TCM Schedule for Saturday, April 8 - Casablanca!

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TCM Schedule for Saturday, April 8 - Casablanca!



Saturday, April 8 At a Glance

-- TCM PRIMETIME --
A STUDIO THAT TAKES A STAND
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mayor of Hell, The (1933)
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER COMES OF AGE
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Kings Row (1942)
Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Learning Tree, The (1969)
Summer of '42 (1971)
Little Romance, A (1979)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER AT WAR
Casablanca (1942)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
This is the Army (1943)
Across the Pacific (1942)

12:00 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
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

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When broke, would-be architect James Allen is wrongly arrested and convicted for a small-time holdup, he is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, Allen escapes and builds a successful new life. But his landlady learns the truth and blackmails Allen into marriage, ...
Dir: Mervyn Le Roy Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Paul Muni {"James Allen"} [came in 2nd]
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Warner Bros.
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director [came in 2nd]


4:00 AM The Mayor of Hell (1933)

A racketeer goes straight to run a reform school.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
An impoverished girl masquerades as a boy to run with a gang of young hobos.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, Rochelle Hudson
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


7:30 AM Kings Row (1942)

Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- James Wong Howe
DIRECTING -- Sam Wood
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.


10:00 AM Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
A stray dog brings together a young boy and an old man in the Georgia swamps.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:45 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar win:
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- William Inge

Oscar nomination:
ACTRESS -- Natalie Wood {"Wilma Dean Loomis"}


2:00 PM The Learning Tree (1969)
Newt Winger is a sensitive teenager who dreams often and big and from whom his mother dreams even bigger. Gordon Parks proves a triple threat as director, producer and screenwriter of this film version of his autobiographical novel about Winger, a young black man coming of age in small-town Kansas during the 1920s. In 1989, ...
Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 PM Summer of '42 (1971)

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A high school student falls in love, for the first time, with a World War II bride.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar win:
MUSIC (Original Dramatic Score) -- Michel Legrand

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Robert Surtees
FILM EDITING -- Folmar Blangsted
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- Herman Raucher


6:00 PM A Little Romance (1979)
Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, John Pepper
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar win:
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Georges Delerue

Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Allan Burns


8:00 PM Casablanca (1942)

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An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins:
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.
DIRECTING -- Michael Curtiz
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Humphrey Bogart {"Rick Blane"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Claude Rains {"Captain Louis Renault"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Arthur Edeson
FILM EDITING -- Owen Marks
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Max Steiner


10:00 PM Destination Tokyo (1943)

A U.S. sub braves enemy waters during World War II.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nomination:
WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story) -- Steve Fisher


12:30 AM Objective, Burma! (1945)

An elite team of paratroopers lands deep behind Japanese lines in the jungles of Burma - only to find its escape route blocked. Now, the brave survivors of the original mission must fight their way through 150 miles of enemy held jungle.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince
Runtime: 142 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
FILM EDITING -- George Amy
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Franz Waxman
WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story) -- Alvah Bessie


3:00 AM This Is the Army (1943)

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A song-and-dance man's son stages a big show starring World War II soldiers.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins:
MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Ray Heindorf
Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: John Hughes, Lt. John Koenig; Interior Decoration: George J. Hopkins
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director


5:15 AM Across the Pacific (1942)
An American agent tries to keep Axis spies from blowing up the Panama Canal.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y