TCM Schedule for Saturday, May 22 --- THE ESSENTIALS: CEDRIC HARDWICKE

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22 Saturday



6:00 AM Tycoon (1947)
While building a tunnel through the Andes, an engineer falls in love with his possessive boss's daughter. Cast: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke. Dir: Richard Wallace. C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:19 AM Short Film: Off The Record (1936)
BW-11 mins,

8:30 AM The Front Page (1931)
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC

10:11 AM Short Film: Wild And Woolly (1931)
A Pete Smith short showcasing a western-style rodeo with bronco riding, steer wrestling (bulldogging), and bull riding. Cast: Pete Smith BW-9 mins,

10:30 AM Trouble Makers (1948)
The Bowery Boys pose as bellhops to solve a murder. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Lionel Stander. Dir: Reginald LeBorg. BW-67 mins, TV-G

11:38 AM Short Film: Storm (1943)
BW-8 mins,

12:00 PM The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
Two bumbling outlaws try to help a trio of orphans protect their gold strike. Cast: Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts. Dir: Norman Tokar. C-100 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM The Natural (1984)
An overaged baseball player comes out of nowhere to save his team. Cast: Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger. Dir: Barry Levinson. C-138 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 PM Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932)
A British lord raised by apes kidnaps a beautiful noblewoman exploring Africa with her father. Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

6:00 PM Never Cry Wolf (1983)
A government researcher fights to survive when he's marooned in the Canadian wilderness. Cast: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq. Dir: Carroll Ballard. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: CEDRIC HARDWICKE

8:00 PM The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-117 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

10:15 PM Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle. Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Derek Bonde, Sally Ann Howes. Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti. BW-108 mins, TV-G, CC

12:15 AM On Borrowed Time (1939)
An old man and his grandson trap Death in a tree. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC

2:00 AM King Solomon's Mines (1937)
African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure. Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Anna Lee. Dir: Robert Stevenson. BW-80 mins, TV-G

3:30 AM The Desert Fox (1951)
Following his work with the Afrika Korps, Field Marshall Rommell joins in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Cast: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy Dir: Henry Hathaway. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 AM Valley Of The Sun (1942)
A government spy goes after a crooked Indian agent in Arizona. Cast: James Craig, Lucille Ball, Dean Jagger. Dir: George Marshall. BW-78 mins, TV-G