TCM schedule for Saturday, September 3, 2022: Spotlight: Author James M. Cain
Turner Classic Movies schedule for September 3, 2022: Spotlight: Author James M. Cain
9:45 PM The Fortune Cookie (1966)
A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:15 AM The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1974)
A suddenly unemployed executive and his understanding wife must adapt to their new life.
Dir: Melvin Frank Cast: Jack Lemmon, Elizabeth Wilson, Anne Bancroft
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 AM Day of the Dead (1985)
Zombies have been on the rampage for so long that there are very few humans left alive. One of the survivors, Dr. Logan, is conducting experiments on captured zombies in an underground compound to try to find a way for people and the living dead to coexist peacefully. Unwillingly sharing the facility with the doctor are ...
Dir: George A. Romero Cast: Jarlath Conroy, Jeff Hogan, Deborah Carter
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Horror Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
4:00 AM I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
Teenage vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.
Dir: John Elias Michalakias Cast: Michael Rubin, Steve Mccoy, George Seminara
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
5:45 AM The Golden Years (1960)
Bowling is made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and design.
Dir: null Cast: Jamison Handy
Runtime: 14 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
6:00 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she ...
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:00 AM The Mad Maestro (1939)
A maestro conducts an orchestra of various animals but some of them aren't very good at following his directions.
Dir: Hugh Harman Cast: null
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:09 AM How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 7 The Spoon (1931)
In this short film, golfer Bobby Jones instructs the viewer on the use of the club known as the spoon. Vitaphone Release 4798.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Bobby Jones, Walter Huston, Zelma O'Neal
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:20 AM Singapore and Jahore (1938)
This takes the viewer to Singapore and Jahore, focusing on the traditions and histories of the people living there.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Hone Glendinning
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:29 AM Beyond the Rockies (1932)
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
Dir: Fred Allen Cast: Tom Keene, Rochelle Hudson, Marie Wells
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:30 AM The Pool of Peril (1940)
Flash and his friends are captured by the rock men and must escape.
Dir: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor Cast: Sigmund Nielssen, Charles Middleton, George H Plympton
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: null Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:00 AM Ancient Fistory (1953)
This famous fairy tale in reverse has dashing CinderFella Popeye at the ball to woo the beautiful Princess Olive. Rival Bluto battles him for the fair maid and at midnight all seems lost for the poor again Popeye.
Dir: null Cast: Jack Mercer, Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: N
10:08 AM Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
The jungle king helps the princess of a lost civilization fight off Nazi invaders.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:30 AM Syncopated City (1934)
This short film presents musical production numbers for public services, such as construction sites and firefighting. Vitaphone Release 1734-1735.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Dorothy Dare, Philip Loeb, George Watts
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N
12:00 PM Treasure Island (1934)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young boy out to foil pirates and find a buried treasure.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM The Long Voyage Home (1940)
A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 PM Patterns (1956)
A replacement in a large corporation encounters loyalty and power struggles.
Dir: Fielder Cook Cast: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:45 PM The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
A prospector creates a thriving stagecoach stop at the site of a spring.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Jason Robards Jr., Stella Stevens, David Warner
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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8:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 AM Hit and Run (1957)
Illicit lovers arrange a fatal accident for the woman's husband.
Dir: Hugo Haas Cast: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-PG CC: N
2:00 AM A Soldier's Story (1984)
A black army attorney is sent to an all-black army camp during World War II to investigate the murder of a sergeant and sees first hand the racial strife between the black soldiers and the white officers who run the boot camp.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Howard E Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
4:00 AM The Steel Helmet (1951)
Americans trapped behind enemy lines fight off Communists during the Korean War.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #29 (1955)
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part Three of "Captains Courageous" and a clip from "Tribute to a Badman."
Dir: null Cast: null
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y