TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 13, 2013 -- The Essentials: Rosalind Russell

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM
Sidewalks Of London (1938)

A street performer helps a young pickpocket find a new career as a dancer.
Dir: Tim Whelan
Cast: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison.
BW-86 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)

A kidnapped heiress falls in love with one of her captors.
Dir: St. John Legh Clowes
BW-103 mins, TV-PG

9:15 AM
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)

An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years.
Dir: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

10:45 AM
The Falcon's Alibi (1946)

A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
Dir: Ray McCarey
Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett.
BW-63 mins, TV-G

12:00 PM
The Painted Hills (1951)

A faithful collie protects a prospector from claim jumpers.
Dir: Harold Kress
Cast: Lassie, Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling.
C-69 mins, TV-G, CC

1:15 PM
3:10 To Yuma (1957)

A sheriff must run the gauntlet to get his prisoner out of town.
Dir: Delmer Daves
Cast: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr.
BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM
Rio Lobo (1970)

A Civil War veteran searches for the traitor behind a friend's death.
Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill.
C-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:15 PM
Where Eagles Dare (1969)

An Allied team sets out to free an American officer held by the Nazis in a mountaintop castle.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure.
C-155 mins, TV-14, CC

THE ESSENTIALS: ROSALIND RUSSELL

8:00 PM
The Women (1939)

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell.
BW-133 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:30 PM
Hired Wife (1940)

An ad man asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal.
Dir: William A. Seiter
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce.
BW-96 mins, TV-G

12:15 AM
The Feminine Touch (1941)

An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis.
BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC

2:00 AM
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)

A director courts disaster by filming his horror movie in a real haunted house.
Dir: Paul Harrison
Cast: John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine.
C-88 mins, TV-14

3:30 AM
The Haunting (1963)

A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM
Engagement Party (1956)

A man worries about his financial security when pressured into marriage.
C-28 mins, TV-PG

[longship]

1. "The Haunting"

This is a pretty damned good adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House played, like the novel, as a psychological drama. Pretty damned creepy. Scared the shit out of me when I saw it in my youth.

The cast is pretty damned good with Harris and Bloom dominating.

Watch for James Bond's Miss Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell, as Dr. Markway's wife.

Another great Robert Wise direction.

[CBHagman]

2. I saw that in the middle of the afternoon...

...back when the regular networks would air movies at that time of day, but it might as well have been the "dark and stormy night" of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Such was the effect.