TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 12: WWII POWs
In daytime TCM's doing a birthday tribute to actress Luise Rainer.
Come evening, they'll be showing classic films focused on prisoners during World War II.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
12:30 am
Gandhi (1982)
3h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
Biographical epic on the life of Mohandas K Gandhi, a proponent of peaceful revolution.
Director
Richard Attenborough
Cast
Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud
4:00 am
George Wallace (1997)
2h | Drama | TV-14
Movie based on the life of George Wallace, the governor of Alabama.
Director
John Frankenheimer
Cast
Gary Sinise, Angelina Jolie, Mare Winningham
7:30 am
The Great Waltz (1938)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Director
Julien Duvivier
Cast
Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet, Miliza Korjus
9:30 am
The Toy Wife (1938)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-G
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
Director
Richard Thorpe
Cast
Luise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young
11:15 am
Big City (1937)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
An honest cab driver fights against corruption.
Director
Frank Borzage
Cast
Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Janet Beecher
12:45 pm
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
1h 29m | Romance | TV-G
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Director
George Fitzmaurice
Cast
William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young
2:30 pm
The Good Earth (1937)
2h 18m | Epic | TV-PG
Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements.
Director
Sidney Franklin
Cast
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
5:00 pm
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
3h | Musical | TV-G
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest star maker.
Director
Robert Z. Leonard
Cast
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: WORLD WAR II PRISONERS OF WAR
8:00 pm
The Great Escape (1963)
2h 48m | War | TV-PG
Drama based on Paul Brickhill's factual account of the efforts of Allied prisoners to break out of a prison camp.
Director
John Sturges
Cast
Robert Graf, Nigel Stock, Angus Lennie
11:00 pm
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
2h 41m | Epic | TV-PG
The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma.
Director
David Lean
Cast
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
2:00 am
King Rat (1965)
2h 14m | War | TV-PG
A U.S. officer in a World War II Japanese POW camp tries to raise money to buy his fellow prisoners' freedom.
Director
Bryan Forbes
Cast
George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Todd Armstrong
4:30 am
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
1h 30m | Adventure | TV-G
Allied POWs fight to survive torture and loss of faith.
Director
Tay Garnett
Cast
Jean Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Sir Cedric Hardwicke