TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 21st: Gangster Classics.

[CBHagman]

Bring on the made men and the molls, TCM. It's that kind of a day.



And we have a very definite Norman Lloyd Alert. See 6:00 p.m. for details.



It's also another birthday for me. I'll see you all at McGinty's! :toast:

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008.

1:00 AM Racketeer, The (1929)
A young beauty marries a gangster to help her musician boyfriend's career. Cast: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, John Loder. Dir: Howard Higgin. BW-66 mins, TV-G

2:15 AM Tom Sawyer (1973)
The classic American bad boy sails the Mississippi with his friend Huck Finn after their supposed deaths. Cast: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Jodie Foster. Dir: Don Taylor. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM Huckleberry Finn (1974)
Mark Twain's famed tale of a Missouri bad boy who helps a runaway slave escape to the North. Cast: Jeff East, Paul Winfield, David Wayne. Dir: J. Lee-Thompson. C-114 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
A swordsman and poet helps another man woo the woman he loves. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince. Dir: Michael Gordon. BW-113 mins, TV-PG

8:00 AM Buccaneer, The (1958)
French pirate Jean Lafitte tries to redeem his name helping the U.S. in the War of 1812. Cast: Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom. Dir: Anthony Quinn. C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 AM Father Goose (1964)
A WWII drifter finds himself protecting schoolgirls and their beautiful teacher. Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard. Dir: Ralph Nelson. C-116 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format



12:00 PM Rio Grande (1950)
A cavalry unit located on the Mexican border must control Indian uprisings. Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson. Dir: John Ford. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:00 PM Strategic Air Command (1955)
A baseball star takes to the air to help plan the U.S.' aerial defense. Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-114 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM Walk in the Sun, A (1946)
A platoon of American soldiers captures an Italian farmhouse. Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-116 mins, TV-14

6:00 PM Saboteur (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence. Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC

TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: GANGSTER CLASSICS

8:00 PM Public Enemies, The: The Golden Age of the Gansgter Film (2008)
Documentary that explores the development of the crime film at Warner Bros. and the rise of iconic stars of the genre such as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart BW-106 mins, , CC

9:45 PM Public Enemy, The (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. Cast: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Jean Harlow. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-84 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

11:15 PM Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse, The (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Anatole Litvak. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:45 AM Invisible Stripes (1939)
On his release from prison, a crook tries to stop his brother from following in his footsteps. Cast: George Raft, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC

2:15 AM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC



4:00 AM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic. Cast: James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



5:55 AM Short Film: James Cagney Biography (1962)
BW-4 mins,