Wednesday, May 22nd TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
A boy thief (Sabu) and a genie in a bottle help a blinded prince (John Justin) recover his kingdom from a grand vizier (Conrad Veidt).
Lord of the Flies (1963)
English schoolboys (James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards), stranded on a desert island without adults, soon turn savage.
Tunes of Glory (1960)
An aristocrat (John Mills) replaces a bootstrap colonel (Alec Guinness) as commander of a Scottish regiment after World War II.
Tom Jones (1963)
Henry Fielding's lusty foundling hero (Albert Finney) meets a series of attractive women in 18th-century England.
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
A young Englishwoman (Margaret Lockwood) tries to prove that an elderly governess (Dame May Whitty) was actually on a train.
Oliver Twist (1948)
Dickens' London waif (John Howard Davies) is pressed into Fagin's (Alec Guinness) street gang led by bully Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) and the Artful Dodger.
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Suitors romance, then abandon, sisters (Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) left destitute by their father's death in late-1800s England.
Marty (1955)
A lonely, heavy-set Bronx butcher (Ernest Borgnine), who lives with his mother, finds his soul mate in a shy schoolteacher (Betsy Blair).
Harvey (1950)
A woman tries to have her tippling brother put away when his claims of a 6-foot invisible rabbit cause embarrassment.
Alice (1990)
A pampered Manhattan housewife embarks upon a mystical odyssey of self-discovery following a visit to a Chinatown healer.
Tommy (1975)
The Who's rock opera follows a mute, deaf and blind, boy (Roger Daltrey) who becomes a pinball wizard.
Lenny (1974)
1950s comic Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) spurs controversy with his drug use, graphic language and marriage to a stripper (Valerie Perrine).
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
An adman's (Frank Sinatra) wife (Deborah Kerr) winds up wed to his buddy (Dean Martin) after a quickie Mexican divorce and marriage.