TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 21: Summer Under the Stars: Jose Ferrer

Interesting line-up. The Cockleshell Heroes is a new one for me.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

12:00 AM The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, Thelma Ritter
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM People Will Talk (1951)
A controversial doctor gets mixed up with an unwed mother.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM The Swarm (1978)
Killer bees that attack without reason descend on Texas.
Dir: Irwin Allen Cast: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



8:00 AM Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
A moralist sets out to reform the legendary South Seas floozy.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



9:45 AM Deep in My Heart (1954)
Life story of Sigmund Romberg who grew to become one of Broadway's most prolific composers and producers in the 1920s.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:15 PM The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
A British major leads a suicide mission to take out a German shipyard in occupied France.
Dir: Jose Ferrer Cast: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:15 PM The High Cost of Loving (1958)
An office worker thinks he's going to lose his job just as his wife announces she may be pregnant.
Dir: José Ferrer Cast: José Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 PM Crisis (1950)
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:00 PM I Accuse! (1958)
True story of writer Emile Zola's defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
Dir: José Ferrer Cast: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Moulin Rouge (1952)
French painter Toulouse-Lautrec fights to find love despite his physical limitations.
Dir: John Huston Cast: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:15 PM Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
A swordsman and poet helps another man woo the woman he loves.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



12:15 AM The Great Man (1957)
A radio writer preparing a tribute to a recently passed colleague discovers his idol had feet of clay.
Dir: Jose Ferrer Cast: Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:00 AM The Caine Mutiny (1954)
A captain of a US Navy destroyer during World War II begins to crack under pressure, expressing odd behavior, and is forcibly relieved by his second in command, but then a trial ensues to uncover who was in the right.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:15 AM A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor and his wife Adrian are hosting a wedding party for Ariel and Leopold at their summer house in the country. Over the weekend, another couple arrives - the randy, doctor Maxwell and his date, nurse Dulcy. Through the course of the weekend, sexual partners are exchanged ...
Dir: Woody Allen Cast: José Ferrer, Thomas Barbour, Eugene Ormandy, Boris Zoubok, Tony Roberts, Mia Farrow, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: N