Pre-code alert! Things get wild today when Barbara Stanwyck takes over TCM.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008.
12:00 AM Professionals, The (1966)
A corrupt rancher hires four soldiers of fortune to rescue his wife from kidnappers. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan. Dir: Richard Brooks. C-118 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Mercenary, The (1968)
An idealistic patriot hires a gunman to lead the fight against a crooked mine-owner. Cast: Jack Pallance, Franco Nero, Tony Musante. Dir: Sergio Corbucci. C-106 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
4:00 AM Kill a Dragon (1967)
Chinese villagers hire a team of karate fighters to rid their home of a gangster. Cast: Jack Palance, Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray. Dir: Michael D. Moore. C-91 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
5:37 AM Short Film: Beyond The Line Of Duty (1942)
BW-22 mins
6:00 AM Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
Barbara Stanwyck's multi-faceted career reveals uncanny reflections of her off-screen life. Cast: Sally Field, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper. Dir: Richard Schickel. C-46 mins, TV-G
7:00 AM Illicit (1931)
Young free-thinkers turn conventionally jealous when they marry. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-80 mins, TV-G
8:30 AM Ten Cents A Dance (1931)
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley. Dir: Lionel Barrymore. BW-77 mins, TV-G
10:00 AM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable. Dir: William A. Wellman.
BW-72 mins, TV-G
11:15 AM Forbidden (1932)
On an ocean voyage, a librarian falls for a married man. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-85 mins, TV-G
12:45 PM Shopworn (1932)
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pits. Dir: Nick Grinde. BW-66 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 PM Ever In My Heart (1933)
During World War I, a woman suspects her husband of being a German spy. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-68 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:15 PM Baby Face (1933)
A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, John Wayne. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-76 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:45 PM Bride Walks Out, The (1936)
A model weds a struggling engineer then has her own struggles with domesticity. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young. Dir: Leigh Jason. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC
6:15 PM You Belong to Me (1941)
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. C-95 mins, TV-G
8:00 PM Locked Door, The (1929)
A woman once kidnapped by a wealthy womanizer tries to save her sister from him. Cast: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William 'Stage' Boyd. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-74 mins, TV-G
9:17 PM Short Film: Hot Sands (1931)
BW-10 mins
9:30 PM File On Thelma Jordon, The (1950)
A woman seduces a District Attorney and pulls him into a web of theft and murder. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-100 mins, TV-PG
11:15 PM Witness To Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill. Dir: Roy Rowland. BW-82 mins, TV-PG
12:45 AM Crime Of Passion (1957)
An executive's wife barters sex for her husband's business success. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr. Dir: Gerd Oswald. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM Clash By Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband's best friend. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
4:00 AM B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
A professor doesn't know his wife is an heiress. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC