TCM Scedule for Wednesday, January 1: Lost Worlds
Volcanoes! Dinosaurs! Masses of living seaweed! Proceed with caution this New Year's Day on TCM.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
12:45 AM
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Classic musical numbers and rare behind-the-scenes footage show how MGM created the screen's greatest musicals. Featuring clips with Gene Kelly, Lena Horne and Debbie Reynolds.
Dir: Bud Friedgen Cast: June Allyson , Cyd Charisse , Gene Kelly .
C-120 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 AM
That's Dancing! (1985)
Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov host this compilation of some of the greatest dance numbers in movie history.
Dir: Jack Haley Jr.
BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM
Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM (1996)
A one-time songwriter rises to produce some of the screen's greatest musicals.
Dir: David Thompson Cast: Irving Brecher , Leslie Caron , Saul Chaplin .
C-86 mins, TV-G,
6:30 AM
It Should Happen To You (1953)
A dizzy model in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday , Peter Lawford , Jack Lemmon .
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Maggie Smith , Robert Stephens , Pamela Franklin .
C-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 AM
Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Ingrid Bergman , Claude Rains .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,
11:45 AM
Splendor In The Grass (1961)
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood , Warren Beatty , Pat Hingle .
C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen , Faye Dunaway , Paul Burke .
C-102 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 PM
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
A playboy becomes a doctor to right the wrong he's done to a sightless widow.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Jane Wyman , Rock Hudson , Agnes Moorehead .
C-108 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM
Thrill Of It All, The (1963)
A doctor tries to cope with his wife's newfound stardom as an advertising pitch woman.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Doris Day , James Garner , Arlene Francis .
C-108 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: LOST WORLDS
8:00 PM
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
A professor and his colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Pat Boone , James Mason , Arlene Dahl .
C-129 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM
Lost World, The (1960)
A professor leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify that dinosaurs still live there.
Dir: Irwin Allen Cast: Michael Rennie , Jill St. John , David Hedison .
C-96 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
Valley of Gwangi, The (1969)
Cowboys discover a lost world populated by dinosaurs.
Dir: Jim O'Connolly Cast: James Franciscus , Gila Golan , Richard Carlson .
C-95 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
1:39 AM
Day In Death Valley, A (1944)
This short film takes the viewer to Death Valley.
C-10 mins,
2:00 AM
She (1965)
Explorers uncover a lost kingdom ruled by an immortal queen.
Dir: Robert Day Cast: Ursula Andress , John Richardson , Peter Cushing .
C-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 AM
Lost Continent, The (1968)
When a tramp steamer is attacked by a mass of living seaweed, the occupants are forced to take refuge on a strange island.
Dir: Michael Carreras Cast: Eric Porter , Hildegard Knef , Suzanna Leigh .
C-83 mins, TV-PG,
5:24 AM
Mgm 40th Anniversary (1964)
A brief overview of MGM releases from the first 40 years of the studio.
C-32 mins, TV-PG,
