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TCM Schedule for Sunday, June 16, 2013 - Essentials Jr: Father's Day (& Smoky and the Bandit!)
6:00 AMBONJOUR TRISTESSE (1957)
A jealous teenage girl plots to end her father's engagement.
Dir: Otto Preminger
Cast: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg.
C-94 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM
THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER (1963)
A young boy plays matchmaker for his widowed father.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens.
C-119 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 AM
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)
A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC
11:45 AM
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life.
Dir: Orson Welles
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead.
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC
2:00 PM
ALL THE KING'S MEN (1949)
A backwoods politician rises to the top only to become corrupted.
Dir: Robert Rossen
Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru.
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:00 PM
THE LAST HURRAH (1958)
A political boss faces changing times as he runs for re-election.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster.
BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:15 PM
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977)
A maverick trucker tries to save a runaway bride and a shipment of contraband beer from a small-town sheriff.
Dir: Hal Needham
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed.
C-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
TONIGHT ON TCM
ESSENTIALS JR.: FATHER’S DAY
8:00 PM
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
A young girl grows up fast when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Dir: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton.
BW-129 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM
LIFE WITH FATHER (1947)
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor.
C-118 mins, TV-G, CC
12:30 AM
THE KID (1921)
In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.
Dir: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller.
BW-53 mins, TV-G
1:30 AM
CHAPLIN TODAY: THE KID (1921)
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami shares his impressions of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.
C-26 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 AM
CLOSE-UP (1990)
Pretending to be Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a man enters the home of a well-to-do family, promising them a prominent part in his next movie.
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah.
C-98 mins, TV-PG
4:00 AM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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There's a method to the madness of that movie schedule, Classic Film Group DUers. The Washington Post's Adam Bernstein explains it all in this Style section lead story on TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and his father, Frank, grandson and son, respectively, of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz.
There's even an appropriately political touch here too, as Frank Mankiewicz was an aide to RFK and George McGovern. 
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/grandson-of-citizen-kane-co-writer-continues-a-family-tradition-as-a-tcm-host/2013/06/14/2b63e5f2-cf85-11e2-8f6b-67f40e176f03_story.html[/url]
