TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 28: Ned Beatty Memorial Tribute

[CBHagman]

For your daytime viewing pleasure, there's a roster of Burt Lancaster films.

And tonight TCM pays tribute to the late Ned Beatty (1937-2021). Check the IMDB link below for a sense of his wide-ranging career. And don't miss Hear My Song, an entertaining movie from the 1990s that you might have missed in theaters.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000885/

Oh, and TCM persists with its strange omissions in movie information, and may I just say I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

2:00 am
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
1h 41m | Comedy
Determined to create an ideal family, an orphaned mental patient kidnaps an actress in recovery from drug addiction.
Director
No Director Available Psst! It's Pedro Almodóvar. Duh.
Cast
Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon

4:00 am
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
1h 6m | Silent | TV-G
This silent silhouetted animation is based on the Arabian Nights' tales.
Director
Lotte Reiniger
Cast
Berthod Bartosch, Alexander Karadan, Carl Koch

5:15 am
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939)
21m | Animation | TV-PG
Olive Oyl works for a movie company writing scripts. In one, she pictures herself as a princess and Popeye as Aladdin.
Director
No Director Available Psst! It's Dave Fleischer.
Cast
Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer, Margie Hines

6:00 am
His Majesty O'Keefe (1953)
1h 32m | Adventure | TV-PG
A Yankee sea captain tries to make his fortune in the South Seas.
Director
Byron Haskin
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Andre Morell

8:00 am
Jim Thorpe--All-American (1951)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-PG
In this stirring biographical drama, young Native American Jim Thorpe pursues his dreams of sports stardom.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran

10:00 am
Brute Force (1947)
1h 38m | Crime | TV-14
Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape...
Director
Jules Dassin
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

12:00 pm
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
1h 22m | Comedy | TV-PG
A preacher and a rebel leader change places during the Revolution.
Director
Guy Hamilton
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier

1:45 pm
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
1h 44m | Adventure | TV-G
A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
Director
Robert Siodmak
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok

3:45 pm
Seven Days in May (1964)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-14
In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being planned.
Director
John Frankenheimer
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

6:00 pm
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-PG
A crooked press agent stoops to new depths to help an egotistical columnist break up his sister's romance.
Director
Alexander Mackendrick
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: NED BEATTY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

8:00 pm
Network (1976)
2h 1m | Drama | TV-MA
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into the mad prophet of the airwaves.
Director
Sidney Lumet
Cast
Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

10:15 pm
Promises In The Dark (1979)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A divorced doctor is touched by the plight of her patient, a teenage girl dying of cancer....
Director
Jerome Hellman
Cast
Marsha Mason, Ned Beatty, Susan Clark

12:30 am
Hear My Song (1991)
1h 53m | Comedy
No Description available It's about an Irish nightclub owner who sets out to arrange a performance by a famous (and elusive) tenor...
Director
Peter Chelsom
Cast
Shirley Field, Constance Cowley, Tony Morando Also Adrian Dunbar, Tara Fitzgerald, and Ned Beatty.

2:30 am
Silver Streak (1976)
1h 53m | Adventure
A book editor takes a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, looking forward to a restful trip...
Director
Arthur Hiller
Cast
Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder

4:30 am
Chattahoochee (1989)
1h 43m | Biography
True story of a man who was institutionalized after being perceived as mentally disturbed.
Director
Mick Jackson
Cast
Ed Grady, Whitey Hughes, Wallace Merck

[brewens]

1. I loved Ned as CIA director in Hopscotch. I have my own copy. I should watch that again.

[Auggie]

2. Will always irritate me "Network" lost Best Picture Oscar to "Rocky."

I was in college when Network made it television debut. The campus joined Howard Beale in realtime as he made his plea. It was great.

[CBHagman]

3. I would have liked to have seen that.

I always found student audiences so responsive (and imaginative).