TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 20, 2013 - The Essentials: Charles Boyer

[Bolo Boffin]

6:30 AM
The Castilian (1963)
An exiled nobleman sneaks back into Spain to defend his country against the Moors.
Dir: Javier Setó
Cast: Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon, Broderick Crawford.
C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:45 AM
Beau Brummell (1954)
An English Don Juan courts the Prince of Wales' favor while romancing his way through society.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov.
C-112 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:45 AM
The Falcon's Adventure (1946)
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
Dir: William Berke
Cast: Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy.
BW-62 mins, TV-G

12:00 PM
The Mummy (1959)
A resurrected mummy stalks the archaeologists who defiled his tomb.
Dir: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux.
C-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM
The Charge At Feather River (1953)
A platoon of army misfits tries to rescue two women kidnapped by Indians.
Dir: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Guy Madison, Frank Lovejoy, Helen Westcott.
C-97 mins, TV-PG

3:30 PM
Two Rode Together (1961)
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones.
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 PM
Major Dundee (1965)
Cavalry misfits cross the Mexican border to destroy an Indian outpost.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC

TONIGHT ON TCM
THE ESSENTIALS: CHARLES BOYER

8:00 PM
Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:00 PM
History Is Made at Night (1937)
A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Dir: Frank Borzage
Cast: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo.
BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 AM
Une Parisienne (1957)
The daughter of a big French politico marries his secretary, but when her husband starts fooling around, she takes off to the Riviera.
Dir: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal, Brigitte Bardot.
C-85 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
A severed head uses psychic powers to control the minds of several people.
Dir: Will Cowan
Cast: William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone.
BW-70 mins, TV-PG

3:15 AM
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
A scientist keeps his wife's severed head alive until he can find a new body for her.
Dir: Joseph Green
Cast: Virginia Leith, Herb Evers, Adele Lamont.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:45 AM
Goofballs and Tea (1958)
Semi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lead small-town teens into heroin use and prostitution.
Dir: Robert W Larsen
C-34 mins, TV-14

The Perfect Crime (1954)
A safety film in which excessive speeds, alcohol, and dangerous roads can all lead to "the perfect crime".
C-20 mins, TV-PG

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. I'll probably be watching Gaslight

I like that film. There's another 1944 film very similar to Gaslight but even more of a thriller and even more well-made. Starring Heddy Lamar and directed by the great film noir icon Jacques Tourneur it's Experiment Perilous, which I don't think has ever been shown on TCM.

[theHandpuppet]

2. One of the great, underrated actors of his time

Underappreciated today, he was a wonderfully versatile actor and some of my favorite roles of his are those character parts he played in later years.