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This Month On THIS MONTH ON TCM P WEDNESDAYS WEEKLY SHOWCASES TCM SPOTLIGHT: RIDING THE RAILS 1 HITCHCOCK IN THE ‘60S 9 P RIDING THE RAILS 16 P RIDING THE RAILS 24 S HEDY LAMARR THE ESSENTIALS Show Business Thrillers Comedies Samson and Delilah (’49) The Birds (’63) Without Reservations (’46) My Favorite Spy (’51) The Narrow Margin (’52) Must See Classics Marnie (’64) Terror on a Train (’53) The General (’27) A Lady Without Passport (’50) Psycho (’60) Our Hospitality (’23) Saturdays at 8:00pm (ET) 5:00pm(PT) Berlin Express (’48) Her Highness and the Bellboy (’45) Topaz (’69) Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (’50) The Strange Woman (’46) Torn Curtain (’66) The Cassandra Crossing (’76) Closely Watched Trains (’67) All About Eve (’50) North by Northwest (’59) Now or Never (’21) 25 LET’S PARTY The Night of the Hunter (’55) 2 P RIDING THE RAILS Spy Train (’43) Danger Lights (’31) The Party (’68) The Misfits (’61) Great Train Robberies Pajama Party (’64) Paper Moon (’73) S HEDY LAMARR 17 S HEDY LAMARR The Great Train Robbery (‘03) 10 The Bachelor Party (’57) Tortilla Flat (’42) Santa Fe (’51) Come Live with Me (’41) SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS The Long Riders (’80) Ziegfeld Girl (’41) White Cargo (’42) 26 Cinematography BY LAZSLO KOVACS Colorado Territory (’49) The Heavenly Body (’43) H.M. Pulham, Esq. (’41) Paper Moon (’73) The Five Man Army (’70) The Conspirators (’44) Silent Treasures Crossroads (’42) Huckleberry Finn (’74) How the West Was Won (’62) Experiment Perilous (’44) Sundays at Midnight (ET) 9:00pm (PT) I Take This Woman (’40) New York, New York (’77) 3 S HEDY LAMARR 18 SUBURBIA Sunrise (’27) 11 STARRING JOSE FERRER 27 LOST & FOUND: ABEL GANCE How the West Was Won (1962) Boom Town (’40) Strangers When We Meet (’60) Troubles of a Grass Widower (’12) at 12:15 AM Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite (’68) Comrade X (’40) Cyrano de Bergerac (’50) The Stepford Wives (’75) Max Takes a Picture (’13) at 12:30 AM J’Accuse (’19) S THURSDAYS Lady of the Tropics (’39) Moulin Rouge (’52) Bachelor in Paradise (’61) La Roue (’22) Seven Years Bad Luck (’21) at 12:45 AM Algiers (’38) STAR OF THE MONTH: HEDY LAMARR Enter Laughing (’67) J’Accuse (’19) Ecstasy (’33) 19 Starring CLARK GABLE Michael (’24) The Misfits (’61) 12 STARRING SHELLEY WINTERS 28 ROBERT OSBORNE’S PICKS 4 WORKING GIRLS Teacher’s Pet (’58) TCM IMPORTS The Night of the Hunter (’55) Born to Dance (’36) Irma La Douce (’63) Wife vs. Secretary (’36) Evergreen (’34) Never on Sunday (’60) He Ran All the Way (’51) Boom Town (’40) Classics from Around the World Dancing Lady (’33) Primrose Path (’40) Lolita (’62) The King and Four Queens (’56) Sundays at 2:00am (ET) 11:00pm (PT) Odds Against Tomorrow (’59) Private Screenings: Ann Miller (’97) That’s Dancing! (’85) 5 BETTE DAVIS’ 100TH BIRTHDAY Let No Man Write My Epitaph (’60) 20 CRIME CAPERS Pather Panchali (’55) The Thomas Crown Affair (’68) Private Screenings: Leslie Caron (’99) All About Eve (’50) Aparajito (’56) 13 BANDS OF BROTHERS Topkapi (’64) Jezebel (’38) 29 EPIC Battles The World of Apu (’59) Dark Victory (’39) Rhapsody in Blue (’45) 21 PAINTING PICTURES Khartoum (’66) Dangerous (’35) The Fabulous Dorseys (’47) Zulu (’64) Pocketful of Miracles (’61) Tom Sawyer (’73) TCM UNDERGROUND High Plains Drifter (’73) Glory (’89) The Battle of Britain (’69) 6 STORIES BY WILLIAM FAULKNER 14 GUEST PROGRAMMER: ALEX TREBEK Operation Petticoat (’59) Cult Classics I Love a Bandleader (’45) Tomorrow (’72) The Professionals (’66) 30 P RIDING THE RAILS Fridays at 2:00am (ET) 11:00 pm (PT) Wuthering Heights (’39) The Reivers (’69) 22 PRODUCED BY ARTHUR HORNBLOW, JR. Lonely Are the Brave (’62) Station Stories 13 Ghosts (’60) Union Depot (’32) 7 THE 75TH ANNIVersary OF KING KONG Litle Big Man (’70) Easy Living (’37) The Tingler (’59) at 3:30 AM Come Live with Me (1941) Midnight (’39) Union Station (’50) Attack of the Crab Monsters (’57) at 2:15 AM Films Released in 1933 The Major and the Minor (’42) Grand Central Murder (’42) FESTIVAL OF SHORTS King Kong (’33) 15 TRIBUTE TO GENE WILDER Weekend at the Waldorf (’45) Brief Encounter (’45) Suburbia (’84) VOLUME #20 Dinner at Eight (’33) Role Model: Gene Wilder (’08) The Asphalt Jungle (’50) The Ghost Train (’41) Grand Theft Auto (’77) Little Women (’33) TCM Original Production The Fast and the Furious (’54) at 3:30 AM Beginning April 7th 42nd Street (’33) 23 P RIDING THE RAILS Encores throughout the month Queen Christina (’33) The Producers (’68) Blazing Saddles (’74) Mystery Trains Animals in movies are the focus of these Role Model: Gene Wilder (’08) Murder on the Orient Express (’74) shorts, which include Famous Movie Dogs, 8 Starring RICHARD HARRIS Start the Revolution Without Me (’70) The Lady Vanishes (’38) Hollywood Scout and The Horse with the Juggernaut (’74) Blazing Saddles (’74) Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night (’46) Human Mind. Major Dundee (’65) (extended version) Murder in the Private Car (’34) Hawaii (’66) The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (’41) Cromwell (’70) TCM PREMIERE.
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