TCM Schedule for Thursday, August 6, 2020 -- Summer Under The Stars: Burt Lancaster

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Day six of Summer Under the Stars features Burt Lancaster. Enjoy!

(And my apologies for the late posting. I'm having hand problems and it's hard to type.)


6:00 AM -- VENGEANCE VALLEY (1951)
An honest rancher tries to block his evil brother's plots while keeping them from their father.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru
C-82 mins, CC,

7:30 AM -- JIM THORPE: ALL AMERICAN (1951)
The famous Native American athlete fights prejudice in his pursuit of sports stardom.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran
BW-105 mins, CC,

9:30 AM -- THE FLAME AND THE ARROW (1950)
Roman rebels fight against invading barbarians.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas
C-88 mins, CC,

11:02 AM -- A DAY ON TREASURE ISLAND (1939)
This short film visits the Golden Gate International Exposition, the "World's Fair of the West."
C-10 mins,

11:15 AM -- THE CRIMSON PIRATE (1952)
A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
C-104 mins, CC,

1:15 PM -- BRUTE FORCE (1947)
Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
BW-98 mins, CC,

2:55 PM -- ALERT TODAY - ALIVE TOMORROW (1956)
This short film promotes the need for cooperation and neighborliness in the event of a nuclear disaster and associated civil defense procedures.
Dir: Larry O'Reilly
BW-15 mins,

3:15 PM -- SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964)
An American military officer discovers his superiors are planning a military coup.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
BW-118 mins, CC,

5:15 PM -- DUCK AND COVER (1951)
In this short film, a monkey's prank on a turtle demonstrates how to survive a nuclear attack.
Dir: Anthony Rizzo Cast: Leo M. Langlois III, Ray J. Mauer,
BW-9 mins,

5:30 PM -- THE TRAIN (1964)
French resistance fighters try to stop the Nazis from taking a trainload of art treasures to Germany.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
BW-133 mins, CC,


TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: BURT LANCASTER



8:00 PM -- ELMER GANTRY (1960)
A young drifter finds success as a traveling preacher until his past catches up with him.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy
C-147 mins, CC,

10:45 PM -- BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (1962)
True story of Robert Stroud, the prison lifer who became an expert on birds.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
BW-149 mins, CC,

1:19 AM -- PACIFIC PARADISE (1937)
In this musical short, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Peter Lind Hayes, Virginia Grey,
BW-10 mins,

1:30 AM -- FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
BW-118 mins, CC,

3:45 AM -- ATLANTIC CITY (1980)
An aging gangster's love for a gambling house waitress puts him in the middle of a heist gone bad.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Vincent Glorioso, Louis Del Grande, John Allmond
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:34 AM -- THE FLAME SONG (1934)
In this short film, a prince is such a playboy that his subjects revolt and place his cousin (who is worse) on the throne, forcing the former prince to find a way to overthrow the dictator. Vitaphone Release 1762-1763.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Mildred Van Dorn, Bobette Christine, Greek Evans
BW-22 mins,