TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 30th: TCM Spotlight: Akira Kurosawa's 100th Birthday

This week Christians are marking Holy Week and Jews are observing Passover.

Tonight TCM continues its celebration of the 100th birthday of the acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa...and the theme during the day is BLUE. Check it out!

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

12:00 AM Night at the Opera, A (1935)
Three zanies turn an operatic performance into chaos in their efforts to promote their protege's romance with the leading lady. Cast: The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

1:49 AM Short Film: Hollywood Handicap (1938)
A group of musician stable hands race a horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Cast: Original Sing Band Dir: Buster Keaton BW-10 mins,

2:00 AM Day At The Races, A (1937)
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium. Cast: The Marx Bros., Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

4:00 AM At The Circus (1939)
The Marx Bros. team up to keep a circus from going bankrupt. Cast: The Marx Bros., Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden. Dir: Edward Buzzell. BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 AM Bill Murray (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell. C-29 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM Bluebeard (1944)
A 19th-century Parisian puppeteer is killing the young women he employs. Cast: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther. Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer BW-70 mins, TV-PG

7:20 AM Short Film: Colorful North Carolina (1942)
C-9 mins,

7:30 AM Carolina Blues (1944)
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes. Cast: Kay Kyser, Ann Miller, Victor Moore. Dir: Leigh Jason, BW-82 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM Blues In The Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan. Dir: Anatole Litvak. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:30 AM Paris Blues (1961)
Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:21 PM Short Film: Honolulu: Paradise Of The Pacific (1935)
C-8 mins,

12:30 PM Blue Hawaii (1961)
A Hawaiian playboy defies his possessive mother to take a job with a tourist agency. Cast: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury Dir: Norman Taurog. C-101 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox
Format



2:12 PM Short Film: Ray Kinney And His Royal Hawaiian Orch. (1938)
BW-11 mins,

2:30 PM Blue Gardenia, The (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can't remember the details of the encounter. Cast: Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 PM Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn't kill his cheating wife. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix. Dir: George Marshall. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:49 PM Short Film: Jammin' The Blues (1944)
In this short, prominent jazz musicans of the 1940s get together for a rare filming of a jam session. Cast: Lester Young, Marie Bryant, George 'Red' Callender. Dir: Gjon Mili. BW-10 mins,

6:00 PM Blue Skies (1946)
Vaudeville partners spend years vying for the same beautiful woman. Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield. Dir: Stuart Heisler. C-103 mins, TV-G

What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: AKIRA KUROSAWA'S 100TH BIRTHDAY

8:00 PM Dersu Uzala (1975)
A Russian explorer brings the Asiatic hunter who saved his life back to civilization. Cast: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. C-141 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

10:30 PM Kagemusha (1980)
Japanese clansmen force a poor thief to impersonate their dead warlord. Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. C-181 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format



1:45 AM Ran (1985)
An aging lord's decision to retire brings out the worst in his sons. Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. C-163 mins, , Letterbox Format



4:30 AM King Lear (1971)
An aging king mistakenly exiles the one daughter who loves him and divides his kingdom between the other two. Cast: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Ian Hogg. Dir: Peter Brook. BW-138 mins, TV-PG