TCM Schedule for Wednesday, December 11: Pirates/American Cinematheque/TCM Late Night: Sergio Leone

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

12:00 AM Travels with My Aunt (1972)
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:00 AM A Room with a View (1985)
An Englishwoman visiting Florence is torn between her straitlaced fiance and a young Bohemian.
Dir: James Ivory Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:00 AM Young Cassidy (1965)
True story of playwright Sean O'Casey's involvement with the Irish rebellion of 1910.
Dir: Jack Cardiff, John Ford Cast: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


6:00 AM Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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8:00 AM The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 AM The Crimson Pirate (1952)
A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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12:00 PM Captain Blood (1935)
A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Barbados where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:00 PM The Sea Hawk (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:15 PM Treasure Island (1934)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young boy out to foil pirates and find a buried treasure.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 PM The Pirate (1948)
An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

What's on Tonight: American Cinematheque

8:00 PM The Fallen Idol (1948)
A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:00 PM They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC:

12:15 AM Car Wash (1976)
A preacher, a cabby, other customers and employees mingle to disco music at a Los Angeles car wash.
Dir: Michael Schultz Cast: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Ed Metzger
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

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TCM Late Night: Sergio Leone

2:00 AM A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A lone drifter wanders into a Western town torn apart by two feuding families. He hires himself out as a mercenary, taking no sides and playing one side against the middle, until all is destroyed.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

3:45 AM The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
The Greek Army sets out to destroy the Colossus of Rhodes.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y