TCM Schedule for Sunday June 12, 2022 - Fathers on Film - Part 2
Plus: Silent Sunday has a film from the future directors of "King Kong" about a tribe looking for grass (and I don't mean 420); Imports has a pair from Iran in the 90's.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am A Family Affair (1936)
1h 9m | Comedy | TV-G
In the first Hardy Family film, a small-town judge fights for re-election while dealing with family problems.
Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden
7:15 am The Nun's Story (1959)
2h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A headstrong girl fights the strictures of the Catholic church in Europe and the Belgian Congo.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans
10:00 am The Guilty (1947)
1h 10m
Director: John Reinhardt. Cast: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Wally Cassell
11:30 am Little Women (1933)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-G
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
1:45 pm The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
1h 44m | Romance | TV-G
A spirited widow rents a haunted cottage and builds an emotional bond with the resident ghosy.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
3:45 pm From Here to Eternity (1953)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
6:00 pm Sunday in New York (1963)
1h 45m | Comedy | TV-PG
A philandering pilot gets real moral, real fast when his sister contemplates a premarital fling.
Director: Peter Tewksbury. Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson
8:00 pm Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
3h | Musical | TV-G
In Russia before the revolution, a Jewish milkman tries to marry off his daughters who have plans of their own.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
11:15 pm Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
1h 27m | Drama | TV-G
A small-town judge tries to save an elderly couple from eviction while coping with his wife's illness.
Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
1:00 am Grass; A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
45m | Documentary | TV-PG
In this silent film, nomadic tribes make a perilous journey each year in search of fresh grasslands.
Director: Merian Cooper. Cast: Merian Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison
2:30 am The White Balloon (1995)
1h 25m | Drama
Set in downtown Tehran on March 21st, New Year's Day, the story follows the adventures of Razieh, a self-reliant 7-year-old whose heart is set on buying a particular plump, multi-finned goldfish for her family's New Year's celebration.
Director: Jafar Panahi. Cast: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadr Orafai
4:15 am Close-Up (1990)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-PG
Pretending to be Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a man enters the home of a well-to-do family, promising them a prominent part in his next movie.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mehrdad Ahankhah