TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 18th: Leading Couples

[CBHagman]

"It's even better when you help."

Quick, who said that, and in what film and under what circumstances?

Get ready for the watchable, quotable couples this evening and Barbara Stanwyck in the morning. Is this a great station or what?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008.

12:45 AM Canterville Ghost, The (1944)
A ghost who died a coward tries to inspire U.S. GIs to become heroes. Cast: Charles Laughton, Margaret O'Brien, Robert Young. Dir: Jules Dassin. BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC



2:30 AM Hamlet (1948)
The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons. Dir: Laurence Olivier. BW-154 mins, TV-14, CC



5:15 AM MGM Parade Show #12 (1955)
George Murphy introduces clips featuring Vincente Minnelli and Arthur Freed from "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and visits the set of "Kismet." BW-26 mins, TV-G

6:00 AM Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
Barbara Stanwyck's multi-faceted career reveals uncanny reflections of her off-screen life. Cast: Sally Field, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper. Dir: Richard Schickel. C-46 mins, TV-G



7:00 AM Locked Door, The (1929)
A woman once kidnapped by a wealthy womanizer tries to save her sister from him. Cast: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William 'Stage' Boyd. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-74 mins, TV-G

8:15 AM First Comes Courage (1943)
A Norwegian resistance fighter seduces a Nazi officer to learn enemy secrets during World War II. Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond. Dir: Dorothy Arzner. BW-86 mins,

9:45 AM Rhodes of Africa (1935)
A British explorer opens up Africa for European exploitation. Cast: Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Peggy Ashcroft. Dir: Berthold Viertel. BW-92 mins,

11:15 AM Africa Screams (1949)
Abbott and Costello search for an African diamond mine. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke. Dir: Charles Barton. BW-79 mins, TV-G

12:45 PM Frozen Limits, The (1939)
A group of kooks tries to join the Alaskan gold rush over 40 years too late. Cast: Chesney Allen, Eileen Bell, Eric Clavering. Dir: Maurice Varnel. BW-84 mins,

2:15 PM Way Out West (1938)
A pair of tenderfeet try to get the deed to a gold mine to its rightful owner. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-64 mins, TV-G, CC

3:30 PM Trail of the Rustlers (1950)
A cowboy helps a beautiful woman protect her family's ranch from land grabbers. Cast: Charles Starett, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis. Dir: Ray Nazarro. BW-54 mins, , CC

4:30 PM Western Union (1941)
An outlaw goes straight to work for the telegraph company, which puts him in conflict with his lawless brother. Cast: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger. Dir: Fritz Lang. C-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:15 PM Ride The High Country (1962)
Two aging gunslingers sign on to transport gold from a remote mining town. Cast: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-94 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: LEADING COUPLES

8:00 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. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



9:45 PM Adam's Rib (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women's rights case. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday. Dir: George Cukor. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



11:30 PM Top Hat (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



1:15 AM Night at the Opera, A (1935)
Three zanies turn an operatic performance into chaos in their efforts to promote their protege's romance with the leading lady. Cast: The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS


3:00 AM Zenobia (1939)
When he cures a circus elephant, a country doctor gets an unwanted friend. Cast: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke. Dir: Gordon Douglas. BW-73 mins, TV-G

4:15 AM Hospital, The (1971)
A harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman and a serial killer. Cast: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes. Dir: Arthur Hiller. C-103 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

[Staph]

1. I knew

that it was Bogie and Bacall, but I couldn't remember which movie.

And in A Night at the Opera, which pair of the Marx Brothers are the leading couple? I would guess it's Groucho and Chico, since Harpo is the silent partner, but this could be some kind of menage a trois (not a menage a quatre, as Zeppo isn't in this one)....

[CBHagman]

2. Ding, ding, ding.

Yes, it's Bogie and Bacall, but which one of them says it, and under what circumstances, and in which film?

As for the couples theme and the Marx Brothers, yeah, I don't get slipping A Night at the Opera into the line-up. Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle are the couple here.