TCM Schedule for Saturday, November 10 -- The Essentials: Meal Tickets

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM
The Public Enemy (1931)

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods.
BW-84 mins, TV-PG, CC


7:30 AM
The Maltese Falcon (1931)

In the first screen version of The Maltese Falcon, detective Sam Spade investigates the theft of a priceless statue.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges.
BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC


9:00 AM
Cornered (1946)

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel.
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:45 AM
Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)

Five siblings enlist a crusty old businessman to help save their mother from bankruptcy.
Dir: Charles Barton
Cast: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Ann Seese, Clarence Kolb.
BW-67 mins, TV-G


12:00 PM
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow
Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan.
BW-64 mins, TV-G, CC


1:15 PM
King Kong (1933)

A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York, where he wreaks havoc.
Dir: Merian C. Cooper
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC


3:15 PM
Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967)

A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man.
Dir: John Huston
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith.
C-109 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


5:15 PM
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

The survivors of a desert plane crash fight to get back in the air.
Dir: Robert Aldrich
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch.
C-142 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


THE ESSENTIALS: MEAL TICKETS

8:00 PM
Dinner At Eight (1933)

A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
The Thin Man (1934)

A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan.
BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 AM
The Moon Is Blue (1953)

Two womanizers fall for a woman determined to keep her virginity.
Dir: Otto Preminger
Cast: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara.
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC


2:00 AM
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

An aging couple's liberal principles are tested when their daughter announces her engagement to a black doctor.
Dir: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn.
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:00 AM
The Exterminating Angel (1962)

High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party.
Dir: Luis Buńuel
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere.
BW-92 mins, TV-PG

[Bolo Boffin]

1. Tonight has one of my favorite lines of all time:

"Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?"