TCM Schedule for Monday July 26, 2021 - Max Steiner - Part II

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The second part of this months' Max Steiner salute.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Heat Lightning (1934)
1h 3m | Crime | TV-G
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster

7:15 am Hot Summer Night (1957)
1h 26m | Crime | TV-PG
A hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
Director: David Friedkin. Cast: Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke

8:45 am The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
1h 51m | Crime | TV-PG
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway

10:45 am Red Hot Tires (1935)
1h 1m | Drama | TV-G
A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
Director: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns

12:15 pm Claudelle Inglish (1961)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-PG
A defiant Southern girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner her mother picked out.
Director: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Diane Mcbain, Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins

2:00 pm A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
A fading southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

4:15 pm Cry of the Hunted (1953)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen

5:45 pm Cool Hand Luke (1967)
2h 9m | Drama | TV-14
A free-spirited convict refuses to conform to chain-gang life.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon

8:00 pm Johnny Belinda (1948)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-G
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford

10:00 pm Now, Voyager (1942)
1h 57m | Romance | TV-G
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Director: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

12:15 am Casablanca (1942)
1h 42m | Romance | TV-PG
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

2:15 am Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
1h 50m | Adventure | TV-PG
The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas

4:15 am The Searchers (1956)
1h 59m | Western | TV-PG
An Indian-hating Civil War veteran tracks down the tribe that slaughtered his family and kidnapped his niece.
Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

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1. According to IMDB's trivia page about Now, Voyager (1942):

"Bette Davis complained about Max Steiner's Academy Award-winning musical score, saying that it was too intrusive on her performance."


Miss Bette could act her socks off, but she doesn't seem to recognize a great composer!