TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 24: Salute to Fox
Get your tissues and popcorn ready. What a roster! All this and Shirley Temple singing "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
12:45 AM
FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH ( 1968)
Subway excavations unearth a deadly force from beyond space and time.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker Cast: James Donald , Andrew Keir , Barbara Shelley .
C- 98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:35 AM
AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA (LONGER FEATURETTE) ( 1966)
This promotional short offers a look at the feature film "Around the World Under the Sea" (1966).
C- 8 mins,
2:45 AM
MAROONED ( 1969)
Three U.S. astronauts face a slow death when their rockets fail during a space voyage.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Gregory Peck , Richard Crenna , David Janssen .
C- 129 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM
TWELVE TO THE MOON ( 1960)
An international team boards a spaceship to the moon.
Dir: David Bradley Cast: Ken Clark , Michi Kobi , Tom Conway .
BW- 75 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
6:17 AM
CITY OF CHILDREN ( 1949)
This short film looks at a community in Illinois that is the home for orphaned children.
BW- 10 mins,
6:30 AM
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED ( 1960)
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla Cast: George Sanders , Barbara Shelley , Martin Stephens .
BW- 77 mins, CC,
8:00 AM
FAITHLESS ( 1932)
A spoiled rich girl is wiped out by the Depression.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Tallulah Bankhead , Robert Montgomery , Hugh Herbert .
BW- 77 mins, CC,
9:30 AM
DANGEROUS ( 1935)
A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress he's fallen in love with.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Bette Davis , Franchot Tone , Margaret Lindsay .
BW- 78 mins, CC,
11:00 AM
SUSPICION ( 1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Joan Fontaine , Sir Cedric Hardwicke .
BW- 99 mins, CC,
12:45 PM
PRINCESS O'ROURKE ( 1943)
A flying ace's romance with a princess creates diplomatic problems.
Dir: Norman Krasna Cast: Olivia De Havilland , Robert Cummings , Charles Coburn .
BW- 94 mins, CC,
2:30 PM
MATING GAME, THE ( 1959)
A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Debbie Reynolds , Tony Randall , Paul Douglas .
C- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 PM
BUTTERFIELD 8 ( 1960)
A party girl ruins her life when she falls for a married man.
Dir: Daniel Mann Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Laurence Harvey , Eddie Fisher .
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
6:15 PM
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS ( 1952)
A female gangster learns she is losing her vision.
Dir: Felix Feist Cast: Joan Crawford , Dennis Morgan , David Brian .
BW- 97 mins, CC,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SALUTE TO FOX
8:00 PM
BRIGHT EYES ( 1934)
Society snobs get more than they bargained for when they take in their late housekeeper's orphaned daughter.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Shirley Temple , James Dunn , Jane Darwell .
BW- 85 mins, CC,
9:30 PM
LAURA ( 1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney , Dana Andrews , Clifton Webb .
BW- 88 mins, CC,
11:15 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE ( 1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star's career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Bette Davis , Anne Baxter , George Sanders .
BW- 138 mins, CC,
1:45 AM
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT ( 1947)
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Gregory Peck , Dorothy McGuire , John Garfield .
BW- 118 mins, CC,
3:48 AM
HEAVENLY MUSIC ( 1943)
In this short film, a bandleader must prove his worth to enter the Hall of Music in heaven.
Dir: Josef Berne Cast: Fred Brady , Eric Mayne , Lionel Royce .
BW- 22 mins,
4:15 AM
BLACK SWAN, THE ( 1942)
When he's named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean.
Dir: Henry King Cast: Tyrone Power , Maureen O'Hara , Laird Cregar .
C- 85 mins, CC,
5:45 AM
AGONY AND THE ECSTASY, THE ( 1965)
Michelangelo fights censorship and an autocratic pope to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Charlton Heston , Rex Harrison , Diane Cilento .
C- 139 mins, CC, Letterbox Format