TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 16th: TCM Spotlight: Akira Kurosawa's 100th Birthday

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010



12:30 AM Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
A young boy's lookalike lands him in hot water. Cast: Billy Mauch, Bobby Mauch, Frank Craven. Dir: William McGann. BW-63 mins, TV-G

1:38 AM Short Film: Spills For Thrills (1940)
A short paying tribute to Hollywood's stunt men and women with clips of difficult stunts on land and in the air. Cast: Harry Parvey, Allen Pomeroy, Mary Wiggins Dir: DeLeon Anthony BW-19 mins,

2:00 AM Great Lie, The (1941)
Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby. Cast: Bette Davis, Mary Astor, George Brent. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 AM Great Caruso, The (1951)
The legendary opera singer fights to win his place in society. Cast: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-109 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 AM Guilty Generation, The (1931)
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety. Cast: Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings, Robert Young. Dir: Rowland V. Lee. BW-81 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM Big Timer, The (1932)
A young boxer fights prejudice to work with a female manager. Cast: Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings, Thelma Todd. Dir: Edward Buzzell. BW-72 mins, , CC

8:45 AM Mind Reader, The (1933)
A fake mentalist tries to go straight, only to end up in jail. Cast: Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-70 mins, TV-G

10:00 AM Clairvoyant, The (1935)
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. Cast: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter. Dir: Maurice Elvey. BW-81 mins, TV-PG

11:30 AM Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold. Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James. Dir: Charles Crichton. BW-81 mins, TV-G

1:00 PM Great Escape, The (1963)
Thrown together by the Germans, a group of captive Allied troublemakers plot a daring escape. Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough. Dir: John Sturges. C-172 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr. Dir: Steven Spielberg. C-137 mins, TV-MA, CC

6:30 PM Herbie Rides Again (1974)
A spunky widow uses her magical Volskwagen to fight off a corrupt land developer. Cast: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers. Dir: Robert Stevenson. C-88 mins, TV-G, CC

What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: AKIRA KUROSAWA'S 100TH BIRTHDAY

8:00 PM Bad Sleep Well, The (1960)
A man seeks revenge by marrying the daughter of his father's enemy. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. BW-151 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format



10:45 PM High And Low (1963)
Kidnappers mistake a chauffeur's son for the child of a wealthy businessman. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. BW-143 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

1:15 AM Red Beard (1965)
A tough doctor takes a young intern under his wing. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Yoshio Tsuchiya. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. BW-185 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format



4:30 AM I Live In Fear (1955)
An elderly industrialist's fear of nuclear warfare leads his family to accuse him of insanity. Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kazuo Kato, Toshiro Mifune. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC

[tishaLA]

1. I'm loving these Kurosawa nights. I DVR them and watch them later...

I just wish I had enough space on my DVR to save them forever. Or enough money to buy all of them. Or something to make them a permanent part of my life. Last week, I watched Throne of Blood for the 5th time, I'm guessing, and it was better than ever. I also saw Iriku and The Idiot for the first time...beautiful filmmaking.