TCM Schedule Saturday, June 21 - Bridge On the River Kwai, Dog Day Afternoon, Hang 'Em High

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The Day at a Glance

TCM SPOTLIGHT: CON ARTISTS
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
(P) Nine Queens (2000)
F for Fake (1973) (doc.)
Saturday, June 21
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Red House, The (1947)
MGM Cartoons: Wild Honey (1942)
Opening Day (1938) (short)
Canadian Lancers (1956) (short)
Come on Danger (1942)
Lone Ranger Ch. 7: Wheels of Disaster (1938) (TCM Preview)
Popeye: Puttin on the Act (1933)
Dragon Murder Case, The (1934)
Okay for Sound (1946) (short)
Stork Club, The (1945) (Musical Matinee)
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
Screaming Eagles (1956)
Point Blank (1967)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- STEVE BUSCEMI
Scarecrow (1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (1964)
- NOIR ALLEY
Pale Flower (1964)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: WESTERNS
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Hanging Tree, The (1959)

Full day schedule

10:15 PM How to Steal a Million (1966)
A legendary art collector lends his prized (replica) Cellini Venus to a prestigious Paris museum. Before tests can be done which would prove the Venus is a fake, though, the collector's daughter enlists the services of a "society burglar" to steal the million dollar statue.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 AM The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
A bored millionaire decides to live his life on the edge and stages a multimilion dollar bank heist, but falls in love with an insurance investigator (from the victim bank) who suspects him of the crime.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:30 AM Nine Queens (2000)
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (known as the "nine queens&quot .
Dir: Fabian Bielinsky Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: N


4:30 AM F for Fake (1973)
Director Orson Welles examines the career of a notorious art forger.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Frantois Reichenbach
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


6:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 AM Wild Honey (1942)
Barney Bear sets off to search for some honey but all his various gadgets don't always do the job they're supposed to.
Dir: Rudolf Ising Cast: Non-Speaking Role
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:15 AM Opening Day (1938)
A man attends the opening of a new baseball stadium to throw out the first pitch but the crowd must first endure his monologue.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Robert Benchley, Philo McCullough, J. C. Nugent
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:30 AM Canadian Lancers (1956)
This short film shows youngsters training at the Junior Bengal Lancers riding school in Halifax.
Dir: Douglas Sinclair Cast: Peter Roberts, Heather Cameron, Mark Facey
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:45 AM Come on Danger (1942)
When a woman turns outlaw, she's suspected of murder.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:45 AM Wheels of Disaster (1938) (TCM Preview)
Chapter 7 of the The Lone Ranger 1938 serial. When a band of Texas Rangers is massacred in an ambush, one of the men is nursed back to health by an Indian named Tonto. The lone survivor swears vengeance, and assumes another identity to learn more about who was behind the attack.
Dir: John English, William Witney Cast: Lynn Roberts, Chief Thunder-Cloud, George Letz
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:15 AM Puttin on the Act (1933)
Olive Oyl announces vaudeville's coming back. Swee'Pea, Popeye and Olive rehearse their old-time routines. In a series of celebrity impersonations, Popeye enacts some humorous impressions of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:25 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious "dragon pool."
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:40 AM Okay for Sound (1946)
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Warner's Vitaphone sound-on-film process.
Dir: null Cast: Truman Bradley, John Barrymore, James Cagney, Anna Case
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM The Stork Club (1945)
A hat-check girl gets rich quick when she saves a millionaire's life.
Dir: Hal Walker Cast: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:45 PM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma.
Dir: David Lean Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Runtime: 161 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:45 PM Screaming Eagles (1956)
A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.
Dir: Charles Haas Cast: Tom Tryon, Jan Merlin, Alvy Moore
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 PM Scarecrow (1973)
While traveling to the east cost to open a car wash, paroled convict Max meets a sailor named Lion who dreams of reuniting with his wife and child after six years. Lion helps Max learn to understand and manage his anger, and Max discovers the fragility of his new friend Lion.
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


10:00 PM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


12:15 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: N


2:00 AM Hang 'Em High (1968)
A cowboy drifter survives a hanging by a band of thugs and then swears vengeance.
Dir: Ted Post Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 AM The Hanging Tree (1959)
A doctor saves a man from a hanging and then tries to run his life.
Dir: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman Cast: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y