TCM Schedule for Saturday, December 29 -- The Essentials: Tearjerkers

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6:00 AM
Little Dorrit: Part Two -- Little Dorrit's Story (1988)

An impoverished seamstress tries to help a once wealthy benefactor.
C-184 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format


9:15 AM
The Bishop Murder Case (1930)

Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a series of murders inspired by Mother Goose rhymes.
Dir: Nick Grindé
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young.
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC


10:45 AM
Streets of Ghost Town (1950)

Dir: Ray Nazarro
Cast: Charles Starrett, George Chesebro, Mary Ellen Kay.
BW-54 mins, TV-PG


12:00 PM
Smart Blonde (1936)

An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
Dir: Frank McDonald
Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw.
BW-59 mins, TV-G


1:15 PM
I Shot Jesse James (1949)

After shooting his best friend, an outlaw tries to cope with guilt.
Dir: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland.
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC


2:45 PM
Seven Days In May (1964)

An American military officer discovers his superiors are planning a military coup.
Dir: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March.
BW-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


5:00 PM
The Guns of Navarone (1961)

A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn.
C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


7:40 PM
Challenge Of Champions (1966)

A featurette giving a behind the cameras look at the filming of "Grand Prix" (1966) at the actual Grand Prix in Monaco.
C-13 mins


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THE ESSENTIALS: TEARJERKERS

8:00 PM
The Way We Were (1973)

A fiery liberal fights to make her marriage to a successful writer work.
Dir: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman.
C-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


10:15 PM
Love Affair (1939)

Near-tragic misunderstandings threaten a shipboard romance.
Dir: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya.
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 AM
Now, Voyager (1942)

A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC


2:00 AM
West Side Story (1961)

A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love.
Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn.
C-153 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:45 AM
Brief Encounter (1945)

Two married strangers meet in a train station and fall in love.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC