MUMBAI: The annual TCM Classic Film Festival is set to return in Hollywood for its fourth edition from 25 to 28 April next year. The 2013 event will center on the theme "Cinematic Journeys: Travel in the Movies."
 
Robert Osborne, TCM host, film historian and former longtime columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, will serve as the host, with TCM‘s Ben Mankiewicz also introducing various events. One event has already been announced in the form of 13 October showing of the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Orlando.
 
The 2012 festival included appearances by Liza Minnelli, Kirk Douglas, Mel Brooks, Kim Novak, Debbie Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Robert Wagner and Stanley Donen.
 
Leading to the festival, TCM again will conduct a nationwide "Road to Hollywood" tour of local screenings.