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Matt Roush says...

TCM’s monthlong salute to the Warner Bros. studio on its 100^th anniversary continues with a prime-time tribute to Great Directors, including Howard Hawks, whose classic 1959 Western stars John Wayne as a sheriff who gathers a drunk (Dean Martin), a kid (Ricky Nelson) and a geezer (Walter Brennan) to combat a ruthless cattle baron. Angie Dickinson co-stars as “Feathers.” Followed by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Hawks’ 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptation, The Big Sleep (10:30/9:30c), and overnight, an Alfred Hitchcock pit stop includes one of his masterpieces: 1951’s Strangers on a Train (1 am/12c).

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