DIRECTORS: WILLIAM A. WELLMAN

8:00 PM Men Who Made the Movies, The: William Wellman (2006)
Film clips and an exclusive interview capture the career of Hollywood's larger-than-life director William Wellman. C-58 mins, TV-14, CC

9:00 PM Public Enemy, The (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. Cast: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Jean Harlow. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-84 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



10:30 PM Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins an Army platoon during World War II to learn what battle is really about. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-108 mins, TV-14

12:30 AM Battleground (1949)
American soldiers in France fight to survive a Nazi siege just before the Battle of the Bulge. Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-119 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

2:45 AM Star Is Born, A (1937)
A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou. Dir: William A. Wellman. C-111 mins, TV-G, CC

4:45 AM Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
An impoverished girl masquerades as a boy to run with a gang of young hobos. Cast: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Philips. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-68 mins, TV-PG