TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 28th: Star of the Month: Jean Simmons

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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

12:00 AM Dial M For Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,



2:00 AM Wrong Man, The (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:50 AM Walter Pigeon Announcement (1955)
Walter Pidgeon makes an on-screen announcement at the opening of a new Metro Twin Drive-In.
BW-2 mins,

4:00 AM Strangers On A Train (1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,

5:51 AM How To Train A Dog (1936)
A satirical Robert Benchley short making fun of trying to raise and train a dog.
Dir: Arthur Ripley Cast: Robert Benchley,
BW-8 mins,

6:00 AM Grand Illusion (1937)
French POWs fight to escape their German captors during World War I.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG,



8:00 AM Woman's Face, A (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC,

9:48 AM Joan Crawford Biography (1962)
BW-4 mins,

10:00 AM Big Sleep, The (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,



12:00 PM Killers, The (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer's beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien.
BW-102 mins, TV-14, CC,

1:46 PM Killer-Dog (1936)
A police dog goes on trial for allegedly murdering sheep.
BW-10 mins,

2:00 PM Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman's older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC,

4:00 PM Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC,



6:00 PM Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: JEAN SIMMONS

8:00 PM Home Before Dark (1958)
A woman struggles to adjust to her unhappy marriage after time in a mental institution.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming.
BW-137 mins, TV-PG, CC,

10:30 PM Elmer Gantry (1960)
A young drifter finds success as a traveling preacher until his past catches up with him.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy.
C-147 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



1:00 AM Life at the Top (1965)
After marrying the boss' daughter, a workingman begins to doubt his abilities.
Dir: Ted Kotcheff Cast: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman.
BW-115 mins, TV-PG,

3:00 AM Happy Ending, The (1969)
A middle-aged woman leaves her husband and children in search of herself.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones.
C-112 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format



5:00 AM Mister Buddwing (1966)
A man suffering from amnesia confronts a series of women in his search for his memory.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette.
BW-99 mins, TV-14, CC,