TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 3: Summer Under the Stars: Sidney Poitier

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In this installment of Summer Under the Stars, Sidney Poitier's in the house, all day and all night.

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

12:30 AM
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-G
A department store owner goes undercover as an employee to thwart union activists.
Director
Sam Wood
Cast
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn

2:30 AM
The More the Merrier (1943)
1h 44m | Comedy | TV-G
The World War II housing shortage brings three people together, two of them for an unlikely romance.
Director
George Stevens
Cast
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn

4:30 AM
Danger Lights (1931)
1h 27m | Romance | TV-G
A family railroad is threatened when the owner's girl falls for a conductor.
Director
George B. Seitz
Cast
Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur

6:00 AM
Edge of the City (1957)
1h 25m | Drama | TV-PG
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
Director
Martin Ritt
Cast
John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden

7:30 AM
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-14
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Director
Richard Brooks
Cast
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern

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9:30 AM
Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-G
A stray dog brings together a young boy and an old man in the Georgia swamps.
Director
William A. Wellman
Cast
Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon deWilde

11:30 AM
Band of Angels (1957)
2h 7m | Romance | TV-PG
A Southern belle fights to survive slavery after learning her mother was Black.
Director
Raoul Walsh
Cast
Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier

2:00 PM
Duel at Diablo (1966)
1h 43m | Western | TV-14
Racial tensions flair when a black officer joins a Cavalry troop fighting the Indians.
Director
Ralph Nelson
Cast
James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson

4:00 PM
The Bedford Incident (1965)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-PG
Sea drama depicts life aboard a US destroyer assigned to patrol the North Sea and monitor Russian submarine activity during the Cold War.
Director
James B. Harris
Cast
Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur

6:00 PM
A Warm December (1972)
1h 39m | Romance | TV-PG
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, he meets a beautiful dignitary and falls for her.
Director
Sidney Poitier
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Yvette Curtis, Esther Anderson

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8:00 PM
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
The Younger family strives to get out of their ghetto neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.
Director
Daniel Petrie
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

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10:15 PM
A Patch of Blue (1965)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A young blind white woman, who is living with her abusive mother and has been kept sheltered inside most of her life, befriends a Black man, who opens new worlds to her.
Director
Guy Green
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

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12:15 AM
Pressure Point (1962)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-PG
A black psychiatrist tries to help a racist convict deal with his mental demons.
Director
Hubert Cornfield
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk

2:00 AM
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
1h 42m | Western | TV-14
A con man helps a group of former slaves survive the perils of the Wild West in their search for the promised land.
Director
Sidney Poitier
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

4:00 AM
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
1h 44m | Comedy | TV-PG
Two ordinary Joes entangle themselves in an underworld mess while out to find a stolen lottery ticket worth fifty grand.
Director
Sidney Poitier
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Lee Chamberlin