TCM Schedule for Sunday, March 25 -- Jules Dassin

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM
THAT CERTAIN WOMAN (1937)

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC


8:00 AM
PRETTY BABY (1950)

A pair of advertising executives use a woman's child to snag a client.
Dir: Bretaigne Windust Cast: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott.
BW-92 mins, TV-G


10:00 AM
NEVER TOO LATE (1965)

A woman with grown children discovers she's pregnant again.
Dir: Bud Yorkin Cast: Paul Ford, Connie Stevens, Maureen O'Sullivan.
C-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format


12:00 PM
KEY LARGO (1948)

A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall.
BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC


2:00 PM
I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (1949)

An Army woman stationed overseas tries to get her French husband back home.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall.
BW-105 mins, TV-G, CC


4:00 PM
GOING MY WAY (1944)

A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh.
BW-127 mins, TV-G, CC


6:15 PM
NIAGARA (1952)

Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
C-89 mins, TV-PG, CC


TONIGHT ON TCM -- JULES DASSIN

8:00 PM
NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)

A London hustler has ambitious plans that never work out.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers.
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
BRUTE FORCE (1947)

Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Burt Lancaster , Hume Cronyn , Charles Bickford .
BW-98 mins, TV-14, CC,


12:00 AM
LA ROUE (1922)

In this silent film, a railway worker and his son fall in love with the same beautiful woman.
BW-263 mins

Or in the common tongue, 4 hours and 23 minutes! The clip is of a video essay on the movie.


4:30 AM
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS (1967)

A bumbling railroad dispatcher joins the resistance in World War II to impress the girls.
Dir: Jirí Menzel Cast: Václav Neckár , Jitka Bendová , Vladimír Valenta .
C-93 mins, TV-14,

[Bolo Boffin]

1. Outside of his work and being blacklisted, Dassin has one more extraordinary thing about him.

He was married twice, but each marriage lasted almost 30 years. Turns out you can do that when you live to 96.