TCM Schedule for Fri, Jan 17, 2024 - Swashbucklers / Was It A Dream?

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6:00 AM | The Sea Hawk (1924)
An English noble sold into slavery escapes and turns himself into a pirate king.
Dir: Frank Lloyd | Cast: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes

8:15 AM | Captain Blood (1935)
A doctor, exiled as a slave to Barbados, captures a Spanish galleon and becomes a feared pirate.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill

10:15 AM | The Spanish Main (1945)
Dutch rebels in the Caribbean turn pirate and kidnap the corrupt Spanish governor's bride-to-be.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak

12:15 PM | The Three Musketeers (1948)
Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson

2:30 PM | The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Roman rebels fight against invading barbarians.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur | Cast: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas

4:00 PM | Scaramouche (1952)
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh

6:00 PM | The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern


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8:00 PM | Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A film projectionist, unjustly accused of stealing a watch, dreams of being a detective.
Dir: Buster Keaton | Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane

9:00 PM | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
An accountant with an active imagination gets caught up with a woman involved in a sinister conspiracy.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod | Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff

11:00 PM | Artists and Models (1955)
A struggling painter and ladies' man uses dreams of his goofy roommate for creative inspiration.
Dir: Frank Tashlin | Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine

1:00 AM | Billy Liar (1963)
An emotionally stunted clerk retreats into his fantasies.
Dir: John Schlesinger | Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles

2:45 AM | Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
A girl accepts three wedding proposals at once and dreams of marriage to each man.
Dir: Garson Kanin | Cast: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal

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4:15 AM | The Feminine Touch (1941)
An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II | Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis