TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 11th: Hal Roach Studios: Laurel and Hardy.

[CBHagman]

For those of you who are interested, here's a link to the This Month feature on TCM.

And there's a real oddity on tonight's schedule: a short film promoting movie screenings on Sundays. I guess it took a while to change laws and attitudes...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

12:30 AM Rabbit Trap, The (1959)
A working stiff risks his job to save a rabbit left behind during his family's vacation. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, David Brian, Bethel Leslie. Dir: Philip Leacock. BW-76 mins, TV-PG

2:00 AM High Cost Of Loving, The (1958)
An office worker thinks he's going to lose his job just as his wife announces she may be pregnant. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Gena Rowlands, Jim Backus. Dir: Jose Ferrer. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 AM Room at the Top (1959)
A young accountant claws his way to the top in the boardroom and the bedroom. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears. Dir: Jack Clayton. BW-117 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM Now Playing January (2011) (2011)
C-27 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:00 AM Sons of the Sea (1941)
A brave captain pilots the first steamboat line between England and the U.S. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones. Dir: Walter Forde. BW-92 mins, TV-G

7:45 AM Girl, a Guy, and a Gob, A (1941)
A stuffy boss tries to steal his secretary from her sailor boyfriend. Cast: George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O'Brien. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-90 mins, TV-G

9:20 AM Short Film: Goofy Movies #5 (1934)
BW-8 mins,

9:30 AM Sea Wolf, The (1941)
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Ida Lupino. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC



11:00 AM Topper Returns (1941)
A beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer. Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Billie Burke. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-88 mins, TV-G

12:30 PM Affectionately Yours (1941)
A foreign correspondent hurries home to stop his wife from getting a divorce. Cast: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC



2:00 PM Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941)
A pilot and a temperamental heiress are stranded in the desert together. Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Harry Davenport. Dir: William Keighley. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC



3:45 PM Come Live With Me (1941)
A Viennese refugee weds a struggling author platonically so she can stay in the U.S. Cast: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC

5:15 PM Father Takes A Wife (1941)
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate. Cast: Gloria Swanson, Adolphe Menjou, Desi Arnaz. Dir: Jack Hively. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC

6:45 PM Honeymoon For Three (1941)
A novelist pretends to be married to hold his fans at bay. Cast: George Brent, Ann Sheridan, Jane Wyman. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-75 mins, TV-G, CC

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: HAL ROACH STUDIOS: LAUREL AND HARDY



8:00 PM Thicker Than Water (1935)
C-21 mins, TV-G, CC

8:30 PM Short Film: Fixer Uppers, The (1935)
Comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have a no fail plan to help a jealous wife woo her husband, but somehow things go wrong. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins, TV-G, CC

9:00 PM Tit For Tat (1935)
A Laurel and Hardy sequel to Them Thar Hills - they open an electrical repair shop and discover that their neighbor/grocer are the same couple they had a run in with in Them Thar Hills. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-19 mins, TV-G, CC

9:20 PM Short Film: Movies On Sundays (1935)
A promotional short from 1935 encouraging Pennsylvania's citizens to allow movie showings on Sundays, just as other leisure was allowed at the time. Interesting look at the relative political conservatism of the day. BW-8 mins,

9:30 PM Short Film: Live Ghost, The (1934)
A sea captain hires comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to trick sailors into working on his supposedly haunted boat. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins, TV-G, CC

10:00 PM Them Thar Hills (1934)
When they go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, the two accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into the well by local moonshiners trying to evade the law. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-20 mins, TV-G, CC

10:30 PM Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
C-21 mins, TV-G, CC

11:00 PM Oliver the Eighth (1934)
C-26 mins, TV-G, CC

11:30 PM Dirty Work (1933)
C-19 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 AM Busy Bodies (1933)
C-19 mins, TV-G, CC

12:30 AM Midnight Patrol (1933)
C-20 mins, TV-G, CC

12:56 AM Short Film: Govenor C.C. Young Hails Greater Talkie Season (1928)
C-3 mins,

1:00 AM Short Film: Me and My Pal (1933)
A groom and his best man get preoccupied with a jigsaw puzzle on their way to the wedding. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: Lloyd French, Charley Rogers. BW-20 mins, TV-G, CC

1:30 AM Twice Two (1933)
C-20 mins, TV-G, CC

2:00 AM Short Film: Towed in a Hole (1932)
Comic legends Laurel and Hardy decide to go into the fishing business for themselves. Trouble ensues when they must fix up dilapidated boat bought from a junk yard. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: George Marshall BW-21 mins, TV-G, CC

2:30 AM Short Film: Their First Mistake (1932)
After adopting a baby to save his marriage, a man discovers his wife has left him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: George Marshall. BW-21 mins, TV-G, CC

3:00 AM Short Film: Scram! (1932)
Two vagrants ordered out of town take up with a drunken tycoon. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer. Dir: Ray McCarey. BW-20 mins, TV-G, CC

3:30 AM Short Film: County Hospital (1932)
A hospital visitor wreaks havoc during a routine visit. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins, TV-G, CC

4:00 AM Short Film: Chimp, The (1932)
A jealous husband thinks two tenants sneaking a pet chimp into their apartment are carrying on with his wife. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-25 mins, TV-G, CC

4:30 AM Music Box, The (1932)
Two men running a moving company have to get a large piano up a daunting flight of stairs. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-29 mins, TV-G, CC

5:00 AM Short Film: Helpmates (1932)
A married man has to get his house back in order before his wife returns. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 AM Short Film: Beau Hunks (1931)
After being dumped by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver makes Laurel join the Foreign Legion with him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-37 mins, TV-G, CC