TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 20th: Harold Lloyd/150th Anniversary of the Civil War

[CBHagman]

I had to get the Harold Lloyd bit in there!

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

12:15 AM Beau Geste (1939)
Three brothers in the French foreign legion fight off murderous Arabs and a sadistic sergeant.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston. Dir: William A. Wellman.

BW-113 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Cast: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings. Dir: Irving Cummings.

BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM The Uninvited (1944)
A brother and sister buy a house with a ghostly secret.
Cast: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp. Dir: Lewis Allen.
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM Wise Girl (1937)
A rich girl plays poor to win over a Greenwich Village artist.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel. Dir: Leigh Jason.
BW-70 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

7:15 AM Safety Last! (1923)
In this silent film, a small-town boy out to impress his girlfriend scales a skyscraper in the big city.
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young. Dir: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor.
BW-73 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format



8:30 AM Girl Shy (1924)
In this silent film, a small-town boy raises a ruckus when he writes a book about how to handle women.
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels. Dir: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format



10:00 AM The Freshman (1925)
In this silent film, a naive college boy tries to join the football team after making a fool out of himself.
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict. Dir: Fred C. Newmeyer.
BW-76 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

11:19 AM BELIEVE IT OR NOT #12 (1931)
BW-8 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 AM Welcome Danger (1929)
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young Dir: Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair.
BW-115 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders. Dir: Blake Edwards.
C-102 mins, TV-PG,

3:15 PM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Lloyd Bacon.
BW-96 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson. Dir: George Pollock.
BW-81 mins, TV-G,

6:30 PM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Edward Buzzell.
BW-87 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR

8:00 PM Alvarez Kelly (1966)
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Cast: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule. Dir: Edward Dmytryk.
C-110 mins, TV-PG,

10:00 PM Virginia City (1940)
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Michael Curtiz.
BW-121 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

12:15 AM The Siege at Red River (1954)
A Cavalry captain tries to keep the Indians from getting their hands on Gatling Guns.
Cast: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone. Dir: Rudolph Mate.
C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 AM Great Day in the Morning (1956)
The Civil War triggers unrest in Colorado.
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman. Dir: Jacques Tourneur.
C-92 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:30 AM Hangman's Knot (1952)
Rebel soldiers raid a Union gold shipment, then learn the Civil War has been over for a month.
Cast: Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jarman, Jr. Dir: Roy Huggins.
C-81 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM Devil's Doorway (1950)
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Cast: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond. Dir: Anthony Mann.
BW-84 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format