Wednesday, October 14th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Smilin' Through (1932)
A Victorian Englishman's (Leslie Howard) niece (Norma Shearer) and her suitor (Fredric March) resemble his long-dead bride and tragic rival.
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Shakespeare's Renaissance lovers (Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard) tragically defy their feuding parents.
The Petrified Forest (1936)
An intellectual (Leslie Howard) and others are held hostage by a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) at an Arizona gas station/diner.
It's Love I'm After (1937)
An infatuated debutante (Olivia de Havilland) renews a Shakespearean actor's (Leslie Howard) running feud with his leading lady (Bette Davis).
Pygmalion (1938)
Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) bets he can teach a cockney flower girl (Wendy Hiller) how to speak and act like a duchess.
49th Parallel (1941)
A U-boat Nazi (Eric Portman) and his comrades raid a Canadian outpost, hijack a seaplane and kill to reach the United States.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
King Arthur (Graham Chapman) goes questing on a pretend horse, followed by his lackey clacking coconut shells.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
In biblical times a man, mistakenly proclaimed a messiah, finds himself leader of a new religious movement.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
The British troupe's (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam) sketches include gluttony, birth control and total insignificance.
Yentl (1983)
A young woman charms her bearded roommate and a merchant's daughter while posing as a Talmudic schoolboy in circa-1900 Poland.
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
A music professor (Ryan O'Neal) visits San Francisco with his fiancée (Madeline Kahn) and meets a kooky woman (Barbra Streisand).
Elmer the Great (1933)
A country bumpkin-turned-baseball player foils crooked pitchers and racketeers conspiring to fix the World Series.
Random Harvest (1942)
An amnesiac World War I British veteran (Ronald Colman) marries a chorus girl (Greer Garson), then forgets her.