TCM Schedule for Wednesday, June 14: Hollywoodland
Daytime is devoted to the Sporting Life.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
12:00 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
2:15 AM Crashing Hollywood (1938)
A true to life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:30 AM Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Two wacky Hollywood writers drive their boss crazy while trying to help a pregnant waitress.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:15 AM Best Friends (1982)
Two screenwriters who have lived and worked together for years decide to escalate their relationship and marry. Soon into their marriage, they discover the great differences between being a married couple rather than best friends.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
7:15 AM Pat and Mike (1952)
A promoter falls for a gym teacher he bills as the world's top woman athlete.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:00 AM How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie' (1931)
A father would rather have an impromptu lesson on playing with a brassie than thwarting his daughter's engagement.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Claude Gillingwater, Loretta Young, Bobby Jones
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
9:15 AM The Great American Pastime (1956)
In an effort to spend more time with his son, Bruce Hallerton becomes a little league baseball coach, much to the dismay of his wife. Now, if he can survive the kids, he still has to face the parents, the most difficult of whom may be Mrs. Doris Patterson. After a few games of baseball, Hallerton is begging to return to ...
Dir: Herman Hoffman Cast: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:00 AM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
True story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Joseph Buloff, Sal Mineo, Everett Sloane
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:00 PM The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
A basketball team is in the bottom heading down until the team's 12-year old water boy decides that their help must come from the heavens.
Dir: Gilbert Moses Cast: Jonathan Winters, Julius Carry Iii, Jerry Chambers
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:
3:00 PM Greased Lightning (1977)
The life of NASCAR racing champion Wendell Scott. Scott's struggle to overcome racism and follow his dream of becoming a champion is seen, beginning at the end of World War II through 1971.
Dir: Michael Schultz Cast: Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:45 PM Grand Prix (1966)
Story follows the loves and lives of various auto racers as they make their way around the European racing circuit.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Runtime: 179 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: HOLLYWOODLAND
8:00 PM Carl Laemmle (2019)
A documentary about the man who founded Universal Pictures and saved over 300 refugee families from Nazi Germany.
Dir: James L. Freedman Cast: James L. Freedman, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:45 PM Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)
A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
Dir: Francesco Zippel Cast: Francesco Zippel
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
11:15 PM Burden of Dreams (1982)
The making of Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog's eccentric piece about a fanatic determined to build an opera house in the Andean jungle. The project itself seemed doomed from the start as Herzog's entire production was marred with bad luck, interrupted by unforeseen obstacles, and challenged by the forces of nature.
Dir: Les Blank Cast: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
1:00 AM A Fuller Life (2013)
Calling on a wide range of her father's collaborators and fellow travelers, from James Franco to William Friedkin, to read from his autobiography, the filmmaker Samantha Fuller evokes the inimitable voice and spirit of her father, the legendary writer-director Sam Fuller.
Dir: Samantha Fuller Cast: James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Joe Dante
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:30 AM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 05 (2019)
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
Dir: Mark Cousins Cast: null
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
3:45 AM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 06 (2019)
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
Dir: Mark Cousins Cast: null
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
5:00 AM Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 07 (2019)
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
Dir: Mark Cousins Cast: null
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y