TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 27: Summer Under the Stars: Edmond O'Brien

[CBHagman]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

12:00 AM
Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Gregory Peck , Sophia Loren , Alan Badel .
C-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Sophia Loren , Marcello Mastroianni , Aldo Giuffrè .
C-114 mins, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM
Ghosts - Italian Style (1969)
An unemployed opera singer and his wife find jobs as caretakers in a haunted castle.
Dir: Renato Castellani Cast: Sophia Loren , Vittorio Gassman , Mario Adorf .
C-93 mins, CC,

6:00 AM
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Charles Laughton , Sir Cedric Hardwicke , Thomas Mitchell .
BW-117 mins, CC,

8:00 AM
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O'Brien , Frank Lovejoy , William Talman .
BW-71 mins, CC,

9:30 AM
Cry in the Night, A (1956)
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Dir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Edmond O'Brien , Brian Donlevy , Natalie Wood .
BW-75 mins,

11:00 AM
Cow Country (1953)
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Edmond O'Brien , Helen Westcott , Bob Lowry .
BW-81 mins, CC,

12:30 PM
Up Periscope (1959)
A U.S. frogman infiltrates a Japanese-held island during World War II.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: James Garner , Edmond O'Brien , Andra Martin .
C-111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 PM
Last Voyage, The (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Robert Stack , Dorothy Malone , George Sanders .
C-91 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 PM
Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Viveca Lindfors , Dane Clark , Virginia Mayo .
BW-91 mins, CC,

6:00 PM
White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney , Virginia Mayo , Edmond O'Brien .
BW-113 mins, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: EDMOND O'BRIEN

8:00 PM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Edmond O'Brien , Pamela Britton , Luther Adler .
BW-84 mins, CC,

9:30 PM
Act of Murder, An (1948)
When a judge learns his wife has terminal brain cancer, he begins to consider mercy-killing.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Fredric March , Edmond O'Brien , Florence Eldridge .
BW-91 mins,

11:15 PM
Seven Days in May (1964)
An American military officer discovers his superiors are planning a military coup.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , Fredric March .
BW-118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM
Bigamist, The (1953)
A woman discovers her husband has another family in another city.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Joan Fontaine , Ida Lupino , Edmund Gwenn .
BW-79 mins, CC,

3:00 AM
Obliging Young Lady (1941)
A lawyer's secretary tries to protect a controversial client from prying eyes at an over-crowded hotel.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: Joan Carroll , Edmond O'Brien , Ruth Warrick .
BW-80 mins, CC,

4:30 AM
Parachute Battalion (1942)
Army men train for the parachute corps.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Robert Preston , Nancy Kelly , Edmond O'Brien .
BW-75 mins, CC,

[longship]

1. Does the name Quasimodo ring a bell?

[Auggie]

2. Only on Hump Day ...

which, oddly enough, is when this wonderful film airs.