TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 28: 31 Days of Oscar: Oscar A to Z

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

12:30 am
Summer of '42 (1971)
1h 42m | Romance | TV-14
A high school student falls in love, for the first time, with a World War II bride.
Director
Robert Mulligan
Cast
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser

2:30 am
The Sundowners (1960)
2h 13m | Comedy | TV-PG
An Australian sheepherder and his wife clash over their nomadic existence and their son's future.
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Cast
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov

5:00 am
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
2h 23m | Drama | TV-G
After a bout with polio, future president Franklin Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
Director
Vincent J. Donehue
Cast
Zina Bethune, Tim Considine, Alan Bunce

7:30 am
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-14
A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback.
Director
Herbert Ross
Cast
Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin

9:30 am
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
2h | Drama | TV-PG
A young gigolo returns to his southern hometown in search of the lost love of his youth.
Director
Richard Brooks
Cast
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight

11:45 am
Swing Time (1936)
1h 45m | Comedy | TV-G
To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to get involved with his dancing partner.
Director
George Stevens
Cast
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore

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1:30 pm
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
2h | Drama | TV-PG
A British lawyer sacrifices himself to save another man from the guillotine.
Director
Jack Conway
Cast
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allen, Edna May Oliver

3:45 pm
Test Pilot (1938)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-G
An irresponsible test pilot's wife and best friend try to get him to grow up.
Director
Victor Fleming
Cast
Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

5:45 pm
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
2h 8m | Romance | TV-G
Naval hero Lord Nelson defies convention to court a married woman of common birth.
Director
Alexander Korda
Cast
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray

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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: OSCAR A TO Z

8:00 pm
Them! (1954)
1h 34m | Horror | TV-PG
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Director
Gordon Douglas
Cast
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon

9:45 pm
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
1h 35m | Comedy | TV-G
A woman's two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
Director
Richard Boleslawski
Cast
Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell

11:30 pm
The Thin Man (1934)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-G
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Director
W. S. Van Dyke
Cast
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan

1:15 am
The Third Man (1949)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-14
A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Director
Carol Reed
Cast
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles

3:15 am
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
2h 18m | Drama | TV-PG
General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan.
Director
Mervyn Leroy
Cast
Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock

5:45 am
This Land Is Mine (1943)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A soft-spoken school teacher tries to prove he's not a Nazi collaborator.
Director
Jean Renoir
Cast
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders

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