TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 25th: Hal Roach Studios

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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

12:00 AM Ballad Of The Sad Cafe, The (1991)
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger. Dir: Simon Callow. C-101 mins, TV-14

2:00 AM Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967)
A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man. Cast: Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith. Dir: John Huston. C-109 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM Wise Blood (1979)
An ambitious Southern boy tries to set himself up as a street preacher. Cast: Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton. Dir: John Huston. C-106 mins, TV-14

6:00 AM Love Is On The Air (1937)
A crusading radio reporter takes on civic corruption. Cast: Ronald Reagan, June Travis, Eddie Acuff. Dir: Nick Grinde. C-59 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM Girls on Probation (1938)
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart. Cast: Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Henry O'Neill. Dir: William McGann. BW-64 mins, TV-G

8:45 AM My Foolish Heart (1949)
A young innocent's life is shattered when she falls for a World War II flyer. Cast: Susan Hayward, Dana Andrews, Kent Smith. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-99 mins, TV-PG

10:30 AM I Thank A Fool (1962)
A woman once convicted of euthanasia gets a job caring for her prosecutor's wife. Cast: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento. Dir: Robert Stevens. C-100 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

12:15 PM Top Secret Affair (1957)
A female publishing magnate tries to keep a general she hates from securing a prestigious appointment. Cast: Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Jim Backus. Dir: H.C. Potter. BW-100 mins, , Letterbox Format

2:00 PM Stolen Hours (1963)
An American heiress with an incurable disease falls in love with her surgeon. Cast: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker. Dir: Daniel Petrie. C-97 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

3:45 PM Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Family secrets come to light when a teen-ager murders her mother's lover. Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. C-114 mins, TV-PG

5:45 PM Honey Pot, The (1967)
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends. Cast: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Maggie Smith. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. C-132 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: HAL ROACH STUDIOS

8:00 PM Sons of the Desert (1933)
Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-65 mins, TV-G



9:15 PM General Spanky (1936)
Three youngsters get mixed up in a crucial Civil War battle. Cast: Spanky McFarland, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer. Dir: Gordon Douglas, Fred C. Newmeyer. BW-72 mins, TV-G



10:30 PM Topper (1937)
A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband. Cast: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC



12:15 AM There Goes My Heart (1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. Cast: Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-83 mins, TV-G

1:45 AM Zenobia (1939)
When he cures a circus elephant, a country doctor gets an unwanted friend. Cast: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke. Dir: Gordon Douglas. BW-73 mins, TV-G



3:00 AM Turnabout (1940)
Battling spouses accidentally switch bodies. Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-83 mins, TV-G

4:30 AM Way Out West (1938)
A pair of tenderfeet try to get the deed to a gold mine to its rightful owner. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-65 mins, TV-G, CC

5:45 AM Merrily We Live (1938)
A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter. Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-95 mins, TV-G