TCM Schedule for Saturday, November 3 -- The Essentials: Merle Oberon

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM
CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (1939)

An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC


7:45 AM
STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940)

A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster
Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet.
BW-64 mins, TV-14, CC


9:00 AM
BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF (1953)

Love brings together two families of rival sponge fishers.
Dir: Robert D. Webb
Cast: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland.
C-101 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format


10:45 AM
FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW (1939)

A case of measles gets a working class family mixed up with a blustering businessman's clan.
Dir: Charles Lamont
Cast: Edith Fellows, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson.
BW-58 mins, TV-G


12:00 PM
THE SAINT IN NEW YORK (1938)

The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York's mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes
Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann.
BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC


1:30 PM
THE KANSAN (1943)

A newly elected Marshall clashes with the banker who runs the town.
Dir: George Archainbaud
Cast: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker.
BW-79 mins, TV-PG


3:00 PM
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)

An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark.
BW-179 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


6:15 PM
RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP (1958)

Officers on a WWII submarine clash during a perilous Pacific tour.
Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden.
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


THE ESSENTIALS: MERLE OBERON

8:00 PM
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)

A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
A NIGHT IN PARADISE (1946)

Aesop takes a break from spinning fables to help a king and fall in love.
Dir: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez.
C-84 mins, TV-G, CC


11:30 PM
THE DIVORCE OF LADY X (1938)

In need of a hotel room, a woman poses as a scandalous divorcee.
Dir: Tim Whelan
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes.
C-91 mins, TV-G


1:15 AM
THE COWBOY AND THE LADY (1938)

A socialite posing as her own maid falls for a rodeo rider.
Dir: H. C. Potter
Cast: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly.
BW-92 mins, TV-G


3:00 AM
THE DARK ANGEL (1935)

Three childhood friends are torn apart by love and World War I.
Dir: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC


5:00 AM
THE LION HAS WINGS (1939)

Britishers of every class band together to repel the German Blitz.
Dir: Michael Powell
Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez.
BW-76 mins, TV-PG

[CBHagman]

1. I don't know "The Lion Has Wings."

It's a good thing you posted this, as I'm just starting a Powell-Pressburger kick.

[Graybeard]

2. You can't go wrong with Powell-Pressburger.

Some of their films are simply masterpieces. One of the best (and my fave) is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).

As an anti-war film in 1943 it was daring for it's time. And as far as epic film making goes it is superb.