TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 1st:: TCM Spotlight: Bernard Herrmann

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

12:00 AM 80,000 Suspects (1963)
A doctor must contend with a smallpox epidemic and his failing marriage. Cast: Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan. Dir: Val Guest. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM Clash Of The Titans (1981)
A Greek hero fights a series of monsters, including the dreaded gorgon, to win the woman he loves. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Harry Hamlin. Dir: Desmond Davis. C-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Severed Head, A (1971)
When a woman leaves her husband for his best friend, it triggers a series of romantic unions and breakups. Cast: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Claire Bloom. Dir: Dick Clement. C-98 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder. Cast: Zachary Scott, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone. Dir: Richard Bare. BW-86 mins, TV-PG

7:30 AM Window, The (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him. Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

8:45 AM Whip Hand, The (1951)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge. Cast: Elliott Reid, Raymond Burr, Carla Balenda. Dir: William C. Menzies. BW-82 mins, TV-PG

10:15 AM Hour Of 13, The (1952)
A gentleman thief in Victorian England tries to reform and do one good deed. Cast: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver. Dir: Harold French. BW-80 mins, TV-PG

11:45 AM Tea And Sympathy (1956)
A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled teen tormented by his fellow students. Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



2:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society. Cast: Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

4:00 PM Escape From East Berlin (1962)
An East German helps dig a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall. Cast: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
5:41 PM Short Film: Robert Taylor Bio (1962)
BW-4 mins,

5:45 PM Above And Beyond (1952)
The pilot who helped drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima struggles with the demands of the dangerous mission. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore. Dir: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC

What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: BERNARD HERRMANN

8:00 PM Hangover Square (1945)
A composer who can't control his creative temperament turns to murder. Cast: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders. Dir: John Brahm. BW-78 mins,

9:30 PM Devil and Daniel Webster, The (1941)
A farmer sells his soul for seven years of good crops. Cast: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, John Craig. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-106 mins, TV-G, CC



11:30 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



1:45 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



3:30 AM On Dangerous Ground (1951)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry's blind sister. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond. Dir: Nicholas Ray. BW-82 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 AM Set-Up, The (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC