TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 2: Gina Lollobrigida Tribute

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Daytime is devoted to the great cinematographer James Wong Howe, and nighttime belongs to the actress Gina Lollobrigida.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

12:30 AM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:15 AM Desert Nights (1929)
In this silent film, diamond robbers get caught in a violent sandstorm.
Dir: William Nigh Cast: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:45 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

5:30 AM Stamboul Quest (1934)
A notorious enemy spy falls for an American medical student during World War I.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

7:00 AM The Flame Within (1935)
A lady psychiatrist falls for a patient's husband.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Ann Harding, Herbert Marshall, Maureen O'Sullivan
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:30 AM O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
A circus performer searches for the son his wife stole from him.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Spanky McFarland
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:00 AM Three Live Ghosts (1935)
Three POWs return home to find themselves listed as dead.
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Richard Arlen, Beryl Mercer, Claude Allister
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N


11:15 AM They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he's killed an opponent in the ring.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:00 PM The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
A cowboy sets out to avenge his father's lynching.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:30 PM Daughters Courageous (1939)
A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:30 PM Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
A young misfit lands on a prison chain gang and falls for the foreman's daughter.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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6:00 PM The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
A man's infatuation with a gold-digging beauty continues after his marriage.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA TRIBUTE

8:00 PM Come September (1961)
A womanizing tycoon ends up chaperoning a group of American girls who have rented his Italian villa.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:00 PM Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
During a military reunion, three veterans discover they've been sending support payments for the same child.
Dir: Melvin Frank Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:00 AM Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)
France, 1760s. The Seven Years' War decimates the armies of Europe as King Louis XV's recruiting offers scour the country for new cannon fodder. Meanwhile, in a quiet corner of Normandy lives Fanfan, a footloose young orphan who leads a charmed life as a rustic Casanova when not practicing his fencing skills.
Dir: Christian-Jaque Cast: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC:


2:00 AM Woman of Straw (1964)
A rich old man's nurse and his nephew plot his murder.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM Never So Few (1959)
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerrillas during World War II.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y