TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 20: Star of the Month: Dirk Bogarde: All Things Art House
TCM walks fearlessly into midweek with a daytime schedule that explores amnesia (theme: I Can't Remember) and an evening schedule that is definitely not for the entire family, unless your entire family is of age to deal with dark obsessions, decadence, and danger of several varieties.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12:00 AM Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man's wife.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 AM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:00 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
6:00 AM I Love You Again (1940)
A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:45 AM Slightly Dangerous (1943)
A small-town girl changes her identity to make it in New York, leaving her boyfriend a suspect in her "disappearance."
Dir: Wesley Ruggles Cast: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:30 AM Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:45 AM The Great Dictator (1940)
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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2:00 PM Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
A respectable, convent-raised woman is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager. But when her grown daughter returns from school, her life begins to unravel in surprising ways.
Dir: Arthur Crabtree Cast: Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
4:00 PM Mr. Arkadin (1955)
An eager young man is hired by Mr. Arkadin, one of the richest men in Europe, to help him uncover clues about his past because he suffers from a severe condition of amnesia and does not know how he became so wealthy.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM 36 Hours (1964)
Nazis kidnap a key American intelligence officer and try to convince him that World War II is over.
Dir: George Seaton Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: DIRK BOGARDE: ALL THINGS ART HOUSE
8:00 PM Death in Venice (1971)
An aging author on vacation becomes obsessed with a young aristocrat.
Dir: Luchino Visconti Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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10:30 PM Darling (1965)
A young beauty sacrifices love and happiness to become an international celebrity.
Dir: John Schlesinger Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: N
1:00 AM The Night Porter (1974)
Thirteen years after World War II, Lucia, a survivor of a German concentration camp, runs into her former Nazi captor and lover Max, who is now a harmless night porter at the Vienna hotel where she and her husband are staying. In spite of the violent and perverted nature of their sado-machochistic wartime "relationship," a sexual bond remains, and they begin an affair.
Dir: Liliana Cavani Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
3:15 AM The Damned (1969)
The rise of Nazism as reflected within a decadent German industrialist family.
Dir: Luchino Visconti Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem
Runtime: 164 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y