TCM Schedule for Saturday, February 9 - 20th Century Fox Film

[Bolo Boffin]

6:15 AM
Orchestra Wives (1942)

A woman falls in love with a musician in a band and learns about life as an orchestra wife.
Dir: Archie Mayo
Cast: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller.
BW-98 mins, TV-G


8:00 AM
Daddy Long Legs (1955)

A tycoon anonymously sponsors a French girl's college education.
Dir: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore.
C-127 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


10:15 AM
Carmen Jones (1954)

A sultry factory worker seduces a young soldier then dumps him for another man.
Dir: Otto Preminger
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey.
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


12:15 PM
Pinky (1949)

A light-skinned black woman returns home after passing for white in nursing school.
Dir: Elia Kazan
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters.
BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC


2:00 PM
No Way Out (1950)

A racist gangster forces a black doctor to tend to his injuries.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally.
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC


4:00 PM
Decision Before Dawn (1952)

During World War II, the U.S. Army uses German POWs as spies.
Dir: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner.
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC


6:15 PM
Titanic (1953)

An unhappily married couple realize their problems seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg.
Dir: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner.
BW-98 mins, TV-PG, CC


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8:00 PM
Viva Zapata! (1952)

Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata leads the peasants against a corrupt president.
Dir: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
The Robe (1953)

Biblical epic in which a Roman military tribune, who commands the unit that crucified Jesus Christ, tries to learn about the man he killed.
Dir: Henry Koster
Cast: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature.
C-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


12:30 AM
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

Three American rommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into a fountain.
Dir: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters.
C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


2:30 AM
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

A psychiatrist tries to help a woman integrate her split personalities.
Dir: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:15 AM
The Snake Pit (1948)

A young woman tries to recover her sanity in a corrupt mental institution.
Dir: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Olivia deHavilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn.
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

[Bolo Boffin]

1. The Snake Pit tonight - wasn't that the basis for American Horror Story - Asylum?

Or a book was the basis for both?