TCM Schedule for Sunday October 8, 2023 - Harry Palmer

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Tonight's twin bill spotlights Michael Caine's bespectacled Brit secret agent.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-G
A runaway prince in disguise takes up with a taxi driver.
Director: David Butler. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson

8:00 am Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
1h 52m | Musical | TV-G
Two girls with Broadway aspirations find work in a Bowery saloon.
Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior

10:00 am Deception (1946)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-PG
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Director: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

12:15 pm Cabin in the Sky (1943)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne

2:00 pm Our Miss Brooks (1956)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A high school teacher has to rescue the professor she loves from his grasping mother.
Director: Al Lewis. Cast: Eve Arden, Gale Gorden, Don Porter

3:45 pm A Patch of Blue (1965)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A blind white girl falls in love with a black man.
Director: Guy Green. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

5:45 pm The Arrangement (1969)
2h 7m | Drama | TV-14
A car crash causes a rich man to reconsider the life he leads.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr

8:00 pm The Ipcress File (1965)
1h 48m | Adventure | TV-PG
Secret agent Harry Palmer fights to survive brainwashing when a traitor hands him over to the enemy.
Director: Sidney J. Furie. Cast: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman

10:00 pm Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
1h 51m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A retired spy gets mixed up with plans to overthrow Communism using a new supercomputer.
Director: Ken Russell. Cast: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley

12:00 am Kurutta Ippeiji (1926)
1h 20m | Silent | TV-PG
A man infiltrates an insane asylum to help his wife escape.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa. Cast: Masao Inoue, Ayao Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa

2:00 am Dodes'ka-Den (1971)
2h 20m | Drama | TV-14
Slum dwellers in Tokyo fight to survive while dreaming of better lives.
Director: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa, Michiko Araki, Junzaburo Ban

4:30 am The Lower Depths (1957)
2h 17m | Drama | TV-14
An elderly pilgrim tries to help the inhabitants of a Japanese flop house.
Director: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ganjiro Nakamura