TCM Schedule for Monday September 25 - Herbert Lom

After a day of movies set on trains, the Czech-born, London based Herbert Lom takes the spotlight (did you know he played the King of Siam in the first London production of THE KING AND I?).

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM WAGON TRAIN ( 1940)
Settlers and traders en route to the West fight off Indian attacks. Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt , Ray Whitley , Emmett Lynn . BW- 59 mins,

7:15 AM MURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR ( 1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder. Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Charlie Ruggles , Una Merkel , Mary Carlisle . BW- 63 mins, CC,

8:30 AM TALL TARGET, THE ( 1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride. Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dick Powell , Paula Raymond , Adolphe Menjou . BW- 78 mins, CC,

10:00 AM NARROW MARGIN, THE ( 1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride. Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw , Marie Windsor , Jacqueline White . BW- 72 mins, CC,

11:30 AM GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE ( 1903)
In this silent short, bandits rob the passengers on a train in this pioneering western. Dir: Edwin S. Porter Cast: Broncho Billy Anderson , Marie Murray , George Barnes . C- 11 mins,

11:45 AM GENERAL, THE ( 1927)
In this silent film, a Confederate engineer fights to save his train and his girlfriend from the Union army. Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Marion Mack , Glen Cavender , Jim Farley . BW- 75 mins,

1:15 PM DANGER LIGHTS ( 1931)
A family railroad is threatened when the owner's girl falls for a conductor. Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Louis Wolheim , Robert Armstrong , Jean Arthur . BW- 74 mins, CC,

2:45 PM LA BETE HUMAINE ( 1938)
A railroad engineer enters an affair with his friend's amoral wife. Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Jean Gabin , Simone Simon , Fernand Ledoux . BW- 101 mins,

4:30 PM STRANGERS ON A TRAIN ( 1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger , Ruth Roman , Robert Walker . BW- 101 mins, CC,

6:30 PM MURDER SHE SAID ( 1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues. Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford , Arthur Kennedy , Muriel Pavlow . BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM DARK TOWER, THE ( 1943)
A romantic triangle involving a hypnotist and two trapeze artists threatens to destroy a circus. Dir: John Harlow Cast: Herbert Lom , BW- 93 mins, CC,

9:45 PM PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE ( 1962)
Retelling of the story of a new opera disrupted by the actions of a deformed specter of the show's past who has an obsession with a chorus girl. Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Herbert Lom , Heather Sears , Thorley Walters . C- 84 mins, CC,

11:30 PM MAN WHO WATCHED TRAINS GO BY, THE ( 1952)
A business owner and his clerk go head to head over the company funds. Dir: Harold French Cast: Claude Rains , Michael Nightingale , Felix Aylmer . C- 82 mins,

1:15 AM LADYKILLERS, THE ( 1956)
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady's boardinghouse to plot a major heist. Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Alec Guinness , Cecil Parker , Herbert Lom . C- 91 mins, CC,

3:00 AM TWIST OF FATE ( 1954)
An actress living on the Riviera discovers her fiance is a criminal. Dir: David Miller Cast: Ginger Rogers , Lilly Kann , Stanley Baker . C- 89 mins,

4:45 AM SHOT IN THE DARK, A ( 1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband. Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers , Elke Sommer , George Sanders . C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format