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TCM Schedule for Thursday, May 16, 2014: 1940s Film Noir / Director Frank Borzage (Part 3)

More output from Director Frank Borzage, credited with 108 known silent and talking films.
Full wikipedia bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Borzage


----------- MORNING & AFTERNOON (EST) -----------

7:15 AM | Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal's girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth | Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt



9:00 AM | The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

Trivia: Film takes place in real time



10:15 AM | The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson



12:00 PM | Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery | Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan



2:00 PM | They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young man gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray | Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva



4:00 PM | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone | Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott



6:00 PM | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett | Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway



----------- PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT -----------

8:00 PM | The Mortal Storm (1940)
The Third Reich's rise tears apart a German family.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young



10:00 PM | Three Comrades (1938)
Three friends share their love for a dying woman in a turbulent Germany between wars.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone



12:00 AM | Flight Command (1940)
A cocky cadet tries to prove himself during flight training.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon



2:15 AM | The Spanish Main (1945)
Dutch rebels in the Caribbean turn pirate and kidnap the corrupt Spanish governor's bride-to-be.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak



4:15 AM | Strange Cargo
(1940)
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange spiritual figure.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter

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