TCM Picks for Week of 2/19/07

Buy your microwave popcorn in bulk! There are so many good movies on this week at Turner Classic Movies.

Monday, February 19, 2007

8:00pm The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) WHY: John Wayne and James Stewart

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

6:30am Not As a Stranger (1955) WHY: Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum
10:30am The Gold Rush (1925) WHY: Charlie Chaplin
5:30pm Sayonara (1957) WHY: Marlon Brando
8:00pm Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) WHY: Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in a Western about Wyatt Earp

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

4:00pm The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) WHY: Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
6:15pm Vivacious Lady (1938) WHY: James Stewart, Ginger Rogers, and Charles Coburn
9:30pm That Touch of Mink (1962) WHY: Cary Grant and Doris Day

Thursday, February 22, 2007

7:45am A Damsel in Distress (1937) WHY: Fred Astaire and George Burns
4:00pm Born to Dance (1936) WHY: James Stewart
6:00pm A Day at the Races (1937) WHY: The Marx Brothers and Maureen O'Sullivan

Friday, February 23, 2007

8:00am Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) WHY: Clark Gable and Charles Laughton and because it's Mutiny on the Bounty!
10:30am It Happened One Night (1934) WHY: Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
4:45pm The Great Ziegfeld (1936) WHY: William Powell and Myrna Loy
8:00pm The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) WHY: James Stewart and Charlton Heston
11:00pm An American in Paris (1951) WHY: Gene Kelly in one of the greatest musicals ever made

Saturday, February 24, 2007

1:00am Gigi (1958) WHY: I haven't seen it yet, but it's just one of those titles you come across over and over - must be something to it
6:30am On the Waterfront (1954) WHY: Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint
8:30am All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) WHY: A very famous war movie. A must-see movie.
1:00pm The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Another must-see war movie starring William Holden

Sunday, February 25, 2007

8:15am West Side Story (1961) WHY: Natalie Wood and because it's West Side Story
11:00am My Fair Lady (1964) WHY: One of Audrey Hepburn's most famous films
6:00pm Casablanca (1943) WHY: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and probably the most famous classic film of all time
12:00am Meet John Doe (1941) WHY: Gary Cooper and the great Barbara Stanwyck


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