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Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Friday, November 14, 2014 -- Friday Night Spotlight - Road Movies
During the day, TCM is featuring the films of Dick Powell, born Richard Ewing Powell on November 14, 1904, in Mountain View, Arkansas. And in prime time, it's more road movies. Enjoy!6:00 AM -- The King's Vacation (1933)
Monarch thinks he can find a simpler life with his former wife.
Dir: John G. Adolfi
Cast: Mr. George Arliss, Marjorie Gateson, Dudley Digges
61 min
7:15 AM -- Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
A promoter neglects his wife to make a singer a radio star.
Dir: Ray Enright
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
90 min, CC
8:45 AM -- Shipmates Forever (1935)
An admiral's son gives up the Navy for a career as a song-and-dance man.
Dir: Frank Borzage
Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone
109 min, CC
10:45 AM -- Broadway Gondolier (1935)
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolph Menjou
99 min
12:30 PM -- Stage Struck (1936)
Broadway hopefuls put on a show.
Dir: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William
92 min, CC
2:15 PM -- Hearts Divided (1936)
Napoleon's younger brother falls for a girl from Baltimore.
Dir: Frank Borzage
Cast: Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles
76 min, CC
3:45 PM -- Right Cross (1950)
A boxer's ego battles his love for his manager's daughter.
Dir: John Sturges
Cast: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban
90 min
5:30 PM -- Susan Slept Here (1954)
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Dir: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis
C-98 min, CC, Letterbox Format
7:15 PM -- Now Playing November (2014)
18 min, CC
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FRIDAY NIGHT SPOTLIGHT: ROAD MOVIES
8:00 PM -- Wild Strawberries (1957)
On his way to an awards ceremony, a distinguished professor thinks back on his loveless life.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand
92 min
10:00 PM -- Five Easy Pieces (1970)
A classical pianist who's dropped out of society returns to the family he deserted.
Dir: Bob Rafelson
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith
C-98 min, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM -- Lost in America (1985)
A discontented yuppie couple quit their jobs to rediscover America on the road.
Dir: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Garry Marshall
C-91 min
1:45 AM -- Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
An impoverished girl masquerades as a boy to run with a gang of young hobos.
Dir: William A. Wellman
Cast: Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, Rochelle Hudson
68 min, CC
3:00 AM -- Bound For Glory (1976)
True story of folk singer Woody Guthrie, who rose to the top while fighting for the rights of migrant farm workers.
Dir: Hal Ashby
Cast: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
C-148 min, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM -- MGM Parade Show #33 (1955)
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part Two of "The Pirate" and a clip from "Gaby."
26 min
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TCM Schedule for Friday, November 14, 2014 -- Friday Night Spotlight - Road Movies (Original Post)
Staph
Nov 2014
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. I love Wild Strawberries.
It is a poignant film which begins with a somewhat creepy Bergman dream sequence.
One of Bergman's best from the fifties.
(I love Smiles of a Summer Night, too, from that era.)