TCM Schedule for Saturday, October 8 --- THE ESSENTIALS: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR

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8 Saturday



6:00 AM Broadway Melody Of 1936 (1935)
A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Jack Benny , Eleanor Powell , Robert Taylor .
BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC,

8:00 AM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher's murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: James Gleason , Edna May Oliver , Bruce Cabot .
BW-72 mins, TV-G,

9:30 AM House Of Wax (1953)
A scarred sculptor re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Vincent Price , Frank Lovejoy , Phyllis Kirk .
C-88 mins, TV-PG,

11:00 AM Zorro's Fighting Legion: The Flaming "Z" (1939)
In the second chapter of Zorro's Fighting Legion, the villain lures Zorro's men into a trap.
BW-17 mins, TV-G,

11:30 AM Zorro's Fighting Legion: Descending Doom (1939)
In the third chapter of Zorro's Fighting Legion, the villain's trap Zorro in a silver mine.
BW-16 mins, TV-G,

12:00 PM Tarzan The Magnificent (1960)
The jungle king fights to bring a criminal to justice.
Dir: Robert Day Cast: Gordon Scott , Jock Mahoney , Betta St. James .
C-87 mins, TV-PG,

1:30 PM The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973)
Sinbad battles a fiendish magician and his many monsters.
Dir: Gordon Hessler Cast: John Phillip Law , Tom Baker , Caroline Munro .
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 PM The Prisoner Of Zenda (1952)
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Stewart Granger , Deborah Kerr , Louis Calhern .
C-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,

5:30 PM Ocean's Eleven (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Peter Lawford , Dean Martin , Frank Sinatra .
C-127 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR

8:00 PM Gunga Din (1939)
Three British soldiers seek treasure during an uprising in India.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Cary Grant , Victor McLaglen , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. .
BW-117 mins, TV-PG, CC,

10:15 PM Flight Commander (1930)
A hotshot World War I flyer almost cracks under the pressure of sending his men on perilous missions.
BW-108 mins, TV-G,

12:15 AM Sinbad The Sailor (1947)
The Arabian Nights hero sets off to find the lost treasure of Alexander the Great.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Maureen O'Hara , Walter Slezak .
C-117 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:15 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Glenda Farrell .
BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:45 AM The Rise Of Catherine The Great (1934)
Marriage to the heir to the Russian throne is far from a picnic for his lovely German bride.
Dir: Alexander Korda Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Elisabeth Bergner ,
BW-93 mins, TV-PG,

5:15 AM Now Playing October (2011)
Features highlights of the month's programming on TCM, including festivals and stars.
C-15 mins, TV-PG, CC,

[CBHagman]

1. "Murder on the Blackboard"

It looks as though TCM is running the Hildegarde Withers series on Saturday mornings in October (Last week's selection was The Penguin Pool Murder. I never heard of Hildegarde Withers until well after I'd seen Edna May Oliver in various other movies, and of course read the write-up in the Leonard Maltin DVD and video guides.

Oliver is nicely paired with James Gleason, as Inspector Oscar Piper, a sparring partner and of course fellow crime-solver.