TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 23, 2013 -- The Essentials: Girls With Guns

[Bolo Boffin]

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6:00 AM
PAID (1930)

A young innocent plots revenge after being sent to prison unjustly.
Dir: Sam Wood
Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost.
BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC


7:30 AM
FORSAKING ALL OTHERS (1934)

A woman pursues the wrong man for almost twenty years.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable.
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC


9:00 AM
THE HYPNOTIC EYE (1960)

A city is stricken by a wave of self-mutilations performed by beautiful women who appear to be in a hypnotic trance.
Dir: George Blair
Cast: Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson.
BW-78 mins, Letterbox Format


10:30 AM
THE CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS (1935)

Perry Mason tries to stay on the wagon while investigating the murder of a crooked beauty contest promoter.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo
Cast: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 PM
TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)

After digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey
Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-60 mins, TV-G, CC


1:15 PM
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)

A mysterious stranger plays dueling families against each other in a Mexican border town.
Dir: Sergio Leone
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté.
C-100 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


3:00 PM
MONTE WALSH (1970)

An aging cowboy faces changes in the West with the rise of civilization.
Dir: William A. Fraker
Cast: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance.
C-99 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


5:00 PM
BATTLE OF THE BULGE (1965)

A crack Nazi unit holds off the Allies during World War II.
Dir: Ken Annakin
Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan.
C-170 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


TONIGHT ON TCM
THE ESSENTIALS: GIRLS WITH GUNS

8:00 PM
GUN CRAZY (1950)

Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger.
BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC


9:45 PM
ANNIE OAKLEY (1935)

The famed female sharpshooter learns that you can't get a man with a gun when she falls for a rival marksman.
Dir: George Stevens
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas.
BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC


11:30 PM
GLORIA (1980)

A mild mannered man has been secretly working as an accountant for the mob.
Dir: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen.
C-122 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


1:45 AM
LA FEMME NIKITA (1990)

Instead of going to jail, a convicted felon is given a new identity and trained as a top secret assassin.
Dir: Luc Besson
Cast: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo.
C-117 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format


4:00 AM
STORY OF WOMEN (1989)

A working class woman in occupied France makes ends meet by performing abortions.
Dir: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Frantois Cluzet, Marie Trintignant.
C-108 mins, TV-14

[graham4anything]

1. TCM shouldn't use the gun issue as a selling point for their essential

BTW, Drew gotta go.

[CBHagman]

2. Tchéky Karyo

Via the ongoing TCM Monthly schedule diacritical mark issue, Tchéky Karyo's ritually mangled name was certain to pop out at me, and indeed it did. I really didn't know a thing about him, though he's turned up in everything from the Emilio Estevez-Martin Sheen father-son project known as The Way (2010) to the World War I mystery A Very Long Engagement (2004) to the TV movie And the Band Played On to Operation Dumbo Drop. Here he's in La Femme Nikita, part of the Girls with Guns line-up.

His credits:

[url]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001409/[/url]

[Bolo Boffin]

3. I knew I should have checked that one! :D n/t

[graham4anything]

4. I didn't realize cut/pastes could do that

reminds me when I was in France on the hotel's computers, and I couldn't get it to work
because of that

[CBHagman]

5. It was not a rebuke...

...just an excuse to point out a particular actor.

[Bolo Boffin]

6. A correction is welcome here, though.

I highly appreciate you speaking up.