TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 30: Written by Ernest Lehman

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After the Memorial Day Marathon concludes in the early hours of Tuesday, TCM offers a birthday tribute to director Howard Hawks. You won't want to miss it.

And you won't want to miss the schedule in prime time, which features the work of screenwriter Ernest Lehman. Learn more about him here:

https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/past-presidents/ernest-lehman

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

1:00 AM Battle of the Bulge (1965)
A crack Nazi unit holds off the Allies during World War II.
Dir: Ken Annakin Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 163 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 AM The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Biography of Frank "Spig" Wead, the pioneer aviator who turned to writing after being grounded by an accident.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM Today We Live (1933)
An aristocratic English girl's tangled love life creates havoc during World War I.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:00 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A straight-laced paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to a free-spirited heiress. In the course of retrieving the bone he falls for the heiress and many subsequent mishaps ensue.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:00 AM The Outlaw (1943)
Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday fight over possession of a stallion and a sultry Mexican girl.
Dir: Howard Hughes Cast: Jack Beutel, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Russell
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 PM Rio Bravo (1959)
A sheriff enlists a drunk, a kid and an old man to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Runtime: 141 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:30 PM The Thing from Another World (1951)
The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space.
Dir: Christian Nyby Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 PM 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

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6:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: WRITTEN BY ERNEST LEHMAN

8:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Runtime: 136 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:30 PM Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: N

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1:00 AM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist's sister's relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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2:45 AM West Side Story (1961)
Modern day "Romeo and Juliet" set in a New York City ghetto about a Polish teen from one gang who falls for a Puerto Rican girl whose brother is from a rival gang.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Runtime: 155 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #4 (1955)
George Murphy tours Lake Metro, where "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Show Boat" were shot, and introduces a clip from "Good News." These clips feature June Allyson and Peter Lawford.
Dir: null Cast: Peter Lawford, George Murphy, June Allyson
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N

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1. The director of "Sweet Smell of Success" was my teacher in film school...

According to what Lehman told him, he came up with the entire plot to “North by Northwest” simply on Hitchcock’s instruction to “write me a movie that ends with a chase scene on Mount Rushmore.”