TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 15: Joseph Cotten, James Mason, and Bob's Picks
May is a great month for actor birthdays, as TCM salutes James Mason and Joseph Cotten today, and Henry Fonda tomorrow.
Mason and Cotten are two actors whose work I always like to keep an eye out for. Both could play very, very good -- in Mason's case, downright angelic -- and very, very bad.
And for a little Christmas in May treat, check out Remember the Night, one of Bob's Picks this evening.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
1:00 AM Two Sisters From Boston (1946)
Two girls with Broadway aspirations find work in a Bowery saloon.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Kathryn Grayson , June Allyson , Lauritz Melchior .
BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC,
3:00 AM Singing Nun, The (1966)
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Debbie Reynolds , Ricardo Montalban , Greer Garson .
C-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:45 AM Inspector General, The (1949)
A perpetual student is mistaken for a government official in a small Eastern European village.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Danny Kaye , Walter Slezak , Barbara Bates .
C-102 mins, TV-G,
6:30 AM Forever Darling (1956)
A madcap woman's guardian angel tries to save her marriage.
Dir: Alexander Hall Cast: Lucille Ball , Desi Arnaz , James Mason .
C-91 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
8:15 AM Cry Terror (1958)
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: James Mason , Rod Steiger , Inger Stevens .
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 AM Lolita (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov's racy classic focuses on an aging intellectual in love with a teenager.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: James Mason , Sue Lyon , Shelley Winters .
BW-153 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:45 PM Under Capricorn (1949)
Newly arrived in Australia, a man discovers his childhood love is now an alcoholic.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Joseph Cotten , Michael Wilding .
C-117 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:45 PM Man With A Cloak, The (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle Cast: Joseph Cotten , Barbara Stanwyck , Louis Calhern .
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC,
4:15 PM Steel Trap, The (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone Cast: Joseph Cotten , Teresa Wright , Jonathan Hale .
BW-85 mins, TV-PG,
5:45 PM Niagara (1952)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe , Joseph Cotten , Jean Peters .
C-89 mins, TV-PG, CC,
7:30 PM MGM Parade Show #10 (1955)
George Murphy introduces clips from "A Guy Named Joe" and "Guys and Dolls."
BW-26 mins, TV-G,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: BOB'S PICKS
8:00 PM Gun Crazy (1949)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Peggy Cummins , John Dall , Berry Kroeger .
BW-87 mins, TV-PG,
9:45 PM Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Fred MacMurray , Beulah Bondi .
BW-94 mins, TV-G,
11:45 PM Moonlighter, The (1953)
A former jailbird makes good after the wrong man is accused for his crime.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Fred MacMurray , Ward Bond .
BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC,
1:15 AM Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
A loner gets caught up in a posse's drive to find and hang three suspected rustlers.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Henry Fonda , Dana Andrews , Mary Beth Hughes .
BW-75 mins, TV-14, CC,
2:45 AM Across The Wide Missouri (1951)
An explorer leads the way west for 19th-century settlers along the American frontier.
Dir: William Wellman Cast: Clark Gable , Ricardo Montalban , John Hodiak .
C-78 mins, TV-G, CC,
4:15 AM Midnight Mary (1933)
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Dir: William Wellman Cast: Loretta Young , Ricardo Cortez , Franchot Tone .
BW-74 mins, TV-PG,
5:30 AM Hatchet Man, The (1932)
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Loretta Young , Dudley Digges .