TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 31: Monkeys and Gorillas/Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 2000s
Today TCM features the final films in the roster for Robert Mitchum before going ape for the rest of the daytime schedule.
And I suspect some of the movies screening tonight for the Columbia Pictures centennial are first-time features for TCM.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
12:00 AM The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:
2:00 AM Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe takes on the job of finding ex-con Moose Malloy's girlfriend Velma. Once on the case, Marlowe finds himself in one dangerous situation after another as he follows a trail of lies and betrayals.
Dir: Dick Richards Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC: N
3:45 AM Ryan's Daughter (1970)
An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Sarah Miles
Runtime: 206 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
WEDNESDAY, January 31
7:15 AM The Yakuza (1974)
Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
9:15 AM Going Home (1971)
An ex-convict who killed his wife while drunk tries to re-build his relationship with his son.
Dir: Herbert B. Leonard Cast: Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
11:00 AM The Wrath of God (1972)
A bootlegger and a defrocked priest join forces during a bloody Central American revolution.
Dir: Ralph Nelson Cast: Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
1:00 PM Tarzan, The Ape Man (1981)
James Parker is in Africa looking for a mythical white ape when his wife dies. He is joined by his estranged daughter, Jane. Together, they learn this white ape is Tarzan, a man who was raised by apes in the jungle. Parker continues to hunt Tarzan, but now with the purpose of bringing him back to England, dead or alive. ...
Dir: John Derek Cast: Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, John Phillip Law
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:00 PM Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The jungle king fights to protect his wife from a greedy ivory hunter.
Dir: Cedric Gibbons Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 PM Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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6:45 PM The Gorilla (1939)
Three screwball detectives try to protect a lawyer from a murderous gorilla.
Dir: Allan Dwan Cast: Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
What's on Tonight: Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 2000s
8:00 PM Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
The story of the daughter of a Chinese aristocrat in the first part of the 20th Century who has a secret identity as a subversive outlaw who strikes at night with an array of martial arts skills. The outlaw is tracked by China's greatest female warrior who ends up befriending her.
Dir: Ang Lee Cast: Zhu Jian-Min, Zhang Ziyi, Song Dong
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-14 CC:
10:15 PM Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Harry Sanborn is a perennial bachelor who only dates women under the age of thirty. On what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hamptons beach house, Harry develops chest pains. Marin's mother Erica Barry, a successful, divorced playwright, reluctantly agrees to help nurse ...
Dir: Nancy Meyers Cast: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Amanda Peet
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Romantic Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:
12:30 AM Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Barry Egan, the owner of a struggling vanity plungers company, falls in love with Lena Leonard, a woman his sister is trying to set him up with. On the run from a gang of thugs, Barry travels to Hawaii, using the frequent flier mile coupons clipped from several cartons of pudding cups, to meet up with this girl of his dreams.
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Bobby Bluehouse, Sissy Lake, Julius Steuer
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:
2:15 AM Whiplash (2014)
The story of an ambitious student drummer and his ruthless teacher who will stop at nothing to achieve perfection.
Dir: Damien Chazelle Cast: Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Jimmie Kirkpatrick, Krista Kilber, Tony Baker
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC:
4:15 AM Marie Antoinette (2006)
When betrothed to King Louis XVI, the naïve and beautiful Austrian-born Marie Antoinette enters the opulent French court, which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Without guidance, adrift in a dangerous world, the young girl rebels against the isolated atmosphere of Versailles and becomes France's most misunderstood monarch.
Dir: Sofia Coppola Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC: