TCM Schedule for WEdnesday, June 22nd: Bob's Picks

[CBHagman]

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

1:30 AM Guys And Dolls (1955)
A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra.
C-149 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Bullet Is Waiting, A (1954)
A plane crash strands a policeman and his prisoner in the wilderness.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Stephen McNally.
C-82 mins, TV-G,

5:45 AM Affair With A Stranger (1953)
A playwright and his wife search the past for the key to saving their troubled marriage.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Mary Jo Tarola.
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC,

7:15 AM She Couldn't Say No (1954)
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt.
BW-89 mins, TV-G,

8:45 AM Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
An ambitious housemaid learns her employer murdered his wife.
Dir: Arthur Lubin Cast: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers.
C-90 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

10:15 AM This Could Be The Night (1957)
A schoolteacher gets a secretarial job at a gangster-run nightclub.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 PM Ball Of Fire (1941)
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka.
BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC,



2:15 PM Major and the Minor, The (1942)
A woman disguises herself as a little girl and ends up in a military academy.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson.
BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC,

4:00 PM Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957)
Charles Lindbergh risks his life to complete his historic flight from New York to Paris.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith.
C-135 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

6:30 PM Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)
TCM original documentary on prolific director, writer and producer Billy Wilder.
C-71 mins, TV-MA, CC,

7:50 PM Dexterity (1937)
BW-9 mins,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: BOB'S PICKS

8:00 PM Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Prospectors kidnap Jane and Boy to force the jungle king to reveal the location of a golden treasure.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Sheffield.
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC,

9:30 PM Bomba the Jungle Boy (1949)
A photographer and his daughter discover a wild boy in the jungle.
Dir: Ford Beebe Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens.
BW-71 mins, TV-G,

10:55 PM Ronald Coleman Bio (1962)
BW-4 mins,

11:00 PM Prisoner Of Zenda, The (1937)
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:45 AM King Without A Crown, The (1937)
BW-9 mins,

1:00 AM Prisoner Of Zenda, The (1952)
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern.
C-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:45 AM All The Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Brothers on a whaling schooner become romantic rivals.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth.
C-95 mins, TV-PG, CC,

4:30 AM Moonfleet (1955)
A British buccaneer is torn between three seductive women.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood.
C-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

[Staph]

1. Oh, be still, my heart!

The two best versions of The Prisoner of Zenda, back to back. Can I nap in the early evening, stay up late, and still be coherent on Thursday morning?

Yeah, yeah, I know, I could record the two, but I want to watch and I want to watch now. Which version is the best? Ronald Colman or Stewart Granger? Douglas Fairbanks, Jr or James Mason? Madeleine Carroll or Deborah Kerr? Mary Astor or Jane Greer? C. Aubrey Smith or Louis Calhern? What a delicious decision for a classic movie fan!

[CBHagman]

2. Ronald Colman in one, James Mason in the other.

I'm not sure what I'd do! :shrug: