TCM Schedule for Tuesday, August 27: Summer Under the Stars: Ossie Davis

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

12:15 AM Trouble Along the Way (1953)
A famous football coach uses underhanded means to turn a bankrupt college's team into winners.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:15 AM They Were Expendable (1945)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully ...
Dir: John Ford Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:45 AM Apache Trail (1942)
An outlaw and his brother are on opposite sides of a stagecoach robbery.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Donna Reed
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N


6:00 AM Harry & Son (1984)
Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.
Dir: Paul Newman Cast: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:


8:15 AM Let's Do It Again (1975)
Two blue-collar workers try to con a powerful gangster.
Dir: Sidney Poitier Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 AM Hot Stuff (1979)
Miami police fence stolen goods at a storefront sting operation equipped with a two-way mirror.
Dir: Dom DeLuise Cast: Dom DeLuise, Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Reed
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:

12:15 PM The Sheriff (1971)
A rape case tears apart a small California town as a black sheriff and his white deputy go after an insurance salesman suspected of attacking a black coed.
Dir: David Lowell Rich Cast: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC:

2:00 PM Sam Whiskey (1969)
A beautiful widow enlists three cowboys to help her unearth money her husband stole from the U.S. Mint.
Dir: Arnold Laven Cast: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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4:00 PM A Man Called Adam (1966)
A guilt-ridden jazz trumpeter blames himself for a car accident that killed his family.
Dir: Leo Penn Cast: Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:45 PM The Hill (1965)
An officer given the co-command of a military prison in North Africa takes a stand against the brutal mistreatment of prisoners and is met with angry resistance.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

8:00 PM Do the Right Thing (1989)
On the hottest day of the year, temperatures rise and everything can change in a day. As the inhabitants of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood try to beat the heat, growing tensions and resentment explode in a senseless act of violence. Confronting racial and political issues head-on, Spike Lee's bold directing style and balance of humor and drama caused the kind of controversy upon its 1989 release that cemented the film as an instant classic and won the film a nomination for an Academy Award. Starring Spike Lee himself, Rosie Perez, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, and many more.
Dir: Spike Lee Cast: John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Gerald Tarack
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

10:15 PM Get on the Bus (1996)
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
Dir: Spike Lee Cast: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

12:30 AM The Scalphunters (1968)
In the Old West a trapper and his female companion befriend some Indians and then help them fight off a band of scalp-hunters, who terrorize them and have kidnapped a black slave for whom the trapper feels sympathy.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N

2:30 AM Baadasssss! (2004)
Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to the struggles his father Melvin Van Peebles went through to film and distribute the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).
Dir: Mario Van Peebles Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, Ossie Davis
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

4:30 AM The Joe Louis Story (1953)
In this biography, champion boxer Joe Louis fights to make a name for himself.
Dir: Robert Gordon Cast: Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N

[Auggie]

1. Two very impactful films ...

The Hill is one of the most psychologically disturbing prison movies I've seen. A year after viewing it I still get chills. Director Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon) did a masterful job.

Do the Right Thing is, what I consider, Spike Lee's masterpiece. In addition to the plot line and performances, it's a beautifully crafted film. I hope TCM airs the restored version that was recently on Netflix. The photography is awesome.