TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 7: Cinematography by Gordon Willis

[CBHagman]

Dear Classic Films Group folks, get ready for an interesting combination of films! Themes for today are as follows:

LGBTQ Directors

Birthday Tribute: Dean Martin

Cinematography by Gordon Willis


And we've got ourselves some Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery sightings, too.

There's Tupperware, too, and for reasons I cannot explain, there's also Anita Bryant.

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

1:15 AM
Riptide (1934)
1h 30m | Romance | TV-G
A chorus girl weds a British lord then falls for an old flame.
Director
Edmund Goulding
Cast
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall

3:00 AM
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
1h 21m | Romance | TV-PG
A ballerina sinks into prostitution when her husband is reported killed in World War I.
Director
James Whale
Cast
Mae Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd

4:30 AM
The Women (1939)
2h 12m | Comedy | TV-PG
It's all about men! In the eternal battle between the sexes, one side holds an overwhelming advantage: Armed with razor-sharp wit and wielding gossip as a weapon, victory can only go to The Women.
Director
George Cukor
Cast
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell

6:45 AM
Now, Voyager (1942)
1h 57m | Romance | TV-G
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Director
Irving Rapper
Cast
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

8:45 AM
Easy to Love (1953)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
Williams loves her boss from afar and finally wins him over when she starts an affair with another man.
Director
Charles Walters
Cast
Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin

10:30 AM
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
1h 33m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer's story about some hidden money he left in the care of his children, the murderer's cellmate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer's family.
Director
Charles Laughton
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

&t=10s

12:30 PM
Dean Martin: King of Cool (2020)
Documentary | TV-PG
The story of Dean Martin told through interviews and archival footage.
Director
Tom Donahue
Cast
Jerry Lewis, Bob Newhart, Angie Dickinson

2:30 PM
Rio Bravo (1959)
2h 21m | Western | TV-14
A sheriff enlists a drunk, a kid and an old man to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron.
Director
Howard Hawks
Cast
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

&t=19s

5:00 PM
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
2h 7m | Comedy | TV-14
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Director
Lewis Milestone
Cast
Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra

7:30 PM
Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965)
28m | Short | TV-G
This short industrial film focuses on the making of Tupperware.
Director
George J. Yarbrough
Cast
Anita Bryant, Johnny Desmond, Russ Blair

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CINEMATOGRAPHY BY GORDON WILLIS

8:00 PM
Manhattan (1979)
1h 36m | Romance | TV-MA
A middle-aged TV writer, living in Manhattan, finds himself torn between relationships with a teenage girl who idolizes him, a thirty-something woman who shares his intellectual passions, and an ex-wife who left him for another woman.
Director
Woody Allen
Cast
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway

10:00 PM
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
1h 47m | Musical | TV-MA
Arthur sells sheet music and fantasizes about a world that should behave according to the lyrics of the songs he sells.
Director
Herbert Ross
Cast
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken

12:00 AM
The Landlord (1970)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-MA
A spoiled rich boy buys a Brooklyn tenement and gets mixed up in his tenants' lives.
Director
Hal Ashby
Cast
Beau Bridges, Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands

2:00 AM
Klute (1971)
1h 54m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-MA
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend.
Director
Alan J. Pakula
Cast
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi

&t=24s

4:00 AM
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-14
An aspiring author, hurt and depressed over a painful separation from his girlfriend, embarks on a hedonistic journey through New York City's nightlife subculture.
Director
James Bridges
Cast
Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates

&t=18s

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