TCM Schedule for Wednesday, December 8th: Moguls and Movie Stars, a History of Hollywood

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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010


12:00 AM Fast and the Furious, The (1954)
A wrongly convicted man takes a young woman hostage while fighting to clear his name. Cast: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Iris Adrian. Dir: John Ireland, Edward Sampson. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

1:30 AM Convicted (1950)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted. Cast: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Dorothy Malone. Dir: Henry Levin. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:15 AM Tension At Table Rock (1956)
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place. Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Angie Dickinson. Dir: Charles Marquis Warren. C-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 AM Pushover (1954)
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey. Dir: Richard Quine. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:30 AM To Each His Own (1946)
A single mother gives up her son, then fights to remain a part of his life. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Roland Culver. Dir: Mitchell Leisen. BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:45 AM Devotion (1946)
The Bronte sisters and their brother fight personal demons to realize their artistic ambitions. Cast: Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC



10:45 AM Heiress, The (1949)
A plain young woman's money makes her prey to fortune hunters. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson. Dir: William Wyler. BW-115 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:45 PM Cash McCall (1960)
A corporate spoiler makes a play for a failing company and the owner's daughter. Cast: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch. Dir: Joseph Pevney. C-102 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

2:30 PM West Side Story (1961)
A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love. Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno. Dir: Robert Wise. C-154 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:15 PM Splendor In The Grass (1961)
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties. Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle. Dir: Elia Kazan. C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS, A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD

8:00 PM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star. Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:00 PM Attack of the Small Screens, The (2010)
C-60 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM Singin' In The Rain (1952)
A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound. Cast: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor. Dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. C-103 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



1:03 AM Short Film: Make Mine Memories (1955)
A funny twist on two silent films starring Harry Carey and Blanche Sweet with witty narration by Ward Wilson. Cast: Harry Carey, Blanche Sweet, Ward Wilson BW-8 mins,

1:15 AM North By Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS



3:45 AM Defiant Ones, The (1958)
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other. Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel. Dir: Stanley Kramer. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM Laurence Fishburne (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell. C-27 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format