Thursday, October 8th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
A blacksmith (Preston Foster) becomes a gladiator and Pontius Pilate's (Basil Rathbone) partner, then sees Vesuvius erupt and finds Christ.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Julius Caesar (1953)
Shakespeare's Brutus (James Mason), Cassius (John Gielgud) and others plot the Roman ruler's death, but Mark Antony (Marlon Brando) avenges it.
Barabbas (1961)
A thief is spared from crucifixion and tries to comprehend the man sent to die in his place.
Spartacus (1960)
A gladiator slave (Kirk Douglas) leads a revolt in decadent Rome and attempts to lead his followers to freedom.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Desperate people (Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York) enter a grueling dance marathon in Depression-era Chicago.
Lifeboat (1944)
A chic writer (Tallulah Bankhead), a stoker (William Bendix) and others drift with the U-boat captain (Walter Slezak) who has sunk their ship.
The Blob (1958)
Formless red slime lands in Pennsylvania and engulfs people; teens (Steven McQueen, Aneta Corseaut) try to warn scoffing adults.
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
A scientist's (Marshall Thompson) atomic-powered thoughts materialize as deadly flying brains with trailing spinal cords.
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Arctic soldiers and scientists find an alien aircraft containing a frozen creature (James Arness) that wakes and feeds on human blood.
Them! (1954)
Bug experts (Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon), a state trooper (James Whitmore) and an FBI agent track giant mutant ants from New Mexico to Los Angeles.
First Man Into Space (1959)
A commander's (Marshall Thompson) astronaut brother (Bill Edwards) returns slime-covered and the host for an alien bloodsucker.
Jour de Fete (1949)
A French mailman (Jacques Tati) sees a film on U.S. postal efficiency and applies it to his route on Bastille Day.