TCM Schedule for Friday, June 13

[Bjornsdotter]

13 Friday


6:00 AM---- Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-75 mins, TV-PG


7:30 AM---- Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Three women join the Navy to find husbands. Cast: Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan. Dir: Sidney Lanfield. C-110 mins, TV-G, CC


9:30 AM---- George Washington Slept Here (1942)
A pair of New Yorkers face culture shock when they buy a dilapidated country house. Cast: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Percy Kilbride. Dir: William Keighley. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC


11:03 AM---- Short Film: Give Me Liberty (1936)
C-21 mins,


11:30 AM---- Night In Casablanca, A (1946)
A hotel manager in postwar Casablanca tackles renegade Nazis. Cast: The Marx Brothers, Charles Drake, Sig Ruman. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-85 mins, TV-G


1:00 PM---- Major Dundee (1965)
Cavalry misfits cross the Mexican border to destroy an Indian outpost. Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


3:30 PM---- Quiet American, The (1957)
An American economist gets caught between Communists and colonialists in Indochina. Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Giorgia Moll. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


5:45 PM---- Devil's Brigade, The (1968)
Experienced soldiers and misfits join forces to create a World War II commando unit. Cast: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards. Dir: Andrew V. McLaglen. C-132 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


8:00 PM---- Way West, The (1967)
A senator hires a veteran scout to accompany a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark. Dir: Andrew V. McLaglen. C-122 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


10:15 PM---- Tall Stranger, The (1957)
When rustlers leave him for dead, a Westerner throws in his lot with the wagon train whose inhabitants have rescued him. Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Michael Ansara. Dir: Thomas Carr. C-83 mins, TV-PG


11:45 PM---- Westward The Women (1951)
A frontiersman leads a wagon train full of mail-order brides. Cast: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, John McIntire. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-117 mins, TV-PG


1:45 AM---- Short Film: Challenge Of The Wilderness (1951)
BW-11 mins,


2:00 AM---- Machine Gun McCain (1970)
A gangster defies the mob by going ahead with a casino job they had called off. Cast: John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk. Dir: Giuliano Montaldo. C-96 mins, TV-MA, CC


3:45 AM ---- Underworld, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay. Dir: Samuel Fuller. BW-98 mins, TV-PG


5:30 AM---- Festival of Shorts #24 (2000)
TCM promotes two MGM comedy shorts produced by Peter Smith: Menu (1933) and Penny Wisdom (1937). C-22 mins, TV-G, CC


Enjoy!

[CBHagman]

1. One Western I love...

...is Westward the Women, which TCM only recently began airing. It's B&W, manages to combine adventure, tragedy, and comedy, and I have to watch it almost any time it comes on. I may even be tempted to stay up late tonight.