TCM Schedule for Saturday, January 4 -- THE ESSENTIALS: BLOWING THE WHISTLE

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6:00 AM
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

A wheelchair-bound doctor fights off a homicidal maniac.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn, Donna Reed.
BW-84 mins, TV-G


7:30 AM
Sinner Take All (1936)

Members of a wealthy family are murdered one-by-one.
Dir: Erroll Taggart
Cast: Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia.
BW-74 mins, TV-PG


9:00 AM
My Brother Talks To Horses (1946)

A small boy's secret gifts help him pick racetrack winners.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: "Butch" Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC


10:45 AM
Secret Service Of The Air (1939)

A government agent battles smugglers.
Dir: Noel Smith
Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes.
BW-61 mins, TV-PG


12:00 PM
Fly Away Baby (1937)

Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
Dir: Frank McDonald
Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver.
BW-60 mins, TV-G


1:15 PM
Springfield Rifle (1952)

A Union officer goes undercover to root out Confederate raiders.
Dir: Andre DeToth
Cast: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian.
C-93 mins, TV-PG


3:00 PM
The Reivers (1969)

A young man comes of age when he stows away in his grandfather's stolen car.
Dir: Mark Rydell
Cast: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer.
C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


5:00 PM
How the West Was Won (1962)

Three generations of pioneers take part in the forging of the American West.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb.
C-165 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


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THE ESSENTIALS: BLOWING THE WHISTLE

8:00 PM
To Have And Have Not (1944)

A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall.
BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC


10:00 PM
The Whistler (1944)

A grieving widower hires an assassin to kill him only to have his late wife turn up alive.
Dir: William Castle
Cast: Richard Dix, J. Carrol Naish, Gloria Stuart.
BW-60 mins, TV-PG, CC


11:15 PM
Libel (1959)

A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


1:00 AM
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)

A mysterious stranger plays dueling families against each other in a Mexican border town.
Dir: Sergio Leone
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè.
C-100 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


2:45 AM
M (1931)

The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang
Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens.
BW-111 mins, TV-14


4:45 AM
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

A woman's two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC