TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 14h: Directed by Joseph H. Lewis

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

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: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

7:00 AM Voltaire (1933)
The famed French writer becomes the conscience of his country during the French Revolution. Cast: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay. Dir: John Adolfi. BW-72 mins, TV-G

8:30 AM Fighting Guardsman, The (1945)
A French nobleman robs from his fellow aristocrats to help the poor. Cast: Willard Parker, Anita Louise, Janis Carter. Dir: Henry Levin. BW-83 mins, TV-G

10:00 AM Dangerous Exile (1958)
A nobleman rescues King Louis XVI's son from the French Revolution. Cast: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Richard O'Sullivan. Dir: Brian Desmond Hurst. BW-92 mins, TV-PG

11:30 AM Black Book, The (1949)
Opponents plot to bring down Robespierre during the French Revolution. Cast: Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Arnold Moss. Dir: Anthony Mann. BW-90 mins, TV-PG

1:00 PM Marie Antoinette (1938)
Lavish biography of the French queen who "let them eat cake." Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-157 mins, TV-G, CC



3:45 PM Tale Of Two Cities, A (1935)
Charles Dickens' classic story of two men in love with the same woman during the French Revolution. Cast: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver. Dir: Jack Conway. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



6:00 PM Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution. Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey. Dir: Harold Young. BW-98 mins, TV-G

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7:39 PM Short Film: Chases Of Pimple Street (1934)
Newlywed bliss is interupted when Charley's sister-in-law refuses to move out, so he attempts to set her up on a date. Cast: Charley Chase, Betty Mack Dir: Charles Parrott BW-20 mins,

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: DIRECTED BY JOSEPH H. LEWIS

8:00 PM So Dark the Night (1946)
A French police detective investigates his fiancée's murder. Cast: Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. BW-70 mins, TV-PG

9:15 PM Gun Crazy (1949)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Morris Carnovsky. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. BW-87 mins, TV-PG

10:45 PM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
A young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow. Cast: Nina Foch, George Macready, Dame May Whitty. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis BW-65 mins, TV-PG



12:00 AM Cry Of The Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC

1:30 AM Desperate Search (1953)
A man fights to find his children after their plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. Cast: Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. BW-71 mins, TV-PG

3:00 AM Terror In A Texas Town (1958)
A whaler inherits his father's farm but has to fight off a corrupt town boss. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:30 AM Seventh Cavalry (1956)
An alleged coward tries to redeem himself by reclaiming General Custer's body. Cast: Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C. Flippen. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. C-76 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:48 AM Short Film: Cave Explorers (1957)
BW-8 mins,

that's a GREAT pic CBH!!

I've never seen 'My Name is Julia Ross' so I'm setting my DVR to record it- looks interesting & I always enjoy Dame May Whitty!

:hi:

...if I hadn't exploited the opportunity to post a picture of Norma Shearer.

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Mind you, I wanted to get Ronald Colman in there as well, for A Tale of Two Cities. I guess this is my chance.