TCM Schedule for Saturday, June 1, 2013 -- The Essentials: Libel Suits

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM: Making Of Cannery Row, The (1982) -- C-9 mins

6:13 AM
Cave Explorers (1957)
In this Screenliner short, a group of Austrian speleologists explore a newly-discovered cave.
BW-8 mins

6:15 AM
Beast From Haunted Cave (1959)
Dir: Monte Hellman
Cast: Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff.
BW-66 mins, TV-PG

7:30 AM
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Nuclear tests set a dormant prehistoric monster on a path of destruction.
Dir: Eugène Lourié
Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:00 AM
The Phantom Tollbooth (1969)
A bored boy enters a fantasy world where letters and numbers are at war.
Dir: Chuck Jones
Cast: Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Candy Candido.
C-89 mins, TV-G, CC

10:34 AM
Facing Your Danger (1946)
Conquering the Colorado River is no easy task but the men in this exciting short make it look so easy!
Dir: Edwin E. Olsen
C-10 mins

10:45 AM
The Falcon In Danger (1943)
A society sleuth tracks a lost plane carrying $100,000.
Dir: William Clemens
Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard.
BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 PM
Lassie Come Home (1943)
A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to her lost family.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty.
C-89 mins, TV-G, CC

1:45 PM
A Patch Of Blue (1965)
A blind white girl falls in love with a black man.
Dir: Guy Green
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 PM
The Natural (1984)
An overaged baseball player comes out of nowhere to save his team.
Dir: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger.
C-138 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

6:10 PM: Spencer Tracy Bio (1962) -- BW-4 mins

6:15 PM
Pat And Mike (1952)
Romance blooms between a female athlete and her manager.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray.
BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC


TONIGHT ON TCM
THE ESSENTIALS: LIBEL SUITS

8:00 PM
Libeled Lady (1936)
When an heiress sues a newspaper, the editor hires a reporter to compromise her.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy.
BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC

9:45 PM
Libel (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 PM
The Life Of Emile Zola (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard.
BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC

1:30 AM
Sued for Libel (1940)
When he's sued for libeling a murder suspect, a hot shot reporter decides to solve the crime himself.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins
Cast: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lilian Bond.
BW-66 mins, TV-G

2:45 AM
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
A vampire cult stalks a gangster's daughter.
Dir: Richard Blackburn
C-85 mins, TV-14

4:15 AM
The Vampire (1957)
An experimental treatment turns a small-town doctor into a ravening vampire.
BW-76 mins, TV-14

5:45 AM
Delicious Dishes (1950)
Experts demonstrate such innovative kitchen gadgets as the cheese slicer and the melon baller.
BW-13 mins

[CBHagman]

1. "Libeled Lady" is fun.

We have a lot of Myrna Loy and William Powell fans here, as well as lovers of screwball comedy.