TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 5 --- The Essentials: Cool Hand Luke

[lavenderdiva]

5 Saturday



5:15 AM Our Relations (1936)
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Cast: Laurel & Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler. Dir: Harry Lachman. BW-73 mins, TV-G, CC

6:30 AM Short Film: Weather Wizards (1939)
BW-9 mins,

6:45 AM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler. Dir: Rudolph Mate. BW-84 mins, TV-14, CC

8:15 AM Storm in a Teacup (1937)
A small-town politician tries to end his daughter's romance with a crusading reporter. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker. Dir: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville. BW-86 mins,

9:45 AM Fighting Trouble (1956)
The Bowery Boys try to make their name as crime photographers. Cast: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Adele Jergens. Dir: George Blair. BW-61 mins,

11:00 AM Son Of Lassie (1945)
The beloved collie goes to war to help the resistance in occupied Norway. Cast: Peter Lawford, June Lockhart, Donald Crisp. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. C-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

1:00 PM The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
A World War II 4-F saves the U.S. Navy when he's transformed into a dolphin. Cast: Don Knotts, Andrew Duggan, Jack Weston. Dir: Arthur Lubin. C-99 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

2:43 PM Short Film: Mental Poise (1938)
BW-7 mins,

3:00 PM To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
A brash young Marine has to redeem himself after trying to romance a female officer. Cast: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott. Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. C-86 mins, , CC

4:30 PM Cimarron (1960)
A pioneer couple plays a major role in the settling of Oklahoma. Cast: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-148 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


The Essentials: Cool Hand Luke

7:00 PM Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A free-spirited convict refuses to conform to chain-gang life. Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin. Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. C-126 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

9:15 PM The Defiant Ones (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

11:00 PM 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

12:45 AM Hell's Highway (1932)
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars. Cast: Richard Dix, Tom Brown, Louise Carter. Dir: Rowland Brown. BW-62 mins, TV-PG

2:00 AM Chain Gang (1950)
A reporter gets a job as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions. Cast: Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie Lord, Emory Parnell. Dir: Lew Landers. BW-70 mins,

3:15 AM Deep Valley (1947)
A farmer's daughter helps an escaped convict. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris. Dir: Jean Negulesco. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC

[CBHagman]

1. That's one testosterone-rich schedule.

Quite a line-up.

[lavenderdiva]

2. Ha!!

:rofl: You're absolutely right!! Whew!