TCM Schedule for Wednesday, December 10 -- FRANK MILLER

[Longhorn]

4:45am Rita (2003)
A documentary on the life story and experiences of Rita Hayworth told through film clips and stills, archival footage, dramatic re-enactments and interviews.
BW-58 mins, TV-14

6:00am Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-73 mins, TV-PG

7:30am Curse of the Cat People, The (1944)
A lonely child creates an imaginary playmate with surprisingly dangerous results.
Cast: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Julia Dean. Dir: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch. BW-70 mins, TV-PG

8:51am Short Film: From The Vaults: Around The World, Under The Sea (Long Vers.) (1966)
C-8 mins

9:00am Flipper (1963)
A fisherman in the Florida Keys opposes his son's friendship with a dolphin.
Cast: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Kathleen Maguire. Dir: James B. Clark. C-90 mins, TV-G

10:32am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Glimpses Of Florida (1941)
C-9 mins

10:45am Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
The heroic dolphin helps capture a group of escaped convicts.
Cast: Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Brian Kelly. Dir: Leon Benson. C-98 mins, TV-G

12:30pm Village Of The Damned (1960)
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn. Dir: Wolf Rilla. BW-77 mins, TV-14

2:00pm Children Of The Damned (1964)
Space invaders impregnate six women with super-powered offspring.
Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris. Dir: Anton Leader. BW-90 mins, TV-14

3:30pm 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.
Cast: Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. C-149 mins, TV-G

6:00pm 2010 (1984)
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter.
Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea. Dir: Peter Hyams. C-116 mins, TV-14

What's On Tonight: TCM GUEST PROGRAMMER: FRANK MILLER

8:00pm Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart. Dir: Jules Dassin. BW-96 mins, TV-14

10:00pm High Noon (1952)
A retired Marshal must defend his town from a revengeful villain.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

11:30pm Bishop's Wife, The (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven. Dir: Henry Koster. BW-109 mins, TV-G

1:30am Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974)
Gunmen hold a New York subway train and its passengers for ransom.
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam. Dir: Joseph Sargent. C-104 mins, TV-MA

3:30am Man Called Horse, A (1970)
A English lord kidnapped by Indians becomes a part of their tribe.
Cast: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Manu Tupou. Dir: Elliot Silverstein. C-115 mins, TV-MA

[Matilda]

1. Frank Miller? Who he?

I looked up IMDb, and there are over a dozen - do you know which Frank Miller is being featured?

[Longhorn]

2. Good question! Here he is:

Frank Miller, TCM’s Guest Programmer for December, is a man of many talents. As a comic book artist, he is known for his gritty yet elegant film noir style in such adventures as Daredevil, Ronin and Batman stories including The Dark Knight Returns. As a screenwriter, his credits include three Robocop films. He also co-directed the 2005 feature-film version of Sin City, and produced the 2007 blockbuster 300 — both of which were based on his own comics.

“I’ve always loved crime movies,” Miller explains to host Robert Osborne in choosing The Naked City (1948), in which his favorite character is “New York City itself.” He admires Gary Cooper’s heroic performance in High Noon (1952), while finding that film to be “an epiphany...an inevitable surprise.” Miller picks The Bishop’s Wife (1947) because its cast — Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven — makes “the difference between a serviceable movie and a great movie.” The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) gets Miller’s nod partly because it “was made in the same decade when I cut my teeth in New York.”

by Frank Miller

[Matilda]

3. Thanks!

I felt dreadfully ignorant, because there are a number of actors, a
producer, and a couple of writers, and I had no idea who had done what.
Now I know who one of them is!