TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 24: Mitchum (continued)/Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 1980s and 1990s
The Robert Mitchum roster of films includes a late Christmas present. 
The Columbia Pictures selection is epic in multiple senses.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
1:30 AM Two for the Seesaw (1962)
A conservative attorney considering a divorce gets involved with an emotionally fragile dancer in New York.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:45 AM Not As a Stranger (1955)
A medical student will stop at nothing to become a top surgeon.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:15 AM My Forbidden Past (1951)
A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
7:30 AM She Couldn't Say No (1954)
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N
9:15 AM Home from the Hill (1960)
A southern landowner's family is torn apart by the revelation that he has an illegitimate son.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
Runtime: 150 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM The Sundowners (1960)
A nomadic family travels across 1930s Australia to pursue their dream of settling into a big farm, along the way they try to win some money.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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2:30 PM Holiday Affair (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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4:00 PM Desire Me (1947)
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:45 PM Bells Are Ringing (1960)
An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients' lives.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
What's on Tonight: Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 1980s and 1990s
8:00 PM Gandhi (1982)
Biographical epic on the life of Mohandas K Gandhi, a proponent of peaceful revolution who led his country's fight for independence and was subsequently assassinated.
Dir: Richard Attenborough Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud
Runtime: 188 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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11:30 PM Philadelphia (1993)
A lawyer sues his firm for firing him because he has AIDS.
Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
2:00 AM One False Move (1991)
Prison buddies Ray and Pluto, and Ray's girlfriend, Fantasia, commit a series of executions in Los Angeles before heading east to unload a cache of stolen cocaine, only to be apprehended by a gung-ho sheriff in Louisiana.
Dir: Carl Franklin Cast: Cynda Williams, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
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4:00 AM The Last Emperor (1987)
The story of the last imperial ruler of China.
Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Runtime: 163 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
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