TCM Schedule for Saturday, June 22, 2013 -- The Essentials: Obsessed

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7:15 AM
BLACKBEARD, THE PIRATE (1952)

A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.
Dir: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix.
C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC


9:15 AM
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (1939)

A human doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people locked in a foolish war.
Dir: Dave Fleischer
Cast: Jessica Dragonette, Lanny Ross
C-76 mins, TV-G, CC


10:45 AM
THE FALCON IN MEXICO (1944)

A society sleuth travels South of the border to investigate an art dealer's murder.
Dir: William Berke
Cast: Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha MacVicar.
BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 PM
HILLS OF HOME (1948)

Lassie helps a Scottish doctor deal with his patients' problems.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake.
C-97 mins, TV-G, CC


2:00 PM
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)

A Welch mining family faces the struggles of life together.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee.
BW-119 mins, TV-G, CC


4:15 PM
BHOWANI JUNCTION (1956)

An Anglo-Indian beauty falls for a British officer as her country fights for independence.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers.
C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


6:15 PM
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1958)

Lifelong rivals collaborate on a 19th-century moon rocket.
Dir: Byron Haskin
Cast: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget.
C-100 mins, TV-G, CC


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THE ESSENTIALS: OBSESSED

8:00 PM
THE SEARCHERS (1956)

An Indian-hating Civil War veteran tracks down the tribe that slaughtered his family and kidnapped his niece.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles.
C-119 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


10:15 PM
MOBY DICK (1956)

Epic adaptation of Herman Melville's classic about a vengeful sea captain out to catch the whale that maimed him.
Dir: John Huston
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn.
C-115 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


12:15 AM
LES MISERABLES (1935)

An obsessed policeman relentlessly pursues an escaped convict.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC


2:15 AM
THE FOREIGNER (1978)

A secret agent from Europe arrives in New York City and becomes entangled with an assortment of odd characters and situations.
Dir: Amos Poe
Cast: Eric Mitchell, Patti Astor, Deborah Harry.
BW-91 mins, TV-MA


4:00 AM
ALPHABET CITY (1984)

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
Dir: Amos Poe
Cast: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow.
C-85 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format


5:30 AM
ENGAGEMENT PARTY (1956)

A man worries about his financial security when pressured into marriage.
C-28 mins, TV-PG