TCM Schedule for Saturday, May 5, 2012 -- The Essentials: Star-Crossed Romances

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6:00 AM
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940)

A young thief faces amazing monsters to return Bagdad's deposed king to the throne.
Dir: Ludwig Berger Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez.
C-106 mins, TV-G, CC


8:00 AM
THE WASP WOMAN (1959)

A cosmetics executive's search for eternal beauty turn her into a monster.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris.
BW-61 mins, TV-PG


9:15 AM
RODAN (1957)

Miners uncover the nest of a giant pterodactyl.
Dir: Inoshiro Honda Cast: Kenji Sawara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata.
BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:45 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE BOOKED ON SUSPICION (1945)

A reformed thief accidentally sells a phony first edition of Dickens, which triggers a murder.
Dir: Arthur Dreifuss Cast: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane.
BW-67 mins, TV-PG


12:00 PM
THE PERILS OF PAULINE: TRAPPED BY THE ENEMY, THE FLAMING TOMB, and PURSUED BY SAVAGES (1933)

The fourth, fifth, and sixth episode in the "Perils of Pauline" serial.
BW-21, 19, and 17 mins, TV-G


1:15 PM
RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954)

A frontier farmer takes off with his son and a saloon singer after the man who stole his rifle and his horse.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun.
C-91 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


3:00 PM
CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER (1951)

The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty.
C-117 mins, TV-G, CC


5:00 PM
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)

The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma.
Dir: David Lean Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins.
C-162 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


THE ESSENTIALS: STAR-CROSSED ROMANCES
8:00 PM
CAMILLE (1936)

In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940)

A ballerina turns to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War I.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC


12:00 AM
WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956)

A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family then falls for her husband's best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack.
C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2:00 AM
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (1955)

A Eurasian doctor in Hong Kong falls in love with a war orrespondent.
Dir: Henry King Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher.
C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


4:00 AM
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (1981)

Co-stars have an affair while filming the story of a doomed love.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern.
C-124 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

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1. Any recs for Camille?

Man, I love me some creature features! The campier the better. I just wondered if anyone had seen Camille, I think I've read it but I read sn much it's hard to say for sure. Well at least I caught part of Rodan. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!