Joel McCrea has the title role in this 1944 movie, but the person to watch is Maureen O’Hara, who plays a woman Buffalo Bill Cody first rescues, then marries. Every Tuesday this month, it’s O’Hara’s night on TCM. Another reason to watch this particular movie biography: It spends time establishing not only Cody’s battles with Native Americans, but his respect for them.

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FRONTLINE: "POOR KIDS" By David Bianculli

Poor, little children, desperate for a better life than the one in which they find themselves. It's the hottest of topics right now at the U.S.-Mexico border – but it also affects kids deep within our country, native born or not, as this timely new Frontline establishes. Check local listings.

2014

Jul

TYRANT By David Bianculli

In tonight’s fictional story line, unrest in the city leads to demonstrations in the public square (pictured), and threats of revolution. In real life, this series found its shooting locations, in Tel Aviv, so volatile because of real-life political clashes and violence that producers have moved their cameras, crew and actors to Istanbul for the duration of the season.

2014

Jul

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL By David Bianculli

Real Sports is one of those nonfiction cable shows that delivers installment after installment, as reliably and entertainingly as any of its fictional scripted counterparts. Bryan Gumbel hosts – and tonight, one of the pieces he presents focuses on some eye-opening gimmicks the powers that be in the golf world are thinking about adopting to increase the sport’s popularity in this new century. One idea: foot golf, allowing soccer balls on the fairway and greens, opening up the valuabl

2014

Jul

QUOTES FROM THE TCA HOMESTRETCH By Ed Bark

As the latest Television Critics Association "press tour" heads for the homestretch, here's a broad sampling of answers in mass interview sessions generated by questions from TV Worth Watching...

2014

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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE By David Bianculli

TCM shows five movies based on Agatha Christie stories tonight, including two films based on the same mystery. Beginning the evening at 8 ET is 1945’s And Then There Were None, in which 10 people are invited to an exclusive party at a remote mansion, only to be told that one of them is a murderer – as bodies begin dropping. Stars include Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Judith Anderson. This story was remade in 1966 as Ten Little Indians, which TCM televises at 1:30 a.m. ET., with

2014

Jul

THE NEWBURGH STING By David Bianculli

This new HBO documentary revisits the case of the four Newburgh, NY men who were convicted of terrorism – specifically, of plans to bomb synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military aircraft with missiles. The wrinkle here is, the four were just poor residents of a small town (none of them even owned a car), who were befriended by an FBI informant who promised them money and equipment if they would generate and carry out some terrorist schemes. Enforcement or entrapment? That’s th

2014

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UNDER THE DOME By David Bianculli

The people under the dome can’t go anywhere – but new people keep popping up from time to time, as do new subplots. One of the new plot threads introduced tonight: a look into the past for clues, as a picture of young Melanie (Grace Victoria Cox) is found in an old high school yearbook – from 25 years before.

2014

Jul

POV: "DANCE FOR ME" By David Bianculli

This new POV sounds like an unlikely subject for a captivating documentary: It follows two young dancers as they prepare for competition in a ballroom competition – in Denmark. Yet if you’ve ever been sucked in by So You Think You Can Dance or Dancing with the Stars, or swept away by the healing drama of Silver Linings Playbook, give this a chance. Two very dissimilar young people unite forces to compete, and their growth and passion – off the dance floor as well as on –

2014

Jul

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION By David Bianculli

In tonight’s salute to Agatha Christie, TCM saves the best for last, so set your recorders. At 3:30 a.m. ET, the network presents 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution, a wickedly clever murder mystery and courtroom drama directed by Billy Wilder. The stars in this one include Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich, both of whom deliver fabulous performances. Also featured: Tyrone Power, and one of Christie's, and the cinema’s, classic twist endings.

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