Thursday, May 1st TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada
The Green Pastures (1936)
An all-black cast portrays Noah (Eddie Anderson), Gabriel (Oscar Polk), "De Lawd" (Rex Ingram) and other biblical figures.
Alice in Movieland (1940)
Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A motley assortment of characters embarks on a chaotic and slapstick-filled race to find $350,000 in buried loot.
Inherit the Wind (1960)
A fundamentalist orator (Fredric March) opposes a liberal lawyer (Spencer Tracy) defending a Darwinist teacher in the 1920s South.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
White liberals must overcome their own latent racism when their strong-willed daughter announces her intention to marry a distinguished black physician.
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Two men (Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier) of different races, who hate each other, escape from a chain gang shackled together.
Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special
Celebrating 50 years of the AFI Life Achievement Award with archival clips and interviews.
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Bandits stage a brazen train robbery.
The Invaders (1912)
After surveyors ignore a treaty and trespass on Indian land, the Army refuses to rein in the interlopers. The Indians kill them and a vicious war breaks out.
The Squaw Man (1914)
A Briton (Dustin Farnum) takes the blame for another's crime and flees to Wyoming, where he marries an American Indian woman (Red Wing).
The Iron Horse (1924)
A cowboy (George O'Brien) helps his sweetheart's (Madge Bellamy) father build the first transcontinental railroad.
Tumbleweeds (1925)
During the 1889 land rush, a cowboy is accused of staking a claim prior to the official starting time.
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
During the construction of an irrigation system in a Southwestern town, an engineer and a local cowboy vie for the affections of a rancher's (Charles Lane) daughter (Vilma Bánky).
Sky High (1922)
An immigration officer (Tom Mix) battles a gang of smugglers trying to get Chinese laborers across the border from Mexico.
Musical Movieland (1944)
A tour of a movie studio features musical numbers.