TCM Schedule for Monday July 18, 2022 - The History of Rock on Film
After a birthday salute to Red Skelton, night has rock movies from/about the 70's.
(all times Eastern)
6:15 am Ship Ahoy (1942)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-G
A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines.
Director: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr
8:00 am Whistling in Dixie (1942)
1h 14m | Comedy | TV-G
A radio detective's southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
9:30 am I Dood It (1943)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
A tailor nurses an unrequited crush on a stage star.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley
11:15 am Lovely To Look At (1952)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
All-star remake of Roberta, with three Broadway producers inheriting a Parisian fashion house.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel
1:00 pm Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld imagines the kind of Follies he could produce with MGM's musical stars.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer
3:00 pm Neptune's Daughter (1949)
1h 33m | Musical | TV-G
Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer.
Director: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban
4:45 pm Three Little Words (1950)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
Musical biography of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, who surreptitiously helped each other out of jams.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-ellen
6:30 pm Texas Carnival (1951)
1h 17m | Comedy | TV-G
A penniless carnival worker runs up a mountain of debts when he's mistaken for a millionaire.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel
8:00 pm Tommy (1975)
1h 51m | Musical | TV-MA
A seemingly handicapped boy becomes a Pinball Wizard.
Director: Ken Russell. Cast: Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson
10:00 pm Sid And Nancy (1986)
1h 54m | Biography
The sad, sordid story of Sid Vicious, a member of the seminal British punk group The Sex Pistols, and his doomed relationship with his American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
Director: Alex Cox. Cast: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman
12:00 am The Harder They Come (1972)
1h 45m | Crime | TV-14
An aspiring Reggae singer gets mixed up with big-city drug dealers.
Director: Perry Henzell. Cast: Jimmy Cliff, Basil Keane, Carl Bradshaw
2:00 am Performance (1970)
1h 46m | Crime | TV-MA
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star's decaying mansion.
Director: Donald Cammell. Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
4:00 am Jubilee (1978)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-MA
The court magician transports Queen Elizabeth I into a nightmare vision of England's future.
Director: Derek Jarman. Cast: Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell (little Nell), Toyah Willcox.