TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 14: Ouch! A Salute to Slapstick

Joe E. Brown

Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

12:45 AM
HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY (1934)

Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Bert Wheeler , Robert Woolsey , Ruth Etting .
BW-68 mins, CC,

2:00 AM
ELMER THE GREAT (1933)

A country hick bats his way to baseball stardom.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Joe E. Brown , Patricia Ellis , Frank McHugh .
BW-72 mins, CC,

3:23 AM
42ND. STREET SPECIAL, THE (1933)

This promotional short, part of Warner Bros. studios publicity campaign for "42nd Street" (1933), presents the send-off for a 7-car train assembled in conjunction with the film.
BW-6 mins,

3:30 AM
MOVIE CRAZY (1932)

A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives somebody else's invitation to test in Hollywood.
Dir: Clyde Bruckman Cast: Harold Lloyd , Constance Cummings , Kenneth Thomson .
BW-96 mins,

5:15 AM
SWEET MUSIC (1935)

A band leader shares a tempestuous romance with his lead singer.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Rudy Vallee , Ann Dvorak , Ned Sparks .
BW-95 mins, CC,

14 Wednesday

7:00 AM
GOLD DIGGERS IN PARIS (1938)

Three showgirls travel to Paris in search of rich husbands.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Rudy Vallee , Rosemary Lane , Hugh Herbert .
BW-97 mins, CC,

8:45 AM
BEYOND VICTORY (1932)

Four soldiers at the front think back on their reasons for enlisting.
Dir: John Robertson Cast: Bill Boyd , James Gleason , Lew Cody .
BW-70 mins,

10:00 AM
HIS GREATEST GAMBLE (1934)

A convicted killer breaks out of jail to help his mother-dominated daughter.
Dir: John Robertson Cast: Richard Dix , Dorothy Wilson , Bruce Cabot .
BW-71 mins,

11:15 AM
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD (1934)

After testifying at his parents' divorce trial, a young boy is shipped off to military school when neither parent wants him around.
Dir: John Robertson Cast: Karen Morley , Edward Arnold , Frankie Thomas .
BW-68 mins,

12:30 PM
CAPTAIN HURRICANE (1935)

Three buddies come to blows when they hire a beautiful housekeeper.
Dir: John Robertson Cast: James Barton , Helen Westley , Helen Mack .
BW-72 mins,

1:45 PM
STRAIGHT IS THE WAY (1934)

A small-time gangster wants to go straight until he loses his girl to a rival hood.
Dir: Paul Sloane Cast: Franchot Tone , May Robson , Karen Morley .
BW-60 mins,

3:00 PM
CHASING YESTERDAY (1935)

An aging archaeologist pursues the daughter of the woman he loved and lost.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr. Cast: Anne Shirley , O. P. Heggie , Helen Westley .
BW-77 mins,

4:30 PM
LADY IN QUESTION, THE (1940)

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Brian Aherne , Rita Hayworth , Glenn Ford .
BW-80 mins,

6:00 PM
OUTPOST IN MOROCCO (1949)

In the middle of a desert war, a Foreign Legionnaire falls for his Arab enemy's daughter.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: George Raft , Marie Windsor , Akim Tamiroff .
BW-91 mins,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: TCM SPOTLIGHT: OUCH! A SALUTE TO SLAPSTICK

8:00 PM
BANK DICK, THE (1940)

When he foils two robberies in one day, the town drunkard is hired to guard the local bank.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast: W. C. Fields , Cora Witherspoon , Una Merkel .
BW-72 mins, CC,

9:30 PM
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)

Count Dracula plots to put a simpleton's brain into the body of the Frankenstein monster.
Dir: Charles T. Barton Cast: Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , Lon Chaney [Jr.] .
BW-83 mins, CC,

11:00 PM
SOUTHERN YANKEE, A (1948)

A bellboy masquerades as a spy and lands behind enemy lines during the Civil War.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Red Skelton , Brian Donlevy , Arlene Dahl .
BW-91 mins, CC,

12:45 AM
INSPECTOR GENERAL, THE (1949)

A perpetual student is mistaken for a government official in a small Eastern European village.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Danny Kaye , Walter Slezak , Barbara Bates .
C-102 mins,

2:30 AM
ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING (1949)

A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Milton Berle , Virginia Mayo , Ruth Roman .
BW-116 mins, CC,

4:30 AM
PALM BEACH STORY, THE (1942)

To finance her husband's career, a married woman courts an eccentric millionaire.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Claudette Colbert , Joel McCrea , Mary Astor .
BW-88 mins, CC,