TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 3rd: Playing the Ponies

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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

1:45 AM Shotgun Stories (2007)
When their father dies, two sets of half brothers launch a deadly feud.
Cast: Michael Shannon, Doulgas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs. Dir: Jeff Nicholas.
C-90 mins, TV-MA,

3:30 AM Innocence (2000)
Youthful lovers reunite 40 years later.
Cast: Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom. Dir: Paul Cox.
C-96 mins, TV-MA,

5:15 AM Now Playing May (2011) (2011)
BW-18 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:41 AM Stopover in Hollywood (1963)
A travel documentary-style short, stopping at various landmarks and attractions in Hollywood, CA.
C-16 mins, CC, Letterbox Format


6:00 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, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM The World Changes (1933)
When a farmer strikes it rich in business, success goes to his head.
Cast: Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy.
BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

9:07 AM VITAPHONE PICTORIAL REVIEW #61 (1938)
A Vitaphone short containing three unique segments: Chemical Magic, about the making and uses of plastics, Hare and Hound, about greyhound racing, and Liquid Enchantment, about perfume.
BW-8 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:15 AM Dinky (1935)
A military school cadet's mother is framed and sent to prison.
Cast: Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor. Dir: D. Ross Lederman.
BW-65 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:30 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette. Dir: Michael Curtiz.
BW-73 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

11:52 AM NEW AUDIOSCOPIKS, THE (1938)
BW-7 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 PM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins. Dir: Alan Crosland.
BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:21 PM Movie Memories #2 (1934)
A short history of Hollywood's humble beginnings and early stars.
BW-8 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM The Man With Two Faces (1934)
An actor uses his skills to protect his sister from her sinister husband.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Louis Calhern. Dir: Archie Mayo.
BW-73 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

2:44 PM BELIEVE IT OR NOT #3 (1931)
BW-7 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 PM Midnight (1939)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore. Dir: Mitchell Leisen.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

4:41 PM Gem-Jams (1943)
Leon Errol's wife suspects him of cheating so she hires a private detective and finds the results surprising.
Cast: Leon Errol, Dorothy Christy Dir: Lambert Hillyer
BW-18 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM The Great Lie (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, Letterbox Format

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: PLAYING THE PONIES

8:00 PM A Day at the Races (1937)
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Cast: The Marx Bros., Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan. Dir: Sam Wood.
BW-109 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format



10:00 PM Stablemates (1938)
A broken down veterinarian saves a stable boy's prize racehorse.
Cast: Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney Margaret Hamilton. Dir: Sam Wood.
BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

11:34 PM RACES TO REMEMBER (1956)
An RKO horse racing short showing highlights of some of the previous ten years' best thoroughbred horse races.
BW-8 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:45 PM Fast Company (1953)
The heiress to a racing stable uncovers underhanded dealings.
Cast: Howard Keel, Nina Foch, Polly Bergen. Dir: John Sturges.
BW-68 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

1:00 AM The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
Fictionalized account of the legendary racehorse's training and triumphs.
Cast: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister. Dir: David Butler.
C-93 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM Glory (1956)
A young woman's devotion to her racehorse creates romantic problems.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood. Dir: David Butler.
C-100 mins, TV-G,

4:30 AM Pride of the Blue Grass (1939)
A jockey trains a blind horse for the Grand National.
Cast: Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates. Dir: William McGann.
BW-65 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

5:45 AM Sporting Blood (1931)
A horse passes through a series of owners on the road to the Kentucky Derby.
Cast: Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans. Dir: Charles Brabin.
BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format