TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 18th.

[CBHagman]

12:00am Hair (1979)
A young man joins a hippie commune on the eve of reporting for military service.
Cast: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo. Dir: Milos Forman. C-121 mins, TV-MA

2:15am Alice's Restaurant (1969)
A young folksinger becomes a fugitive after dumping trash in the wrong place.
Cast: Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick. Dir: Arthur Penn. C-111 mins, TV-MA

4:15am Five Easy Pieces (1970)
A classical pianist who's dropped out of society returns to the family he deserted.
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush. Dir: Bob Rafelson. C-98 mins, TV-MA

6:00am Festival of Shorts #19 (1999)
TCM features two sports shorts from the vaults of Warner Bros. Kings of the Turf (1941)and Facing Your Danger (1946)
BW-22 mins, TV-G

6:30am Mountain Justice (1937)
A young lawyer defends a hillbilly girl who killed her father in self defense.
Cast: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Robert Barrat. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-83 mins, TV-G

8:00am Week-End Marriage (1932)
When her husband loses his job, a woman risks her marriage to become the breadwinner.
Cast: Loretta Young, Norman Foster, George Brent. Dir: Thornton Freeland. BW-65 mins, TV-G

9:09am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Violets In Spring (1936)
BW-21 mins

9:30am Love On The Run (1936)
Rival newsmen get mixed up with a runaway heiress and a ring of spies.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-80 mins, TV-PG

11:00am Possessed (1931)
A factory girl rises to the top as mistress of a tycoon, then falls in love.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-76 mins, TV-PG

12:30pm 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957)
A crashed spaceship unleashes a rapidly growing monster from Venus.
Cast: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia. Dir: Nathan Juran. BW-83 mins, TV-PG

2:00pm Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
Space invaders attack the nation's capital.
Cast: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Morris Ankrum. Dir: Fred F. Sears. BW-83 mins, TV-G

3:30pm War Of The Worlds, The (1953)
A scientist on vacation stumbles upon a Martian invasion.
Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne. Dir: George Pal. C-85 mins, TV-PG

5:00pm Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-81 mins, TV-14

6:30pm Lady From Shanghai, The (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-87 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: PSYCH 101

8:00pm A wealthy eccentric prefers the company of an invisible six-foot rabbit to his family.
Cast: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Cecil Kellaway. Dir: Henry Koster. BW-104 mins, TV-G

10:00pm What's New, Pussycat? (1965)
A fashion editor seeks psychiatric help when he can't stop beautiful women from pursuing him.
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen. Dir: Clive Donner. C-109 mins, TV-PG

12:00am What About Bob? (1991)
An insecure mental patient horns in on his psychiatrist's family vacation.
Cast: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty. Dir: Frank Oz. C-99 mins, TV-MA

1:51am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Little Bantamweight, The (1938) C-8 mins

2:00am Carefree (1938)
A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-83 mins, TV-G

3:30am Three on a Couch (1966)
When a psychiatrist refuses to marry until her patients are cured, her fiance sets out to do the job himself.
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Mary Ann Mobley. Dir: Jerry Lewis. C-109 mins, TV-PG

[lavenderdiva]

1. 'Rope', 'Harvey', and 'What About Bob?'

such terrific movies each of them! 'Rope': a fantastic journey into the mind of a mad killer, not to mention an interesting directoral twist wherein the entire movie is comprised of 10 minute 'takes'. Contrast that with 2 absolutely hilarious comedies 'Harvey' and 'What About Bob?'. Bunnies (how appropriate with Easter around the corner!) and Baby Steps. I don't want to give too much away!

[CBHagman]

2. (In Jimmy Stewart voice) "He's pooka."

Harvey introduced me to that word, as well as to the term "spiffed" as a synonym for "drunk."

Happy viewing!