Wednesday, May 8th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada
Bright Leaf (1950)
Backed by a rich madam (Lauren Bacall), a Southerner (Gary Cooper) ruins a tobacco tycoon with a cigarette-making machine.
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
A Ukrainian bishop (Anthony Quinn) and former Siberian prisoner is sent to Rome, made cardinal and elected pope.
Lone Star (1952)
A Texas cattle baron (Clark Gable) fights a state senator's (Broderick Crawford) politics and steals his newspaper-editor girlfriend (Ava Gardner).
Rio Bravo (1959)
A Texas sheriff (John Wayne) and his deputies (Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson) try to hold a cattle baron's brother in jail.
The Westerner (1940)
Hanging Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) spares a drifter (Gary Cooper) who claims to know Lillie Langtry.
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
A small-time outlaw takes over a town by dispensing his own form of justice and confiscating property for court costs.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
Married homesteaders (Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward) stop at a Texas hotel, where he loses big at poker and she takes his place.
Shane (1953)
An ex-gunfighter (Alan Ladd) sides with Wyoming homesteaders (Jean Arthur, Van Heflin) against a ruthless cattle baron.
Hud (1963)
A housekeeper (Patricia Neal) sees a Texas cattle rancher (Melvyn Douglas) clash with his son (Paul Newman), a selfish, womanizing louse.
Spartacus (1960)
A gladiator slave (Kirk Douglas) leads a revolt in decadent Rome and attempts to lead his followers to freedom.
Heidi (1937)
An aunt takes a Swiss orphan (Shirley Temple) from the girl's grandfather (Jean Hersholt) in the Swiss Alps and puts her to work in Frankfurt as companion to a disabled child.
Kim (1950)
Kipling's Irish orphan (Dean Stockwell) roams 1880s India with a Tibetan priest (Paul Lukas) and a horse thief (Errol Flynn) spying for the British.