TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 23rd: Quiet Heroes

[CBHagman]

Tonight TCM celebrates quiet heroes with a five-film line-up. Story here:

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=345414

There's also a tribute to birthday boy Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt on November 23rd, 1887.



Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

12:00 AM 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

1:30 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there? Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

3:00 AM I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he's sentenced to hard labor. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:34 AM Short Film: 20,000 Cheers For The Chain Gang (1933)
BW-20 mins,

5:00 AM Red Dust (1932)
A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening. Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC

6:30 AM MGM Parade Show #29 (1955)
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part Three of "Captains Courageous" and a clip from "Tribute to a Badman." BW-25 mins, TV-G

7:00 AM Lost Patrol, The (1934)
A British army troop fights off Arab snipers while holed up in an oasis. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford. Dir: John Ford. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:15 AM Walking Dead, The (1936)
A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge. Cast: Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:30 AM West Of Shanghai (1937)
A Chinese warlord holds three fugitives prisoner. Cast: Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez. Dir: John Farrow. BW-64 mins, TV-G

10:45 AM You'll Find Out (1940)
Kay Kyser and his band fight to save a young girl trapped in a haunted mansion. Cast: Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre. Dir: David Butler. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC

12:30 PM Isle Of The Dead (1945)
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Helene Thimig. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC

1:45 PM Body Snatcher, The (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber. Cast: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC



3:00 PM Bedlam (1946)
When an actress tries to reform an asylum, its corrupt keeper has her committed. Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 PM Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Dick Tracy tracks down a bank robber using nerve gas. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne. Dir: John Rawlins. BW-65 mins, TV-PG

5:45 PM Terror, The (1963)
A lost soldier discovers a mysterious beauty haunting a half-deserted castle. Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight. Dir: Roger Corman. C-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:07 PM Short Film: Sky Divers, The (1969)
C-15 mins,

7:30 PM Now Playing December (2010)
C-28 mins, TV-PG, CC

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: QUIET HEROES

8:00 PM To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
A young girl grows up fast when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford. Dir: Robert Mulligan. BW-129 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS



10:15 PM Boys' Town (1938)
True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull. Dir: Norman Taurog. BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

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12:00 AM Sounder (1972)
Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education. Cast: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



2:00 AM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall. Dir: Sidney Lumet. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



4:00 AM Shane (1953)
A mysterious drifter helps farmers fight off a vicious gunman. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Brandon de Wilde. Dir: George Stevens. C-118 mins, TV-G, CC

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