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Bolo Boffin

(23,796 posts)
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:36 PM Sep 2012

TCM Schedule for Saturday, September 21 -- The Essentials: Casino Night

6:00 AM
Maisie (1939)


A Brooklyn showgirl tries to clear a ranch foreman of murder charges.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
BW-75 mins, TV-G, CC


7:30 AM
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)


To annoy his family, a millionaire hires an out-of-work girl to pose as a gold digger.
Dir: Gregory La Cava
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale.
BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC


9:00 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, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


10:45 AM
The Mysterious Intruder (1946)


A detective discovers the woman he's been hired to track down is the key to an unusual inheritance.
Dir: William Castle
Cast: Richard Dix, Barton MacLane, Nina Vale.
BW-62 mins, TV-PG


12:00 PM
Mark of the Gorilla (1950)


Jungle Jim tries to stop a Nazi band masquerading as apes from retrieving a golden treasure.
Dir: William Berke
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Trudy Marshall, Suzanne Dalbert.
BW-68 mins, TV-PG


1:30 PM
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)


A blood-sucking monster stalks the crew of a U.S. spaceship.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding.
BW-69 mins, TV-PG


2:45 PM
Them! (1954)

Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Dir: Gordon Douglas
Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon.
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC


4:30 PM
The Thing From Another World (1951)


The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space.
Dir: Christian Nyby
Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite.
BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC


6:00 PM
The Time Machine (1960)

A turn-of-the-century inventor sends himself into the future to save humanity.
Dir: George Pal
Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux.
C-103 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


TONIGHT ON TCM: THE ESSENTIALS

CASINO NIGHT

8:00 PM
Gilda (1946)


A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she's married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
Any Number Can Play (1949)


The owner of a gambling casino tries to win back his estranged wife and child.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey.
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC


12:00 AM
Johnny O'Clock (1947)


Gambling hall owners get mixed up with a cop on the take, leading to murder and mystery.
Dir: Robert Rossen
Cast: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb.
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC


1:45 AM
Where It's At (1969)


A Vegas casino owner teaches his son the gambling business.
Dir: Garson Kanin
Cast: David Janssen, Robert Drivas, Rosemary Forsyth.
C-106 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format


3:45 AM
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)


A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature.
BW-98 mins, TV-PG, CC


5:30 AM
TCM Presents Elvis Mitchell Under the Influence: Ed Norton (2008)


Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell.
C-26 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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TCM Schedule for Saturday, September 21 -- The Essentials: Casino Night (Original Post) Bolo Boffin Sep 2012 OP
Three of the best sci-fi films ever. Graybeard Sep 2012 #1

Graybeard

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1. Three of the best sci-fi films ever.
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 12:58 PM
Sep 2012

And in a back-to-back feast.

Them! - 2:45pm, The Thing - 4:30pm,

The Time Machine - 6:00pm

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