TCM Schedule for Thursday, January 11, 2024--Birthday Tribute: Rod Taylor. Plus, Citizen Kane, Network, and more

Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (January 11, 1930 -- January 7, 2015) was an Australian-born American actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, and The Train Robbers.—Wikipedia

6:15 AM | Seven Seas to Calais (1962)
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
Dir: Rudolph Maté | Cast: Rod Taylor, Keith Michell
Runtime: 102 mins | Genre: Drama

8:15 AM | Young Cassidy (1965)
True story of playwright Sean O'Casey's involvement with the Irish rebellion of 1910.
Dir: Jack Cardiff | Cast: Rod Taylor, Flora Robson
Runtime: 110 mins | Genre: Romance

10:15 AM | The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
A PR worker in a space laboratory is suspected of being a spy because she calls her dog on the phone and calls him "Vladimir."
Dir: Frank Tashli | Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
Runtime: 110 mins | Genre: Comedy

12:15 PM | The Train Robbers (1973)
A bandit's widow enlists a famed gunman to return the gold her husband stole.
Dir: Burt Kennedy | Cast: John Wayne, Rod Taylor, Ricardo Montalban
Runtime: 92 mins | Genre: Western

2:00 PM | The Liquidator (1966)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England's Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff | Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
Runtime: 104 mins | Genre: Suspense/Mystery

4:00 PM | Sunday in New York (1963)
A prim 22-year-old virgin, Eileen Tyler, considers premarital sex when she travels from Albany to visit her womanizing brother in New York City, and although engaged to another man, flirts with a stranger she meets on a bus.
Dir: Peter Tewksbury | Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Runtime: 105 mins | Genre: Comedy

6:00 PM | The Time Machine (1960)
In this adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel, a scientist in 1880s Victorian England builds a vehicle to transport him through time. He first travels to 1917 and the horror of World War I. Next, he sets his destination for 1940 and the start of World War II. From there he travels to a future London where he barely escapes ...
Dir: George Pal | Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux
Runtime: 103 mins | Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction

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8:00 PM | The Power of Film Episode 2: Trapped (2023)
Nearly all memorable stories, whether told in movies or in real life, are about traps. The most memorable are generally about the loss, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph the central character must engage in to escape their trap.
Dir: Laura Gabbert | Cast: Howard Suber
Runtime: 40 mins | Genre: Documentary

9:00 PM | Citizen Kane (1941)
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Dir: Orson Welles | Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Runtime: 119 mins | Genre: Drama
OSCAR: Best Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles)

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11:15 PM | The Power of Film Episode 2: Trapped (2023)
Nearly all memorable stories, whether told in movies or in real life, are about traps. The most memorable are generally about the loss, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph the central character must engage in to escape their trap.
Dir: Laura Gabbert | Cast: Howard Suber
Runtime: 40 mins | Genre: Documentary

12:15 AM | Network (1976)
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
Dir: Sidney Lumet | Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Runtime: 121 mins | Genre: Drama
OSCARS: Best Actor Supporting (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Actress Supporting (Beatrice Straight), Writing (Paddy Chayefsky)

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2:30 AM | The Miracle Worker (1962)
True story of the determined teacher who helped Helen Keller overcome deafness and blindness to learn to communicate.
Dir: Arthur Penn | Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Runtime: 107 mins | Genre: Drama
OSCARS: Best Actress (Bancroft), Best Actress Supporting (Patty Duke)

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4:30 AM | Casablanca (1942)
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 102 mins | Genre: Romance
OSCARS: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch)

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