TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 13: The Golden Years

[CBHagman]

There's also a birthday tribute to Mr. Van Heflin, born on this day in 1908.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

12:00 AM
NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: MERRY CHRISTMAS!, A (2011)

Star interviews and film clips trace the history of Christmas movies.
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau
C-58 mins, CC,

1:15 AM
BACHELOR MOTHER (1939)

A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers , David Niven , Charles Coburn .
BW-82 mins, CC,

2:45 AM
BUNDLE OF JOY (1956)

A shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Eddie Fisher , Debbie Reynolds , Adolphe Menjou .
C-98 mins, CC,

4:30 AM
SUSAN SLEPT HERE (1954)

A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Dick Powell , Debbie Reynolds , Anne Francis .
C-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 AM
SATURDAY'S HEROES (1937)

A college football star rebels against the exploitation of the game and its players.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Van Heflin , Marian Marsh , Richard Lane .
BW-60 mins,

7:15 AM
H.M. PULHAM, ESQ. (1941)

A stuffy businessman livens things up by having a fling.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Hedy Lamarr , Robert Young , Ruth Hussey .
BW-120 mins, CC,

9:30 AM
POSSESSED (1947)

A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Joan Crawford , Van Heflin , Raymond Massey .
BW-108 mins, CC,

11:30 AM
3:10 TO YUMA (1957)

A sheriff must run the gauntlet to get his prisoner out of town.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Glenn Ford , Van Heflin , Felicia Farr .
BW-92 mins, CC,

1:15 PM
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948)

An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin , Robert Ryan , Janet Leigh .
BW-82 mins, CC,

2:45 PM
STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, THE (1946)

Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Van Heflin , Lizabeth Scott .
BW-115 mins, CC,

4:45 PM
PROWLER, THE (1951)

A policeman's obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: Van Heflin , Evelyn Keyes , John Maxwell .
BW-93 mins, CC,

6:30 PM
PATTERNS (1956)

A replacement in a large corporation encounters loyalty and power struggles.
Dir: Fielder Cook Cast: Van Heflin , Everett Sloane , Ed Begley .
BW-84 mins,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE GOLDEN YEARS

8:00 PM
UMBERTO D. (1952)

A retiree copes with the realities of old age.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Carlo Battisti , Maria Pia Casilio , Lina Gennari .
BW-88 mins,

9:45 PM
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)

On his way to an awards ceremony, a distinguished professor thinks back on his loveless life.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Victor Seastrom , Ingrid Thulin , Bibi Andersson .
BW-92 mins,

11:30 PM
IKIRU (1952)

A dying man devotes his last months to building a children's playground.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Takashi Shimura , Nobuo Kaneko , Kyoko Seki .
BW-143 mins,

2:00 AM
BALLAD OF NARAYAMA, THE (1958)

Honoring an ancient custom in an impoverished Japanese village, a son leads his aging mother up a mountain top to leave her there abandoned.
Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka , Teiji Takahashi , Yuko Mochizuki .
C-98 mins, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM
ARMY (1944)

A sickly young man from a military family fights to earn a place in the Japanese Army.
Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Cast: Chishu Ryu , Ken Mitsuda , Kazumasa Hoshino .
BW-87 mins,

5:30 AM
MGM PARADE SHOW #25 (1955)

Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones perform in a clip from "The Firefly"; Dan Dailey introduces a clip from "Meet Me in Las Vegas." Hosted by George Murphy.
BW-29 mins, CC,

[longship]

1. Wild Strawberries is a poignant, wonderful film.

Highly recommended.