TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 11: Director Anatole Litvak/Star of the Month: Fox Stars

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If you think you don't know Anatole Litvak, you might be surprised. Check out the Ukrainian-born director's IMDB profile:

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

12:15 AM The Cider House Rules (1999)
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Dir: Lasse Hallström Cast: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:

2:30 AM A Simple Plan (1998)
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.
Dir: Sam Raimi Cast: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:

4:45 AM The Luzhin Defence (2000)
Two worlds collide when an eccentric chess grandmaster falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
Dir: Marleen Gorris Cast: John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC:

6:45 AM The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:30 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:30 AM All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:00 PM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman's daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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2:30 PM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 PM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

5:45 PM The Journey (1959)
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards Jr.
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Fox Stars

8:00 PM Blood and Sand (1941)
A married matador's rise to stardom is complicated by an affair with a beautiful aristocrat.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 PM Forever Amber (1947)
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:45 AM Broken Lance (1954)
After being released from prison, having taken the fall for his father--a rancher who sabotaged a mine that was destroying his cattle stock--a son returns to seek vengeance on his three brothers, who he feels drove his hardworking, tough-spirited father to death.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:30 AM Spartacus (1960)
The slaves of ancient Rome revolt and are quashed.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Runtime: 182 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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