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Tue Jun 28, 2022, 07:31 PM Jun 2022

TCM Schedule for Wednesday, June 29: Movie Spoofs

June is almost a wrap, and TCM, where someone has a puckish sense of humor, has planned a day of movies with the theme The End Is Near.

And tonight TCM tickles your funnybone with Movie Spoofs.

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

1:30 AM
Northern Pursuit (1943)
1h 34m | Adventure | TV-PG
A Mountie tracks a downed Nazi flyer through the Canadian wilderness.
Director
Raoul Walsh
Cast
Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine

3:30 AM
Rose Marie (1954)
1h 55m | Musical | TV-G
A trapper's daughter is torn between the Mountie who wants to civilize her and a dashing prospector.
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Cast
Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas

5:30 AM
MGM Parade Show #27 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part One of "Captains Courageous" and introduces a clip from "Forbidden Planet."
Director
No Director Available
Cast
Walter Pidgeon

6:00 AM
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
1h 20m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
The monster is awakened by an undersea explosion and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo.
Director
Ishiro Honda
Cast
Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi

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7:30 AM
Nostradamus Says So! (1953)
10m | Short | TV-G
This short film presents the life and several predictions made by Nostradamus.
Director
Peter Ballbusch
Cast
Carey Wilson, John Burton, Ira Heymann

7:45 AM
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
1h 36m | Epic | TV-PG
A blacksmith's rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Director
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast
Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone

9:30 AM
Them! (1954)
1h 34m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Director
Gordon Douglas
Cast
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon



11:15 AM
The Time Machine (1960)
1h 43m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-G
In this adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel, a scientist in 1880s Victorian England builds a time machine.
Director
George Pal
Cast
Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

&t=29s

1:00 PM
The Swarm (1978)
1h 56m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-14
Killer bees that attack without reason descend on Texas.
Director
Irwin Allen
Cast
Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark

3:45 PM
The House in the Middle (1954)
12m | Short | TV-PG
Military tests demonstrate the dangers of poor home maintenance in the event of a nuclear bomb.
Director
No Director Available
Cast
Federal Civil Defense Administration

4:00 PM
The Beginning or the End (1947)
1h 52m | Drama | TV-PG
True story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build the atomic bomb.
Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake

6:00 PM
Duck and Cover (1951)
9m | Short | TV-PG
In this short film, a monkey's prank on a turtle demonstrates how to survive a nuclear attack.
Director
Anthony Rizzo
Cast
Leo M. Langlois Iii, Ray J. Mauer, Robert Middleton

6:15 PM
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-PG
Fearful that the Russians are fluoridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper unleashes an atomic bomb attack.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

&t=54s

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MOVIE SPOOFS

8:00 PM
Murder By Death (1976)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-14
A criminal madman invites the world's greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Director
Robert Moore
Cast
Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness

&t=29s

10:00 PM
Spaceballs (1987)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-MA
In a galaxy very, very, very, very far away, only a rogue space merchant can stop an evil dictator from stealing a planet's air supply.
Director
Mel Brooks
Cast
Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy



12:00 AM
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-PG
Spoofy send-up of the Western genre centers around a cowboy who drifts into a lawless town.
Director
Burt Kennedy
Cast
James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan

&t=57s

1:45 AM
The Silencers (1966)
1h 44m | Comedy | TV-PG
Super-agent Matt Helm must save the world from a sinister organization that wants to sabotage an atomic testing base.
Director
Phil Karlson
Cast
Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi

4:00 AM
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers (2019)
1h 31m | Documentary | TV-PG
Daniel Raim's documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.
Director
Daniel Raim
Cast
No Cast Information Available.
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