TCM Schedule for Monday June 10, 2024 - Spotlight: Great Film Composers

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Today's salute spotlights composers ranging from Bernard Hermann to Danny Elfman.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM The Jolson Story (1946)
2h 8m | Musical | TV-G
The singer and star of the first "talkie" risks it all to become a star.
Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest

8:15 AM Above and Beyond (1952)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
The pilot who helped drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima struggles with the demands of the dangerous mission.
Director: Melvin Frank. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker

10:30 AM Buck Privates (1941)
1h 24m | Comedy | TV-G
Sidewalk salesman Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown accidentally enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in boot camp.
Director: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Bud Abbott

12:00 PM Irma la Douce (1963)
2h 22m | Comedy | TV-14
A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living prostitute.
Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi

2:30 PM Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
1h 57m | Drama | TV-14
A husband and wife fight to conquer alcoholism.
Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford

4:30 PM La Strada (1954)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.
Director: Federico Fellini. Cast: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart

6:30 PM Laura (1944)
1h 28m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she's dead, the obsessed detective can't get her out of his mind.
Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
1h 49m | Horror | TV-PG
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin

10:00 PM A Place in the Sun (1951)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
An ambitious young man wins an heiress' heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters

12:15 AM The Cider House Rules (1999)
2h 6m | Drama | TV-PG
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Director: Lasse Hallström. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine

2:30 AM A Simple Plan (1998)
2h 1m | Crime | TV-MA
Three blue-collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their discovery from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust start to chip away at the plan.
Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda

4:45 AM The Luzhin Defence (2000)
1h 49m | Adaptation | TV-14
Two worlds collide when an eccentric chess grandmaster falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
Director: Marleen Gorris. Cast: John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James

[JoseBalow]

1. La Strada is one of my all-time favorite films

I'll watch it every chance I get