TCM Schedule for Wednesday, December 28: Movie Neighbors

[CBHagman]

What can you say about a Wednesday that features everybody from Grace Kelly to the Three Stooges?

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As you can see, daytime's devoted to the theme of Silver and Gold. Nighttime is spent with Movie Neighbors, and what neighbors!

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

1:15 AM Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977)
The stories of 26 gay men and lesbians create a mosaic of gay life in the U.S.
Dir: Robert Epstein Cast: Robert Epstein, Jon Raskin, Marcia Bauman
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


3:45 AM Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
A swordsman and poet helps another man woo the woman he loves.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM The Silver Streak (1935)
On its inaugural run, a high-speed train has to race a polio victim to an iron lung.
Dir: Tommy Atkins Cast: Sally Blane, Charles Starrett, William Farnum
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N


7:15 AM Flaming Gold (1933)
Two friends working at a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
Dir: Ralph Ince Cast: Bill Boyd, Mae Clarke, Pat O'Brien
Runtime: 54 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:15 AM Silver River (1948)
A ruthless gambler's rise to power is cut short by character flaws.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 AM Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
A gold strike in California triggers a bitter feud between farmers and prospectors.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: George Brent, Olivia De Havilland, Claude Rains
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM Silver Dollar (1932)
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 PM Six-Gun Gold (1941)
Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal is an impostor.
Dir: David Howard Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Jan Clayton
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:30 PM The Silver Horde (1930)
An Alaskan fisherman is dogged by a ruthless competitor and an ambitious dance hall girl.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Joel McCrea
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 PM Gold Raiders (1951)
In this comedy western, the Three Stooges star as traveling salesmen who work with a frontier insurance agent to stop a gang of gold thieves.
Dir: Edward Bernds Cast: George O'Brien, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard
Runtime: 56 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 PM The Silver Cord (1933)
A clinging mother tries to divide one son from his wife and another son from his girlfriend.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:30 PM Flowing Gold (1940)
A fugitive from justice tries to get work in a western oil field.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O'Brien
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MOVIE NEIGHBORS

8:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N

10:00 PM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:30 PM Night Watch (1973)
Ellen Wheeler is an unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window. When she witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor's window, she calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate. With her neglectful husband skeptical and unsupportive, Ellen turns to her friend her friend Sarah (Billie Whitelaw), who is slightly more receptive as the pair attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:15 AM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

3:00 AM Carl Laemmle (2019)
A documentary about the man who founded Universal Pictures and saved over 300 refugee families from Nazi Germany.
Dir: null Cast: James L. Freedman, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: null CC:

4:45 AM The Invisible Man (1933)
A scientist's experiments with invisibility turn him into a madman.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC:

[Staph]

1. In the theme of silver and gold,

TCM really missed out by not showing The Silver Chalice (1954), Paul Newman's first film.

Newman hated the film and was sure that it would wreck his career fresh out of the gate. From the IMDB trivia for the movie:

When the film ran on television in 1966, Paul Newman took out ads in the Hollywood trade papers, calling it "the worst motion picture produced during the 1950s," apologizing for his performance, and asking people not to watch the film. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect, and many people tuned in to watch it on television. Newman once screened the movie for friends at his house, giving them whistles, pots, and wooden spoons, and encouraging them to make noisy critiques of the film.

[CBHagman]

2. I wondered whether that would be included...

...and I give TCM credit for the breadth of its choices.