TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 10: Star of the Month: Sidney Poitier

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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

12:45 AM
YOUNGER GENERATION, THE ( 1929)
A rising businessman tries to make his immigrant parents assimilate.
Dir: Frank R. Capra Cast: Jean Hersholt , Lina Basquette , Ricardo Cortez .
BW- 84 mins,

2:19 AM
MASKS AND MEMORIES ( 1934)
In this short musical, three individuals try to entice their uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras. Vitaphone Release 1671-1673.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Lillian Roth , Weldon Heyburn , Queenie Smith .
BW- 32 mins,

3:15 AM
GREED ( 1924)
In this silent film, lust for gold tears apart a dentist and his wife.
Dir: Erich von Stroheim Cast: Gibson Gowland , ZaSu Pitts , Jean Hersholt .
C- 239 mins,

7:30 AM
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW ( 1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Cast: Lew Ayres , Laraine Day , Basil Rathbone .
BW- 81 mins, CC,

9:00 AM
HIGH WALL ( 1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife's murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Robert Taylor , Audrey Totter , Herbert Marshall .
BW- 99 mins, CC,

10:45 AM
MAD MISS MANTON, THE ( 1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Henry Fonda , Sam Levene .
BW- 80 mins, CC,

12:15 PM
BEDLAM ( 1946)
When an actress tries to reform an asylum, its corrupt keeper has her committed.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Boris Karloff , Anna Lee , Billy House .
BW- 79 mins, CC,

1:45 PM
SIGNPOST TO MURDER ( 1965)
A convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing.
Dir: George Englund Cast: Joanne Woodward , Stuart Whitman , Edward Mulhare .
BW- 77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM
QUO VADIS ( 1951)
A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Robert Taylor , Deborah Kerr , Leo Genn .
C- 174 mins, CC,

6:15 PM
GASLIGHT ( 1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she's going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson Cast: Anton Walbrook , Diana Wynyard , Frank Pettingell .
BW- 84 mins, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: SIDNEY POITIER

8:00 PM
RAISIN IN THE SUN, A ( 1961)
A black woman uses her late husband's life insurance to build a better world for her children.
Dir: Daniel Petrie Cast: Sidney Poitier , Claudia McNeil , Ruby Dee .
BW- 128 mins, CC,

10:15 PM
SLENDER THREAD, THE ( 1965)
A crisis line volunteer tries to save a woman from suicide.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Sidney Poitier , Anne Bancroft , Telly Savalas .
BW- 98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM
PATCH OF BLUE, A ( 1965)
A blind white girl falls in love with a black man.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Sidney Poitier , Shelley Winters , Elizabeth Hartman .
BW- 105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM
LILIES OF THE FIELD ( 1963)
An itinerant handyman in the Southwest gets a new outlook on life when he helps a group of German nuns build a chapel.
Dir: Ralph Nelson Cast: Sidney Poitier , Lilia Skala , Lisa Mann .
BW- 94 mins, CC,

3:45 AM
ALL THE YOUNG MEN ( 1960)
A black sergeant is forced to take command when his lieutenant is killed during the Korean War.
Dir: Hall Bartlett Cast: Charles Quinlivan , Alan Ladd , Ingemar Johansson .
BW- 86 mins, CC,

5:15 AM
SHIP THAT DIED, THE ( 1938)
This short film looks at the mystery of the Mary Celeste, a ship that was discovered abandoned for no discernible reason.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Leonard Penn , Rhea Mitchell , Edward Kilroy .
BW- 10 mins,

5:30 AM
LONG SHIPS, THE ( 1964)
Viking seamen battle a Moorish prince for possession of a golden bell.
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Richard Widmark , Sidney Poitier , Rosanna Schiaffino .
C- 126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format