TCM Schedule for Saturday, May 9, 2012 -- The Essentials: Early Henry Fonda

6:00 AM
UP GOES MAISIE (1946)



A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks out to steal his ideas.
Dir: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke.
BW-89 mins, TV-G


7:30 AM
THE VIKING QUEEN (1967)



A Roman captain tries to keep Druids and his own unit from destroying a Viking empire.
Dir: Don Chaffey
Cast: Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston.
C-89 mins, TV-PG, CC


9:15 AM
THE KILLER IS LOOSE (1956)



A crook tries to avenge his wife's accidental shooting by a cop.
Dir: Budd Boetticher
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey.
BW-73 mins, TV-PG


10:45 AM
TRAPPED BY BOSTON BLACKIE (1948)



When the pearl necklace he's been hired to guard goes missing, a reformed thief is the prime suspect.
Dir: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Chester Morris, June Vincent, Richard Lane.
BW-67 mins, TV-G


12:00 PM
DICK TRACY: THE GHOST TOWN MYSTERY, BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS, and STRATOSPHERE ADVENTURE (1937)



In the seventh, eighth, and ninth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective is dragged underwater behind a submarine, must escape a deadly pit, and his plane is shot down by his own brother.
BW, 20 mins, 19 mins, and 18 mins, TV-G


1:15 PM
THE LEARNING TREE (1969)



A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks's autobiography.
Dir: Gordon Parks
Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans.
C-107 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


3:15 PM
INTERNATIONAL VELVET (1978)



In this sequel to National Velvet, a former racing champ helps turn a delinquent girl into an Olympic rider.
Dir: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Nanette Newman, Christopher Plummer, Tatum O'Neal.
C-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


5:30 PM
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


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
THE ESSENTIALS: EARLY HENRY FONDA

8:00 PM
JEZEBEL (1938)



A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939)



A young couple fights off Indian attacks to start a farm in the Mohawk Valley.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver.
C-104 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 AM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)



A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC


1:30 AM
WINGS OF THE MORNING (1937)



When a young horse trainer falls for a Gypsy girl, it reignites an old family feud.
Dir: Harold D. Schuster
Cast: Annabella, Leslie Banks, D. J. Williams.
C-87 mins, TV-G


3:15 AM
SLIM (1937)



Electric linemen compete on the job and in love.
Dir: Ray Enright
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, Stuart Erwin.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC


4:45 AM
LET US LIVE (1939)



Two wrongly convicted men are sentenced to death.
Dir: John Brahm
Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy.
BW-68 mins, TV-PG