Wednesday, June 25th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
The Crowd Roars (1932)
Women (Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak) get in the way of a boozing auto racer (James Cagney) and his kid brother at the Indianapolis 500.
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)
A farm boy (Dennis O'Keefe) goes from midget cars to the big time, proving someone has been drugging his boss's (Harry Carey) drivers.
Speed (1936)
The boss's niece (Wendy Barrie) helps a test driver (James Stewart) at Indianapolis and the Utah salt flats.
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
A swimming instructor (Ann-Margret) detours a singing auto racer (Elvis Presley) in town for the Grand Prix.
The Racing Scene (1969)
Filmmaker Andy Sidaris follows James Garner's year as a race car driver, from purchase of the vehicle to assembly of his team.
Grand Prix (1966)
Personal lives of Formula One drivers (James Garner, Yves Montand) affect their performance on the European circuit.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
A French aristocrat's (Edward Everett Horton) wily daughter (Claudette Colbert) prolongs her marriage to a divorce-prone rich American (Gary Cooper).
Ball of Fire (1941)
A stuffy professor (Gary Cooper) of American slang meets a stripper (Barbara Stanwyck) who speaks it.
Meet John Doe (1941)
A reporter writes a fictitious column about a man named John Doe, who claims to despair at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. To maintain the ruse, the newspaper hires a ballplayer-turned-hobo to pose as John Doe.
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A gold-digger (Ingrid Bergman) meets a rich Texas gambler (Gary Cooper) in 1875 New Orleans and follows him to upstate New York.
Today We Live (1933)
An English aristocrat (Joan Crawford) follows her torpedo-boating brother (Franchot Tone), his buddy and a U.S. pilot (Gary Cooper) in World War I.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
A salvager (Charlton Heston) rescues the captain (Gary Cooper) of a freighter whose mystery unfolds at a London court of inquiry.
It's a Big Country (1951)
Eight episodes by seven directors show an elderly Bostonian (Ethel Barrymore), a Texan (Gary Cooper), a preacher (Van Johnson) and various other U.S. citizens.