TCM Schedule for Saturday, June 18 --- THE ESSENTIALS: SCREWBALL CLASSICS

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18 Saturday



6:00 AM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr.
BW-98 mins, TV-PG,

7:45 AM The People Vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)
An ice skater sues a young doctor for malpractice.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC,

9:15 AM Ring Of Fire (1961)
A group of delinquents hold a sheriff hostage in the middle of a forest fire.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin.
C-91 mins, TV-PG,

11:00 AM The Doorway of Doom (1936)
In Chapter Three of Ace Drummond, the ace pilot tries to decoy The Dragons planes while his sidekick escapes a secret prison.
BW-19 mins, TV-G,

11:30 AM The Radio Riddle (1936)
In Chapter Four of Ace Drummond, the ace pilot is accused of murdering one of The Dragon's henchmen.
BW-21 mins, TV-G,

12:00 PM Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Tarzan fights to keep a seductive female big game hunter from capturing too many animals.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield.
BW-72 mins, TV-PG,

1:30 PM Tokyo Joe (1949)
An American in post-war Japan gets caught up in the black market.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marley.
BW-89 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:10 PM Have Faith In Our Children (1955)
Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell urge moviegoers to donate to the Variety Club of Northern California, a charity for blind children.
BW-3 mins,

3:15 PM Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
A Spanish temptress falls for a haunted ship's captain.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick.
C-124 mins, TV-14,

5:30 PM The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968)
A deaf mute changes the lives of all he meets.
Dir: Robert Ellis Miller Cast: Alan Arkin, Chuck McCann, Stacy Keach Jr..
C-124 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:41 PM King Of The Islands (1935)
C-17 mins,


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: SCREWBALL CLASSICS

8:00 PM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A madcap heiress upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced scientist.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC,

10:00 PM Twentieth Century (1934)
A tempestuous theatrical director tries to win back the star he created and then drove away.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC,

11:42 PM Slapsie Maxie's (1939)
BW-16 mins,

12:00 AM Nothing Sacred (1937)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger.
C-74 mins, TV-PG,

1:30 AM Merrily We Live (1938)
A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray.
BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC,

3:15 AM Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
A woman's two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC,

5:00 AM The Awful Truth (1937)
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC,

[CBHagman]

1. Screwball comedies on parade.

I love the very title of Theodora Goes Wild, and it's always fun to see Melvyn Douglas in a classic comedy.