TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 17th: 31 Days of Oscar

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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

12:15 AM Sunshine Boys, The (1975)
A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback. Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

2:15 AM Damsel In Distress, A (1937)
An American dancer on vacation in England falls for a sheltered noblewoman. Cast: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen. Dir: George Stevens. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC

4:00 AM Ivanhoe (1952)
Sir Walter Scott's classic tale of the noble knight torn between his fair lady and a beautiful Jew. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-107 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 AM Citadel, The (1938)
A struggling doctor is tempted to give up his ideals for a posh high-society practice. Cast: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson. Dir: King Vidor. BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

8:00 AM Private Life Of Henry VIII, The (1933)
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages. Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Alexander Korda. BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:45 AM That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Naval hero Lord Nelson defies convention to court a married woman of common birth. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Sara Allgood. Dir: Alexander Korda. BW-125 mins, TV-G, CC



12:00 PM War Against Mrs. Hadley, The (1942)
A Washington matron tries to ignore the effects of World War II. Cast: Fay Bainter, Edward Arnold, Richard Ney. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-86 mins, TV-G

1:30 PM 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

3:30 PM They Were Expendable (1945)
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II. Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed. Dir: John Ford. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

6:00 PM My Favorite Year (1982)
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper. Dir: Richard Benjamin. C-92 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format



7:34 PM Short Film: Main Street On The March (1941)
BW-20 mins,

8:00 PM Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
A baseball player faces terminal illness with the help of his closest teammate. Cast: Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia. Dir: John D. Hancock. C-98 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format



10:00 PM Moonstruck (1987)
When she tries to make peace in her new family, an engaged woman falls for her fiance's brother. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis. Dir: Norman Jewison. C-102 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format



11:48 PM Short Film: So You Want To Be In Pictures (1947)
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) learns what a bumpy road it can be to become an Hollywood star. Cast: George O'Hanlon, Jack Carson, George Chandler Dir: Richard L. Bare BW-11 mins,

12:00 AM Saturday Night Fever (1977)
A Brooklyn roughneck's love for disco dancing makes him realize that he wants more out of life. Cast: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow. Dir: John Badham. C-119 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 AM Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
When his wife leaves him, an ad exec gets a crash course in parenting. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Meryl Streep. Dir: Robert Benton. C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart. Dir: Jules Dassin. BW-96 mins, TV-14, CC