TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 3, 2013 -- The Essentials: Alec Guinness

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6:00 AM
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946)
A mysterious benefactor finances a young boy's education.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles.
BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC

7:59 AM
LOOKING AT LONDON (1946)
A colorful travelogue of London's most historic buildings and the residual damage still left from WWII.
C-10 mins

8:15 AM
OLIVER TWIST (1948)
The famed orphan gets caught up in Fagin's criminal band while searching for familial love.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh.
BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC

10:15 AM
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC

11:37 AM
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR OVERTURE (1953)
The MGM Symphony Orchestra performs the Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor.
C-9 mins, Letterbox Format

12:00 PM
THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady's boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom.
C-91 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM
A MAJORITY OF ONE (1961)
A Jewish widow falls in love with a Japanese businessman.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton.
C-149 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:20 PM
PASTERNAK: "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO" FEATURETTE (1965)
A short biography of Boris Pasternak, Nobel prize winner and author of "Dr. Zhivago," the inspiration and basis of the movie of the same name.
C-9 mins

4:30 PM
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
Illicit lovers fight to stay together during the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay.
C-200 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


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THE ESSENTIALS: ALEC GUINNESS

8:00 PM
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
A British military officer enlists the Arabs for desert warfare in World War I.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn.
C-227 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)
An ambitious young man sets out to kill everyone who stands between him and a fortune.
Dir: Robert Hamer
Cast: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:00 AM
THE SCAPEGOAT (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer
Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey.
BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:39 AM
THE HILL - FEATURETTE (1965)
BW-7 mins

3:50 AM
ALL EYES ON SHARON TATE (1966)
A short behind the scenes promo for "Eye of the Devil" (1966), showcasing the late Sharon Tate, then a young, 22-year-old hopeful at MGM.
Cast: Sharon Tate
BW-10 mins

4:00 AM
HOTEL PARADISO (1966)
Chaos results when a mild mannered man tries to have an affair with his neighbor's wife.
Dir: Peter Glenville
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley.
C-95 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

5:39 AM
THE POLICY GIRL (1934)
Cast: Mitzi Mayfair
BW-20 mins