TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 18: Studio Contract Players: Joan Crawford, Lauren Bacall

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TCM's April Warner Brothers tribute continues with watchable films featuring WB contract players. Get your snacks and settle in for an exciting day and night.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

1:00 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:00 AM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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5:00 AM All Through the Night (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:00 AM Old Acquaintance (1943)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

9:00 AM The Male Animal (1942)
A college professor fights censorship and an amorous football player who's after his wife.
Dir: Elliott Nugent Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:45 AM Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
A runaway prince in disguise takes up with a taxi driver.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:15 PM Colorado Territory (1949)
An outlaw just released from prison is sucked back into a life of crime in this remake of High Sierra.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:00 PM The West Point Story (1950)
A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 PM Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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6:00 PM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS: JOAN CRAWFORD AND LAUREN BACALL

8:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 PM Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
A TCM original documentary that examines Crawford's life and unparalleled movie career. Narrated by Angelica Huston.
Dir: Peter Fitzgerald Cast: Anjelica Huston, Diane Baker, Charles Busch
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: N


12:00 AM To Have and Have Not (1944)
A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:00 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:15 AM Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.
Dir: Herman Shumlin Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:15 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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