TCM Schedule for Saturday, October 12, 2013 -- The Essentials: Crisis of Conscience

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6:00 AM
THE GOOD EARTH (1937)
Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements.
Dir: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly.
BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:19 AM
THE RAINBOW PASS (1937)
A wife challenges her husband's murderer to combat in this short film that introduces audiences to Chinese theater.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Chingwah Lee, Bessie Loo, Walter Soo Hoo.
BW-11 mins

8:30 AM
MYSTERY STREET (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges
Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:07 AM
CHALLENGE THE WILDERNESS (1951)
This promotional short offers a behind-the-scenes look at the feature "Westward the Women" (1951).
Dir: Jack Atlas
BW-11 mins

10:30 AM
SCREAM OF FEAR (1961)
A wheelchair-bound heiress doubts her sanity when she sees her dead father's body around the family estate.
Dir: Seth Holt
Cast: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd.
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:00 PM
THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL (1961)
An eminent doctor releases a dark force from within himself.
Dir: Terence Fisher
Cast: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee.
C-88 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

1:30 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

4:30 PM
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)
No one believes an amateur astronomer's spaceship sighting until the town's people begin disappearing.
Dir: Jack Arnold
Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake.
BW-80 mins, TV-G

6:00 PM
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL (1959)
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Dir: Ranald MacDougall
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer.
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:49 PM
FOUR MINUTE FEVER (1956)
This short film takes a look at races involving running a mile in under four minutes.
Dir: William Deeke
BW-9 mins

TONIGHT ON TCM
THE ESSENTIALS: CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE

8:00 PM
FRIENDLY PERSUASION (1956)
A peaceful Quaker family's sanctity is tested during the Civil War.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main.
BW-138 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:30 PM
THE HARDER THEY FALL (1956)
A cynical press agent exposes inhuman conditions in the boxing game.
Dir: Mark Robson
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:30 AM
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935)
A young student murders for money then tries to escape his guilt and a brilliant detective.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh.
BW-88 mins, TV-14, CC

2:15 AM
WEST OF ZANZIBAR (1928)
In this silent film, a mad African dictator plots revenge on the trader who stole his wife.
Dir: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan.
BW-65 mins, TV-G

3:30 AM
UNHOLY THREE (1925)
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Dir: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore.
BW-86 mins, TV-G

4:58 AM
THE FLAG: A STORY INSPIRED BY THE TRADITION OF BETSY ROSS (1927)
In this silent short film, George Washington appeals to Betsy Ross to help create a flag for the new United States.
Dir: Arthur Maude
Cast: Enid Bennett, Francis X. Bushman, Alice Calhoun.
C-20 mins, TV-G

5:30 AM
NOW PLAYING OCTOBER (2013) (2013)
BW-17 mins, TV-PG, CC