Wednesday, September 30, 2009

~October TMC Tevo Alert




Oct. 1

1:30am Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940)
Oklahoma farmers dispossessed during the Depression fight for better lives in California.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin Dir: John Ford BW-129 mins, TV-G
Oct.2
6:00am 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: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle Dir: Sam Wood BW-91 mins, TV-G
9:00pm Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter Dir: Alfred Hitchcock C-114 mins, TV-PG
Oct. 3
8:00pm Funny Girl (1968)
Comedienne Fanny Brice fights to prove that she can be the greatest star and find romance even though she isn't pretty.
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis Dir: William Wyler C-157 mins, TV-PG
10:45pm Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Illicit lovers fight to stay together during the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution.
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness Dir: David Lean C-200 mins, TV-PG
Oct. 4
9:00am Brewster's Millions (1945)
A veteran has to spend $1 million in two months to inherit a fortune.
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Dir: Allan Dwan BW-79 mins, TV-G
Oct. 5
9:00pm American in Paris, An (1951)
An American artist finds love in Paris but almost loses it to conflicting loyalties.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary Dir: Vincente Minnelli C-114 mins, TV-PG
11:00pm Gigi (1958)
A Parisian girl is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage.
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold Dir: Vincente Minnelli C-116 mins, TV-G
1:15am Lili (1953)
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor Dir: Charles Walters C-81 mins, TV-G
2:45am Glass Slipper, The (1955)
Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
Cast: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood Dir: Charles Walters C-94 mins, TV-G

Oct.6
4:30am Down to Earth (1947)
The goddess of the dance comes to Earth to take over a musical lampooning the gods.
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Marc Platt, Roland Culver Dir: Alexander Hall C-101 mins, TV-G
10:00pm Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
True story of Annette Kellerman, the world's first great swimming star.
Cast: Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian Dir: Mervyn LeRoy C-110 mins, TV-G

Oct.7
10:00am Yolanda And The Thief (1945)
A con man poses as a Latin American heiress' guardian angel.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick Dir: Vincente Minnelli C-108 mins, TV-G

12:00pm All Through The Night (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell Dir: Vincent Sherman BW-107 mins, TV-PG
12:00am Cactus Flower (1969)
A philandering dentist asks his assistant to help him deal with his latest girlfriend.
Cast: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston Dir: Gene Saks C-104 mins, TV-14
2:00am There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
A womanizing TV star meets his match in an independent teenager.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson Dir: Roy Boulting C-96 mins, TV-MA

Oct. 8
9:30am Girl Happy (1965)
A rock singer is hired to chaperone a gangster's daughter in Fort Lauderdale.
Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone, Gary Crosby Dir: Boris Sagal C-95 mins, TV-PG
11:15am Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
A Hawaiian fisherman is torn between a sexy nightclub singer and a nice girl with a secret.
Cast: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin, Jeremy Slate Dir: Norman Taurog C-99 mins, TV-PG
4:30pm Where The Boys Are (1960)
College coeds go looking for love during spring break in Fort Lauderdale.
Cast: Dolores Hart, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols, Paula Prentiss Dir: Henry Levin C-99 mins, TV-PG

Oct.11
9:30pm Affair To Remember, An (1957)
A romantic shipboard romance inspires a couple to promise to meet six months later.
Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson Dir: Leo McCarey C-115 mins, TV-PG
Oct.12
1:00am Father Goose (1964)
A WWII drifter finds himself protecting schoolgirls and their beautiful teacher.
Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good Dir: Ralph Nelson C-116 mins, TV-G
Oct. 13
9:45am Goodbye Again (1961)
A 40-year-old woman swaps her sophisticated lover for a young law student.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis Dir: Anatole Litvak BW-120 mins, TV-PG
1:45pm Last Time I Saw Paris, The (1954)
A writer recalls his turbulent marriage to an expatriate heiress.
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed Dir: Richard Brooks C-116 mins, TV-PG
3:45pm Paris Blues (1961)
Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris.
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong Dir: Martin Ritt C-99 mins, TV-PG

Oct. 14
9:15am La Boheme (1926)
In this silent film, a starving artist falls in love with a sickly seamstress in 19th-century Paris.
Cast: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree. Dir: King Vidor. BW-94 mins, TV-G
2:15pm One Romantic Night (1930)
A princess engaged to a prince falls for her brother's tutor.
Cast: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler Dir: Paul L. Stein BW-108 mins

Oct.15
7:30am Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, The (1953)
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse Dir: Don Weis BW-73 mins, TV-G
4:00pm Bedknobs And Broomsticks (1971)
An apprentice witch and three war orphans try to prevent the Nazi invasion of England.
Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe Dir: Robert Stevenson C-117 mins, TV-G
6:00pm Shaggy Dog, The (1959)
An ancient spell turns a teenager into a large sheep dog.
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello Dir: Charles Barton BW-102 mins, TV-G
8:00pm Paper Moon (1973)
A fraudulent bible salesman reluctantly adopts a tough little girl who could be his daughter.
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman Dir: Peter Bogdanovich BW-102 mins, TV-14

2:00am They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young Dir: Sydney Pollack C-120 mins, TV-MA
Oct. 16
7:00am Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty Dir: George Cukor BW-114 mins, TV-PG
11:00am Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury Dir: George Sidney C-101 mins, TV-G
2:30pm Three Musketeers, The (1948)
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin Dir: George Sidney C-126 mins, TV-G
Oct. 17
2:30am African Queen, The (1951)
A grizzled skipper and a spirited missionary take on the Germans in Africa during World War I.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull Dir: John Huston C-105 mins, TV-PG
Oct. 18
10:00pm Barefoot In The Park (1967)
A free-thinking bride and her conservative groom have trouble adjusting to married life.
Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick Dir: Gene Saks C-106 mins, TV-PG
Oct. 20
11:00am Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
A good-hearted gangster turns an old apple seller into a society matron so she can impress her daughter.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell Dir: Frank Capra C-137 mins, TV-G
6:00pm Children's Hour, The (1961)
A malicious student tries to destroy the teachers at a girls' school.
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins Dir: William Wyler BW-108 mins, TV-PG
Oct.21
12:00am Suspicion (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce Dir: Alfred Hitchcock BW-100 mins, TV-PG
2:00am Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
A New York businessman's dream of a country home is shattered when he buys a tumbledown rural shack.
Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny Dir: H. C. Potter BW-94 mins, TV-G
Oct. 22
12:15pm Ivanhoe (1952)
Sir Walter Scott's classic tale of the noble knight torn between his fair lady and a beautiful Jew.
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders Dir: Richard Thorpe C-107 mins, TV-G
3:45pm South Pacific (1958)
A Navy nurse must choose between love and prejudice during World War II.
Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston Dir: Joshua Logan C-157 mins, TV-G
6:30pm Viva Las Vegas (1964)
A race-car driver falls for a pretty swimming instructor who wants him to slow down his career.
Cast: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest Dir: George Sidney C-85 mins, TV-14
11:30pm Annie (1982)
An orphan attracts the attention of a Wall Street tycoon and a con artist.
Cast: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking Dir: Gary Martin C-127 mins, TV-PG
Oct. 23
12:00am Rebecca (1940)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband's glamorous first wife.
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson Dir: Alfred Hitchcock BW-130 mins, TV-PG
Oct.25
12:00pm Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940)
Oklahoma farmers dispossessed during the Depression fight for better lives in California.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin Dir: John Ford BW-129 mins, TV-G
4:00pm Inherit The Wind (1960)
In the twenties, a schoolteacher creates a national furor when he breaks the law against teaching evolution.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York Dir: Stanley Kramer BW-128 mins, TV-PG
12:30am Nosferatu (1922)
In this silent film, a beautiful woman risks her life to end a vampire's plague of death and pestilence.
Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroder Dir: F. W. Murnau BW-89 mins, TV-PG
Oct.26
9:00am Phffft! (1954)
A couple divorce but can't stop getting mixed up in each other's lives.
Cast: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak Dir: Mark Robson BW-88 mins, TV-G
2:00pm Woman Of The Year (1942)
Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen Dir: George Stevens BW-114 mins, TV-PG
4:00pm Houseboat (1958)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Cast: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino Dir: Melville Shavelson C-110 mins, TV-G
6:00pm Boys' Night Out (1962)
A psychology student researches infidelity by becoming a platonic kept woman for four buddies.
Cast: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff Dir: Michael Gordon C-113 mins, TV-PG
Oct.28
6:00am Miracle Worker, The (1962)
True story of the determined teacher who helped Helen Keller overcome deafness and blindness to learn to communicate.
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson Dir: Arthur Penn BW-107 mins, TV-PG
8:00am To Sir, With Love (1967)
A substitute teacher changes the lives of the slum children in his class.
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall Dir: James Clavell C-105 mins, TV-PG
12:00pm Divorce, American Style (1967)
A bored couple drifts toward divorce, only to discover how hard the single life is.
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards Jr., Jean Simmons Dir: Bud Yorkin C-109 mins, TV-PG
2:00pm Love Bug, The (1968)
A Volkswagen with a brain becomes a championship racecar.
Cast: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett Dir: Robert Stevenson C-108 mins, TV-G
4:00pm Yours, Mine And Ours (1968)
A widow with eight children marries a widower with ten, then gets pregnant.
Cast: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley Dir: Melville Shavelson C-111 mins, TV-PG
6:00pm Alfie (1966)
A British womanizer refuses to grow up until tragedy strikes.
Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster Dir: Lewis Gilbert C-114 mins, TV-14
10:00pm Harold and Maude (1971)
A suicidal young man gets a new lease on life when he falls for an 80-year-old woman.
Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack Dir: Hal Ashby C-91 mins, TV-14
2:15am Easy Rider (1969)
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector Dir: Dennis Hopper C-96 mins, TV-MA
Oct.30
8:00pm Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty Dir: George Cukor BW-114 mins, TV-PG
12:00am Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam Dir: Alfred Hitchcock BW-109 mins, TV-PG