TCM Schedule for Saturday, November 15 --- RALPH MEEKER

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15 Saturday



6:00 AM The Big Knife (1955)
An unscrupulous movie producer blackmails an unhappy star into signing a new contract. Cast: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger. Dir: Robert Aldrich. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:00 AM A Study in Scarlet (1933)
Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the case when secret society members start dropping like flies. Cast: Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, June Clyde. Dir: Edwin L. Marin. BW-72 mins, TV-G

9:15 AM Murder at the Baskervilles (1941)
Sherlock Holmes returns to Baskerville Hall to track down a stolen racehorse. Cast: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Lyn Harding. Dir: Thomas Bentley. BW-65 mins, TV-G

10:30 AM Raiders Of The Seven Seas (1953)
A legendary pirate captures a Spanish galleon and tries to claim a countess as his bride. Cast: John Payne, Donna Reed, Lon Chaney, Jr. Dir: Yves Allegret, Sydney Salkow. C-88 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 PM Joan Allen (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell. C-27 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:30 PM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
True story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ. Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Eileen Heckart. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

2:30 PM Ring of Fear (1954)
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus. Cast: Mickey Spillane, Clyde Beatty, Pat O'Brien. Dir: James Edward Grant. C-93 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 PM Escape From Fort Bravo (1953)
The Civil War complicates the Cavalry's battle against Indians. Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe. Dir: John Sturges. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
A militiaman falls for a Frenchwoman and tries to protect her people from land grabbers. Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Oliver Hardy. Dir: George Waggner. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC

7:44 PM Short Film: Glimpses Of Kentucky (1941)
C-8 mins,

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8:00 PM Paths Of Glory (1957)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:43 PM Short Film: The Big Dog House (1930)
In this short from the Dogville series, dogs play out a story of jealousy, murder and justice thwarted. Cast: Oscar, Buster, Jiggs. Dir: Zion Myers, Jules White. BW-16 mins, TV-G

10:00 PM Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
Convicts escape prison to uncover hidden loot. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Lon Chaney. Dir: Howard W. Koch. BW-83 mins, TV-PG

11:30 PM Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Albert Dekker. Dir: Robert Aldrich. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM Glory Alley (1952)
A boxer's drinking problem threatens his career and his love life. Cast: Leslie Caron, Ralph Meeker, Kurt Kasznar. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC

3:00 AM Desert Sands (1955)
A member of the French Foreign Legion falls for an Arab woman whose family has sworn to kill all foreigners. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J. Carrol Naish. Dir: Lesley Selander. C-88 mins, TV-G

4:30 AM It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)
A giant octopus attacks San Francisco. Cast: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis. Dir: Robert Gordon. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format