TCM Schedule for Saturday 12/27/25: Ben-Hur, Cool Hand Luke, Tarzan and the Amazons, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

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DAY AT A GLANCE

IN MEMORIAM
Walking Tall (1973) (Joe Don Baker) (TCM Premiere)
Yearling, The (1946) (Claude Jarmon Jr.)
Entertainer, The (1960) (Joan Plowright)
- TCM DAYTIME
IN MEMORIAM (cont.)
Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Lalo Schifrin)
WEEKEND FEATURES
Saint Takes Over, The (1940)
Holt of the Secret Service Ch. 1:
Chaotic Creek (1941) (TCM Premiere)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Wash Your Step (1936) (short)
Hairspray (1988) (Musical Matinee)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Robin and Marian (1976)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- ROBERT TOWNSEND
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Network (1976)
- NOIR ALLEY
Odd Man Out (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DEALING WITH AGING
Grey Gardens (1976)
Being There (1979)

FULL DAY SCHEDULE

11:45 PM Walking Tall (1973)
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost single-handedly cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Noah Beery Jr.
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: N


2:00 AM The Yearling (1946)
A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:15 AM The Entertainer (1960)
Story follows the life of a has-been, talent-less vaudevillian who still thinks he's a star, even as he destroys his family around him in pursuing a lost cause.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Joan Plowright
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A brooding loner is sentenced to a prison chain-gang, stands up to the Nazi-like guards, and eventually becomes the leader of his fellow prisoners.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:15 AM The Saint Takes Over (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who's been framed on bribery charges.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Chaotic Creek (1941)
Chapter 1 of the Holt of the Secret Service 1941 serial. A gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped a government engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service sends agent Jack Holt and a female partner after the gang.
Dir: James W. Horne Cast: Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, C. Montague Shaw
Runtime: 28 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC:


10:00 AM Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Archaeologists trick Boy into helping them find a hidden valley ruled by women.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:30 AM Wash Your Step (1936)
A salesman trains a singing and dancing washing machine sales force.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Charles Martin, Hal Le Roy, Harry Lang
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Hairspray (1988)
A teenager uses local stardom to fight segregation, raising the ire of her rival.
Dir: John Waters Cast: Ricki Lake, Sonny Bono, Divine
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N


2:00 PM Ben-Hur (1959)
While seeking revenge, a rebellious Israelite prince crosses paths with Jesus Christ.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Runtime: 212 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 PM Robin and Marian (1976)
An aging Robin Hood comes home to resume his relationship with Maid Marian and his battles against the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Kenneth Haigh
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 PM Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
A prizefighter who died before his time is reincarnated as a tycoon with a murderous wife.
Dir: Alexander Hall Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:45 PM Network (1976)
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into the mad prophet of the airwaves.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


12:15 AM Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:30 AM Grey Gardens (1976)
The unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie who lived in a world of their own in a decaying mansion in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.
Dir: Ellen Hovde Cast: Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM Being There (1979)
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y