TCM Schedule for April, Apr 2, 2026: WWII Spies / Texas (Premiere -- Dancer, Texas Pop. 81)

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DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:00 AM Secret Enemies (1942)
The FBI tracks Nazi agents to a luxury hotel.
Dir: Ben Stoloff Cast: Craig Stevens, Faye Emerson, John Ridgely

7:00 AM Don't Talk (1942)
This Crime Does Not Pay series short focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime.
Dir: Joseph Newman Cast: Donald Douglas, Gloria Holden, Barry Nelson

7:30 AM Action in Arabia (1944)
An adventurous reporter tangles with Nazis in the desert on the eve of World War II.
Dir: Leonide Moguy Cast: George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert

9:00 AM Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet

10:30 AM Betrayed (1954)
During WW II, a U.S. officer falls for a Resistance fighter suspected of being an enemy spy.
Dir: Gottfried Reinhardt Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature

12:30 PM Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt

2:15 PM Assignment in Brittany (1943)
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Richard Whorf

4:00 PM Sabotage Agent (1943)
An undercover agent battles Nazis to save an aviation plant.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla

6:00 PM Hotel Berlin (1945)
During World War II's final days, people with a variety of problems converge on a Berlin hotel.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey



PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

7:45 PM Oily Hare (1952) TCM Premiere
An oilman tries to evict Bugs Bunny from an oil field.
Dir: Robert McKimson Cast: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet

8:00 PM Giant (1956)
A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean

11:30 PM The Last Picture Show (1971)
Two high-school seniors ponder their futures in bleak 1950s Texas.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd

1:45 AM Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998) TCM Premiere
Four high school seniors have a dream to escape their tiny town. Will they make it?
Dir: Tim McCanlies Cast: Breckin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Eddie Mills

3:30 AM Brewster McCloud (1970)
A boy living in the Houston Astrodome dreams of building himself a pair of wings.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy

5:30 AM Seven Days in May (1964)
U.S. military leaders plot to overthrow the President when he supports a nuclear treaty.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March