TCM Schedule for Monday November 12- TCM Spolight: Great Adaptations

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TCM continues its spotlight on movie adaptations with a night of films based on American Book Award winners/nominees. Plus: daytime birthday tributes to Grace Kelly and director Jacuqes Tourneur.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM MOGAMBO (1953)
In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman. Dir: John Ford Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly. C-116 mins, TV-PG, CC,

8:00 AM DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,

10:00 AM GREEN FIRE (1954)
An emerald prospector clashes with a beautiful plantation owner in South America. Dir: Andrew Marton Cast: Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas. C-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:45 AM SWAN, THE (1956)
On the eve of her marriage to a prince, a noblewoman falls for her brother's tutor. Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan. C-108 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE (1939)
A famous detective investigates industrial espionage at a plane factory. Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull. BW-59 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:45 PM PHANTOM RAIDERS (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to stop enemy agents from sabotaging the Panama Canal. Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut. BW-70 mins, TV-PG,

4:00 PM SKY MURDER (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder. Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne. BW-72 mins, TV-PG,

5:15 PM LEOPARD MAN, THE (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders. Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks. BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC,

6:30 PM EASY LIVING (1949)
An aging football star risks his health when his greedy wife won't let him retire. Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Lizabeth Scott. BW-77 mins, TV-G, CC,

8:00 PM MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, THE (1955)
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak. BW-119 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II. Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr. BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:30 AM LOLITA (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov's racy classic focuses on an aging intellectual in love with a teenager. Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters. BW-153 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 AM HAUNTING, THE (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:15 AM CHOSEN, THE (1981)
Boys from different Judaic traditions build a friendship across cultural boundaries. Dir: Jeremy Paul Kagan Cast: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson. C-107 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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1. "The Haunting" is great!

Tremendous adaptation of Shirley Jackson's psychological novel, The Haunting of Hill House.

No organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

The Haunting of Hill House, opening paragraph. Shirley Jackson

A hearty recommendation. Catch Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) in a supporting role. Julie Hartis and Claire Bloom are outstanding.