TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 31: Summer Under the Stars: Peter Sellers

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The man. The characters. The disguises. The mayhem!

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

1:15 AM
Two Guys from Texas (1948)
1h 26m | Musical | TV-G
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Director
David Butler
Cast
Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone

3:00 AM
April Showers (1948)
1h 34m | Musical | TV-G
A family vaudeville act is torn apart by the father's drinking problem.
Director
James V. Kern
Cast
Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda

4:45 AM
This Marriage Business (1938)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-G
A reporter turns a small-town clerk into a hero and then falls for his daughter.
Director
Christy Cabanne
Cast
Victor Moore, Allan Lane, Vicki Lester

6:00 AM
Your Past Is Showing (1958)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
Bumbling blackmail subjects join forces to do in their tormentor.
Director
Mario Zampi
Cast
Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton

8:00 AM
tom thumb (1958)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Director
George Pal
Cast
Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn

10:00 AM
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
1h 23m | Comedy | TV-PG
An impoverished nation declares war on the U.S. hoping to lose and score foreign aid.
Director
Jack Arnold
Cast
Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell

11:30 AM
Only Two Can Play (1961)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-PG
A Welsh librarian fed up with his meager, married existence meets a beautiful woman with whom he tries to consummate an affair.
Director
Sidney Gilliat
Cast
Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell

1:30 PM
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-PG
Two poor little rich girls dog the steps of a womanizing pianist.
Director
George Roy Hill
Cast
Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Tippy Walker

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3:30 PM
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-14
A henpecked L.A. lawyer escapes into the world of hippies and free love.
Director
Hy Averback
Cast
Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young

5:30 PM
Being There (1979)
2h 10m | Comedy | TV-14
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Director
Hal Ashby
Cast
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: PETER SELLERS

8:00 PM
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-PG
Fearful that the Russians are fluoridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper, commanding officer of the U. S. Air Force base at Burpelson, unleashes a B-52 atomic bomb attack on Russia.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Peter Sellers (in multiple roles), George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

10:00 PM
After the Fox (1966)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A notorious con man poses as a film director to front a major caper.
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Cast
Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland

12:00 AM
Always on Sunday (1962)
TV-PG
Two undertakers have some fun at the beach before it's time go in and punch the clock.
Director
No Director Available
Cast
No Cast Information Available.

12:00 AM
The Party (1968)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-PG
A no-name, bumbling foreigner ends up at a posh Hollywood party and gets in one series of embarrassing pickles after another.
Director
Blake Edwards
Cast
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion

2:00 AM
The Bobo (1967)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG
To land a job, an aspiring singer has to seduce a heartless gold digger.
Director
Robert Parrish
Cast
Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi

4:00 AM
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
1h 48m | Comedy
On Dr. Fu Manchu's 186th birthday, someone spills his age-reversing elixir, and the evil doctor sends his minions off to find the ingredients to make more.
Director
Piers Haggard
Cast
Sid Caesar, Clement Harari, Simon Williams

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1. Will record some of these

and I highly recommend After The Fox. I went to the theater to see it as a kid because the Hollies did the theme song, and found it to be uproariously funny. It’s only improved with age for me. Victor Mature is hilarious and he performed his role in the best of humor.

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2. Being There, The Party, Dr Strangelove.

Essential viewing.

Fu Manchu was his last and worst.