TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 17: Creepy Cinema: Bette & Joan with Mario
Daytime's theme is Mishandled Inheritances.
And oh, hang on to your inheritances and everything else as Creepy Cinema comes back around. Bette. Joan. Mario. Prepare for the scare! 
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
12:30 AM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Runtime: 136 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:00 AM King Kong (1933)
A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York where he wreaks havoc.
Dir: Merian C. Cooper Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:45 AM Grand Canyon, Pride of Creation (1944)
This short film takes the viewer to Arizona and offers several different views of the Grand Canyon.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Charles P Boyle, Nathaniel Finston, James A. Fitzpatrick
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
4:45 AM Rainbow Canyons (1935)
This Traveltalks short highlights the changing colors of the Grand Canyon.
Dir: Ruth Fitzpatrick Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Wilfrid Cline
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
5:15 AM Main Street Follies (1935)
A New York producer sends a spy to a nightclub to report back on the musical acts.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Hal Leroy, Mary Joan Martin, George Anderson
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 AM Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Two Americans in search of a Scottish inheritance wind up serving with the British in India.
Dir: James W. Horne Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:30 AM The Hardys Ride High (1939)
A small-town family inherits a fortune but has trouble adjusting to society life.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:00 AM Million Dollar Baby (1941)
A young innocent's surprise inheritance causes problems with her poor but proud boyfriend.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:00 AM Speak Easily (1932)
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:30 PM Thieves Fall Out (1941)
A young man tries to rescue his grandmother from kidnappers.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Jane Darwell
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N
2:00 PM My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
A glamorous woman takes over a newspaper and clashes with the editor.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:30 PM Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Dir: William McGann Cast: Marie Wilson, Johnnie Davis, Allen Jenkins
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:45 PM Just This Once (1952)
A playboy hands control of his dwindling fortune to a pretty girl.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:30 PM Mail Order Bride (1963)
An aging cowhand tries to help a young rancher settle down by buying him a wife.
Dir: Burt Kennedy Cast: Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea, Lois Nettleton
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CREEPY CINEMA: BETTE & JOAN WITH MARIO
8:00 PM A Woman's Face (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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10:00 PM Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
An aging and mad spinster, haunted by her one and only lover's murder, lives alone with her maid in a large mansion, until her cousin arrives with a plot to drive her even madder and inherit the family's wealth.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
12:30 AM Poltergeist (1982)
In her family's suburban home, ghosts begin communicating with five-year-old Carol Anne through the static on the television screen. At first the spirits seem to be friendly, but using the television as their portal to enter the house, they kidnap Carol Anne. As her desperate family tries to rescue the little girl, they ...
Dir: Tobe Hooper Cast: Jobeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
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2:30 AM The Blob (1988)
A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows.
Dir: Chuck Russell Cast: Erika Eleniak, Charlie Spradling, Bill Moseley
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: N
4:15 AM Village of the Damned (1960)
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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5:45 AM Children of the Damned (1964)
Space invaders impregnate six women with super-powered offspring.
Dir: Anton M. Leader Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y