TCM Schedule for Fri, Jan 16, 2026: Director Jack Hively / Flashback Fridays

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Jack Hively (September 5, 1910 – December 19, 1995) was an American film editor and film and television director whose career lasted from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Hively began his career in the film industry as an editor at RKO in 1933, working as an assistant editor on the Richard Dix film, No Marriage Ties. By the following year he was an editor, working on such films as Success at Any Price, Where Sinners Meet, and the second installment of The Saint franchise, 1939's The Saint Strikes Back, the first of the series starring George Sanders. After his work on The Saint Strikes Back, Hively would be given the opportunity to direct his own films, beginning with 1939's They Made Her a Spy.

In the 1960s and 1970s he worked regularly on several television series, including Death Valley Days, Lassie, and The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, as well as directing several TV movies.

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DAYTIME (EST)

6:00 AM They Met in Argentina (1941)
An oil tycoon's representative finds love when as tries to buy a South American race horse.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins, Jack Hively Cast: Maureen O'Hara, James Ellison, Alberto Vila

7:30 AM They Made Her a Spy (1939)
A woman becomes a secret agent to avenge her brother's death.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber

8:45 AM Panama Lady (1939)
An oil man forces a cabaret singer to work for him after she tries to rob him.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna

10:00 AM Three Sons (1939)
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: Edward Ellis, William Gargan, Kent Taylor

11:15 AM Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
An orphan chooses between returning a colt to its owner or keeping the animal for himself.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Joan Leslie, Arthur Hohl

12:30 PM The Spellbinder (1939)
A crooked lawyer's daughter falls for a gangster that he helped acquit.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles

1:45 PM The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templer lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale

3:00 PM 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

4:15 PM The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar's efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle

5:30 PM Father Takes a Wife (1941)
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, John Howard

7:00 PM Appointment in Tokyo (1946)
Military documentary about the U.S.'s recapture of the Philippines.
Dir: Maj. Jack Hively Cast: Col. Emmanuel Cohen, Capt. Jack Handley, Capt. Jesse Lasky Jr.


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A boy coming of age in WWII Italy develops a lifelong love affair with movies.
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili

10:15 PM The Prince of Tides (1991)
A man helping his suicidal sister falls in love with her psychologist as he relives his dark past.
Dir: Barbra Streisand Cast: Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner

1:00 AM I Remember Mama (1948)
Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka

3:30 AM The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Ex-soldiers leave British-ruled India for Kafiristan, in order to become kings.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer