TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 27: Women Make Film

[CBHagman]

I ask you the following: How motivated is TCM to honor women directors when their schedule copy suggests there's no information available on a director for one of their featured films? Scream and scream again is what I might do at the channel's new approach to schedules.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

1:30 AM
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
1h 34m | Horror | TV-MA
A police superintendent investigates a serial killer who drains his victims' blood.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing

3:15AM
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
1h 28m | Horror | TV-MA
When vampires infest London, a property speculator turns out to be Dracula himself. The co...
Director: Alan Gibson
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles

4:45 AM
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
1h 40m | Horror | TV-PG
Set in swinging London during the early seventies in an abandoned church, a group of hippi...
Director: Alan Gibson
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham

6:30 AM
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
59m | Western | TV-G
A young cowhand gets roped into the outlaw's life when he's falsely accused of a crime.
Director: Mack V. Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Duke, Henry B. Walthall

7:45 AM
Along the Rio Grande (1941)
1h 4m | Western | TV-G
Two cowboys go undercover to catch a rustler on his way to Mexico.
Director: Edward Killy
Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Betty Jane Rhodes

9:00 AM
Valley of the Sun (1942)
1h 24m | Western | TV-G
A government spy goes after a crooked Indian agent in Arizona.
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

10:30 AM
Sagebrush Trail (1933)
58m | Western | TV-G
A man, wrongly imprisoned for murder, escapes to track down the real killer.
Director: Armand Schaefer
Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler

11:30 AM
Devil's Canyon (1953)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-PG
A U.S. Marshal is unjustly convicted and sent to a notorious Arizona prison.
Director: Alfred Werker
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen Mcnally

1:15 PM
The Hired Gun (1957)
1h 3m | Adventure | TV-G
Gunman-for-hire Gil McCord gets an assignment to bring in a murderer to face trial. Surpri...
Director: Ray Nazarro
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards

2:30 PM
Black Patch (1957)
1h 22m | Western | TV-G
When the town marshal, a former Civil War veteran, is accused of murdering a former friend...
Director: Allen H. Miner
Cast: George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman

4:00 PM
Virginia City (1940)
2h 1m | Western | TV-G
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott

6:15 PM
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
1h 38m | Drama | TV-PG
The Civil War complicates the Cavalry's battle against Indians.
Director: John Sturges
Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: WOMEN MAKE FILM

8:00 PM
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 09 (2019)
Documentary | TV-14
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art a...
Director: Mark Cousins
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

9:15 PM
Fjols til fjells (1957)
Comedy | TV-G
A hotel manager at a ski resort in Norway does his best to cope with unruly guests and a n...
Director: No Director Available
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

The director of this comedy is Edith Carlmar. Full cast and crew information is available at the link.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050398/

11:00 PM
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 09 (2019)
Documentary | TV-14
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art a...
Director: Mark Cousins
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

12:15 AM
Girlfriends (1978)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-PG
A tale of an aspiring photographer struggling for a Soho gallery exhibition, as she suppor...
Director: Claudia Weill
Cast: Melanie Mayron, Bob Balaban, Eli Wallach

2:00 AM
Party Girl (1994)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-MA
A downtown party girl takes a job as a library clerk to prove to her librarian godmother t...
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Cast: Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Sasha Von Scherler

3:45 AM
The Connection (1962)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A fictional film posing as a documentary in which a group of heroin addicts wait for their...
Director: Shirley Clarke
Cast: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow

5:45 AM
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
1h 54m | Comedy | TV-PG
Set in Yonkers, New York, in the summer of 1942, a story about two boys who live with thei...
Director: No Director Available
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, David Strathairn

The movie listed above was directed by Martha Coolidge.

[Staph]

1. TCM's updated website sucks!

I can't find information that used to be so visible, like the theme of the day. If it isn't Star of the Month or TCM Spotlight, I can't find it. I can't even find the theme for the Essentials!

[CBHagman]

2. I'm so relieved to hear someone else hates it as much as I do...

...as I had thought it was my not having the latest version of an acceptable browser (I'm due for a PC replacement, and my current version of Windows just isn't up to the job).

Thus far I have been able to dig out the themes, mostly by going to the "In October" list, but in the main the site is user-unfriendly.