TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 19: Studio Contract Players: Bogart, Hunter, Lorre

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

12:00 AM To Have and Have Not (1944)
A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:15 AM Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.
Dir: Herman Shumlin Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:00 AM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 AM Three Strangers (1946)
Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:00 PM Knute Rockne--All American (1940)
Biography of the famed Notre Dame coach and his fight to "win one for the Gipper."
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM The Hasty Heart (1950)
Doctors try to get a Scottish soldier to open up to his comrades before telling him he's dying.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:45 PM Between Two Worlds (1944)
Passengers on a luxury liner realize they are en route to the afterlife.
Dir: Edward A. Blatt Cast: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

5:45 PM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS: HUMPHREY BOGART, TAB HUNTER, AND PETER LORRE

8:00 PM Black Legion (1937)
During the Great Depression, Frank Taylor is passed over for a promotion that goes to Joe Dombrowski, a hard working Polish immigrant. Feeling cheated, Taylor joins a secret, racist organization called the Black Legion. With other members of the Legion, Taylor goes on a nighttime raid that drives Dombrowski and his family from their home and Dombrowski from his job.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:00 AM Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)
Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter discusses his life as a secretly gay matinee idol in the 1950s.
Dir: Jeffrey Schwarz Cast: Tab Hunter, Robert Wagner, Clint Eastwood
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 AM Battle Cry (1955)
A group of Marines eagerly await deployment during World War II.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:30 AM The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
After a famous pianist's murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:00 AM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y