TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 8: Being There, Top Hat, A Hard Day's Night (Yay!), Bullitt, King's Row, Them!

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10:30 PM Lover Come Back (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 AM Being There (1979)
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:45 AM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts. The two young men enjoy the good life in Italy until Tom finds his money ...
Dir: René Clément Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N


5:00 AM Top Hat (1935)
A woman believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:45 AM Off the Record (1939)
A lady reporter adopts the young delinquent her crime expose helped send to jail.
Dir: James Flood Cast: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM The Peachy Cobbler (1950)
An old sick cobbler gives his last bit of food to some birds. The birds turn out to be elves who return the favor by keeping his business going.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Daws Butler
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM Calling All Kids (1943)
In this short film, a gang of kids salute the armed forces in a stage show.
Dir: Sam Baerwitz Cast: Tommy McFarland, Robert Blake, Billy Laughlin
Runtime: 11 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM Believe It or Not #12 (1932)
This short film, part of the "Believe It or Not" series, features such odd sights as a moving house and chickens with tail feathers measuring up to twenty-five feet. Vitaphone Release 1427.
Dir: null Cast: James E. Marvin, Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: N


8:35 AM Clipped Wings (1953)
The Bowery Boys join the air force and almost turn it into a fly-by-night organization.
Dir: Edward Bernds Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:40 AM The Man Without a Face (1931)
Chapter 5 of The Galloping Ghost 1931 serial. A gambling ring is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, who try to eliminate him from playing.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Harold "Red" Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:00 AM Ghosks is the Bunk (1939)
Bluto lures Popeye and Olive to a haunted house. He begins playing a series of comical tricks on them but when they discover he is behind it, they plot their revenge.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, William Henning Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:10 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:25 AM The Big Dog House (1930)
In this short from the Dogville series, dogs play out a story of jealousy, murder and justice thwarted.
Dir: Zion Myers Cast: Jules White, Zion Myers, Dr. William Axt
Runtime: 16 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM A Hard Day's Night (1964)



The original 1964 trailer:

A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who would go on to make music history as the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: During the opening sequence of the group running, George stumbles and falls, and Ringo falls over him. This wasn't intended and George ripped the suit he was wearing, but he quickly recovered, laughed, and continued to run. It was decided to retain the shot in the film.

Trivia: John Lennon's written answer to the female reporter asking him if he has any hobbies is the word "tits."

1:45 PM Kings Row (1942)
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 PM Them! (1954)
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 PM Craig's Wife (1936)
A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
Dir: Dorothy Arzner Cast: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 PM Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he has a relapse.
Dir: Dorothy Arzner Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N


11:00 PM Christopher Strong (1933)
An aviatrix's affair with a married man could cost her her career.
Dir: Dorothy Arzner Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 AM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 AM The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)
A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.
Dir: Herman Hoffman Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 AM Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
Runtime: 56 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y