Tuesday, January 6th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A TV woman (Patricia Neal) turns Arkansas bum Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) into a homespun media hero rotten with power.
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
A Southern salesman (James Cagney) marries a schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and runs for governor as a champion of sharecroppers.
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
A cavalry officer (Jeffrey Hunter) defends a sergeant (Woody Strode) accused of rape and a double murder.
The Mortal Storm (1940)
An Austrian farmer (James Stewart) and a professor's daughter (Margaret Sullavan) flee Nazi Germany on skis.
Storm Warning (1951)
A traveling dress model (Ginger Rogers) stops in a Southern town to visit her sister, who has married a Ku Klux Klan member. While there, she helps the district attorney (Ronald Reagan) prosecute Klan members after she witnesses them commit a murder.
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Joseph and his acting troupe must confuse the Nazis and stop Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges) from handing over a list of Polish resistance members.
Norma Rae (1979)
A union organizer (Ron Leibman) from up North recruits a divorced cotton-mill worker (Sally Field) down South.
Silkwood (1983)
Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) blows the whistle on hazards and a cover-up at the Oklahoma nuclear plant where she works.
Matewan (1987)
A fact-based account of the conflicts between a growing coal miners' union and mining bosses in 1920 West Virginia.
North Country (2005)
A constant barrage of abuse from her co-workers spurs a miner (Charlize Theron) to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer.
Salt of the Earth (1954)
A Mexican-American couple's troubles are intensified when the husband becomes involved in a major labor dispute.
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Filmmaker Barbara Kopple documents Kentucky coal miners facing brutal opposition during a 1973 strike.