TCM Schedule for Thursday, October 16, 2014 -- TCM Special Theme - Ghost Stories

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During the morning, TCM is continuing films from Star of the Month, Janet Leigh, in the middle of the day it's films starring Rod La Rocque and Steffi Duna, and in prime time it's more Halloween-themed Ghost Stories. Enjoy!


6:45 AM -- The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Dir: George Sidney
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford
BW-119 mins, CC,

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White -- Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt

In early 1947, Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor were set to star.


9:00 AM -- Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
The jazz band's leader gets mixed up with gangster in '20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb
Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien
C-95 mins, Letterbox Format

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role -- Peggy Lee

Jack Webb actually knew how to play the cornet. He loved jazz music and, as a boy, was given a cornet by a musician who lived near his home. While he never truly mastered the instrument he knew it well enough that his handling and fingering of the cornet in this movie is accurate.


10:45 AM -- TCM Presents Elvis Mitchell Under the Influence: John Leguizamo (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell.
C-28 mins, CC, Letterbox Format


11:15 AM -- The Delightful Rogue (1929)
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
Dir: Lynn Shores
Cast: Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer
BW-71 mins,

Rod La Rocque has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1580 Vine Street.


12:30 PM -- Let Us Be Gay (1930)
A visit to Paris brings divorced spouses back together.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler
BW-79 mins,

From the play by Rachel Crothers.


2:00 PM -- Hi, Gaucho! (1936)
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Dir: Tommy Atkins
Cast: John Carroll, Steffi Duna, Rod La Roque
BW-59 mins,

The soundtrack includes a quintet of songs by Albert Hay Malotte - Song of the Open Road, Bandit Song, Panchita, Little White Rose, and Serenade.


3:15 PM -- Red Morning (1935)
A ship captain's daughter fights to survive a mutiny and hostile islanders.
Dir: Wallace Fox
Cast: Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey, Raymond Hatton
BW-66 mins,

Footage of New Guinea was recycled from a Merian C. Cooper picture that was never completed.


4:30 PM -- Panama Lady (1939)
An oil man forces a cabaret singer to work for him after she tries to rob him.
Dir: Jack Hively
Cast: Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna
BW-65 mins,

Remake of Panama Flo (1932)


5:45 PM -- Two Thoroughbreds (1940)
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
Dir: Jack Hively
Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Joan Brodel, Arthur Hohl
BW-62 mins, CC,

Co-starring Crystal Jack the Horse and Rex the Dog!


7:00 PM -- Appointment in Tokyo (1946)
Military documentary about the U.S.'s recapture of the Philippines.
Dir: Maj. Jack Hively
BW-55 mins, CC,

The film's opening preamble states: "All enemy film taken from captured official Japanese newsreels."



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: TCM SPECIAL THEME: GHOST STORIES



8:00 PM -- The Ghost Breakers (1940)
A radio broadcaster running from the mob helps an heiress deal with her family's haunted mansion.
Dir: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson
BW-85 mins, CC,

Bob Hope is said to have enjoyed this role since it was a total change of pace for him. In most of his films he portrays a coward while, in this one, he is heroic.


9:30 PM -- The Old Dark House (1963)
An eccentric millionaire invites a car salesman to visit his decaying family home.
Dir: William Castle
Cast: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott
BW-86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

The drawings in the title sequence were by Charles Addams, whose whole career was inspired by the 1932 version of The Old Dark House (1932) (of which this is a remake).


11:15 PM -- The Smiling Ghost (1941)
A newswoman investigates a haunted house.
Dir: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith
BW-71 mins, CC,

Based on a story by Stuart Palmer.


12:45 AM -- The Ghost Goes West (1936)
An American millionaire moves a Scottish castle to Florida, not realizing it's haunted.
Dir: René Clair
Cast: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette
BW-82 mins, CC,

This was the biggest-grossing film of 1936 in Great Britain.


2:15 AM -- Ghost Chasers (1951)
The Bowery Boys take on a fake medium.
Dir: William Beaudine
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Lloyd Corrigan
BW-69 mins,

The twenty-second of forty-eight Bowery Boys movies.


3:30 AM -- Spook Busters (1946)
When they set themselves up as ghost hunters, the Bowery Boys tangle with a mad scientist.
Dir: William Beaudine
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille
BW-68 mins,

The fourth of forty-eight Bowery Boys movies.


4:45 AM -- Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Two ghosts help a small-town eccentric run for mayor.
Dir: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Harold Peary, Marion Martin, Richard LeGrand
BW-64 mins,

Earle Ross appears uncredited as Judge Horace Hooker, the role he played on the radio show, The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957).