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Bolo Boffin

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Fri Mar 1, 2013, 02:59 AM Mar 2013

TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 2 - 31 Days Of Oscar: United Artists

7:00 AM
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954)


A shipwrecked Englishman fights to survive on a desert island.
Dir: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Daniel O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández, Felipe de Alba.
C-89 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


8:30 AM
Elmer Gantry (1960)


A young drifter finds success as a traveling preacher until his past catches up with him.
Dir: Richard Brooks
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy.
C-147 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


11:00 AM
Inherit The Wind (1960)


In the twenties, a schoolteacher creates a national furor when he breaks the law against teaching evolution.
Dir: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly.
BW-128 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


1:15 PM
Some Like It Hot (1959)


Two musicians on the run from gangsters masquerade as members of an all-girl band.
Dir: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon.
BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


3:30 PM
The Fortune Cookie (1966)


A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
Dir: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich.
BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


5:45 PM
The Apartment (1960)


An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray.
BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


TONIGHT ON TCM
31 DAYS OF OSCAR – UNITED ARTISTS

8:00 PM
Around The World In 80 Days (1956)


A Victorian gentleman bets that he can beat the world's record for circling the globe.
Dir: Michael Anderson
Cast: Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley.
C-182 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


11:15 PM
West Side Story (1961)


A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love.
Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn.
C-153 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2:00 AM
The Train (1965)


French resistance fighters try to stop the Nazis from taking a trainload of art treasures to Germany.
Dir: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau.
BW-133 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:15 AM
Toys In The Attic (1963)


Man finds trouble when he brings young bride back to his New Orleans home.
Dir: George Roy Hill
Cast: Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 2 - 31 Days Of Oscar: United Artists (Original Post) Bolo Boffin Mar 2013 OP
Elmer Gantry is one of my favs. longship Mar 2013 #1

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Elmer Gantry is one of my favs.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 04:34 PM
Mar 2013

Lancaster won Best Actor and Shirley Jones won Best Supporting Actress. Jones plays a prostitute, against type for her, and was astounding.

I am posting this too late, but watch for this one in the future if you've never seen it.

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