TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 26: Director Fred M. Wilcox/Star of the Month: Ruth Roman

[CBHagman]

All this and Lassie too: Fred M. Wilcox is the director of the day, followed in evening by Star of the Month Ruth Roman.

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

12:15 AM Dead Calm (1989)
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
Dir: Phillip Noyce Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Thriller Rating: TV-14 CC:

2:00 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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4:15 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she sees a dimming of the gaslight.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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6:15 AM Lassie Come Home (1943)
A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to her lost family.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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8:00 AM Hills of Home (1948)
Lassie helps a Scottish doctor deal with his patients' problems.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

9:45 AM Three Daring Daughters (1948)
Three young girls try to help their widowed mother find the right husband.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:45 AM The Secret Garden (1949)
An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:30 PM Shadow in the Sky (1951)
A shell-shocked veteran tries to recover his sanity while living with his sister.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Ralph Meeker, Nancy Reagan, James Whitmore
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N


3:00 PM Code Two (1953)
Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Ralph Meeker, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:30 PM Tennessee Champ (1954)
A boxer reforms his crooked manager.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 PM Forbidden Planet (1956)
A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Ruth Roman

8:00 PM Five Steps to Danger (1957)
A man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.
Dir: Henry S. Kesler Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

9:30 PM Joe MacBeth (1955)
The classic Shakespearean tale is set inside a gangster's story.
Dir: Ken Hughes Cast: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N

11:15 PM The Shanghai Story (1954)
In post-WWII Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists can identify a suspected spy among them, but some prisoners try to outwit the interrogators and the armed guards and flee.
Dir: Frank Loyd Cast: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:

1:00 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 AM Look in Any Window (1961)
A troubled teen loses his job as a aircraft mechanic and goes on a drinking binge.
Dir: William Alland Cast: Paul Anka, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:30 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irving Kershner Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

[murielm99]

1. What I remember about Ruth Roman

is her presence on the Andrea Doria when it sank.