TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 19: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: WESTERNS

[CBHagman]

Love and lynching (!) have their places on TCM's great schedule for Tuesday, February 19th, 2008.

And I hope you like westerns and Joseph Cotten, sometimes taken together!


12:00am Wuthering Heights (1939)
A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG



1:49am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Sword Fishing (1939)
BW-10 mins

2:00am Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A married violinist deserts his family when he falls for his accompanist.
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best. Dir: Gregory Ratoff. BW-70 mins, TV-14

3:15am Garden Of Allah, The (1936)
A monk deserts his calling to marry a beautiful woman he meets in the Sahara.
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone. Dir: Richard Boleslawski. C-79 mins, TV-PG

4:45am Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. C-185 mins, TV-G


Luise Rainer

7:55am San Antonio (1945)
A reformed rustler tracks down a band of cattle thieves and tries to reform a crooked dance-hall girl.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall. Dir: David Butler. C-109 mins, TV-PG


S.Z. Sakall

9:45am Arizona (1940)
A tough pioneer woman needs a young man's help in fighting land grabbers and finding love.
Cast: William Holden, Jean Arthur, Warren William. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. BW-122 mins, TV-G

12:00pm Cimarron (1931)
A husband and wife fight to survive in the early days of the Oklahoma Territory.
Cast: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Edna May Oliver. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. BW-124 mins, TV-PG



2:15pm 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

4:45pm Hondo (1954)
An Army man takes a widow and her son under his wing in Apache territory.
Cast: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond. Dir: John Farrow. C-84 mins, TV-PG

6:15pm Tin Star, The (1957)
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer. Dir: Anthony Mann. BW-93 mins, TV-PG


What's On Tonight: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: WESTERNS

7:49pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Greetings Bait (1943)
C-7 mins

8:00pm Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
A loner gets caught up in a posse's drive to find and hang three suspected rustlers.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-76 mins, TV-14


Anthony Quinn

9:20pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Facing Your Danger (1946)
Conquering the Colorado River is no easy task but the men in this exciting short make it look so easy!
Cast: Knox Manning Dir: Edwin E. Olsen C-10 mins

9:30pm Duel In The Sun (1946)
A fiery half-breed comes between a rancher's good and evil sons.
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten. Dir: King Vidor. C-144 mins, TV-14

12:00am Samson and Delilah (1949)
Epic re-telling of the story of the Biblical strongman laid low by love.
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, Angela Lansbury. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. C-128 mins, TV-PG

Fun trivia concerning S&D, including Groucho Marx's extremely rude comment regarding the casting of the picture... :rofl:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041838/trivia

2:15am Since You Went Away (1944)
A mother and wife struggle to cope while her husband is off serving in World War II.
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-177 mins, TV-G

Do not attempt to watch Since You Went Away without an ample supply of tissues and writing paper (for a thank-you note to those members of your family and circle of friends who served on the homefront or elsewhere in WWII).