Thursday, August 7th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Edge of the City (1957)
A labor boss (Jack Warden) harasses a longshoreman (Sidney Poitier) and his fugitive white friend (John Cassavetes).
Take a Giant Step (1959)
Based on Louis S. Peterson's play about a black teenager coping with life in a predominantly white society.
Black Girl (1972)
An aspiring dancer (Peggy Pettit) and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter (Leslie Uggams).
The Sheriff (1970)
A reluctant witness stalls legal attempts to prosecute the rapist of a girl who is the fiancee of the sheriff's son.
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
A wagonmaster (Sidney Poitier) and a con-man preacher (Harry Belafonte) help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Ruby Dee, Earle Hyman and an all-black cast perform Eugene O'Neill's play about an early 1900s middle-class family's struggle with drug addiction and alcoholism.
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Proud members (Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee) of a Chicago family argue over a $10,000 insurance windfall.
Uptight (1968)
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
The Incident (1967)
Two street punks (Tony Musante, Martin Sheen) insult and terrorize a carload of passengers in a New York subway.
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
The future baseball star stands trial as an Army officer (Andre Braugher) in 1944, for refusing to sit in the back of a bus.
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
After a successful baseball career in college and as a coach in the military, Jackie Robinson attracts the attention of Major League Baseball's Branch Rickey.
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Union Army veterans help a vengeful comrade (Randolph Scott) find out who sold his dead brother faulty ammunition.
Mister Buddwing (1966)
An amnesiac (James Garner) wakes up in New York and turns to women (Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette) he might have known, hoping to remember.