TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 17: Adventure/Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 1960s and 1970s
This schedule is adventurous in more ways than one! 
I hope you've all had your Wheaties.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
1:45 AM The Longest Day (1962)
The story of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. Following dozens of characters who together re-create the historical events of five separate invasion points that made up the operation.
Dir: Ken Annakin Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:45 AM Till the End of Time (1946)
A returning World War II veteran falls for a troubled war widow.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:45 AM One Minute to Zero (1952)
A U.S. colonel in Korea tries to evacuate American civilians.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:45 AM The Angry Hills (1959)
A World War II correspondent fights to get strategic information out of occupied Greece.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Mueller
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:30 AM Rampage (1963)
A romantic triangle complicates a big-game hunting expedition.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: Robert Mitchum, Elsa Martinelli, Jack Hawkins
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:15 PM Kim (1951)
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of an orphaned boy who helps the British Army against Indian rebels.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:15 PM Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
A boy raised by wolves adjusts to life among humans.
Dir: Zoltan Korda Cast: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:15 PM Captains Courageous (1937)
A spoiled rich boy is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:15 PM Soldiers Three (1951)
Three British officers look for adventure in 19th-century India.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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What's on Tonight: Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 1960s and 1970s
8:00 PM Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Sweeping epic about the real life adventures of T.E. Lawrence, a British major who unified Arab tribes and led them in the fight for independence from the Ottoman Turks in the 1920s.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Runtime: 226 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
12:00 AM Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Several civilian people are drawn to a remote corner of the US where aliens land in their spaceship and parley with US officials.
Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
2:30 AM Taxi Driver (1976)
Travis Bickle is a loner, alienated from society, who finds work as a cabbie working the night shift. Inside him grows a morbid fascination and disgust with the seedy side of the city's street life, a fascination that drives him to save a young prostitute and enact a vengeance against those he considers to be the perpetrators of urban decay.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
4:30 AM Funny Girl (1968)
Comedienne Fanny Brice fights to prove that she can be the greatest star and find romance even though she isn't pretty.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: N