TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 27: Special Theme: Black Independents

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Daytime is devoted to Star of the Month Dana Andrews and to Frank Sinatra.

In the evening comes the final installment of TCM's Black Independents series.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

2:00 AM
The Crowded Sky (1960)
1h 45m | Adventure | TV-PG
A passenger jet and a private plane head for a collision.
Director
Joseph Pevney
Cast
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

4:00 AM
Brainstorm (1965)
1h 54m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A young scientist fakes insanity so he can kill the husband of the woman he loves.
Director
William Conrad
Cast
Jeff Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews

6:00 AM
The Loved One (1965)
1h 56m | Comedy | TV-PG
An Englishman in Hollywood moves into the funeral business.
Director
Tony Richardson
Cast
Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer

8:15 AM
The Satan Bug (1965)
1h 54m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A mad millionaire bribes a scientist to steal a deadly virus.
Director
John Sturges
Cast
George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis

10:15 AM
The Frozen Dead (1967)
1h 35m | Horror | TV-14
A mad scientist uses a girl's disembodied head to re-animate Nazis frozen 20 years before.
Director
Herbert J. Leder
Cast
Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert

12:00 PM
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
2h 10m | War | TV-14
A brigade of American and Canadian soldiers is on an assignment to destroy some Nazi operations.
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast
William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards

2:15 PM
The Kissing Bandit (1949)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
A timid young man is forced to follow in his father's footsteps as a notorious masked bandit.
Director
Laslo Benedek
Cast
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish

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4:15 PM
Higher and Higher (1943)
1h 30m | Musical | TV-G
Servants pass off one of their own as an heiress in hopes of winning her a wealthy husband.
Director
Tim Whelan
Cast
Michele Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra

6:00 PM
The Tender Trap (1955)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-PG
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Director
Charles Walters
Cast
Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne

&t=28s

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SPECIAL THEME: BLACK INDEPENDENTS

8:00 PM
Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
1h 27m | Drama
Two African-American twenty-somethings, Micah and Jo, wake up in bed together having no recollection of how they arrived there.
Director
Barry Jenkins
Cast
Wyatt Cenac, Tracey N Heggins, Justin Barber

9:45 PM
Hunger (2008)
1h 36m | Biography | TV-MA
Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1981. The infamous H-Blocks is where Irish republican prisoners are on the blanket and no-wash protest.
Director
Steve McQueen
Cast
Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Brian Milligan

11:30 PM
One False Move (1991)
1h 45m | Action | TV-MA
Prison buddies Ray and Pluto and Ray's girlfriend, Fantasia--all from L.A., commit a series of executions in Los Angeles before heading east to unload a stolen cache of cocaine.
Director
Carl Franklin
Cast
Cynda Williams, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton

1:30 AM
Emma Mae (1976)
1h 40m | Crime | TV-MA
A young black woman turns to crime when she falls in love with a drug dealer.
Director
Jamaa Fanaka
Cast
Jewell Williams, Leopoldo Mandeville, Charles David Brooks

3:15 AM
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
Story of the migration of a Gullah family, descendants of African slaves, from islands off the coast of Georgia.
Director
Julie Dash
Cast
Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O

5:15 AM
Illusions (1982)
34m | Drama | TV-14
The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor, and a young Black woman is working in the film industry while passing as white.
Director
Julie Dash
Cast
Lonette Mckee, Roseann Katon