TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 27: From Caligari to Hitler
There's a Peter Sellers tribute on TCM's daytime schedule, for no calendar-related reason that I can discern. Then again, it's always a good day for Peter Sellers movies.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
1:30 AM
I'll Take Sweden (1965)
A widower takes a job in Stockholm to get his daughter away from her boyfriend.
Dir: Frederick De Cordova Cast: Bob Hope , Tuesday Weld , Frankie Avalon .
C-97 mins, CC,
3:15 AM
Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
A stripper with a high IQ gets a job teaching at a college science department through a selection process determined by a robot.
Dir: Albert Zugsmith Cast: Mamie Van Doren , Tuesday Weld , Mijanou Bardot .
BW-94 mins, CC,
5:00 AM
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
Card sharps try to deal with personal problems during a big game in New Orleans.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen , Edward G. Robinson , Ann-Margret .
C-103 mins, CC,
6:45 AM
Bobo, The (1967)
To land a job, an aspiring singer has to seduce a heartless gold digger.
Dir: Robert Parrish Cast: Peter Sellers , Britt Ekland , Rossano Brazzi .
C-103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:30 AM
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
A henpecked L.A. lawyer escapes into the world of hippies and free love.
Dir: Hy Averback Cast: Peter Sellers , Jo Van Fleet , Leigh Taylor-Young .
C-94 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 AM
Tom Thumb (1958)
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Dir: George Pal Cast: Russ Tamblyn , Alan Young , June Thorburn .
C-92 mins, CC,
12:00 PM
Ladykillers, The (1956)
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady's boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Alec Guinness , Cecil Parker , Herbert Lom .
C-91 mins, CC,
1:45 PM
Never Let Go (1960)
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.
Dir: John Guillermin Cast: Richard Todd , Peter Sellers , Elizabeth Sellars .
C-91 mins, Letterbox Format
3:15 PM
Lolita (1961)
Vladimir Nabokov's racy classic focuses on an aging intellectual in love with a teenager.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: James Mason , Sue Lyon , Shelley Winters .
BW-153 mins, CC,
6:00 PM
World Of Henry Orient, The (1964)
Two poor little rich girls dog the steps of a womanizing pianist.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Peter Sellers , Paula Prentiss , Tippy Walker .
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER
8:00 PM
Pandora's Box (1929)
A young innocent's sexuality destroys all who come near her.
Dir: G. W. Pabst Cast: Louise Brooks , Fritz Kortner , Daisy D'Ora .
BW-134 mins,
10:30 PM
Diary Of A Lost Girl (1929)
A society girl falls from grace after she's seduced.
Dir: G. W. Pabst Cast: Louise Brooks ,
BW-99 mins,
12:15 AM
Westfront 1918 (1930)
German soldiers face terror and despair on the front lines during World War I.
Cast: Gustav Diessl , Claus Clausen , Else Heller .
BW-93 mins,
2:00 AM
3 Penny Opera, The (1931)
A notorious thief fights for the right to marry the beggar king's daughter.
Dir: G. W. Pabst Cast: Rudolph Förster , Carola Neher , Reinhold Schünzel .
BW-111 mins,
4:00 AM
Kameradschaft (1931)
German miners defy international prejudice to rescue French miners trapped beneath their countries' borders.
Cast: Ernst Busch , Andree Ducret , Alexander Granach .
BW-86 mins,
5:30 AM
Anna Christie (1931)
German-language adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic streetwalker in love with a shipwrecked sailor.
BW-85 mins,
