TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 13th: TCM Guest Programmer Robert Wuhl

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

12:00 AM Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:00 AM Great Sinner, The (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Ethel Barrymore. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 AM Man With A Million (1954)
On a bet, a man tries to see how much he can get without breaking a million-pound bank note. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire. Dir: Ronald Neame. C-89 mins, TV-G

5:30 AM I Walk the Line (1970)
A Southern sheriff risks his life when he falls for a moonshiner's daughter. Cast: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons. Dir: John Frankenheimer. C-96 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

7:15 AM Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-118 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS



9:15 AM Alibi Ike (1935)
A brash baseball star gets mixed up with gamblers and a pretty young girl. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC

10:29 AM Short Film: Putter, The (1931)
BW-13 mins,

11:00 AM Pat And Mike (1952)
Romance blooms between a female athlete and her manager. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray. Dir: George Cukor. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



12:45 PM Walk, Don't Run (1966)
Set during the Tokyo Olympics, one of three unlikely housemates plays matchmaker with the other two. Cast: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton. Dir: Charles Walters. C-114 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format



2:45 PM Gentleman Jim (1942)
Fanciful biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett. Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Ward Bond. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 PM Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Major League star Jimmy Piersall fights to save his sanity. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore. Dir: Robert Mulligan. BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 PM Downhill Racer (1969)
An ambitious skier sacrifices love and family to win. Cast: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv. Dir: Michael Ritchie. C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: TCM GUEST PROGRAMMER: ROBERT WUHL



8:00 PM To Be or Not to Be (1942)
A troupe of squabbling actors joins the Polish underground to dupe the Nazis. Cast: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-99 mins, TV-PG



10:00 PM Big Country, The (1958)
Feuding families vie for water rights in the old West. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston. Dir: William Wyler. C-167 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:00 AM Smile (1975)
A beauty contest disrupts the lives of a group of small-town eccentrics. Cast: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd. Dir: Michael Ritchie. C-113 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 AM Survivors, The (1983)
Two unemployed men become targets of a hit man whose crime they witnessed. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed. Dir: Michael Ritchie. C-103 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format

4:56 AM Short Film: Passenger, The: Professional Reporter (1975)
Trailer for "Professione: reporter" (1975). C-4 mins,

5:00 AM Convoy (1978)
Truckers form a mile-long convoy to protest the actions of an abusive sheriff. Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-111 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

I've only seen this twice, and the last time was some years ago now, but it was very, very funny. I adore Ernst Lubitsch – he was a master at farce, something I think we Anglos are not always as good at as Europeans.

If you've only ever seen the excruciatingly bad Mel Brooks remake – even Anne Bancroft couldn't save it – do yourself a favour and watch the original. You won't be disappointed, I promise you.