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CBHagman

(16,984 posts)
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 01:13 AM Mar 2019

TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 6: American Adventurers

There's a Constance Bennett festival on today, though it is not her birthday.

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/13805%7C33913/Constance-Bennett/

But I'm noticing a certain theme with the movies... Avert your eyes, Mike Pence!

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

1:30 AM
BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET, THE ( 1934)
An invalid poetess defies her father's wishes to marry a dashing young poet.
Dir: Sidney Franklin Cast: Norma Shearer , Fredric March , Charles Laughton .
BW- 110 mins, CC,

3:30 AM
DARK ANGEL, THE ( 1935)
Three childhood friends are torn apart by love and World War I.
Dir: Sidney Franklin Cast: Fredric March , Merle Oberon , Herbert Marshall .
BW- 106 mins, CC,

5:18 AM
GREAT HEART, THE ( 1938)
This short film tells the story of Joseph Damien de Beuster, the Belgian priest who worked for many years among the lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Tom Neal ,
BW- 11 mins,

5:30 AM
THERE GOES MY HEART ( 1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Fredric March , Virginia Bruce , Patsy Kelly .
BW- 83 mins, CC,

7:00 AM
OUTCAST LADY ( 1934)
A spoiled rich girl sacrifices her reputation to preserve her dead husband's memory.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Constance Bennett , Herbert Marshall , Mrs. Patrick Campbell .
BW- 77 mins,

8:30 AM
SIN TAKES A HOLIDAY ( 1930)
A stenographer tries to save her boss from his divorcee girlfriend.
Dir: Paul Stein Cast: Constance Bennett , Kenneth MacKenna , Basil Rathbone .
BW- 80 mins, CC,

10:00 AM
EASIEST WAY, THE ( 1931)
A slum girl discovers the joys of life as a kept woman until she falls in love.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Constance Bennett , Adolphe Menjou , Robert Montgomery .
BW- 74 mins, CC,

11:30 AM
LADY WITH A PAST ( 1932)
A good girl raises her popularity when she pretends to be bad.
Dir: Edward H. Griffith Cast: Constance Bennett , Ben Lyon , David Manners .
BW- 80 mins, CC,

1:00 PM
AFTER TONIGHT ( 1933)
A female Russian spy falls for the enemy during WWI.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Constance Bennett , Gilbert Roland , Edward Ellis .
BW- 71 mins,

2:15 PM
BED OF ROSES ( 1933)
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin .
Dir: Gregory LaCava Cast: Constance Bennett , Joel McCrea , John Halliday .
BW- 67 mins,

3:30 PM
AFTER OFFICE HOURS ( 1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Constance Bennett , Clark Gable , Stuart Erwin .
BW- 72 mins, CC,

4:45 PM
TOPPER ( 1937)
A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Constance Bennett , Cary Grant , Roland Young .
BW- 97 mins, CC,

6:30 PM
TOPPER TAKES A TRIP ( 1939)
A glamorous ghost helps a henpecked husband save his wife from gold-digging friends.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Constance Bennett , Roland Young , Billie Burke .
BW- 80 mins, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: AMERICAN ADVENTURERS

8:00 PM
NORTHWEST PASSAGE ( 1940)
True story of Rogers' Rangers and their fight to open up new frontiers for Colonial America.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Spencer Tracy , Walter Brennan , Ruth Hussey .
C- 127 mins, CC,

10:15 PM
LONE STAR ( 1952)
A frontiersman helps out with Texas's fight for independence from Mexico.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Clark Gable , Ava Gardner , Broderick Crawford .
BW- 95 mins, CC,

12:00 AM
IRON MISTRESS, THE ( 1952)
American adventurer Jim Bowie fights to make his way in the lumber business.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Alan Ladd , Virginia Mayo , Joseph Calleia .
C- 109 mins, CC,

2:00 AM
KIT CARSON ( 1940)
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Jon Hall , Lynn Bari , Dana Andrews .
BW- 96 mins,

3:40 AM
ROMANCE ROAD ( 1937)
In this short film, a RCMP sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada. Vitaphone Release 8179-8180.
Dir: Bobby Connolly Cast: Sol Gorss , Gordon Hart , Anne Nagel .
C- 19 mins,

4:00 AM
ALLEGHENY UPRISING ( 1939)
Colonial settlers fight the corrupt British in the days before the American Revolution.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Claire Trevor , John Wayne , George Sanders .
BW- 81 mins, CC,

5:30 AM
MGM PARADE SHOW #20 ( 1955)
Esther Williams performs in a clip from "Ziegfeld Follies"; Donna Reed introduces a clip from "Ransom." Hosted by George Murphy.
BW- 29 mins,

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