TCM Schedule for Wednesday, May 5: TCM Spotlight: Order in the Court
All rise! TCM is heading for the courthouse every Wednesday night this month, and the roster is fabulous. Is your favorite here? Find out below!
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In daytime, get ready for ghoulish goings-on!
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
1:45 am
Shag: The Movie (1988)
1h 40m | Comedy
The adventures of four young women in South Carolina in 1963.
Director
Zelda Barron
Cast
Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah
3:45 am
Girlfriends (1978)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-PG
A tale of an aspiring photographer struggling for a Soho gallery exhibition...
Director
Claudia Weill
Cast
Melanie Mayron, Bob Balaban, Eli Wallach
5:30 am
MGM Parade Show #16 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald perform in a clip from Maytime.
Director
No Director Available
Cast
No Cast Information Available.
6:00 am
Macabre (1958)
1h 13m | Horror | TV-PG
A doctor is given just five hours to find and rescue his daughter, who has been kidnapped...
Director
William Castle
Cast
William Prince, Philip Tonge, Jonathan Kidd
7:15 am
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
1h 12m | Horror | TV-PG
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell
8:45 am
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
1h 6m | Comedy | TV-PG
A jealous Bohemian wannabe resorts to murder to perpetuate his new-found success as a sculptor...
Director
Roger Corman
Cast
Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
10:00 am
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A gangster finds the straight life isn't so simple.
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
11:45 am
The Stranger (1946)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Director
Orson Welles
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
1:30 pm
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
1h 58m | Comedy | TV-G
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret...
Director
Frank Capra
Cast
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
3:45 pm
The Gazebo (1960)
1h 40m | Comedy | TV-G
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Director
George Marshall
Cast
Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
5:45 pm
Diabolique (1955)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-MA
A cruel man's wife and lover plot to kill him.
Director
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast
Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
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8:00 pm
12 Angry Men (1957)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Director
Sidney Lumet
Cast
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
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10:00 pm
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
2h 40m | Drama | TV-PG
A defense lawyer takes on a case of a man accused of murdering a bartender...
Director
Otto Preminger
Cast
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
1:00 am
Criminal Court (1946)
1h 3m | Drama | TV-PG
An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his girlfriend has been arrested for the murder.
Director
Robert Wise
Cast
Tom Conway, Martha O'Driscoll, June Clayworth
2:15 am
Madeleine (1950)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Director
David Lean
Cast
Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
4:30 am
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Director
Fritz Lang
Cast
Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
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