TCM Schedule for Saturday, September 10, 2022 - Featured: Jack Weston

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TCM Schedule for Saturday, September 10, 2022 - Featured: Jack Weston

(All Times Eastern.)

11:45 PM Cool Hand Luke (1967)

A brooding loner is sentenced to a prison chain-gang, stands up to the Nazi-like guards, and eventually becomes the leader of his fellow prisoners.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:00 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)

A deranged bandit holds a bank president's wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Ronny Howard.
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:30 AM Look In Any Window (1961)
A troubled teen loses his job as an aircraft mechanic and goes on a drinking binge.
Dir: William Alland Cast: Paul Anka, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


Short: 5:15 AM Age 13 (1955)
In this short film, a troubled teen deals with the death of his mother and the ill treatment of his stepfather.
Dir: Arthur Swerdloff Cast: Michael Keslin, Sid Davis.
Runtime: 26 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


Short: 5:45 AM Right Or Wrong? (1951)
In this short film, a young boy is arrested for breaking a window, and must decide between turning in his accomplices or taking the blame himself.
Dir: null Cast: David Smart
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N

6:00 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


Cartoon: 8:00 AM One Droopy Knight (1957)
Droopy is a knight competing with Butch to rescue the princess from a dragon terrorizing the kingdom.
Dir: Michael Lah Cast: null
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


Short: 8:08 AM How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 9 "The Driver" (1931)
During a dream, an inexperienced golfer gets driving advice from golf expert Bobby Jones in this short film. Vitaphone Release 4800.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: O.b. Keeler, Lucien Littlefield, David Torrence
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


Short: 8:19 AM Copenhagen (1937)
This focuses on the history, cultur, and customs of Copenhagen's inhabitants.
Dir: Ralph F. Donaldson Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Winton Hoch
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:28 AM Partners (1932)
An innocent cowboy is accused of murder.
Dir: Fred Allen Cast: Tom Keene, Nancy Drexel, Otis Harlan
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N


Serial: 9:30 AM Flash Gordon: The Death Mist (1940)



Flash and his friends travel to Ming's palace with Barin in a daring attempt to rescue the princess.
Dir: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor Cast: Sigmund Nielssen, Charles Middleton, George H Plympton
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: null Rating: TV-G CC: Y


Cartoon: 10:00 AM Floor Flusher (1953)
Olive is baking a cake when her faucet starts leaking. Bluto and Popeye arrive and both try to fix it. Popeye succeeds so a jealous Bluto starts a series of leaks to flood the house. All seems lost but the old faithful spinach comes to Popeye's rescue once more.
Dir: null Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Mae Questel
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC:


10:08 AM Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

The jungle king braves a lost prehistoric world to obtain malaria serum for the Allies.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


Short: 11:30 AM Wash Your Step (1936)
A salesman trains a singing and dancing washing machine sales force.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Charles Martin, Hal Leroy, Harry Lang
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


Pre-Code classic: 12:00 PM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he's sentenced to hard labor.
Dir: Mervyn Le Roy Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 PM A Walk in the Sun (1946)
A platoon of American soldiers captures an Italian farmhouse.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 PM Something of Value (1957)

The native tribes of Kenya stage a revolt against British settlers during the years of colonization and two boyhood friends--one white and the other black--are caught in the middle.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother's death.
Dir: Mike Hodges Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

SPOTLIGHT: WHAT A CHARACTER, JACK WESTON.

8:00 PM The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

A bored millionaire decides to live his life on the edge and stages a multimilion dollar bank heist, but falls in love with an insurance investigator (from the victim bank) who suspects him of the crime.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Jack Weston, Paul Burke
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


10:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)

A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Jack Weston, Richard Crenna
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


NOIR ALLEY: 12:00 AM Obsession (1949)
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife's lover in an acid bath.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:00 AM It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A tour of filming locations.

Deleted scene.

1963 press interview with Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney and Stanley Kramer.

A group of greedy clowns tear up the countryside in search of buried treasure.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Edie Adams, Mickey Rooney. And a cast of hundreds (of famous faces).
Runtime: 192 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
(Comment: One of my favorite films.)


5:00 AM American Masters: Mike Nichols (2016)
The life and 50th-year of director Mike Nichols, one of only two people who have won Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.
Dir: Elaine May Cast: Nathan Lane, Frank Langella, Julian Schlossberg
Runtime: 53 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y