Marco!Polo!Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
12:00 AM Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940)
Oklahoma farmers dispossessed during the Depression fight for better lives in California. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine. Dir: John Ford. BW-129 mins, TV-G, CC
2:15 AM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 AM Misfits, The (1961)
A sensitive divorcee gets mixed up with modern cowboys roping mustangs in the desert. Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift. Dir: John Huston. BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:30 AM Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-75 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 AM Union Station (1950)
A secretary gets caught up in the hunt for kidnappers. Cast: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald. Dir: Rudolph Mate. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:30 AM 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, CC
11:00 AM Fourteen Hours (1951)
A policeman tries to talk a desperate young man off the ledge of a New York skyscraper. Cast: Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes. Dir: Henry Hathaway. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:00 PM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question. Cast: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier. Dir: Otto Preminger. BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson. Dir: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:30 PM Woody Allen (1971)
Woody Allen appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired October 20, 1971. C-67 mins, TV-PG, CC
5:39 PM Short Film: Lion Roars Again, The (1975)
An MGM promotional featurette advertising its resurgence into the movie industry in the mid-1970s. Showcased movies include "Logan's Run" (1976), "The Sunshine Boys" (1975), and "The Wind and the Lion" (1975). C-17 mins,
6:00 PM Take The Money And Run (1969)
An incompetent criminal becomes the subject of a documentary. Cast: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire. Dir: Woody Allen. C-85 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
7:30 PM Short Film: Now Playing December (2009) (2009)
Features highlights of the month's programming on TCM, including festivals and stars. BW-25 mins, , CC
What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: EXPLORER ADVENTURES8:00 PM Far Horizons, The (1955)
Romanticized version of Lewis and Clarks voyage of discovery through the American West. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed. Dir: Rudolph Mat. C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938)
Classic biography of the Italian explorer and his journeys to China. Cast: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone. Dir: John Ford. BW-104 mins, TV-G
12:00 AM Christopher Columbus (1949)
The legendary explorer discovers the new world while searching for a route to Asia. Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan. Dir: David McDonald. C-99 mins, TV-G
1:45 AM Short Film: Polar Outpost (1957)
BW-15 mins,
2:00 AM Scott Of The Antarctic (1948)
A British commander fights to beat a Norwegian team in the search for the South Pole. Cast: John Mills, Diana Churchill, Kenneth More. Dir: Charles Frend. C-105 mins, TV-G
4:00 AM Quick, Before It Melts (1964)
The team at an Antarctic station try to fly in a planeload of girls. Cast: George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer. Dir: Delbert Mann. C-98 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
5:39 AM Short Film: Milton Fox, Esq. (1964)
BW-5 mins,