TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 2: British Productions/Drama at Sea

[CBHagman]

Well, July is going to be an interesting month, if today's schedule is anything to go by. There are familiar classics and some rarities. The British are invading, and the sea is threatening.

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

1:00 AM The Girl from Missouri (1934)
A gold-digging chorus girl tries to keep her virtue while searching for a rich husband.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:30 AM Primrose Path (1940)
The youngest child in a family of prostitutes tries to go straight with a working man.
Dir: Gregory La Cava Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joel Mccrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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4:15 AM Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 AM Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
Advertising executives turn a model's romance with a stunt man into a publicity stunt.
Dir: John Boorman Cast: Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, Lenny Davidson
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:45 AM The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

9:30 AM The Walking Stick (1970)
A beautiful polio victim is seduced into helping with a robbery.
Dir: Eric Till Cast: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

11:15 AM Hold On! (1966)
Rocket scientists consider naming a space ship after Herman's Hermits.
Dir: Arthur Lubin Cast: Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:45 PM Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
A young innocent gets involved with an older, married man.
Dir: Desmond Davis Cast: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:30 PM A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who would go on to make music history as the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 PM Tom Jones (1963)
In 18th century England, an abandoned orphan is adopted by a Squire. The young Tom Jones grows up to become a bawdy womanizer.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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6:15 PM Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
A factory worker lives for the chance to have fun on the weekends.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Field, Rachel Roberts
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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What's on Tonight: Drama at Sea

8:00 PM Lifeboat (1944)
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 PM The Last Voyage (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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11:45 PM Captains Courageous (1937)
A spoiled rich boy is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:00 AM Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
As the cruel captain of the HMS Bounty, a ship bound for Tahiti, William Bligh wins few friends. When the crew members finally tire of his abuse, Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny, resulting in Bligh's unceremonious removal from the ship. While Christian and the remaining crew sail on to Tahiti, Bligh becomes intent on exacting revenge, and he targets Roger Byam, a sailor who had actually tried to stop the mutiny.
Dir: Frank Lloyd Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:30 AM The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The skipper of a sunken ship stands trial for negligence.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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[JoseBalow]

1. I'm looking forward to Gold Diggers of 1933

It's one of my favorites of the genre, and such a great cast!

[CBHagman]

2. The time is always golden...

...for a gold diggers movie. I think I saw my first at a vintage theater when I was in high school. Great fun!

[JoseBalow]

3. They really are so much fun!

I always watch whenever they come on. And Busby Berkeley, he had a golden touch, didn't he? Ned Sparks is always awesome too, I love that guy. And don't even get me started with Guy Kibbee, he steals every scene he's ever been in - one of my all time favorite character actors!